Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Huawei Mate 20 Pro Review: The People’s Choice!”.
Hey, what’s up guys of kabhi HD here and a little do you know? For the past week I’ve been using this guy as my daily driver. So the day after 1:00, my blind smartphone camera test. I figured you know what it’s legitimately the People’s Choice. So I might as well give it a shot. It is not coming to the u.s.
officially, but I’m gon na try it anyway. So I put my sim card in the huawei mate 20 Pro, and this is the last phone to be reviewed before the smartphone Awards and this one’s been getting a lot of hype. I got ta say I did that first impressions, video, when it first came out that I sort of laid off it and it slowly started racking up phone of the Year awards and it was people’s Cop choices for 2018. So I brought it back out the won.
The contest, so I got ta, try it and I got ta say I like it quite a bit now I don’t love it and that that’s really only because of one thing, but I like it a lot. So here’s why yeah we’re off the bat while we’ve really leveled up their design game with this phone? I think the hardware is on point it’s kind of closer to Samsung design, actually than anything with the shape of the phone. The glass on both sides curving over the sides, they’re really thin rails. This is gon na be a slippery phone without a case on it.
So I’m warning you that right now, but it does have a slight texture like this subtle raised pattern in the glass. It’S kind of hard to describe, but it makes this sound when you drag your fingernails across it. I actually like it to fix the slipperiness, though you might be better off, covering it up with a skin from our channel sponsor addy brand.
Personally, I think going with the red on the back, even though it’s a little loud, it matches the red power button pretty well, but they have plenty of other options as well so of reds too loud for you I’ll link the rest of those below. But anyway, yes, I love the colored power button, that’s a strong move right there and then the triple cameras plus the flash on the back kind of look like bug eyes, but I think in the middle it looks fine and since the power and volume buttons are All on one side, the left is totally smooth and blank, but yeah overall, it just feels in the hand like a galaxy s. 9 has a baby with an iPhone meaning you get mostly Samsung design features and then that knotch and then there’s an IR blaster at the top.
If you’re into that, I haven’t had an IR blaster and a phone in a really long time. But these used to be super useful ip68 water resistance check, USB C port check in glass, fingerprint reader check thin bezels check, speaker grille no check, so the speaker is actually behind the USB C port in this phone. So there’s no other speaker grille. It seems like a cool idea for about five seconds, but then it turns out to be a horrible idea, like the speaker’s themselves. Aren’T that bad, it’s the one in the earpiece and on the one at the bottom, behind the port, but putting it behind the USB C port makes it extremely easy to block the whole thing by accident. At any time, and even though I do mostly while I was charging with this phone, how do you expect it to sound when you’re plugged in its muffled all the time, so this figure behind the port was not the move? Otherwise, though all-around great hardware – and then you get a great display at the front too, so a six point, four inch OLED and it’s 31 20 by 1440.
So super sharp and it gets plenty bright in daylight and, like I said it has this Samsung look so shape sort of curves over on both sides and then the back does it too, and it also has a notch up top which again at this point I Don’T really mind anymore: almost every phone has one of some sort, plus you get all the same face ID sensors so at least are using that space well for something, but the weird part is on the size of the display. There’S this little bit of light fall-off like it gets a bit darker and discolored on the very edges in a way that I don’t think I see really on samsung phones and there’s also a pretty obvious color shift off axis. Like some other ohlet’s, it’s a pretty good display, but it’s not perfect and then performance is great. Now again, since it’s not coming to the US you’ll notice. This is one of the few phones. That’S not rocking a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, it’s actually the Kirin 980.
So it’s a seven nanometer chip and there’s six gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage and it’s pretty smooth for the most part, I’d say on par with any Samsung phone like an s9 or something no problems with multitasking opening and closing apps, etc. Where the chip really shines, however, is definitely battery life. The best part of this mate 20 pro 100 %, is not the camera, it is the battery.
So it’s a 4200 milliamp hour cell, even though the phone is not that thick and why weighs power management is pretty aggressive about trying to save power. It’S changing the resolution of the screen when you’re not using it much it’s pretty pretty active about killing apps in the background, but the result has been by far the best battery life in any phone I’ve used this year. This has been a two-day phone for me.
