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Huawei says goodbye to Android with the Mate 70

Jan Johannsen
27.11.2024
Translation: machine translated

Huawei has unveiled the Mate 70 series in China, taking the final step away from Android. These are the manufacturer's first smartphones with a new operating system that is no longer compatible with Android apps.

Restart with fewer apps

In 2020, Huawei was competing with Apple and Samsung to see who sold the most smartphones. The manufacturer is now a long way off this in Europe. On the domestic market, however, things are looking much better. It is therefore not surprising that new smartphones are launched there first and no longer globally at the same time. In addition, the features are increasingly geared towards the interests of buyers in China.

Huawei also announced that only HarmonyOS Next will be installed on all new smartphones and tablets from 2025. The manufacturer has not yet unveiled the Mate 70 for Europe and has therefore not yet provided any information on the software plans for this country.

Four variants of one smartphone

Huawei does not provide any information on the chipsets used. However, the manufacturer recently used its own Kirin models. It is also currently unclear which variants will be launched on the European market. Recently, the selection here has always been smaller than in China.

Mate X6: The next thin foldable smartphone

In addition to the Mate 70 series, Huawei has also unveiled a new foldable smartphone. The Mate X6 is comparatively thin. It is only 9.85 millimetres thick when folded and just 4.6 millimetres when unfolded. Despite this, there is room for a 5110 mAh battery and a total of five cameras in the housing.

Two selfie cameras with 8 megapixels each are located in the 6.45-inch (inside) and 7.93-inch (outside) displays. On the back, there is a 50-megapixel main camera, a 48-megapixel periscope telephoto camera and a 40-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera. The memory configuration of the Mate X6 starts at 12 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes of storage space.

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As a primary school pupil, I used to sit in a friend's living room with many of my classmates to play the Super NES. Now I get my hands on the latest technology and test it for you. In recent years at Curved, Computer Bild and Netzwelt, now at Digitec and Galaxus. 

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