HUAWEI Consumer Business Group has announced the launch of the latest member of its flagship Mate series, the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro, and celebrates the fourth anniversary of the HUAWEI AppGallery in South Africa. The HUAWEI Mate50 Pro comes equipped with a range of cutting-edge technologies, breaking new ground and expanding the scope of what users can expect from a smartphone.
Among its industry-first features, the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro also includes an XMAGE Ultra Aperture Camera, featuring the first 10-scale adjustable physical aperture and the most versatile photography capabilities ever seen in a HUAWEI Mate smartphone. In terms of performance, the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro is protected by the ultra-reliable “Kunlun Glass”, which increases drop resistance by 10 times. The smartphone design represents a huge step forward in smartphone aesthetics, thanks to the symmetrical space ring design.
Future-oriented features that elevate performance and user experience
HUAWEI’s “Kunlun Glass” consists of 10-quadrillion-level nanocrystals, the result of compound ion strengthening, making it stronger and more resistant to drops, as verified by HUAWEI’s first five-star glass drop resistance certification. SGS from Switzerland. This makes the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro models the first smartphones to achieve this certification. The smartphone supports IP68-rated water resistance up to six meters underwater, allowing it to easily handle wet and dusty environments.
The HUAWEI Mate50 Pro display offers a window into a crystal-clear world. Combined with the wide P3 color gamut, the matched colors are calibrated to ensure absolute authenticity. The smartphone comes with a 6.74-inch HUAWEI FullView display, a screen resolution of 2616 x 1212 pixels, and a high refresh rate of 120Hz and 1440Hz PWM dimming to reduce flicker and relieve eye fatigue.
Furthermore, the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro packs a 4700 mAh battery inside its slim body. It offers wired 66W HUAWEI SuperCharge and 50W HUAWEI SuperCharge wireless fast charging solutions for an optimal balance between battery life, fast charging and portability. Additionally, with an innovative low battery emergency mode that activates when the battery level drops to 1%, SuperEnergy Boosting enables the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro to extend standby time by three hours or 12 minutes of call time.
The SuperStorage feature removes duplicate files seamlessly and compresses rarely used apps. This conserves up to 20GB of space (on a phone with 256GB ROM), leaving more room for the myriad of photos and videos that today’s users capture.
The innovative Ultra Aperture XMAGE camera
HUAWEI launched its own mobile imaging brand “XMAGE” in 2022, aiming to offer consumers a new shooting paradigm that fuses science with culture, and aesthetics with technology, for an enhanced shooting experience. The HUAWEI Mate50 Pro features a cutting-edge Ultra Aperture XMAGE camera with a 10-size adjustable physical aperture, incorporating key advances in optical system, mechanical structure, imaging technology, and image processing. Smart Aperture adjusts to match the aperture size to the identified shooting scene and scenario in auto mode. Switching to Professional mode allows you to manually adjust the depth of field and the degree of blur.
In addition, the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro has advanced hardware and algorithms that are deeply integrated to enhance still image capture. The Ultra Aperture camera comes equipped with a large F1.4 aperture, powered by the XD Fusion Pro imaging engine, and high light input to adjust image brightness, highlight and shadow detail, as well as cool and contrast comparisons. warm to perfection.
Portrait mode applies natural background blur to make your subject stand out from its surroundings. Night mode captures photos with very distinct bright and dark regions, even in low-light settings. The periscope telephoto camera supports a zoom range of up to 200x, bringing scenes from the afterlife right before your eyes.
The wide-angle macro camera magnifies the details of tiny worlds, presenting millimeter-level strands and dewdrops with exceptional clarity. The HUAWEI Mate50 Pro also supports macro video capture and macro Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to accurately convey moving scenes.
He first of its kind: a well-crafted classic design
In addition to the Mate series’ signature design language of iconic symmetry and space ring design, the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro makes use of the elegant Clous de Paris stepped pattern relief design for the first time, showcasing a new kind of neat beauty that is made by hand. down to the last detail.

The HUAWEI Mate50 Pro has two different types of back covers, namely glass and vegan leather. The glass cover is available in two colours, Silver and Black, giving the phone a distinctive and elegant finish. The vegan leather version comes in orange and is inspired by the radiant orange rays of the sun.
As the first HUAWEI smartphone to run on EMUI 13, which streamlines daily interactions with easy one-touch navigation, EMUI 13 introduces the Super Device SuperHub feature, which is an innovative file transfer capability. Users can simply long press on any text, image, video and file and drag it onto the floating SuperHub window to temporarily store the files. Users can then switch to another app, select files within the SuperHub for seamless cut and paste. With batch transfer capability, users can also use SuperHub for multiple file transfers between their smartphone, tablet, and PC.
The HUAWEI Mate50 Pro comes pre-installed with HUAWEI AppGallery, the world’s third largest app marketplace. Users can download a wide selection of global and local applications. HUAWEI AppGallery is available in more than 170 countries and has more than 580 million monthly active users.
Launched alongside the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro, HUAWEI also introduced the new HUAWEI FreeBuds 5i and the 10.4-inch HUAWEI MatePad SE, which will be available for retail in South Africa in the coming months.
To pre-order the HUAWEI Mate50 Pro, visit the HUAWEI Online Store or go to selected network providers, including Vodacom, MTN, Telkom or Cell C. Pre-order today to receive a complimentary gift from HUAWEI.
In addition, the latest version of HUAWEI Home Backup Power Solution introduced the HUAWEI Power-M Backup Power Solution, along with the updated FusionSolar app.
You can light up your home with HUAWEI Power-M. The stackable modular design allows for customization of the system, providing a maximum of 15kW with 45kWh of storage. Power-M also supports multiple power sources and uses the safest electrochemical cell material, lithium iron phosphate, and supports a very wide voltage range from 90V to 300V. This power makes it a safe and reliable choice. as a residential power backup solution. Users can also use the FusionSolar mobile phone app to check the operating status and energy performance of their system at any time and from anywhere.


