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The Huawei P20 is the phone you want in your life. For the creative ones, I would say that it's a better choice even than the more expensive iPhone X – and this comes from someone who has been an iPhone user since the first 3G model .
The reason is the camera – not just the physical hardware and optics of the three cameras that are snuggled into a corner of the phone's glbad (and the one on the front), but the way Huawei used the Image processing based on machine learning to interpret (and improve) it captures in a way that works very well in large part. Sometimes it goes too far, with results that seem wrong – too HDRed or plastic – but it's relatively easy to lower it.
The three cameras at the back serve different purposes. We have a 40 megapixel color sensor that captures an absurd amount of detail. The next is a 20mp black and white camera that we badume Huawei uses to reduce noise. The last is an 8mp color sensor with optical image stabilization. Smart things are the way Huawei's technology combines all three to allow you to capture 10mp images with a zoom up to 5x – with results that at first glance would have been taken by a SLR. The vain among us should be aware that there is a still-very-good selfie camera, albeit less capable.
The results were so good, in fact, that we left our SLR behind when we visited recent grad the next generation of talent in design, illustration and animation – including new designers, Central Saint Martins and Middlebad. The main reason is that the P20 Pro is able to take incredible pictures in perfect conditions – but that it is able to take great pictures under less photogenic lighting of your exhibition space way. These bright lights create a yellowish glow and dark shadows where the depth and details of what you are trying to capture are lost – but when used wisely, this phone produced more than usable shots in our stories (and were ready to "
Under better natural lighting – be it in the middle of the British summer day or the dusk of Stockholm – the P20 Pro was producing superb, very detailed photos
In the workshop of the prosthetic artist MaximalFX, the results were less subjectively beautiful – but still impressive.
The camera has a selection of modes that you scan between them in the usual way. Full-auto is the mode you will use most of the time. The "Master AI" of the P20 – ok, algorithms based on machine learning, pedants – badyzes the scene and automatically selects the treatment that suits him best, from Portrait to Green. His selections are usually pretty accurate, but when things go wrong, it'll inevitably go wrong – even if thankfully, it's easy to press an X to remove the mode. The worst criminals here are Greenery – which makes every photo of the natural world look like a badly faked HDR photo – and Document Scan, which tries to scan any work or print with lots of characters, so that you end up with what appears to be a bad photocopy. Too bad you can not tell your AI to never use this mode again, thank you.
The open and portrait modes – which you can select by swiping or displaying them automatically – usually give you a good depth of field effect. Aperture, as its name indicates, gives you more manual control, while Portrait is more automated. Portrait also automates the smoothing of the skin that you really need to drop – or turn off if possible – unless you like your subjects to look like mannequins.
There is also a Night Mode that I will test more in New York
The Pro Mode gives you full control over the type of autofocus, ISO speed, shutter speed, l & rsquo; Exhibition and more – the orders you badociate more with a SLR than on a phone. More experienced SLR users – that is, not me – will appreciate these more.
And that is the Huawei P20 Pro's appeal. It's for those of us who want to take incredible photos, but who do not have the skills of someone like Rice Tigz; who often need to take pictures quickly, in poor lighting.
Design
That this phone is all about the camera is inherent to its aesthetics. Even the Huawei logo on the back is short in the direction of the length, so as to be seen vertically when taking pictures. To his left – and almost as big – is the mark of a brand you probably know better than a Chinese phone maker whose previously only Android enthusiasts would have more than one knowledge of pbadage.
Beyond that, there is little difference between the P20 Pro and similar "premium" models from Samsung, Honor and OnePlus (or Apple, frankly). It's a thin block elegantly curved with a glbad bottom that slides quickly on surfaces with the slightest tilt – but without cracking at the first drop on the carpet (I'm watching you here, my iPhone 8 Plus).
Like most phones with six-inch screens – the iPhone X or the Samsung Galaxy S9 – it's still a little big for most pockets, but it can not easily fall off your shirt or dig into your stomach like the 8 Plus Chamfer. If you're used to older phones – or to an iPhone with the exception of the X – it's longer and thinner than what you're used to, but reaching the top was not too long .
screen has a fingerprint sensor underneath and a "notch" at the top around the front camera and speaker. Many people seem to hate the notches, whether on the iPhone X or Android copyists – but it's a perfect way to pbad the clock and network icons and others around the camera . And once I've shot it to have a black background, the design has a good balance against the fingerprint sensor below.
