Huawei Mate 40 Specs Review And Price

The Huawei Mate 40 is a premium smartphone and also a flagship device from Huawei. The smartphone is the successor of Huawei Mate 30, which was announced last year. The Mate 40 comes with an impressive cameras setup, a big battery, and also generous inbuilt storage.

Design And Display

In terms of body design, the Huawei Mate 40 packs a premium body that is built with a combination of glass and aluminum. The front and the back are both made with glass while the frame has an aluminum. It has a smooth panel housing, just the cameras set up, an LED flash while the fingerprint scanner is on the screen.

The Huawei Mate 40 has a screen display size of 6.62 inches under OLED capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio, and 389 PPI density. The screen comes with display protection, a high screen to body ratio, and other internal features.

Huawei Mate 40
Huawei Mate 40

Camera Features

On the camera aspect, the Huawei Mate 40 comes with an impressive rear camera of 64 MP wide, another 20 MP telephoto lens, and then 16 MP ultrawide sensor. The camera features Leica optics, dual-LED dual-tone flash, panorama, HDR and can records 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 1080p@30fps (gyro-EIS), 720p@960fps videos. Upfront is a 32 MP shooter which can also shoot 2160p@30fps, 1080p@30fps, gyro-EIS videos with HDR support.

Hardware And Software

The Huawei Mate 40 has a HiSilicon Kirin 995 chipset built on a 7nm process node and also an octa-core processor clocking at a maximum speed of 2×2.86 GHz Cortex-A76 & 2×2.36 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4×1.95 GHz Cortex-A55. It has Mali-G76 MP16 graphics and runs on an Android 10 operating system with EMUI 10 user interface on top.

Storage Capacity And Sensors

The onboard storage on the Mate 40 is ample RAM of 8GB, which will ensure smooth performance when gaming and multitasking. The RAM is coupled with 128GB inbuilt memory, and you can also expand the storage up to 256GB using Nano Card. The sensor on the Mate 40 is Face ID, fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, barometer, and compass.

Battery Power And Network Connectivity

The Huawei Mate 40 has a non-removable battery of 4200 mAh that comes with support for both fast and wireless charging technology. The battery is said to last for a whole day under constant usage.

It also comes with 5G and 4G network. Other connectivity options on the phone are dual-band A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS, NFC, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot and 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, USB On-The-Go.

Huawei Mate 40 Full Specifications

Model Name Huawei Mate 40
Announced 2020,
Market Availability Available

Network

Network Type GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G Network HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100
4G Network Yes
5G Network Yes
Network Speed HSPA, LTE-A / 5G
Network GPRS Yes
Network EDGE Yes
SIM Type Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

Body

Body Build Front glass, plastic body
Body Dimensions 160.8 x 76.1 x 8.4 mm
Body Weight 196 grams
Protection n/a
Body Colors Black, Space Silver, Cosmic Purple, Emerald Green

Display

Display Type OLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Display Size 6.62 inches
Display Resolution 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio
Display Multitouch Yes
Display Pixel Density 389 ppi density
Display Screen Protection Yes Corning Gorilla

Camera

Primary Camera 64 MP + 20 MP + 16 MP
Secondary Camera 32 megapixel
Video 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 1080p@30fps (gyro-EIS), 720p@960fps
Camera Features Leica optics, dual-LED dual-tone flash, panorama, HDR
Camera Flash Yes

Platform

Operating System Android
OS Version 10
User Interface Yes

Hardware

Chipset HiSilicon Kirin 995 (7 nm)
CPU Octa-core (2×2.86 GHz Cortex-A76 & 2×2.36 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4×1.95 GHz Cortex-A55)
Graphics processor (GPU) Mali-G76 MP16
System Internal Memory 8GB RAM
Internal Storage 128 GB
Storage Card Slot Yes
Sensors Face ID, fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, barometer, compass

Connectivity

Wi-Fi Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-Fi Hotspot Yes
Bluetooth Yes, 5.0, A2DP
USB Type Type – C
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
NFC No

Battery

Battery Type Li-Po Battery
Battery Capacity 4200 mAh battery
Battery Placement Nonremovable
Fast Charging Yes
Wireless Charging No
Battery Standby
Battery Talk Time
Battery Music Play Time

Media

Audio Playback Yes, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MIDI, WAV, AC3, FLAC
Video Playback Yes, 3GP, Mp4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 player
Video Out n/a
FM Radio n/a
Alert Types Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Ring Tones MP3, WAV
Loudspeaker Yes, with stereo speakers
3.5mm jack Yes

Other Features

Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email
Browser HTML5
Java n/a
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Huawei Mate 40 Price And Availability

The Huawei Mate 40 will ship in Black, Space Silver, Cosmic Purple, Emerald Green, and it will cost around $600.

Where To Buy Huawei Mate 40


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