Huawei Mate, formally Huawei Ascend Mate, is a series of

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-powered ( Android-based prior to the

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produced by

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, and is one of their

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s along with the Pura series. Under the company's current hardware release cadence, the Pura series phones are typically directed towards mainstream consumers as the company's flagship smartphones, refining and expanding upon technologies introduced in Mate series devices (which are typically positioned towards

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s). From 2016 until 2021, Huawei was in a co-engineering partnership with the German manufacturer

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, whose lenses were used on the Mate series

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s. They have since been replaced with Huawei's in-house XMAGE imaging brand.

Phones

Huawei Ascend Mate

The Huawei Ascend Mate smartphone was announced in 2013 at CES. It was released in

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in February 2013; its international release was in March 2013. * Display: 6.1-inch IPS display with 720×1280 pixel resolution * RAM: 1 or 2 GB * Battery: 4050 mAh

Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G

Huawei announced the Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G smartphone at CES in 2014. * Display: 6.1-inch display with 720×1280 pixel resolution * Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 400

Huawei Ascend Mate 7

Released September 2014 * Display: 6.0 inches, 1080 × 1920 pixels * Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 925

Huawei Mate S

Huawei announced the Huawei Mate S smartphone on September 2, 2015 at

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. * Display: 5.5-inch display with 1080×1920 pixel resolution * Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 935 * RAM: 3 GB * Battery: 2700 mAh

Huawei Mate 8

Released on 26 November 2015 in

and globally Q1 2016. * Display: 6.0-inch display with 1080×1920 pixel resolution * Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 950 * Ram: 4 GB

Huawei Mate 9

Released December 2016 * Display: 5.9-inch display IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen * Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 960 * Ram: 4 GB

Huawei Mate 10

Released November 2024 * Display: 69-inch display with 1440 × 2160 pixels * Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 970 * Ram: 6 GB

Huawei Mate SE

Huawei launched the Huawei Mate SE in the

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on March 6, 2018. It is an essentially a rebranded version of the international Honor 7X, as the Honor 7X smartphone that had previously been released in the United States was different from the international version. * Display: 5.93-inch display with 1080×2160 pixel resolution * Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 659 * Storage: 64 GB (expandable) * RAM: 4 GB * Battery: 3340 mAh * Colors: Gray or Gold

Huawei Mate 20

Huawei announced three phones in the Huawei Mate 20 series, the Huawei Mate 20, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and Huawei Mate 20 X at an event in

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on October 16, 2018, after announcing the cheaper Huawei Mate 20 lite in

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on August 31, 2018.

Huawei Mate X

The Mate X is Huawei's first foldable device. The phone offers an 8-inch OLED display that folds outwards, with a wraparound design. While folded, there is a 6.6-inch screen on the front and a 6.38-inch screen on the back.

Huawei Mate X2

The Huawei Mate X2 successor was unveiled on 22 February 2021, and do not feature

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Huawei Mate Xs 2

The Huawei Mate Xs 2 foldable smartphone was unveiled on 22 April 2022 which features the new

2.0 operating system.

Huawei Mate 30

The Huawei Mate 30 and Pro versions were unveiled on 19 September 2019 in

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and released on 26 September 2019 in

. They are the first models that could be released without pre-installed

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because of US sanctions.

Huawei Mate 40

The Huawei Mate 40 and Pro versions were unveiled on 22 October 2020, and do not feature

. The Chinese variant featured the operating system HarmonyOS 2.0, marking the start of HarmonyOS as an operating system in the Mate series.

Huawei Mate 50

The Huawei Mate 50, 50E and 50 Pro and 50 RS, the first phones in Mate Series with Huawei's in-house XMAGE imaging were unveiled on 6 September 2022 which features the new

3.0 operating system.

Huawei Mate 60

The Huawei Mate 60 series was officially launched on August 29, 2023, equipped with the HarmonyOS 4.0 operating system. The promotion emphasizes its ability to carry out satellite telephony through the Tiantong system, and the ability to send and receive short messages through the Beidou system. According to third-party technical dismantling and analysis, this model is equipped with the Kirin 9000S SoC chipset developed by

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, which is a 7nm process chip. According to analysis this chip may have been produced by SMIC. The launch of the phone garnered significant attention, and was widely touted as a victory against US government sanctions intended to stop Chinese companies from producing or obtaining advanced chips. Huawei's breakthrough raised concerns within the US government that technological restrictions alone were unable to prevent Huawei from obtaining advanced chips: the

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launched an investigation into the situation at the end of 2023.

