Chinese tech giant Huawei has announced the company's new HUAWEI P50 series, the latest model in its P-series of smartphones.
HUAWEI P50 Series Launch Event
The new series includes the P50 and P50 Pro, which launch with HarmonyOS 2, Huawei’s own proprietary operating system (OS). The phones come with a feature that allows users to connect to other devices by dragging their corresponding icons to the center of the screen.
The P50 comes with a triple-lens camera on the back, while the P50 Pro comes with a quad-lens camera on the back, though both have a 50-megapixel main sensor. New to Huawei's phone cameras is XD Optics, which the company says can "repair optical defects and reproduce fine details." Huawei claims the feature can restore up to 25% of the original image.
Despite being flagship phones, neither device will support 5G. Instead, both will be 4G. The P50 series will come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 4G chipset. This is partly due to the semiconductor shortage that is affecting several industries, as well as the US sanctions on Huawei. These sanctions mean that the P50 series will not offer Google services.
