Huawei unveiled three new smartphones at its online conference in Europe. This devices includes the compact Huawei P40, Huawei P40 Pro and P40 Pro Plus.
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Huawei P40 Pro
The Huawei P40 Pro gets its inspiration from both the P30 and Mate 30, but beats them both in terms of features. Huawei’s usual drive to perfect the camera continues to get stronger, and this year was not exempted as the company did much to improve the screen as well.
Huawei P40 Pro comes with a 6.58 inch (2640 x 1200) curve display which the company called “Overflow Display. It is powered by the home made Hisilicon Kirin 990 5G 2.86 GHz octa core, which is paired with a RAM of 8GB and a storage capacity of 256 GB. It uses a unique NMCard instead of a microSD card.
The display which has an aspect ratio of 19.8:9, comes with a large punch-hole on the upper left which houses a selfie dual camera and sensors. The battery is 4200mAh with a high capacity of 40W for fast charging and 27W for wireless charging.
The phone is not compatible with Google Mobile Service (GMS). This simply means that there is no Google Play Store on it but the have the new and fast growing Huawei Mobile Services (HMS).
It runs on the latest Android 10 (EMUI10) and apps can be downloaded from AppGallery of HUAWEI Mobile Services (HMS).
The Huawei P40 Pro equipped with a Leica-marked quad camera (4 eyes). The quad camera (4 cameras) consist of 50 MP (Ultra Vision Wide 23 mm F1.9 OIS) + 40 MP (Ultra Wide Cine 18 mm F1.8) + 12 MP (tele 5x 125mm F3.4 OIS) + ToF (depth).
The selfie camera is a dual camera set up of 32 million pixels + IR Depth. The phone is powered up by a 4,200mAh battery. It comes with the 27W wireless charging speeds of the Mate 30 Pro. The phone can also charge at 40W over USB-C as well.
P40 Pro’s is dust and water resistant (IP68). Checkout the full specs below.
Huawei P40 Pro Specifications
Network Properties
- 2G bands: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
- 3G bands: HSDPA 800 / 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100
- 4G bands:
- LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 6(900), 7(2600), 8(900), 9(1800), 12(700), 17(700), 18(800), 19(800), 20(800), 26(850), 28(700), 32(1500), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) – ELS-NX9
- LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 6(900), 7(2600), 8(900), 9(1800), 12(700), 17(700), 18(800), 19(800), 20(800), 26(850), 28(700), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500), 66(1700/2100) – ELS-N04
- 5G bands
- 5G band 1(2100), 3(1800), 28(700), 38(2600), 41(2500), 77(3700), 78(3500), 79(4700); SA/NSA – ELS-NX9
- 5G band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 28(700), 38(2600), 41(2500), 66(1700), 77(3700), 78(3500), 79(4700); SA/NSA – ELS-N04
- Speed: HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A, 5G
Launch
- Announced: 2020, March 26
- Status: Coming soon. Exp. release 2020, April 7
Design
- Dimensions: 158.2 x 72.6 x 9 mm (6.23 x 2.86 x 0.35 in)
- Weight: 209 g (7.37 oz)
- Build: Glass front, glass back, aluminum frame
- Colours: Silver Frost, Blush Gold, Deep Sea Blue, Ice White, Black
- SIM: Single SIM (Nano-SIM/eSIM) or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
- IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 mins)
Display
- Type: OLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size: 6.58 inches, 105.2 cm2 (~91.6% screen-to-body ratio)
- Resolution: 1200 x 2640 pixels (~441 ppi density)
- DCI-P3
- HDR10
- 90Hz
Operating System
- Android 10.0 (AOSP + HMS); EMUI 10.1
Hardware
- Chipset: HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G (7 nm+)
- CPU: Octa-core (2×2.86 GHz Cortex-A76 & 2×2.36 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4×1.95 GHz Cortex-A55)
- GPU: Mali-G76 MP16
- RAM: 8GB
- Internal Storage: 256GB
- Memory Card slot: NM (Nano Memory), up to 256GB (uses shared SIM slot)
- UFS 3.0
Cameras
- Main Camera: Quad
- 50 MP, f/1.9, 23mm (wide), 1/1.28″, 2.44µm, omnidirectional PDAF, OIS
- Periscope 12 MP, f/3.4, 125mm (telephoto), PDAF, OIS, 5x optical zoom
- 40 MP, f/1.8, 18mm (ultrawide), 1/1.54″, PDAF
- TOF 3D, (depth)
- Features: Leica optics, LED flash, panorama, HDR
- Video: 2160p@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60fps, 720@7680fps, HDR; gyro-EIS
- Selfie Camera: Dual
- 32 MP, f/2.2, (wide), 1/2.8″, 0.8µm, AF
- IR TOF 3D, (depth/biometrics sensor)
- Features: HDR
- Video: 2160p@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60fps
Multimedia
- Radio: No
- Loudspeaker: Yes
- Audio 3.5mm jack: No
- 32-bit/384kHz audio
Connectivity
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
- Bluetooth: 5.1, A2DP, LE
- GPS: Yes, with dual-band A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS, NavIC
- NFC: Yes
- Infrared port: Yes
- USB: 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector
Features
- Sensors: Infrared face recognition, fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, color spectrum
Battery
- Battery Type & Capacity: Non-removable Li-Po 4200 mAh battery
- Charging: Fast charging 40W
- Fast wireless charging 27W
- Fast reverse wireless charging 27W
Models: ELS-NX9, ELS-N04
Huawei P40 Pro Price and Availability
The Huawei P40 Pro price starts at €999 ($1095) for the 8GB RAM and 256GB model and goes on sale on  April 7.