On 26 March Huawei announced the launching of the P40 Series at a global online press conference. Originally planned for Paris the same day, the press conference was held. The latest update, however, indicates that it is online.
Huawei Online-only activities are no stranger. Recently, the company announced its Mate Xs and Matebook laptops at only one online event.
As for the trailer, it doesn’t reveal much. However, we can see the raised camera housing. It is said to accommodate a new prism periscope camera with an optical zoom of up to 10 times.
Huawei will be announcing the P40 Pro alongside the vanilla variant on March 26. The two models are expected to be drastically different in terms of camera. Moreover, the camera configuration of the Pro model has leaked online.
The Huawei P40 Pro is said to come equipped with a primary 1/1.28” Sony IMX700 52-megapixel Hexadeca Bayer RYYB lens. It will be accompanied by a 1/1.5” Sony IMX650 40-megapixel ultrawide Cine RGGB lens, a telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom, a dual prism periscope zoom lens with 10x optical zoom and a ToF (Time of Flight) sensor.
The five cameras will reside in a rectangle-shaped camera module. Further, Huawei is rumored to put the “Quad Quad Bayer” sensor and it will do 4-in-1 conversions to reach the 16-in-1 stage.
