The Huawei P Smart (2019) is the latest budget
offering coming from Huawei very soon and the latest leak to arrive is a
benchmark that reveals the phone is indeed running the latest version of
Android. Previously, it was revealed by FCC documents that the P Smart would
run 3GB of RAM but other variants outside of the US could see versions with 4GB
of RAM.
The scores seen on GeekBench are right in line with
other devices running Huawei’s entry-level Kirin 710 CPU. These scores put the
octa-core chip somewhere between the Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 and the Snapdragon
660. Otherwise, we’re seeing the listing show a model number of POT-LX1, which
is one digit off the model number we’ve seen go through the FCC (POT-LX3), this
digit signifies a regional variant.
Based on the previous FCC filing, the P Smart will
have a 3,320 mAh battery, 32GB or 64GB of storage, and dual SIM variants. A
drawing from the document has the phone’s footprint sitting at 155.2 x 73.4 mm
and a single dew-drop notch for the front facing camera. The drawing also
reveals a dual camera and rear-mounted fingerprint sensor on back.
The cameras are expected to be similar to those on
the Honor 10 Lite: a 13MP + 2MP combo on back with a 24MP sensor in front. This
hasn’t been confirmed so the actual device might have a slightly different
setup if not the same one. The phone is slated to be priced at around 200 EU.
Huawei’s announcement of this phone is probably not
far away. If history is anything to go by, it looks like Huawei might announce
the phone in China this month or around the same time as CES (which kicks off
on January 6), which is when Huawei usually announces both Honor and
Huawei-branded devices for the US and European markets.
