The new Huawei P40 and P40 Pro are set to feature 50 megapixel main camera sensors and will have fast 40W wireless charging. That’s according to the latest rumours to emerge from the supply chain, with the phones themselves now surely well into production.
These latest rumours come courtesy of Ishan Agarwaland 91mobiles. And Agarwal says there’s also anadditional phone in the series it seems, remarkably called the P40 Pro Plus (not to be confused with any medication). This will have a five-camera setup.
We also now know the P40 series will feature the Kirin 990 chipset first seen inSeptember’s Mate 30 series, 6.1-inch (P40) and 6.58-inch (P40 Pro) displays and 4,200mAh battery. As with the Mate 30, there will be no support for Google appsthanks to the US trade ban, but there will be Huawei’s own app gallery.
The tipster says the quad-camera setup on the P40 Pro will be named “Leica Ultra Vision”. In addition to the 50 megapixel main sensor on the P40 Pro there will be a 40 megapixel secondary sensor, a 12MP lens and a3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensorthat we’re seeing on more and more phones now. On the front there will be a 32 megapixel camera with a depth sensor (for face unlock).
It’s reported that the telephoto camera will support a 50x Zoom and optical image stabilisation as well.
It’s a little different than the earlier leak we had around the main lens, which pegged the main sensor as being Sony’s 52 megapixel IMX700. But what’s a couple of megapixels between friends?
The P40 series has also previously been rumoured to feature a tech that combines 16 adjacent pixels to form so-called superpixel. TheSamsung Galaxy S20 Ultraoffers a similar technology by combining nine adjacent pixels, but this would obviously be an improvement on that.
Huawei is set to launch the P40 and P40 Pro on Thursday this week and we’ll be covering thefull story of the online launchright here on Pocket-lint.
Obviously lots has already leaked about the handsetincluding press imageswith camera cutouts (that’s nailed on),the P40 colours,photos of a prototype,certifications awardedto the new phones, plus thefirst sightingof the dual-front camera back in January.
