Analysis of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro: price, equipment and opinion

We tested Huawei’s new flagship killer without Google plus services: an in-depth analysis and opinion on the Huawei Mate 50 Pro.

Despite all the hurdles that have to be overcome along the way, Huawei still wants to overcome the high-end area and so after analyzing the Huawei P50 Pro we were able to test it now. the new model of the Mate series, the Huawei Mate 50 Pro.

Although this new flagship of the Chinese company does not yet have Google plus services, it retains the essence of the Mate family, offering us hardware at a very small level. So, in that sense, we have to highlight the Huawei Mate 50 Pro one of the best screens on the marketwith excellent performance thanks to the latest Qualcomm chipset of the moment, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, with excellent autonomy and very fast loading and one of the most versatile and high quality camera sets you cánido find in the premium range.

Go find out the strengths and weaknesses of the new flagship from the successful Chinese company: That’s all you need to know about the Huawei Mate 50 Pro.

Huawei Mate 50 Pro, review and score

Huawei Mate 50 Pro price and where to buy

Available in a version with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage, the Huawei Mate 50 Pro has official price of 1,199 euros.

This device cánido be purchased through the manufacturer’s official shop and through authorized retailers, and if you do so on its official website, you will receive as a gift Huawei FreeBuds Pro 2, TWS noise-cancelling headphones They cost 169 euros.

Technical data sheet

Where is the Huawei Mate 50 Pro located?

The Huawei Mate 50 Pro is the latest model in the new Mate 50 series.This terminal Officially launched in China in early September 2022Along with his younger brother, the Huawei Mate 50, he officially arrived in Spain early last month.

The Huawei Mate 50 Pro comes to refresh the Mate 40 Pro launched in 2021 and has a more stylized design with a smoother screen improved camera system with more autonomy.

As Huawei’s flagship, they are the most direct competitors of this Mate 50 Pro the flagship of the leading Android phone manufacturers: the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, the Google plus Pixel 7 Pro, the Xiaomi 12T Pro and the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra.

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra 8/128GB

Google plus Pixel 7 Pro 12/128GB

Of these four models, two are equipped with the same processor as the Huawei Mate 50 Pro and two others, the Google plus Pixel 7 Pro and the Galaxy S22 Ultra, use their own chipsets. yes all four Having 5G connectivity, they are coincidente with Google plus services and they’re slightly cheaper than the Huawei Mate 50 Pro.

Xiaomi 12T Pro 8/256GB

Motorola Edge 30 Ultra 12/256GB

However, the Huawei Mate 50 Pro has everything you need to go head to head with these four teléfonos inteligentes. The design and the cameras are the main points of the new franchise terminal of a Chinese brand.

design

In this article Huawei has decided to give a twist to the design of the Mate 50 Pro and although it is a terminal that follows the aesthetic line of the previous model, this is true it has several distinguishing features.

The first of them is an initial part, the it recaptures the fear that made the iPhone X fashionable four years agowhich reminds us a lot of Huawei Mate 20 Pro, but it does it with good reason which integrates a 3D facial recognition system which we will talk about later.

Another of the main aesthetic changes compared to the Huawei Mate 40 Pro cánido be found on the back, since this new model is dedicated a large circular camera module that occupies the upper part of the back wall and that it consists of three lenses and a large sensor.

The bright back of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro with its impressive circular camera module // Photo by David Freire

The large rear camera module protrudes a few millimeters from the device’s body and prevents this The terminal moves sideways if we place it on a flat surface without a cover.

In this sense, it should be noted that the back of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro, which is made of glass, a real fingerprint magnet and quite slipperyWe therefore recommend that you use the transparent cover that comes with it, or buy one that you like better, to prevent the terminal from landing on the ground.

At the ergonomic level, since we are dealing with a device, the Huawei Mate 50 Pro is a large and heavy terminal in the hand over 16 inches tall and over 7.5 inches thick and weighs 205 grams, although it must be said that its del costado curves and corners round it out a more comfortable device than others of the same size.

Despite its size, the Huawei Mate 50 Pro is quite comfortable to hold // Photo by David Freire

In this context, it is necessary to emphasize what Huawei has done succeeded in reducing the weight by 7 grams compared to its predecessorwhich is noticeable after a several hours of use.

For its part, the keypad is located on the right side frame of the device and the power button, which is colored red, as well as the volume up and down buttons. They are in good condition and have a pretty solid punch.

Finally, at the bottom of the terminal we find the double compartment for the SIM card and the memory card NM card, the USB-C port for charging and connecting to a computer and one of the two stereo speakers of the terminalsand in the upper part the two notches for the antenna and a pair of holes through which the sound comes out from the other speaker of this móvil inteligente.

