At the recently held IFA 2019 tech trade show in Berlin, Germany, Huawei announced the Kirin 990 chipset that will be powering the Mate 30 series that is scheduled to go official on Sept. 19. The launch event for the Mate 30 series will be held at Munich, Germany on the said date. In an interview session after the company’s IFA 2019 event, Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu said that the Mate 30 series will be listed and sold in China first.
The Huawei Mate 30 series is expected to debut with AOSP edition of Android that won’t feature Google apps. Yu has claimed that the company will provide a workaround through which users will be able to manually install Google apps on Mate 30 series by themselves in the international markets.
So far, the rumor mill has revealed that the Mate 30 Pro may come with a 6.6-inch display that offers quad HD+ resolution. It will be equipped with a wider notch and it will be flaunting waterfall effect like extremely curved edges. The handset come may come with an in-display fingerprint scanner and advanced 3D face unlock feature. The wider notch of the Mate 30 Pro is said to be housing as many as three camera sensors.
The newly unveiled 7nm Kirin 990 chipset with integrated 5G modem powers the Mate 30 Pro. The rear side of the phone has a quad camera system that may consist of a pair of 40-megapixel sensors, an 8-megapixel telephoto lens and a ToF sensor. The four cameras of the phone will be housed inside a round-shaped module. The smartphone is expected to arrive with a 4,500mAh battery that may support 55W rapid charging and 30W wireless charging. The company is also expected to release the 5G version of Mate 30 Pro. As of this writing, there is no information available on the pricing of the phone.
