After learning that Huawei will forgo Kirin chipsets after implementing them in its next flagship series , the Mate 40, we all speculated a lot about the future of the Chinese company and how hard the United States has hit it since labeling it a firm with suspicious and dangerous operations for national and global security and privacy, allegedly having unscrupulous ties with the Chinese government and collecting and leaking highly sensitive data from its consumers and the regions in which it operates.
The Huawei Mate 40 will follow the same model as the P40 , running Android but without Google Services, a significant drawback that diminishes its appeal. However, it aims to capture the market's attention with an attractive design—confirmed by the images below—and several features and specifications designed to mitigate the disadvantages of the lack of Google Services and position it as one of this year's top sellers.
Some technical specifications of the Huawei Mate 40 are filtered
We can not expect little from Huawei's next star smartphone, which will be the Mate 40, a mobile that of course will arrive with its older brother, which would be the Mate 30 Pro. This will have the best of the best, and possibly with a chipset more powerful than the Kirin 990 5G, which is capable of reaching a maximum clock frequency of 2.86 GHz.
As we've already highlighted, and as is evident on its own , the phone features a full-screen design that thankfully doesn't opt ​​for the heavily curved side edges found in devices like Xiaomi's Mi 10 series, which would be present in the Pro variant. Of course, curved panels are more premium, but less practical for gamers— especially those who play battle royale games like PUBG Mobile—as they create shadows on the sides and offer no real advantages in everyday use.
The specifications sheet, published just a few hours ago on the Chinese website PCOnline.com, states that the phone will run EMUI 11 out of the box , as expected. It also indicates that it will be powered by the (yet to be announced) Kirin 9000 processor , a chipset that will be paired with up to 12GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage expandable via an NM card slot.
Renders of the Huawei Mate 30
The Huawei Mate 40 will also have an in-display fingerprint scanner beneath its Super AMOLED screen. Other features mentioned in the leak include dual SIM support (nano only), Bluetooth 5.1, and dual-band Wi-Fi.
One area where this device truly excels is photography. Huawei has made it abundantly clear that it's among the best in this segment, and it's no coincidence that the P40 Pro continues to hold the title of smartphone with the best camera in the DxOMark rankings, surpassing phones like the iPhone 11, Galaxy S20, and Xiaomi Mi 10, which are among the highest-performing devices.
Let's hope that the firm manages to reach an agreement with Google so that the Mate 40 has Google Services, since that would catapult it into sales. If not, we forecast good sales, but not a resounding success. In the same way, we are about a month away from knowing it and knowing everything about the device, since September is when the annual launch cycle of the series is fulfilled.
There is still much to know about the Huawei Mate 40. In fact, more than that, we must confirm what has been said, since the manufacturer has not yet released any features and official technical specifications of this mobile, so everything we have now on the table it can be refuted at any time or, in the best of cases, confirmed soon.