Screen

One of the strengths of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro is its large curved screen 6.74 inch AMOLED with Full HD+ resolution which occupies almost the entire front and some sides of the device.

In that sense, the curvature of the screen has weighed on our usuario experience to some extent since then Ghosting appeared in some applications when we held the phone firmly and we had to use the on-screen buttons because the gestures didn’t work well because it was necessary swipe right at the bottom of the screen for the phone to recognize it.

However, it must be said that since this panel we are faced with one of the best screens that we have tested on a mobile phone this year very good color rendering, excellent white cómputo and contrast and brightness levels, maximum and minimum, that adapt perfectly to every situation.

This is what the Huawei Mate 50 Pro screen looks like //Photo by David Freire

Like its predecessor, the Huawei Mate 50 Pro always display mode this is very useful to see date, time, battery level and pending notifications and hardly consumes battery, even if you have it activated all day.

Another key to this screen is its volatility as it is Variable refresh rate up to 120 Hertzthat we cánido customize through the terminal configuration by choosing one of the three options available:

• Dynamic: The refresh rate oscillates automatically between 60 and 120 Hertz
• High: The screen refresh rate is equipo to 120 Hertz to have the best possible experience
• Estándar: The refresh rate is reduced to 60hz to increase the autonomy of the device

Based on the tests we ran using these three screen refresh methods, we perro confirm this the Default option is not even selectedsince the energy saving is small compared to the other two options and you lose liquidity, once you try it, you cánido’t live without it.

At the biometric level, the Huawei Mate 50 Pro has an under-screen fingerprint reader relatively low fallo rate and indeed, in two weeks of continuous use and with a very accurate 3D facial recognition system, we have not failed so far, even in poor light conditions.

hardware and performance

Huawei has decided not to hinder the hardware of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro and this is a good proof that the Chinese brand’s new flagship is based on the most powerful Qualcomm processor to date, which offers Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 excellent performance and practically does not overheat.

You should of course keep that in the back of your mind This chipset does not have 5G connectivitydue to the cross imposed by the United States and this restriction is not expected to be lifted in the near future.

This high-end processor is well supported RAM 8 GB and for a 120 hertz screen that moves everything with great speed and fluidity.

The Huawei Mate 50 Pro doesn’t have a lot of storage either, as is internal memory 256 GB which you perro expand with NM cards.

For practical purposes, the Huawei Mate 50 Pro is capable Open any aplicación or game in seconds and its multitasking is one of the smoothest we’ve tested on an Android phone, although it’s possible Run any aplicación quickly in the background.

The performance in the games of this terminal is also excellent as we have been able to Play titles like Apex Legends or Genshin Impact in Ultra HD quality hardly a frame falls without suffering.

Best of all, we could play these games for quite a while or stream several hours of YouTube vídeos. without noticing any significant temperature increases.

As for the sound department, the two stereo speakers that the Huawei Mate 50 Pro offers do their job perfectly always loud and clear sound that does not distort even at relatively high volumes.

programa and experience

In the programa department, not much has changed since we analyzed the Huawei P50 Pro since the Huawei Mate 50 Pro EMUI 13.0 based on Android 12 and there is still no trace either Google plus services or applications.

In this sense, we must point out that we managed to install several aplicaciones from the big G such as Gmail, Google plus Maps, YouTube, Google plus Photos, Google plus Drive or Google plus Translate aplicación called gbox. To install this aplicación you just need to go to AppGallery, Huawei Application Store, Settings, Change region to México, install GBox and change the region back to Spain.

Once downloaded, all we have to do is log in to the virtualized Google plus Play Store with our Google plus account and Install all Google plus applications that we needWe receive notifications as if they were installed natively.

More and more aplicaciones are available in the AppGallery, but we are still missing some //Photo by David Freire

Also, thanks to the Phone Clone application, I was able to transfer all the archivos and contacts to the Huawei Mate 50 Pro and almost every aplicación i had on my other android phone except the ING applicationwhich I couldn’t get to work even after installing it vía APK.

Applications that didn’t work for me in this terminal include Duolingo, JustWatch, My CarrefourSofaScore, televisión Time, Take Away!, Stepler or your lot.

To sum up, my experience in this part has left me frustrated, because apart from not being able to use some of the applications I use every day because they require Google plus services to work, this programa also comes with a large number of native aplicaciones overloaded, with a few pre-installed aplicaciones like Bing, Outlook, Office or TikTok and about three or four folders with Recommended aplicaciones and games.

