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Huawei P30 Pro: Release date, price, specs and all the latest leaks



Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro are expected to be two of the most exciting phones of 2019, and they’re set to launch later this month. Here’s everything we know about them so far, including specs, camera features, price, and likely release date.

Sure, the company may be having trouble getting its existing wares into certain international markets, but if you can pick up the likes of a Huawei P20 Pro or Mate 20 Pro, we think they’ll leave you thoroughly impressed. With a rich bevy of features and top-notch hardware, those two handsets have got us very excited about what else Huawei will bring to the table in 2019.

Read on for everything we know so far about the rumored Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro, including expected specs, features, pricing and release details.


Image Credit: WinFuture

Huawei P30 Pro − The latest leaks

Prolific tipsters Evan Blass and Roland Quandt have published legitimate-looking press shots of the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro. Blass’ images are embedded in the following section, while Quandt’s were posted on WinFuture.

Quandt’s picture leak comes alongside a list of alleged specs. According to Quandt, the P30 will feature a 6.1-inch, 2340 x 1080 OLED display with a teardrop notch, triple rear cameras, a Kirin 980 processor, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a 3650mAh battery, a headphone jack, IP68 water- and dust-resistance and an in-display fingerprint sensor.

The P30 Pro, meanwhile, will apparently have a 6.47-inch, 2340 x 1080 curved OLED screen that doubles up as a speaker by vibrating, a triple camera system combining a 40-megapixel f/1.6 sensor, a 20-megapixel f/2.2 wide-angle sensor and a ToF (time-of-flight) sensor, the same Kirin 980 processor, this time with 8GB of RAM, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB storage options, a 4200mAh battery and IP68 water- and dust-resistance.

The P30 will reportedly be available in black, white and blue color schemes, while the P30 Pro will come in black, white, blue and orange.




Huawei P30 Pro – Price and release date

The Huawei P30 will officially be unveiled on Tuesday, March 26, at a special event in Paris.

As ever with these teasers, this isn’t the kind of announcement that’s big on detail, though it is a touch less cryptic than usual. The phrase “Rules were made to be rewritten” appears alongside photos of the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and Notre Dame cathedral, all photographed with immaculate tight zoom.

As for pricing, according to WinFuture, an apparently trusted source has revealed the prices for the entire Huawei P30 and P30 Pro lineup. The long and short of it is that you’re looking at Samsung Galaxy S10 family prices.

The entry-level Huawei P30 will start at €749, which is around £640. That model comes with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. We’re also expecting the non-Pro version to be a little smaller, and to come with ‘just’ the three cameras, rather than the four found on the P30 Pro.

And those extras won’t come cheap, apparently. The Huawei P30 Pro version that comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB storage will reportedly set you back €999, or around £855. Upgrading to 256GB of internal storage will push it up to €1,099 – or around £940.

Finally, there's rumored to be a 512GB version, but no price is available yet – though you’d imagine that would push it easily over the £1000 mark.



Furthermore, prolific tipster Evan Blass has got his hands on pictures that suggest Huawei has a pre-order bonus in the works.

A Sonos speaker would be pretty useful incentive to get people ordering the P30, not a million miles away from the free earphones Samsung offered with pre-orders of the Galaxy S10.

And if you think a Sonos speaker sounds too generous to be true, don’t forget that pre-orders of Huawei’s P20 Pro last year would get you a free pair of Bose QuietComfort 35 II headphones, worth £325.



Huawei P30 Pro – Camera

You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that, once again, Huawei is going big on photography.

Huawei CEO Yu Chengdong took to Weibo in March with a series of P30 posters that don’t leave a great deal to the imagination. Each contains a photo with an element zoomed in on in a circle in the middle of the picture. If that wasn’t clear enough, all of them have ‘Huawei P30 Series’, ‘#rewritetherules and the launch date printed alongside the lead image.



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And the latest P30 rumors should have camera-lovers very excited indeed. Huawei has confirmed the P30 Pro smartphone will include a periscope-style camera lens, with the company promising it will deliver ‘super zoom’ capabilities.

The periscope design gets around one of the major barriers to offering lossless zooming capabilities on cameras. By placing the lens on its side, smartphone manufacturers are able to maintain the slim design of a modern handset.

The company is rumored to be including a 10x optical zoom within its highest-end flagship device, which would be a huge breakthrough in smartphone photography that could allow us to get much closer to our subjects without losing visual fidelity.

The promotional shots embedded above point to the new periscope camera, but it’s important not to get too carried away just yet.

Although some of the pictures here look like they could well have been captured on a top-end smartphone, some felt like a stretch to us. It turns out that skepticism was entirely warranted.

