Huawei Mate 80 and Mate 80 Pro are official.
The pair is nearly identical thanks to a number of shared components, including the display and battery. Let’s dive in!
The display is the same in both the phones. It’s a 6.75-inch 1-120Hz LTPO OLED panel with 1280x2832px resolution, 1.07 billion colors, and full coverage of the P3 color gamut. The screen has 1440Hz PWM Dimming and 300Hz touch sampling rate.
Huawei claims the panel is the brightest ever on a phone reaching 8,000 nits!
The top protective sheet is second generation Kinlin glass.
Huawei Mate 80 Pro
Both the Mate 80 phones have a 3D TOF face-scanning camera on the front and a side-mounted fingerprint scanner. They also share support for satellite communications.
The Mate 80 Pro packs the Kirin 9030, while the Mate 80 has the Kirin 9020. Details on the chipset are limited, but Huawei claims that the Kirin 9030 is 35 percent faster than the Kirin 9030, which itself is 35 percent faster than the Kirin 9010. The Kirin 9030 Pro has it too. Also inside the Kirin 9030 Pro. Also inside Kirin 9030. Also inside Kirin 9030. Inside the 9030 Mate 80 Pro, that’s some 42% faster than the Kirin 9020, which would make it 7% faster than the Kirin 9030 non-Pro.
And while the Pro Max comes exclusively in 16GB of RAM, both the Mate 80 and Mate 80 Pro start at 12GB and only go up to 16GB in their higher-end versions.
Both phones have a 5,750mAh battery, but the Mate 80 Pro has faster charging – up to 100W wired and 80W wireless. The Mate 80 still offers respectable 66W wired and 50W wireless speeds.
Let’s talk imaging, where there are both similarities and differences. The pair houses a triple rear camera system and a 13MP selfie camera with an autofocusing f/2.0 lens.
The Mate 80 has a 50MP wide-angle camera with a variable aperture F/1.4-F/4.0 lens, and a 1/1.28-inch RYYB sensor. Then there’s a 40MP ultrawide with an F/2.2 lens, and finally, a 12MP 5.5x zoom camera with a 125mm F/3.4 lens.
The companion 80 Pro has the same wide and ultra-wide cameras, but brings a nicer telephone unit. It has a 48MP sensor with a 4x or 92.5mm telephoto lens and a very bright F/2.1 aperture.
Both camera systems are supported by Huawei’s second-gen Red Maple imaging chip for processing and color tuning.
The Mate 80 series launches with the Harmony 6, which has a new design and a bunch of AI smarts.
Huawei Mate 80 Pro
This is a drawback of pricing.
| 12/256 GB | 12/512GB | 16/512 GB | 16 GB/1 TB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huawei Mate 80 | CNY 4,699 (73 573, INR 59,000) | CNY 5,199 (€635, INR 65,000) | CNY 5,499 (€670, INR 69,000) | – from |
| Huawei Mate 80 Pro | CNY 5,999 (€730, INR 75,000) | CNY 6,499 (73 573, INR 81,600) | CNY 6,999 (90 790, INR 59,000) | CNY 7,999 (€970, INR 100,000) |
