Huawei’s director shows off the back, front and side of the upcoming Mate 70 Pro+ flagship

Huawei’s Richard Yu leaked multiple Huawei phones

However, just a few days ago Yu decided to give us a look at the Mate 70 Pro+. On his WeChat account, he showed off the back of the phone, revealing a circular camera housing on the back panel with gold and silver glitter. The director noted that a special material was used on the back of the flagship phone model. If you look closely, you can see the brushed pattern on the back with silver and gold threads.

Huawei's Richard Yu shows off the back of the upcoming Mate 70 Pro+.

Huawei’s Richard Yu reveals leaks about the back panel of the upcoming Mate 70 Pro+. | Image source – Huawei Central

Camera housing it has a thick silver rim and four lens holes. Huawei’s own photography brand Xmage is printed vertically on the top of the circular camera housing. In one photo, Yu holds the phone at an angle, revealing a very large power button, which likely houses the integrated fingerprint scanner.

“A lot of people wanted to see if I showed my phone at the car show. Everyone is eagerly waiting to see what the Mate 70 looks like. Today I won’t hide it and I’ll show it to everyone.” – Yu Chengdong, president of consumer affairs, Huawei Business Group

Although it did not initially reveal the front of the Mate 70 Pro+, it did so on Friday Yu flipped the script, showing the front of the phone on the camera. The device has three horizontal cutouts at the top of the display. Huawei is the only phone manufacturer to use this design, which debuted last year with the Mate 60 series. Mate 70 Pro+ has a quadruple curved display that, at first glance, appears to be frameless.

Yu Huawei presents the front of the Mate 70 Pro+ with a unique triple cutout camera.

Yu holds the Mate 70 Pro+ with its unique three horizontal front-facing cutouts. | Image source – Weibo

There is a telephone is scheduled to be officially unveiled on November 26 and the Mate 70 Pro+ will reportedly be available with 16GB RAM and 1TB storage. The top variant will be the Mate 70 RS Ultimate Edition i Huawei will also produce Mate 70 and Mate 70 Pro. The models may be powered by the Kirin 9100. The application processor will be produced by China’s largest foundry, SMIC, which is also the third largest foundry in the world after TSMC and Samsung Foundry.

US lawmakers will go crazy if the processor in the Mate 70 line is made on a 6nm process or lower

Rumors have been flying everywhere trying to come up with the process node that will be used to produce the chip, and most likely the component will be built based on SMIC’s second-generation 7nm node. No Chinese company can supply the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine needed to build sub-7nm chips. Last year’s surprise presentation of the Mate 60 Pro shocked the world as Huawei was able to power the phone using the Kirin 9000s built by SMIC using the 7nm node.

PhoneArena's headline from last year announcing the surprise launch of the Mate 60.

Last August, Huawei shocked the world by releasing a phone powered by a proprietary 5G-enabled chip for the first time since Mate 40. | Image source – PhoneArena

Thanks to the Kirin 9000, the Mate 60 line became Huawei’s first 5G-capable phone since the Mate 40 series in 2020, upsetting US lawmakers who tried to stop the company from using 5G chips in its phones. Previously, the US Department of Commerce allowed Qualcomm to supply 4G processors to Huawei for use in flagship phones such as the P50, P60 and Mate 50 phones.

Yu Huawei holds the Mate 70 Pro+ at an angle that reveals the integrated power button of the fingerprint scanner.

Yu holds the Mate 70 Pro+ at an angle that shows the enlarged power button, pointing to the integrated fingerprint scanner. | Image source – Huawei Central

Typically, Huawei releases two flagship series per year, the photography P series (now known as the Pura series) and the high-tech Mate line. Despite US sanctions, Huawei continues to innovate, including the use of variable aperture in smartphone cameras. Huawei unveiled this feature on last year’s Mate 60 Pro, which allows the phone to automatically change the amount of light reaching the image sensor depending on ambient light conditions. Apple is reportedly planning to introduce a variable aperture feature for the iPhone 18 Pro Max model from 2026.