Huawei Mate 20 Pro breaks records: flagship in Western Europe almost completely sold out
from David Wurm 
on November 01, 2018, 14:13 | Write a comment
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I would like to see a better update policy from Huawei for the good smartphones - faster and, above all, longer updates, together with leaner software. Hopefully that will happen.
The latest Huawei Mate 20 Pro breaks all records. Never before has a Huawei smartphone been pre-ordered as often as this one – at least in Western Europe. It is even called the most successful smartphone in the history of Huawei.
A little over two weeks ago, the Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro presented. In the first few days, it now seems to be the most successful Huawei smartphone. That's how it's supposed to be Mate 20 Pro over 40 in the first ten days of the pre-order period in Western Europe Procent more often than that P20 Pro have been pre-ordered as GSMArena now reported. Most of the German-speaking countries, i.e. Germany, Austria and Switzerland, are meant as Western Europe. A direct hit for the German market, so to speak.
Currently completely sold out
It's currently the Mate 20 Pro almost not available from any dealer in this country. As some buyers report on Twitter, Amazon has a delivery in the first week and the week afterprochen. Now the delivery times have been updated to early 2019. For new buyers one will on Amazon currently put off with this note: "Not in stock. Order now and we will deliver as soon as the item is available". A copy of the Mate 20 is also available from Mediamarkt and Saturn Pro almost unavailable at the moment. What is striking: The Twilight color variant currently seems to have the most delivery problems.
But Huawei wants more
Huawei started the attack on Apple, Samsung & Co. long ago. Although it will continue to be difficult to sell devices on the US market in the future, the aim is to sell a total of 2018 million smartphones in 200. In 2015, the 100 million mark in smartphone sales had been broken. No wonder: Huawei has with the P20 Pro already delivered excellently in our test report - be it with the camera, performance and other details. The Mate 20 Pro hopefully it will be with us shortly - we are waiting for it. Also interesting: Samsung sold over 2017 million smartphones in 300 and Apple sold almost 2017 million units in 200. Will they catch up with Apple next year?
Why this success?
It's very clear. Huawei has with the Mate 20 Pro released a piece of hardware with all the latest details. So there is wireless charging (also to other smartphones), a fingerprint sensor in the display, according to the first test reports, an even better camera and with the new one Kirin 980 Processor great performance. Here you have with the Mate 20 Pro released a smartphone that fully exploits the current technical possibilities in 2018. Even if the price is not necessarily cheap: The version with 128 GB of internal memory and 6 GB of RAM costs just under 999 euros.
It remains exciting. Huawei will continue to push the pace, but expectations are rising at the same time. Huawei cannot afford any mistakes or scandals at the moment - that would be fatal. The Chinese are guaranteed to bring mid-range smartphones like the Nova onto the market for Christmas, and the Honor subsidiary will not let up either.
