Huawei Mate 70 offers users to take betwixt Android and HarmonyOS NEXT. (Image credit: Huawei)
A fewer sanctions from the United States of America restricted Huawei from utilizing hardware and bundle made by US companies, and this has led to a constituent wherever the institution has announced its archetypal non-Android smartphone –– the Huawei Mate 70 series, powered by customized HarmonyOS NEXT.
Huawei’s latest flagship smartphone––Mate 70–– is the archetypal to vessel with the HarmonyOS NEXT, which tin neither tally Android apps nor enactment Google services. Huawei president Richard Yu calls the Mate 70 “the astir almighty Mate telephone ever,” and it volition soon beryllium disposable for acquisition successful China.
The Huawei Mate 70 bid consists of 4 antithetic models –– Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro Plus, and Mate 70 RS. To marque the modulation smoother, Huawei is said to beryllium offering a prime betwixt Android-based HarmonyOS 4.3 and HarmonyOS NEXT. However, starting aboriginal adjacent year, each phones and tablets from Huawei volition vessel with HarmonyOS NEXT by default.
There is nary nonstop accusation connected what chips powerfulness the Huawei Mate 70 series. A study by Gizmochina indicated that some phones diagnostic a 6.7-inch screen, portion the Pro variant comes with other bells and whistles, including outer connectivity, Wi-Fi 7, a 48 MP telephoto camera, and more.
The Mate 70 starts astatine 5,499 yuan (Rs 64,000, approximately), portion the Mate 70 Pro and the Mate 70 Pro Plus are priced astatine 6,499 yuan (Rs 75,667, approximately) and 8,499 yuan (Rs 98,952, approximately), respectively.
The Mate 70 RS costs 11,999 yuan (Rs 1,39,702, approximately), and it offers other bits and pieces similar a titanium frame.
Huawei has besides introduced the Mate X6 featuring a 7.63-inch foldable display, somewhat thinner and lighter than the Mate X5 and starts astatine 12,999 yuan (Rs 1,51,345, approximately).
Huawei has been chopped disconnected from utilizing Google services connected its devices since 2019, but the institution continued to vessel its devices with Android-based HarmonyOS, arsenic Android is unfastened source.
Currently, the institution is said to beryllium bolstering its narration with app developers, wherever it is said to person received implicit 15,000 applications for its HarmonyOS ecosystem and volition soon person implicit 100,000 apps successful the coming months.