Huawei held an event yesterday in Paris where it took the wraps off the Huawei P30 and P30 Pro flagship models. Apart from other tech gadgets, no other phone was announced during the event. But barely 24 hours after the event, the Huawei P30 Lite has gone official in the Philippines and is now on pre-order. The Lite model has been a part of Huawei’s P series offering each year. 

Huawei P30 Lite is a premium midrange smartphone with a sleek design and classy finish. It features the U-shaped (water drop) notch at the top of the display which houses the selfie camera. The device seems to have an all-glass body but it could be plastic, we can’t say for sure. The back adorns triple cameras anchored at the top left corner in a vertical arrangement.

The P30 Lite sports a 6.15-inch LCD screen with a Full HD+ resolution and tall 19.5:9 ratio. The phone is powered by what looks like the Kirin 710 chipset going by the listed CPU configuration of four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.2 GHz and four Cortex-A53 units clocked at 1.7 GHz. The SoC comes with the Mali-G51 GPU. It features 6GB of RAM while there is 128GB of storage but we can’t say if the storage is expandable.

On the camera end, the Huawei P30 Lite packs a 24MP main camera sensor which teams up with an 8MP Ultra-wide-angle lens and a 2MP depth sensor. At the front, Huawei tweaked things up by cramming a 32MP sensor on the notch for obviously stunning selfies and portraits. The device will run EMUI 9.0.1 based on Android Pie and a 3,340 mAh battery with 18W fast-charging will keep the lights on. The phone equally packs a USB-C port and 3.5 mm audio jack. It supports Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac standards, Bluetooth 4.2 but there’s no NFC.

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The phone comes in White, Black, and Blue. It is presently available to pre-order from online stores Abenson and Shopee for PHP16,990 ($320/€290). It will be on pre-order until April 4 on Shopee when it will start shipping while Abenson will terminate its own on April 12 but will start shipping the model on April 10. There are several freebies for fans who pre-order during the window. The gifts include a 10,000 mAh powerbank, Bluetooth speaker and a selfie stick while supplies last.

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Last year, Huawei had launched the Huawei P20 and P20 Pro flagship phones at the end of March. Hence, the rumor mill has been speculating that the Chinese manufacturer will be announcing its next P series of flagship phones by the end of Q1 2019. Through a press release by Huawei Poland which confirms that it will be hiring one hundred employees at its Poland division also reveals that the P30 flagship series will be announced by the end of March.

The press release states that in a bid to achieve faster growth rate in segments like smartphones, laptops and accessories, the company aims to double its employees in various departments like sales, customer service and marketing at its Polish wing. It also confirmed that the Huawei will be holding a press event at the end of March in Paris to announce its next P series of flagship smartphones. Last year, the company had used the same location to announce the P20 and P20 Pro smartphones.

The Huawei P30 series includes smartphones like the P30 Lite, P30 and P30 Pro. While the P30 Lite is expected to be packed with the mid-range specs, the P30 and P30 will be coming with flagship specs and stellar cameras. Rumors are rife that the P30 Lite is codenamed as Marie Claire and the P30 and P30 Pro smartphones are respectively codenamed as Elle and Vogue. It is speculated that the P30 Lite will debut by the end of this month and the Paris unveil event could be reserved for announcing the P30 and P30 Pro handsets.

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Like the predecessor models, the P30 and P30 Pro are expected to deliver topnotch camera experience.  The P30 is expected to come equipped with a triple camera setup whereas the P30 Pro is expected to feature an additional ToF sensor alongside its triple camera sensors. A recent report had claimed that the P30 may feature the Sony IMX600 as its main sensor whereas the P30 Pro may even better Sony IMX607 as its primary sensor. The P30 Pro is also expected to feature periscope module for delivering higher optical zoom experience.

The Huawei P30 and P30 Pro phones are rumored to fueled by the Kirin 980 chipset and they are likely to come equipped with waterdrop-style notched screen. The P30 may have up to 8 GB of RAM whereas the P30 Pro could feature up to 12 GB of RAM.

Huawei will be also present at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 tech trade show later this month. It will be using the platform to announce its first foldable phone enabled with 5G connectivity.

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Recently, Huawei smartphone with model number MAR-AL00 was approved by China’s 3C authority. A variant of the same phone was spotted with model number MAR-LX1M at the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). Unconfirmed information suggests that that MAR-XXX phone could be the upcoming Huawei P30 Lite mid-range phone from the P30 series includes flagship phones like P30 and P30 Pro. Some information on the specifications of the P30 Lite have surfaced today. Also, it is speculated that the P30 Lite will be launching ahead of the P30 and P30 Pro phones that are to debut by the end of March.

Based on the display panel and case images that have leaked in the recent past, it can be said that the P30 Lite will be featuring a waterdrop notch screen, a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and a vertical camera setup with triple lenses. The Huawei P30 is expected to arrive with 6-inch OLED screen with under-display fingerprint reader. Since the size of the display of the P30 Lite is almost same as P30 handset, it is likely that the Lite edition may feature a 6-inch. It will be an IPS LCD panel that will support full HD+ resolution.

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The Kirin 710 chipset is rumored to power the Huawei P30 Lite.  The triple camera module of the handset is expected to feature 20-megapixel, 16-megapixel and 2-megapixel camera sensors. In related news, Huawei is also prepping up another 1,000 Yuan priced phone for China with triple rear cameras. As of this writing, there is no information available on the exact name of the device.

It is speculated that the P30 Lite could be releasing in some markets as Huawei Nova 4e. The P30 Lite may debut at the end of the coming month or early March. There is no information available on the pricing of the phone.

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Three new Huawei devices with model numbers such as VOG-L29, ELE-L29 and MAR-LX1M have been certified by the Eurasian Economic Commission in Russia. In the past, EEC listings for Huawei phones had always carried their product names. However, the names of the aforementioned Huawei models haven’t appeared on EEC. A Russian tech publication claims that these could be the codenames of the upcoming Huawei P30 and these names could be based on fashion magazines. Hence, it is speculated that the P30, P30 Pro and P30 Lite could be codenamed as Elle, Vogue and Marie Claire.

In December, an Israeli tech journalist had claimed had shared the render of the Huawei P30 with triple rear cameras. He had claimed that the handset measures 148.7 x 70.6mm and he had also revealed that the P30 is codenamed as Elle. Hence, it appears that the Chinese manufacture could be using fashion magazine names as codenames for the Huawei P30, P30 Pro and P30 Pro Lite. An anonymous commenter on GSMArena had revealed Vogue as the codename for the upcoming flagship phone. Probably, the P30 Pro could be codenamed as Vogue. The MAR could be based on the Marie Claire fashion magazine, claims the Russian publication.

The above codenames have been deduced through unverified sources. Hence, it is advisable to take this report with a pinch of salt and wait for further reports for confirmed information.

The MAR-AL00/TL00 has already received certification from 3C body in China earlier this month. Apart from the fact that handset may carry support for 18W charging, there is no other information available on the device. If it is the P30 Lite smartphone, it could be fueled by the Kirin 710 chipset.

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The P30 and P30 Pro are rumored to powered by Kirin 980 chipsets. They are expected to feature waterdrop OLED panels to carry support for in-display fingerprint scanner. The P30 handset may include Sony IMX600 in its triple camera setup whereas the P30 Pro may come with quad camera module featuring Sony IMX607 as primary sensor. The P30 series may debut by March end. Huawei is expected to announce its first foldable phone enabled with 5G support at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 tech trade show in the coming month.

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