Huawei launched the Huawei Mate 40 series in China on October 30. Soon after the launch, Jingdong(JD.com), Tmall opened the official sales of the series as promised. As expected, the device has received a huge response on initial sales and is already out of stock in many places.

A report by MyDrivers says that JD.com opened the sale of the Huawei Mate 40 series at 18:00 China time on October 30. Accordingly, all the devices got sold out in just 11 seconds. And if the report is true, the first sale recorded 100 million sales in just 8 seconds on Jingdong. Similarly, Tmall’s sales clocked a record time of 20 seconds. To celebrate the insane response for Huawei’s new smartphones, JD.com flew hundreds of drones over its HQ last night.

The report says that hundreds of drones lined up in the drone show to form words like “JDxHuawei”, “Kirin 9000“. And shapes of Mate 40 series camera ring, and more. you can take a look at them below:

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Apparently, there was a 600% increase in opting for the one-hour quick service while buying these devices. The e-commerce company also has offers like a one-hour service, a 30-day return policy, a one-year battery replacement, trade-in. Additionally, people who by the RS Porsche Design will get JZD customized services, special vehicles with prioritized in-line delivery.

Offline pre-orders: Huawei stores

That said, another report says many models of the Huawei Mate 40 series are already out of stock. A visit by China Security news reveals pre-orders on the Shanghai Official Huawei store are open only for White, Black versions of Mate 40 Pro. However, Mate 40 Pro+ and RS Porsche Design are out of stock.

A similar situation prevails for official/experience stores in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and many others. Also, the models, which can be pre-ordered, don’t have an exact delivery date. And two of Huawei Authorized stores in Beijing have gone to the extent of suspending the reservations of the series.

As per a staff in the Chengdu store, huge supply scarcity is due to very early bookings that go as far as July/August. Looks like Huawei is crushing it with initial sales, and we will have to wait for a bit to know the exact sale numbers.

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Huawei announced the Mate 40 series in China today. A few days back, Huawei’s CEO hinted at a special feature coming to Chinese variants. Today, at the launch event, Richard Yu of Huawei announced that Mate 40 series will be the first smartphone to have a hardware wallet for China’s digital currency(DCEP).

Accordingly, the Huawei Mate 40 series supports(via Decrypt) an in-built hardware wallet for China’s DC/EP(Digital RMB). Here DC is Digital Currency, and EP is Electronic Payment. Besides, China’s Central Bank Digital Currency, the digital Yuan is reportedly under development since 2014. Further, Huawei CEO said that the device will offer hardware-level security along with anonymous protection, and dual-offline transactions.

Simply put, users can use the device as a digital wallet and shop at multiple outlets in the country. Interestingly, they can also initiate transactions when they are offline. As per Huawei’s Offical Weibo account, the Huawei Wallet is supported at 16 million+ PoS(Point of Sales) terminals, and 130+ banks(English translated). However, it is unclear if users can swap their bank savings to this wallet. That said, the announcement comes at a time when the Chinese Government is pushing digital currency to the public. And conducting trials of the same.

Besides, Huawei has also been actively involving with the government to promote digital currency in China. Earlier this year, it signed an agreement with Govt. of Nanshan District of Shenzhen, Southeast China. This was to strengthen the country’s Digital Currency economy. And collaborate with the People’s Bank of China to begin the testing of its own virtual currency in Shenzhen.

China’s rigorous push for DCEP

Reports say that Shenzhen‘s Luohu District stimulated around 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) to public citizens to pilot test the digital currency and promote DCEP. Accordingly, 50,000 initial recipients got the DCEP through a lottery system. And made to use it across 3,389 merchants including restaurants, gas stations, metro, and more.

As per the system, there will be a DCEP wallet developed by commercial banks like China’s Central Bank, People’s Bank of China. Users can avail these lotteries by downloading the DCEP wallet of the respective banks. Before this, nearly 2 million people signed up for the Digital yuan Experiment. And 50,000 of them reportedly got a 200 yuan gift envelope.

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Yesterday, Huawei officially unveiled the Mate40 series as its latest flagship smartphones for global markets. The phones were accompanied by a number of connected products as well as accessories. At the end of the event, the company announced that a dedicated China launch conference will be held on October 30 in Shanghai.

