Huawei Mate 60 review: Kirin 9000S 5G comeback flagship with satellite calling.
Huawei's 5G comeback.
Mate 60 quietly went on sale and triggered an industry earthquake — the Kirin 9000S inside marked Huawei's return to home-grown 5G silicon despite US sanctions. Add the world's first satellite voice calling and a 5x periscope, and it was the most consequential phone of 2023.
01Display
84/10084/100 trails the 88-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2023.
02Camera
86/10086/100 puts it above the 81-point average for flagship phones of 2023.
03Performance
80/10080/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2023 — 8 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
84/10084/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2023.
05Build
84/10084/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2023.
- Kirin 9000S marks Huawei's domestic 5G return
- World-first satellite voice calling
- 5x periscope + variable aperture
- No Google services
- Kirin 9000S slower than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
- Limited availability outside China
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 241-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .