Hands On With Huawei's Porsche Design Mate RS

You're probably non going to buy a Huawei Porsche Design Mate RS. It costs thousands of Euros and is but available on a limited run, but it looks snazzy, so we took information technology for a spin at Huawei'due south P20 launch in Paris this week.

Specs-wise, the Porsche Design Mate RS is more or less the same as the P20 Pro. You go that new tri-lens photographic camera configuration, octo cadre Kirin 970 CPU and all the software perks that come bundled with EMUI viii.1.

On height of that, the OLED screen is bumped upwards to 2K resolution (from 2,240 by one,080 to 2,880 by 1,440) and the telephone has a hefty 256GB or 512GB of internal storage. Yes, five hundred and twelve gigabytes of ROM.

The price? If you need to ask, you probably tin can't afford this, but for what it'due south worth, information technology will cost a cool €one,695 ($2,100, £i,482) for the 256GB version and €,2095 ($2,600, £1,830) for the 512GB edition.

Maybe the best feature of the Porsche Design Mate RS is what y'all tin't immediately meet; an in-screen fingerprint scanner. While we couldn't test this out on any of the display models we saw—they were already assigned to staff members' fingerprints—this is a good sign that Huawei has figured out how to successfully integrate this technology, meaning nosotros very well may run into it on time to come versions of Huawei's Mate and P serial of phones.

Nobody at the P20 launch event could confirm this, but given the interest surrounding this tech—Samsung was rumored to have been working on information technology for the S9, Vivo gave united states a demo at CES, Doogee sort of demonstrated this at Mobile World Congress—you lot'd look that Huawei wouldn't just sit on it, after going to all the trouble of adding it to a luxury phone.

The advantages of having an in-screen scanner are obvious; you can extend the screen all the manner to the base of operations of the telephone, breaking up one of the trickier frontiers in the state of war against bezels. If simply integrating front-facing cameras—thereby killing off the pesky notch—was equally easy.

Huawei sells most of these phones in China (where the cherry-red version is an exclusive) and Middle Eastern markets, with a handful of wealthy buyers in Europe (mainly Switzerland and Kingdom of norway) snapping up the residue. The terminal Porsche Design phone—a limited-edition version of the Mate 10—apparently sold out very quickly. Huawei spokespeople declined to provide specific figures, only there should be plenty phones to go around for every oil baron and merchant banker out in that location. The poor dears.