Yesterday, Huawei announced its P40 series of flagship smartphones. All the three models in the series feature OLED panels but in different sizes with varying resolution and refresh rates. And now, BOE’s VP confirms that the entire series uses panels made by BOE, which also happens to supply displays to Huawei for its Mate Xs foldable smartphone.
The display is one of the most important components of a smartphone. There are only few OLED panel manufacturers in the world and one of them is BOE. A few hours after the announcement of the P40 series, BOE’s Vice President proudly announced on Weibo that all the new premium smartphones by Huawei including P40, P40 Pro, P40 Pro Plus, and Mate Xs use their flexible OLED panel.
BOE, a Chiese display manufacturer has been lately emerging as an alternate OLED supplier to many companies to reduce their dependency on Samsung. Lenovo is also using panels made by BOE in its ThinkPad X1 Fold and Moto Razr foldable smartphone. On top of it, BOE will be also supplying OLED panels to Apple starting this year.
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The Huawei P40 series is targeted at mobile photography but the devices in the series also sport modern display design, especially the Pro and Pro Plus models. The display on these phones are curved at all the four sides and measure 6.58-inches with a resolution of 2640 x 1200 pixels and 90Hz refresh rate. The company markets it as ‘overflow display’ as it resembles a cup filled with water up to the brim.
On the other hand, the standard P40 features a flat 6.1-inches display with a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels. It also lacks the 90Hz refresh rate from the pro models but it has the same cutout on the top left corner of the screen to accommodate selfie camera, depth camera, and IR sensor.
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