Huawei has done away with the camera bump, giving its new flagship smartphone the Mate 40 and Mate 40 Pro a ‘space ring’ instead.
This is a flagship, so there are a ton of extra features including 3D face recognition, an under-screen fingerprint reader, a 6.76-inch 90Hz OLED display and Huawei’s 5G Kirin 9000 processor.
The real winner here is in the design department. The Space Ring comes with three total cameras all created with help from Leica. You get a 5hopping 50-meg mainc amera, a 20MP Cinecam and a 3x telephoto sensor. There’s also a dedicated autofocus sensor.
All in all, it’s a pretty well-rounded smartphone.
Elsewhere, Huawei is using the front-facing sensor to give the Mate 40 tricks such as menu navigation by waving your hands up and down.
Huawei also unveield an even fancier version of the Mate, in the Porsche Design Mate 40 RS. Instead of a space ring camera you get a huge camera bump, a ceramic back, 12GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage.
The regular Mate 40 starts at US$1,060 while the Pro costs US$1,400 and the Pro+ goes for US$1,650. That jumps up to an eye-watering US$2,700 for the Porsche Design model.
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