Huawei Mate 40

Huawei Mate 40 mobile price and specifications, the flagship phone of the company Huawei Within the famous Mate series, it comes with an excellent camera system and carries many features to compete with the leading Apple and Samsung phones such as Galaxy S20 And also iPhone 12, but with Huawei flavor.

The phone was launched with a distinctive design with many different colors, namely silver, white, Black, green and yellow.

Huawei has officially unveiled its new flagship, the Mate 40, along with its older brothers Mate 40 Pro and Mate 40 Pro+, declaring that it is still in the rest of the story despite the embargo imposed on it by the United States of America and preventing it from using Qualcomm processors, MediaTek and the famous Google services, of course.

Below we show you the specifications and price of Huawei Mate 40, with an explanation of its most important strengths and weaknesses, and is it really worth the high amount that will be paid in it or not? So go ahead...

Huawei Mate 40 specifications

• As usual, Huawei in the Mate series since ancient times has provided us with an integrated masterpiece with high-end manufacturing materials from aluminum and strengthening the phone’s front and back with Corning Gorilla glass, and the volume control keys are back again after they were working through the software in Mate 30.

• The phone comes in dimensions of 158.6 (length) x 72.5 (width) x 8.8 (width) mm and weighs about 188 grams, and by checking those numbers, we find that it is suitable for use with one hand despite the large screen size, moreover, the screen itself is curved at the edges at an angle of 88 degrees like the phones we used to see from Samsung, and the company stated in its conference that this curve gives a better experience in controlling the phone in addition to the aesthetic elegance it gives.

• In this category, the user will not accept an IPS screen like medium phones. Indeed, Huawei Mate 40 presented a 6.5-inch OLED screen that supports HDR10+ with a 90Hz refresh rate, the screen provides a resolution of 1080 x 2376 pixels with a pixel density of 402 pixels per inch. It is square and has an excellent overall front-facing ratio of 89.3%.

• After depriving Huawei of the services of all American companies, led by Qualcomm, the company could not remain passive, so it developed its Kirin processor in an unprecedented way to be able to compete with Qualcomm as well as competition in the smartphone market of all its categories, and the Mate 40 contains a processor that is one of the most powerful that Huawei has reached, which is the Kirin 9000E.

• This processing chip is the first for Android phones to provide a manufacturing accuracy of 5 nanometers and the second globally after the A14 processor from Apple, and Huawei claimed that its new processor provides 25% stronger performance than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ chip found in the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and the number of transistors is greater by a percentage 30% of the Apple A14 processor in the iPhone 12.

• As for the technical specifications of the Kirin 9000E, it has eight cores with a standard frequency of 3.13 GHz and is equipped with a Mali-G78 MP22 graphics and video processor with 22 cores.

• The phone will work with Huawei's own operating interface EMUI 11, which is based on Android 10, and of course the phone will receive the Android 11 update, and the phone will be available with two options, either 8/128 GB or 8/256 GB.

• The phone's power source is a non-removable 4200 mAh lithium-polymer battery that supports fast charging with a capacity of up to 40 watts. It is worth noting that the charger is attached to the phone box, unlike the iPhone 12 phones.

• The phone comes with a USB Type-C 3.1 port that supports the OTG feature, and it also has a 3.5mm jack for headphones.

• The phone supports Bluetooth 5.2 with Wi-Fi/6 and also provides an NFC feature for easier data sharing via contact and an IR sensor.

• The phone has proximity sensors, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, light and color spectrum, and thanks to the OLED screen, the fingerprint reader sensor is located at the bottom of the screen, and the phone can be locked via the 3D Face Lock.

• The phone supports a feature that Huawei called the Eye on Display, which is similar to Samsung’s Always On Display, but Huawei stated that its new feature will work just by looking at the phone without having to touch the screen.

Camera

The Huawei Mate 40 mobile packs a Leica triple rear camera with a design similar to last year's Mate 30 design, and the main camera lens comes with 50 Megapixels with f/1.9 23mm aperture with a Sony IMX700 sensor with a size of 1/1.28, which is currently the largest in all smartphones and supports that camera Auto focus and laser focus (Laser AF).

As for the second camera, it is an 8-Megapixel camera with an f/2.4 lens slot and supports OIS optical stabilization with 3xoptical zoom, and the third and final camera is 16-Megapixels with an f/2.4 lens slot and is used for wide photography.

The phone camera supports 4K Ultra HD shooting at 30 or 60 frames per second with EIS electronic stabilization and 1080P slow-motion shooting at 120, 240 or 960 frames per second.

The front selfie camera offers a 13-Megapixel resolution with a wide lens slot f/2.4 and supports panorama mode and HDR with the ability to shoot 4K @ 30fps videos and 1080p @ 240fps slow-motion shooting.

Specifications comparison between Huawei Mate 40, Samsung Galaxy S21 and iPhone 13

Below we show you a comparison between the Mate 40 phone offered by the Chinese company Huawei and two other of the best flagship phones in 2021.

The three companies offer other mobiles within the same series. For example, there is another Ultra model from the S21 and there is also a Plus model, and the same thing is in the phone iPhone 13 Because there is another Pro model and another Pro Max model, and the same is with the Huawei phone, but in this comparison we show only the most prominent differences between the cheaper flagship phones from the three companies.

Features of Huawei Mate 40

Phone disadvantages:

Conclusion:

Frankly, we find that the Mate 40 offers everything the user needs from a leading smartphone, as it has a powerful processor with professional cameras and a suitable battery in addition to a design that carries with it all the features of luxury and durability.

As for the defects of the phone, all of them can be overlooked except for the lack of support for Google services. If you can dispense with Google Play, Google Maps, Google Drive, YouTube and other Google services, the phone will be a very suitable option if you can afford it, of course.

Competing phones in the same price category:

Huawei Mate 40 price

The price of the Huawei Mate 40 mobile is about 800 EUR for the first model, 128 GB of storage and 8 GB of RAM, which is equivalent to 15,218 EGP, while the Mate 40 Pro and Mate 40 Pro+ will cost 1,100 EUR and 1,300 EUR, respectively, which is what Equivalent to 21,100 and 24,500 EGP.

Here are the price and specifications of Huawei Mate 40 in detail in the following tables:-

Huawei Mate 40 - Mobile price, specifications and features