Following the announcement of their 2020 flagship P40 series last month, the Huawei P40 and P40 Pro are now available to buy at retailers around Australia.
The P-series phones have always had a great camera heritage; and Huawei is coming out with all guns blazing on the camera front for the P40-series launching the phones with ‘Visionary Photography’.
Huawei has partnered again with Leica. Together they’ve co-engineered a new camera array that includes a 50MP Ultra Vision Camera with Wide Angle lens on both models as the main sensor. The P40 Pro also includes a 40MP Cine Camera, 12MP SuperSensing Telephoto Camera and 3D Depth sensor, while the P40 gets a 16MP Ultra-Wide Angle secondary Camera with 8MP sensor with Telephoto.
Huawei is bringing their superzoom tech from the P30 Pro to the P40 series with a 30x Digital Zoom on the P40, while the P40 Pro gets a 50x Super-Sensing Zoom.
The phones are plenty powerful with a HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G processor, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage.
| P40 | P40 Pro | |
| Display: | 6.1” diagonal OLED Display 2340 x 1080 resolution 442ppi | 6.58” diagonal OLED Display 2640 x 1200 resolution 441 ppi |
| Processor: | HUAWEI Kirin 990 5G Octa-core, 2*Cortex-A76 Based 2.86GHz + 2Cortex-A76 Based 2.36GHz + 4Cortex- A55 1.95GHz | HUAWEI Kirin 990 5G Octa-core, 2*Cortex-A76 Based 2.86GHz + 2Cortex-A76 Based 2.36GHz + 4Cortex- A55 1.95GHz |
| Memory: | 8GB RAM/128GB Storage (with NM card up to 256GB) | 8GB RAM/256GB Storage (with NM card up to 256GB) |
| Rear Camera: | * 50MP Ultra Vision Camera (Wide Angle f/1.9) * 16MP Ultra-Wide Angle Camera – (f/2.2) * 8MP Telephoto Camera (f/2.4, OIS) | * 50MP Ultra Vision Camera (Wide Angle, f/1.9, OIS) * 40MP Cine Camera (Ultra-Wide Angle, f/1.8) * 12MP SuperSensing Telephoto Camera (f/3.4, OIS) * 3D Depth Sensing Camera |
| Zoom: | 30x Digital | 50x Super Sensing |
| Front Camera: | 32MP Selfie Camera (f/2.0) | 32MP Selfie Camera (f/2.2, Auto Focus) + Depth Camera |
| Water/Dust Resistance: | IP53 | IP68 |
| Battery: | 3800mAh | 4200mAh |
| Sensor: | Front In-screen Fingerprint sensor | Front In-screen Fingerprint sensor |
| Wireless: | NFC, 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax,2×2 MIMO,HE160,1024 QAM, MU-MIMO, 2.4G/5G, support Wi-Fi direct, Bluetooth 5.1, Support BLE, SBC, AAC, LDAC | NFC, 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax,2×2 MIMO,HE160,1024 QAM, MU-MIMO, 2.4G/5G, support Wi-Fi direct, Bluetooth 5.1, Support BLE, SBC, AAC, LDAC |
| OS: | Huawei EMUI10.1 (Based on Android 10) | Huawei EMUI10.1 (Based on Android 10) |
| Colours: | Silver Frost and Deep Sea Blue | Silver Frost and Deep Sea Blue |
| Dimensions: | 71.06mm x 148.9mm x 8.5mm @ 175g | 72.6mm x 158.2mm x 8.95mm @ 203g |
The phones do run Android 10 with EMUI 10.1 which adds some interesting customisations – but the phones do not support Google apps or services, and have no access to Google Play. Huawei has instead moved to Huawei App Gallery to deliver apps however there’s a few gaps in their library at the moment, but they hope to bridge that gap.
You can get your hands on the P40 and P40 Pro from today in Australia. The P40 is priced at $1,099, while the P40 Pro is priced at $1,599. The P40 and P40 Pro are available to purchase from the Huawei Authorised Chatswood Store and online, as well as Mobileciti, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, eBay, Domayne, Joycemayne, and Auptimal mobile, with The Good Guys, Officeworks selling just the P40 Pro.
