Huawei P20 Pro: no longer need to buy a camera?

At the same time, as Apple was stamping new versions of phones like hotcakes, and Samsung was inventing new horizons for expanding the display, Huawei quietly and thoughtfully worked on its new flagship. The novelty, presented in Paris, came close to the price group of top competitors' products.

Huawei P20 Pro immediately and confidently declared itself as a leader in the quality of the photos created. And if you combine this fact with the classically excellent camera service programs of this brand, it becomes clear how much the novelty will appeal to lovers of high-quality images. However, the rest of the audience of potential buyers of Huawei P20 Pro is ready to offer a lot.

Specifications

Specifications Huawei P20 Pro are presented in the following table.

Processor platform	HiSilicon Kirin 970, Cortex 4 A73x2360 MHz, 4 A53x1800 MHz
Graphics processor	Mali mp12 g72
Screen	OLED, 408 ppi, 2240 × 1080, OLED technology without air gap
RAM / ROM	6/126 GB
SIM	2, slot without memory card support
Connection	GSM, WCDMA
Data	GPRS, EDGE, 3G, 4G LTE
Wireless technology	WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, IR port
Main cameras	40 Mp (color) + 20 Mp (monochrome) +8 Mp (color, optical zoom)
Camera front	24 Mp
Sensor unit	Magnetic compass, approach, acceleration, counter, lighting, gyroscope, ultrasonic fingerprint
Battery	Non-removable 4000 mAh

The device weighs 186 g, has dimensions of 155x74x7.8 mm.

Huawei P20 Pro

Design and ergonomics

A full review of the new product creates an unambiguous impression of using all the fashion trends. Start with the fact that the body is almost entirely made of glass. This approach creates some problems, but the Huawei P20 Pro smartphone looks uniquely stylish and catchy.

Today you can buy a model in three color schemes. The most simple and unassuming black phone looks. Its surfaces are simple and neat. Until the moment when the sun falls on them. The back cover has a mirror surface, so the phone immediately turns into a sparkling polished pearl.No less interesting is the phone Huawei P20 Pro in the twilight and ultraviolet. The latter is quite bright and perfect for modern fashionistas. Twilight Huawei P20 Pro looks youth and at the same time strictly. Additionally, it is worth noting that case colors are made in Twilight style - With the transition of shades, which only enhances the sense of style and luxury of the device.

Important! The design in the glass has the expected drawback: there are fingerprints on the front panel and the back cover. And if there is a high-quality oleophobic coating on the glass protecting the display, it is completely absent from behind. As a result, you can easily erase the tracks from the front panel, and it’s just scary to look at the back in bright sunlight.

But to the credit of the manufacturer, glass panels are very durable. You can carry the phone in your pocket next to the keys and small change for a week or more, without noticing a single scuff or scratch. Manufacturer's statements about the record strength of the material in general confirm the reviews of the owners.

The location of the control and functional elements on the edges of the device is quite usual.

1. In the right corner of the rocker sound control and power button.There is a red insert on it that creates some ribbing, thanks to which the control is easily identified by a finger.
   
2. In the left corner tray for SIM. Its guides are rubberized for a smooth, luxurious stroke and sealing the case.
   
3. Bottom is the TypeC interface for the power adapter, the two speaker grilles and the main conversational microphone.
   

4. On top of the window is an infrared transmitter and a small microphone hole of the noise cancellation.
   

It is impossible to complete the description of controls at the ends of the phone without mentioning one fact: port 3.5 minijack is missing. The owner of the device will have to use wireless models. This inconvenience is simply explained. Huawei P20 Pro IP67 protected from water and dust, Therefore, such a huge hole for 3.5 mm jack simply can not be represented in the design.

Two glass parts of the case are connected by a steel frame. The pairing lines are not even detectable and barely visible, the assembly is very high quality and accurate. Front panel looks expected. There are all the familiar features of the older series of phones from this manufacturer. Two elements are striking.

1. Branded monobrow top line. At small sizes, a conversational speaker behind a round grille, a camera eye and an indicator of missed events fit into it. Here is a block of sensors: approximation, illumination.
   
2. Fingerprint scanner in the bottom line. The element is quite wide. Ultrasound scanning technology provides high accuracy of response, even when touched with wet fingers.
   

The main highlight, which is to complete the review of the Huawei P20 Pro - is undoubtedly the back panel. Here for the unfamiliar with the characteristics of the device user in store a surprise. The Huawei P20 Pro mobile phone is equipped with three photosensors with separate optics. Three of their eyes are located vertically in the upper left corner of the cover.

Interest and LED flash. It is combined with a color temperature sensor for accurate balancing and correct correction of image parameters. The style of the back cover brings to perfection the vertically executed name of the company Leica, the optics of which is used in the smartphone. Definitely it can be said that the Huawei P20 Pro is confidently recognizable, even with all its standard sizes and expected controls.

Screen

The display of Huawei P20 Pro is modern OLED matrix with Pentile pixel structure. This particular location of the light points cannot be seen with the naked eye. However, it allows you to achieve record-high screen quality characteristics. If you give a brief comparative description, in terms of convenience and authenticity of colors, as well as distortion indicators from a high angle, the Huawei P20 Pro surpasses the market flagships.

The resolution of the matrix with a diagonal of 6.1 inches is 2240x1080 pixels at a density of the last 408 per inch. The screen is really big and can accommodate a lot of information. However, its proportions with non-standard resolution This leads to the fact that the dimensions of the Huawei P20 Pro are not excessive, it is easy to hold it even with a small female hand.

