The Google-less Huawei Mate 30 series is here

The Huawei's Mate 30 series is here, and it's the first device from the Chinese company affected by the US's decision to put it on the entity list. This ban prevents any US company from working with Huawei, making this is the first Huawei phone that doesn't ship with Google's apps and services (including the Play Store). 

In its place, Huawei is using its ecosystem of apps, which will be available through the Huawei AppGallery. And it'll ship with the Huawei Mobile Services core instead of Google's services. Huawei claims they have integrated over 45,000 apps with plans to invest US$1 billion into its software ecosystem. What that will mean for users and the company and their relationship with Google is something we will see as time goes by. 

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Huawei will launch the Mate 30 series on September 19th

We get the official word now. Huawei's next flagship series is going to launch on September 19th. And the biggest question hanging over it is what operating system the Mate 30 series will run. The company teased the upcoming event with a short video on Twitter. It'll be launched in Munich, Germany, with the tagline "Rethink Possibilities." The company certainly has to rethink possibilities because it's still banned from doing businesses with US companies—including its software provider Google. We wait to see how Huawei will respond to this considerable limitation.

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Leaked Huawei Mate 30 Pro promo image surfaces online with quad-camera setup

A leaked promo image of the upcoming Huawei Mate 30 Pro has surfaced online, suggesting that the latest iteration of the Mate series is coming soon. While this series is usually unveiled around October, GSMArena claims that the Mate 30 line will be unveiled next month on September 6th. The image also gives us a glimpse of a quad-camera setup at the back of the phone. Previous leaks claim the Mate 30 Pro has two large sensors: 1/1.55-inch for the main camera and 1/1.7-inch for the ultra-wide camera. And a third camera that's said to offer a 5x periscope zoom. So, this could suggest that the fourth sensor might be a ToF 3D sensor.

The leaked photo mentions Kirin 990, which Huawei has confirmed, and Leica hardware being used. Huawei has had a long-standing relationship with the camera maker. We could probably expect the Mate 30 Pro to have better enhancements than the Mate 30.

Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro will reportedly launch on September 19th

If we're going to take the word of one of Huawei's executives, we're going to see the next iteration of the Mate series soon. New reports claim that the Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro will launch as early as September 19. During a briefing session on the EMUI 10 at the Huawei Developers Conference, Huawei's Consumer Business Software President Dr. Wang Chenglu said that the Kirin 990 chipset and the two phones will launch in Europe on September 19. But the veracity of this information needs to be checked, though. Even Huawei's employees sometimes aren't on the ball with information like these.

But what Dr. Chenglu said seemingly confirms that the two phones will launch with the Kirin 990 chipset. Other rumours about the phones claim that the Mate 30 will have two 40-megapixel camera sensors in a circular camera array at the back and sport a 90Hz display.

Source: 9to5Google