Not only were the pictures taken on DSLR rather than the P30, Gadgetmatch also spotted that one of them – an incredible shot of a volcano erupting – is a decade old. You can buy and download it right now from Getty Images. Another image from the collection –  a young child reaching out to stroke a duck – looks like it’s come straight from this photographer’s portfolio. 

To make matters worse, this isn’t the first time that Huawei has been caught out implying that DSLR camera shots are taken on their products. A selfie was supposedly taken by the Nova 3 smartphone last August was later shown to be done via DSLR.



“We’ve been made aware that there might have been some misunderstanding regarding our recent Huawei P30 Series teaser posters,” Huawei said in a statement. “We would like to reiterate that those are, in fact, only teaser posters, and are only intended to hint at the unique new features that will come with the Huawei P30 Series.

“Huawei has acquired the licenses to the original images and the posters are artistic renditions of said features only.”

Huawei has updated the images on the Weibo post with a small disclaimer added to the bottom-left corner of the photos. The text now explains that they are creative adverts only intended for reference.


Image Credit: Spigen

Huawei P30 Pro – Design and display

While the P30 range is expected to be officially unveiled at the end of the month, as mentioned above, we already have a very good idea of what to expect of them, looks-wise.

In addition to WinFuture and Evan Blass’ leaks, MobileFun has a whole range of cases for both the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro smartphones, but the clearer pictures come courtesy of Spigen.

The most obvious feature is in the camera array on both devices. While the P30 has three lenses on display, like last year’s P20 Pro, the P30 Pro seems to pack a four-camera array.

The P30 also appears set to ditch the physical fingerprint reader, presumably in favor of the in-screen version debuted on the Mate 20 Pro.

And despite the hole-punch cutout serving as potentially the biggest smartphone design trend of 2019, based on these images, it seems that neither P30 variant will go the way of the newly-launched Honor View 20.


Image credit: Mobile Fun (left), Weibo (right)

Instead, there’s a small and round dewdrop-style notch. It’s a design touch that we’ve seen on a number of phones already; from Huawei’s own Mate 20, to the OnePlus 6T and the Oppo RX17 Pro/R17 Pro.

As for the rest of the screen technology, there’s no clear word yet on what these phones will actually offer up in terms of resolution. They both appear to support excellent screen-to-body ratios with almost no bezel and only the hint of a ‘chin’ on both counts, while, again based on their predecessors, the P30 might use LCD technology while the Pro will likely pack an AMOLED panel.

Another rumor claims both the P30 and the Pro model will get the OLED treatment this year, according to Chinese publication QQ (via GSMArena).

The additional image above (right) is a clearer, case-free render, picked up by website Techenguru but originating on Chinese social media site Weibo, also showing the P30 Pro’s quad-camera array and a notch-laden screen, however, the latter appears to adopt a sharper ‘U’ shape than the dewdrop form of the previous visuals.


The Huawei P20’s sliver of a fingerprint sensor

Huawei P30 Pro – Additional features

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro was the first of the company’s phones to showcase an in-display fingerprint sensor, and logic would suggest that this technology will persist with the P30 series, at least on the Pro model.

Despite extended FullView displays on last year’s phones, both still managed to squeeze a more conventional fingerprint sensor underneath the display, along with each phone’s bottom bezel.

With the dewdrop notch seen in the renders only leaving room for a front-facing camera, there’s every chance that Huawei has ditched the depth-sensing face unlock technology that is utilized on the Mate 20 Pro.

The teaser video embedded above includes more than one nod to audio, with the imagery of a speaker cone and multiple instances of what could be considered visual representations of soundwaves.

While Huawei’s most recent devices already offer stereo sound output from both their speaker grilles and earpieces when playing media, the company might be planning on upping the audio credentials with its next flagship handsets

Huawei P30 – Performance

On the inside, we expect the P30 to arrive with the 7nm Kirin 980 processor last seen in the brilliant Mate 20 Pro.

Contrary to this hypothesis, however, some believe that the P30 series will showcase a newer Kirin 985 chipset – an as yet unannounced incremental upgrade over the 980 that focuses on providing improved performance and an integrated 5G modem.

As it stands, the Kirin 980 is already an excellent SoC, placing Huawei’s devices up against the best rivals on the market in both raw benchmarking tests and real-world usage. It also packs in a dual NPU (neural processing unit) for AI tasks and operates on an impressively efficient 7nm manufacturing process.

Considering how fresh the 980 still is, it only really falls short of the mark if Huawei has its heart set on using a chip with an integrated 5G modem. The Kirin 980 is already equipped to support 4.5G LTE (offering speeds of up to 1.4Gbps), which is arguably more useful as users will be able to benefit from the best possible speeds currently available across the far more established 4G network.

Instead of releasing a new chip, however, the company only need to add its Balong 5000 modem to the mix to give the Kirin 980 (and any phone powered by it) 5G browsing speeds.

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