Super-premium Porsche Design Mate RS packs an in-display fingerprint scanner

The Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro have just been announced, but these aren't the company's highest-end new phones, that honor belongs to the Huawei Porsche Design Mate RS, which launched at the same time.

It's a phone that could stand out in a number of ways, most notably perhaps its in-screen fingerprint sensor, which can unlock the device with a touch, or wake the screen up simply by hovering your finger over it.

Don't get on with the in-screen scanner? For some reason the Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS also has a fingerprint scanner on the back.

Other features include a curved 6.0-inch 1440 x 2880 OLED screen, which is significantly sharper than the 1080 x 2240 display on the P20 Pro.

There's also wireless charging and a microcapsule PCM, which is an aerospace cooling technology used to keep the phone at a safe temperature, and according to Huawei this is the first time the tech has featured on a phone.

The Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS is seriously high-end

The Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS is seriously high-end

More pro than the Pro

Elsewhere the Mate RS is largely the same as the Huawei P20 Pro, with a 4,000mAh battery, three rear cameras, a 24MP front-facing camera, a Kirin 970 chipset and 6GB of RAM.

However, it comes with far more storage, with 256GB and 512GB versions available, and is sold in a different selection of colors, namely black and red (though the latter is China-only).

It's also very, very expensive, costing €1,695 (around £1,485/$2,100/AU$2,725) for a 256GB model and €2,095 (roughly £1,835/$2,600/AU$3,370) for a 512GB version. If you want one though you shouldn’t have much of a wait, as it's set to be available imminently across the world, though probably not in the US.

James Rogerson

James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. James also contributes to 3G.co.uk, 4G.co.uk and 5G.co.uk and has written for T3, Digital Camera World, Clarity Media and others, with work on the web, in print and on TV.