Huawei P20 Which Color is Better

21.09.2019 Gralbine Huawei

First look.. IPhone-style case and the largest batteries among the flagships of 2018

How many Chinese designers do not feed, he still looks towards the iPhone. A year ago, buyers and manufacturers of smartphones pointed to the cut-out fringe in the iPhone X screen and sentenced “what a shame!”, But in early 2018, Google taught the new Android to adapt to working with cut-out screens, and almost all Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers rushed together to “rethink” the design of the American smartphone in their flagships.

ASUS was the first to capitulate, and now Huawei has repeated the style of the front of the iPhone. And he did it in vain, because they are met by clothes, and the iPhone X mantle on the Huawei P20 was not in size and looks strange.

The fact is that the iPhone made a cutout from above in order to stretch the display to the bottom edge of the front panel and get rid of indentation, while Huawei made a cutout from above, but left the indentation from below and put a fingerprint scanner in it. On the one hand, it’s good that this scanner is in general, because face recognition in smartphones still does not work perfectly and it is not always convenient to use. On the other hand, it’s still possible to accept that “framelessness requires sacrifice”, but in the P20 and P20 Pro there are “victims”, but there is no comprehensive framelessness.

P20 (left) and P20 Pro are identical in appearance, but different in many respects

At the same time, we must pay tribute to the designers, even with all the trade-offs in design, the new Huaweis are much more like “smartphones of the future” than last year’s “bezelless” ones like the Huawei Mate 10 Pro or LG G6. And in comparison with the chubby flagships of Sony 2018, they look more cheerful. In a word, the huaveans fulfilled their mission. only the iPhone X and the new Samsung (S8 / S9 / Note8) can compete in design with the P20 and P20 Pro.

I have two news. good and bad. I’ll start with the good one: Huawei made the best “frameless” in terms of battery size and capacity. at 7.65 mm thick and 5.8 inches of display, the younger Huawei P20 holds as much as 3400 mAh! For comparison, Samsung hardly slapped 3000 mAh into 5.8 inches of body area at 8.5 mm thickness, while Sony offers 3180 mAh in the case already 11 mm thick with a 5.7 inch screen! And the senior Huawei P20 Pro is the dream of everyone who wanted a long-lived flagship. As many as 4000 mAh in a 6.1-inch case with 7.8 mm thickness! Finally, the iPhone X is 5.8 inches at 7.7 mm thick, a pathetic 2700 mAh.

An amazing thing. compared to the P10 (right), the new Huawei P20 has completely changed, but remains similar to its predecessor in general terms

And now the bad news. for the sake of such indicators, Huawei had to “amputate” a lot of useful things from the design. There is no more memory card slot. be content with the built-in 128 GB. There is no headphone jack either. use the included adapter with USB-C, or better, wireless headphones with the aptX codec. Finally, the water resistance in the P20 and P20 Pro is also not as brutal as that of the Samsung Galaxy S9 or Sony Xperia XZ2 (which are guaranteed not to let water pass for half an hour in a row at a depth of 1 m), but more “civilian” IP67 (short-term immersion to a depth of 1 m) , like the iPhone X. In order to drop the smartphone into the water, say “Oh!”, get it and continue to use it, and not for underwater shooting.

The metal sidewalls don’t just look slippery. they really are

Everything else in the case of the Huawei P20 / P20 Pro is the category “like. not like”. Shiny glossy side edges. they don’t like it, the smartphone slides in the palm of your hand, as if you had previously touched a thick piece of meat. By the way, black versions of P20 have matte edges. Front-panel scanner. I like it, it’s much better than endless perversions with moving the scanner in Samsung or a scanner in the middle finger phalanx on the rear panel in the new Sony.

The front panel scanner is much better than a smartphone without a scanner (iPhone X) or the scanner knows where (Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note8)

New colors. really like it! Black Huawei looks equally boring, but “midnight blue” is very good and now and then it turns dark emerald depending on the lighting, and the color “chameleon” is even cooler. you want to twist the smartphone and look at it like some kind of gem.

P20 in blue changes the case to.

P20 Pro in chameleon looks amazing

And then you are distracted from the game of color on the back cover and you see that from the back of the Huawei P20 Pro case you are watched by three (!) Cameras. “The Chinese must be kidding,” you will think, and you will be wrong. They are not kidding, but they are absolutely serious and have installed the third sensor for a reason.

Three rear cameras. why?

