Is this what a 10x optical zoom smartphone looks like?

Huawei P40 Pro
(Image credit: via Weibo)

While the Huawei P40 Pro isn't expected to launch until March 2020, we may have just got our first glimpse of what looks set to be the second flagship Huawei is launches with no Google Services, after the US China trade war fallout. The images were originally shared on Chinese social network, Weibo, and reposted on GSMArena.

The question Huawei faced is this: how do you entice customers when you're already on the back foot? If the latest renders are accurate, the answer is: launch what could be the world's first 10x optical zoom smartphone camera

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Basil Kronfli

Basil Kronfli is a freelance technology journalist and content creator with a number of specialisms. He started his career at Canon Europe, before joining Phone Arena and Recombu as a tech writer and editor. From there, he headed up and runs Tech[edit], a technology YouTube channel, and has worked alongside this role at Future as a Senior Producer, sharpening his considerable video production skills. 


His technical expertise has been called on numerous times by mainstream media, with appearances and interviews on outlets like Sky News, and he provides Digital Camera World with insight and reviews on camera phones, video editing software and laptops, on-camera monitors, camera sliders, microphones and much more.