Huawei’s next
generation of Mate flagships is just three days away from their official
unveiling but you can get an early peek at their design, courtesy of @evleaks.
This is not the first time we’ve seen the Mate 30 duo, but the Porsche Design
special edition is quite something.
Let’s start with
the Huawei Mate 30 Pro. It has a round camera island with four cameras as
expected. The LED flash and the 3D ToF sensor are on the side. The screen has a
mid-sized notch (housing the new 3D face scanning hardware). We’re excited to
see the “waterfall” design in person – it looks like it will completely hide
the side bezels, but we’ll see what this 90° bend means in terms of usability
and image distortion.
The Huawei Mate 30
switches up the screen. The notch is smaller and houses what seems to be a dual
camera, though the second lens is likely for a 3D scanner (Time of Flight?).
The screen appears to be flat with evenly-sized bezels. The quad camera setup
on the back seems to be the same, despite rumors that it will lack a 3D ToF
sensor.
The Huawei Mate 30
Lite has a completely separate design with a punch hole camera on the front and
a square camera island on the back. It looks just like the Huawei nova 5i Pro,
which is the China-exclusive version of the phone.
We’ve saved the
best for last – the Huawei Mate 30 Porsche Design. It builds on the design from
last year, the back of the Mate 20 Porsche Design featured a racing stripe in
the middle of handmade leather. This year the stripe is elevated to a camera
bump housing the quad camera. We also like how the custom case uses that stripe
design to create a kickstand. And is that a 3.5mm headphone jack on top?
Okay, chances are
that almost no one will buy the Porsche Design – last year’s model started at
nearly € 1,700. But what about the other three? Well, that is up in the air as
the current understanding is that they won’t have Google Play Services at
launch. We’ll find out more about Huawei’s plans on September 19 (this Thursday).
