Huawei’s Mate 10 Lite will come with four cameras

One of the last flagship phone lineups scheduled for release this fall has just leaked.

No, not that one. I’m talking about Huawei, which we now know is readying to unveil three new Mate smartphones on October 16th, according to VentureBeat’s Evan Blass: the Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, and Mate 10 Lite. And while we’ve known about the first two for a few weeks, new information about the $455 Mate 10 Lite shows Huawei is angling for a new kind of advantage in mobile photography by using four cameras on the phone. Yes, both the back and front of the phone will employ a dual-camera setup, according to Blass. But they’ll be a little different from what we’ve come to expect with dual cameras. Both the front and back will have a main camera (a 16-megapixel shooter on the back, and a 13-megapixel version on the front), and each of those will be paired with a 2-megapixel buddy. That means Huawei will almost certainly not be going down the path it paved with the P9, which used a second, equal resolution (but monochromatic) sensor to add detail and clarity to the images captured by the main one. Instead, these are more likely to be used for effects, like creating a blurred background (which, to be clear, is something the P9 also did). That means it would, like the new iPhone X, offer a front-facing bokeh mode for selfies. (The iPhone X also technically has four cameras, with the fourth being an infrared sensor on the front of the phone.)                                                                                        https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/21/16344836/huawei-mate-10-lite-cameras-price