Huawei P50 and P50 Pro unveiled: SD888 and Kirin 9000 in 4G, upgraded cameras
After months of waiting, the Huawei P50 series has finally been revealed. There’s no Pro+ model this time around, just a vanilla and a Pro phone. But both feature improved cameras and some interesting choices for chipsets, more on that in a second.
Let’s start with the cameras – they are still Leica-branded, both models feature 10-channel color sensors and improved telephoto modules. The P50 pair is equipped with the same main camera – a 50MP sensor sitting behind a 23mm lens with an f/1.8 aperture and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS).
he Huawei P50 Pro also has a 40MP black & white camera, this one with a 26mm lens and an f/1.6 aperture. Then there’s the 13MP ultrawide-angle camera with a 13mm f/2.2 lens. The cameras are also assisted by Laser autofocus.
For zooming in, there is a periscope lens. It has only 90mm focal length, less than most periscopes we’ve seen so far (that’s around 3.9x magnification), but the high resolution 64MP sensor offers a lot of flexibility – digital zoom goes up to 2,700mm. This lens has an f/3.5 aperture and OIS.
Anyway, the Pro will be available with several memory configurations. The base model has 8 GB of RAM and 128/256/512GB storage (plus a NM card slot for up to 256 GB more). The top-specced model has 12GB of RAM and 512GB storage.
The vanilla Huawei P50 will only come with a Snapdragon 888 chipset, no Kirin option here. And it is limited to 4G again. This model has 8GB of RAM and 128/256 GB storage, plus the microSD slot. Naturally, both models run Huawei’s HarmonyOS 2.0 out of the box.
Both phones are roughly the same size, however, the Huawei P50 Pro features a curved 6.6” OLED display with 1,225 x 2,700 px resolution (450ppi). It is an HDR-enabled panel with 120Hz refresh rate and 300Hz touch sampling rate.
Both models have periscope zoom cameras and 5 MP main cams with a color sensor. Of course, they run HarmonyOS 2.0 out of the box.
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