Huawei will not let the Trump administration oppose the launch of the next Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro: the company has renewed the P series for another iteration, if you believe the latest rumors, and is ready to launch in all the major markets with 5G to boot. Here’s all we know.
With the now official Huawei Mate 30 and the Huawei Mate X the next main phone on Huawei’s radar, much of what we have heard on the Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro are colder chatter on the water – but that doesn’t mean that there are not some nuggets of accurate information buried deep in the mounds of wishful thinking.
HUAWEI P40 DESIGN – How it looks like?
It is difficult to imagine that Huawei will reinvent the wheel when it comes to the design of the Huawei P40, with the most important changes that will be presented in the form of camera updates (we will talk about it shortly).
A rumor, that the newly launched Nova 6 SE will be repackaged as P40 Lite, may contain the key to Huawei’s design: by looking at its four-camera configuration, selfie camera, and screen structure, we can take a look at some of the design influences that will come to the P40 range. For the most part, the overall build is left unchanged.
It’s not a bad thing, though. Huawei P30 is one of the most elegant and sophisticated smartphones that hit the shelves in 2019, with what has quickly been dubbed a sandwich design, in which a sheet of Gorilla Glass is fixed on the back of an aluminum frame and a high resolution the screen is mounted on the front.
While it is said to remain the same for the Huawei P40, the company is believed to have made a couple of tweaks: the corners are said to have been squared to make it more comfortable to hold (a design choice synonymous with the Samsung Galaxy Note line ) and there is a possibility that the notch may be omitted.
Desire though, we know, but it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility. A number of Chinese manufacturers have stabbed at removing the notch – some resulting from eccentric pop-up front cameras and others who have found a way to tuck them under the screen – so it’s safe to assume that Huawei is working on it, as well.
HUAWEI P40 CAMERA
Here is some food for thought: the P of the Huawei P Series has long been supported for photography – delicate tactility fueled by the company’s tradition to push the envelope when it comes to mobile photography with the Pro variant of the range. And guess what? Huawei P40 (or rather, Huawei P40 Pro) will be no different.
The most credible rumors we have heard say that Huawei P40 Pro will have a Penta lens camera on board – such as the Nokia 9 PureView – co-engineered by the German titan Leica. There are five sensors in total. The current flagship Huawei P30 Pro, by comparison, has four, including the Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor.
Just like Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro, the configuration should be organized in a periscope-like configuration, which will help the phone achieve optical zoom ten times that its (then) predecessor earned the title of Best Camera Smartphone of 2019 and a renewed array of sensors could make it even higher.
Finally, you can bet that basically, we will see a whole series of camera improvements on the software front. The company’s AI Master has made great strides since it debuted on the Huawei P20, with several new features added with the Huawei P30, so we should see some new features with the Huawei P40.
HUAWEI P40 SPECIFICATIONS
The most notable improvement that should be an integral part of Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro is a high-resolution screen. After all, we will be in 2020 and the Full HD + panel that is bundled on Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro will not cut it: it will need something better with at least a 2K resolution to compete.
But we are not offering much hope. Although Huawei Mate 30 and Huawei Mate 30 Pro sport a new screen style, with Huawei Mate 30 Pro coming out in the foreground with Huawei’s new Horizon OLED display, which the company claims that the cabinet to which a panel is even been on the cutting edge, they are both Full HD + – not QHD +.
According to recent rumors, we expect to see Kirin 990, Huawei’s top of the range, the Kirin 980 infested by the successor of the 5G infested by artificial intelligence, which manages the show, as well as an increase in RAM (somewhere in the region of 10 GB on Huawei P40 and 12 GB on Huawei P40 Pro seems feasible) and a bigger battery on both models.
The flagship Kirin 990, announced at IFA 2019 and available in two configurations, is the first 5G chipset of all kinds in one. It combines a 5G modem with eight cores, offering a maximum download speed of 2.3 Gbps per second and impressive performance across the board, with software that delegates activities to individual cores.
In addition, Huawei P40 Pro is said to be equipped with 5G as standard, eliminating the need to choose a dedicated variant that has the ubiquitous network onboard. The same cannot be said for the Huawei P40 standard, which should only support ready-to-use 4G LTE, which will reflect on their price.
At present, Huawei is authorized to trade with companies in the U.S., so many expect Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro to ship with Android, rather than the company’s internal alternative. But we could look at a different reality starting from 2020, or because it was again banned or wanted to break away.
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After all, if Huawei decides to continue grouping the version of Android infused by the Google Service on Huawei P40 (and all future phones, for that matter), it would be at the mercy of President Trump. That’s why he might decide to venture along a different path, using his HarmonyOS, so that he can maintain complete control.
The worrying thing is that many manufacturers have stabbed in the launch of their operating system – such as Microsoft with Windows Phone and Samsung with the Tizen operating system – and have reached a dead end, all for the same reason: there is not enough motivation for developers brings their applications to a new platform.
However, Huawei is on a different boat. He is the largest smartphone maker in China and before meeting the infamous meeting with President Trump, he was well on his way to overtaking Samsung as the largest in the world. If that’s not a sufficient reason for developers to start moving their applications, we don’t know what it is.
Even if they don’t, this shouldn’t be a big deal: HarmonyOS can run native Android apps, according to Huawei CEO Richard Yu. This means that even if the client you hope to use is not available through the Huawei App Gallery (this is the company’s version on the Play Store), you can download it from external sources.
Obviously, switching to an APK database is not the most convenient solution, but it bridges a gap that most other operating systems have not been able to overcome – acting as a temporary solution until the developers take note of the (possible) increase in the adoption of HarmonyOS and start listing their creations in the App Gallery.
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This means that the overall success of HarmonyOS will depend on its execution. The western world is not open to heavily modified animated skins like the Asian market, so it will have to find a way to remove the interface if it wants to be successful in Europe and North America. If he does, he may have a winner in his hands.
But we are digressing. When Yu introduced HarmonyOS in early August, it was clear about Huawei’s current position: “When can we put it on our smartphones? We can do it at any time, but for Google’s partnership and efficiency, the priority will be for the Google Android operating system. If we can’t use it in the future, we can switch between Android. ”
Having said that, Google told Reuters on August 29 that its current trade license with Huawei does not apply to new hardware – the entire debacle will have no impact on the company’s existing devices, such as the Huawei P30 – so if it doesn’t reach an agreement with the U.S. by 2020, the Huawei P40 could be shipped with HarmonyOS after all.
However, it appears that Yu is starting to get quite tired of the situation. Reportedly, the CEO reported to Gizchina on September 9 that if the situation with the United States does not change in the near future, Huawei will integrate HarmonyOS on Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro, adding that the firmware is now ready for use. public.
The fact is that we do not know what will happen. The Huawei Mate 30 is ready to be used with Android 10, without Google Play apps and services, so Huawei P40 is assumed to follow suit. After all, Huawei has invested over $ 1 billion in making Android open source habitable for consumers.
He won’t want to let that investment go to waste.
HUAWEI P40 PRICE AND RELEASE DATE
Huawei P40 will be released in March 2020, according to Huawei CEO Richard Yu, in line with what the company previously saw. After all, Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro were launched in April 2018 and Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro in March 2019.
It is not known how much Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro will cost, but this does not mean that we cannot guess: the Huawei P20 is on sale for £ 599 and the Huawei P20 Pro for £ 799 and the Huawei P30 for £ 699 and Huawei P30 Pro £ 899, so we’re setting Huawei P40 to £ 799 and Huawei P40 Pro to £ 999.
