Huawei P20 - practically the flagship and reasonable savings

Every time a truly innovative device appears on the market, being presented in the maximum configuration, users are cautiously waiting for serial products of the middle segment. This is exactly what can be said about the Huawei P20. The older model with the Pro prefix is ​​a bright, powerful, stylish flagship. But the manufacturer carefully approached the issue of cutting. As a result - Huawei P20 caused a real sensation, offering a lot and allowing you to save well.

Specifications

The table describes the characteristics of the Huawei P20, model part number EML-L29.

Huawei P20

The smartphone weighs 163 g. supplied phone, branded power adapter, cable, cover, headset (not in all variants), SIM tray extraction clip, user manual.

Design and ergonomics

Huawei P20 with its appearance is fully consistent with its positioning in the market. Here everything is neat, quite familiar, but the device as a whole is made in an interesting design, which clearly shows the breed.

Interesting chips

If you make a review of the Huawei P20 from the standpoint of listing the highlights, you can specify the following stylish elements that make the smartphone recognizable and unique.

1. The power button has thin red insert.
   

2. The body is assembled on solid steel frame around the perimeter. The accuracy of the information details is so high that the connection lines are practically not detectable.
   
3. The Huawei P20 smartphone has glass back cover. It is luxurious and modern.The surface of the back cover has some drawbacks, however they do not create difficulties for the user.
4. Dual cameras on the back cover protrude slightly, a few millimeters. Such a small island enhances awareness.
   

Of course, one can not specify the stylistic features of the entire family of flagship Huavei. At the top of the front panel branded mono-brow, at the bottom of the fingerprint scanner.

Important! Phone Huawei P20 is equipped with a very high-quality ultrasonic sensor. Prints are recognized even from wet fingers, and the water on the hands does not affect the speed of identification.

Constructive decisions

Location of controls on the case is quite expected.

1. Thin, not excessively protruding power button with a color insert and a volume rocker are located at the top on the right side.
2. Slot for 2 sim, without the possibility of installing a memory card is at the top of the left side.
3. The upper bound does not please an abundance of interfaces. Here is just the hole of the microphone noise reduction system.
   
4. On the bottom of the lattice of two speakers, the interface for connecting the charger, the standard port 3.5 minijack for headphones.

Perplexed users about the Spartan feature set is clear and reasonable. However, it is worth remembering that the company in developing Huawei P20 set a goal to offer maximum performance and excellence of engineering solutions for the least possible money. Therefore, the smartphone there is no infrared port or stereo two lower speakers.

Front Panel - This is a proprietary insert in the upper part, where the loud speaker is located, the front camera's flash LED. The sensor block is represented by an approach and ambient light sensor. The missed event alert LED is so small that it is difficult to find it, not knowing in advance where to do it.

At the bottom of the front panel - fingerprint scanner, similar to the home button. For some users, this design will not cause the most vivid emotions. He is frankly outdated. However, it is convenient to use the scanner in this place, and user reviews clearly show that this is true for people with any hand size.

Rear panel glass, monophonic, without fashionable complex transitions of light reflection.Cameras and flash (double) are located in a line one above the other, in the left part of the cover. The brand name and technical data of the device are also plotted vertically, laterally. This design gives the model even more style.

A review of the Huawei P20 phone will not be complete if you don’t answer the question of how, in essence, a completely glass device will behave in your hands. Fingerprints are the biggest problem of such cases. They spoil the whole look. However, the manufacturer Huawei P20 offers high-quality oleophobic coating. Fingerprints not only remain on the display surface extremely reluctantly - they are easily removed. The oleophobic coating of the back cover is somewhat worse. But its monochromatic color without highly pronounced gloss significantly reduces the problem of a small number of fingerprints.

Important! The device on the market is offered in three colors. This is a classic Huawei P20 black black, youth blue and a version with a pink cover.

Screen

Display Huawei P20 - a bright representative of the flagship segment. It is bright, colorful, legible information, even small fonts. This is achieved offset color range in the cold, blue spectrum.

The device matrix is ​​a product of the most modern class. Manufactured by by LTPS technology, it is characterized by uniform display of solid fill and high reaction rate. The display resolution is 2240x1080 pixels, the standard is FullHD +, the aspect ratio is 18: 9, the diagonal is 5.8 inches. Thanks to this screen geometry, the dimensions of the Huawei P20 with a huge display are sufficiently acceptable so that people with small hands do not feel discomfort when using the phone.

In-situ measurements of display parameters show that:

• The maximum screen brightness is 415 cd / m2, the minimum is 0.32 cd / m2;
• contrast level - 1235: 1;
• The viewing angles are almost maximum, at any viewing angle, the colors on the screen do not change;
• gamma curve without blockages, the color coverage is wider than the standard RGB palette.

If you make a complete overview of the capabilities of the screen of Huawei P20 in simple words, it can be noted that the device will convenient to use even in bright sunshine. The light sensor responds quickly and correctly.

Important! To protect the eyes, the manufacturer has provided a special reading mode. After its activation, the color output system automatically suppresses excess blue spectrum.

