Huawei announced the Mate 40 Pro yesterday, and since the Trump administration’s banned the company from working with US companies like Google, the reception of the device outside of China is dim.
However, this has not stopped Huawei from releasing devices with impressive hardware and the Mate 40 Pro is a beast, to say the least.
First to notice is the edge-to-edge 88° Horizon Display which offers remarkable immersion, with on-screen content splashed across the surface, streaming colors, icons, and text as if spilled from a waterfall due to the devices has well-rounded corners. The device has an OLED 6.76 inches 90 Hz screen refresh rate and a staggering 240 Hz touch sampling rate.
Moving over to the build quality, the Mate 40 Pro is made up of a glass front, glass back and aluminum frame. The phone has a circular cutout at the back which holds a 50 MP Ultra Vision Camera, a 20 MP Cine Camera, 12 MP Telephoto Camera.
On the front, the smartphone has a 13 MP Ultra Vision Selfie Camera and a 3D Depth Sensing Camera. This means the device has a very fast face unlock, The device also has an in-display fingerprint sensor.
The device is powered by Huawei’s own HUAWEI Kirin 9000 chip with 8 GB RAM and 256 GB ROM. It’s an octa-core system with a 24-core Mali G78 GPU and an integrated 5G modem. It gets its juice from a 4400 mAh (typical value) battery which can charge up to 66w with Huawei’s SuperCharge or Wirelessly (50 W)
Matters software, the Mate 40 Pro comes with Huawei’s EMUI 11.0 which is based on Android 10 out the box.
