7 ways Huawei's Mate20 Pro is staking a claim for leadership smartphone

There's a new smartphone on the mobile phone today. The Huawei Mate20 Pro is designed to be an everyday companion for busy people, and is designed to be visually pleasing, the Mate20 Pro is set for big things in the local market.

It's available from Spark – and here are seven things that make the Mate20 Pro the best smartphone Huawei's ever made.

1. HIGHER INTELLIGENCE

Intelligence is everywhere with the Mate20 Pro because it's built into the operating system (see point 6 below). The EMUI 9.0 interface is packed with AI self-learning algorithms. Not only does it help you to improve your self-esteem. And it delivers what Huawei calls an "evergreen" experience: adaptation means the Mate20 Pro will not get boring.

2. SUPER SIMPLE SHARING

Even today, sharing information from one device can be surprisingly difficult. Not with the Mate20 Pro. Built-in Huawei Share 3.0 is a PCs with a single tap. It's a little thing that has a big impact on productivity (and no more headaches).

3. CAMERAS RULE

Huawei's already arrived when it came to the end of the P20 Series. The Mate20 Pro goes beyond even that high watermark with the addition of a 16mm Leica Ultra-Wide-Angle Lens. It's a little mind-boggling, because this 20MP lens works with a 40MP handheld camera and an 8MP telephoto, making your smartphone practically as capable as a full camera bag of high-end equipment. Macro shots, long shots, landscapes and more: The Mate20 Pro's Matrix Camera System delivers the equivalent of a 16-270mm zoom lens (there's more AI, too;

4. FACE IT

Another seemingly minor thing, but the 3D Face Unlock the Mate20 Pro shaves seconds off every interaction with your handset. Over the course of a day, that adds up. More than that, with unlocking happening with a glance to the screen in a half-second, it just makes use of the Mate20 Pro that much easier and more convenient.

5. SMARTER, BETTER BATTERIES

Probably one of the big bugbears with smartphones is that we use them so much, the batteries tend to suffer. Huawei's gone hard at this issue with the Mate20 Pro: Some of that's down to the performance of the internals (see below). Some of it is down to the big, 4200mAh high-density battery. But the real 'juice' is Huawei's SuperCharge, which lets your smartphone gain 70 per cent charge in just 30 minutes. And there's wireless charging, too. Once you try that, there's no going back. It is that good. And Wireless Reverse Charge means your Mate20 Pro can act as a wireless powerbank and charge other devices. Clever.

6. PERFORMANCE NUMBERS

We'll admit that this stuff for nerds, but it goes to the heart of why the Mate20 Pro is a powerhouse. The Soet is built around the densest and highest performing system on chip (SoC) to date-the Kirin 980. The SoC is, effectively, the processor and graphics unit and it is what makes a modern smartphone capable of simultaneously running multiple demanding applications.

The Kirin 980 is the best in the business, fitting an insane 6.9 billion transistors on a fingernail size. The CPU is 75 percent more powerful than its immediate predecessor and 58 percent more efficient, thus using less power to get more done. The Kirin 980 is also equipped with a Dual-Neural Processing Unit. You guessed it: this is what's behind the Mate20 Pro's AI capability.

7. YES, IT LOOKS GREAT

There's no argument here: smartphones must look the part and the Mate20 Pro does not disappoint. It's built around a 6.39-inch screen with a chassis curved on all sides. Initially available in an eye-catching emerald green, the glass back features a 'Hyper Optical Pattern', producing an iridescent, highly durable effect that makes the device easy to grip and fingerprint resistant. It is a thing of beauty.

Priced from $ 1499, pre-orders for the Huawei Mate20 Pro kick off on October 24. Visit spark.co.nz/shop/mobile/mate20 for more information.