Other screen settings are quite expected.You can set the cold or warm hue of the display, set a non-standard color temperature. It should be noted presence natural tone mode. It allows you to achieve a constant feeling of colors on the screen, regardless of the level of ambient light. The smartphone will automatically adjust the gamma and display parametric, depending on the readings of the light sensor.

Hardware platform

The heart of the Huawei P20 computing system is the HiSilicon Kirin 970 processor. This is a modern Chinese chip designed and manufactured. He is not only fast and productive, but also supports many software processing, for example, event queues, multimedia services, wireless communications.

Huawei P20 to Geekbench

Cell phone Huawei P20 has on board from 4 to 6 GB of RAM standard LPDDR4. She has huge data exchange rate - up to 7600 Mbit / s. For data storage, 128 GB flash drive is offered. Its speed is at the level of good SSD hard drives, up to 500 Mbit / s for reading, up to 200 Mbit / s when writing.

Such indicators of the platform make it clear that there will not be any problems with performance and resources for applications. Mobile phone Huawei P20 easily allows you to run simultaneously two or more heavy applications. There will be no problems if you start a demanding game and minimize it to read mail or work.

Synthetic tests show:

• in terms of processor performance, the Huawei P20 surpasses 99% of devices on the market;
• according to the speed of rendering the graphics - 87%;
• in terms of memory performance, a smartphone surpasses 83% of the models on the market.

Overview of communication and orientation is also not satisfactory to the user. Huawei P20 powerful high-speed modem for mobile internet. The Wi-Fi transmitter receiver is dual band. GPS, GLONASS and BDS orientation systems are supported. The sensitivity level of the antenna is quite good. Up to 25 satellites are detected, positioning accuracy is up to 6 meters.

As remarks to the hardware platform, you can specify the following.

1. No memory card slot. Expand storage with simple methods is not possible.
2. Bluetooth version 4.2 only. This fact is more likely to be a disorder only for perfectionists.

The last flaw Huawei P20 - stereo sound not supported. This is strange, since the processor provides such an opportunity, especially since in the Pro model the sound of the two speakers is stereo.

Autonomy

The model P20 battery with a capacity of 3400 mAh. This is less than the P20 Pro with its 4000 mAh. But more than the Lite version with its 3000 mAh. The matrix size of 5.8 inches does not allow the Huawei P20 to set performance records. However thanks economical processor the system as a whole will not upset the owner. For example, the average measured time intervals look like this:

• up to 8-9 hours of video playback at maximum brightness and volume;
• up to 5 hours of games, depending on their resource intensity;
• Up to 7 hours of YouTube videos, with the Wi-Fi module running.

Only an extremely demanding user, whose smartphone screen almost never goes out, may notice any inconvenience. The rest will be extremely pleased. For example, reviews indicate that the Huawei P20 is easy maintains 1.5 days of work, with 5 hours of display activity, in auto brightness mode, with the operation of a Wi-Fi module. At the same time, users did not limit themselves to calls.

Important! The smartphone supports proprietary fast charging technology. It will only work with the supplied adapter.With it, the phone can be fully charged in 1 hour and 10 minutes. And to raise the level to 65% in just 30 minutes.

Cameras

One of the details that the Huawei P20 boasts is 24 megapixel front camera for really high-quality selfies.. In the service shell, the front camera of the Huawei P20 has real-time effects. In addition to Super Beauty, is present background blur and other interesting options. The user gets even more options with the function of applying different scripts at the same time.

The main camera with the proud Leica logo is double. It uses high-quality Sony sensors. The color module has a resolution of 12 megapixels, a monochrome sensor - 20 megapixels. This combination makes it possible to implement very interesting ideas. For example, the cell phone Huawei P20 has a unique night shooting feature. The image processing system automatically calculates the results of several images to get one frame with long exposure effect, up to 4 seconds.

Important! The model has all the advantages of an intelligent Huawei system. The coprocessor independently recognizes up to 300 types of scenes, many objects. The system itself adjusts the shooting parameters to get perfect photos inautomatic mode.

The review of the camera will not be complete without the views of the owners of the smartphone. Users have noted that snapshots have colors shifted to the warm part of the spectrum. This is observed with automatic modes of operation. However, the camera maintenance shell makes it difficult to adjust shooting parameters manually.

Good results show the main camera in low light. In the pictures little noise. The final quality of the image is higher than that of devices from other manufacturers. It is worth noting that the color range of cameras Huawei P20 is wide, which further raises the level of the resulting images.

Conclusion

Huawei P20 is a great option for those who want to buy a device that is not inferior to the flagship of the series. The model is cut very carefully. She was deprived of protection from water, stereo sound, the third sensor of the camera and several other details.However, the manufacturer provided an extremely productive platform, intelligent photo processing capabilities, and other attractive features of the flagship remained. But at the same time the price of the Huawei P20 is significantly lower. The device is uniquely consistent with its price tag and will appeal to those who are used to getting a lot at once.

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