The Maimang brand was introduced as a collaboration between Huawei and China Telecom. As the former was banned from selling 5G devices, it transferred the ownership wholly to the latter in 2022.

Since then, the carrier has been releasing 5G-enabled handsets. The latest one called Maimang 20 was just launched in April.

Two months later, the operator has confirmed to debut yet another phone later this week.

The upcoming Maimang-branded smartphone is officially called Maimang A20 5G. It is scheduled to launch on June 15.

The teaser poster for the phone reveals its main camera. It also slightly showcases the design.

From the image, we can tell that the handset will sport a 50MP main camera. Further, its design resembles the Huawei Enjoy 50z (aka Huawei Nova Y61) from last year.

Thus, there’s a chance that Maimang A20 5G could be a 5G version of Enjoy 50z for China Telecom customers. 

If this is the case, then we can expect the device to arrive with a 6.52-inch HD+ display with a dewdrop notch. It may have two 2MP sensors for macro and depth on the rear and a 5MP front-facing camera.

For biometrics, it will likely feature a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. Finally, it could be backed by a 5,000mAh battery with support for 22.5W wired charging.

Anyways, we will know everything about this product soon as it is only a few days away from going official.

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Last year, Huawei sold off the Maimang brand to China Telecom. The new owner released Maimang 11 in May. Almost a year later, the carrier has now launched the successor of this handset dubbed as Maimang 20.

Just like the previous model, the new one is also a budget 5G smartphone. It comes with several upgrades over its predecessor along with a revamped design.

The newly released Maimang 20 arrives with a flat frame design, like most phones on the market these days. It sports two big circular modules for cameras like some Huawei and Honor devices.

On the front, the handset flaunts a 6.78-inch centered punch-hole display. This LCD screen offers a resolution of 2388 x 1080 pixels, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 240Hz touch sampling rate.

The smartphone comes powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 SoC. On the software front, it boots Android 12.

For optics, it uses a 64MP primary camera, which is assisted by a 2MP depth sensor. On the front, it has an 8MP shooter.

Last but not least, the device draws energy from a 5,000mAh battery and carries support for 40W fast charging.

The Maimang 20 is priced at ¥1,799 (~$260) and ¥1,999 (~$290) for 8GB + 256GB and 12GB + 256GB memory configurations, respectively. It can be availed in either silver, black, or green color options. The phone is available for pre-order starting today (April 3) and will go on sale from April 7.

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Earlier in March, the team at Gizmochina spotted a new smartphone, the Maimang 11 5G on the Chinese TENAA database, which meant that the device could be coming to market any time soon. Today, China Telecom, the new parent company of the Maimang brand, confirmed and announced that Maimang will be launching its latest Maimang 11 5G smartphone in China on May 10th at 7:08 pm Beijing Time (UTC +8).

In the launch event announcement poster, China Telecom only revealed that the Maimang 11 5G will feature an enormous 6000 mAh battery with 5G connectivity. However, several of the specs and the design of the Maimang 11 5G have been published in the TENAA database and here’s what we know.

The Maimang 11 5G will be featuring a 2.2Ghz clocked MediaTek Dimensity 700 chipset with 5G connectivity, running on Android 11. 

The smartphone will be equipped with a 6.745-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 1600×720, a 6000mAh battery, a 8MP front camera, and 48MP+2MP dual cameras. The device measures in at 168.3×77.6×8.98mm and weighs 199g. It retains the 3.5mm headphone jack and has a side-mounted fingerprint scanner.

The Maimang 11 5G will be available in either 6GB or 8GB of RAM with 128GB or 256GB of storage. The device has 3 colour options are Black, White and Blue.

For those unfamiliar with the Maimang brand, the brand was initially launched as a sub-brand under Huawei in collaboration with China Telecom and Tencent in 2013 in China with its first commercial device being the Huawei Maimang A199 with 3G connectivity. The sub-brand gained popularity among the youth in China with its trendy and youthful designs, and occasionally several of the Maimang devices even got rebranded by Huawei to be sold globally to a wider audience.

For example, you might recognise the Huawei Maimang 6, which was rebranded globally as either the Huawei Mate 10 Lite, Huawei Nova 2i or Honor 9i depending on the market you were living in.

However, with the US sanctions against Huawei, the Maimang had to be sold off to continue its operations as it needed overseas electronics suppliers to build its smartphones. Thus, the brand was wholly sold off last year from Huawei to China Telecom, and now the Maimang brand has dropped the Huawei branding on its smartphones and is fully independent from its former parent company, Huawei.

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The Maimang 10 has officially been released today in China by China Telecom for 2,299 yuan ($360). Maimang, previously known as Huawei Maimang, has changed ownership and is now under China Telecom. Additionally, the phone’s branding has also changed, and as of now, it will go by ‘Maimang’. This change of ownership and branding might be due to the chip ban sanctioned on Huawei, which prevents Huawei to secure any chips made by TSMC, which is the leading contract manufacturer for chipsets.

