Depending on the type of news you read, Huawei either has a banner or has a nightmare of 2018.
If you're focused on consuming gadgets, it's likely that you 've read all the good reviews Huawei phones received in 2018, especially for their cameras.
But if you focus on business or political news, it's clear to you that Huawei is under review in the USS. government.
The latter is still a controversial topic.
However, the former is more convincing: last year's P20 Pro raised the threshold for mobile photography, and this year's P30 Pro took a big step forward.
In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that the P30 Pro is a breakthrough in digital imaging.
It doesn't make sense to bury lede further, so let's start now: the P30 Pro performs well in two areas that were previously considered mobile camera weaknesses: low
Photo and zoom lens.
Huawei does this by designing two unconventional camera lens systems that break the tradition, so it can produce well
Light up the image in extremely dark situations, or zoom in to something better than a competitor's smartphone can currently do.
In fact, when a variety of science and technology writers (
Including myself)
Comparison pictures shared on social media, the results are incredible
We got quite a bit of incredible feedback accusing us of tampering with the results, which is good for Huawei. We didn't.
The following samples taken by the P30 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S10 and iPhone XS in a dark alley in Hong Kong are completely unchanged.
But, of course, smartphones are not just able to capture images in the dark and zoom in at close range, and the competition is more intense in other areas.
Design and Build: good but we have seen it in 6 before. 5-
The P30 Pro has a screen inch, a large battery, and a complicated camera sensor, which is heavier at 192g.
But due to the side bending of the OLED display, the bezel around the screen is very thin, so the device remains in roughly the same size as the iPhone XS Max or the Samsung Galaxy S10.
This is a very nice looking phone with a flashing gradient color on the back, and the tone seems to change depending on the lighting, the sturdy aluminum side and the clear OLED screen, but it's not something we haven't seen before.
In my opinion, I think the last major version of Huawei Mate 20 Pro looks better because of its more unique design aesthetics.
In fact, I was disappointed that the P30 Pro replaced the new hole with a notch --punch cut-out design.
The gap on the P30 Pro is small, but I found this hole --punch design (
See in Samsung Galaxy S10 phone and Huawei own Honor View 20)
More visual appeal and cuttingedge.
Although Huawei has made great progress in photography, its display technology is still lagging behind Samsung, because it is clear that Huawei can only achieve this hole now --
The LCD screen is not a punch design on the OLED panel.
Digital camera that highlights the camera module of the P30 Pro from the back of the device (
Known as camera bump).
This is obviously undesirable.
The side placement of the camera module means that the phone will not be flat on the table
But the camera system of the P30 Pro is so advanced that it is more bulky in shape.
So this is how Huawei packs: a 40-
20-pixel master sensormegapixel wide-
Angle lens and 8-
Telephoto lens.
The main sensor and telephoto lens are two that have been reinstalled
To achieve their technological breakthrough, they design from scratch.
Using the RYB sensor, the main sensor is out of order (
Red, yellow, blue)
Instead of the ubiquitous RGB (
Red, green, blue)
According to Huawei's reasoning, the yellow light is better than the green light, because the yellow color contains enough green while absorbing more red.
Critical for low-light imaging.
Don't just believe me, look for yourself: The following sample was taken in my room at night, all the lights were turned off, and the curtains were turned off.
Pictures of IPhone (
Nearly completely dark)
What did my eyes see?
What P30 Pro can do in the dark is incredible.
At the same time, the telephoto lens uses a periscope-
Just like the design of the lens to guide the light horizontally (left to right)
There is an image sensor in the body of the phone, which is perpendicular to the rest of the image sensor.
This, along with sophisticated software algorithms and image processing, enables the P30 Pro to achieve virtually lossless 5X optical lossless zoom and 10x digital zoom.
Here is an example of an enlarged action.
The first image you see is the scene reference image for my eyes.
Here are 10 times the zoom images, focusing on the blue street signs taken by Huawei, Apple and Samsung's best companies.
When you pull closer, the difference is more harsh.
In fact, the P30 Pro can achieve digital amplification up to 50 x, in this range, the image does become blurred, in fact, you can enlarge the image 50 times, and can still get something relatively clear with a gadget that is no thicker than a wallet or notepad, which is surreal.
Now, some people think that zoom lenses and low-light images are niche areas of the mobile photography experience, which are not needed by ordinary consumers.
This is fair enough, but from a technical point of view, we can't understate what athuawei has achieved: a company with a billion dollars (
Apple, Samsung, Google, Sony, LG)
Invest millions of dollars actively to improve the low
The lighting performance in mobile photography will only make Huawei lose its convincing fashion.
