Huawei Mate 40 series specs revealed ahead of launch

Huawei will be hosting a special launch event on October 22 wherein the company will be launching its Mate 40 series smartphones.

Huawei Mate 40 series (Huawei)

Huawei will be hosting a special launch event on October 22 wherein the company will be launching its Mate 40 series smartphones, which includes the vanilla Mate 40, Mate 40 Pro, Mate 40 Pro+ and the Mate 40 RS Porsche edition. Now, just days ahead of its launch, the prices of the Mate 40 smartphones have been revealed online.

As per a report by tipster who goes by the name RODENT950 on Twitter, the prices of the upcoming Mate 40 series smartphones are exorbitant. While the Mate 40 Pro will cost roughly $1,300, the Mate 40 Pro+ is expected to cost $1,652 and the Mate 40 RS Porsche edition will be priced around $ 2,950. The tipster did not reveal how much the vanilla Mate 40 smartphone will cost.

In addition to the prices, the tipster revealed that the availability of the Mate 40 Pro+ and the Mate 40 RS Porshe edition will be weak.

Mate 40 series Price tags are high
Pro is close to the 1100€
Pro+ 1400€
RS 2500€
+ Availability is very weak especially on Pro + and RS models

— Teme (特米)😷 (@RODENT950) October 18, 2020

In a separate tweet, the tipster revealed that the upcoming Mate 40 series smartphones will be up for pre-orders in China shortly after the launch starting October 22 and they go on sale in the country starting October 30. There is no word on the availability in the international markets yet.

Let's make it clear

•October 12 is next Monday, warm-up starts then

•October 22 is actual launch date of Mate 40 series ( pre sale start in China)

•October 30 is China's launch date.

(Global sales start are unclear)#HuaweiMate40Series #PorscheDesign pic.twitter.com/CMVNP6Yydp

— Teme (特米)😷 (@RODENT950) October 9, 2020

Coming to the specs, the upcoming Mate 40 series smartphones will be powered by Kirin 1000 system-on-chip that will be manufactured using the 5nm process. They will run on the company's own HarmonyOS 2.0. In addition to that reports also hint towards the phone getting a dual-front camera setup sans the notch. At the back, the Mate 40 series is expected to get a quad camera setup that is housed inside a circular camera module.