Huawei is running fast on the 5G track!
The 5G version of Huawei Mate 30 series are available to customers at 10:08 Beijing time on Friday and till 10:15 the sales is equivalent to 100 million yuan per minute, according to Huawei Mall's Weibo account.
The entry model of the Mate 30 5G is priced at 4,999 yuan while the most expensive model of the Mate 30 Pro 5G is 7899.
According to what Huawei claimed, even if all the Mate 30 5G and Mate 30 Pro 5G sold were the most high end model then the sales equal to 12500 per minute.
This means Huawei has sold at least 87500 in total of the 5G version of the Mate 30 series.
High-end specs
Both the Mate 30 5G and the Mate 30 Pro 5G 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’s lead
The latest performance further comments Huawei’s lead in China’s smartphone market.
Huawei's share of China's smartphone market rose to a record lever in the third quarter as rivals like Apple saw a decline.
Huawei shipped 41.5 million smartphones in China in the third quarter, representing 66% growth year-on-year, according to new data from research firm Canalys.
Huawei now commands 42% of China's overall smartphone market, far outpacing Apple and local Chinese competitors like Vivo, Oppo and Xiaomi.
