Huawei today announced at a London event the new Mate 20 series of smartphones - Huawei Mate 20, Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 X PORSCHE DESIGN Huawei Mate 20 RS - and the new Watch GT.

The HUAWEI Mate 20 Series is powered by Huawei's densest and highest performing system on chip (SoC) to date-the Kirin 980. The new 40 W HUAWEI SuperCharge, 15W HUAWEI Wireless Quick Charge and large batteries work in tandem to provide users with the best battery life. The Matrix Camera System includes Leica Ultra Wide Angle Lens that lets users not only see wider, but also closer with its new macro distance capability. The Hyper Optical Pattern on the glass back plays with light and shadows, producing an iridescent optical effect. The HUAWEI Mate 20 Series is shipped with the highly customized Android P-based EMUI 9 operating system.

Huawei's Mate 20 phones support a proprietary storage format. The new handsets are the first to take NM Card, a Huawei-made design that offers the capacity and performance of microSD in a card the size of a Nano SIM. You can use one of the phone's two SIM slots as extra storage without the need for a dedicated microSD slot or an extra-long tray.

It's unclear how Huawei will price these cards, or where you will even find them.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro

Huawei's newly unveiled Mate 20 Pro combines basically every feature of modern smartphones. It has three cameras on the back, each offering a different focal length. It also has an in-display fingerprint sensor, along with a 3D face unlock for more secure authentication. And like Samsung's Galaxy Note 9, the Mate 20 Pro has a high-resolution 6.4-inch OLED display.

Huawei claims that its Android software is much better than Samsung's, saying that you get a 22 percent higher stability in gaming performance and a 14 percent higher power efficiency in the Mate 20 Pro than the Note 9. The new Mate device also has fast wireless charging, which is also compatible with all Qi devices.

The 7nm Kirin 980 processor that Huawei announced at IFA in September is making its official debut in the Mate 20 Pro. Huawei claims tht its chip has better performance and efficiency than the Snapdragon 845, faster LTE with a Cat.21 modem supporting speeds up to 1.4Gbps, and a ton of AI processing capabilities. Exactly as with Apple's A12 Bionic in the iPhone XS, the Kirin 980 has 6.9 billion transistors and includes dedicated neural processing units to assist with AI tasks.

With the Mate 20 Pro, Huawei has ditched its monochrome sensor, which used to work in combination with the color sensor to provide sharper edge definition with less noise. Instead, the company is implementing three different focal lengths, with one 20-megapixel camera for super wide shots, one 40-megapixel shooter in a conventional wide-angle, and one 8-megapixel telephoto camera.

Huawei's Master AI 2.0 image processing is able to segment a photo into sections and treat each one differently.

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro has an iPhone-like notch at the top of its screen. Huawei has built its own version of the iPhone's Face ID, and it's gone further by also implementing a fingerprint sensor into the Mate 20 Pro's display.

The Mate 20 Pro combines a 6.4-inch screen, a substantial camera array, and a 4,200mAh battery. Its extra tall 19.5:9 aspect ratio allows for easy grip. The Mate 20 Pro also has an IP68 rating for dust and water resistance.

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro will be available with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage for €1049 starting today.

Huawei Mate 20

The Mate 20 is featuring a 6.5-inch, 2244 x 1080 LCD display with a peculiar 18.7:9 aspect ratio. It also has a very small screen notch accommodating only the selfie camera, with the earpiece positioned at the very edge of the phone. With 820 nits of brightness, Huawei claims this is an extremely power-efficient display.

The Mate 20 achieves a screen-to-body ratio of 88.08 percent, beating the Mate 20 Pro's 86.90 percent, which is hampered by the wider notch that houses a more sophisticated 3D face-unlock system. Huawei proclaims the Mate 20 has only a 2.6mm side bezel, and its screen notch is just 8.9mm in width.

The handset features a three-camera design on its rear, consisting of an ultra wide angle f/2.2 lens with a 16MP sensor, a wide angle f/1.8 lens with a 12MP sensor, and an f/2.4 telephoto lens backed by an 8MP sensor.

The Huawei Mate 20 will be available with 4GB of RAM for €799, and 6GB of RAM for €849. Both versions will include 128GB of storage, and will be available starting today.

Huawei Mate 20X

The new Huawei Mate 20 X is the largest in the lineup with its 7.2-inch OLED display ( 16.7 million colours, DCI-P3, FHD+ 2244 x 1080). The device is equipped with a massive 5,000mAh battery, and it's compatible with styluses.

Huawei emphasized the device's gaming performance and its vapor chamber cooling design that, combined with "graphene film cooling technology," the company claims will keep its Kirin 980 SoC cool even under heavy loads. Other specs include 6GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage, and a dual speaker configuration.

