Four things to expect from the Huawei P30: More cameras, a notch, and... Moon mode?

Huawei P30 and P30 Pro set to be unveiled in Paris on Tuesday

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Four things to expect from the Huawei P30: More cameras, a notch, and... Moon mode?

Published: 8:18pm, 25 Mar 2019Updated: 8:59am, 20 Sep 2019

This article originally appeared on ABACUS

We’re expecting to see Huawei’s flagship P30 and P30 Pro on Tuesday in Paris, but we already know a bit about the phones thanks to leakers… at Huawei. Images of the new phone were (allegedly) accidentally posted to its website a day early, confirming plenty of details about the new phones. We’re not sure exactly which features are being reserved for the stronger P30 Pro version, but here’s what we know so far.

1. More cameras, more megapixels, and more… views?

We’ve been hearing rumors for a while now that Huawei’s newest handset will have four cameras on the rear -- an upgrade to last year’s P20 Pro’s three-camera system. The new model is said to have a Leica ultra wide angle lens that allows you to capture more in a single shot, Huawei’s TOF (time-of-flight) sensor for more accurate depth sensing, and a periscope telephoto lens enabling lossless zooming.

Huawei may have one more camera trick up its sleeve, and it’s something called Dual View Video -- which allows one camera to zoom in and the other to capture a wider angle.

The Dual View Video is advertised as a great way to capture football matches. (Picture: Screenshot from Huawei)

Huawei might be in the race for the most cameras, but it looks like it's dropping out of the megapixel context: It’s apparently keeping the 40MP main camera. Xiaomi, for instance, has a 48MP camera made by Sony. But more megapixels doesn’t necessarily mean better quality, as both the iPhone and Google Pixel have shown.

2. The night shot

Shooting the Moon is apparently some kind of trend in China, because both Xiaomi and Huawei have promised to make your pictures of the Moon much more detailed.

During the launch of the Xiaomi Mi 9, CEO Lei Jun presented a Moon mode -- comparing it with shots of the Moon from the Huawei P20 and iPhone XS shots of the Moon. Now it’s time for Huawei to strike back: The new models are supposed to come with an optical image stabilizer and 10X hybrid zoom for more detail (although it feels like that last feature might be reserved for the P30 Pro).