News & Reviews:   Huawei Mate 40

As we have entered the second half of the year, some of the smartphone manufacturers are gearing up for the second wave of flagship war. Earlier, it has been announced that the highly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note 20 series will be launched at the Unpacked Event happening on 5 August. Other than Samsung, Huawei is well-prepared to fight the war with the upcoming Mate 40 series as well, and the tech specs sheet has been leaked today ahead of the launch event.

Based on a statement by androidheadlines.com it seems that future Huawei smartphone could come equipped with a rather large lens at the rear which could drastically improve the picture quality of the pictures taken. Even though the patent showed pictures of how the lens could potentially look like, there is still no official information on the exact tech spec of the camera system for now.

Based on a statement by a user on weibo, it seems that the upcoming Huawei Mate 40 series might not come equipped with an in-display selfie camera after all. With that said, there is no news on which smartphone will be the first to be the first commercially available smartphone to have the aforementioned camera.

HUAWEI has always been releasing new generations of HUAWEI’s Kirin processor and mate series between September to November. Despite the ban from the US, recent reports mentioned that the HUAWEI Mate 40 series will be arriving on time between this coming September to November.

Based on an image posted by @DSCCRoss in reply to @UniverseIce on Twitter, it seems that the Huawei Mate 40 will most likely come with a 120Hz display. While not much is known in regards to the tech specs of the device, we do know that it will most likely come equipped with a 5nm process chipset and a 9P Freeform lens technology.

We often caution you to take rumours with a grain of salt and there's a good reason for that. Take the Huawei Mate 40 series, for example. A few weeks ago, it was suggested that the device could come with a Kirin 1020 chipset. But the latest rumour claims that it'll be equipped with the Kirin 1000 chipset instead.

Just last week, the Huawei P40 series was launched and it features some of the interesting tech specs like the Penta-camera setup and 100x zoom on the Pro Plus variant. One week after the launch, rumours of the Huawei Mate 40 have started to surface online. According to a well-known tipster, the series is going to bring us a new HiSilicon Kirin 1020 chipset and a new technology called FreeForm lens for photography.

It seems that a recent coverage by mydrivers.com has mentioned that the upcoming Huawei Mate 40 smartphone, which is due to be released somewhere around H2 2020, could come with the HiSilicon Kirin 1020 chipset. While not much has been confirmed in regards to the exact performance specs of the aforementioned chipset, the source has mentioned that it might perform up to 50% faster compared to the Kirin 990.