The matrix has quite a good balancing. The measured values ​​of the brightness graph show the linear nature of its changes, in the zone of the minimum - the indicators are higher than necessary. The gamma level changes quite strongly - from 2 to 2.4, depending on the installed backlight. However, the color charts are close to perfect. The temperature characteristics are stable, the overall color coverage slightly exceeds the sRGB standard. Wherein there is some green zone offset. Gray color is especially good: all measured indicators show values ​​close to ideal.

The general screen description of the Huawei P20 Pro can be summarized as follows:

• gray and other colors are as authentic as possible;
• extremely small color distortion when viewed at significant angles;
• when the brightness of the backlight decreases, the phone changes the display parameter in order to preserve the recognizability of information as best as possible.

Important! The natural tone function works great. Depending on the ambient light, the Huawei P20 Pro automatically changes the color temperature.

With phone can work in sunlight. Even indoors during the auto-tuning of the backlight, the brightness level is 400 cd / m2, which is already a good indicator. In the settings of the display there are the expected options: eye protection, setting the color temperature, the backlight settings.

Hardware platform

Features Huawei P20 Pro - is 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage. The company decided not to release performance with a smaller body kit. For example, you can not buy a phone, which has 64 GB of storage. This approach is quite justified, given that the Huawei P20 Pro does not provide for the use of memory cards.

The processor Huawei P20 Pro - especially Chinese development, HiSilicon Kirin 970. The platform is a bundle of four cores, 4-Cortex A73, 4-Cortex A53. In addition to the central one, the smartphone uses the i7 coprocessor, which is busy performing a variety of tasks, unloading the main computational circuit.

Important! No problems with the performance of Huawei P20 Pro does not create. Phone confidently copes with any task. At the maximum settings are modern games, even Modern Combat 5 with its exceptional dynamics.

In synthetic tests, the device bypasses most competitors. And this is despite the fact that the processor platform is inferior in some respects to the Snapdragon 845 top-end CPU. The work of other hardware platform complexes also causes complaints. Modems for data transfer show practically maximum performance (according to communication standards). The satellites are located quickly, all three main orienteering systems of GPS, Beidou, GLONASS are available.

Autonomy

Huawei P20 Pro has a 4000 mAh non-removable lithium-ion battery. Even according to average estimates, a device with a modern energy-saving processor platform and an OLED display should be enough for a long time.And field tests in general confirm this assumption.

1. Talk time - from 38 hours in 2G networks to 25 in 3G.
2. Standby mode when data transmission is enabled on 4G networks is up to 420 hours.
3. 22 hours of playing videos from the internal drive.
4. 90 hours of music.
5. Surfing, playing videos, other actions on 4G networks - 22 hours of work.

When mixed with 5-6 hours of display (messengers, calls, calls, Yandex cards, etc.) - the device will work up to 20 hours. Reducing the load leads to a sharp increase in resource - up to 48 (only work, no standby mode).

Tip! To improve autonomy, you can switch the display to dark tones using the appropriate menu item. There are two special power saving modes. One of them uses a reduced screen resolution.

You can restore the battery level to 100% from the supplied adapter in 2 hours when using proprietary fast charging technology.

Cameras

The Huawei P20 Pro camera is an ideal solution for those who want to shoot in any conditions, in low light and even at night.. And this is far from an allegation. It was confirmed by full-scale tests in dark rooms by any journalist who wanted to, directly at a telephone presentation.

Important! In addition, the review of the camera Huawei P20 Pro made by the authoritative edition of DxOMark brought her as many as 109 evaluation points. According to this indicator, the smartphone has surpassed the 10-ku Galaxy S9 Plus and even more - the iPhone X.

The main sensor of Huawei P20 Pro is almost a record 40 megapixel. The leader’s position is not taken by a rather outdated Nokia Lumia phone with 41 megapixels. However, only numbers are not an indicator. The Huawei P20 Pro camera has three light-sensitive matrixes working in the complex. They are larger than their closest competitors in the price segment.

The link works as follows.

1. Under low and medium illumination, a matrix of 40 megapixel supplies basic data for imaging.
2. To improve the detail used monochrome 20 megapixel sensor. Another task that he solves is the expansion of the color range.
3. Under strong or excessive lighting conditions color sensor 8 MP. It has optical stabilization and works as a complementary element. He is also responsible for the quality of images in bright sunlight and the possibility of using a threefold optical zoom.

Focusing the whole complex is extremely fast and accurate.Mainly, this is achieved by using three systems at once. Work simultaneously laser, contrast and phase focusing. And the final stroke in speed is put by the hardware platform coprocessor.

Do not forget about the operation of the sensor color temperature. It allows a complex of cameras to quickly and accurately set white balance parameters. If you describe the capabilities of the smartphone in terms of the quality of the photographs, you can note the following:

• an extremely wide color range is noticeable, both dark and brightly lit areas of the scene are detailed, they are reliable;
• the scene auto-recognition system works well — Huawei's proprietary technology;
• Shooting in the evening and with extremely low light at night allows you to get detailed, high-quality images even without using a lens.

It is possible to find enough materials in the network to understand how much the price of the Huawei P20 Pro is justified if you want to get great pictures in almost any conditions.

As a conclusion

Today, the Huawei P20 Pro is close in price to the fashionable flagships of the market. However, it is worth buying if you want to get a device with excellent features.The performance level of the hardware platform has an enormous power margin. Although the CPU loses the top products, do not forget that in the Huawei P20 Pro computing tasks are divided between the individual devices of the computing unit. But even more want to buy a flagship from Huawei photo lovers. In this part of the functional, the smartphone simply has no competitors.

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