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You may recall that when Huawei started taking reservations for its 2022 flagship Mate 50 series, the company received more than a million reservations. The phones were introduced on September 6 and include the Mate 50, Mate 50 Pro, Mate 50 RS Porsche Edition and the entry-level Mate 50e. Sales started on September 21 and consumers in China gobbled them up.

Strong demand greets the release of the Huawei Mate 50 series

Long lines in China greeted the Mate 50 series at the Huawei company’s stores, and after the first production run sold out, Huawei’s head of consumer products Yu Chengdong (known to PhoneArena readers by his Americanized name Richard Yu) said the company production would quickly accelerate to meet demand. Yu stated: “Yesterday, the Huawei Mate 50 series officially went on sale and a large number of enthusiastic consumers went to Huawei stores across the country to buy machines. Thank you so much for your love and support for the Mate 50 series. We will speed up production to ensure product delivery, so that more consumers can use the high-performance Mate 50 series mobile phones.”

Yu’s Weibo page (via HuaweiCentral) was full of photos of the long lines of consumers across the country eager to buy a Huawei Mate 50 series phone. Huawei used to produce two flagship series each year, the photography-focused (pun intended) P line early in the year, followed by the feature-rich Mate series towards the end of the year. But US restrictions against Huawei have limited its ability to purchase chipsets, prompting the company to switch out between flagship models every year. For example, Huawei will release the P60 series in 2023.

The chips used for three of the Mate 50 phones is the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. Now you may be wondering how Huawei can use Qualcomm’s most advanced application processors if it is blocked by the US. The answer is simple, these have been modified to only work with 4G networks. The cheaper Mate 50e has the Snapdragon 778G 4G under the hood.

Huawei is reportedly targeting sales of 10 million units for the Mate 50 line and it looks like this target will be reached within a few days. The company still has a long way to go to return to its previous peak when it was the second largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. But the US, claiming that Huawei posed a threat to national security, placed the company on the Entity List, preventing it from accessing its US supply chain. That meant that the Google Mobile Services version of Android no longer forced the company to develop its own Harmony OS (with version 3.0 released with the Mate 50 line).

The following year (exactly a year to the day, suspicious timing really), the US changed its export rules to prevent foundries that use US technology to produce advanced chips from shipping to Huawei. The then Chinese manufacturer was TSMC’s largest customer after Apple. It tells you something about chipset demand that TSMC could lose that business and continue to prosper.

The Mate 50 Pro and Mate 50 displays support one billion colors

The Huawei Mate 50 Pro is equipped with a 6.74-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1212 x 2616 and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9. The screen supports 1 billion colors and has a refresh rate of 120 Hz. The device has 8 GB of storage and 256 GB or 512 GB of UFS 3.1 storage.

On the back is a 50MP camera sensor with a variable aperture ranging from f/1.4-f/4.0. A 64 MP periscope telephoto camera delivers 3.5x optical zoom and a 13 MP sensor drives the ultra-wide camera. A 13MP selfie snapper sits up front, along with a Time of Flight 3D camera for facial recognition. Oh, did we mention the Mate 50 Pro has an iPhone-esque notch? A 4700mAh battery keeps the lights on and charges at 66W. It also offers 50W wireless charging and 5W reverse wireless charging.

The Mate 50 has a 6.7-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1224 x 2700 and a refresh rate of 90 Hz. It comes with 8 GB of storage and 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB storage. It has the same 50MP camera sensor as the Mate 50 Pro with variable aperture. There is also a 12MP periscope telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom and a 13MP ultrawide camera. The battery with a capacity of 4460 mAh has the same charging speeds as the Mate 50 Pro.

If you are a phone enthusiast, it may warm your heart to see the high demand for Huawei’s latest flagship phones.

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