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Huawei Mate 50 series official announcement: September 6, 2022
Huawei’s Mate 50 series has finally got a launch date and the company has decided to launch its new Mate 50 series on September 6, 2022. Judging from the official poster, a round of golden rings rises from the top of the mountain, which may imply that the Mate 50 will continue the classic back star ring design.
As per the last leak, the Huawei Mate 50 series will launch four models, Mate 50, Mate 50 Pro, Mate 50 RS Porsche Design, and Mate 50 E, the first three models will be equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 flagship processor.
It is worth mentioning that one of the biggest changes in the Huawei Mate 50 series is that the Pro version returns to the notch design. In addition to supporting 3D face unlocking, it will also bring practical functions such as face payment.
The new Huawei Mate 50 series will use BOE’s new screen and support a 1-120Hz LTPO adaptive refresh rate, the phone was rumored to support up to 2160PWM high-frequency dimming.
It is worth noting that the logo of Huawei Image XMAGE, a brand new brand that Huawei just released earlier this month, appears in the center of the camera module of the phone.
As far as the camera specs are concerned, it was said to get a switchable aperture – f/1.4 and f/4 – for the 50MP main camera. On the Mate 50 Pro and Mate 50 RS that should be an IMX800, on the vanilla model it should be the IMX766 instead.
As for the selfie camera, it will be a 13MP unit with a 3D sensor for face unlock on the Pro and RS models.
All phones are expected to use 66W fast charging for the 4,500mAh batteries on the Pro and RS (plus wireless charging), and 4,400mAh on the vanilla model.
Huawei Sound X4 smart speaker was launched on Huawei Mall, and full pre-sale started on the same day, and the first sale of the new product started at 20:00 on October 31.
The smart speaker is available in two colors: Rhythmic Black and Dynamic White, priced at 2199 yuan and 2599 yuan respectively.
The speaker contains eight units, including 1 woofer, 4 mid-range speakers, 1 tweeter and 2 passive radiators . Officials said that the high, medium and low frequency units work within their respective frequency response ranges, giving full play to the advantages of each unit. A HUAWEI Sound X4 can bring “symphony orchestra-like” sound effects.
The speaker has obtained Hi-Res high-definition sound quality certification, which can provide more sound details and also perceive the spatial sense of the sound. Its subwoofer has a power of 50W and is also equipped with 2 passive radiators. The low frequency dives to 36Hz and has a 25mm stroke.
In addition, its high-frequency unit has a power of 3W and the mid-frequency unit has a power of 5W, and they use pure titanium diaphragm and self-developed mica fiber diaphragm respectively.
The speaker is equipped with Huawei SOUND bass enhancement algorithm, which can actively control the vibration of the speaker, reduce distortion, improve the transient response of low frequency, and achieve deep and powerful low frequency performance. It adopts Sym-Pole mirror design to offset vibration noise and bring rich bass.
In addition, it supports control methods such as one-touch, one-cover, and two-tap, which can respectively complete operations such as lighting, muting, and turning off the lights. The speaker also supports intelligent recognition of spatial structure, emitting sound waves to detect the room structure and receiving feedback, and can automatically match the sound effect scheme in the spatial scene.
Huawei’s GoPaint App was released in May this year and officially launched in August this year. The App is a digital painting software provided by Huawei. Yesterday, the app was newly adapted to 4 tablets including the MatePad Pro 11-inch 2022 model.
A user recently asked in the community for the app compatibility and support replied that “This function is expected to be supported in the first quarter of 2025.”
According to reports, the official version of GoPaint App has over 150 preset brushes, more than 80 brush parameters that can be adjusted, and fluid brushes that can restore the real pen-and-paper rendering effect. At the same time, new realistic canvas styles have been added, including watercolor, ink, oil painting, rock color, etc.
The official version of GoPaint App also has Fangtian Painting Engine 2.0 built in, supports 100+ 6K high-definition layers and 8K ultra-large canvas, and is the first to use a floating splash brush, which can splash ink by double-clicking the pen.
Huawei has now started rolling out the September 2024 security patch update to the Pura 70 lineup in Europe.
Huawei Pura 70 lineup
LIST OF CHANGES
[SYSTEM]
Improves system stability in certain situations.
[SECURITY]
Integrates security patches released in September 2024 for improved system security.
UPDATE NOTES
Updating will not delete your personal information, but we recommend that you back up important data before updating.
If you encounter any problems during the update, please call the Huawei customer hotline or visit a Huawei customer service center.
The update package will be automatically deleted after the update is complete.