Huawei to launch premium Pura 80 smartphone series on June 11, featuring HarmonyOS Next
Huawei Technologies plans to release the latest update to its premium Pura smartphone series next week, as speculation grows that the new devices would feature an upgraded in-house-designed chipset.
The Pura 80 series would be available in China from June 11, Huawei said via its official Weibo account on Tuesday. The devices will retain the triangular-shaped camera bump seen in previous models, according to a teaser image, but are expected to feature notable upgrades in cameras, sensors and lens compared to the Pura 70, according to local media reports.
Just like the
Pura X foldable smartphone unveiled in March, the Pura 80 handsets would run on Huawei's HarmonyOS Next operating system, the fifth generation of the company's self-developed mobile platform, which is no longer compatible with Google's Android, the company said.
Huawei's smartphone business has become a symbol of the Chinese company's resilience against US sanctions. Although overseas sales have suffered partly because of the absence of Google services like Gmail, the firm has made a strong comeback in the domestic high-end smartphone market.
A billboard advertisement for the Huawei Pura X smartphone launched in March.
Shenzhen-based Huawei surprised the market in August 2023 when it launched the Mate 60 series equipped with an advanced 5G chip, which was thought to be impossible under US sanctions. While Huawei has been tight-lipped about its chip, a third-party teardown analysis found that the 7-nanometre chip was the Kirin 9000s, an in-house design.
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