Huawei Mate 10 Leaked Photos Show Off Full-Screen Display, Slim Bezels

Huawei CEO Richard Yu confirmed last month that the Huawei Mate 10 would feature a full-screen display. Now, several renders of the Mate 10 have leaked online.

The renders for the Huawei Mate 10 were published by a user on the Chinese social media site Weibo. At first glance, the Mate 10 appears to have a display design that's a bit similar to Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. The only major difference is that the Mate 10 doesn’t have its display curved on its sides.

Up front, there are still bezels present but they are incredibly thin. The display itself is rumored to be 6.1-inches in size with a quad HD screen resolution and a pixel density of 486ppi, according to AndroidCrunch. There’s no confirmation yet, but it’s likely that it will also have an aspect ratio of 18:9 (or 2:1), the same one that’s on the LG G6.

On the back, we can see a set of dual cameras, an LED flash, a plastic window for sensors and a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. The Huawei Mate 10 doesn’t have a home button up front, so it seems as though the company was unable to place the fingerprint sensor underneath the display itself.

Back to the cameras, it can also be clearly seen that the dual-camera system comes with a Leica branding. Leica is best known for its cameras and lenses, but it has also been a partner of Huawei since last year’s Huawei P9. Leica’s lenses were also used for this year’s Huawei P10.

The inclusion of Leica lenses on the Mate 10 is also significant since last year’s Mate 9 didn’t carry the camera brand. This suggests that the Mate 10’s dual cameras will see a significant improvement from the Mate 9’s.

The bottom edge of the Huawei Mate 10 shows that it comes with two speaker grilles and a USB Type-C port. There’s no image of the phone showing its top edge, so it’s impossible to know for sure if the device comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack.

As for internals, Huawei’s VP of handset business and consumer business Bruce Lee confirmed to Hardware Zone that the Huawei Mate 10 will be powered by the Kirin 970 chip. The leaker of the images said the same thing, but added that the device will also have 6GB of RAM and a 4,000mAh battery. Lee also said that the handset would feature Huawei’s SuperCharge fast-charging solution.

The Kirin processors are manufactured by HiSilicon, a subsidiary of Huawei. The Kirin 970 is believed to be the main competitor of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835, so users should expect flagship performance and power efficiency.

On the software side of things, the Huawei Mate 10 is expected to run Android 7.0 Nougat straight out of the box, with Huawei’s latest version of EMUI running on top. The popular rumor that’s going around is that the Huawei Mate 10 might cost more than US$1,000, and it might launch some time in October.