Huawei is gearing up to release a Mate 70 Air, a rival to Apple’s iPhone Air and Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge, if a recently leaked posted (and a bunch of specs) is to be believed. Whether that’s a great idea, with Apple scaling back the iPhone Air and Samsung (possibly) canning the Edge lineup entirely, remains to be seen.
Visuals of the handset, taken from a physical poster, show a very skinny handset with an unmistakable Huawei camera bump. The curved edges (visible above) are apparently a consequence of the poster and are not part of the final design. Pity. It would make a change from the standard rectangle, but you wouldn’t make a super-skinny smarphone and then curl it up at the edges, would you?
Getting some Mate 70 Air
Details of the Mate 70 Air have been lurking about for some time now. The slim Huawei device is said to be 6mm thick (presumably the camera bump isn’t included), with a 6.9in display, up to 16GB of RAM, and a main 1/1.3in camera sensor taking up residence in that bulky central circle. It’ll run HarmonyOS 5.1 and will accept physical SIM cards. The colour options, in typical Huawei style, are supposedly “Yaojin Black, Yuyi White, and Gold Silk Silver Brocade.”
Huawei hasn’t made the Mate 70 Air official yet, but it is expected to do so this month. With the current crop of skinny smartphones struggling to find purchase in the market, it might not be the smartest bit of chasing Huawei has ever done, but perhaps the Chinese company will succeed where its competitors have battled.
Samsung could well offer the 70 Air some fresh competition in the coming months. Previously, it was suggested that the Galaxy S26 Edge had been cancelled, but new reports have expanded on that. The original version of the S26 Edge may have been scrapped, but Samsung is reported to be working on a different model, codenamed ‘More Slim’. The original Edge was codenamed ‘Slim’, so perhaps there’s an even skinnier smartphone incubating in South Korea.
