(Photo: Honor V20 from Vmall)
With its own chipsets having 5G capability, Huawei is beating rivals hard in the 5G race.
According to a smartphones list obtained by Chinese tech website Mydrivers.com, several other 5G phones from Huawei are expected to be released including the Honor V30 5G, Honor V30 Pro 5G, nova 6 Pro 5G and Honor Magic 3 5G.
The report from Mydrivers said it seems the Honor v30 series may not be offered in cheaper 4G versions with all of them supporting 5G.
Huawei takes the lion's share in 5G phones
China officially started commercial use of 5G on Thursday with all three telecom operators rolling out service packages on Friday.
Now in China a total of 11 phone models with 5G capability have already been unveiled and 5 of them are from Huawei.
The Huawei 5G phones that attracted the most attention are the Mate 30 series which went on sale in China on Friday.
As cnTechPost mentioned earlier, 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.
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 phones 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.
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.
Already the 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.
