It’s been literal years of smartphones fielding 5,000mAh batteries. Now, rumours indicate that Huawei plans to increase that baseline all the way up to 7,000mAh.
The rumour comes via Digital Chat Station, a Chinese leaker with a fair track record for accuracy. It doesn’t go into heavy detail about which specific handsets can expect a battery upgrade, but we can be certain that they haven’t been launched yet. There’s no way to increase battery capacities via software update, after all.
Huawei getting enough power?
According to Digital Chat Station, “the large battery of [Huawei’s] mid-to-high flagship line is also being molded. The 9 series chip is currently testing a maximum of 7000mAh±, which is enough.”
Which isn’t conclusive, but is heavily suggestive. It seems that the newest versions of the Chinese brand’s Kirin 9000 chipsets are being paired with much larger battery capacities, with designs to put them inside the best of the mid-range. The premium lineup, like the Pura and Mate series, should also see a battery upgrade.
We may even see the first of these appear later this month. The Chinese company has a home-ground event planned for 23 March, which should see it debuting new affordable smartphones. The phones, the Huawei Enjoy 90 Plus and 90 Pro Max, are expected to feature heftier battery capacities. Not quite 7,000mAh, perhaps, but higher than the dominant baseline in recent years.
The phones are supposed to feature Kirin 8000 chipsets, so they’re probably not the ones Digital Chat Station is referencing. But if the middle of the midrange is climbing to a (reported) 6,620mAh battery, 7,000mAh for the bigger boys isn’t a ridiculous speculation.
