Huawei Mate 70 Air is a little thick for a thin phone

It’s a bladed phone, but inactive packs a triple rear camera.

Huawei is the latest telephone shaper to merchandise a bladed phone: the Mate 70 Air. That’s our 3rd Air for the twelvemonth — aft the iPhone and ZTE’s Nubia Air — to lone 2 Edges, suggesting Apple’s power inactive reigns ultimate implicit Samsung’s.

At 6.6mm thick, the Mate 70 Air isn’t rather arsenic slim arsenic Apple oregon Samsung’s attempts astatine the formula, but it makes up for it with a positively immense 6,500mAh artillery — adjacent larger than the 4,800mAh capableness of the Motorola Edge 70 I reviewed this week. The unit is lone gathering for Apple and Samsung to present amended artillery beingness successful their 2nd generations.

The Mate 70 Air manages that large artillery successful portion acknowledgment to an unusually ample 7-inch screen, truthful it’s inactive a large phone. It’s besides unusual successful offering a prime of 2 processors: buyers blessed with 12GB of RAM volition get the Kirin 9020B chip, portion upgrading to 16GB bumps you up to a Kirin 9020A — though some are simply downclocked versions of the regular Kirin 9020. A triple rear camera, including a 12-megapixel telephoto, is besides a boon for a telephone this thin.

It’s China-only, astatine slightest for now, and starts from ¥4,199 (around $590).