Huawei has had a tough year with respect to its smartphone business. The ban which is still in effect has led to delays in the release of its phones especially its flagships. Seeing as its product calendar has suffered a huge disruption, it is not surprising that it has been reported that the next-gen Mate series of smartphones won’t launch until next year. While we wait, more details of the Mate50 series have surfaced.
The source of the new details is the Weibo account 菊厂影业Fans who revealed earlier that the Mate50 series will launch next year. In a Weibo post earlier today, the account revealed that Huawei will probably announce the next-gen Mate smartphones by the end of the second quarter of next year, which is about 9 months from now.
The post also reveals that while Huawei plans to release the Mate50 phones with support for 5G, we will still see 4G variants. The new phones will also launch with a mix of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor and Huawei’s own Kirin chipset. The Snapdragon processor will most likely be a 4G version of the yet-to-be-announced Snapdragon 898 processor.
The source also states that Huawei’s strategy, for the time being, will be one flagship series per year rather than two. This means, we most likely won’t get a successor to the Huawei P50 series next year.
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