Huawei Canada will once again hold its "Service Days" from September 26th to 28th, which provides free protective film service and free labour for select Huawei phones at some Ontario-based retail stores.
Just like its predecessor, the Huawei Mate 30 also has a pricey Porsche Design variant that's aptly called the Huawei Mate 30 RS. It carries the same specs as the Mate 30 Pro 5G with its 6.53-inch OLED display, Kirin 990 processor with embedded 5G, quad-camera setup, and 4,500mAh battery. It has a leather-bound rear panel that flanks a vertical glass stripe in the middle, which has the quad-camera setup. It comes in Black or Red.
Huawei also unveiled a fitness-focused smartwatch in the Watch GT 2. Just like the new Mate 30 phones, the Watch GT 2 ships with Huawei's LiteOS instead of Google's Wear OS. Both run on Kirin A1 chipset with Bluetooth 5.1, GPS, as well as optical heart rate sensors and others you would need for fitness tracking and stress monitoring.
This smartwatch comes in two sizes: 46mm and 42mm. The former comes with a 1.39-inch OLED display with a 454 x 454 resolution and 22mm strap, while the latter has a 1.2-inch OLED display with 390 x 390 resolution and 20mm strap. There is an always-on mode available, but The Vergepoints out that this doesn't look to be enabled by default.
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.