Picture: Huawei releases Mate 30 series mobile phones in Munich, Germany Agence France-Presse

[Ta Kung Pao News] Comprehensive reports from the Associated Press and Reuters: On the 19th local time, Huawei released the Mate 30 series of mobile phones in Munich, Germany, including Mate 30, Mate 30 Pro, MATE 30 PRO 5G and other models. The MATE 30 PRO 5G has a default price of 1,199 euros (approximately HK$10,400).

45,000 mobile apps "on standby"

Huawei Consumer Business CEO Yu Chengdong said at the press conference that due to Washington's restrictions on US companies providing services to Huawei, Huawei cannot pre-install Google apps on new phones. However, Huawei has an application platform as a substitute, with as many as 45,000 mobile apps to choose from, and Huawei will invest one billion US dollars (approximately HK$7.8 billion) to encourage the development of Huawei's exclusive mobile app ecosystem.

Huawei Mate 30 series uses a circular camera module with a large circle on the outer ring. Yu Chengdong said at the press conference that the camera lens design behind the recently released Apple iPhone 11 Pro series was learned from Huawei, which led the design. Reuters reports that the MATE 30 PRO, which is priced at 1,099 euros, has a video camera with a resolution of 40 million pixels. Yu Chengdong said that day that as of June 2019, Huawei’s smartphone business sales had increased by 26%. According to China News Service, Huawei successfully tested 5G mobile services in Kazakhstan, with a peak data transmission rate of 1.8Gbit/s.