An accidental listing on Amazon Italy was posted (before being taken down) that showed the yet to be announced Huawei P Smart Z. The listing revealed the entire spec list, as well as the retail price of €279, which translates to $313. This handset will feature a 6.59-inch FHD+ (2340×1080) display with 391ppi and a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The phone will be fueled by Huawei’s own Kirin 710 chipset, and will ship with 4GB of RAM and 64GB expandable storage. Everything will be juiced up by a 4,000mAh battery. As far as cameras are concerned, the P Smart Z will have two rear sensors, a 16MP (f/1.8) and a 2MP (f/2.4). For selfies, users will have a 16MP front-facing camera that will feature 2D Face Unlock. The phone will come with Android 9.0 Pie pre-installed and will have a rear-mounted capacitive fingerprint reader, as well as a 3.5mm headphone jack. The color options will be black, green, and blue that shows off a two-tone look reminiscent of the original Google Pixel. Advertisement The P Smart Z will be Huawei’s first smartphone with a pop-up selfie camera. A few other manufacturers have shipped devices already with this type of mechanism, such as the Vivo Nex S. Other companies have implemented this design in various ways, but the goal is, all the same, a bezeless display. Until cameras can work from behind the glass and remain unseen, the pop-up mechanism is the way manufacturers are going. It’s an interesting strategy for Huawei to market the P Smart Z as a budget device. The listed price of €279 is well below the premium price tag of the P30 Pro. Recently, global smartphone shipments for Q1 were released. Both Apple and Samsung experienced losses, while Huawei jumped from 39.3 million phones sold in Q1 2018 to 59.1 in 2019. It’s not known for sure, but much of Huawei’s growth could be credited to the budget-friendly devices it produces both under its name and sub-brands. While Samsung does market cheaper smartphones, its main devices are at the flagship level and flagship price. Apple, on the other hand, only sells flagship phones, which is likely why it experienced such a loss in the market. This information leads to believe that consumers are both upgrading phones less often and that many are making the switch to cheaper devices. Advertisement Manufacturers like OnePlus, for example, have been working hard at closing the gap between premium and budget-priced smartphones. Cheaper phones are offering more bang for the buck than higher-priced ones, and apparently, consumers are noticing. With the upcoming release of the P Smart Z, Huawei is making a push for Samsung’s global sales crown. The Chinese electronics company has already surpassed Apple, and it doesn’t look like it has plans of stopping anytime soon. That being said, the government is prohibiting the brand from selling in the United States due to previous privacy scandals. It’s clear that Huawei isn’t struggling from the geographical ban, but if they ever do enter the U.S. market, it’s sales would likely grow to overpass Samsung’s.<doc-sep>The Huawei P smart Z is the first phone from the company to sport a pop-up selfie camera. This means the 6.59” LCD screen is unblemished by a notch, which most of the recent Huawei phones have. This is not an expensive phone, it’s up on Amazon Italy for €280. The mid-range price means that there’s no in-display fingerprint reader, instead you get a traditional reader on the back. There you’ll notice the dual texture finish, which gives it a bit of a Pixel look. Also on the back is the 16MP main camera and the 2MP depth sensor. Huawei P smart Z in Midnight Black, Starlight Blue and Emerald Green The front camera, which is mounted on a pop-up mechanism, houses a 16MP sensor. The mechanism takes 1 second to extend. It has been tested to last 100,000 cycles and it can withstand 12kg of force. AI is available for both front and back cameras and it can retouch portraits as well as recognize 500+ scenes in 22 categories. The 16MP selfie pop-up camera uses AI to enhance portraits All of this runs on the Kirin 710F chipset hooked up to 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage (there’s a microSD slot for up to 512GB more memory). The phone runs Android 9 Pie with EMUI 9.0 out of the box. The Huawei P smart Z has a 4,000mAh battery, there’s no mention of fast charging. It does use USB-C, which is news only because the P smart 2019 uses microUSB. This was a quiet unveiling for the Z, which is partly because the phone isn’t available yet. The Amazon Italy page says it will be 1-2 months before the phone is available for shipping. The official Huawei site says nothing about availability either, but we did find it on the Spanish and Italian sites, so a European launch is a given. Source (ES) | Source (IT)<doc-sep>
The Huawei P30 has a notch, the Huawei Nova 4 has a punch-hole camera, and now with the newly announced Huawei P Smart Z, the company has a phone with a pop-up camera. The pop-up 16MP selfie camera means there’s no bezel above the screen, and in fact there’s very little below it, giving the phone an all-screen look. Aside from being the company’s first phone with a pop-up camera, the Huawei P Smart Z looks fairly ordinary on paper, but the specs are reasonable. The Google Pixel 3a was also announced recently See what we thought of the Galaxy S10 The iPhone 11 will land later this year The Huawei P Smart Z is a mid-ranger with a pop-up camera. Image credit: Huawei (Image credit: Huawei) It has a 6.59-inch 1080 x 2340 screen, a dual-lens rear camera with a 16MP f/1.8 main lens and a 2MP f/2.4 depth sensor, and a Pixel-like design, with a two-tone color scheme on the back. The phone is powered by a mid-range octa-core Kirin 710F chipset and 4GB of RAM, it has 64GB of storage, a microSD card slot, a 4,000mAh battery, a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, and it runs Android 9 Pie overlaid with Huawei’s EMUI 9 interface. So far the Huawei P Smart Z is only available in Spain and Italy, where stores are listing it for €279 (around $310/£240/AU$450) but we wouldn’t be surprised if the phone makes it to the UK. A US release though is very unlikely given Huawei’s issues in the country. TechRadar has reached out to Huawei to find out if they have any plans to bring the phones to the UK, and we'll update this article when we find out either way. The flagship Huawei Mate 30 Pro is still to come Via Phone Arena