Despite being launched back in October, the Huawei Mate 40 is finally available for preorders as of today (15th December 2020) and its first sales starting from 21st December 2020.
For those unaware, the Mate 40 from the Chinese tech giant is the company’s 2020 flagship and arrives with the 5nm Kirin 9000E chip. It sports a 6.5 inch curved display with a 2376×1080 resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate. The touch sampling rate on the device is 240Hz and it even supports a P3 color gamut. Under the display, a fingerprint scanner is housed and it also offers face recognition technology as well.
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Arriving at the camera, the Huawei Mate 40 houses a single front facing punch hole camera, while the rear sports a 50 megapixel primary sensor, a 16 megapixel ultra wide angle camera, and an 8 megapixel telephoto lens with 5x optical zoom. The flagship is powered by a large 4,200mAh battery pack, which supports 40W fast charging as well. We had also previously reported on the preorders yesterday.
Looking at the preorders, the Huawei Mate 40 5G is priced at a range between 4,999 Yuan to 5,499 Yuan (roughly 763 US Dollars to 839 US Dollars) for the 8GB RAM and 128GB storage variant and 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage variant respectively. It is currently available online on Vmall.com. The device will be available in multiple color variants including Mystic Silver, White, Black, Green, and Yellow.
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