PARIS -- Huawei launched its P30 series smartphone series here Tuesday, seeking to lure an increasingly saturated market away from Samsung and Apple with rear cameras that can shoot the moon better than its rivals.
The top-end P30 Pro has four Leica-engineered rear cameras with up to 50 times digital zoom, allowing users to capture more detailed images of stars and heavenly bodies. The regular P30 can zoom digitally up to 30 times.
"The Galaxy phone cannot see a Galaxy," Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu said in a jab at Samsung's Galaxy phones, while showing the audience a photo of a star cluster.
The P30 series was unveiled in the French capital just hours after Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled news and TV services and a credit card that will tie consumers deeper into the iOS ecosystem.
Shenzhen-based Huawei's newest flagships also came a month after Samsung launched the S10, S10+ and S10e, which saw the South Korean giant equip the S line for the first time with triple rear cameras (except for the S10e, which has two) and hole-shaped cutouts on the screen for the front-facing camera.
Huawei and Samsung, the world's number two and number one smartphone vendor in terms of sales, respectively, both unveiled handsets with folding displays and 5G capabilities last February, selling new features to a growing number of customers who are holding on to their phones longer than a year or two.
The quad cameras on the P30 Pro matches the four lenses on the Galaxy S10 5G and improves upon the triple lenses on Huawei's own P20 Pro and Mate 20 Pro from 2018. Apple stuck with dual lenses on the iPhone Xs and Xs Max while Google kept it at just one lens for the Pixel 3 and 3XL.
Huawei consumer business group CEO Richard Yu posted a photo of the moon on his Weibo account weeks before Tuesday's launch, with the blurred watermark hinting at the P30 series.
It's the fourth year of Huawei’s partnership with German camera-maker Leica that started with 2016's P9 series. For 2018's Mate 20 series, Huawei swapped the monochrome lens for a wide angle sensor.
Samsung also included a wide angle lens for the S10 and S10+ on top of the telephoto and standard lens.
Huawei, also the world biggest supplier of telecommunications equipment, is also unveiling new consumer products as it fights allegations of cyber espionage from the US.
Its founder, Ren Zhengfei, has denied that its equipment serve as a backdoor for Beijing. He also described the arrest of his daughter, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou as politically motivated.
Meng was arrested in Canada on the request of Washington, who accused of violating sanctions against Iran.
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PARIS -- Huawei is set to unveil the next generation of its photography centered P series smartphones here on Tuesday, as the Chinese tech giant races to overtake world sales leader, Samsung.
The P30 series, tipped to come with improved zoom and low light capabilities, will debut in the French capital one month after Samsung unveiled a trio of Galaxy S10 phones with triple rear lenses and large screens.
Huawei posted teasers of the P30's camera capabilities in the run up to the launch, including how it can zoom into a cluster of buildings that will otherwise be hidden in a landscape shot.
Purported leaked images from tech journalist Evan Blass, who has a track record for accurately predicting smartphone specifications, showed triple lenses on both the P30 and P30 Pro. The third lens on the Pro model, however, looks different from the two other sensors based on Blass' leak
On the P20 Pro, the third lens provided up to 5 times zoom. The Mate 20 Pro from late 2018 also had triple lenses, with the third lens allowing wide-angle shooting instead of zoom.
The P30 Pro will have a smaller, dew drop-shaped notch for the front-facing camera and curved sides, based on the leak.
The Galaxy S10 line have hole punches on the screen for the selfie camera and curved sides on the S10 and S10+ models while the 5.8-inch S10e has a flat screen.
Huawei and Samsung also recently released smartphones with folding displays, the Mate X and the Galaxy Fold, respectively, seeking to reignite customer interest as industry sales growth slowed.
Shenzhen-based Huawei is also unveiling new hardware as it fights allegations of cyber espionage lobbed by the US. Its founder, Ren Zhengfei has denied wrongdoing.
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MANILA -- China's Huawei said Wednesday it would launch its photography-centered P30 phones in Paris on March 26, a month after rival Samsung unveils its flagship Galaxy S10 line.
Huawei, which is second to Samsung in terms of worldwide sales, said in a Twitter post that "rules were made to be rewritten" with the P30 series.
The Huawei P20 Pro, launched in Paris last year, featured 3 Leica-engineered cameras on the back and a gradient paint job, which have since been adopted by other smartphone makers.
Leaks point to as many as 4 rear cameras on the P30 Pro. The Twitter tease from Huawei showed zoomed in images of Parisian landmarks, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Up to 5 times artificial intelligence-assisted zoom was one of the main features of the P20 Pro. The Mate 20 Pro, released last October, offered a wide angle mode.
Huawei is scheduled to hold an event at Mobile World Congress in Spain on Feb. 24, where it is tipped to showcase a foldable and 5G-powered handsets.
Shenzhen-based Huawei is also releasing new hardware as it allays concerns over the security of its products. In a rare interview with the BBC, founder Ren Zhengfei said the recent arrest of his daughter and Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was politically motivated.
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