Huawei Mate 20 Pro vs. iPhone XS Max: What's Better?

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Huawei-mate-20-pro-0041 — The triple camera Huawei Mate 20 Pro faces the iPhone XS Max.

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Yes the Huawei Mate 20 Pro It's a phone with Android 9 Pie and the iPhone XS Max incorporates iOS 12but this battle can go beyond your preference for an operating system. The new Huawei phone offers three cameras and interesting configuration options, while the Apple phone is the largest in the history of the company and has a large screen with a few bevels and a slightly smaller eyebrow.

Let's start with the design. Both phones are glass, although the Huawei phone is available in five different colors, including the beautiful Twilight tone, while the iPhone XS Max comes in traditional silver and space gray, as well as in gold color. In the back, the two cameras slightly exceed, although the Mate 20 Pro is triple and is inside a square frame that makes it slightly larger.

Both phones feel a bit big in your hand. The screen of Huawei Mate 20 Pro is 6.39 inches and that of the iPhone XS Max 6.5 inches. Both are OLEDs, but the Chinese phone has higher resolution and higher pixel density.

Huawei-mate-20-pro-9679 — The on-screen fingerprint sensor is a step forward for Huawei compared to its competitors.

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Digital fingerprint sensor on the screen: the differentiating aspect

This year, Huawei did his homework and added a new 3D sensor to his eyebrow, which allows the facial recognition system to be much safer, putting it on par with the iPhone XS Max. If it 's no longer an asset of the Apple phone, the Max encounters a weakness: the Huawei Mate 20 Pro offers an additional identification method such as the sensor' s. fingerprint on the screen.

During my first tests with the Max, I did not feel the need to use the sensor because the facial recognition is fast. However, Huawei's phone adds this novelty that does not have Apple.

When we talk about performance, the two phones are totally different because they include different processors and RAM capabilities, as well as different technologies to make tasks more fluid. However, something different, the iPhone XS Max is offered in storage versions of 64 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB, while the Mate 20 Pro is available in 128 GB and 256 GB.

Huawei has also launched a new way to increase storage, through a new NanoSD, while Apple will never allow you to increase storage.

Cameras: the real playground

Beyond the design, colors or its big screen, the cameras are very important. Huawei has integrated a triple camera with wide angle sensor, which promises to give us even better photos than the Huawei P20 Pro. Comparison of the camera of the iPhone XS Max with that of the P20 Proand in many cases, the Huawei phone won the Apple phone with the same camera as the XS Max.

In particular, the Huawei phone has a standard 40 megapixel camera with an f / 1.8 aperture; A 20-megapixel wide-angle lens with an f / 2.2 aperture and a 8-megapixel telephoto lens with an f / 2.4 aperture, while the iPhone XS Max has a 12-megapixel dual, allowing for great portraits without effects, filters and other fun alternatives such as beauty mode.

On paper, Huawei has a battery greater than 4,200 mAh, compared to 3,179 mAh for the iPhone XS Max. However, in this section, we will perform more in-depth testing to determine the phone that offers the best management and longest battery life. Of course, the fast charge of Huawei should be greater than that of the iPhone, as it has already happened in the past. And while both phones have wireless charging, only the Huawei includes wireless reverse charging.

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The prices

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro starts at 1 049 euros for the version 6 GB + 128 GB, while the iPhone XS Max amounts to 1 099 USD or 1 259 euros for the 64 GB version. And you, which one would you buy ?