Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Huawei P30 Pro Impressions: The Ultimate Camera?”.
Okay: okay, this video is sponsored by LastPass, hey, what’s up guys, I’m QB HD here so Huawei’s riding fresh into 2019 caught off of a blind smartphone camera test win and a best battery life award and probably the most well received phone ever the mate 20 pro. So now incoming is the successor to their P 20 Pro and it’s looking like it’s gon na be pretty promising and a lot of the same ways. Now it still won’t be in any US. Carriers and it’ll still be pretty expensive. But if you can look past those two things it’s looking like this may be the first true galaxy s 10 competitor of the year, so that p 30 pro has three main focuses: camera design and specs, but the real focus.
The main one here is definitely the new camera, that’s most of what’s new, so let’s just dive into that first. So, as you can see, it’s rockin a quad camera setup on the back, so four sensors on that back now, and they all have names to explain. What’S new and what they do so the main camera is a 40 M. A pixel sensor, F, 1.6 with oh, is and that’s named, the super spectrum camera, and it’s called that because it has an R yyb pattern array instead of the typical RGB for the color filter in front of the sensor, and so the whole image stack is redesigned Around that which should let about 40 % more light hit that sensor, which means it’s more light sensitive than previous versions and Huawei, told me it can hit four times the ISO of the last sensor up to 400 9600.
So, ideally, that should make for a pretty sweet night mode. Then next up is the ultra wide camera, and that name is pretty self-explanatory seems like it’s all the rage for 2019 smartphone cameras. If you don’t have that ultra wide and you have multiple lenses, what are you doing and this one’s a 20 megapixel ultra wide with an F 2.2 aperture that pulls in a more than 120 degree field of view. So yeah it’s gone from a sort of a niche thing that maybe only two phones had a little while ago kind of feeling like you’re missing out.
If you don’t have it so ultra wide is here, then third, I’m gon na save the best. For last. The third one is at the bottom: it’s the time-of-flight lens, which is mainly just for depth information, so that will help with improved portrait mode better AR experiences things like that things that benefit from having great depth mapping and then last but not least, is this square. Looking camera cut out the big one that is the new telephoto camera, it’s an 8 megapixel F 3.4 camera with oh, is, and the name for that one is the periscope zoom lens. Now you may notice with that square opening it looks kind of strange. So the reason it’s called a periscope camera is literally the optics of this camera, instead of just going backwards, go down into the phone and then use a mirror to face out so like like an actual periscope.
So all of that to give you a lossless 5 times optical zoom, now the number 5x might not be that impressive. But when you combine their optical stabilization plus their AI enhanced ai enhanced software stabilization, you can go way. Past 5x. You can go to 10x 20x.
All the way up to it’ll, let you hit 50 times digital zoom, which I’m gon na go ahead and name super creep mode because 50 times zoom is absolutely insane. I’M trying it a bit outside and you know, you’ve been able to zoom in pretty far for a while, but it’s crazy. How far 50 times is, and the most impressive part is how good the stabilization is, so my hand is not super still. This is just handheld stuff and I’m moving around, but the compensation for my hand, movement is extreme, so I don’t know maybe for sports events or concerts or I don’t know one – would anyone need to zoom in this far creepin on people and buildings blocks away? Maybe I guess that is the benefit of you know super creep mode for periscope zoom on the p30 pro, but also keep in mind. I haven’t actually taken any sample photos back with me yet so I don’t have much to judge by at this moment. I got to get it in hand and actually test it for a review.
Also, the autofocus seemed kind of jumpy with close-up subjects, so a little bit finicky there. So I don’t know the concept is really cool. Obviously, but the execution we’ll have to see about definitely make sure you subscribe for the full review to see that when it comes out but the rest of the p30 pro is honestly incremental improvements and check in all the boxes, which is why I can be seen As an s10 competitor, so the Twilight color of that p20 Pro was a hit so they’re doing a bunch more gradient colors. With this phone, I’m gon na go ahead and say this blue color called aurora is the best-looking, but there will also be a amber sunrise.
A pearl white, a breathing crystal, which I also got hands-on with, as you can see, and black the display is updated. It’S a full screen. Six point four seven inch OLED panel 23:40 by 1080, but instead of the chin fingerprint reader from last year, which a lot of people forget about. It’S also rocking an in display fingerprint reader, but it is optical again, so not ultrasonic.
So it’ll still have all the cons of optical that we discovered with phones like the oneplus 60, like not working when there’s like debris on your hands and having to shine a really bright light at your finger to read it. But it did seem pretty fast to me when I set it up with my finger. So that’s a good sign, so this tech is slowly getting better and I think a few iterations in it’ll feel like a standard just not quite yet also it has that cut top notch at the top for the 32 megapixels selfie camera.
It looks kind of like the essential, phone’s notch, a little more curved but hey. Maybe the essential phone was ahead of its time, because Huawei’s now cut out all of those face ID sensors they used to have in there much bigger notch for just the camera and on the specs. Our flagship grade Kirin 980 chip, a gigs of ram 4200 milliamp hour battery, which is huge. It’S IP, 68 certified there’s now a faster er ofs file system, there’s fast charging fast wireless charging, and it still has that incredibly slow, 2.5 watt, troll mode reverse wireless charging. If you want to use that honestly, maybe the only thing they can’t say they have in this phone is the headphone jack. Honestly, though, that’s a lot of boxes checked, I’m really into the battery.
I like that. It’S still running emui 9.1 on top of Android Pi and in UI I’ve said before not my favorite, especially with all the improvements Samsung’s made to their skin lately. But just as a total package, p30 Pro clearly checks a lot of boxes and that’s what makes it exciting.
Also there will be a p30 non-pro that will be a bit cheaper and just a bit cut down with specs. So it has three out of the four cameras. As you can see, just doesn’t have the time of flight sensor.
Then it’s a bit smaller too. So it has a 6.1 inch non curved edge display pretty flat a 3650 milliamp hour battery 6 gigs of RAM. Instead of 8, IP 53 certified instead of ip68, but it’s somehow gains room for a headphone jack.
So there’s that. But what do you think after seeing this is the p30 pro a worthy competitor, 2’s 10? Plus, I think from my money. The s 10 plus is still gon na, be the champ, especially in the US, when it’s in carrier stores and also a bit cheaper, but for those that are really into cameras for those who want to win all the blind, smartphone camera tests or if you have A habit of zooming in obscenely far into all of your photos. You know this one might be worth a second look either way, that’s been it for the first impressions, thanks for watching catch, you guys in the next one peace thanks to LastPass for sponsoring this hands-on video.
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