Huawei Mate 70 Air Is A Little Thick For A Thin Phone

It’s a bladed phone, but still packs a triple rear camera.

Huawei is nan latest telephone shaper to merchandise a bladed phone: nan Mate 70 Air. That’s our 3rd Air for nan twelvemonth — aft nan iPhone and ZTE’s Nubia Air — to only 2 Edges, suggesting Apple’s power still reigns ultimate complete Samsung’s.

At 6.6mm thick, nan Mate 70 Air isn’t rather arsenic slim arsenic Apple aliases Samsung’s attempts astatine nan formula, but it makes up for it pinch a positively immense 6,500mAh artillery — moreover larger than nan 4,800mAh capacity of nan Motorola Edge 70 I reviewed this week. The unit is only building for Apple and Samsung to present amended artillery life successful their 2nd generations.

The Mate 70 Air manages that large artillery successful portion acknowledgment to an unusually ample 7-inch screen, truthful it’s still a large phone. It’s besides overseas successful offering a prime of 2 processors: buyers happy pinch 12GB of RAM will get nan Kirin 9020B chip, while upgrading to 16GB bumps you up to a Kirin 9020A — though some are simply downclocked versions of nan regular Kirin 9020. A triple rear camera, including a 12-megapixel telephoto, is besides a boon for a telephone this thin.

It’s China-only, astatine slightest for now, and starts from ¥4,199 (around $590).