In July 2021, Huawei officially launched the series P50 in China. The lineup was the company’s last flagship series and featured world-class specs and features. Now, a new report has revealed the cost to repair the P50 Pro, and the prices are quite high.
According to a CINNO report according to ITHome, The repair costs of various components of the Huawei P50 Pro have been revealed. This includes various components like display, front and rear camera modules, rear panel, and much more. In particular, the report indicated that the screen alone could cost an impressive 2,479 yuan (about 325 euros). That would make its price higher than that of some upper mid-range smartphones.
For those who don’t know, the P50 Pro has a 6.6-inch curved OLED BOE display with 2700 x 1228 resolution. The display has a 120 Hz refresh rate, 1440 Hz pwM dimming, and a 300 Hz touch sample rate. It can display over 1 billion colors and has a wide color gamut P3. Additionally, the Pro variant also dethroned the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra to become the new display leader in the DxOMark rankings.
Replacement prices for other parts also include:
- ‎Rear panel – 486 Yuan (approximately 64 euros)‎
- ‎Front Camera – 295 Yuan (about 38 euros)‎
- ‎Main rear chamber – 940 Yuan (approximately 123 euros)‎
- ‎Telephoto camera – 528 Yuan (approximately 70 euros)‎
- ‎Wide-angle lens – 268 Yuan (approximately 35 euros)‎
- ‎256GB motherboard – 2879 Yuan (approximately 378 euros)‎
- ‎512GB motherboard – 3579 Yuan (about 470 euros)‎
Please note that these prices are directly converted and will vary from region to region. Also, prices are for parts only, no labor.
Huawei P50 / P50 Pro
The P50 series consists of two variants: Huawei P50 and Huawei P50 Pro, but none of them come with 5G support due to the ban.
Although they are different variants of the same series, the Huawei P50 and P50 Pro have the same chipset: the Snapdragon 888 operates at a maximum clock frequency of 2.84 GHz. The chipset is paired with up to 8 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB of internal storage in the Huawei P50, while the P50 Pro It comes in a top configuration with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage.
Note that the Huawei P50 Pro It also comes in a variant with the Huawei chipset Kirin 9000. the variant snapdragon 888 will only hit the market in December, while the version Kirin 9000 available soon. Huawei P50 and P50 Pro They have expandable storage thanks to a nano memory card slot, but none of them are 5G compatible: they only bring 4G connectivity.