Huawei Mate 50 Pro Disassemble: Location of the 5G RF Chip

Huawei Mate 50 series does not support 5G networks, but the dismantling of the Mate 50 Pro shows that the flagship phone has reserved a place for the 5G radio frequency chip on the motherboard, suggesting that the machine is based on 5G. Designed for mobile phones.

According to the dismantling of the blogger “Bogota Review”, the components of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro are roughly the same as the Mate 40 Pro. The top is the camera and SoC module, the bottom is the battery and wireless charging coil, and the bottom is the input and output module.

The motherboard of the Huawei Mate 50 Pro uses a double-layer design, and all the components and chips are covered by metal covers, and the Snapdragon 8+ chipset is also under these metal covers.

With further dismantling, it was found that the Huawei Mate 50 Pro has a place reserved for the 5G RF chip on the PCB. Interestingly, the filter capacitor resistors close to the RF chip were not removed. It shows that this mobile phone has been designed with 5G in mind, and it may also be used by the “TD Bridge Edition” in the future.

As we all know, Huawei is currently unable to obtain the 5G RF module required for the 5G function of the smartphone, and even if the chipset supports a 5G network, the phone cannot support 5G due to the lack of this component.

Huawei Mate 50/50 Pro is equipped with a 4G version of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ chip, which is specially designed for Huawei mobile phones. Although the phone does not support 5G, it does not affect its hot sales. On the first sale day, The new machine was sold out in seconds on major e-commerce platforms, and there were also long queues offline. It is worth mentioning that Huawei Mate 50 series mobile phones can also support 5G networks through the 5G communication shell.

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