The Mate 20 Pro offers consumers a combination of powerful AI, flagship performance, longer battery life, advanced security, a greater videography experience, wrapped in a sophisticated flowing design.
"Huawei is introducing cutting edge and high performance devices globally. We are excited to launch the most powerful and intelligent Mate ever – Mate 20 Pro for the Indian customers. We are focused in creating an elite ecosystem of industry visionaries to offer products that meet the lifestyle needs of people by providing distinctive user experience,” Wally Yang, Senior Product Marketing Director, Huawei Consumer Business Group, said.
Manufactured with the advanced 7nm process, the Kirin 980 chip promises to offer improved performance, better battery efficiency and a smoother user experience.
The device will be available online on Amazon starting December 3 for Prime members while regular customers would be able to purchase it starting December 4, Huawei Consumer Business Group said.
The Mate 20 Pro is powered by Kirin 980 -- Huawei's highest performing system on chip (SoC). Manufactured with the advanced 7nm process, the Kirin 980 chip promises to offer improved performance, better battery efficiency and a smoother user experience.
The smartphone comes with the world's first 40W HUAWEI Super Charger that can charge the device's hefty 4,200 mAh battery to 70 per cent within 30 minutes of plugging in. The device comes with key contributions from the Huawei India R&D team, thus, allowing for several localised capabilities.
"We aim to complete 200 million shipments by the end of 2018," said Paras Chopra, Senior Director, Product Planning, Huawei Consumer Business Group.
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro comes with a 40MP main camera, a 20MP ultra-wide angle camera and an 8MP telephoto camera. The phone sports the company's recently launched EMUI 9.0 based on Android Pie OS.
Huawei's EMUI 9.0 is created to "enable a quality life" with digital balance. HiVision - a new feature debuting with EMUI 9.0 recognises classical art, popular landmarks and can translate text of a range of languages.
The Matrix Camera System includes Leica ultra-wide angle lens that allows users to capture wider and closer photos with its new macro distance capability.
Huawei Mate 20 Pro is the also world's first smartphone to support the 4.5G LTE Cat. 21 standard, thus, allowing consumers to experience download speeds of up to 1.4Gbps.
The smartphonesm's 6.39-inch curved AMOLED has a chassis that is curved on all eight sides. The Matrix Camera array on the rear of the device features a four-point design with the three cameras and sensor encircled in a polished metal frame.
The "Hyper Optical Pattern" on the glass back uses a complex hairline pattern to produce an effect that is not only highly durable, but also makes the device easy to grip and fingerprint resistant, the company added.
The device would be available as part of a bundle along with the Sennheiser PXC 550 headphones for a special cost of Rs 71,990, for early bird customers, the company said, adding that the device would also be available across Croma stores in key metro cities starting December 10.