Huawei Mate 70
Huawei Mate 70 is a series of high-end smartphones manufactured by Huawei and released on the market in China in November 2024. The base model has a titanium casing. It features a 5,300 mAh battery, a 50 MP camera, up to 1 TB storage, 12 GB RAM and Beidou satellite connectivity. It runs the newly-launched operating system HarmonyOS 5 that is no longer compatible with Android.
The Mate 70 series comprises four models: Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro+, and Mate 70 RS.Design
The Mate 70 and Mate 70 Pro have an aluminium casing. Mate 70 PRO+ has a titanium casing. The Mate 70 Pro+ has a rear panel that is a mix of gold threads and brocade fiber; it is made of nylon material.Specifications
Hardware
Chipset
The Mate 70 series all uses the HiSilicon Kirin 9020 as SOC.
Another tech blogger has claimed that the Kirin 9020 is a 12-core processor with two 2.5 GHz high-performance cores, six 2.15 GHz mid-performance cores, and four 1.6 GHz efficiency cores. According to the blogger, the Kirin 9020 might have a greater performance than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, which was manufactured with TSMC’s 4 nm process and was released in 2022.Display
The smartphone has a 6.7-inch LTPO OLED display with a 120 Hz refresh rate and second generation Kunlun glass. The screen incorporates a 3D face scanner, while the fingerprint scanner has been placed at the side of the phone.Battery
The base model Mate 70 has a 5,300 mAh battery, while the Pro has a 5,500 mAh battery, and the Pro+ and RS models feature a 5,700 mAh battery.Storage
The base Mate 70 and the Pro models have 256 GB, 512 GB and 1 TB models, all featuring 12 GB RAM. Both the Pro+ and RS models have a 512 GB and 1 TB model, both featuring 16 GB memory.Camera
There are three cameras on the back of the Mate 70 Pro+: a main 50 MP RYYB sensor with a 24 mm variable f/1.4-f/4.0 aperture lens. Next to it is a 13 mm f/2.2 ultrawide with a 40 MP RYYB sensor, a 4x 92.5 mm f/2.1 telephoto with close-focusing abilities, and a 48MP RYYB sensor. All cameras have autofocusing. There is a 13 MP f/2.4 selfie camera on the front.Software
Operating system
The Mate 70 was released with Huawei's HarmonyOS Next 5 operating system, which dropped support for Android apps. However, users were still able to install the Android-based HarmonyOS 4.3 for app compatibility. American news network CNBC commented in November 2024: "For now, Huawei’s latest phones alongside HarmonyOS 5.0 are very much focused on the Chinese market, as the company still faces mounting challenges abroad."Software ecosystem
According to Huawei, more than 15,000 native HarmonyOS NEXT applications and services were available in November 2024.With regard to the camera, AI movement trajectory and the AI heroic moment ensure that the subject remains in focus irrespective of its surroundings or speed. Other features include AI summaries that summarize an entire article in notable points with just one click. AI noise reduction telephone calls ensure that the caller can remain in contact regardless of the environment.Benchmarking
scores for the Kirin 9020 chip used in the Mate 70 Pro+ revealed roughly 1.3 million points. That was nowhere near the score the flagship chips from Qualcomm and MediaTek achieved at the time, but this score constituted a nearly 30% improvement over the Kirin 9010 chip found in the Pura 70 series, which scored nearly 1 million points on AnTuTu.