Huawei Mate RS With Two Fingerprint Scanners and Expensive Price Tag Unveiled

But coming back to that triple camera system, the Mate RS does the usual Huawei mojo, unless specifically asked to shoot 40MP photos.

The telephoto lens have optical image stabilisation while other lenses have Huawei’s AI-based stabilisation which works on the basis of object identification, outlines of the shapes and ensures that it stays consistent while shooting. The third lens is an 8MP optically-stabilized telephoto lens that gives 3x optical zoom or 5x hybrid zoom. That compares to 2x zoom for the S9+ and Apple’s iPhone X. While exposures of this length are common with SLR cameras mounted to tripods to keep them still, exposures over one second often produce blurry images when shot by hand, because it is impossible to keep perfectly still while the shutter is open. Bigger pixels mean the camera sensor can take in more light with each shot.

The phone also sports a new cooling technology made for keeping the phone’s temperatures down, handy if it heats up from too much use or even through another feature, because this is the first Huawei phone in 2018 to get wireless charging. The notch is switched off by default for certain functions, like displaying photos. The navigation home button cum fingerprint sensor at the bottom still works the same as the P10 series, double tap to go home, slide to the left for back, and to the right for opening the app taskmaster.

On the front, the Mate RS comes with a 24-megapixel camera with portrait lighting feature. As mentioned earlier, the phone comes in two storage variants – 256GB base variant and 512GB premium variant -both of which will feature 6GB RAM.

Tucked inside the P20 Pro is a massive 4,000 mAh battery which Huawei reckons will last at least two days and maybe beyond.

While Huawei narrowed the sales gap with Apple previous year, analysts said it may have difficulty distinguishing itself from the competition based purely on camera quality.

With camera-rich features and aggressive pricing, the P20 series represent Huawei’s fresh attempt to compete head-to-head with Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and the iPhone X in the increasingly look-alike market for smartphones. Factor in a growing war of words between the Chinese and U.S. governments over trade tariffs, and the story looks less than rosy for Huawei’s chances of breaking into the States. “With a breakthrough triple camera on the Huawei P20 Pro, an advanced dual camera on the Huawei P20 and powerful artificial intelligence on both, today’s most vibrant consumers can capture and share the brilliance of the world around them”. “We thought it was important to make sure you were aware of the latest from Huawei”, a company spokeswoman said, according to CNET.

In response to a CNBC question in February, Yu claimed that Huawei’s competitors were using politics to kick the company out of the US Yu’s comments were off-script and Huawei later distanced itself from the executive’s remarks.

Huawei has deals with major carriers and retailers in more than 170 countries.