Honor V40 was scheduled to launch on January 18. But the company took to Weibo to announce that the phone will launch and go on sale on Friday, January 22 instead. The smartphone will launch at 10 am local time (7:30 am IST) in China and go on sale at 12 pm noon (9:30 am IST) on the same day.
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The handset is said to come with upgraded specifications and features over the predecessor Honor V30. The upcoming phone has now made an early appearance on the Chinese retailer site revealing official renders and key specifications.
Coming to the renders, the Honor V40 will be available in four color options including black, blue, silver, and peach. Looking at the image, we can understand that the Honor V40 will have a rectangular-shaped camera module with a triple rear camera setup, laser autofocus, and LED flash. At the front, the phone features curved edges and the upper-left corner of the screen has a pill-shaped cutout.
Honor V40 is rumored to feature a 6.72-inch OLED display and run on Android 10-based UI 4.0. It is rumored to have three cameras on the back that consists of a primary 50-megapixel primary sensor. The Honor V40 has a dual-camera setup on the front that has a 32-megapixel primary and 16-megapixel secondary sensor.
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In a separate post, the hands-on images of Honor V40 have also been leaked on Twitter. The company also teased the Honor V40’s new graphics acceleration engine, dubbed the GPU Turbo X. The video shared by Honor teases the graphics acceleration feature that the phone will boast of. This feature is likely to improve the mobile gaming experience on Honor V40.