Back in March, Chinese manufacturing giant, Huawei, announced its latest flagship series, Huawei P40 series. The Huawei P40 Pro has been at the top of DxoMark ranking till a few days ago when the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra overtook it. According to He Gang, President of Huawei’s Consumer Business, the Huawei P40 Pro won the “EISA Best Camera Smartphone of 2020-2021” award. In addition, Huawei WATCH GT 2 also won the “EISA Best SmartWatch of 2020 – 2021” award.
The full name of EISA is “Expert Imaging and Sound Association”, which is a European Professional Audiovisual Association. The association and awards have a history of nearly 40 years and are one of the largest consumer electronics awards in the world. This award for the Huawei P40 Pro is not entirely a surprise considering its blistering camera performance.
Huawei P40 Pro uses a quad curved display design. It is available in frost silver, light gold, white, Deep sea blue, and bright black versions. In terms of cameras, Huawei P40 Pro Super Sensitive Leica Quad Camera supports 5x optical zoom and 50x digital zoom. Huawei P40 series comes with a Kirin 990 5G flagship chip, as well as an EMUI 10.1 system.
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Huawei P40 Pro key camera specifications:
- Quad camera setup, including ToF sensor
- Primary: 50MP 1/1.28″ sensor (12MP output), 23mm-equivalent (1x defined as 27mm) f/1.9-aperture lens, full-pixel Octa-PD, OIS
- Ultra-wide: 40MP 1/1.54″ sensor, 18mm-equivalent f/1.8-aperture lens, PDAF
- Tele: 12MP 1/3.56″ sensor, 125mm-equivalent f/3.4-aperture lens, PDAF, OIS
- ToF 3D depth-sensing camera (78-degree FOV)
- LED flash
- 4K video, 2160p/60fps (2160p/30fps tested); default is wide-angle camera 1080P/30fps
- Multispectral color temperature sensor
- 32MP front camera with f/2.2 aperture, IR Depth / Gesture Camera for pro bokeh, Face unlocking, 4k video recording
Huawei P40 Pro other specifications
- 6.58-inch (2640 x 1200 pixels) Flex OLED display with 90Hz refresh rate, DCI-P3 HDR
- HUAWEI Kirin 990 5G (2 x Cortex-A76 Based 2.86 GHz + 2 x Cortex-A76 Based 2.36 GHz + 4 x Cortex-A55 1.95 GHz) processor with ARM Mali-G76MP16 GPU, Dual Big Core + Tiny Core NPUs(Neural-network Processing Unit)
- 8GB RAM with 256GB / 512GB storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with NM card
- Android 10 with EMUI 10.1
- Dual SIM (nano SIM + eSIM)
- In-display fingerprint sensor
- Water, dust resistant (IP68)
- Dimensions: 158.2×72.6×8.95mm; Weight: 209g
- USB Type-C Audio
- 5G SA/NSA, Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ax (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 5.1 LE, GPS (L1 + L5 dual band), NavIC, NFC, USB 3.1 Type-C (GEN1)
- 4200mAh (typical) battery with 40W SuperCharge, 27W Wireless HUAWEI SuperCharge
