Huawei launches Mate 20 Lite with Kirin 710, Huawei's clone of Animoji, and Up To 75% faster CPU performance

[AlTech]

Huawei is launching the Mate 20 Lite with their Kirin 710 chip as well as Huawei's clone of Animoji which they're calling 3D QMoji.

 

The Kirin 710 chip has similar specs to the Kirin 960 chip but is built on 12nm has worse clockspeeds and a substantially worse GPU.

 

And it still has only 802.11n WiFi in 2018 according to Wikipedia .

 

The Kirin 710 in the Mate 20 Lite should provide Up To 75% faster CPU performance than the Mate 10 Lite. Meaning that it's finally good enough to be usable in 2018 unlike its pre-decessor which only used A53 cores.

 

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Normally a ‘lite’ phone tends to be the smaller, more compact, and a budget version of the flagship product. The Mate 20 lite comes in at a super-large 6.3-inch display, 19.5:9 aspect ratio (2340x1080), and a notch to equate to an 81% screen to body ratio. Normally a phone that size shouldn’t be called Lite, but here we are.

 

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The Kirin 710 under the hood is a quad-A73 plus quad-A53 chip, seen previously in the Huawei Nova 3i which had a limited release. Huawei is promoting the use of AI heavily with this smartphone, although the chip does not have dedicated AI hardware, with the neural networks for photography running on the CPU+GPU. That GPU is the Mali G51MP4, so a relatively light graphics unit, and it’s all built on TSMC 12nm, so Huawei is also aiming for power efficiency and battery life here. In the Mate 20 Lite, the chip is backed with 4GB of DRAM and 64 GB of UFS 2.1 storage.

 

If you thought the faster performance would be available at a reasonable midrange price then think again. In typical Huawei fashion, the phone is expected to sell for £379 or your regional equivalent. So basically $379 USD not including taxes. Yay .

 

This is terribly overpriced imho.

 

Definitely looks like a solid phone albeit severely overpriced and it's a Huawei device so you're not able to root it or really do much of anything so definitely not worth it anyways.

 

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The Mate 20 Lite will be available in the UK from next Wednesday, and be priced at £379. Availability in other regions will be announced in due course.

 

Source: Anandtech

 

Source:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13317/huawei-launches-the-mate-20-lite

 

[ZeouLs]

I like the P series of Huawei but the Mate series is idk... I had 3 P Series phones in the last 4 years and I liked all of em but the Mates are kinda, idk ._. I dont like them

[suicidalfranco]

yay cancer!

[Morgan MLGman]

Why would you buy this phone if Huawei recently launched their Honor Play with a Kirin 970 SoC inside which is less than half the price of a P20 Pro and features the same CPU?

It also has a 6.3" display, 2 rear cameras and also comes with 4GB or 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage...

There's also the new Poco F1 from Xiaomi with the Snapdragon 845 for the same price as the Honor Play.

[ScratchCat]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

Normally a phone that size shouldn’t be called Lite, but here we are.

[Trixanity]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

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It has dual band AC WiFi so the wiki page is wrong. The previous 65x SoCs had dual band as well so I see no reason it should be downgraded (I think they were only 802.11n capable though).

 

It's interesting to finally see the the Mali G51 in a SoC. It should have decent efficiency if not performance and at least it's not a Midgard-based GPU like before.

 

I agree that the price is steep but Honor phones are marketed differently. Honor is basically good value phones for young people whereas the main brand (Huawei) is marketed as a lifestyle product. Usually the Huawei phones get the better cameras and all that to give you an added incentive.

 

And let's also thank the gods for Huawei finally retiring the tired 600 series SoCs that has been rebadged since like 2015. Rip Kirin 650/655/658/659.