Idle tests Kirin 990 and 7680 FPS

Last week, Huawei launched its latest flagship smartphone, the Mate 30 Pro, with its latest Kirin 990 chipset. At the heart of the new hardware, there is a screen wrapping a waterfall, as well as new device tools. photo to help him to record slow motion videos up to 7680 frames per second, beyond what is currently available. The new smartphones will not come with the Google Play Store and its applications, because of the US-China trade war and Huawei's listing on the list of US entities. However, Huawei promised to study the possibility of unlocking the boot loader and inject $ 1 billion into its own App Store to drive new applications. The 5G versions of the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro should come out later this year, but we managed to get access to a device for a day or two for a hands-on experience.

* For the disclosure, in this mini-test, we have a Chinese pre-production sample. The software is not yet in its current and final delivery state, and may differ from the launch version.

Huawei's Mate 30 Pro: the design

Like Huawei's newest flagship devices over the last two years, the Mate 30 Pro is a device that's hard to ignore. With the trend of full-screen displays going beyond the edge of the device itself, Huawei has pushed its high-end device with a truly wrap-around edge experience. This new 'waterfall' or 'Horizon' display has a 88-degree curve on the edge, moving halfway to the edge of the screen.

That's one of two things. First of all, it affects the way we change the volume because there is no volume knob control. To adjust the volume, the user presses twice on the edge of the screen and the volume pop-up window allows him to drag the cursor up and down with the help of a inch on the edge of the screen to adjust the volume. This can be done to the left or right of the display, which is a good idea. Users can adjust it to work only one side, depending on whether they use it for left-handed or right-handed users. (The power button is still on the right side).

The other query with this display could be how it feels to hold. Let's be honest, it sounds a little slippery than the classic sides of a phone, but not so much as to radically change the way the phone is held normally.

The 6.53-inch Flex OLED display has a strange resolution of 2400×1176, giving a 18.4: 9 aspect ratio because Huawei has this extra edge display. I noticed that most applications, even those of Huawei, seemed to ignore the outlines and focused only on a 2400×1080 style implementation for a 20: 9 experience. As can be seen in this picture, the "black" areas in the corners are those where this application does not even care to detect and hide.

I will say, however, that I have encountered very few ghost taps with the screen. He barely recognized the slightest feint around the edges, suggesting that Huawei's fake detection algorithms really work.

At the top of the screen is the notch, which houses multiple cameras: a gesture sensor, two 3D depth cameras, an ambient light sensor / proximity sensor and a 32MP f / 2.0 selfie camera at l & # 39; before. This comes with a portrait mode, supporting bokeh effects, but Huawei has also enabled gesture control, so users can take screenshots or scroll web pages without touching the phone. Personally, I find that the gesture controls are still a little gimmicky, so I did not use them.

The back of the device contains the main cameras, which Huawei calls for its smartphone's "SuperCine" orientation, in order to add cinematic class quality to a smartphone. The four cameras are lined up in a 2×2 grid and surrounded by a ring, designed to look like a more expensive camera arrangement when the smartphone is held horizontally.

For the Mate 30 Pro, Huawei uses the upper left for 3D depth detection, the upper right is a 40MP f / 1.8 ultra wide camera, the lower left is a 40MP f / 1.6 camera with OIS and the bottom left is an 8MP camera. f / 2.4 telephoto and lens, also with OIS. The entire camera system supports artificial intelligence stabilization techniques, as well as the ISO 409600 standard and video bokeh. The telephoto camera allows a 3x optical zoom and a macro mode allows close-up shots of 2.5 cm.

The essential of this arrangement lies in the two 40MP cameras. The 40MP Cine ultra-wide camera is an RGGB sensor and is coupled to the RYYB 40MP SuperSensing sensor (4-in-1 pixel). The Cine camera supports 4K60 video, with ISO sensitivity of 51200, 4K HDR +, real-time video bokeh, and a new slow slow motion mode of up to 7,680 frames per second. The 7680 frames per second I've tested in some demo videos later.

The Mate 30 Pro is available in six colors: four standard colors (Space Silver, Emerald Green, Cosmic Purple and Black) and two classified as "Vegan Leather" (Forest Green and Orange). PU leather market in plastic.

Emerald green has the distinction of presenting a glossy matte finish. The back of the device at the bottom looks like a Huawei notebook, with its soft metal alloy feel, and then turns into a glass smartphone. According to Huawei, the idea here is to give it a unique texture that does not mark fingerprints where people are holding a phone. It's a bit difficult to demonstrate without feeling it for yourself. We can somehow see the textured surface with a high power light:

The Mate 30 Pro does not have a 3.5mm jack (the Mate 30 in a), but has a USB Type C connector and an IR blaster. Compared to the P30 Pro that I take every day as a daily driver, the Mate 30 Pro is slightly wider because of the display and grip is almost equal. I usually use the P30 Pro with a case, but the Mate 30 Pro sample we received for review had none.

Read the following pages about Kirin 990 performance, cameras, videos, and all the technical details.