Before the downward spiral of Huawei‘s smartphone business, the tech giant had consistently partnered with Porsche Design to release customized luxury variants of its already premium flagship smartphones. Last year’s Mate 40 series also got an RS Porsche Design Edition but this model has been in short supply since its debut. Intending buyers usually have to make a reservation to buy it. In order to make it available to buyers, Huawei has launched a new variant of the Mate 40 RS Porsche Design.

The new variant comes in 8GB RAM + 256GB storage combo and is already on sale on Huawei Mall for 10,000 yuan (~$1,544). For reference, the top model comes with 12GB RAM and 512GB storage. This top variant is still available but via reservations while the new 8GB RAM version is on open sale, of course, while stock lasts. It is available in two color options – ceramic black and ceramic white.

The Porsche Design Huawei Mate 40 RS features a high-strength nano-tech ceramic back that is described by Huawei as having a “diamond-like shine and a sapphire-like toughness”.  The design also sees the premium model packing an octagonal camera housing.

The Mate 40 RS shares specs with the Mate 40 Pro and this includes a 6.76-inch OLED display with a 90Hz refresh rate. The phone adopts a pill-shaped punch hole located at the top left corner of the display. The front camera setup consists of a 13MP sensor and a 3D depth-sensing camera.

The flagship phone is powered by the Kirin 9000 chipset. For photography, there is a 50MP Ultravision main camera teaming up with a 20MP ultrawide Cine Camera, as well as a 12MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom and OIS, and an 8MP SuperZoom Camera capable of 10x optical zoom and having OIS. The fifth sensor is a 3D depth-sensing camera with support for autofocus.

Keeping the lights on is a 4400mAh battery with 66W Wired Huawei SuperCharge and 50W Wireless Huawei SuperCharge support. The phone also comes with stereo speakers, NFC, Bluetooth 5.2, Wi-Fi 6, and a USB 3.1 Type-C port. It runs on Android 10-based EMUI 11 from the go.

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Chinese tech blog Aio Technology posted a teardown of Huawei’s Mate 40 Pro last week showing the internals of the device. As a follow-up, the teardown of the classy Mate 40 RS Porsche Design Edition which packs a self-developed HiSilicon storage chip inside has been posted online.

The short disassembly video starts teardown starts predictably by heating up the back of the device and using a suction cup to pry it open. Aside from the exclusive octagon-shaped rear design, the Mate 40 RS is nearly identical in design to the Mate 40 Pro on the inside.

We have the five camera modules including the IR temperature sensor alongside the NFC and wireless charging coils, 4,400 mAh battery and charging module. Disconnecting several connection cables lets you remove the motherboard and camera modules.

Huawei Mate 40 RS teardown reveals self-developed memory chip
This is where the interesting bit is, we can clearly see the memory chip bears HiSilicon branding which is proof that Huawei is developing in-house memory chips. There’s not much info out there about this specific memory storage.

Huawei Mate 40 RS teardown reveals self-developed memory chip
According to reports from Chinese tech bloggers, the Mate 40 Pro+ and Mate 40 RS are the first devices to use Huawei’s self-developed SFS 1.0 flash memory which tests almost twice as fast as UFS 3.1 storage in read and write speeds.

Per the example given, Huawei’s SFS 1.0 storage manages sequential write speed at 1,280MB/s and random write speeds of 548MB/s which are notably faster than UFS 3.1 storage which hoovers around 700MB/s sequential write and 200-300MB/s random write speeds.

Huawei is yet to release an official statement regarding the SFS standard so this information may not be entirely accurate.

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