Huawei launches stunning triple-camera P20 Pro smartphone

[Shawn Knight]

What’s better than two rear-facing cameras on a smartphone? According to Huawei’s logic, the answer is simple – three cameras.

Huawei at a launch event in Paris on Tuesday announced the P20 Pro, a stunning flagship featuring the “world’s first” Leica triple camera system with the highest total pixel count available on a phone today.

The array consists of a 40-megapixel RGB sensor, a 20-megapixel monochrome sensor and an 8-megapixel sensor with f/1.8, f/1.6 and f/2.4 apertures, respectively. There’s also a color temperature sensor to enhance color reproduction and Leica 3x telephoto lens (VARIO-SUMMILUX-H 1:1.6-2.4/27-80ASPH) in addition to the front-facing, 24-megapixel f/2.0 aperture shooter.

DxOMark awarded the P20 Pro an overall score of 109 and an unprecedented photo sub-score of 114 points.

“With an overall score of 109 points, the Huawei P20 Pro sets a new benchmark for smartphone cameras on DxOMark.com, outscoring all of its closest rivals, such as the Apple iPhone X, the Google Pixel 2, and the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus by a margin that is close to or higher than 10 points.”

If mobile photography is your thing, the P20 Pro looks tough to beat at the moment.

Elsewhere, you’ll find a 6.1-inch OLED display with a resolution of 2,240 x 1,080 pixels that’s powered by Huawei’s own Kirin 970 octa-core processor (four Cortex-A73 cores at 2.36GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz). The SoC is mated to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of local storage. It draws power from a 4,000mAh battery although unfortunately, there isn’t a wireless charging option.

The handset runs Huawei’s EMUI overlay on top of Android 8.1 Oreo.

If that isn’t enough to get you excited, there’s also a new high-end Porsche Design Mate RS version that bumps the resolution up to 2,880 x 1,440 pixels, drops the notch, pushes local storage to 512GB, adds wireless charging and includes an in-display fingerprint sensor (in addition to the standard rear-mounted fingerprint reader).

The new Huawei P20 Pro is available from today priced at 899 euros, or around $1,115. If you want the top-end Porsche Design model, that’ll reportedly set you back 2095 euros (for the 512GB version) which translates to a whopping $2,600. It launches on April 12.

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[MoeJoe]

Best Buy is laughing ...

Maybe Metro PCS will pick this up.

 

[darkzelda]

That notch...

 

[Ezio7]

$2,600!?!?!? whaaat are they crazy or something?

 

[MonsterZero]

Now that's a $1000 phone, I hope Apple is paying attention.

 

[Shadowboxer]

And here it begins. Thought $1000 for an iPhone was a lot? There are people out there who can afford to and will pay more, it won’t be long until all the manufacturers start cashing in.

 

[hqxt1964]

Huawei's marketing is very confusing. The the P series is "the brand Huawei promotes as the more mainstream counterpart to the Mate series of smartphones." Mainstream, to me, means more accessible to average consumers (a.k.a, cheaper), which this thing doesn't seem to be. It just seems like this naming scheme would lead to needless brand confusion.

 

[amghwk]

It's revolting to see everyone (phone makers) copy each other so flagrantly. Especially those that copy apple phones. Not that apple phones are groundbreaking either.

 

[sac39507]

Blah, blah, blah, blah...All the specs don't mean squat until you start installing apps and actually using the thing like you intend to. After doing so it will start behaving like any other phone and become slow as a snail and unresponsive as a rebellious teenager. Give me some real world specs and maybe I'll be excited. How about something like: "We put this to the test by installing 100 cpu and memory intensive apps, used it 24/7, gave it to a child and teenager for abuse, and ran all the "critical" updates...and it continues to be snappy and lag free as the day we opened it from the box.

 

[hqxt1964]

That notch...

On P20 you can turn the top part of screen off, hence no notch. it has rhe same effect as if they had not stretched the screen that far up.

 

[hqxt1964]

It's revolting to see everyone (phone makers) copy each other so flagrantly. Especially those that copy apple phones. Not that apple phones are groundbreaking either.

Specific advances in the Android ecosystem are being released to do this, but Huawei is taking it internal this generation, ensuring that the size of the Notch and the size of the notification area are the same. For anyone that doesn’t like the Notch, it can be ‘disabled’, as in the notch area of the screen will go dark but will keep the notification area at the top.