Huawei has officially announced its latest flagship P40 series with three smartphones – Huawei P40, Huawei P40 Pro, and Huawei P40 Pro+ in an event, broadcast live on YouTube.
Despite having a powerful system inside, the P40 trio focuses on photography with the tagline “visionary photography” that indeed has a lot to offer. The Huawei P40 offers a 50MP main, 16MP ultra-wide-angle, and an 8MP telephoto, triple rear camera setup and a 32MP front camera.
Huawei P40 Series Camera
The standard Huawei P40’s three cameras have f/1.9, f/2.2, and f/2.4 lens aperture respectively with optical image stabilization on the main and ultra-wide-angle units. 32MP front camera has a companion IR camera as well. The camera supports 3x optical zoom and 5x hybrid zoom with 30-times maximum digital zoom.
The Huawei P40 Pro offers a quad-camera setup also with the same 50MP main camera but a more attractive 40MP ultra-wide-angle “Cine Camera”. There is a 12MP SuperSensing Telephoto camera and the fourth 3D depth Sensing Camera. The three cameras come with respective f/1.9, f/1.8, and f/3.4 aperture lens, however, the main and telephoto units also feature optical image stabilization. Overall, the camera setup supports both the OIS and AIS (AI stabilization).
The Penta camera setup on the Huawei P40 Pro+ expands the four cameras on P40 Pro with a little but desirable modification. Three camera units remain identical – the 50MP and 40MP camera with a 3D depth sensor. The 12MP telephoto camera is replaced by two separate 8MP+8MP telephoto cameras in Huawei P40 Pro+. Both of them have the aid of OIS with one of them featuring an f/2.4 aperture lens with 3x optical zoom, while the other one has a 10x optical zoom with f/4.4 lens aperture.
Both the P40 Pro and P40 Pro+ feature a 32MP selfie camera with f/2.2 lens aperture and has a support of secondary depth sensor. This one is also an autofocus camera, unlike many other fixed focus cameras for selfies.
All the three Huawei P40 support 4K video recording at 60fps with both rear and front cameras.
Design and Display
Huawei P40 has a 6.1-inch OLED display with Full HD+ resolution of 2340×1080 px. With IP53 water and dust rating, the Huawei P40 has a more standard curved display with rounded corners and a punch-hole display. The solid coloured backside has a rectangular camera module and weighs approximately 175 grams.
The Huawei P40 Pro and P40 Pro+, with only a minor difference in thickness and a significant difference in weight, both are identical in size and design. The P40 Pro and Pro+ have 6.58-inch OLED display with up to 90Hz refresh rate. The duo feature custom screen resolution of 2640×1200 pixels.
The P40 Pro weighs 209 grams while the Pro+ weighs 226 grams whereas the latter is only 0.05mm thicker than the former. The P40 Pro and P40 Pro+ have curved corners on the body, dubbed as “Quad-Curved Overflow”. Both the phones are IP68 water and dust rated.
All the three support in-display fingerprint sensor.
Performance
The latest trio of Huawei P40 series is powered by Huawei’s latest flagship Kirin 990 5G system-on-chip. The chipset features an octa-core processor with two Cortex-A76 high-performance cores clocked at 2.86GHz. Further two Cortex-A76 cores are clocked at 2.36GHz for mid-tier processing power. For power efficiency, the chip has four Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.95GHz.
Kirin 990 features a Mali-G76 GPU and a Dual Big Core + a Tiny Core NPU.
For more simplicity, Huawei has offered the three devices with only a single memory configuration. All the three Huawei P40, P40 Pro, and P40 Pro+ come with 8GB RAM with the respective internal storage of 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB.
None of the phone support micro SD card. The memory expansion is only available through Huawei’s proprietary NM card on Single-SIM variants of the P40 series phones.
Connectivity
All the three models of Huawei P40 smartphones, come in single and dual-SIM variants depending on the region. The dual-SIM variants support two nano-SIM cards, however, the single SIM variant has one nano-SIM with an eSIM support.
The trio supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax), Bluetooth 5.1, and USB Type-C connectivity with USB 3.1. Traditional 3.5mm audio jack is not present, as the phone will be bundled with USB Type-C ear jack.
NFC support is only available with single-SIM variants.
Power and Charging
Huawei P40 features a 3800 mAh battery with 22.5-watt fast wired-charging. Wireless charging is supported with an additional case.
Huawei P40 Pro features 4,200 mAh battery with 40-watt SuperCharge and 27-watt Wireless SuperCharge. You need to purchase Huawei SuperCharge Wireless Charger (27W) or Huawei SuperCharge Wireless Car Charger (27W).
Huawei P40 Pro+ also features a 4,200 mAh battery with both wired and wireless charging with 40-watt SuperCharge. You need to purchase Huawei SuperCharge Wireless Charger Stand (40W) and a Huawei 65-watt power adapter.
Pricing and Availability
Huawei P40 costs EUR 799 and will be available from April 7, 2020, in five colour options – Silver Frost, Blush Gold, Deep Sea Blue, Ice White, and Black.
Huawei P40 Pro costs EUR 999 and will be available from April 7, 2020, in five colour options – Silver Frost, Blush Gold, Deep Sea Blue, Ice White, and Black.
Huawei P40 Pro costs EUR 1399 and will be available from June 2020, in two colour options – White Ceramic and Black Ceramic.
Estimate respective prices are $800, $1000, and $1400 or (PKR 128,000, PKR 160,000, and PKR 225,000)
