We first got a glance of the upcoming and all new generation Huawei P40 and P40 Pro back in December, courtesy of very popular Twitter-based tipster Steve H.McFly in collaboration of @91Mobiles in some high definition CAD-based images, that showed off the forthcoming smartphones from the Chinese multinational technology company in more of a silhouettes sort of renders. Apparently we already confirmed from our French sources that the phone maker will be officially taking the wraps of their P30 and P30 Pro successor models in Paris towards the end of March, this year as mentioned by Richard Yu, Huawei's Head of Consumer Sector, in a interview last month, answering the French media questions in Shenzhen, China. According to Yu, the all new P40 will supersede it's predecessors and will be launched with a "never seen" design, as well as incorporating improvements from AI, camera department and other upgrades in overall performance. Following this we already saw the from our past report, the Pro iteration of the Huawei P40 will supposedly trait a brand new design that looks to wrap around and cover the phone's screen on all four corners.
However that is not the case here with the vanilla P40 variant, as the device from the above formal looking press renders matches with the earlier CAD-based renders, coming with a flatter display panel unlike the P40 Pro, that allegedly features curved display on all four sides, stated as "Quad-curved overflow" display by the notorious Huawei leakster from Twitter, Teme (特米). The screen even glory a pill-shaped punch hole style front facing secondary cameras on the top left corner. Apart from that, the flagship smartphone boasts the same rectangular camera module on the back, now giving us a clear peek at the three lenses engineered with Leica, as seen on existing models from the phone maker announced in the past. The sensors are arranged vertically from top to bottom with a dual-tone LED flash alongside. Now moving to the sides, the bottom of the unit is seen housing the speaker grills, USB Type-C port, microphone hole and the SIM card tray, where to the left, we see a the placement of the device's hardware buttons for volume controls and power.
So lastly, when speculating our readers with some rumored internals for the next frontrunner handset from Huawei, we will likely see a display measuring somewhere around 6.1" or 6.2" on the standard P40, possibly powered by Samsung's Exynos 990 SoC that supports 5G connectivity. For photography, there should be an ultra wide angle lens accompanied by a ToF sensor and a main lens of unknown megapixels. The pricier Huawei P40 Pro is currently circulating on the web to include a penta or quad camera module on the rear that is expected to pack Sony's 64MP primary IMX686 sensor, a 20MP ultra angle wide lens, a 12MP periscope type telephoto lens that is capable of 10x optical zoom, another a macro lens, and finally a ToF sensor. Under the hood we assume to see the flagship Exynos chipset, with both phones booting Android's version 10 based EMUI 10, skipping any kind of Google services due to the ban imposed on Huawei from US Government.
Source: 91mobiles
