According to The Verge, Huawei launched the Mate 50 series a day before Apple's September event, with a feature that many people speculate that the iPhone 14 will have "the ability to send text messages via satellite communication".
Accordingly, Huawei's Mate 50 and Mate 50 Pro will be able to send short text and use navigation thanks to China's global BeiDou satellite network. This feature allows Huawei phones to communicate in areas without mobile signals.
The Huawei Mate 50 series includes 4G-only versions equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chipset with 8GB of RAM. In addition, the Mate 50 Pro model comes with a slightly larger 6.74-inch OLED screen with a refresh rate of 120Hz, while the Mate 50 provides a 6.7-inch, 90Hz OLED screen.
Both of Huawei's new phones have a 50- megapixel rear main camera with the focal length changing from f/1.4 to f/4.
Both models share a super wide lens of 13 megapixel f/2.2 and while each model has a telephoto lens, Mate Pro has an upgraded 64 megapixel camera with 200x digital zoom capability - Mate 50 standard provides a 100x digital zoom with 12-degree resolution lower than the megapixel sensor.
Recently, most people are looking forward to a new iPhone model with satellite connectivity. Huawei's launch of a new phone line with the ability just a day before Apple's launch seems like a challenge from the Chinese phone company to the US giant.