Huawei is also producing a gamepad that attaches to the left-hand side of the handset, complete with an analog stick and a D-pad.

The Huawei Mate 20 X will retail for €899 when it's released on October 26th.

Porsche Design Mate 20 Pro

Huawei is once again teaming with Porsche Design for a flashier, and always much more expensive Mate 20 Pro variant. But it comes with 8 GB RAM + 256 GB ROM and supports up to 256 GB NM cards.

As the entire front of the device is occupied by display, the aesthetic differences are limited to the back, where glass cuts a racing stripe down the length of the device between two panes of soft leather.

There's a black on black model, as well as a limited edition, red on black version that's only headed to China.

Huawei Watch GT

Huawei is joining the fray with the Watch GT, a smartwatch that relies on a proprietary LiteOS operating system instead of Wear OS. The company made bold claims about the Watch GT's 30-day battery life while emphasizing the device's sports-tracking prowess.

The Watch GT comes with a bunch of sensors that better equip it to monitor your activity. It has a tri-GPS system (GPS+Glonass+Galileo/Beidou) and an altimeter in addition to the six-LED optic heart-rate sensor to better measure your position, elevation and pulse. In fact, Huawei claimed it can more accurately monitor your position even in dense cities with buildings that could interfere with GPS signals because it taps the Chinese Beidou satellite. The Apple Watch Series 4 also has a tri-GPS (GPS/Glonass/Galileo) system.

Huawei says that the heart-rate monitor is more accurate than the competition. The Watch GT uses AI to understand where and how it's sitting on your wrist and uses that data to clean up information from the sensor. This is supposed to help it deliver a more accurate reading.

The Watch GT can also track your sleep and tell you the quality of your slumber.

Huawei promising that the Watch GT will last up to two weeks with heart-rate monitoring on and if you exercise for about 90 minutes per week. For more intense users, the watch will last about 22 hours with GPS and heart-rate monitoring enabled and the screen turned on. With the heart rate monitoring and GPS turned off, the watch is supposed to last 30 days.

The Watch GT is compatible with iOS and Android via the Huawei Health app, but you won't be able to install third-party apps.

The new Huawei smartwatches will be launched in 'Sport' and 'Classic' models for €199 and €249, respectively.

Huawei Watch GT specs

• Length x width x height: 46.5 mm x 46.5 mm x 10.6 mm
• Wrist coverage range: 14 ~ 21 cm
• Weight: Approximately 46 g (without the strap)
• Watch case:
  • Colour: Black Stainless Steel, Stainless Steel
  • Material: Metal + Plastic + Ceramic
• Watch strap: Graphite Black Silicone Strap, Saddle Brown leather Silicone Strap, Glacier Gray Silicone Strap, Fluorescent Green Silicone Strap
• Display
  • 1.39 inch AMOLED colour screen
  • Resolution: 454 x 454, PPI 326
  • The AMOLED touchscreen supports slide and touch gestures.
• GPS: Supported
• Memory: Internal ROM 128 MB, internal RAM 16 MB
  
• Wi-Fi: Not supported
• Bluetooth: BT4.2, BLE
• Sensors: Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Magnetometer, Optical heart rate, Ambient light, Barometer.
• NFC: Supported
• Button: Power button, function button
• System requirements
  • Android 4.4 or later
  • iOS 9.0 or later
• Charging time:
  • <= 2 hours (under 25 °C ambient temperatures)
    Battery life
  • 14 days for typical use. (The typical usage scenarios are decided based on the user habits.The specific battery life depends on the user habits and usage frequency.)

HUAWEI Band 3 Pro: A Sports Wristband with Full Touch Screen

Huawei also launches HUAWEI Band 3 Pro, a new smart wristband supporting a range of monitoring capabilities, including improved heart rate and sleep monitoring.

With HUAWEI TruSeen 3.0, HUAWEI Band 3 Pro accurately monitors the heart rate of a user throughout the day. Huawei also pioneered the use of IR (infrared) sensors to accurately track the user heart rate without using the obtrusive lights of conventional trackers.

Leveraging the same technology powering TruSeen 3.0, HUAWEI Band 3 Pro can also track sleep patterns with HUAWEI TruSleep 2.0. Moreover, the solution uses big data analysis to provide personalized services and suggestions to improve sleep quality.

The HUAWEI Band 3 Pro features a 0.95-inch HD AMOLED color touch screen. Users can navigate the various options on the screen by swiping vertically or horizontally, or by tapping the screen to return to Home.

The HUAWEI Band 3 Pro is €99.