Huawei loves dual rear camera systems so much that
it's basically been employing this arrangement in all of its flagships and
mid-rangers for a while now. Next year, the Chinese company may take
things to a whole new level.
In fact, Huawei's next P-series smartphone - perhaps
to be dubbed the P11 - might be showing up with not one, not two, but three
cameras on the rear. This setup will allegedly enable 40MP photos, as well as
5x "hybrid zooming". Selfies won't be forgotten either, for you will
be able to take 24MP shots with "low light enhancement".
The new Leica-branded optics of the main camera will
capture 100% more light and a Pro Night Mode will ensure you "shoot
gorgeous night scenes" without a tripod. To top things off, Huawei will be
using some AI magic to let the camera app do "instant scene
recognition" and auto framing.
All of this information comes from a digital artist
at one of the company's creative agencies, who added the promotional materials
you can see above to their portfolio. Interestingly, they have since been
pulled and aren't available in the original location anymore - that may be a
sign of these materials' importance or legitimacy. It's impossible to tell for
sure at the moment, so do take this with an ever so slight pinch of salt.
Still, as Huawei was one of the pioneers of the dual
rear camera setup, it wouldn't be extremely surprising to see the company amp
things up by going with three lenses from 2018. A slightly baffling detail in
these marketing materials, which you may have noticed already, is the
"Huawei PCE Series" branding. That could just be a placeholder for
the real name - say, P11 - or perhaps the company will introduce a new flagship
line that has camera performance as its main differentiating feature. This
might also mean that the P-series will turn into the PCE-series, but we'll have
to wait and see.
