Slim Android smartphone impresses with excellent cameras – Huawei Mate X7 review
Slim Android smartphone impresses with excellent cameras – Huawei Mate X7 review
Publish Date: 2026-03-15 05:17:00
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Huawei’s foldable flagship is powered by the new HiSilicon Kirin 9030 Pro. Although there is no official information on it outside China, Huawei confirmed to us that the Pro version is installed. In everyday use, the Mate X7 delivers satisfactory system performance, even with the high-resolution inner display.
In benchmarks, however, both the CPU and GPU clearly trail competing foldables. The SoC in the Mate X7 is not really any faster than the Kirin 9020 in the Pura smartphones and is more in line with a mid-range cell phone. According to Geekbench, the benchmark uses 9 cores and 14 hyperthreads. That also does not really match the specifications of a Kirin 9030, which likely has only 10 threads.
The Huawei flagship also throttles quite noticeably in the 3DMark stress tests. In the worst case, the Kirin 9030 Pro with its Maleoon 935 cuts performance in half.
The Mate X7 has a 5,600 mAh battery that can be charged at up to 66 watts via USB-C and 50 watts wirelessly. In our Wi-Fi test, the foldable with the large inner display lasted around 17 hours. That is not bad, but it is not on par with Oppo’s 2025 flagship either. A full charge takes about 45 minutes.
