Known for its exceptional camera capabilities and stylish design, Huawei Singapore today officially announced their latest photography flagship smartphone, HUAWEI P60 Pro along with the ultra-light and thin foldable phone, HUAWEI Mate X3. The P60 Pro, Huawei’s hero product at the launch, perfectly integrates smart imaging and technological aesthetics, reinterpreting the classic HUAWEI P Series design language with industry-leading advancements in mobile imaging innovation. With a stunning design and exceptional performance, the P60 Pro promises to deliver a sublime sensory experience.
HUAWEI P60 Pro, a legend reborn which redefines a new level of mobile photography, aesthetic design and all-rounded user experiences
HUAWEI P60 Pro inherits the excellent genetics of photography and aesthetics, and makes another breakthrough in optical system and aesthetic design. The latest flagship has a fully upgraded optical system and is equipped with an Ultra Lighting Telephoto Camera with Multiple Lens Groups. Also known as the Ultra Lighting Telephoto Camera, the lens can boost light intake with hardware that does not affect the device’s thin and lightweight build.
“Every generation of Huawei P series perfectly merges smart imaging features with aesthetic technology. This strategy adopted by P Series has resulted in one classic creation after another,” said Richard Yu, Huawei’s Executive Director, CEO of Huawei Consumer BG, and CEO of Huawei Intelligent Automotive Solution Business Unit, “The HUAWEI P60 Pro revolves around the art of Light, all while comprehensively evolving in terms of aesthetics, imaging, and user experience, and more especially, introduces us to a new era of mobile imaging.”
(1) The Eye of Light Design bringing Industry-leading Aesthetics
The HUAWEI P60’s camera module design is themed as “The Eye of Light”, and places the most commonly-used main camera at the centre of the lens module. The super telephoto and super wide-angle lenses are distributed on the upper and lower sides of the main camera, presenting a Classic Camera Array. With a suspended transparent layer built atop of the device, it creates an illusion of a slimmer device while allowing the Ultra Lighting Main Camera to shine as the visual highlight.
The HUAWEI P60 Pro adopts the New Quad-Curve Display with Huawei-exclusive durable Kunlun Glass panel. The four sides are slightly curved while the four edges of the screen are more rounded, making the field of vision boundless and achieving a more immersive display. With the HUAWEI P60 Pro weighing at only 200g. Users can enjoy a more comfortable grip and touch experience. Additionally, the 1-120Hz LTPO adaptive high-refresh rate helps strike the perfect balance between smooth visuals and battery optimisation.
With the Kunlun Glass panel protection, it greatly improves the toughness of the glass and increases the drop resistance of the glass to 10 times, due to the enhanced techniques to grow billions of nanocrystals that form the ultra-durable material. It even supports IP68 dust and water resistance, giving users an assured sense of security during daily use.
The HUAWEI P60 Pro display also achieves accurate colours through full colour gamut colour management and metameric matches in colour calibration, and supports wireless precise colour projection, allowing the screen displayed on the mobile phone and the display to be efficiently and precisely coordinated. With a strong array of display features, the HUAWEI P60 Pro is certified with TÜV Rheinland Color Accuracy Dual Certification (Colour Accuracy & Precise Colour Projection).
Apart from that, the phone draws inspiration from nature and reinterprets modern aesthetics. The P60 Pro in Rococo Pearl features the industry’s first Pearl Texture Design, which incorporates natural mineral pearl powder to achieve a unique natural texture like the Mother of Pearl. The deep feather- sand Black uses innovative Anti-Fingerprint Feather-Sand Glass, which feels as soft and delicate as a feather yet shines like diamonds.
(2) Ultra-Lighting XMAGE Camera: Revolutionary Imaging Breakthroughs
The Huawei P series was born with the innovative imaging at the centre of its technology. Every change comes with a full upgrade and reconstruction of the camera’s optical system. The HUAWEI P60 series comes with a redesigned optical system, with an Ultra Lighting Main Camera equipped with an F1.4- F4.0 Auto-Adjustable Physical Aperture, High Transmittance Lens Group, and an RYYB SuperSensing sensor.
