Huawei goes camera crazy with the new P20 Pro

Huawei has a new flagship, and boy is it hot. 

The company officially launched the oft-leaked P20 and P20 Pro today at a special media event in Paris. (A third variant, the P20 Lite, was soft-launched in China a week ago.) This time, Huawei's got one goal: Crush every other smartphone camera with an insane amount of resolution.

The 6.1-inch P20 Pro is the most interesting device here, with a 24-megapixel selfie camera and a triple camera on the rear, consisting of a 40-megapixel RGB sensor, a 20-megapixel monochrome sensor, and an 8-megapixel sensor with a telephoto lens and 3x optical zoom (and up to 5x "hybrid zoom"). Note that this is very different from previous Huawei dual-camera setups, where the monochrome sensor had the higher resolution.  Read more...