The Huawei Mate 30 5G is now available for pre-order for 4,999 yuan ($705) in China, while the Mate 30 Pro 5G costs 6,899 yuan ($975).
Both the Mate 30 and the Mate 30 Pro have the Kirin 990 5G chipset, which is clocked at 2.86 GHz. The SoC is slightly different from the basic Kirin 990, running in the non-5G variants of the phones.
It has slightly faster CPU clusters and two big NPU cores to match the faster performance of the chipset, given the higher bandwidth speeds.
Both the devices have a total of 21 antennas each where 14 are for 5G, more than double the 6-antenna design of other 5G phones.
These two phones are available in standard colors for the Mate 30 series, Space Silver and Emerald Green. In addition to those, the Vegan Leather Orange and Vegan Leather Forest Green options are also available.
Huawei opened pre-orders at exactly 18:08 Beijing time Wednesday, but actual shipping is scheduled for November 1. The phone is obviously launching in China without GMS.
5G is the next generation of wireless networks that promise faster download times and lower latency, meaning the time it takes for devices to communicate with each other.
The rollout of the new networks has so far been limited in countries around the world, but smartphone makers are increasingly competing to unveil new 5G devices.
A total of 18 5G smartphone models were rolled out in the first three quarters of this year, and some 787,000 5G handsets were shipped, according to a research institute with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
