This year, after years of enforced silence, Huawei has once again made people sit up and take notice. Surprisingly, the Mate 60 series was launched in China with banned chips and 5G support, and the smartphone manufacturer, which was once very popular in Europe, will not be staying still in 2024 either. At the very least, there are currently signs of a proper comeback for the P-series camera flagships, which recently made waves in this country with the P30 Pro in 2019.
In the past, one or two references to the Huawei P70, P70 Pro or the presumably renamed P70 Art top model have already been made, most recently by an analyst. There have also been recent reports about a variant with a 50 MP Omnivision OV50H camera sensor, which can currently be found in the Chinese iQOO 12 Pro and seems to deliver quite good photos with its 1/1.3 inch size. Even more exciting, of course, is the top model P70 Art, which is likely to be the first Huawei model to feature a sensor in 1-inch format.
According to various reports, Huawei is currently stockpiling around 2 million Sony IMX989 sensors, which are likely to have been modified. In the old Huawei tradition, these are said to be RYYB pixel grids, and Huawei does not seem to be fully utilizing the huge sensor and is cropping it a little. The sensor, which appears to be named IMX989Y, will be combined with 1G6P optics and a variable aperture, and the P70 Pro and P70 Art are expected to feature an OV64B telephoto lens, according to the leaker. Loyal fans of Huawei may also benefit from new XMAGE camera software and Harmony OS4 in 2024.
As a young tech enthusiast with a history involving assembling and overclocking projects, I ended up working as a projectionist with good old 35-mm films before I entered the computer world at a professional level. I assisted customers at an Austrian IT service provider called Iphos IT Solutions for seven years, working as a Windows client and server administrator as well as a project manager. As a freelancer who travels a lot, I have been able to write for Notebookcheck from all corners of the world since 2016. My articles cover brand-new mobile technologies in smartphones, laptops, and gadgets of all kinds.
Growing up in regional Australia, I first became acquainted with computers in my early teens after a broken leg from a football (soccer) match temporarily condemned me to a predominately indoor lifestyle. Soon afterwards I was building my own systems. Now I live in Germany, having moved here in 2014, where I study philosophy and anthropology. I am particularly fascinated by how computer technology has fundamentally and dramatically reshaped human culture, and how it continues to do so.
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