Despite all that, it’s worth noting that despite the limitations imposed by Google plus’s veto, EMUI is a custom layer that has some really useful features like usage time management, a feature that it allows Limit the hours we use cellphone per day, either by total hours or by application and also a rest schedule automatically while The screen turns gray and access to all applications and mobile services is restrictedexcept those we have specified are never restricted.

battery and charging

Head Another strong point of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro is its independence, since its 4,700 miliamperio-hora battery offers us excellent performance, being able to endure a day of intensive use more than 7.5 hours screen on and 120 Hertz activated. This means that the most intense users will get to the end of the day with enough battery and the most moderate users will be able to use the terminal for a day and a half without any problems.

This battery, like its predecessor, has an impressive 66W fast charge that allows us to do this Charge the terminal up to 80% in just half an hour To do this, use the included cable and charger.

In addition, the battery of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro is coincidente with it 50W Qi wireless charging and with reverse wireless Charging, thanks to which we perro charge other devices wirelessly, such as Bluetooth headphones.

In conclusion, we would like to highlight that this terminal a function that allows us to limit the load between 70 and 90%. In that sense, this is what experts recommend Only charge devices up to 80% to extend battery life and ensure maximum longevity.

cameras

And finally we got to the strongest point of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro, his photography.

This new generation of Huawei Mate promises a slightly different elabora than what we saw in its predecessor, now without Leica support. So the Huawei Mate 50 Pro has a huge circular camera module housed in it four sensors: main camera, ultra wide camera, telephoto camera and proximity sensor.

A closer look at the Huawei Mate 50 Pro’s rear cameras // Photo by David Freire

Technical details of the camera system of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro are the following:

• main room: 50 MP wide-angle, f/1.4-f/4 aperture, optical image stabilization, laser autofocus
• ultra wide angle camera: 13MP, aperture f/2.2
• telecamera: 64 MP, f/3.5 aperture, optical image stabilization, 3x optical zoom, 5x hybrid zoom and 100x digital zoom
• Front camera: 13 MP ultra wide angle, f/2.4, autofocus

The star of this trident of cameras is undoubtedly a 50-megapixel wide-angle sensor that stands out from the crowd variable aperture between f/1.4 and f/4.0. By default, this sensor automatically adjusts the aperture, but in our Mate 50 Pro camera application a method that allows us to manually adjust the aperturelocated between the physical aperture and the digital aperture between f/0.95 and f/16.

If we focus on the results we have obtained with this main sensor, we perro confirm that it is inside the 3 best cameras of the year along with the Google plus Pixel 7 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro.

And I say that because the photos are taken with the main camera of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro high quality and sharpness, excellent dynamic range and impressive light and shadow controls. But it’s perhaps what we like most about this sensor Almost all photos have very natural colorsExcept for the saturation that cánido be seen in the photos taken with the cameras of mobile phones from other Chinese manufacturers such as Xiaomi.

With a variable aperture sensor, this camera cánido capture more light, which logically works to the advantage of night photos Maintaining the level of quality, sharpness and dynamic range that we see in daytime shotsexcept in rare cases when the luminosity is minimal.

Regarding the ultra wide-angle sensor, we must say that this camera is the weakest of the three that the Mate 5o Pro is equipped with, but despite this the shots are taken day and night. They have good dynamic range and maintain better quality than details.

These three rear cameras are completed by a 64-megapixel telephoto sensor Digital zoom so good it even appears optical. You cánido admire them in the images that we leave you below these lines 10x digital zoom quality in different scenes and the truth is that it is at the level of the best terminals of the year.

We love to take pictures with the portrait mode and in this article we are disappointed with the Huawei Mate 50 Pro because sometimes this mode does not automatically blur, but around the main person or the object we must select it in the form of filters.

For its part, the front camera of the Mate 50 Pro is on par with the rear one and allows us to take very good pictures with it Processing of the skin very realistic and in excellent quality and sharpness. Of course, when night falls, the performance of this sensor decreases and if there is not enough light, the results suffer and saturation and noise appear.

For vídeo recording, this terminal is capable of recording Clips in 4K and 1080p at 30 or 60 fps with very good stabilization and image quality at a minimum level.

Because a picture says more than 1,000 words, we’ll leave you with that Vídeo recorded with the rear camera of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro in 4K quality at 60 fps:

Finally, below these lines we leave you a small selection of the photos taken with this Huawei Mate 50 Pro and just below the backlink to the Google plus Photos folder with the rest of the images and vídeos that we have taken with the 4 cameras of this terminal is of the highest quality .

Gallery with photos and vídeos of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro

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