Leaked Huawei P40 renders show a device suspiciously like upcoming Honor phone

When Huawei CEO Richard Yu announced that the Huawei P40 release date will be in March 2020, he said it would have a "never seen" design – but it looks like that might not quite be the case, as newly-leaked renders show a handset we've definitely seen before.

These renders come from 91mobiles and Twitter leaker @Onleaks, two sources which are prolific in the 'leaked pictures of upcoming phones' sphere. The images are pretty dark, but they show what's claimed to be the P40 from all angles.

The most interesting feature here is the rectangular camera block, which is much wider than the Huawei P30's – so it's likely to house more cameras, or a more powerful flash module. As pointed out by 91mobiles, this kind of wide camera block is becoming popular, with newer Samsung phones expected to use it (including the Galaxy S11), a few phones that haven't made their way to the west, as well as another device from Huawei phone: the Honor View 30.

Huawei is the parent company of Honor, so while the two companies put out different phones, a lot of the tech and research is the same. The images of the Huawei P40 look remarkably like the Honor View 30, which released in November in China as the Honor V30, and will likely be launched worldwide in early 2020.

SO IS THE HUAWEI P40 THE HONOR VIEW 30?

The renders don't show exactly the same handset – there's one major difference, in the form of the button layout in the sides of the phones. 

The Huawei P40 looks set to have its power button and volume rocker on the right of the device, but in that position on the Honor V30 there's a side-mounted fingerprint sensor and volume rocker, while the power button is on the left side.