A new leak suggests Huawei or maybe Honor could be working on a smartphone with 55x digital zoom capability. The leak in question is a screenshot of the EMUI camera app with 55x zoom slider shared by a tipster. As of now, there is not a single Huawei or Honor smartphone with this option in their camera app.
Huawei has been making smartphones for over a decade now. However, the company’s devices did not focus more on the camera department until the Huawei P9 / P9 Plus, which was the first Huawei handset to feature cameras developed in partnership with Leica. Then, came the P20 Pro and P30 Pro with 3x optical zoom and 5x optical periscope zoom respectively. These two devices laid the foundation for the current-gen Huawei P40 Pro Plus with 10x optical periscope zoom.
Apart from the optical zoom functionality, these smartphones also support a very high digital zoom capability, up to 50x zoom on P30 Pro / P40 Pro and 100x zoom on the P40 Pro Plus. This leaked screenshot reveals a max digital zoom of 55x, which isn’t present on any of the current Huawei or Honor devices. This somewhat suggests the screengrab is from a different device altogether, which hasn’t been released so far. The blogger who leaked this image isn’t sure whether this engineering machine will be put to mass production.
If it does go into production, Huawei and Honor have a number of devices in their pipelines like the Honor 30 series, Mate 30s series, and Nova 7 series. Any of the Pro models from these lineups can feature 55x zoom, including the upcoming Honor 30 Pro.
For now, we only have camera details of the Honor 30 Pro, whose render leaked a few days back revealing a periscope camera, which is a strong contender for the purported 55x zoom.
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