Huawei is about to hold a bittersweet event to launch the Mate 40 series. While it will be one of the company’s top performing phones for the foreseeable future due to the U.S. trade ban, it will also be the company’s last phone with a high-end Kirin chipset for the foreseeable future. This is, in a way, a swan song for Huawei’s mobile business as you know it today.
There’s a lot to expect from the Mate 40, however, and this moment of reckoning makes the virtual presentation all the more exciting. You may be watching an important moment in the company’s history. Here’s how to watch the live stream of the Huawei Mate 40 event you’re living in.
When does the Huawei Mate 40 event start?
Huawei will begin the event on October 22nd at 2:00 p.m. ET or 8:00 a.m. ET Here you can expect to watch in your part of the world.
- San Francisco: 5 AM
- Chicago: 7AM
- New York: 8 o’clock in the morning
- London: 1PM
- Berlin: 2 p.m.
- Moscow: 3 PM
- Mumbai: 17:30
- Beijing: 8 p.m.
- Sydney: 23 o’clock
Here’s how to watch the Huawei Mate 40 event
Thankfully, Huawei will broadcast the event live on its YouTube channel. We have embedded the following feed for ease of viewing.
What do we actually expect?
Unsurprisingly, Huawei is expected to focus on the Mate 40 family cameras at the event, just as it did with the Mate 30 and its predecessors. Rumor has it that the Mate 40 Pro will still have three rear cameras, which could include a 50-megapixel main sensor, a 20-megapixel wide-angle camera, and a 12-megapixel zoom lens. You also get laser autofocus and a color temperature sensor, while a 13-megapixel selfie camera and depth sensor might sit in the front of an array of holes rather than the Mate 30’s notch. There’s even talk of a Mate 40 RS with five cameras and a possible free-form lens.
The Mate 40 Pro may also have a slightly larger 6.7-inch OLED display, but may have a less aggressive “waterfall” edge.
See also: Huawei P40 Pro Plus review
And yes, the processor will play a big part in the story. A high-end Kirin chip with eight cores (called Kirin 1000 or Kirin 9000 depending on the question) is intended to help keep it competitive with the latest flagships of the competition. You might get 8GB or 12GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage. If this is the last high-end Huawei phone, it shouldn’t be a void.
Just don’t expect Huawei’s software situation to change. AppGallery has improved over time, but you still won’t find any Google Apps or many of the third-party titles you’ve seen on the Play Store. The US trade ban is again to blame, but that could make the Mate 40 even more difficult to sell outside of Huawei’s native China. A possible publication by 2021 would not help either.
We will report in detail about the launch event of the Huawei Mate 40. It is therefore essential that you contact us for the official details.