Huawei Mate XT

The Huawei Mate XT, also known as Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design, is the world's first double-folding, or tri-fold,

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. It was announced on September 10, 2024, and made available for pre-order in

the same day. It released in China on September 20, 2024, with a planned Q1 2025 global release.

Huawei Mate 70

The Huawei Mate 70 series was released on 26 November 2024.

Tablets

Huawei MatePad Pro

The Huawei MatePad Pro was announced on 25 November 2019 and was officially released on 12 December 2019. It is one of Huawei's devices to feature no

just like many of the company's other recently released devices but still retains

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as the source code for EMUI 10.1. The tablet received mainly positive reviews from critics but was criticised for its camera and lack of a wide variety of apps.

Huawei MatePad

The Huawei MatePad was announced on 23 April 2020 and was officially released on 28 April 2020. It is one of Huawei's devices to feature no

just like many of the company's other recently released devices but still retains

as the source code for EMUI 10.1.

Huawei MatePad 11

The Huawei MatePad 11 was announced June 2, 2021 during Huawei's HarmonyOS 2 launch and it was officially released on July 13, 2021. It is one of Huawei's first tablet devices to have HarmonyOS 2 pre-installed globally.

Huawei MatePad Pro

The Huawei MatePad Pro 2021 line of 10.8 and 12.6-inch tablets was announced on June 2, 2021 during Huawei's HarmonyOS 2 launch and it was officially released on June 25, 2021 globally which marks the world's first tablets to have HarmonyOS pre-installed.

Huawei MatePad SE

The Huawei MatePad SE was announced on April 28, 2022 and was officially released May 10, 2022 globally with HarmonyOS 2 pre-installed.

Huawei MatePad

The Huawei MatePad 10.4 2022 model was announced on May 13, 2022 which was released on the same day globally with

as the source code for

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10.1 pre-installed.

Huawei MatePad Pro 11

The Huawei MatePad Pro 11 was announced on July 27, 2022 during Huawei's HarmonyOS 3 launch and was released August 10, 2022 globally with HarmonyOS 3 pre-installed.

Huawei MatePad C5e

The Huawei MatePad C5e was announced on October 19, 2022 with Android 10 based EMUI and was released November 2022 with Android 10 pre-installed.

Huawei MatePad 11 (2023)

Huawei MatePad 11 (2023) model came with HarmonyOS 3.1 on March 31, 2023 and PaperMatte Edition in November 2023.

Huawei MatePad Air

Huawei MatePad Air model announced May 18, 2023 and released July 22, 2023, preinstalled with HarmonyOS 3.1. Alongside PaperMatte Edition on December 13, 2023 in European markets.

Huawei MatePad 11.5

Huawei MatePad 11.5 model announced May 18, 2023 and released July 22, 2023 preinstalled with HarmonyOS 3.1.

Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2

The Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2 was announced and released on September 25, 2023 during Huawei's Autumn New Product Launch Conference with

4 pre-installed with Kirin 9000 W Wi-Fi only variant of Kirin 9000s. On April 8, 2024, Huawei expanded the MatePad Pro 13.2-inch tablet line with a SIM card version on a SKU model called Collector's Edition with Kirin 9000s in black colour via Huawei VMALL in China. On May 8, 2024, the company revealed poster for new colour variant expansion in China with MatePad Pro 13.2 tablet line that comes with GoPaint application pre-installed ahead of event on May 15, 2024.

Huawei MatePad 11.5 S

The Huawei MatePad 11.5 S was announced on May 7, 2024 for later release in the same month during Huawei's Innovative Product Launch in Dubai that comes with GoPaint pre-installed with HarmonyOS 4.2 software, Papermatte Edition in global markets.

References

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Phones

Huawei Ascend Mate

Huawei Ascend Mate 2 4G

Huawei Ascend Mate 7

Huawei Mate S

Huawei Mate 8

Huawei Mate 9

Huawei Mate 10

Huawei Mate SE

Huawei Mate 20

Huawei Mate X

Huawei Mate X2

Huawei Mate Xs 2

Huawei Mate 30

Huawei Mate 40

Huawei Mate 50

Huawei Mate 60

Huawei Mate XT

Huawei Mate 70

Tablets

Huawei MatePad Pro

Huawei MatePad

Huawei MatePad 11

Huawei MatePad Pro

Huawei MatePad SE

Huawei MatePad

Huawei MatePad Pro 11

Huawei MatePad C5e

Huawei MatePad 11 (2023)

Huawei MatePad Air

Huawei MatePad 11.5

Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2

Huawei MatePad 11.5 S

See also

References