Huawei’s 2018 roadmap leaked and revealed that the
next-gen P series smartphones will arrive in Q2 2018 though will likely be
announced in Q1. One of them is the Huawei P11 Lite (or P20 Lite) and mockups
courtesy of Amazon Japan have appeared online.
There are reports that Huawei’s P series will have a
full-screen display with a notch just like the Essential PH-1 or iPhone X.
Although, no one knows what the notch will look like, one of the images shows
the P11 Lite with a notch like the iPhone X.
Housed within the cut-out is the earpiece flanked on
both sides by a bunch of sensors. There are two image with the iPhone X design.
One is a gold variant with thin white bezels surrounding the screen and the
other is gray with black bezels. Both images advertise screen protectors for
the phone.
The other two mockups advertise cases for the phone
but have a different design. Rather than sport very thin bezels and a notch in
the display, they look more like the current full-screen Huawei smartphones.
The top bezel is home to the front facing camera, sensors and earpiece while
the lower bezel has the Huawei branding.
The back reveals a dual camera design in a vertical
arrangement with a circular fingerprint scanner below the setup and a LED flash
above. The LED flash is positioned within the antenna line just like the Honor
V9/Honor 8 Pro.
Apart from the differences in the screens, both sets
of images also differ in button placements. On the iPhone X-esque variant, the
buttons are on the left while the other images that advertise the cases have
their buttons on the right.
There is a high chance that Huawei will launch the
phone with its own unique design as it is not known to imitate designs from
other manufacturers. We also presume the P11 Lite may not feature a notch in
its display. That design will likely be exclusive to the P11 and P11 Plus.
