Recently, a number of digital media collectively broke the news about Huawei’s next-generation flagship machine: the P50 series. Let this Huawei flagship phone further surface.
Below, the author lists the information currently available to the media. And discuss the reliability of this information based on what we have learned before.
1. New appearance design
As Huawei’s two flagship flagships, the P series and Mate series have very clear positioning. The P series emphasizes appearance, particularly outstanding camera performance, and is targeted at young and fashionable groups. The Mate series is more business-oriented and versatile.
Therefore, the appearance of the P series can always leave a deep impression on people. Let's take a look at the design of the P50 this time - this is the front view of the fuselage exposed by foreign media @Guidingdroid:
Seeing this screen, my obsessive-compulsive disorder was completely cured . The main reason why I didn't choose the previous generation of Huawei phones is that I couldn't accept the dual-hole pill screen.
According to this rendering, the three versions of the P50 all use a single-hole screen solution. The fuselage is 6.1 (or 6.2) inches, 6.6 inches and 6.8 inches respectively. Moreover, the forehead and chin of the Pro version are significantly narrower, and the front is almost a whole screen - the screen-to-body ratio is further improved.
And the ordinary notebook uses a slightly curved screen, while the "large cup and extra large cup" still use the "four-curved overflow screen" design on the P40. The curved screen has an ultimate appearance, but it also has the problem of accidental touches. I don’t know if Huawei, like Xiaomi, has added a hardware-level anti-accidental touch chip.
In this spy photo of a suspected P50 engineering prototype, the "hole digging" position has been moved to the left. What’s more meaningful is that from the picture we can see the long array of “mahjong tiles” on the back of the P50.
Judging from the pictures, the P50 Pro adopts a rear five-camera solution. Includes four lenses with different focal lengths and a TOF lens. At the same time, some media pointed out that the characters "GEESINS" are the special marks of Huawei engineering machines, so the credibility of this photo is high.
2. What aspects of the camera have been upgraded?
Regarding the P50 series, I don’t know what kind of big killer Huawei will show. There are rumors that the P50 will use a “liquid lens”.
What is a "liquid lens"?
Traditional lenses require optical shift to change the focal length, and a bulky zoom optical lens cannot be installed on a mobile phone. Therefore, all telephoto lenses on mobile phones are fixed focus lenses.
With the 10x zoom distance on the P40 Pro, it is impossible to zoom to 3x or 5x focal length. Therefore, the 3x zoom on the P40 Pro can only be achieved by cropping the main camera, which is not as effective as the 3x optical zoom on the P40. The liquid lens can automatically zoom by changing the curvature of the lens like the human eye, and takes up very little space. You can achieve the effect of zooming on your mobile phone. Huawei has also submitted patents related to liquid lenses.
The news that the P50 uses a liquid lens is not groundless. Blogger @digitalchatstation broke the news that the liquid lens will be mass-produced in 2021 and will be mainly used at the telephoto end.
However, some media pointed out that rumors of mobile phones equipped with liquid lenses have a history of more than ten years. However, current liquid lenses cannot solve the problems of poor optical properties such as dispersion and distortion. The possibility of P50 carrying it is slim.
This series of controversies actually makes the P50 lens more interesting. For the specific answer, everyone can wait and wait for the results to be announced at the P50 press conference.
3. One-hundred-watt fast charging is coming?
This year’s Xiaomi and OV have released over 100 watts of fast charging power. Huawei Mate 40 still has 66w fast charging. Although the charging power is not bad, Huawei lags behind in terms of numerical value. In fact, those friends have adopted a multi-cell solution - putting two small batteries in one mobile phone. Two 50W batteries are charged together, so the charging power is 100W.
Huawei’s Mate 40 Pro still uses a single-cell 66w fast charging design. This means that as long as Huawei slightly improves the battery design, it is quite easy to increase the fast charging power to 100 watts. The P50 Pro is also very likely to use more than a hundred watts of charging power.
In addition, I also mentioned in my previous article: The P50 is likely to be natively equipped with the Hongmeng system. Different from the previously released development version, the P50 will be equipped with an official version of Hongmeng system. At that time, the style of the system UI and interface will undergo a major change to distinguish it from the current EMUI.
As for the processor, it is possible that the P50 will be equipped with Kirin 9000/9000E or MediaTek processor. I believe everyone can understand Huawei's situation. There is not much news in this regard at present.
To summarize: The release of the P50 series is naturally worth looking forward to, but what is more worthy of recognition is Huawei’s R&D capabilities and unremitting R&D investment. This is Huawei's core competitiveness that remains standing.
After suffering from chip supply cuts, he reluctantly sold Honor. Huawei has not stopped. On the chip side, it is still following up on the research and development of 3nm processors. On the system side, it has launched the next-generation distributed architecture Hongmeng system and is actively improving the system ecosystem. Its business has also expanded into the field of autonomous driving.
Ten years ago, Huawei entered the smartphone field as a communications equipment manufacturer. In ten years, it has developed and designed mobile phones from scratch to self-developed mobile phone chips, and now it has become one of the top three mobile phone manufacturers in the world. I personally cannot imagine which field such a company will go in ten years and what scale it will develop into.
But I am certain of one thing: it is impossible to restrict the development of such enterprises by simply cutting off supply or suppressing them.