Huawei Mate70 Series and MateX6: An In-Depth Look at 2024's Flagship Smartphones

Huawei Mate70 Series and MateX6: An In-Depth Look at 2024's Flagship SmartphonesOn November 26th, 2024, Huawei held a grand "Huawei Mate Brand Ceremony" new product launch event in Shenzhen, unveiling five new Mate series phones: the Mate70, Mate70 Pro, Mate70 Pro+, Mate70 RS Porsche Design, and MateX6. This launch once again demonstrated Huawei's formidable strength and innovative capabilities in the mobile phone sector, delivering unprecedented high-end experiences to consumers

Huawei Mate70 Series and MateX6: An In-Depth Look at 2024's Flagship Smartphones

On November 26th, 2024, Huawei held a grand "Huawei Mate Brand Ceremony" new product launch event in Shenzhen, unveiling five new Mate series phones: the Mate70, Mate70 Pro, Mate70 Pro+, Mate70 RS Porsche Design, and MateX6. This launch once again demonstrated Huawei's formidable strength and innovative capabilities in the mobile phone sector, delivering unprecedented high-end experiences to consumers. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of these five phones, delving into their core technologies, innovative designs, and market positioning.

I. Mate70 Series: An Affordable Choice with Native HarmonyOS

The Mate70 series, the core products of the launch, attracted significant attention with their outstanding performance and affordable prices. Huawei highlighted the Mate70 series' "Immersive Display" screen, featuring 1 billion colors, 1440Hz PWM high-frequency dimming, a 1-120Hz dynamic refresh rate, and HDR Vivid technology, with a peak brightness of 2500 nits, offering users a clearer, smoother, and more comfortable visual experience.

The base Mate70 model sports a 6.7-inch OLED flat screen with a 25881216 resolution. While it lacks a 3D face unlock feature, side fingerprint recognition effectively compensates for this omission. The Mate70 Pro and Mate70 Pro+ upgrade to a 6.9-inch screen with a well-received curved display, boasting a 28321316 resolution, and incorporating 3D face unlocking and payment functionalities while retaining the side-mounted fingerprint power button with AI trigger functionality.

In terms of body design, the Mate70 Pro series employs an innovative "Golden Silk Brocade" micro-nano 3D embossing process, exhibiting a textile-like woven texture, appearing more refined under bright light. Paired with a high-brightness titanium or Xuanwu (black) body, it balances rigidity and a smooth touch.

Regarding battery life, the Mate70 series is equipped with a large 5700mAh battery and supports 100W wired fast charging and 50W wireless fast charging. While Huawei didn't disclose the Mate70 Pro's support for public charging protocols, its robust fast-charging capabilities alleviate any range anxiety. Furthermore, the Mate70 series is certified with IP68 and IP69 protection ratings, offering excellent water and dust resistance.

II. Mate Series Imaging Technology Upgraded: Red Maple True-Color Imaging System

The Huawei Mate series has always been renowned for its powerful imaging capabilities. At this launch, Huawei introduced the new "Red Maple True-Color Imaging" system, further enhancing the imaging performance of the Mate70 Pro series. Building upon the conventional ultra-wide-angle, wide-angle, and periscope telephoto lenses, the system adds a dedicated "Red Maple True-Color Camera" responsible for color perception.

Unlike the other three cameras focused on imaging detail, the "Red Maple True-Color Camera" features multi-spectral channels, enabling more accurate color perception and providing more precise color reproduction for the other three lenses. Whether it's highly saturated reds or warm yellows in nighttime and light-polluted environments, the Red Maple True-Color Imaging system accurately captures and renders them.

The Mate70 Pro boasts a 50MP OIS wide-angle camera + 40MP ultra-wide-angle camera + 48MP periscope 4x optical zoom telephoto macro camera with OIS, all using RGGB arrangement. The Mate70 Pro+ upgrades the sensor to an RYYB arrangement for superior low-light performance.

Additionally, the Mate70 Pro's main camera features a variable aperture design, allowing manual aperture adjustment for greater creative freedom, and supports manual shutter speed adjustment during video recording, eliminating the need for external ND filters to shoot natural and smooth footage. Its telephoto lens doubles as a macro lens, offering a larger image size and richer detail compared to the common ultra-wide-angle cropping solutions.

