CBN Times – Smartphone giant Huawei has officially announced its new P40 series of flagships phones with three versions.
The new P40 series of flagships are Huawei P40, Huawei P40 Pro, and Huawei P40 Pro+.
Today, Huawei is doubling down on its efforts to regain western market share, revealing brand-new hardware as well as expanding the company’s AppGallery app store.
Huawei P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro+ Cameras:
The cameras are definitely the biggest highlight of the two phones, and it where the two phones differ slightly. For the P40 Pro+, Huawei has gone ahead with a Leica Ultra Vision camera set-up that will comprise of a 50-megapixel primary lens, a 40-megapixel secondary lens, an 8-megapixel periscope lens, an 8-megapixel telephoto lens, a ToF sensor and finally a colour temperature sensor too — making it a total of 6 sensors onboard for photography.
The P40 Pro, on the other hand, brings a quad-camera set-up which again has the same branding but will comprise of a 50-megapixel primary lens, a 40-megapixel secondary lens, a 12-megapixel telephoto lens, and a fourth ToF sensor. There will also be a colour temperature sensor on the P40 Pro.
Huawei P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro+ Display:
The most remarkable aspect of the P40 Pro is its design, in particular its implementation of an edge-to-edge curved screen. The AMOLED display panel is amongst the first to allow a device to not only have curved edges on the sides of the phone, but also at the top and bottom.
First thing I want to get out of the way, is that I’m super happy that Huawei didn’t opt to continue with the 90° side-curve design as we saw on the Mate 30 Pro – I felt that design to be extremely impractical and actually damaging the ergonomics of the phone.
The P40 Pro does not have this issue, and the screen’s curvatures are actually of a smaller radius than even the P30 Pro, with a deeper and larger curvature on the back of the phone giving it quite excellent in-hand ergonomics.
Huawei P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro+ Internals and storage:
Under the hood, both the phones come running Huawei’s own Kirin 990 chipset paired with 8GB of RAM on the P40 Pro and 8GB of RAM on P40 Pro+. The chipset, Huawei claims, brings not only oodles of raw processing power to the table, but also a platform to power a number of key AI features — including many for its cameras.
For storage, the P40 Pro gets up to 256GB storage while the P40 Pro+ gets 512GB of memory for storing photos, videos and games.
Huawei P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro+ Battery:
The two phones also get a 4,200 mAh battery for keeping the lights on, with support for 40W wired charging and also 40W super-fast wireless charging on the P40 Pro+ while, 27W wireless charging on the P40 Pro. The two also boast of IP68 water and dust resistance. For software, the phone will come running HMS-based EMUI 10.1.
Huawei P40 Series Full phone specifications
Huawei P40 Full phone specifications:
SoC
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G
2x Cortex-A76 @ 2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76 @ 2.36 GHz
4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.95 GHz
GPU
Mali G76MP16 @ 700MHz
DRAM
8GB
Display
6.1″ OLED 2340 x 1080 60Hz
Rear Cameras – Main – Telephoto, Periscope Telephoto, Wide
50MP F1.9 RYYB (main, Octa PD AF)
16MP F2.2 (ultra-wide)
8MP F2.4 (telephoto, 3x optical, OIS)
Front Camera
32MP F2.0 front camera + IR Depth/Gesture Camera
Storage
128 / 256GB + proprietary “nanoSD” card
Size – Height, Width, Depth
148.9mm, 71.06mm, 8.5mm,
Weight
175g
Battery Capacity
3700mAh (Rated) 3800mAh (Typical) 22.5W Charging
Wireless Charging
No Wireless Charging
I/O
USB-C
Wireless (local)
802.11ax (Wifi 6), Bluetooth 5.1
Cellular
4G + 5G NR NSA+SA Sub-6GHz
Splash, Water, Dust Resistance
IP68 (water resistant up to 1m)
Dual-SIM
2x nano-SIM
Launch OS
AOSP 10 w/ EMUI 10, without Google services
Huawei P40 Pro Full phone specifications:
SoC
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G
2x Cortex-A76 @ 2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76 @ 2.36 GHz
4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.95 GHz
GPU
Mali G76MP16 @ 700MHz
DRAM
8GB
Display
6.58″ OLED 2640 x 1200 (19.8:9) 90Hz
Rear Cameras – Main – Telephoto, Periscope Telephoto, Wide, Extra
50MP Ultra Vision Camera, F1.9 RYYB (main, OIS, Octa PD AF)
40MP SuperSensing Cine Camera, F1.8 (ultra-wide)
12MP SuperSensing Telephoto Camera F3.4 RYYB (periscope), 5x optical, OIS)
ToF camera
Front Camera
32MP AF F2.2 front camera + IR Depth/Gesture Camera
Storage
128 / 256GB + proprietary “nanoSD” card
Size – Height, Width, Depth
158.2mm, 72.6mm, 8.95mm,
Weight
209g
Battery Capacity
4100mAh (Rated) 4200mAh (Typical) 40W SuperCharge
Wireless Charging
27W SuperCharge
I/O
USB-C
Wireless (local)
802.11ax (Wifi 6), Bluetooth 5.1
Cellular
4G + 5G NR NSA+SA Sub-6GHz
Splash, Water, Dust Resistance
IP53 (no water resistance)
Dual-SIM
2x nano-SIM
Launch OS
AOSP 10 w/ EMUI 10, without Google services
Huawei P40 Pro Plus Full phone specifications:
SoC
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G
2x Cortex-A76 @ 2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76 @ 2.36 GHz
4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.95 GHz
GPU
Mali G76MP16 @ 700MHz
DRAM
8GB
Display
6.58″ OLED 2640 x 1200 (19.8:9) 90Hz
Rear Cameras – Main – Telephoto, Periscope Telephoto, Wide, Extra
50MP Ultra Vision Camera, F1.9 (main – photo, OIS, Octa PD AF)
40MP SuperSensing Cine Cameram F1.8 (ultra-wide)
8MP SuperZoom Camera F4.4 (Periscope telephoto, 10x long-range optical zoom, 20X hybrid zoom, 100X digital zoom, OIS)
8MP Telephoto Camera F2.4 (telephoto, 3x mid-range optical zoom, OIS)
ToF camera
Front Camera
32MP AF F2.2 front camera + IR Depth/Gesture Camera
Storage
128 / 256GB + proprietary “nanoSD” card
Size – Height, Width, Depth
158.2mm, 72.6mm, 9.0mm,
Weight
226g
Battery Capacity
4100mAh (Rated) 4200mAh (Typical) 40W SuperCharge
Wireless Charging
40W SuperCharge
I/O
USB-C
Wireless (local)
802.11ax (Wifi 6), Bluetooth 5.1
Cellular
4G + 5G NR NSA+SA Sub-6GHz
Splash, Water, Dust Resistance
IP68 (water resistant up to 1m)
Dual-SIM
2x nano-SIM
Launch OS
AOSP 10 w/ EMUI 10, without Google services
Huawei P40, P40 Pro, P40 Pro+ Pre-order may also be done via Shopee and Lazada Flagship Store with freebies.
Price and availability :
Huawei P40 (8GB + 128GB): EUR 799 (start on April 7, 2020)
Huawei P40 Pro (8GB + 256GB): EUR 999 (start on April 7, 2020)
Huawei P40 Pro+ (8GB + 512GB): EUR 1,399 (to be available in June 2020)
