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Huawei has officially introduced the final member of its P30 series of smartphones: the Huawei P30 Lite. We’ve already seen what the P30 Pro can do (except we haven’t really seen what it can do, yet — the low-light camera performance is said to be amazing) and the P30 is no slouch either. The P30 Lite, on the other hand… that’s the budget contender and it’s looking quite er… contentious.

Huawei showed off its forthcoming Mate X folding phone-let (or tab-phone) at a media event in Johannesburg today. While we were able to hold the device, we weren’t allowed to fold it, so we had to rope in the help of a Huawei representative for the video below. Nonetheless, we got to check out the camera setup and try various apps, and our early impressions suggest it’s going to be a highly desirable — and crazy expensive — when it arrives in June or July of this year.

You’d think Huawei would have learnt from its past mistakes when it comes to its smartphone marketing campaigns. You’d think that some of the best smartphone cameras around would encourage it to use them for the promotional pics. Or that previous incidents would see it using a disclaimer like ‘images simulated’. But no. Once again the company’s been caught using images shot on DSLRs to promote an upcoming device. In this instance, the upcoming P30 Pro smartphone that’s expected to have some serious camera chops.