These significant improvements produce vivid photography in low-light settings, fully displaying details in the dark. It can also bring ultra-high dynamic range in scenes with higher light-to-dark ratios such as sunrise and sunset, dawn and dusk; The new XD Fusion Pro’s Texture Engine, depicting fine details that show off even the shine on the surface of glass.
On top of the breakthrough made by the Ultra Lighting main camera, the HUAWEI P60 Pro has further achieved a revolutionary breakthrough in Night Vision Telephoto photography, bringing Ultra Lighting Telephoto Camera with F2.1 aperture – the largest in the industry for a mobile camera periscope telephoto. The telephoto camera has also innovatively added an Ultra Lighting Lens Group to capture more light, and combined with the RYYB Supersensing sensor, the amount of light entering the telephoto camera has now been greatly increased. Users can now capture vibrant photographs during their night walks in the city, as the camera can capture and bring out the details of the rooftop neon lights in the distance, allowing consumers to capture the exact beauty they see and experience.
Huawei’s Super Moon mode is also another frontrunner in the industry. Thanks to the Ultra Lighting and focusing capabilities of the telephoto module, HUAWEI P60 Pro introduces an upgraded Super Moon Scene. This feature perfectly presents the distant moon while managing to preserve the details of objects in the middle ground. This gives users the ability to experiment with astrophotography; to create visual illusions of the moon in palm trees and clouds. Now, night-time scenes can be captured not only clearly, but also marvellously.
In addition, the HUAWEI P60 Pro introduces the Long Travel Slide Zoom Lens Group, which can flexibly control the focusing distance and achieve clear imaging from long-distance photography to macro close-ups. It can capture willow branches silhouetting the moon or the bright moon by the bedside window at a distance. It also achieves accurate macro photography without disturbing the subject at close range. This feature can be used to capture photos of pets in their daily life, acting as a pet diary device.
(3) Powerful Communication Technology with Seamless and Lasting Experience
The HUAWEI P60 Pro consists of 4815 mAh high-capacity battery that is placed in a compact body of only 8.3 mm in thickness respectively, supporting 88W wired HUAWEI SuperCharge. It also supports 50W wireless fast charging and 7.5W reverse wireless charging – bringing safe and convenient charging anytime and anywhere. Using Turbo mode, HUAWEI P60 Pro can be charged to half in just 10 minutes, achieving a perfect balance between standby battery life and fast charging speed while maintaining a lightweight build.
(4) EMUI 13.1 system experience: More exquisite, convenient and secure
Huawei integrates the best of both worlds by combining the imaging technology and aesthetics of the P series with the simplicity and smoothness of EMUI – which results in a more refined and user-friendly experience. EMUI 13.1 introduces 3D Weather AOD (Always on Display), which illustrates the rain, snow, cloudy or sunny weather with 3D effects and dynamically sends notifications of weather changes – an intuitive, creative and vivid display experience.
The camera interface introduces a Camera Zoom Ring, which not only makes photo taking a more intuitive experience, but also makes the zoom more precise and functional. The Camera Quick Menu also displays icons of the commonly used shooting modes, making it easy to operate the camera with just one hand and giving users a more enjoyable and convenient photography experience.
Pricing & Availability
Priced at S$1,548, the Huawei P60 Pro will be available from 20 May 2023 at HUAWEI Experience Stores in 313@Somerset and Westgate, M1, StarHub, Best Denki, Challenger, Courts, Gain City, MetaPod, SprintCass as well as Huawei Official Stores on Lazada and Shopee.
Consumers can pre-order from 11 – 19 May 2023 at HUAWEI Experience Stores (313@Somerset and Westgate) and Huawei Official Store on Lazada to receive FREE Gifts worth up to $366, T&Cs apply and while stocks last.
*Press release by Huawei Singapore