Coming back to the newly released Maimang 10, let’s take a look at its specs and features.

Maimang 10 specifications

The Maimang 10 features an ergonomic design with a curved back and rounded edges. It has a thickness of around 8.3mm and weighs a mere 179 grams. The Maimang 10 comes with a 6.6-inch 2400×1080 LCD display with a 94.2% screen-to-body ratio. Additionally, it features a 90hz refresh rate and 180Hz touch response rate. The screen has a punch hole cutout for its front camera, placed in the top center.

In the photography department, the Maimang 10 features a triple camera setup with a 40-megapixel AI primary sensor, 8-megapixel ultrawide lens, and a 2-megapixel macro camera. The device also features a 16-megapixel snapper for selfies and video calls.

Under the hood, the device houses a 5G enabled MediaTek Dimensity 720 SoC consisting of four fast ARM Cortex-A76 cores and four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores, all clocked at 2 GHz. The GPU present on the SoC is the Mali-G57. The device comes with 8GB of RAM paired with 128GB of internal storage expandable via a micro-SD card. The Maimanf 10 is powered by a 4,000mAh battery that supports 40W fast charging.

Maimang 10 pricing and availability

The Maimang 10 is available for pre-order in China at 2,299 yuan ($360) for the 8GB + 128 GB variant. It is currently being offered in three color variants namely, Aurora Blue, Pearl White, and Obsidian Black. It will go live for sale at 10:08 AM on December 24.

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Last month, a tipster revealed that Maimang 10 budget smartphone will soon go on sale in China. At the same time, the device appeared on TENAA revealing some of its key specs. A few days later, the handset is now said to hit the shelves this month.

According to 菊厂影业Fans on Weibo, China Telecom will release the Maimang 10 in December. It will be positioned as a better version of Maimang 10 SE from earlier this year.

For the uninitiated, the Maimang series of phones are sold exclusively by China Telecom in China. These handsets are made by Huawei. However, from this year onwards, the HUAWEI branding has been dropped.

According to TENAA, the upcoming Maimang 10 will be near identical to NZONE S7 Pro, which is yet another China Telecom-exclusive smartphone developed by Huawei.

The device is expected to come with features like a 6.6-inch HD+ 90Hz punch-hole display, MediaTek Dimensity 720 SoC, 40MP + 20MP + 2MP triple camera setup on the rear, 16MP camera on the front for selfies and video calls, 4,900mAh battery, 40W fast charging, 8.4mm thickness, and 179g weight.

Last but not least, the Maimang 10 could cost around ¥2,299 ($361). In other words, the phone offers very little for its asking price when compared to other smartphones in the segment.

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Huawei Maimang series of smartphones are exclusive to China Telecom. The carrier dropped the HUAWEI branding with the launch of Maimang 10 SE  earlier this year. Four months later, details about the vanilla Maimang 10 emerge.

According to WHYLAB, China Telecom has quietly released Maimang 10 in China. The handset will be soon available for purchase in the coming days. The device is expected to carry a price tag of ¥2,299.

As per the phone’s TENAA certification, it is a tweaked version of yet another China Telecom-exclusive smartphone called NZONE S7 Pro, which went official at the end of June.

The highlights of Maimang 10 include a 6.6-inch HD+ 90Hz display with a punch-hole, MediaTek Dimensity 720 chipset, 40MP + 20MP + 2MP triple rear camera setup, 16MP front-facing camera, 4,900mAh battery, 40W fast charging, 8.4mm thickness, and 179g weight.

The only major differences between the NZONE S7 Pro and the Maimag 10 are the camera setup and battery. The former features a 64MP main sensor paired with an 8MP secondary sensor and a  4,000mAh battery.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t find the official renders of the handset. Even WHYLAB did not share it. This suggests that China Telecom might have announced the device internally.

In order to have a good look at the phone’s design, we will have to wait until the smartphone gets listed online for pre-orders or sale. Until then, all we got are the low-quality images by TENAA.

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Huawei Plans to release a smaller version of what appears to look like the Huawei Mate 8 on July 14.

The poster for the phone bears a slogan which roughly translates into ”not afraid of what the young” or better put ”not afraid of being young” indicates that the phone is aimed at the younger generation.

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The phone called ”Maimang 5” will have 2 versions with one of the versions featuring 4GB of RAM, 64GB of ROM, a 16MP camera with OIS and ability to shoot 4k videos; and Snapdragon 650 or 652 processor. The phone is set to compete with the likes of OPPO R9 and Vivo X7. However, unlike the Mate 8 or OPPO R9 which have metal bodies, the Maimang 5 could end up with a double glass design with a metal frame. The pricing for the phone is expected to start at 2000 Yuan ($299). We still haven’t got any confirmation, so let’s wait for more details.

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