The HUAWEI Mate40 series global launch event was streamed on YouTube. At the same time, the official Weibo handle of the company shared pictures for its home audience. Once the event ended, the company revealed that a China-exclusive event will take place on October 30.

As we mentioned in the beginning, the Chinese telecom giant announced a number of products for international markets. However, two of them had already debuted in China in the month of August.

Nevertheless, the core new products should be same as those announced for global markets. Hence, consider reading our coverages on them to learn more.

• HUAWEI Mate40, HUAWEI Mate40 Pro, HUAWEI Mate40 Pro+
• PORSCHE DESIGN HUAWEI Mate40 RS
• HUAWEI Mate40 Series Accessories
• HUAWEI Mate30E Pro
• HUAWEI HiSilicon Kirin 9000/Kirin 9000E
• PORSCHE DESIGN HUAWEI Watch GT 2
• HUAWEI FreeBuds Studio
• HUAWEI Sound

It is worth noting that Huawei will be revealing the prices for the above-mentioned products for the Chinese market at the scheduled October 30 conference. However, the pre-orders for the Mate40 series have already sold out just within 28 seconds on JD (Jingdong).

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Huawei is gearing up to launch the Mate40 series of smartphones today(October 22). Ahead of the event, a lot of leaks have been floating around. And the latest of them all is the inclusion of a new Mate30E Pro. And famous tipster evleaks has leaked the entire press-renders of the series.

Tipster Ishan Agarwal says(via GSMArena), Huawei will launch a new Mate30E Pro along with the Mate40 series today. He says, the new device will be identical to the Mate30 Pro from last year. However, it will have an upgraded Kirin 990E SoC. There’s no info on what’s going to be the difference between Kirin 990 and 990E.

Anyways, This is really interesting as the Mate40 series will have a punch-hole display up front, and a circular camera layout on the rear. Whereas, the Mate30 Pro has an older notch-style display but. The older flagship from 2019 has a 6.53-inch OLED display, Kirin 990 SoC, 4,400mAh battery with 44W HUAWEI SuperCharge. The rear cameras have two 40MP lenses, 8MP Telephoto with 3x optical zoom, and a 3D depth-sensing camera. At the front, it has a 32MP f/2.0 lens and a 3D depth sensor.

Mate40 Pro+ and Porsche Design RS New details

Regarding the Huawei Mate40 Porsche Design RS, Ishan says it will come in three colors- Ceramic White, Ceramic Black, and a new Collectors Edition. Further, he says the device will have Kirin 9000 SoC with 12GB RAM. That said the earlier leak revealed the storage options to be 256 and 512GB.

Anyway, regarding the specs, the Mate40 Pro+ and Porsche Design RS seems to share a lot in common. We already know most of that but Ishan has a few interesting details. He says both the device will have a 90Hz display with a 240Hz touch sampling rate. The Mate40 Pro+ will be 8.8mm thick and weigh 230g while the Porsche Design RS will measure 10.1mm thick and weigh 234g.

Furthermore, he says both the devices will have 66W wired charging and can charge the 4,400mAh battery in just 47 minutes. They will also have a 50W Wireless Charging and 5W Reverse Wireless Charging. Other features include IP68 rating, Stereo Speakers, an IR sensor, and EMUI 11.

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For cameras, he lists four main lenses- 50MP F/1.9 SuperSensing Wide lens with OIS, 20MP F/2.4 Movie Camera, a 12MP F/2.4 Telephoto lens with OIS, an 8MP F/4.4 SuperZoom 10X Optical, Upto 100X Digital with OIS, and a 3D Camera. He says RS edition will support 8K recording as well. This is slightly different to earlier leak which said the devices will have two 8MP sensors.

At the front, there are two 13MP SuperSensing F/2.4 and 3D sensor with face unlocking.

Mate40 series Renders

Tipster evleaks has gone a step ahead to reveal the entire press renders of the Mate40 series. Have a look at them below:

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Huawei‘s Mate 40 series of smartphones is the talk of the town lately. The company is going to announce the lineup on October 22 but they can’t stop the leaks from coming through. With all the info available so far, let’s take a look at the expected specifications, and prices of the lineup ahead of launch.

