Huawei official took the veil off the much-anticipated P40 series made up of the Huawei P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro Plus a few days back. The P40 Pro, just like its siblings, features a premium glass body. Just days after the device was announced, the picture of a broken P40 Pro has surfaced online.

The picture shows a Frosted Silver variant of the P40 Pro with a broken rear glass panel at the top left corner, close to the rear camera. The damage will most likely have resulted from a hard fall. There are no details as to how it happened but this should be expected from a device using an all-glass design. The front panel of the device wasn’t shown. So, we can’t tell if it is broken as well.

Since the Huawei P40 series is yet to go on sale in China and on the global market, the model may likely be a media review unit or a retail store display unit or even an internal prototype. That should explain why the owner did not reveal his identity or the cause of the damage. The P40 Pro is promoted to sport a soft matte glass finish which doesn’t seem to have any Gorilla Glass protection. Thus, see this as a warning that the P40 Pro will be fragile. Perhaps, it will be more fragile than the P40 Pro Plus which features a ceramic body.

The Huawei P40 Pro starts at €999 ($1095) for the 8GB RAM and 256GB storage model. We would have thought Huawei will give it a more durable build. In the absence of that, you’ll have to buy a protective case alongside the flagship to prevent any damage.

The device is expected to be launched in China on April 8.

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Huawei officially launched the P40series yesterday for the global market. The P40 was the star of the day, no doubt, but the Chinese giant equally launched a couple of other products like the Watch GT 2e, Sound X wireless speaker and Watch GT 2.

The Huawei P40 AnTuTu benchmark score has now appeared on the benchmark outfit’s database. AnTuTu claims to have found a benchmark score for a P40 series model on its database with the model number ELS-AN00. A search of Huawei’s website is said to have revealed that the model is the Huawei P40 Pro (8GB RAM + 128GB storage).

As for the score, the model polled a total score of 482,457 points. In the CPU test it scored 153441, the GPU score is 173021, MEM score is 85542 and the UX score is 70453 points.
Judging from the results, the P40 series has basically the same as the previous Kirin 990 5G model – Mate 30 series. Also worthy of note is the fact that the P40 Pro features a 90Hz refresh rate but that wasn’t turned on during the benchmark test

It is also worth noting that although the P40 Pro supports a 90Hz refresh rate, it is not turned on when running points. In theory, turning on the 90Hz refresh rate may improve the UX score which will, in turn, affect the total score. Huawei as always has concentrated more attention on the P40 series camera. A performance upgrade is only expected when the Mate 40 series is launched later this year packing a Kirin 1020 chipset.

Going by AnTuTu’s present ranking for February 2020, the P40 Pro is behind the ASUS ROG 2 and OnePlus 7T. However, AnTuTu is yet to release the ranking for March which should have a couple of powerful models like the Blackshark 3 and iQOO 3.

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Huawei‘s launch event where the P40 series will be unveiled is only a few days away. The series is expected to be made up of the Huawei P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro Plus. We have seen official renders of the models that would make up the series but one aspect that has often been elusive is the camera configuration of the models. Today, the likely camera specs of the Huawei P40 Pro has appeared online.

The Huawei P40 Pro engineering machine was recently leaked by a blogger on Weibo. The prototype has a covering for the rear camera but the design is consistent with what we have seen on renders. The P40 Pro is expected to come with a Penta-camera setup made up of five lenses. The main lens is said to be a Sony IMX700 sensor which supports up to 5x optical zoom. The rear camera also includes a 10X optical zoom supporting periscope lens, a telephoto lens, an  ultra-wide-angle lens and ToF lens. The front camera is said to be a dual punch-hole camera.

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We are not so sure of the five camera setup and it may be for the P40 Pro Plus which the P40 Pro will have a Quad-camera setup. However, the expected Penta-camera setup i given as a 52-megapixel main camera (Sony IMX700 1 / 1.28-inch RYYB), a 40-megapixel lens (Sony IMX650 1 / 1.5-inch RGGB), an 8-megapixel telephoto lens, a 20-megapixel periscope lens, and a ToF lens.

We’ll have to wait until the launch to find out the exact camera setup. Whatever it is, though, the Huawei P40 series will have a powerful setup that will likely rattle the current DXOMark ranking. A couple of camera samples said to have been captured by the Huawei P40 Pro appeared online and they are just stunning. Check them out below.

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