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Huawei Mate 50 Pro launched in South Africa
On January 26, 2023, Huawei officially launched Mate 50 Pro in South Africa and the company has organized a grand showcase in the country to feature among the customers.
Huawei South Africa opened pre-orders of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro on Thursday, right after the announcement and the phone will go on sale on February 1, 2023. Huawei Mate 50 Pro launched in South Africa will offer the 256GB version in Black or Silver color options at a price tag of R24,999. You can also get a Vegan Leather Orange version at R26,999.
The vegan leather version is built with state of an art design as compared to the glass rear panel on other color variants. If you want to book your unit of Huawei Mate 50 Pro, then you’ve to submit R1000 before January 31, 2023, to reserve a unit.
As a pre-order campaign, there are a number of free gifts and discounts you are entitled to get. The discount on the 256GB version will be R2499 and R2699 on the 512GB version.
The free gift list includes a Huawei Watch GT Runner worth R7499 and up to 5X of My Huawei points rewards and 3 months of 200GB free mobile cloud storage. Pre-orders will also bring you a chance for you to win a Huawei MateView GT or MatePad T10.
Huawei Mate 50 Pro:
Huawei Mate 50 Pro comes with a new Iconic symmetrical space ring camera design that is inspired and improved by Huawei Mate 40 Pro. The camera ring has symmetry aesthetics with a refined Clous de Paris pattern.
The camera technology includes variable aperture technology that includes the largest F1.4 aperture shot. The camera variable aperture also enables 10 stop adjustable aperture.
That’s not it, Huawei Mate 50 Pro introduces the Kunlun Glass that is, according to Huawei, 10 times more drop resistance. Huawei Mate 50 Pro comes with a 4700mAh battery that could recharge with a 66W wired and 50W wireless charger.
The Huawei P60 series is currently in the making but the next nova lineup, Nova 11 is also working in the background to equip a new pill shape center hole punch display similar to the iPhone 14
According to the information coming from Weibo tipster Classmateguan, Huawei Nova 11 has started testing with a flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ chipset.
That’s not it, the tipster shared a render, which is photoshopped but reflects the intentions of the tipster to highlight key factors of the upcoming Nova devices.
According to the image, Huawei Nova 11 Pro could adopt a new pill shape hole punch design placed on the center head of the smartphone. As for now, Huawei has not used such a display design in smartphones.
This design went popular after it was originated in iPhone 14 series and later introduced in various Chinese devices. The wide punch hole is likely to use a dual camera system, one for selfies and another for the depth of field. Also, it could be utilized in the Pro model rather than the standard.
The phone is using flagship Snapdragon 8+ fully unlocked at high frequency, which could contribute to power consumption. Compared to this, Huawei Nova 10 series went on with Snapdragon 778 for Pro and non-Pro variants.
Furthermore, the camera desing has been rearranged, there is a large ring placed on the top, consisting of a main camera. It was followed by two cameras vertically including a periscope camera. To be mentioned, the camera design is cylindrical similar to the Nova 10 lineup.
As a new phone, Huawei will bring up XMAGE imaging technology with Nova 11 devices.
Huawei Nova 20 series:
Ahead of this, tipsters and past reports predicted the phone to be Huawei Nova 20 series but the company has not made any official announcement on this matter, we’ll keep you posted on this matter.
(source – Weibo)
Last year Huawei introduced the Mate 50 series and now, TD Tech, a Chinese electronics maker has launched a new version of this flagship, especially for the industrial use case along with a lot of customizable security technology.
Interestingly, the TD Tech Mate 50 series retains the design and branding such as the HarmonyOS 3 operating system and XMAGE camera system. The case was different during the TD Tech P50, as it had to remove the Leica logo.
Coming back to the topic, the TD Tech Mate 50 is oriented especially for the IT field and industrial use cases and it’s fully customizable according to the requirement of the customer.
Below you can check all of the customization services on TD Tech Huawei Mate 50 for the industrial use case.
Safety Dual System:
- Data isolation, simultaneous online security control, and multi-dimensional protection.
Trusted computing:
- Secure boot, dynamic measurement of TEE trusted environment, comprehensive protection.
Scenario solution:
- Call management, global watermark Privacy, and three defenses, differentiated customized services.
HarmonyOS:
- Industrial HarmonyOS and Distributed collaboration – Operating System Level Industry Customization, Autonomous and controllable.
Certification authority:
- 1466 Ministry of Standards, mobile terminal operating system localization evaluation, and many other certifications of safety compliance.
Ecosystem:
- Adapt to industry security access, management, and control platform Rich system capability opening.
TD Tech Mate 50 Pro:
Currently, TD Tech has not revealed the pricing of such smartphones in the market bu it could be assigned after direct communication with the customer and the company.
Huawei Mate 50 comes with a unique ring system design, Beidou satellite communication that allows you to send one-way messages even without a mobile signal. The camera provides powerful and colorful imaging via the XMAGE imaging system while utilizing an f/1.4 aperture large sensor for low-light photography.
It carries all of the features from the Huawei Mate 50 series including the low battery power mode.
Today, Huawei has launched a third-party smartphone store on its E-commerce website, opening the area for companies that are using Huawei’s smartphone design.
According to the information, the Huawei Vmall store will now offer third-party smartphones under the “Smartphone” section of the website. Currently the website listed smartphones from WIKO and Hi Nova series. However, more of these could be listed later on.
The website will allow users to pre-order and buy these smartphones directly from a website similar to the Huawei devices. Also, these phones come with a warranty and after-sale services.
Looking into the details, WIKO 5G HarmonyOS phone has an 8GB+128GB version priced at 1999 yuan. The Hi Nova 10 5G smartphone with 8GB+128GB is priced at 2899 yuan. The Hi nova 10 Pro 5G with 8GB+128GB memory is priced at 3699 yuan.
WIKO 5G, Hi nova 10 5G, and Hi nova 10 Pro 5G are available for pre-order at 429, 504, and 384 yuan, respectively.
Looking at the chipset, the WIKO 5G is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 5G SoC. On the other hand, the Hi nova 10 series equips Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G 5G processor.
These phones uses Huawei smartphone design and look identical to what Huawei has already published in the Huawei nova series. However, there are more devices that use flagship designs.