If you have seen professional photographers, you know that they have at least two lenses, and often much more, in the kit for the “carcass” of the camera. Not because they are “fetishists” or tuning the camera, as the youths overweight the car with excesses, but because different lenses are suitable for different types of shooting. Some lenses can very seriously increase the picture (zoom). this is useful, for example, at sports events and shooting from a long distance. Other lenses are ultra-wide-angle. they are useful when you need to “shove in the un-edged” and take a photo in one fell swoop of a room that does not fit in a regular frame. And there are also lenses for night shooting, beautiful portraits and other tasks.

Smartphone with the best camera in the world according to DxOMark rating

Previously, smartphones had one rear camera and everything was simple with it. it can take pictures, it may not take pictures. Then, most smartphones received a second camera for bokeh (blurring the background in portrait photos) and hybrid (without loss of quality) zoom. In separate smartphones (ASUS ZenFone 3 Zoom), the second camera was precisely a zoom camera, “long-range” for maximizing frame approximation. In others (LG G6 / V30 and others). widescreen, for shooting large crowds or huge buildings without having to run somewhere far away.

So: of the three cameras in the Huawei P20 Pro, one is “simple”, designed for medium plans and portrait shooting, as has always been the case with smartphones. The second one is monochrome, it shoots super-clear b / w photos during the day and, more importantly, at night (structurally mobile cameras are designed so that the camera shoots better with the same characteristics b / w). And in the remaining time, it helps the main camera shoot better and expands its dynamic range (it is responsible for the sharpness of the picture while the color camera forms color). Blurring the background in portraiture is also her merit. And, finally, the third camera is a zoom camera, with an initial three-fold increase in a relatively “simple” color camera. And if you need to bring the frame closer without losing quality even more, the zoom camera connects the b / w sensor to the work (see “hybrid zoom”) and the increase becomes five-fold!

Five times the hybrid zoom is worth it for a separate camera

As a result, we get a smartphone that takes standard photos equally well, copes well with portrait shooting and can significantly approximate the frame without losing image quality, if such a need arises. For complete happiness, a widescreen camera, like in LG, is missing, but it would be installed a zoom camera next year and a general camera (telephoto) would be foolish to throw out, and without a monochrome sensor, standard photos would become less high-quality, and the zoom would turn out a maximum of three times, instead of five times.

Huawei creates its best cameras together with Germans from Leica

In the “younger” version, Huawei P20, the Chinese left a telephoto camera (reduced the number of megapixels) and a monochrome sensor, but removed the “long-range” zoom module.

3x optical zoom

Photos on the rear camera Huawei P20 Pro

Photos on the rear camera Huawei P20 Pro

And this is only half of the innovations, because the cameras themselves in smartphones are also completely new and improved. Firstly, every single pixel in the Huawei P20 is huge (1.55 microns). The P20 Pro has too many pixels and each of them is small (1 μm), but the Chinese claim that this is offset by the gigantic size of the photomatrix and the coordinated operation of the optical program stabilization types. As you know, the larger the pixel, the better the smartphone takes in cloudy weather at night and the easier it is for him to take high-quality images during the day in motion. Secondly, very good optics (f / 1.6 and f / 1.8 aperture in P20 / P20 Pro color lenses), which is needed in order to minimize the amount of digital noise (“interference” or, as they are called “peas”) by a photo. Thirdly, a hefty color sensor that can work in an ultra-wide ISO range. Translating into human language, the camera can shoot in the “night vision” mode, if there is such a need.

Huge range of ISO allows you to take photos almost in the “night vision” mode

Finally, the front camera is also new, already with 24 megapixels. It’s not that many megapixels were a plus, but Huawei says that the matrix in the “front” is now hefty, so all the megapixels will be useful, and the automation in the camera has been calculated so much that now there’s beauty (covering up acne and scars on the skin and improving physiognomy with hungover to Hollywood) has become even smarter and does not look like computer intervention, but it looks natural.

The camera adjusts to the objects that it photographs and selects one of 19 settings

For portraits on the rear camera, algorithms can simulate lighting to make portraits with the effect of a studio photo, as it was in.

So that the owner of the P20 does not feel like the hero of the joke “now we will try to take off with all this,” Huawei taught smartphones (since the time of the Mate 10 Pro) to understand that they take pictures and change the settings according to the type of photo. As many as 20 modes with different settings. for cats, and for landscapes, and for food.

Huawei did not introduce animojis (smiley faces that follow you on the camera) and probably did the right thing, because the digitized faces in the same Samsung Galaxy S9 have almost no resemblance to the person whose face the smartphone scanned and complicated 3D scanners, like on the iPhone, take away even more usable screen area with a cutout at the top.

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