Huawei has confirmed that the P40 series will officially launch via a global online press conference on March 26. The company’s camera-centric lineup was earlier slated to release in Paris on the same day. But today’s update confirms that it will be an online event.

Huawei isn’t new to virtual press conferences. The company recently presented an online event in Europe for the new Huawei Mate XS and Matebook laptops. We can expect a similar virtual press conference for the Huawei P40 lineup as well. The teaser video doesn’t reveal much about the upcoming device, except for the raised camera housing. But there are a lot of rumors going around about the new lineup which includes a new PRISM periscope camera setup with up to 10X optical zoom!

Recent rumors suggest that the Huawei P40 Pro will feature a custom 52MP IMX700 (1/1.33-inch) CMOS sensor. It is said to come with 16-pixel binning, essentially churning out 3.25MP 4.48μm superpixel photos, making for excellent low light performance. There are rumors that the Pro variant will be able to zoom between a much wider range of 18mm-240mm instead of P30 Pro’s 24mm-125mm. 

With OPPO Find X2 finally taking the top spot on DxOMark’s camera list, all eyes are focused on the Huawei P40 Pro now, to see if it can beat the Mi 10 Pro and the Find X2 Pro, to become to best smartphone camera on the list. You can read more about the Huawei P40 series from our rumor roundup here.

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