Huawei Mate 60: Pre-orders open for new vanilla flagship HarmonyOS 4.0 smartphone

Huawei successfully sneaked its Mate 60 Pro past further leaks into a stealth launch yesterday (August 29, 2023); now, it has expanded the new premium handset line-up with the vanilla 60. The device also benefits from the OEM's new partial metal unibody rear panel, although its screen has 1 punch-hole rather than 3.

Accordingly, the Mate 60 has the Pro's 13MP selfie camera, just without the extra front-facing 3D depth-sensor. It is set into a display with the same 1,440Hz PWM-dimming and 300Hz touch-sampling specs as the FHD+ 1-120Hz OLED 60 Pro, although it shrinks to 6.69 inches in this model.

The Chinese versions of the Mate 60 and 60 Pro also share potential selling-points such as Beidou satellite messaging and an IR blaster - however, the former has a 4,750mAh battery with 66W charging as opposed to 5,000mAh with an 88W upgrade in the latter.

Nevertheless, the Mate 60 (or BRA-AL00) can still charge wirelessly despite its new kind of chassis - and at up to 50W too - albeit with branded Huawei accessories only. The similarities continue in that the new vanilla flagship's SoC and connectivity info remains bewilderingly absent from its new Vmall page - the new  is listed as having Bluetooth 5.2, however.

Nevertheless, it supports pre-orders in the same 4 colors and 12GB RAM/512GB NM-card expandable storage configuration as the 60 Pro for 5,999 yuan (~US$823).

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