In other shooting conditions, the P30 Pro can also hold its own opinion on anyone, although the results are now to be discussed.
In general, P30 Pro still tends to over-process and over-expose images slightly compared to images taken by iPhone or Google Pixel, and human skin tone may become a bit artificial compared to portraits of iPhone.
But thanks to a new flight time, the P30 Pro can capture impressive bokeh imagestime-of-flight)
The sensor, which allows the phone to generate realtime depth-of-
Live effects when shooting stills or videos.
Whether it's crash bal, sleeping cat, fried chicken sandwich or people, depth-of-
Accurate edge detection will naturally produce a current field effect.
Recording video before is a weakness of Huawei's mobile phone. P30 Pro has made improvements in this area and has better stability, but the mobile phone still cannot shoot video at 4 K/60fps (
All other top phones can do this)
Even if stability has improved, the iPhone XS will not be able to do so.
P30 Pro can capture the video well;
But the iPhone XS and LG G8 did well in capturing video.
Everything P30 Pro runs on Huawei's top Kirin 980of-the-line chipset.
It's a powerful 7nm processor, but it's been six months old and has used several other phones, including cheaper "mid-
"Tier" mobile phone from honor.
The $400 phone has this chipset on it, which makes it feel less expensive here.
Still, Kirin 980 is powerful enough to handle anything in most usage scenarios, although its GPU power is slightly lower than Snapdragon 855.
This is only noticeable when playing graphics-intensive games.
Battery life has always been the strength of Huawei's mobile phone, there is no change here.
It's still a phone that can easily last the whole day, and then some.
As I wrote before, Huawei phones can last for a long time, so I get stuck whenever I switch to another phone --
Protected by a rapidly reduced battery. That 6. 5-
The resolution of the inch OLED display is "only" 1080 p, so it is not like pixels
Samsung's S10 and even Mate 20 Pro are dense, but I can't tell the difference despite putting the two screens side by side.
The panel of the P30 Pro is excellent, almost as bright as the Samsung industrybest screen.
The headset has also been removed from the top of the display and replaced by a vibrating speaker under the panel.
It sounds great for the phone, but for reasons Huawei can't get it to make a bigger voice, making it twice as big as LG did with the g8.
This means that the P30 Pro has only one speaker grille at the bottom of the device, and the audio experience will certainly be affected a bit.
No headphone jack either.
Software and user interface: better and better, but for many Western reviewers, the biggest pain point in using Huawei's phones is not EMUI, Huawei's software skin is cumbersome, for most of us, it looks a bit like iOS.
Even if we overcome the fact that, aesthetically speaking, EMUI is the opposite of Google's vision, there have been a lot of errors or obvious omissions in EMUI over the past few years, which makes
For example, when I checked my first Huawei phone three years ago, the software often kills push notifications due to overuse
Battery Management is powerful and the music widget cannot be displayed on the lock screen.
Huawei fixed these issues a year later, but there are still other issues with the software, such as being incompatible with Nova Launcher and always
Displays with no third-party notifications displayed.
I am pleased to report that all of this has been resolved. The Always-
The display is not useless now, Nova Launcher works fine.
I still don't like the icon aesthetics or iOS of EMUI-like system-
But Huawei is listening to feedback and making improvements.
However, there are still some ways to go before I call EMUI a good Android skin like OnePlus or Xiaomi.
The good news is slapping Nova Launcher on EMUI, covering up most of our complaints.
Do you care if you look in the dark or far?
As I have said at the opening ceremony, it is not an exaggeration to say that Huawei, with the support of P30 Pro, has made a breakthrough in the field of mobile photography, mainly based on this madness
Light cameras and zoom lenses that should not be exposed for the rest of the year.
With this achievement alone, the P30 Pro is ranked at the top of the package by smartphone.
If you really don't see yourself shooting in this situation then the P30 Pro's advantage in the game will be greatly reduced but you are still looking for the best
First class battery life, almost leadingto-
Vibrant screen on the edge, as well as a multi-function camera system above average width
The ability to angle and background.
The bottom line is that if everything is taken into account, the P30 pro again offers the most people on the market, which is the starting price of its $1,100, comparable to the price tag for Apple and Samsung.
It lost to the field of competitors (
Video capabilities, Software Aesthetics)
It is secondary or marketable.
But in the area where the P30 Pro won, it won by an overwhelming margin.