CES 2018 is going on right now and as usual, there are many big and small discoveries at the event. This time at CES 2018 we had a few big mobile announcements. One of them was the launch of the Huawei Mate 10 Pro in the United States. This was unveiled just a few hours below the keynote.
Huawei CBG CEO Richard Yu, at the end of the keynote, went to great pains talking about the carrier situations in the United States, and the emerging need for the consumers of United States to have more choice. A couple of hours later, guys from Android Authority sat down with Richard Yu to talk about Huawei’s performance in 2017 and the challenges they face as a company in the U.S., as well as the partnerships they’ve struck.
Android authority reports, during the interview, Richard Yu said that the tech and AI integration are the next big battlegrounds and opportunities for all smartphone manufacturers. Specifically, he said that he wants to bring DSLR like focal lengths and zoom to the mobile ecosystem.
A smartphone by Huawei running such a wonderful camera wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen it on mobile. The Panasonic CM1 and Nokia Lumia 1020 already implemented technologies like that. But those implementations were without the use of AI. Combining this hardware technology with AI capability can make this smartphone the next big thing. Although, it would be interesting to see whether we actually need a DSLR-like experience on a mobile device.
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Taking into consideration the past, this smartphone will be in collaboration with Leica and the software might be outsourced. Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL makes the same use of AI to provide the same kind of experience.
It will be interesting to see whether it is as good as Huawei's Richard Yu says it to be.