III. Mate70 RS Porsche Design: The Ultimate Experience with a Dual-Layer OLED Screen

As Huawei's flagship Mate series model, the Mate70 RS Porsche Design maintains its high-end positioning. It eschews the Mate70 Pro's Golden Silk Brocade back cover, opting for an octagonal camera bezel and a ceramic back cover. In terms of imaging, the Mate70 RS Porsche Design aligns with the Mate70 Pro+, employing the Red Maple True-Color Imaging system and the RYYB sensor solution.

The most striking feature of the Mate70 RS Porsche Design is its industry-first dual-layer OLED immersive display. Due to the complex and costly process of the dual-layer OLED solution, it has never been implemented in a phone before. This solution, through the stacking of two OLED layers, effectively increases screen brightness, reaching a peak brightness of 3500 nits, surpassing Mini LED screens. Simultaneously, the dual-layer OLED solution reduces screen load, effectively lowering power consumption and extending screen lifespan.

IV. Comprehensive Upgrade of Communication Capabilities in the Mate70 Series

Huawei has always possessed strong capabilities in communication technology. The Mate70 series features new optimizations, coupled with second-generation Lingxi communication, resulting in a 3dB signal strength improvement a near 100% enhancement.

Satellite communication is also a hallmark feature of the Mate series. Huawei debuted the "satellite paging" function globally, achieving a 120-degree ultra-wide angle for satellite targeting; connection to a satellite doesn't require fixed phone orientation, making usage more convenient.

V. MateX6: A New Benchmark for Foldable Phones

Huawei's new generation foldable phone, the MateX6, also made a stunning appearance at the launch. Compared to the Mate XT, the MateX6 is more geared towards everyday use. The MateX6 features a 7.93-inch 24402240 resolution LTPO 2.0 adaptive high-refresh-rate foldable inner screen, with a refresh rate dynamically adjusting between 1-120Hz, and equipped with 1440Hz PWM high-frequency dimming, reaching a peak brightness of 1800 nits. The 6.45-inch outer screen has a 24401080 resolution and a peak brightness of 2500 nits, suitable for outdoor use.

Huawei uses a "distributed Xuanwu architecture" for the MateX6, featuring more scientific heat distribution and enhanced heat dissipation, effectively improving the sub-frame utilization rate and providing ample space for wireless RF antennas, further enhancing signal performance. Additionally, Huawei launched the MateX6 Three-Network Satellite Collector's Edition, the world's first consumer smartphone supporting three-network satellite communication.

Considering the fragility of foldable phones, Huawei employed a 550MPa high-strength body frame and a 1900MPa rocket steel hinge in the MateX6, significantly enhancing its drop resistance.

VI. Huawei Mate Series: The Definer of AI Phones

As one of the earliest brands to incorporate NPUs in smartphones, Huawei has been a leader in the AI field. In the Mate70 series and MateX6, Huawei, based on the new HarmonyOS NEXT, introduced numerous AI functions covering image editing, calling, personalized settings, and privacy protection.

In calling, Huawei AI not only performs noise reduction but also supports simultaneous interpretation. In personalization, AI can quickly change clothes and backgrounds for people in images, creating personalized wallpapers. In privacy protection, Huawei AI can achieve call leak prevention and dynamic privacy protection, automatically hiding relevant information when detecting peeping behavior.

The Mate70 series and MateX6 will be available with both HarmonyOS NEXT and HarmonyOS 4.0 at launch, with users able to upgrade to HarmonyOS NEXT later.

VII. Pricing and Summary

The starting prices for the Huawei Mate70, Mate70 Pro, and Mate70 Pro+ are 5499 yuan, 6499 yuan, and 8499 yuan, respectively; the Mate70 RS Porsche Design starts at 11999 yuan; and the MateX6 starts at 12999 yuan.

From "far ahead" to "incredibly strong," the Huawei Mate series is constantly evolving, shifting from simple smartphone configuration competition to becoming a representative of the Chinese technology ecosystem. Huawei no longer needs to compare itself to other brands to prove its strength; the name "Huawei" itself represents superior product quality and innovative technology. The ultimate product experience, however, will need to be assessed through hands-on testing.