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The Pixel 4 has had its time in the spotlight as far as leaks go. Huawei, however, has an event scheduled this Thursday so it is grabbing attention away from Google for a while. Unsurprisingly, unofficial information also abounds for the Mate 30 Pro and its siblings. There's always room for more, of course, but unfortunately, not all news is good news, especially for those in Europe dying to get their hands on the latest from the embattled Chinese manufacturer.

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The Huawei Mate 30 Pro is a phone that's already been extensively leaked, but today, we're getting some new hands-on images of the phone. As with most leaks that deal with devices spotted in the real world, the pictures that surfaced today aren't the highest quality, likely due to the fact that they were taken in haste. Still, they show the phone from the front and back, giving us a good idea of what it will look like when it arrives.

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Ever since Huawei was put on the US' blacklist, the future of its products has been put into question. The company has more or less bragged about its self-sufficiency in terms of hardware components but software, especially mobile, is a different story. The company has been reportedly looking for alternative operating systems to put on its devices and it seems it may have settled on Linux for some of its laptops being sold in China.

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Huawei's Honor brand posted a strange subtweet this week just after Apple's iPhone 11 Pro event. In this social media post on Twitter, Honor India (@HiHonorIndia) suggested that "Pro photography shouldn't cost an [arm] and a [leg]. Or a kidney." As you'll see in the image below, they used emoji imagery to illustrate their point.

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Product launch schedules aren't rocket science but those are also carefully made with certain windows of opportunity in mind. When they miss those schedules, there's a very strong chance it will affect other products or be affected adversely. That definitely seems to be the case with Huawei's first and so far only foldable phone that has been delayed by half a year. It may finally launch next month but it might already be outdated and replaced by a new model in just a few months.

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Huawei's Mate X smartphone could launch as soon as October, but there's more than just the temperamental nature of cutting-edge folding OLED that could leave the handset struggling. Initially announced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress 2019, the Mate X managed to steal some of the Samsung Galaxy Fold's thunder with its eye-catching display that wrapped around the body of the device.

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Yes, the Huawei FreeBuds 3 True Wireless Stereo Earbuds look a set of knock-off Apple AirPods, and yes they have a ridiculously long name, but look past those two factors and things get a lot more interesting. Unveiled at IFA 2019 today alongside a creatively cunning way for Huawei to announce a new phone without falling victim to the Trump Android ban, the FreeBuds 3 are more than just an Apple copy.

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The Huawei P30 Pro is not a new device - but you might be forgiven for thinking it was, reading news today. This device was re-introduced, in a way, to audiences last night at IFA 2019, a technology conference at which Huawei took an already-successful, already-released device and showed it off with a pair of new colors: Misty Lavender and Mystic Blue. Doing this allows Huawei to ship a "new" phone with Android 10, Google's newest operating system update, while their actual new device, Huawei Mate 30, cannot be launched with official Google certification.

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Qualcomm's IFA 2019 visit was all about the future of 5G, but it wasn't the only company with 5G announcements to make. Huawei also announced some new hardware of its own, today revealing the Kirin 990 family of SoCs. While the standard Kirin 990 will be a 4G LTE chipset, Huawei will also ship a version with integrated 5G.

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It's IFA 2019 week and you can expect Huawei to barely have a presence there. That's because its real party isn't happening until the 19th when it launches the Huawei Mate 30 series. Fortunately, Huawei fans and believers can while away the time with these renders of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro that basically show all there is to show on the phone, including the distinct lack of volume rocker buttons.

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Huawei may one day have to face a mobile future without Google but while that may spell no small amount of trouble for its smartphones, one segment seems to already be well off without Android. Huawei was once a popular Android Wear, now Wear OS, smartwatch maker until suddenly it wasn't anymore. Despite that, the Huawei Watch GT seemed to have achieved popularity and market success so much that Huawei is now rumored to moving on to a Watch GT 2, still without Google in tow.

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Everyone's getting ready for IFA 2019 that's set to commence in less than a week. But as has been the trend in the recent years, the big players have mostly shied away from making their most important announcements at that event. Samsung, for example, already launched the Galaxy Note 10 series last month. Huawei, in contrast, is apparently preferring to put its own event once the IFA dust has settled.

When all that's been said and done, the question that will remain on consumers minds will be whether it will have Google's much-used Android apps and services or not.

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