News & Reviews:   Huawei Mate 20 features

When Huawei revealed their new Huawei Mate 20 series consisting of the Huawei Mate 20, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Huawei Mate 20X and Porsche Design Huawei Mate 20RS, what was our reaction? The short answer was: “WOW. Huawei are now setting the bar high!”. With plenty of world’s first’s in their new Mate 20 series Huawei are poised to take the leading position in technological innovations, particularly for smartphones. See why we think so below. 

Right after the global launch, Huawei Malaysia have announced that the Huawei Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro and Mate 20X are coming to Malaysia as soon as 27 October 2018 for the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro. The Huawei Mate 20 will come in just black with 6GB RAM + 128GB storage for RM2799, while the Mate 20 Pro will come in black, twilight and emerald green with 6GB RAM + 128GB storage for RM3599. The early birds who purchase it will get a free SoundStone and Wireless Charger respectively. 

In conjunction with the launch of the Huawei Mate 20 series, the Chinese electronics manufacturer has announced the launch of the Huawei Watch GT with battery life of up to 2 weeks before needing to recharge. In order to achieve this feat, the Huawei Watch GT features a dual-chip architecture which intelligently switches between high performance and low performance mode to improve efficiency.

Today, Huawei has finally unveiled the latest Mate 20 series along with other two products including the Huawei Watch GT and Band 3 Pro the but we'll cover these separately. Powered by the Kirin 980 chipset, a new Nano Memory card and more, the series includes the Huawei Mate 20, starting from €799 (4GB + 128GB, ~RM3837) and €849 (6GB + 128GB, ~RM4078), €1049 (~RM5038) for the Mate 20 Pro,  €899 (~RM4318) for the Mate 20X and the Porsche Design Mate 20 RS in two variants -  €1659 (8GB + 256GB, ~RM8141) and €2095 (8GB + 512GB, ~RM10062). All the phones except the Mate 20X (26 October 2018) are now available worldwide but we don't have a clear date for Malaysia's release. 

Hey TechNavers, today is the day that Huawei will be revealing the new Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro and the Mate 20X in London! This will be a global announcement and it'll start at 2PM over there, the hour difference between London and Kuala Lumpur is just 7 hours so the live stream will start tonight at 9PM (16 October 2018).

The upcoming Huawei Mate 20 series is going to be unveiled soon, taking place in London, Huawei will be revealing three new smartphones which are likely to be the Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro and the gaming oriented Mate 20X. Besides knowing that the Kirin 980 chipset and a dual Neural Processing Unit (NPU) will be integrated inside, there are plenty of rumours here and there so we have gathered them up and did a roundup on the three devices. Here's what the rumours say you can expect from them!

Google just announced their Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones last night, and despite their camera improvements over the Pixel 2 series, we can’t help but draw parallels with the camera improvements pushed by AI powered phones like the Huawei P20 Pro. The Super Res Zoom, which enhances digital zoom sounds like a poor man’s copy of the hardware enhanced Hybrid Zoom while Fused Video Stabilization sounds just like AI Stabilization.

The unreleased upcoming Night Sight update also sounds like a carbon copy of Huawei’s Night mode, but Huawei already have a Super Night Mode update on the way for phones like the Huawei Nova 3 and others. Long known as the defacto standard for Android cameraphones, perhaps the time is nigh for photographers and camera fans to start looking towards Huawei and their upcoming Huawei Mate 20 series for the cameraphone innovations of 2018? Is the Huawei Mate 20 the new cameraphone king of 2018?

Just last week, we reported and shown you how the Huawei Mate 20 Pro looks like at the back. This time around, we have another render leak and it will be the front look, which kind of "confirms" that the waterdrop notch is hanging on top of the display with quite a respectable narrow bezel. In addition to that, we also got a leak on the price but we will come to that later.

As we come up to the official announcement of the Huawei Mate 20 series in London on 16 October 2018, a teaser promotion video of it has been leaked, revealing 8 major points. These include the dual NPU packing Kirin 980 chipset and what could be a larger than 4000 mAh battery that has ultra-fast charging and super-long battery life due to more intelligent AI-based battery monitoring. Other intriguing points include what could be a super wide view for the 3 rear cameras while the multi-language text points towards faster instant translation.

Recently, Huawei Malaysia's YouTube channel released multiple videos promoting the Huawei Mate 20 which is bound on 16 October 2018. It features a total of nine local key opinion leaders (KOL) promoting the upcoming flagship's Dual Neural Processor Unit (NPU) feature. But what does the Dual NPU has to do with these local KOLs, anyway?