People Flocked The Huawei P9 And P9 Plus Camera Trade In Promo!

An instant hit! Yesterday, people flocked Huawei's flagship store at the Cyberzone of SM Mall of Asia (MOA) for their much awaited P9 and P9 Plus camera trade-in promo.

Lone line at the Huawei flagship store for the P9 series trade-in event

Related: Huawei P9 Review - More Than Just The Best Phone For Photography!

As a refresher, those handsets received a lot of hype and noise as Huawei co-engineered the dual cameras at the back of Huawei P9 and P9 Plus with Leica, the respected high-end German camera brand.

Inside the store where everyone explores the P9

Together, both Huawei and Leica tuned the P9 to be the best camera for stills on a smartphone today. Dubbed as the "Leica in your pocket" or the "Point and shoot killer", Huawei and Leica used a dual f/2.2 13 MP Summarit lenses here, an RGB that registers accurate colors of the scenes and a Monochrome lens for black and whites / sharpness.

Here's a photo of our P9 review unit

It's also complete with all the latest camera innovations like the Hybrid AF (laser AF, PDAF, contrast AF), can shoot in RAW, can record up to 60 FPS 1080p video and has dual tone LED flash.

This guy was at MOA as early as 5 am to be the first one to buy the P9.
As a result, he also won a P9 aside from the one he bought.
Photo grabbed from Huawei Philippines FB page

At the camera trade-in promo, buyers of Huawei P9 and P9 Plus gets 20% discount when they swap their old working or non-working camera. The P9 from 23,990 will be at 19,990 and the P9 Plus from 29,990 will be at 23,990 only.

Entries at the largest and oldest camera contest
The winners will get the P9 too

That makes it a great deal considering that the SRP of the P9 series were priced much higher in European countries.

The camera trade-in promo will end today, June 12, 2016, so if you have an old camera there and wanted to experience great smartphone photography, visit Huawei's flagship store at SM MOA now.

Note: The collected cameras will be donated at certain NGOs.

After this promo, the P9 series including the affordable P9 Lite will be available nationwide starting this June 15 with their regular suggested retail price (29,990 for P9 Plus, 23,990 for P9 and 11,990 for P9 Lite).

Our full review is coming up, stay tuned!