Huawei Porsche Design Mate RS smartphone - advantages and disadvantages

Niche cell phones have always held a special position in the market. At one time, owning a Nokia N-Gage “gaming phone” was an incredible dream for a teenager, every photographer dreamed of acquiring a Sony Ericsson K750 “camera phone,” and every self-respecting fashionista dreamed of a Nokia 7610 “petal.”

The premium segment has always been unique in the class of niche phones: Vertu, Mobiado, Nokia 8800, which are still in demand to this day.

But now the market dictates its own rules, and almost any mid-price smartphone allows you to take good pictures and play top games. Even the design of the majority of models is similar.

History of creation

How then can mobile phone manufacturers differentiate their product from the mainstream? One of the methods was collaboration with various manufacturers and fashion houses. One example of such interaction was the Porsche Design Huawei Mate 20 RS.

Porsche Design was founded by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche in 1972. As a designer in the company of his father, the creator of the Porsche brand, he created the memorable design of the Porsche 911.

Since then, charisma, dynamics, conciseness and gloss have become the main features of all the designer’s collections. Over the years of the company's existence, the founder's talent extended to clothing, shoes, watches, and haberdashery. Since the mid-2000s, cooperation with cell phone manufacturers began.

Examples of this interaction include BlackBerry, Mobiado, Sagem, and more recently Huawei phones. PD's history with Huawei began with the Mate 9, then Mate 10 and Mate RS. And the flagship of the line was the Mate 20 RS, presented in mid-autumn at an international exhibition, which will be discussed further.

The model's predecessor is the Mate RS, based on the Huawei P20 Pro. The phone turned out to be relatively successful, but with a controversial design and artifacts. The design of its predecessor almost completely repeats the former flagship from Samsung - the S8 model, which differed from the Mate RS only in the absence of Porsche Design logos and inscriptions.

Now the manufacturers have revised the design, changed the base, and presented a more interesting device. When you unpack the phone, you can immediately see the luxury nature of the device.

Packaging and equipment

Like the previous model, this is an expensive black box containing, in addition to the device itself, a case, two power adapters and USB-Type C cables, headphones, operating instructions and an authenticity card with the individual device number.

Due to the change in the appearance of the device itself, the cover has also changed. But the form factor of a leather book with a window for quick access to the main functions on the screen remains.

Of interest is the device itself, which has undergone changes, both internally and externally.

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Appearance and case materials

Since the base of the device is the flagship Huawei Mate 20, the shapes and proportions are identical. From the front side, the differences are not noticeable until you turn on the screen. Unlike its predecessor, the Mate RS, the new Porsche Design flagship Huawei Mate 20 RS has acquired a technological area on the screen, the so-called notch.

But, on the other hand, I lost the somewhat vulgar inscription under the screen “Porsche Design”. The EMUI 9.0 shell font also, as before, has a corporate style in the spirit of Porsche.

The main differences in the appearance of the phone from the previous flagship Porsche Design Mate RS, and the younger brother Mate 20 Pro, are located on the back panel of the device. Finally, manufacturers understood the meaning of the word “luxury” and made changes to both ergonomics and the list of materials used.

From now on, the back panel of the device is made of genuine leather in black or red. This pleasant and expensive-to-touch leather is separated by a glass strip on which the camera unit and logos of LEICA, Porsche Design and Huawei are located.

The combination of leather and glass, made in a strict and laconic design, looks expensive and solid - just like a luxury smartphone should look like. The side of the smartphone is framed by a matte metal frame. The phone is assembled very high quality and well, as befits a designer item.

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Filling and performance

The hardware, in comparison with its predecessor Mate RS, has become more powerful and productive.

Power

The top-end processor of Huawei's own production, the Kirin 980 with support for neural networks, has 8 cores and is capable of accelerating up to 2.6 GHz, and coupled with 8Gb of RAM and the Mali-G76 MP10 video chipset, allows you to enjoy the operation of your smartphone at maximum loads without any problems. bugs and freezes.

Memory

Of course, hardly anyone will buy a phone for 2000 euros, but the performance will definitely be enough for several years to come! The internal memory will also last for a long time, the volume of which reaches 256 or 512 GB, depending on the version. The screen of the Mate 20 RS, like other hardware, is beyond praise.

Screen and scanner

Frameless, curved edge display with a diagonal of 6.39 inches, with an AMOLED matrix and a resolution of 3120 x 1440 pixels, 538 ppi, protected by Gorilla Glass.

The image is bright and saturated, but due to the nature of human vision, the eye stops seeing pixels at a resolution of more than 300 ppi, but here there are more than 500 of them! But in addition to the image transmission function, the screen performs the function of unlocking the device, thanks to the built-in fingerprint sensor.

The predecessor also had this sensor, but it’s worth noting that the Mate RS has a duplicate scanner on the back panel of the device, while the manufacturer decided to abandon it for the flagship model for the sake of design.

Since it comes to the ability to access the phone, we’ll add that the phone now has the ability to unlock using a photo, similar to Apple’s FaceID.

Battery and connectors

The flagship of its predecessor also surpassed the battery capacity - 4200 Mah versus 4000 MAh for the Mate RS. The SuperCharge 40W fast charging function of this battery and Qi 15W wireless charging are retained

The connector is the same Type-C, like the majority of smartphones in 2018. A separate headphone jack is out of the question - flagship devices are mostly released without it. But it was possible to increase the degree of moisture protection to IP68 , whereas the April flagship had it IP67.

