The most expensive domestic mobile phone in history, Huawei Mate 20 series, is released, with the highest price exceeding 15,000

For Huawei, the significance of this year's Mate 20 series is of great significance. As the flagship product of Huawei and even the entire domestic mobile phone camp, the Mate series is destined to carry more expectations from the outside world; and the leapfrog naming from Mate10 to Mate20 has magnified this expectation. In this case, Huawei chose to change the global launch location of the Mate20 series to London, England, while the previous two years were in Munich, Germany.

Therefore, at 2 pm on October 16, London time, the Mate 20 series began to debut. At this press conference, Huawei announced four new products in the Mate 20 series, namely Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro, Mate 20 X and Mate 20 RS (Porsche Design Edition).

From a design perspective, the Mate 20 series adopts the iconic Four-Point Design, and the surface of the body adopts a flowing design.

In terms of screen, the Mate 20 adopts a widow's peak design, with a size of 6.53 inches and a resolution of 2244x1080p; while the Mate 20 Pro adopts a notch screen design, with a size of 6.53 inches, but a higher resolution of 3120X1440p. The Mate 20 Pro uses screen fingerprint recognition.

The screen-to-body ratio of both is around 90%, exceeding that of this year's iPhone Xs; their bezels are very narrow and have rounded corners, making them very comfortable to hold.

Along with the Mate 20, Huawei released the NM Card. It is 45% smaller than the previous memory card in size and uses the same design as the Nano Sim card, so users can use the same card slot. In addition, the Mate 20 series uses hidden dual speakers, supports IP 68 level waterproof and dustproof, and can withstand 30 minutes in 2 meters deep water.

In terms of color matching, both Mate20 and Mate20 Pro have 5 colors, namely Emerald Green, Midnight Blue, Black, Pink Gold and Twilight.

In terms of battery, the Mate 20 has a capacity of 4000 mAh, while the Mate 20 Pro has a capacity of 4200 mAh. The latter supports 40W charging, which can charge 70% in 30 minutes. The Mate 20 Pro also supports the world's fastest 15W wireless charging, which is 70% faster than other brands' wireless charging. Not only that, the Huawei Mate 20 can also reverse wirelessly charge other mobile phones that support wireless charging (such as the iPhone 8 Plus), which is the first time in the industry.

In terms of network, Huawei Mate 20 Pro is the first in the world to support LTE Cat.21, with a maximum downlink rate of 1.4Gbps; WiFi connection rate is up to 1733 Mbps. Not only that, Mate 20 Pro also supports L1 + L5 dual GPS technology that has previously appeared on Xiaomi 8, which can make the phone's navigation more accurate.

From the chip level, both products are equipped with the Kirin 980 processor. It uses a 7nm process technology and integrates 6.9 billion transistors (Kirin 970 has 5.5 billion); the CPU includes 2 Cortex A76 @ 2.6GHz + 2 Cortex A76 @ 1.92GHz + 4 Cortex A55 @ 1.8GHz, and the GPU uses Mali-G76 MP10.

Of course, the most eye-catching aspect of Kirin 980 is its AI. This time, it integrates a dual-core NPU for the first time, uses a higher-precision deep network, can recognize 4,500 images per minute, has higher real-time performance, and supports AI scenarios such as face recognition, object recognition, and object detection.

In terms of photography, the Mate 20 series all use a triple Leica camera design, but the camera parameters of the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro are different. The Mate 20 uses a combination of a 16-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera + a 12-megapixel wide-angle camera + an 8-megapixel camera, while the Mate 20 Pro is more powerful, including a 40-megapixel wide-angle camera + a 20-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera + an 8-megapixel camera. The large aperture design allows the Mate 20 Pro to perform well in extreme low-light environments.

In terms of photography, the Mate 20 series also makes good use of the advantages of AI. The Super HDR mode integrates 10 photos at the same time. Its equivalent focus range is 16 mm to 270 mm, and in ultra-wide-angle mode, it can also capture a larger picture. At the same time, when you are extremely close to an object (as low as 2.5 cm), the ultra-macro mode can be automatically turned on to present more details.

Not only that, with the cooperation of specific waterproof accessories, Mate20 Pro can also support shooting in water.

Huawei also introduced a powerful feature in video shooting on the Mate 20 Pro - AI Color. When shooting a video, it can adjust the background other than the portrait to black and white, while the portrait is presented in color, thus achieving a movie-level aesthetic style.

The Mate 20 Pro uses a dual 24-megapixel 3D depth-sensing camera (which is why the Mate 20 Pro uses a notch design), which supports 3D face recognition and can help users take better AI selfies. At the same time, the 3D camera can also model objects in 3D and produce multiple AR effects.

On the software side, the Mate 20 series is equipped with EMUI 9, supports Android 9.0, and supports full-screen gesture operation. At the same time, EMUI 9 also supports PC mode, and it still supports answering calls in PC mode. In addition, Huawei Share 3.0 also allows users to transfer files at high speed between different devices.

At the press conference, Google Vice President Bob also took the stage to say that the Huawei Mate 20 series is the first batch of devices to use Android 9 Pie. He also introduced the improvements of Android 9 Pie in AI and security.

At the press conference, Yu Chengdong also introduced the Porsche Design version of Mate20 - Mate20 RS.

At the press conference, Richard Yu announced a 7.2-inch large-screen mobile phone, the Mate 20 X. Its product features are as follows:

• Widow's Peak Design;

• Kirin 980 chip;

• Supports 4096-level Huawei M stylus;

• 5000 mAh battery, supports 6.67 hours;

• It uses a 4000-pixel Leica triple camera;

• Graphene heat dissipation technology and three-dimensional liquid cooling technology;

• Dual speaker design;

From the introduction on site, it can be seen that this is a device focusing on gaming and entertainment; to match this phone, Huawei also announced an accessory called GamePad and compared it with Nintendo Switch. In terms of positioning, the function configuration of Mate20 X is between Mate20 and Mate20 Pro.

At the end of the release, Yu Chengdong announced the prices of the Mate 20 series. The prices of Mate 20 are 799 euros (4+128) and 849 euros (6+128), Mate 20 Pro is 1049 euros (6+128), Mate 20 X is 899 euros (6+128), and Mate 20 RS is 1695 euros (8+256) and 2095 euros (8+512). The highest price has exceeded 15,000 yuan.

Leifeng.com noticed that when the price was announced, there was quite a lot of discussion and boos at the press conference.

Compared with last year's Mate10 series, this year's Mate20 series has more highlights in terms of products. In addition to the expected screen fingerprint recognition, 3D face recognition and other functions, the appearance of ultra-macro, reverse wireless charging, AI color and other functions make people feel Huawei's dedication to the Mate20 series. Of course, while innovating its products, Huawei has also raised the price of the Mate series to a new height, which can be said to be no less than giants such as Apple and Samsung.

However, as far as Leifeng.com knows, the domestic price of Huawei Mate 20 series will not be higher than the international version, and there will be some features for domestic users at the product level. All of this will be officially announced at Huawei's domestic launch conference in late October, so let's wait and see.

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