The Mate 20 series, the first phones to be powered with Huawei's own Kirin 980 chip, will be unveiled at the ExCel Exhibition Center at 1 p.m. (8 p.m. in Manila).
Shenzhen-based Huawei, which recently overtook Apple in terms of sales, is teasing "higher intelligence" for the Mate 20 line, which is traditionally geared towards power users and carriers over the camera technology from the P Series that are released earlier in the year.
The P20 Pro, which went on sale in April, was the first to offer triple rear cameras, engineered by Leica. It's the highest rated mobile camera on review website DxOMark, with its artificial intelligence-assisted scene recognition and up to 5 times optical and digital zoom.
The Kirin 980, which has 2 neural units, double that of the 970 from 2017, can recognize faces, objects and scenes up to 120 percent faster, according to Huawei.
Huawei also claims a 20-percent bump in performance, a 40-percent improvement in power efficiency and a 58-percent increase in overall energy efficiency.
Samsung also touted improved scene recognition with its Galaxy Note 9 while Apple showcased the AI smarts of its own A12 Bionic chip on the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR.
Google's Pixel 3 and 3 XL unveiled last week stuck with a single rear camera, but still harnessing the US internet giant's software smarts to deliver great shots that made the Pixel 2 and 2 XL one of the most highly rated mobile cameras of 2017.
In 2017, Huawei released the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro, the first Mate phones with glass backs. The handsets had dual Leica cameras on the rear. The more premium Pro model had a tall, AMOLED screen compared to the LCD screen with a more conventional aspect ratio on the regular model.
source: news.abs-cbn.com