A couple times I don’t get to say that much so that’s really impressive. A lot of the other flagships this year that had the best battery life for my heavy use, we’re getting like 5 to 6 hours of screen on time, which is really impressive. May 20 protein a where I ended with four and a half hours of screen on time at about 1 a.m. and there was 58 % battery left Wow.
I really do not ever think about charging this phone there’s constantly more battery than I need. I usually end with 6 7 hours of screen on time before I have to charge, and when I do, I pop it on the wireless charger it’s unreal. This is a no one can convince me, this isn’t an a-plus-plus battery life phone and it also has this head-turning feature reverse wireless charging. It is a gimmick that all pretty much never use, but it also hilarious and amazing and I’m glad it works and I’m glad they did it basically an extremely useful troll for people, and you also get to offer them a charge.
But of course, the most hyped part about this phone was the camera and for good reason. So I rock and triple cameras on the back with a flash. You get a 40 megapixel main sensor, an 8 megapixel telephoto sensor and a 20 megapixel super wide angle. Those are big-boy numbers honestly to me with the results. It’S an a-minus camera, meaning it’s pretty good, almost great, but not quite the best. I definitely sticks to what won the blind contest, which is bright. Photos pictures from the may 20 Pro are often very bright, sometimes overexposed, but it has good enough dynamic range to not lose a bunch of highlight detail and are basically never any shadows.
Now the detail on the sharpness, our A which I love to see and the colors were a bit muted at times, so there’s definitely a different sort of color science with this Huawei processing, but really when there’s a lot of light. There’S just no contrast. Absolutely no shadows, no blacks when you get down to low-light, it holds up pretty well, though, and this with the night mode a little bit as well, which did better noise reduction.
But really the best part about the camera is just the extra focal lengths. Having that super wide angle, camera sometimes is pretty cool. The telephoto yeah less useful to me, but I’m glad it’s there, but really it’s just all-around super versatile and I don’t think anyone capable of a little photo editing will really hate it and also it’s probably gon na end up the highest ever DxO mark score again. If they ever review it, so if you care about that there you go so clearly. There are a lot of reasons to like this phone, but I said at the beginning: there was something that didn’t quite measure up and for me, that’s the software, so this phone runs emui on top of android pi. So i’m glad it’s.
The latest version of android and has all kinds of quirks and usability things. Some of them are nice, some of them you may like, but others, I’m really not into I’ll, be real. I had to put a little extra work to get it just the way I want. So I installed a Nova Launcher. I uninstalled a bunch of other duplicate apps, some others don’t go away, so I have to disable them or hide them. I changed the keyboard.
I change the default apps all kinds of stuff like that sort of built my way into it. It takes more work for some phones for others, but I got it the way I wanted and I’ve been using it and then there’s just a lot of bugs. So the multitasking one is my personal least favorite. Every time I try to open the second most recent app with one tap.
It just closes multitasking, not sure why it does that, and I hate it because that’s something I want to do all the time, but it won’t. Let me the notification tray also is always filled up, even when I have no notifications. So if I get one or two I don’t know which ones they are and what order they are. Unless I open the tray and scroll down through them pour ease of the notch there and you can disable the knotch, but as well, doesn’t fix that problem and there’s still all the blatant copying of iOS. This share sheet with Huawei share, instead of airdrop. Still all that bloatware duplicate apps, all of that, so I’m still not a fan of the Mui that hasn’t changed, but everything else about this phone is really damn good. The only downsides that I can point to about the actual physical hardware or the speaker, like I mentioned, and the in glass fingerprint reader, is a little bit slow, just like the other first gen ones that are out right now. Hopefully, that will get faster, but the rest of the phone is very complete.
I think I would love this phone with oxygen, OS or even pixels, like stock Android with a bunch of those features, but either way. This is still the best phone Huawei’s ever made hands down better than p20 pro, and if you don’t mind paying the premium and importing it, then this is worth a look. Definitely worth checking out either way. That’S pretty much it! I guess now that we’ve reviewed this last phone. We can dive into the smartphone Awards for 2018. That’S upcoming either way thanks for watching catch, you guys in the next one peace .