Huawei has announced the arrival of the new Huawei P Smart 2019 in South Africa, targeting the mid-tier as aggressively as its flagship phones have tackled the high end. As the successor to the popular P Smart, launched in 2017, it incorporates the latest technology from Huawei to target a sophisticated consumer who is .
It features the new Dewdrop Display, which drastically reduces the size of the notch (many other manufacturers are still struggling to find a solution to this problem) and the more powerful octa-core Kirin 710 chipset.
A more expansive viewing area is made possible by the 6.21-inch 19.5:9 HUAWEI Dewdrop Display. Besides a physically larger screen, the new Huawei smartphone replaces the upper bezel with an unobtrusive pearl-shaped notch that houses the front camera, and completely removes the lower bezel. This allows the display to achieve an almost bezel-less face.
The P Smart 2019 also features a new TÜV Rheinland-certified Eye Comfort Mode, which effectively filters out high-energy blue light, linked to eye fatigue and disrupted sleep cycles.
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Alongside a more premium display, the Huawei P smart 2019 is equipped with improved front and rear cameras. At the front, embedded in the dewdrop notch, is a 16MP wide-aperture (f/2.0) selfie camer. It supports new AI and AR capabilities, and improved user experience features, such as gesture control.
Portrait Mode allows users to apply beautifying effects in the virtual viewfinder, and to touch-up selfies after-the-fact. The front camera also recognises and optimises eight categories of common selfie backgrounds.
The AI Dual Camera on the rear comprises a 13MP main camera and 2MP secondary camera. The high resolution primary camera is equipped with a 5p f/1.8 wide-aperture lens with a virtual aperture range of f/0.95-16, while the secondary camera collects depth information for accurate depth segmentation and creating bokeh effects. Combined, the camera system can produce studio-quality portraits.
AI operates in the background to intelligently recognise over 500 scenes and provide real-time optimisations. AI Image Stabilisation works in harmony with the wide-aperture lens to produce bright, detailed, low-noise night photos without the need for a tripod.
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The Huawei P smart 2019 is equipped with the new Kirin 710 processor, with a clock speed of up to 2.2GHz. Kirin 710 promises a smooth, natural system response, immersive gaming performance and excellent power efficiency.
The EMUI 9.0 Android skin comes standard on the device. This Huawei custom Android 9 Pie-based operating system combines with GPU Turbo 2.0, the latest iteration of Huawei’s AI-powered graphics processing solution, doubling the GPU power efficiency, while granting up to 30 percent better performance.
The P smart 2019’s large 3400mAh battery supports up to 10 hours of internet browsing on 4G networks, up to 18 hours of continuous video playback, and up to 96 hours of continuous music playback, according to Huawei. Additionally, a smart battery management system applies several measures to further extend the battery life, including suspending minimised apps to prolongbattery life of the device on idle.
Price and Availability
The Huawei P Smart 2019 is available for purchase at all operators in South Africa at a recommended retail price of R4999. It will be available in midnight black and aurora blue.
For more information, visit: http://consumer.huawei.com/en