Huawei introduces Mate 70 series with a new operating system and competitive pricing

Mate 70

Chinese tech giant Huawei has launched its new Mate 70 series smartphone lineup, which will be the first smartphone series offered with the company’s new HarmonyOS Next operating system (OS). It is touted to offer several interesting features, including a gesture-operated file transfer feature, and runs without Google’s Android support or its apps. Therefore, this new OS still requires some time to fully mature and gain widespread adoption.

Huawei Mate 70 series: All the details

Starting with the vanilla Mate 70, it has a 6.7-inch OLED FHD+ display with 120Hz LTPO adaptive refresh rate. It is equipped with the Kirin 9010 SoC, while the Huawei Mate 70 Pro and Huawei Mate 70 Pro+ have the Kirin 9020. Further, the Huawei Mate 70 series features up to 50MP+40MP+48MP camera sensors and up to 5,700mAh battery with 100W wired and 80W wireless charging support.

Huawei has also introduced the Mate X6, featuring a 7.63-inch foldable display. The company has also provided a choice between Android-based HarmonyOS 4.3 and HarmonyOS NEXT. However, from next year, all phones and tablets from Huawei will ship with HarmonyOS NEXT by default.

The Mate 70 has a starting price of 5,499 yuan (approximately Rs 64,000), while the Mate 70 Pro and the Mate 70 Pro Plus are priced at 6,499 yuan (approximately Rs 75,667) and 8,499 yuan (approximately Rs 98,952), respectively. The Mate X6 foldable starts at 12,999 yuan (approximately Rs 1,51,345).