This may be the next king of the smartphone photo hill, clad in the glory of metal and glass flesh: the Huawei P40 Pro.

This phone appears to have a curved-edge screen with dual camera punch holes placed in the upper left corner.

And while it is still banned, Chinese companies still dominate the camera sector in cell phones no matter how many embargoes Trump sticks on them. Huawei's latest flagship, the Mate 30 Pro, is the best camera phone along with the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro Premium Edition (which, incidentally, has the same 108MP camera sensor as the upcoming top-of-the-line Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra) It is classified as.

This is a position that Huawei has dominated for the past few years. We even identified the Huawei P30 Pro as a "photo revolution". So if history can be useful for anything other than the History Channel making documentaries about Nazis and World War II, we can consider the Huawei P40 Pro to be a new leap forward in mobile photography.

A possible clue is this back, posted on Twitter and spotted by Gizmochina.

Yes, we know that the camera is completely invisible, as it is covered by a special case that completely hides it. However, this case tells us something. Look at the size of this cover! The hunchback of the camera package is insane.

How many cameras will the P40 have? No one knows for sure yet. The company pioneered the use of multiple sensors and artificial intelligence to achieve the unique photo quality that Samsung, Apple, and others are emulating.

GSMArena believes the Huawei P40 Pro will feature a 52-megapixel image sensor made by Sony. This new sensor is quite large at 1/1.33" and will use "Quad Bayer" technology, a technology that allows pixels to be grouped into 16 groups when there is no light, greatly increasing optical sensitivity.

The blog also claims that the P40 will feature a new 10x true optical zoom camera, rather than 5x optical upscaled to 10x with AI; GSMArena claims that Huawei will use a "dual prism design (current periscope cameras have one prism (current periscope cameras have only one prism)". This seems necessary to fit the module into a cell phone, despite the very long focal length.

It also notes that Huawei has "trademarked various terms such as Quad Curve Overflow (presumably Quad Curve Screen), Ultra Vision Camera, Ultra Vision Sensor, and even 5G AR." In other words, it is clear that photography will be the main driving force behind this phone.

Too bad you can't (easily) install Google apps.