There’s no denying that the newly announced Huawei Mate40 Series are beautiful, top-spec-ed devices. However, for those who have the riches and very much prefer something even more premium, you may want to look at the Porsche Design Huawei Mate 40 RS.
Like its predecessors, the Porsche Design Huawei Mate 40 RS is very much a rebranded Mate40 with a slightly different back cover design. It has an octagonal camera bump with rounded corners as opposed to the Halo Ring camera bump (but the setup is the same).
Look pretty sleek, IMHO. And it is not just the look; it has a different material too. The back of the Porsche Design Huawei Mate 40 RS is of high-strength nano-tech ceramic that melts with the ridiculously curved 88-degree Horizon Display.
But really, aesthetic and premium material are about the two things that set this ultra-premium Mate40 apart from the rest of the Mate40s. Wait. I lied. Ceramic is also found on the Mate40 Pro+. So, it is basically just the a different back cover and camera bump, and of course, the all-important Porsche Design branding tastefully slapped on its back.
However beautiful the device is, truth be told, it is essentially the Mate40 Pro+ with larger storage (512 GB). So, whether or not those aesthetic and larger storage deserves an almost €900 premium – at €2,295 a pop, is really up to you and your financial standing. In case you need a rundown of the specs, you can check out the key specifications table below.
Huawei Mate40 Pro+ |
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| Display | 6.76-inch FHD+ (2772 x 1344 Pixels) OLED display up to 90 Hz refresh rate 240 Hz touch sampling rate 16.7 million colors |
| Chipset | Kirin 9000 5G (5 nm) Octacore, 1 x [email protected] GHz + 3 x [email protected] GHz + 4 x [email protected] GHz 24-core Mali-G78 Dual Big Core + Tiny Core NPUs (Neural-network Processing Unit) |
| Memory | RAM: 12 GB ROM: 512 GB |
| Camera | Rear Camera: 50 MP Ultra Vision Camera (Wide Angle, f/1.9 aperture, OIS) 20 MP Cine Camera (Ultra-Wide Angle, f/2.4 aperture) 12 MP Telephoto Camera (3x Optical Zoom, f/2.4 aperture, OIS) 8 MP SuperZoom Camera (10x Optical Zoom, f/4.4 aperture, OIS) 3D Depth Sensing Camera, support AF Autofocus Mode: phase focus, contrast focus Zoom Mode: Digital Zoom, Optical Zoom, Hybrid Zoom Video Recording: Support up to 3840 x 2160 pixels, support 720p@3840 fps ultra slow motion video Image Resolution: Support up to 8192 x 6144 pixels Front Camera: 13 MP Ultra Vision Selfie Camera (Wide Angle, f/2.4) 3D Depth Sensing Camera Video Recording: Support up to 3840 x 2160 pixels, support 1080p@240fps slow motion video Image resolution: Support up to 4160 x 3120 pixels |
| Battery | 4400 mAh (typical value) Huawei SuperCharge (Max 66 W) Wireless Huawei SuperCharge (Max 50 W) |
| Network | NOP-AN00 Primary SIM Card: 5G NR: n1/n3/n28 (TX: 703 MHz-733 MHz, RX: 758 MHz-788 MHz) /n38/n40/n41/n77/n78/n79/n80/n84 4G FDD LTE: Bands 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/12/17/18/19/20/26 4G TDD LTE: Bands 34/38/39/40/41 3G WCDMA: Bands 1/2/4/5/6/8/19 2G GSM: Bands 2/3/5/8 (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) Secondary SIM Card: 4G FDD LTE: Bands 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/12/17/18/19/20/26 4G TDD LTE: Bands 34/38/39/40/41 3G WCDMA: Bands 1/2/4/5/6/8/19 2G GSM: Bands 2/3/5/8 (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) |
| Connectivity | WLAN 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, 2 x 2 MIMO, HE160, 1024 QAM, 8 Spatial-stream Sounding MU-MIMO Bluetooth 5.2, Support BLE, SBC, AAC, LDAC USB Type-C, USB 3.1 GEN1 |
| Location | Support GPS (L1 + L5 dual band), AGPS, GLONASS, BeiDou (B1I + B1B + B1C + B2a Quad-band), GALILEO (E1 + E5a + E2b Tri-band), QZSS (L1 + L5 dual band), NavIC |
| Sensors | Gesture Sensor 3D Face Recognition Gravity Sensor Infrared Sensor Fingerprint Sensor Barometric Pressure Sensor Gyroscope Compass Ambient Light Sensor Proximity Sensor Laser Sensor Color Temperature Sensor |
| Audio | Huawei Histen, support stereo sound *.mp3, *.mp4, *.3gp,*.ogg, *.amr, *.aac, *.flac, *.wav, *.midi |
| Video | *.3gp, *.mp4 |
| Dimensions | 162.9 x 75.5 x 8.8 mm, 230g |
| Colors | Ceramic White, Ceramic Black |
| OS | EMUI 11.0 (Based on Android 10) |
| Others | IP68 rated, no headphone jack |
All images courtesy of Huawei.
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