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Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 70 smartphone series on Tuesday, marking a significant step in its premium smartphone comeback while showcasing its own operating system in a clean break away from US technology.
The phone marks the "the most powerful Mate phone ever", Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, said at an event in the company's hometown of Shenzhen.
The Mate 70 is the first mainstream smartphone to include a satellite paging system, has an improved processor and runs on Huawei's own HarmonyOS Next operating system, which together boost performance by 40 per cent compared to previous models, Yu said.
The launch comes as the US is expected to announce new export controls that could add up to 200 Chinese chip companies to a trade blacklist as soon as this week, restricting their access to US suppliers, Reuters reported on Saturday.
Huawei does not typically discuss its chip advancements at product launch events, with improvements usually discovered by teardown firms later.
The Mate 70 series is the first major commercial rollout of the HarmonyOS NEXT, a significant step in Huawei's push for software independence since US curbs cut off its access to Google services in 2019.
While Huawei's earlier versions of Harmony OS maintained Android compatibility, the HarmonyOS NEXT, which began public testing this year, represents a complete break from Android.
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