Huawei is due to reveal its new flagship Mate 30 lineup, launching without Google apps or services on September 19th, promotional images of four of the upcoming devices appear to have leaked online.
Reliable leaker Evan Blass posted the images on Twitter this morning. They indicated that there will be a high-end Mate 30 Pro, the standard Mate 30, a budget Mate 30 Lite and a Mate 30 Porsche Design.
As we previously reported, Huawei is expected to use its Kirin 990 SoC for the standard Mate 30 and Pro. The new chip supports 5G. The 5G indicator is clearly visible on one of the pictures seeming to confirm this. Two signal strenth icons are also seen indicating dual-SIM capability.
The images show that the Pro version of the phone will have a “waterfall screen” similar to the Oppo prototype reported on back in July. The high-end model also shows a large camera module on the back with four sensors. The sensor array sits in a circular beveled cutout on the back casing.
The standard Mate 30 is similar to the Pro but does not have the curved screen. On the back we can see the familiar Leica branding along with four sensors that are contained within a circular camera cutout. One cryptic tweet suggested that these will consist of a pair of 40-megapixel sensors, an 8-megapixel sensor, and a time-of-flight sensor. There also appears to be two signal strength indicators on the top left of the screen, suggesting there’ll be a dual-SIM version of the device.
In comparison to the Pro, the regular Mate 30 appears to have a much smaller display notch, which MSPowerUser speculates could be because this model includes fewer sensors for face unlock. Dual-SIM functionality also appears to be on the cards for this model. We’re still waiting on images of the back of the device to reveal the rear cameras.
Both the Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 are expected to use Huawei’s new Kirin 990 chipset, which has a variant that includes a built-in 5G modem. A 5G signal indicator is clearly visible on the image of the Mate 30, indicating that there could be a 5G-equipped model of this handset.
The Mate 30 Lite has a very different design from its two siblings, with a hole-punch camera cutout on the front, a square camera array on its rear, and a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. In a follow-up tweet Blass said that the phone is the same as the Nova 5i Pro, which was announced back in July, and which uses a less powerful Kirin 810 chipset.
Lastly, Huawei will be releasing a Porsche Design version of the Mate 30 Pro. Instead of the beveled cutout on the back of the case, the camera sensors will be under a flat rectangular strip of glass. The back will feature a leather or faux-leather covering that comes in either red or black as well. It will also have the waterfall screen just like the regular Pro version.
Google recently announced that Huawei devices, including the Mate 30 line, will not launch with official Google apps due to the US ban against the company. This also means no access to the Google Play store, which could be a deal-breaker outside of China.
We don’t have long to confirm if it is legit. The Mate 30 line launches on Thursday, September 19.
