The annual Internationale Funkausstellung tech show, more commonly known as IFA, is a favourite time of year for tech enthusiasts as well as smartphone and PC makers. Every year, since 1926, the event has been hosted in Berlin.
This year, the event kicked off on 6 September and will go on till 11 September. While there are still two more days to go for the event's final wrap, most of the smartphone launches are already out of the way, including some prominent announcements from the likes of HMD Global, Samsung, Huawei, Asus, Acer, and others.
In a quick recap of the highlights of IFA 2019, here are the top announcements made at the event:
IFA 2019: Updated Huawei P30 Pro with Android 10
At IFA 2019 Huawei reannounced its earlier-launched P30 Pro (Review) smartphone with a few minor changes. The new P30 Pro comes with Android 10 pre-installed which has Huawei's custom EMUI 10 skin overlaying it and the device now has two more colour options which have a two-tone matte and glossy finish. These colours are called Mystic Blue and Misty Lavender.
Huawei P30 Pro.
Huawei Kirin 990 5G chipset
Huawei claims that the Kirin 990 5G is currently the most powerful processor in the market. The chipset is made from a 7 nm manufacturing process and boasts of nearly 10.3 billion transistors which is much more than the 6.9 billion on the Kirin 980 SoC.
The chipset has a refreshed CPU architecture with two Cortex-A76 high-performance cores, two Cortex-A76 “middle-cores” that juggle everyday workloads and four Cortex-A55 efficiency cores for low power tasks. The clock speeds of each core have been increased with the high-performance cores hitting 2.86 GHz, middle-cores hitting 2.36 GHz and the efficiency cores hitting 1.95 GHz.
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