In short: Besides the Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro, and Mate 20 X, Huawei’s Tuesday event also saw the announcement of the Porsche Design Mate 20 RS, an ultra-luxurious offering that’s technically a product lineup of its own despite sharing the name with the other three handsets. What illustrates that autonomy the best is its price tag, with the series starting at €1,695 and going up to €2,095, which amounts to over $2,400.
In most aspects, the Porsche Design Mate 20 RS is the Mate 20 Pro, albeit with a unique Black color and a prominently featured Porsche logo, as well as some improved internals. Both models are hence equipped with 8GB of RAM, 25-percent more compared to the Mate 20 Pro, with consumers also being given a choice between 256GB and 512GB of flash memory, whereas the main Mate 20 series is limited to 128GB of storage space. A Red variant of the handset is also in the works but won’t be available for purchase in Europe, with the device being planned to launch as a China exclusive, as was the case with the Mate RS Porsche Design launched this spring.
Whereas previous Porsche-branded Huawei devices lacked a display notch on the automaker’s aggressive insistence, that doesn’t appear to be the case with this third-generation handset, even though the Chinese manufacturer did its very best to hide the cutout during its Paris presentation and even obfuscated it in the official renders provided to media outlets which can be seen here. Other aspects of the handset are still as premium as they come, with the Porsche Design Mate 20 RS featuring a rear panel covered in real artisan leather that’s symmetrically split by a glass pane. In other words, wireless charging of the Mate 20 Pro is also supported by this device, though the overall package delivers a much more luxurious feel and what Huawei describes as a “race track” look.
Other flagship features included in the Mate 20 Pro such as 3D facial recognition, an in-display fingerprint reader, and the world’s first 7nm system-on-chip are also part of the Porsche Design Mate 20. The device will be available in select European markets and China later this month but don’t expect it to be picked up by many resellers given its limited appeal that’s a result of the extremely high price tag attached to it. Instead, the Porsche Design Mate 20 will be primarily retailed by Porsche and Huawei themselves, which is also what happened with the Porsche-branded Mate RS and Mate 9.
Background: Whereas the Mate RS Porsche Design was a significant upgrade over the P20 Pro, Huawei’s other 2018 flagship launched this spring, the newly unveiled Mate 20 Porsche Design is much closer to the capabilities of the Mate 20 Pro. Its pricing is still the same and clearly signals this is a collector’s item more than a product targeting the average consumer. Porsche will almost certainly be gifting the newly announced Android smartphone alongside some of its vehicle models sold later this year, much like it did with previous handsets released as part of its Huawei partnership.
This is a developing story.
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