Huawei just announced its high-end Mate 50 series – the vanilla Mate 50 and the Mate 50 Pro as well as a special RS Porsche Design edition, which adds a periscope telephoto macro camera. But let’s get the basics out of the way first.
All three Mates run on the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC, but there’s no 5G connectivity as is the case with Huawei smartphones due to US sanctions. The Pro option goes up to 512GB of storage and can take an NM memory card of up to 256GB more.
The Mate 50 Pro is the actual hero model of the lineup. It uses a 6.74-inch OLED with 120Hz refresh rate and 10-bit…
