Huawei recently launched P Smart Z mid-range smartphone – its first smartphone with a pop-up selfie camera. Now the company has silently launched Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 which also comes with a pop-up selfie camera. The phone has now been listed on Huawei’s official website with full specs.
The Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 phone is a successor of Y9 Prime 2018, but it shares the same specs as of the Huawei P Smart Z except for the rear camera. The phone has a triple rear camera setup as compared to dual rear cameras in P Smart Z.
Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 features a 6.59-inch (2340 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 19:5:9 2.5D curved glass display. It is powered by an octa-Core Kirin 710F processor with ARM Mali-G51 MP4 GPU. It is paired with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and expandable memory up to 512GB via microSD card slot. While the P smart Z is available in 4GB with 64GB storage, the Y9 Prime 2019 has an additional variant with 4GB RAM with 128GB storage.
For the camera, the phone has a triple rear camera setup with 16-megapixel primary sensor with an f/1.8 lens, a 2-megapixel secondary sensor, and an 8-megapixel ultra Wide-Angle lens. For the front, the phone has a 16-megapixel pop-up selfie sensor with an f/2.2 lens.
The Huawei Y9 2019 has a 4000mAh battery which charges via a USB Type-C port. There is a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. It runs EMUI 9.0 based on Android Pie and comes in Midnight Black, Emerald Green, and Sapphire Blue colour variants.