The Huawei Mate 80 and Mate 80 Pro are official.
The pair is nearly identical visually thanks to a number of shared components, including the display and battery. Let’s dive in!
The display is the same across the two phones. It’s a 6.75-inch 1-120Hz LTPO OLED panel with a 1280x2832px resolution, 1.07 billion colors, and full coverage of the P3 color gamut. The screen has 1440Hz PWM dimming and a 300Hz touch sampling rate.
Huawei claims the panel is the brightest ever on a phone reaching up to 8,000 nits!
The protective sheet on top is the second-gen Kunlun Glass.
Huawei Mate 80 Pro
Both Mate 80 phones have a 3D ToF face scanning camera upfront and a side-mounted fingerprint scanner. They also share the support for satellite communication.
The Mate 80 Pro packs the Kirin 9030, while the Mate 80 has the Kirin 9020. Details on the chipsets are limited, but Huawei claims the Kirin 9030 is 35% faster than the Kirin 9020, which itself is 35% faster than the Kirin 9010. There’s also the Kirin 9030 Pro inside the Mate 80 Pro Max, which is a step above the Kirin 9030 inside the Mate 80 Pro, which is some 42% faster than the Kirin 9020, which would make it 7% faster than the Kirin 9030 non-Pro.
And while the Pro Max exclusively comes in 16 GB of RAM, both Mate 80 and Mate 80 Pro start at 12 GB and only go up to 16 GB in their top-tier versions.
Both phones have a 5,750mAh battery, but the Mate 80 Pro has faster charging – up to 100W wired and up to 80W wireless. The Mate 80 still offers respectable 66W wired and 50W wireless speeds.
Let’s talk imaging, where there are both similarities and differences. The pair has a triple camera system on the rear and a 13MP selfie camera with an autofocusing f/2.0 lens.
The Mate 80 has a 50MP wide-angle camera with a variable aperture f/1.4-f/4.0 lens, and a 1/1.28-inch RYYB sensor. Then there’s a 40MP ultrawide with an f/2.2 lens, and finally, a 12MP 5.5x zoom camera with 125mm f/3.4 lens.
The Mate 80 Pro has the same wide and ultrawide cameras, but brings a nicer telephoto unit. It has a 48MP sensor with a 4x or 92.5mm telephoto lens and a much brighter f/2.1 aperture.
Both camera systems are backed by Huawei’s second-gen Red Maple imaging chip that tunes processing and color.
The Mate 80 series launches with HarmonyOS 6, which has a new design and a bunch of AI smarts.
Huawei Mate 80 Pro
Here’s a breakdown of the prices.
| 12/256GB | 12/512GB | 16/512GB | 16GB/1TB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huawei Mate 80 | CNY 4,699 (€573, INR 59,000) | CNY 5,199 (€635, INR 65,000) | CNY 5,499 (€670, INR 69,000) | – |
| Huawei Mate 80 Pro | CNY 5,999 (€730, INR 75,000) | CNY 6,499 (€573, INR 81,600) | CNY 6,999 (€790, INR 59,000) | CNY 7,999 (€970, INR 100,000) |
