Huawei set to debut P30 series on March 26th

Huawei will not be unveiling its newest flagship at Mobile World Congress next week. Instead, the company will be hosting its event in Paris next month—similar to what Huawei did last year. The P30 will be launched on March 26. The company isn't saying anything beyond revealing the date and venue. But it claims that the "Rules were made to be rewritten." The teaser video on Twitter also shows prominent spots in Paris being dramatically zoomed in on. There have been previous reports that the P30 Pro might have a periscope-like camera with lossless optical zoom. This might allude to that. For now, we're left guessing until the phones' launch.

Source: Engadget

Huawei set to launch 5G foldable phone on February 24th

Looks like Huawei is all set to launch its newest innovations at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company just announced on Twitter that it’s holding an event at MWC on February 24 at 2 p.m. Barcelona time. The company will be introducing its take on the 5G foldable phone. Huawei CEO Richard Yu confirmed this at an investor meeting in Beijing last week. He said, “We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona in February, where we will launch the world's first 5G smartphone with foldable screen.”

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Leak shares possible screen sizes of the upcoming Huawei P30 series

We already know Huawei is set to release its P30 series soon. While we don’t have an exact date yet, we know what the phones’ screens might look like. Slash Leaks obtained a photo of the supposed screen protectors for the P30, P30 Pro, and P30 Lite. The P30 Pro will reportedly have a 6.4-inch QHD+ display and have an in-display fingerprint reader. Meanwhile, the P30 and P30 Lite both get 6-inch FHD+ displays. But the P30 also gets an in-display fingerprint reader, while the P30 Lite has a rear fingerprint scanner. All three will reportedly get the waterdrop notch display. We don’t know if this means 3D face scanning will be less sophisticated this time around than the one introduced in the Mate 20 Pro. For now, these are still rumours and we’d only find out which ones are real when Huawei officially launches the phone.

Leak shows possible design of the Huawei P30 Pro

How many camera sensors is enough in a smartphone? Manufacturers still aren’t done adding more into their devices. The latest leak for Huawei’s upcoming P30 Pro smartphone suggests we’re getting another smartphone with four camera lenses. Unlike Samsung’s take on the trend, the fourth sensor rumoured to be coming to Huawei’s newest flagship won’t be directly usable. The company is following a new trend from Chinese brands where there’s a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor that’s commonly used for 3D mapping in virtual and augmented reality. How this’ll be utilized is something we don’t know yet.

One other change rumoured to be coming to the P30 is a smaller, “waterdrop” notch. The P20 Pro had a wider notch to house extra sensors for a more advanced 3D face recognition system. Now, we’re wondering if the P30 Pro loses these sensors. We’ll only find out once they phone officially launches, which usually happens in the first quarter of the year.

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