Cameras and video

The icing on the cake is the camera unit. Just saying: “Main and front cameras” will not turn your tongue, because here the main camera consists of a Leica wide-angle module with a resolution of 40 megapixels, an ultra-wide with 20 megapixels, a telephoto with 8 megapixels, OIS, with laser autofocus, 3x optical zoom, LED flash.

The front camera is also with a Leica module and a resolution of 24 megapixels.

All this allows us to call the device a full-fledged camera phone, and the processor with a neural network complements the picture, and in the literal sense complements the picture - the processor itself is capable of focusing on objects, adding colors and maximizing the characteristics of the image during shooting, and not as is implemented by Samsung - due to colorfulness of the screen.

Neural networks allow, among other things, to search for photos in the gallery based on the objects in the image, be it snow or a cat.

Android "on board"

All this splendor is controlled by an operating system based on Android 9.0 Pie and the EMUI 9.0 shell, stylized as Porsche. This combination is not used on the first smartphone from Huawei, and has proven itself well. The absence of bugs, missclicks and other unpleasant aspects of the firmware is guaranteed.

Mate 20 RS: flagship smartphone created by Huawei in collaboration with Porsche Design

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Details have become known about the premium smartphone PORSCHE DESIGN HUAWEI Mate 20 RS , created by Huawei together with Porsche Design and part of the flagship line of smartphones Mate 20 , which I already wrote about earlier. Porsche Design took part in the development of the design of the Mate 20 RS : the rear surface of the case is trimmed in genuine leather with Porsche Design symbols, and the letters RS are an abbreviation for the German racing championship Rennsport .

In technical terms, the device does not lag behind, and in some ways surpasses other smartphones in the Mate 20 line. It also has a “top-end” processor Kirin 980 , produced using a 7-nm process technology and including Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 . as well as the Mali-G76 and two cores responsible for neural calculations responsible for implementing the artificial intelligence functions of the smartphone. As previously reported, the Mate 20 RS, compared to other smartphones in the line, had increased RAM to 8 GB and internal storage to 256 GB or, optionally, 512 GB. Let me remind you that other smartphones in the Mate 20 line use 6 GB of RAM and a 128 GB storage (with the exception of the Mate 20 Lite, which has even more modest parameters).

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The triple camera of the Mate 20 RS smartphone, created in collaboration with Leica , consists of a main module with a resolution of 40 MP, an ultra-wide-angle module with a 20 MP and a telephoto module with 8 MP. In macro mode, it is possible to shoot objects as close as 25mm. The front camera resolution is 24 MP.

The lower frame under the display was reduced, its diagonal was 6.39 inches with a resolution of 3120x1440, in its upper part there is a characteristic rectangular “island” with a front camera and a speaker. In terms of these parameters, the display is similar to the Mate 20 Pro, only it uses an OLED matrix, while the Mate 20 RS has an AMOLED one. The display aspect ratio is 19.5:9, with a pixel density of 538 ppi. The fingerprint scanner was placed under the glass of the screen; the dynamic pressure measurement technology used in it increased the speed of fingerprint recognition by 30% and increased the ratio of successful recognitions. The 3D facial recognition unlocking function has been implemented, it is noted that it is able to recognize the user in 0.6 seconds even in poor lighting conditions.

The smartphone will be supplied with a specially designed case for it.

The smartphone runs on Android 9 Pie EMUI 9.0 graphical shell . HiVision function that can independently recognize historical objects and works of art and provide encyclopedic information on them, which will appeal to travel enthusiasts.

A 4200 mAh battery is used that supports SuperCharge fast charging with a power of up to 40 W. The battery and charger have undergone extensive safety testing by TÜV Rheinland, a consumer product testing company. There is support for HUAWEI WirelessCharger wireless charging with a power of 15 W, and the smartphone also has the ability to “reverse” charge other devices that support Qi technology, thereby performing the function of an external battery. The smartphone is protected against water and dust according to the IP 68 standard.

The design changes mainly affected the back surface of the smartphone, distinguishing the Mate 20 RS from other models in the Mate 20 line

But in the near future it will be possible to buy the Mate 20 RS In any case, nothing has been officially said yet about its sales in Russia. The specific list of European countries where it will be available has not yet been specified. But it has already been announced that sales of the new product will begin on November 16, the version with 8 GB of RAM and a built-in 256 GB drive will cost 1,695 Euros, and the configuration with 8 GB of RAM and a built-in 512 GB drive will cost 2,095 Euros. In addition to the standard version in black leather, there will also be a limited edition - in red body color, it will be sold only in China. The number of copies produced and their future price have not been specified.

Review

Summing up, I would like to say that the collaboration between one of the best electronics manufacturers and a top designer brand turned out to be as successful as possible!

It is worth noting that Huawei uses only its own developments and components in the production of its devices, for which enormous amounts of money are spent, and Porsche Design, over its almost half-century history, has managed to earn the love of customers and respect from partner companies.

Well, like any other niche device, the Porsche Design Huawei Mate 20 RS has a considerable price tag.

Price and where to buy

You can only buy on Aliexpress. In unofficial stores you can only find fakes for those who want to stand out, but don’t have enough money for it.

For the 256 GB version at the start of sales they are asking about 1,700 euros, and for the maximum version with 512 GB of internal memory the price exceeds 2,000! The price will gradually fall.

But for people who care about status and have financial opportunity, the price tag will not be so important, because in addition to a beautiful and expensive wrapper, they will receive a top-end smartphone that will not become outdated for several years.