So to clear it up one last time, the Huawei Mate 40 series will have 4 models as per recent leaks. However, a few rumors say that the first one of the list will be delayed a bit. The models are:

• Huawei Mate 40
• Huawei Mate 40 Pro
• Huawei Mate 40 Pro+
• Huawei Mate 40 Porsche Design RS

Huawei Mate 40 Series Expected Design

Going by the earlier leaks and rumors so far, we feel the Mate 40, Mate 40 Pro, and Pro+ will share a similar design with a circular ring at the back. At the front though, all of them are likely ramping up to ditch the old bath-tub notch on the Mate 30 series with a dual punch-hole curved display.

However, the Porsche RS design will likely have an octagonal camera layout at the back. Apart from the leaked designs, the company’s latest official teaser itself hints at it. For the build, we can expect a metal frame sandwiched between Corning Gorilla Glass on either side. The Porsche design will reportedly have a “Porsche Design” and “Huawei” Logo on the rear panel. The possible color variants are mentioned below:

• Huawei Mate 40 – Atleast Black, White(expected)
• Huawei Mate 40 Pro– Black, Silver/Gray, Yellowish Orange, Green, White
• Huawei Mate 40 Pro+ – White, Black
• Huawei Mate 40 Porsche Design RS– White, Black

Huawei Mate 40 series Expected Specifications

Previously, the Mate 30 Pro models including the Porsche design had a slightly smaller display compared to the Vanilla Mate 30. Going by this, since we don’t exactly know the display specs of the Mate 40, we think it’s somewhere around the 6.76-inch that’s probably coming on both Pro, Pro+, and maybe the Porsche design as well. That said, we can expect an AMOLED curved display, at least FHD+ resolution(2722×1344 pixels on Pro), 90Hz refresh rate.

Under the hood, recent leaks reveal that all of them could feature Kirin 9000 SoC onboard. This is a 5nm Octa-core chipset with an ARM’s Cortex-A77 likely as the prime core. It will probably have a clock speed of 3.13GHz, three other A77 cores at 2.04GHz, and 4xlow-performance cores. Mali-G78 GPU with 24-cores and an integrated 5G Modem are expected to tag along.

Mate 40 series Camera

Now, for cameras, leaks so far say the Mate 40 Pro has a triple-camera, but Penta-lens on the Pro+, and Porsche design RS. The design is likely a circular ring on Mate 40, Pro, Pro+ while the Porsche design, as usual, has a different cutout(Octagon this time).

The camera sensors of vanilla Mate 40 is a mystery. However, both the Pro models and the Porsche design will get an upgrade from the 40MP sensor on the Mate 30 Pro and have distortion-free ultra-wide, different zoom lenses, and more. All of them get a Color Temperature sensor, LED flash as common. Let’s take a look at them below:

• Mate 40 Pro – 50MP Sony IMX700Y, 20MP Sony IMX718 ultra-wide, 12MP Sony 5x Optical IMX351Y, a laser-focus sensor.
• Mate 40 Pro+ -50MP Sony IMX700Y, 20MP Sony IMX718 ultra-wide, 8MP 3x optical(mid-range), 8MP 10x optical(both Sony IMX520), a ToF sensor
• Mate 40 Porsche design RS– (same sensors of Mate 40 Pro+), and a temperature measurement sensor.

Storage, Other features, and Price

That said, across the variants, we can expect Bluetooth 5.2, Wi-Fi 6, SA/NSA 5G with HMS, GPS, BeiDou, GLONASS for connectivity. Leaks show the device will run Android 10 instead of 11 with EMUI 11 on top. A Battery leak on the Mate 40 Pro suggests, all the Pro variants including Porsche design will likely have a 4,400mAh battery with 65W charging via Type-C, and Wireless charging.

Storage-wise, leaks say Mate 40 Pro has 8/256GB, 8/512GB variants while Pro+. And Porsche design has 12GB RAM, and 256GB on Pro+, and 256/512GB on Porsche design respectively.

As for the price, Mate 40 Pro is said to start at 1100€, Pro+ at 1400€, and Porsche design RS at €2500 (vs €2095 of the predecessor).

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