Rumor calls for 4G Snapdragon 898 to power Huawei Mate 50 Pro
Huawei did not have enough inventory of its homegrown Kirin 9000 chipset to use on this year’s flagships
As current Huawei Chairman Guo Ping pointed out earlier this month, “At present, the biggest difficulty for us is the mobile phone business. As we all know, chips for mobile phone need advanced technology as they are small and have low power consumption. Huawei can design its own chip but no one can manufacture it for us. That’s where we (are) stuck.”
While the tipster doesn’t refer to the Mate 50 Pro by name, it is referred in the post as a business-focused flagship handset which pretty much sums up the series since it traditionally carries the newest features and the best specs available on a Huawei device.
Once again, because the U.S. prevents foundries using American technology from shipping cutting-edge chips to Huawei, the variant of the Snapdragon 898 chips used in the Mate 50 and Mate 50 Pro will not support 5G. And to collaborate this, Digital Chat Station notes that while the version of the Snapdragon 898 that supports 5G carries a model number of SM8450, the model number being used by Huawei for testing with the Mate 50 Pro is SM8425.
Huawei Mate 50 Pro expected to have HarmonyOS 2.1 pre-installed
For example, let’s say you are playing a video game on your Mate 50 Pro and you want to finish playing on your MatePad tablet. HarmonyOS 2.1 will allow the user to pick up the game on the slate at exactly the same point he was at on the phone. Even better, the user won’t even have to install the game on his MatePad.
