With the ever-thinning smartphone bezels dominating the industry, it was only a matter of time before designs with next-to-no bezels became common (barring, of course, the novel ‘water-fall’ displays.) The upcoming Huawei flagship, the Huawei P40 Pro, was recently captured in live hands-on images depicting one such design (at least for all intents and purposes.)
Pictured below, you’re looking at an alleged Huawei P40 Pro with its bezels shaved off as far as practically possible without lopping off the physical buttons, as was the case with the Mate 30 Pro.
The edge-to-edge display curves towards the edges, almost melting into them. And the same as the side bezels, the chin, and the forehead are trimmed almost paper-thin. In a nutshell, the phone promises a truly all-screen experience.
The front panel features a pill-shaped cutout for the two front-facing selfie cameras embedded in the top left corner. As for the rear-mounted cameras, you’re looking at a design borrowed from the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S20 trio, down to that familiar domino-shaped black camera bump. In addition to the rectangular-style housing, the camera layout is something we are already familiar with.
While it remains to be photographed in live images, the quad-cam, as portrayed in previous layouts, features a vertically-stacked layout in two columns, with an LED flash and a ToF sensor occupying the second column. In simpler words, it's identical to the layout on the upcoming S20. Huawei is well-known for taking design 'inspiration' from popular brands, so it's hardly a surprise. The still-recent Huawei Nova 6 SE with its iPhone 11-esque camera comes to mind as an example.
Huawei’s in-house-developed Kirin 990 or Kirin 990 5G SoC will power the P40 Pro, alongside a 5,500 mAh battery. There is no official word on the Huawei Price yet but the pro variant is expected to retail around 1059 Euros.
So far, there’s no telling if the U.S. trade ban is coming to a conclusion, which means that this next-gen Huawei flagship phone will not support Google’s Mobile Services, and its users will have to make do with HMS (or Huawei Mobile Services). Between no GMS and the fact that Huawei is using an open-source version of Google’s Android that doesn’t receive security patches and updates that often, Huawei’s sales will undoubtedly take a hit as they did last year with the Huawei P30 and Mate 30 lineup.
