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I will say that EMUI 10 on the impressive internals basically flies.
With no volume buttons, the double-tap and drag method is neat but very finicky and can be truly irritating when you just want to quickly increase or decrease the volume. Because the display is so curved, certain UI elements of applications shrink or disappear into the edges and make certain portions hard to activate and use. Neat but seemingly pointless features also include the eye monitoring function.
That eye monitoring also is complemented by a weird Motion Sense-style hand wave gesture control method that allows you to scroll and take screenshots without touching your display. None of this detracts from the biggest issue here: a distinct lack of access to the Google Play Store. The software, or lack thereof, is the biggest weakness of the entire device and there is no escaping from that fact. There are very few OEMs that can tackle the camera prowess of Huawei, and this is where the Mate 30 Pro really pushes the boundaries yet again.
We saw the P30 Pro wow earlier this year with exceptional zoom capabilities and a night mode that did more in one exposure than most can do with long-exposures. So much rolls over from the P30 Pro that it becomes a little confusing — but in a good way. Rather than taking the Google or Apple approach of refining the software on already good or solid hardware, they simply slap in as much raw grunt as humanly possible and ensure that you have enough power to get the job done in any photo-taking scenario.
There is also a 3x telephoto lens with OIS and an 8-megapixel resolution. The biggest new addition is that of the new ultra-wide cinema camera, which also has a megapixel resolution but no OIS.
It fixes the yellowing issues that the P30 Pro sometimes has when using the very same mode and the updated Night Mode also makes impressive strides. I must applaud the versatility on offer here. You get options for just about every scenario you may ever face as a mobile photographer. The end result of pressing the shutter will be sharp, vibrant images that do not lack for detail but can be a tad unrealistic at times. At the front, the megapixel selfie camera produces sharp images that get the job done but ensure that you turn down the beautification mode to get the best quality results.
Not being much of a selfie taker, the are more than good enough for my sporadic usage. Video modes are now far more comprehensive, albeit with some gimmicky but impressive new features. The chip takes a more nuanced approach to the latter. It has eight cores, just as many as the Kirin , but instead of an even split between high- and low-power, the Kirin has four low-power, two medium and two high-power cores. In theory, this lets the phone spin up more combinations of cores to increase its efficiency. In a Geekbench 4 test, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro had a multi-core score of 9,, outstripping the Samsung Note 9 by nearly a thousand, yet still sliding below the 11,plus points of the iPhone XS.
But wait! Huawei reached out to tell us that the Mate 20 Pro got updated with a hitherto-unannounced feature, Performance Mode, which we promptly turned it on to run another Geekbench test. Lo and behold, the boosted mode managed a Geekbench 4 score of 10, Well, unless it was an Honor or Huawei. One of its main changes is the removal of the apps menu.
It has moved on since, but the app screen is still wiped away. Well, unless you want to bring it back, anyway.
Caveat: sure, some people must prefer life without an app drawer. It holds not just a front camera and a speaker, but an IR dot array for the facial scanner too. You can block off the notch part with a black bar, and pretend forevermore it is not there at all. The screen space does not sit there unused either. But it really does trick you into thinking the screen is a regular shape, mostly because of the perfect contrast of the OLED panel. The in-screen fingerprint scanner is the one part of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro that you can use to make your team-iPhone friends jealous, until September at the very least.
This uses a little camera under the screen to visually scan your fingerprint, and login in place of a password or pin. Its tech may be a bit different, but this is effectively your normal fingerprint scanner pad, squeezed into the display itself. Pretty clever, right? You just have to press your finger into the screen a bunch of times. Once setup, the right spot on the display will start glowing whenever you get near the screen.
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Want face unlock too? However, you have to give a nod to its decision to pack in an IR blaster. This is the only ultra-high end phone to have one. What does it do? It sends out the same signals as your TV remotes, letting you use the Mate 20 pro to turn your TV on and off, change the volume on your hifi or switch channels on your AVR. The pre-installed Smart Remote app is dedicated to this feature. This app even lets you create your own mutant virtual remote, stitching together controls from a whole bunch of real-world ones by teaching the Mate 20 Pro commands button-by-button.
The Mate 20 Pro has pretty good battery life as standard. But you can try to make it even better, well slightly better, by using dark mode and a dark wallpaper.