Delhi Delhi: Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies today unveiled its Mate 70 smartphone series, marking the comeback of premium smartphones while also showcasing its own operating system, which is completely different from the American technology. The Mate 70, the successor to the Mate 60 series released in August last year, is widely seen as Huawei's return to high-end smartphones in competition with Apple after its business was badly hit by US export restrictions. Was affected. Its launch comes as the US is expected to announce new export controls this week that could include up to 200 Chinese chip companies on a trade blacklist, limiting their access to US suppliers. , Reuters reported on Saturday.
Richard Yu, president of Huawei's consumer business group, said the device is “the most powerful Mate phone ever” at an event in the company's hometown of Shenzhen, which was livestreamed online and at its stores.
Huawei Mate 70 series price and availability
Yu said the price of the Mate 70 will start at 5,499 yuan ($758). Apple's base iPhone 16 model sells for 5,999 yuan in China.
Features of Huawei Mate 70 series
Yu also said that the Mate 70 is the first mainstream smartphone to include a satellite paging system, has an improved processor and runs on Huawei's own HarmonyOS Next operating system, which increases performance by 40% compared to the previous model.
The Mate 70 series is the first major commercial rollout of HarmonyOS Next, an important step in Huawei's push for software freedom since US sanctions that ended access to Google services in 2019.
HarmonyOS Next is an Android-free version of Huawei's operating system that began testing this year, completely stripped of Android code as the company looks to eliminate its reliance on American technology. Last week, Huawei said it had secured more than 15,000 applications for its HarmonyOS ecosystem, and planned to expand that to 100,000 apps in the coming months.
Still, Huawei is keeping its options open, offering Android compatibility as a backup solution. The strategy suggests the company may need more time to fully prepare HarmonyOS Next for public deployment while building its developer ecosystem.
Richard Yu said that the Mate 70 series will offer users the choice between HarmonyOS 4.3, which maintains Android compatibility, and the new HarmonyOS Next 5.0.
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