Huawei Mate

Huawei Mate, formally Huawei Ascend Mate, is a series of high-end HarmonyOS-powered (Android-based prior to the trade war sanction) phablet smartphones produced by Huawei, and is one of their flagship products 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 early adopters). From 2016 until 2021, Huawei was in a co-engineering partnership with the German manufacturer Leica, whose lenses were used on the Mate series cameras. They have since been replaced with Huawei's in-house XMAGE imaging brand.

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


 * 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 China 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 2017


 * Display: 5.9-inch display with 1440 × 2560 pixels
 * Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 970
 * Ram: 4 GB

Huawei Mate SE
Huawei launched the Huawei Mate SE in the United States 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 London, England on October 16, 2018, after announcing the cheaper Huawei Mate 20 lite in Berlin, Germany 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 Google services.

Huawei Mate Xs 2
The Huawei Mate Xs 2 foldable smartphone was unveiled on 22 April 2022 which features the new HarmonyOS 2.0 operating system.

Huawei Mate 30
The Huawei Mate 30 and Pro versions were unveiled on 19 September 2019 in Munich, Germany and released on 26 September 2019 in China. They are the first models that could be released without pre-installed Google apps because of US sanctions.

Huawei Mate 40
The Huawei Mate 40 and Pro versions were unveiled on 22 October 2020, and do not feature Google services. 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 HarmonyOS 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 HiSilicon, 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 U.S. Department of Commerce launched an investigation into the situation at the end of 2023.

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 Google services just like many of the company's other recently released devices but still retains Android 10 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 Google services just like many of the company's other recently released devices but still retains Android 10 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 Android 10 as the source code for EMUI 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 on 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 HarmonyOS 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.