In July this year, Huawei finally launched the P50 series, which was supposed to hit the market at the beginning of the year. However, due to U.S. sanctions, 5G-related components are still strictly blocked, so this series can only be powered by 4G chips.
Since the P50 was released just two months ago, the Mate 50 series, which was supposed to be released in the second half of the year, will inevitably be delayed. Although Huawei has not announced anything, some details about this phone have leaked.
This afternoon, Digital Chat Station brought the latest news about this phone. He said: ‘The Q1 business flagship phone is currently testing the SD898 4G, and the model number seems to be SM8425.’
Although the blogger did not specify that this is the Huawei Mate 50 series, based on its positioning as a ‘business flagship phone’ and the 4G chip it uses, the device is confirmed to be the Huawei Mate 50.
This news also suggests that the Huawei Mate 50 may feature the Snapdragon 898 chipset. The series will not be delayed for release this year, and its performance will be significantly improved. Although the phone will use the Snapdragon 898 4G chipset, its performance is expected to be exactly the same as the Snapdragon 898 G5.
According to previous reports, the Snapdragon 898 will be built on Samsung’s 4nm process with a tri-cluster architecture. The super core will use the Cortex-X2, the large core will use the Cortex-A710, and the small core will use the Cortex-A510. They are all new designs under the ARMv9 64-bit architecture.