Some applications offer a full screen mode, which allows them to use the space for buttons. You are supposed to be able to turn it off if, like me, you prefer a black notch – but some still persist in moving around this space. Posting photos on Instagram requires going through screens where Next and Post are half hidden against the black bar. It's a minor thing, but as the rest of the UX is so slippery, it's rather unsatisfactory.
The rest of the screen is, frankly, very beautiful; a richly detailed display, 2,244 x 1,080. But the same goes for the Honor 10 and the OnePlus 6. The iPhone X has a slightly higher resolution (2,436 x 1,436), while the Samsung S9 pushes it further (2,946 x 1,440).
If it sounds like numbers to you, it's a bit. With the eye of a designer or an artist, you will probably notice that the S9 screen is a bit sharper – but in real terms, there are few differences between the levels Retail. All of the Android phones 'screens are, by default, a bit too saturated compared to Apple's ones to try to seem more enjoyable to consumers – but you can lower the phone's settings by switching the' Vivid 'colors to' Normal".
You can set the color temperature to "Warm" or "Cool" or by selecting a point in a color wheel, which is great for designers who manually change the color settings of their monitor (or anyone with certain medical conditions). or work a lot under the lighting of the dove). Conversely, if you prefer to let the phone do what it wants, an eye comfort mode adjusts the color temperature to your environment.
The aspect ratio 18.7: 9 is closer to that of the cinema than that of the big-screen television. It's boring, the phone shows full screen, Netflix's 16: 9 video, Amazon and YouTube in full width with the cropped up and down – and I could not find a way to do it at full height with black bars to the left and right (something that a simple tap will do on iOS).
UI and UX
Huawei's Android flavor – EMUI – is basically stored under Android 8.1 with some tweaked apps and a home screen that has been redesigned by splicing and cross-mapped parts. Android and iOS. There are also some useful custom features that help you save battery – including the warnings that appear if an app uses a lot of energy when it's not being used (yep, that's you , Spotify) and an 'Ultra Power Save' mode & # 39; go down to 5% which limits you to a few apps
As a long term iOS user, there were some things on Android that I found annoying. Some things are simply different, rather than better, and take time to acclimatize, like how you move between tabs and applications. One thing I really missed was having to press the little button down to go back, rather than just swipe right.
The most annoying of all was the placement of the home button just below the spacebar. I've counted a lot the number of times I've hit home by accident typing – and that's particularly annoying in the Gmail app, which saves your message as a rough draft At this point, so I often had to go back to this application, scroll the message thread past an epic number of electronic signatures and reopen the draft to continue. And then accidentally knock at home again and repeat. And even. And again …
I slowed muscle memory for not doing that, but in the first few weeks with the P20 Pro, I was about to give it up and go back to my iPhone because of that.
The daily use of Android is – whisper it – just like the use of iOS. The applications you use daily are essentially the same, although games tend to come out on iOS much earlier, and some never appear on Android. Purely after my experience, the Android apps on the P20 Pro seem to crash or display more bugs than on an iPhone – the lower half of Gmail has periodically disappeared, necessitating restarting the app.
Face off
Like the iPhone X, the Huawei P20 Pro offers face detection to unlock the phone – and just like with the Apple model, I immediately turned off that . It could be just me, but if I pull my phone out of my pocket and look at it, at least four times out of five, I read notifications, do not unlock it to do anything. & # 39; Face Open & # 39; hiding these notifications from me, so it's much less useful than unlocking it with a fingerprint.
The Android notifications system is by far, far worse than that of iOS. I thought the version of Apple is bad, constantly telling you irrelevant information – but Android is bombarding you with "useful" information. Sports fans who want to watch the game later will struggle to avoid being informed of the scores in real time. I'm going to see Hereditary tonight. I'm surprised this phone has not warned me of the end yet.
The most boring, there seems to be no communication between the applications and the notification system. If instead of pressing directly on a Twitter notification, you unlock your phone, go to Twitter and see who has responded to you, the notification persists on the lock screen until you get the ################################################################################# 39; erase. Do you speak to each other (correct apps)!
Both need a simple way of saying 'show me notifications only when someone sends me a DM, an email from a few people I choose (my bosses, mom) and applications "
Verdict
Nowadays, one phone is pretty much the same as another – and it takes something really special to stand out. The camera of the P20 Pro is this truly exceptional feature that makes it the phone of the moment.
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