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Huawei P9 has launched its new flagship smartphone co-engineered with Leica for the dual rear cameras. The company announced Huawei P9 at an event in London. The smartphone is priced at £449, which is around Rs 42,000 in UK with 32GB of storage and 3GB of RAM. There is another version with 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM called Huawei P9 Plus priced at £549 (around Rs 52,000). While the smartphones will start shipping from mid-May, we will have to wait and see if they are launched for India.
Huawei P9’s stand-out feature is that it comes with dual-rear cameras with the lens from Leica. While one camera has an RGB sensor for taking coloured photos; the other has a monochrome sensor aka only pictures in black and white.
Both cameras are 12.2 megapixels with a pixel size of 1.25 μm, which allows more light for better photos.
Huawei says that the two sensors let the P9 rear cameras capture a lot more light than rivals iPhone 6s, Samsung Galaxy S7 and more. The rear cameras come with dual-tone flash, and there’s an eight megapixel front camera with F2.4 aperture.
In terms of specs, the Huawei P9 has a 5.2-inch FHD Screen with 2.5D glass, comes with Huawei’s Kirin 955 (64-bit), octa-core processor, Android 6.0 OS, and a 3000 mAh battery.
Huawei is launching the P9 in two SKUs 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM and 3GB RAM + 32GB ROM. This is a 4G LTE ready smartphone, and supports USB Type C charging. The smartphone also has a fingerprint scanner at the back.
