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At IFA 2018, Huawei unveiled EMUI 9 based on Android 9 Pie and announced that the beta program would go live today. The beta program is opened up for limited numbers of users per country. Huawei said EMUI 9.0 delivers a 12.9% increase in system operational performance, with quicker start up times for several applications including Instagram and Spotify. The operating system also features the second generation of Huaweis GPU Turbo technology, GPU Turbo 2.0.
Huawei seems quite active in IFA 2018. After announcing its new Kirin 980 Chip and a the Honor MAGIC 2 during IFA this week, today the company revealed that its next flagship, the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro, which will be announced on October 16 in London.
The Mate 20 will be powered by the Kirin 980, which is the first mobile chip to use a 7nm architecture, so it should provide major speed improvements and a heavy dose of new AI capabilities. The phone will feature a 4,200 mAh battery, three rear cameras, and a 6.3 inch screen.
Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro both will have a display notch design and run Android Pie based EMUI 9.0 out of the box. While the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is rumoured to have an in display fingerprint sensor. The phones are rumoured to come with up to 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of internal storage.
