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Every year, the Spring Festival Gala of China's central television stations leaves traces of a certain technological trend.

From the three - dimensional upgrade of the stage architecture, the innovative presentations through AR integration and the XR combination of reality and virtuosity, to the coordinated control of robots during performances and the intelligent lighting system, the Spring Festival Gala is always a place where the latest technologies are concentratedly displayed. It is both a cultural event and a public technological testing ground. Many innovative forms of technology are often seen here on a large scale for the first time.

The change in 2026 was shown in a more specific detail. In the camera arrangement for the vertical live - broadcast of the main stage, a mobile phone appeared - the partner mobile phone for the vertical live - broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala of the central television stations, the Huawei Mate 80 series.

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This was the first time in the history of the Spring Festival Gala of the central television stations that stage images taken with a mobile phone were integrated into a professional broadcasting system and the mobile phone served as the recording device for the global live - broadcast.

This is not the first time that the Huawei Mate 80 series has appeared at a major event of the central television stations. From the Hongmeng Star Gala to the vertical Spring Festival Gala of the central television stations, the continuous cooperation between the central television stations and the Huawei Mate 80 series makes this attempt more like a preliminary upgrade, a public test of the limits of mobile image - recording capacity.

When the mobile phone steps onto the stage of the Spring Festival Gala

Shortly before, the Huawei Mate 80 series took on the task of vertical joint transmission at the 2025 Hongmeng Star Gala and became the main device for vertical recording at this major event. This cooperation was like a test to check whether a mobile phone is capable of meeting higher requirements for stage content output.

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This has triggered an industry - wide discussion: Does a mobile phone as a device already have the stable ability to be integrated into a professional broadcasting system?

At the 2026 Spring Festival Gala of the central television stations, this question may have found an answer.

The central television stations have chosen the Huawei Mate 80 series again and officially included it in the camera arrangement for the vertical live - broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala. Different from the past when mobile phones were more used for side - angle recordings, backgrounds, or social media dissemination, this time the mobile phone took on the task of recording the main stage images. It was the first and only mobile phone to participate in the vertical live - broadcast of the main stage.

Source: Live - broadcast of the vertical Spring Festival Gala of the central television stations 2026

This was a clear change of role.

It is a fact that the vertical view has already become the main form on the dissemination side. But for a long time, the production logic of major events still based on the horizontal view. The vertical view is more of a derived output in traditional production systems: after horizontal recording, the vertical version is created by cropping, framing, or additional cameras. It serves for dissemination but has no impact on production.

And mobile phones, which are associated with the vertical view, have long been outside the core image - production system of major events. The reason is simple: the image structure of major events is very complex, and the requirements for the stability, controllability, and image consistency of the devices are very high. Each camera has a fixed function, and the camera switching depends on rhythm and consistency. Any unstable factor would be magnified.

It must be noted that when selecting devices in the public cultural sphere of major events, one always proceeds very carefully. Stability takes precedence over novelty, and controllability takes precedence over sensationalism. Each main device must ensure sufficient safety.

The fact that the Huawei Mate 80 series was included in the main stage lineup of the vertical Spring Festival Gala is already an recognition of its product quality and technological implementation capacity. This means that the images can be directly used, that it can function synchronously with other cameras, and that it maintains a unified visual logic in the camera - switching sequence.

The cooperation at the Star Gala might have been a test. And the result of the Spring Festival Gala in the Year of the Horse is a reliable result. This exactly shows that the limits of the mobile phone as a mobile image - recording device have exceeded the professional standards of broadcasting.

A "professional broadcasting test": How does a mobile phone overcome the professional standards?

To cross the threshold, one must pass a major test.

In the era of mass live - streaming, the seriousness of live - streaming in the public perception has actually been weakened. Maybe many people think it is "natural" to use a mobile phone for live - streaming.

