Huawei outs dual-lens flagship smartphones, co-branded with Leica
The third largest smartphone maker by global marketshare, China’s Huawei, has just unveiled two new flagship handsets — announcing the 5.2 inch P9 and 5.5 inch P9 Plus at an event in London today.
The most notable feature of both are dual lenses on the rear, sitting next to the Leica brand. Huawei says the camera has been “co-engineered” with the veteran optics maker. Although that does not, apparently, mean the lenses themselves are Leica lenses.
dual-lenses rather being put to work to — Huawei claims — enhance photography via improved color/clarity, and to support features such as refocusing after the fact (as Lytro previously tried with dedicated camera hardware; but as ever if it can become a feature on a smartphone it will… ).
It also says the twin lenses support a wide aperture mode that lets in more light — and more light typically means better photos.
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