Rumor: Huawei Mate 20 Pro will have wide-angle and telephoto cameras

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro may have a wide-angle and a telephoto lens on the back. It would be the first time that a smartphone combines both types of lenses in one camera system. Renders of the phone have also appeared.

The Mate 20 Pro will receive lenses that range from 16mm to 80mm in 35mm equivalent, according to WinFuture. A regular smartphone camera is usually between 24 and 28 mm, while the telephoto lenses are often around 50 mm. The P20 Pro, also from Huawei, has a 78mm lens, but a wide-angle lens is not on that phone.

With focal lengths of 16mm and 80mm, ‘5x optical zoom’ is possible without the need for software tricks, something that Huawei still does with the P20 Pro, which has ‘only’ 3x zoom thanks to the focal lengths used. It is unknown exactly how the camera setup works; WinFuture speculates that Huawei will no longer supply a monochrome sensor, but will let the third camera photograph in color.

The renders show the Mate 20 Pro with a cutout at the top of the screen. It would be an OLED screen with 3120×1440 pixels, with an aspect ratio of 19.5:9. The Mate 20 Pro will run on the previously announced Kirin 980-soc, which TSMC produces for Huawei at 7nm.

Huawei will present the Mate 20 series on October 16 during its own event, the manufacturer said earlier. According to WinFuture, the device appears in three color combinations in Europe, namely blue with pinstripe, black and ‘twilight’, a gradient from black to purple and blue.