But in the professional field, live - streaming is never as simple as "recording". A professional broadcasting live - stream has a complete business chain. The stage cameras are distributed at different focal lengths and positions, and the signals are integrated into a directing system. The director switches the cameras with millisecond precision according to the program rhythm, artist control, and musical points. Each image switch must be natural, continuous, without delay, without color interruption, and also without signal interference. These problems, which are difficult for professional devices, now rest on a small mobile phone. The Huawei Mate 80 series live - streams the vertical Spring Festival Gala together with professional devices. Behind this stands a long - time optimization and adaptation by the two technical teams.

The director of the vertical Spring Festival Gala, Liu Gang, said before the live - broadcast: "The Huawei Mate 80 Pro Max has been integrated into the professional broadcasting transmission system of the central television stations for the first time. A customized image for the viewers has been created specifically for this vertical transmission. Technical difficulties such as color and delay had to be overcome, and both teams have worked on it for a long time."

The image is generated at the module level, processed in real - time by the ISP, then encoded and output, and finally integrated into the professional broadcasting system to complete the transmission and control. If instability occurs at any step in the chain, it will be magnified at the moment of switching. For the viewers, it might just be a slight jerk; for the director, it means loss of control.

For an event like the Spring Festival Gala, the requirements are even higher.

The transmission between the mobile phone and the professional devices must have a very small relative time lag, which should be between 50 - 100 milliseconds. Otherwise, when the director switches cameras, the image rhythm will be visibly distorted. Especially in sections with dance, group performances, and rapid lighting changes, any delay will destroy the unity of the image. Even for professional devices of different brands, the time lag is "difficult to fix", let alone for a mobile phone to adapt. It's like a student taking the college entrance examination.

Even more complex is the lighting. The stage lighting of the Spring Festival Gala is not "gentle". Highly saturated color fields alternate, the color temperature changes rapidly between warm and cold, and strong backlighting and dark areas suddenly overlap. The center of the stage may be in a strong backlighting area, while strong additional lighting is used at the edge. The image must both retain the highlights and reproduce the details in the dark, and at the same time ensure the natural skin color of the people.

On the director's monitoring wall, all camera images are displayed side by side. Color differences, brightness deviations, and contrast imbalances are immediately noticed. Each image must be unified and not distorted. Only in this way can the switching be smooth.

Source: Live - broadcast of the vertical Spring Festival Gala of the central television stations 2026

And time is also a test. The live - broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala lasts for several hours, and the device is under high load for a long time. Continuous encoding, continuous output, and continuous connection to the system. The heat - dissipation ability, battery life, and performance security are tested to the limits. Any small fluctuation can affect the security of the live - broadcast at a critical moment.

In such a workflow, it is already an extreme test in itself that a mobile phone, which is much smaller than a traditional camera, has to take on the same tasks.

Under these standards, the technology integrated in the Huawei Mate 80 series is the strength. The second - generation Hongfeng Original Color Image System has a keyword: "Authenticity".

The lighting on the Spring Festival Gala stage is so complex and demanding that the skin color can easily deviate. The Hongfeng Original Color Camera reproduces the real color state of the stage through more accurate color temperature detection and pixel - precise calibration. The skin color of the people remains natural, the clothes have clear structures, and the gradual transitions of the stage lighting are completely retained.

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The image that the viewers see is as close as possible to what one sees live on - site. This authenticity always remains stable and maintains a unified color logic in different lighting environments.

At the same time, the Ultra - High - Dynamic - Range main sensor with a 17.5 EV dynamic range retains the highlights and the details in the dark under strong backlighting. People in the backlighting on the stage will not become silhouettes, and bright areas will not become a white spot. The image has a complete structure, and the details remain visible. The telephoto dual - telezoom system offers 4 - fold and 6.2 - fold independent optical focal lengths. When the fixed tele - cameras are pointed at the main stage area for a long time, the long - distance movements and facial expressions still remain clear, and the depth of the stage is realistically reproduced. The composition is stable, the focal length is accurate, and the details are not lost.

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