A recent report revealed that the Huawei P50 Series, which includes the P50, P50 Pro, and P50E, no longer ships with the Leica camera lens branding on the back. This was expected since the German camera company switched allegiances to Xiaomi. Now, in the latest development, Huawei has delisted the P50 series from the global smartphone market. There is no official explanation for the delisting, but it may have something to do with the Leica brand.

Huawei Central reports that the Huawei P50 series has been removed from the company’s global smartphone portfolio. All the store pages are reported to return a “No results found” message when searching for the P50 series smartphones. As of now, Huawei has not revealed the reason behind the removal.

It could be due to the Leica branding on the back of the phones. For the unversed, Huawei has been co-developing its flagship cameras with Leica for the last 6 years. However, Leica ended its partnership with Huawei and joined hands with Xiaomi. In conjunction with this change, the P50 lineup marked the end of the brand’s partnership with the German company.

As mentioned, the Huawei P50, the P50 Pro, and P50E will no longer ship with the Leica logo. However, it is unclear why the company decided to remove the logo at this point. Although, it appears that the change has not affected smartphones’ camera hardware. The higher-end P50 Pro still has a 50 MP primary camera with OIS and an f/1.8 aperture, a 13 MP ultra-wide-angle sensor (f/2.2), a 40 MP B&W camera (f/1.6), and a 64 MP telephoto camera (f/3.5).

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After a long delay, Chinese tech giant Huawei has finally unveiled its latest flagship smartphone lineup – the HUAWEI P50 series. Unlike other premium handsets in the market, these phones don’t support 5G connectivity. Here’s why they are limited to 4G LTE.

The newly announced HUAWEI P50 series has almost everything you can expect from high-end Android smartphones, except for 5G. The new handsets come from the same company that has been releasing 5G-enabled phones in every price segment since the launch of HUAWEI Mate 20 X 5G in 2019.

So why has the firm limited its latest and greatest phones of 2021 to 4G LTE? Unsurprisingly, it’s due to the four rounds of sanctions imposed by the United States government. This piece of information comes directly from Richard Yu, the CEO of HUAWEI Consumer Business Group. The executive revealed it during the presentation of handsets.

Due to the ban, despite sporting 5G-capable HiSilcon Kirin 9000 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipsets, these phones don’t support 5G connectivity. Mr. Yu says that 4G and WiFi 6+ are enough for most use case scenarios. This statement is ironic for a telecom company like HUAWEI, which has been promoting 5G even before it was commercial.

The HUAWEI P50 series starts at ¥4,488 ($695) in China. The Kirin 9000 variant of the P50 Pro will be available in August, whereas the Snapdragon 888 version will go on sale in December. On the other hand, the vanilla P50 with Snapdragon 888 will hit the shelves in September.

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