Back in December last year, Richard Yu, CEO of the Huawei Consumer Business Group had revealed during an official interview that the company’s upcoming P40 flagship series will make it’s global debut towards the end of March.
Today, during the official press event held in Barcelona where they showcase the latest Mate Xs, Yu had finally announced the actual date of the launch event which will fall on March 26th, 2020. As usual, the launch event will still be held in Paris this year.
The upcoming Huawei P40 flagship series will consist of a total of three devices including P40, P40 Pro, as well as an even higher-end model known as P40 Pro Premium.
Similar to the Mate 30 lineup, the upcoming P40 series should be available in both 4G and 5G models. Naturally, they will all be driven by Huawei’s in-house Kirin 990 SoC and will continue to run on Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) instead of Google Mobile Services (GMS) – which isn’t a problem at all so far.
Other than that, here’s what we know about the P40 series so far:
Huawei P40 (ANA-AN00/ ANA-TN00)
According to an earlier leaked render of the Huawei P40, the device will feature a pill-shaped cut-out on the top-left corner which houses a total of two camera sensors. This is pretty similar to what we’d seen on the recently announced Huawei Nova 6 and Honor V30 .
On it’s flip-side, there will be a rectangular camera module that houses a triple-camera setup which are believed to be a main shooter, ultra-wide lens, as well as a ToF lens.
The Leica-branded camera will also be accompanied by a dual-tone LED flash housed within the same module. Seen in the render above, the camera module makes a slight protrusion from the device’s rear panel.
Huawei P40 Pro (ELS-AN00/ ELS-TN00)
The Huawei P40 Pro on the other hand, will feature a more pronounced curves along the two sides of it’s front panel as compared to the P40.
On it’s rear panel, the rectangular camera module will house a total of four camera sensors which are believed to be a main shooter, Cine Lens, telephoto lens, as well as a ToF sensor.
According to rumors, the P40 Pro could feature a 52 megapixels Sony-made “Quad Quad Bayer” sensor. This basically means it will make use of two 4-in-1 Quad Bayer conversions to achieve a 16-in-1 pixel-binned image.
Huawei P40 Pro Premium
As mentioned earlier, the Huawei P40 Pro Premium will be the highest-end model among the trio. This device will have a penta-camera setup, with an inclusion of a periscope camera that is capable of achieving up to 10x optical zoom.
Unlike the other smartphones in the P40 series, the P40 Pro Premium is said to arrive with an exclusive ceramic body as well.
