Huawei Launches the P30 and P30 Pro: P is for Photography

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The latest update in Huawei’s P series smartphones are the new P30 and P30 Pro handsets, launched today in Paris. These new devices hope to push the reason why the P series exists – to go above and beyond when it comes to photography. The P30 and P30 Pro include Huawei’s new rear SuperSpectrum camera that allows more light into the sensor, and a front facing 32MP camera for better selfies.

P for Photography

Huawei has a very regular release schedule for its smartphones: in late Q3/Q4, it launches a new Mate series smartphone with the company’s latest processor and AI technology, designed to appeal to the early adopters who want the latest technology at their fingertips. Fast forward about six months, and Huawei typically launches a ‘P’ series smartphone, built on the same core hardware, but focusing much more on the photography features that typically appeal to the mass market. The idea is that the P series smartphone takes the faster processing power of the new chip, now six months old, and combines it with dedicated camera technology and Huawei’s latest updates in software and style, at a more comfortable price point.

The two new smartphones announced today are the 2019 updates to the P series: the Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro, with the latter being the upsell model with enhanced features to go with an enhanced price.

The highlight of the smartphones this year is the new SuperSpectrum camera sensor, which is featured on both smartphones. This new sensor readjusts how it records light coming into it: most camera sensors are RGGB, meaning that each pixel has one red sensor, two green sensors, and a blue sensor, which it then combines into the correct color for that pixel. This new sensor replaces those two green sub-pixels with two yellow ones, to make the sensor sensitive to RYYB instead.

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