The Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro launch event is just weeks away. Here’s what we know so far.
The Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro launch event is just weeks away, with a confirmed date of March 26 having been revealed recently.
They’re set to be the next flagship smartphones from the Chinese smartphone brand, which has gone from strength to strength in recent years.
The Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro rivaled the likes of the Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9 Plus, Pixel 3 XL and new iPhones, and the P30 duo (or potentially trio) will have the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus in their sights.
We say potentially trio, as Apple launched three new phones back in September, and Samsung did the same in February, so we wouldn’t be surprised if Huawei followed suit with a new trio of its own under the P30 name.
Update: Leaked renders give us a look at the Huawei P30 Pro in red and reveal that there’s seemingly no headphone port. Plus, the P30 range has now been certified in various countries, with some of these certifications giving us an idea of how much RAM and storage the P30 and P30 Pro will have.
We want to see the Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro continue to build on the momentum from 2018, and we’ve come up with a list of things that would help that happen.
But before that though, here’s what we know and suspect about the phones so far. Rumors are starting to roll in and we now have a good idea of what to expect from Huawei’s next flagship phones.
The Huawei P30 launch data has been confirmed for March 26 after Huawei made the announcement on its Twitter account.
That confirms the one release date rumor we saw before this, which pointed to an announcement in Paris at the end of March.
Note though that if you’re in the US you might not be able to buy the P30 and P30 Pro, as the firm doesn’t currently operate in the country.
As for the Huawei P30 price, it’s likely to be at least as expensive as the £599 (roughly $790, AU$1,070) Huawei P20, and will probably arrive alongside the even pricier Huawei P30 Pro.
Hottest leaks:
Our best look yet at the possible design of the Huawei P30 comes from renders shared by @OnLeaks, who has a solid track record.
You can see some of these below. Note that the phone has a gradient color scheme on the back, which appears to be made of glass.
You can also see a teardrop notch on the front, tiny bezels, a triple-lens rear camera, a 3.5mm headphone port and no visible fingerprint scanner, suggesting it’s built into the screen. That in turn might mean the screen is OLED, since most in-screen scanners don’t work with LCD.
The headphone port in these pictures is slightly surprising, since Huawei didn’t include one on the P20 range.
We’ve seen even more of the Huawei P30 Pro though, as both high-quality renders and real photos of the phone seem to have emerged.
Starting with the renders, which you can see below, there’s a notch above the screen and a small bezel below, while around the back there’s a quad-lens camera, with three lenses in one block and another to the side.
Additional renders from the same source have also since emerged, this time showing the Huawei P30 Pro in red, giving us four colors in all. You can see those in the same gallery above.
These renders also show the top and bottom edge of the phone, revealing that unlike the standard Huawei P30 there’s seemingly no headphone port, but that there is an IR blaster, which the standard model doesn’t appear to have.
As for the real photos, those can be seen below and they match the design above, with a quad-lens camera arranged in the same way.
You can also see just how shiny, reflective and seemingly a fingerprint magnet the back of the phone is.
