Huawei has simply introduced the Chinese language launch of its Pura 80 flagship telephones, and the Extremely comes with a intelligent trick: a “switchable” dual-lens telephoto digital camera that enables two completely different lenses to share the identical sensor.
You’ll be able to see each lenses side-by-side within the largest of the three digital camera rings on the 80 Extremely’s rear, however they share greater than only a housing. Each lenses are connected to the identical set of periscopic parts and the identical picture sensor, with a movable prism that directs mild from the chosen lens. That’s a unique strategy to the variable telephotos in some Sony Xperia telephones, which use a single lens however transfer elements of the periscopic construction to vary the zoom distance.
The Pura 80 Extremely’s two lenses provide 3.7x and 9.4x optical zoom — or 83mm and 212mm for those who choose — which is a wider vary than Sony’s take ever managed. The shorter lens has an f/2.4 aperture and Huawei’s spec sheet lists it as a 50-megapixel digital camera. The opposite lens is f/3.6 and curiously, regardless of utilizing the identical sensor, is listed with a smaller 12.5-megapixel decision, suggesting that there’s both sensor-cropping or extra pixel-binning happening when utilizing that lens.
Combining the 2 telephoto lenses isn’t only a approach of grabbing headlines. Picture sensors are among the many costliest elements in fashionable telephones, so discovering methods to make use of one sensor for a number of lenses may save prices in the long term. It’s additionally an area saver, much more so by avoiding having two full periscopic methods. That might preserve the telephone slimmer, but in addition makes area for higher elements — the 1/1.28-inch-type sensor used right here is bigger than most telephotos provide, and probably enabled by the brand new design.
Past the novel telephoto cameras, the Pura 80 Extremely features a 50-megapixel essential digital camera with Huawei’s returning dynamic aperture design, plus a 40-megapixel ultrawide. A 6.8-inch LTPO OLED show, 5,700mAh battery, and IP68 and 69 scores spherical out the flagship spec sheet. It comes with 16GB of RAM and as much as 1TB of storage, however Huawei hasn’t detailed the chipset that powers it — a secrecy that’s change into customary in the previous couple of years because it develops its personal chips within the wake of US sanctions.
The Extremely has launched alongside three different telephones: the Pura 80, 80 Professional, and 80 Professional Plus. All three have comparable designs, and even the bottom mannequin features a triple rear digital camera, solely barely smaller 6.6-inch LTPO OLED display screen, and 5,600mAh battery. The Professional and Professional Plus are the identical dimension because the Extremely, and share its essential digital camera and ultrawide, however have a single 48-megapixel telephoto every. The one edge the Plus will get is slightly additional RAM and assist for 2 forms of satellite tv for pc communications, although each Pura 80 telephone can hook up with the Beidou satellite tv for pc system.
All the brand new Pura telephones launch operating HarmonyOS 5.1, the most recent model of Huawei’s working system, which is not based mostly on Android. The 80 Extremely begins at CNY9,999 (round $1,390), whereas the Professional fashions begin at CNY 6,500 (round $900); the common Pura 80 isn’t on sale but and doesn’t have a value. Final yr’s Pura 70 collection launched internationally a couple of weeks after its China debut, so we’ll should see if the identical will likely be true this yr.
