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so Huawei has just announced a like a camera with a phone attached the p9 which promises to be a game-changer in smartphone photography I'm Chris Karlin for Android authority let's take a look and see if the Huawei p9 has what it takes to spark the revolution design-wise the Huawei p9 is very similar to its predecessor the p8 you've got the same sham pad edges brushed metal and overall design styling with a few minor changes like a textured power button the headphone port has moved to the bottom edge and there's only a single speaker grille this time the quaiity 9 is just six point nine five millimeters thin though which is a pretty impressive design feat but we didn't necessarily come here for the design the biggest feature of the p9 is undoubtedly the dual camera array on the back Koh engineered with German optics maker leica now there's 2 mote 12 megapixel lenses that allow you to shoot wide-angle and bokeh effects as well as selectively focusing but there's no camera bump at all even on a phone this thin so we've got an RGB sensor for capturing color information and another monochrome sensor for capturing fine detail this setup allows the Huawei p9 to increase contrast by 50% and light sensitivity by 300% the p9 introduces a hybrid autofocus which combines laser depth and contrast focusing so you'll be using both camera lenses and the laser focus with a dedicated depth measurement chip to isolate the best focal length like as influence on the camera app can be felt with tons and tons of modes presets and settings to fool around with as well as a full manual mode for fine-grained control but unfortunately there's no optical image stabilization on either lens up front there's an 8 megapixel camera with beauty mode and perfect selfie for all you selfie fans and on the display front we've got a 5.2 inch full HD IPS screen same size and resolution as the p8 but it does seem to offer a few improvements in terms of quality on the software front we've got Android 6.0 marshmallow straight out of the box as well as emotion UI 4.1 but the software is a very similar experience to what you would know from our Huawei phones so don't expect anything too radically different on that from the p9 also introduces USB type-c as well as a finger scanner that's apparently a market improvement over previous Cloe finger scanners which were already pretty impressive the new finger scanner is a class 4 scanner which apparently can sense differences in fingerprint ridges in three dimensions p9 also has the latest Kirin processor the 955 3000 milliamp hour battery and a few different variations for storage 32 gig with a 3 gig of ram and 64 gig with a 4 gig of ram option and they will both be available in mid april of course there is also a larger version of the p9 as well Huawei p9 + now it bumps things up a little by bringing a 5.5 inch AMOLED display but unfortunately it's still full HD as well but it brings a few other improvements like press touch a slightly larger battery and IR blaster and some other improvements it'll be available mid-may and comes in 64 gig and 128 gig versions with 4 gig of ram each in terms of pricing the p9 is not exactly cheap the base model with 32 gig of storage is 599 euros the slightly larger one at 64 is 649 euros and the p9 + with 64 gig + 4 gig of ram is 749 now highway is not talking specifics on the US market but these devices will reportedly be hitting the states sometime this year a yp9 ticks a lot of boxes but they just sort of seemed like something is missing it's hard to put a finger on it because the phone offers so many improvements over its predecessor but I guess we'll have to wait for the full review to find out if the new like a camera really is all it's cracked up to be till next time guys hit the comments let us know what you think of the new Huawei p9 + p9 + hit that subscribe button like this video if you have and keep it locked to android authority your source for all things Android