Huawei P30 Pro Review: Night Vision

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Just recently, Huawei introduced its new flagship line of smartphones Huawei P30 and P30 Pro, we have already

share your first impressions of your seniorHuawei P30 Pro and its main camera. Now it's time for a full review. Traditionally, the main technological innovations in terms of “hardware” receives the autumn Mate line, and in the P flagships the emphasis shifts towards camera capabilities, while the insides are usually similar to the top-end Mates. Over the past couple of years, new representatives of the P line have been making a really big step forward in terms of mobile photography, and the Huawei P30 Pro demonstrates this perfectly, as we have already written about in the above-mentioned materials. The P30 Pro's camera capabilities are truly impressive, but the camera doesn't end with the smartphone. Let's see what else the new flagship can do and how good it is overall.

What is it?

Huawei P30 Pro is a flagship smartphone with a big 6.47-inch OLED FullHD+ display, top-end 64-bit 8-core Kirin 980 processor with dual NPU coprocessor for working with neural networks and machine learning, 6/8 GB of RAM, 128/256 GB of internal memory, Leica main camera with four modules and battery at 4200 mAh. The smartphone runs on Android 9 Pie OS with the proprietary EMUI 9 shell.

What makes him interesting?

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Of course, the main feature of the smartphone wasthe main camera, which was developed jointly with Leica and received as many as 4 modules. Thanks to which the camera can take excellent pictures at night, has a five-fold optical zoom, can shoot macro at a distance of 2.5 cm, and the maximum ISO value is 409600. The P30 Pro uses a completely new SuperSpectrum Sensor, the main feature of which is the use of a filter with an RYYB structure instead of the usual RGGB (using yellow instead of green), which allows you to capture 40% more light. Resolution 40 megapixels, optical stabilization, f/1.6. The second module is “shirik” 20 megapixels, f/2.2. Next is an 8 MP telephoto lens, x5 optical zoom, x10 hybrid zoom, f/3.4, optical stabilization. And the last one is the ToF (time of flight) module for measuring “depth”. The remaining characteristics of the smartphone are also very impressive: a 6.47-inch OLED display with a resolution of 2340x1080 and curved sides, a 7-nanometer flagship Kirin 980 processor with Mali-G76 MP10 graphics and a dual neural processor for machine learning. The fingerprint scanner is optical, located under the screen. The smartphone is powered by a 4200 mAh battery. Supports proprietary fast charging Huawei SuperCharge at 40 W, as well as wireless charging at 15 W. The case is protected according to the IP68 standard.

What is in the box?

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Huawei P30 Pro is packed in a white cardboard boxbox with Huawei, Leica logos, model name and technical specifications. Nothing extra. Inside is the smartphone itself, a 40W charger for fast charging, a USB cable, a headset with a USB Type-C connector, a paper clip for removing the tray and documentation:

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How does it look and assembled?

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Visually, the smartphone looks like a certainan evolved symbiosis of the ideas of the predecessor P20 Pro at the back and Mate 20 Pro at the front. Traditionally, glass and metal have been chosen as materials. The front and back panels are slightly curved on the sides, so that the smartphone tapers towards the side edges. There are minimal frames around the perimeter of the huge display, and the front camera is fitted into a small teardrop-shaped cutout. There is nothing else in front: no indicator, no earpiece. Instead of the traditional one, the so-called “acoustic screen technology” is used. In fact, the sound during a conversation is made by the screen itself.

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For opponents of the cutout in the EMUI shell, it is possible to hide it. Through the use of OLED-screen, it looks natural and neat:

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The location of the buttons is familiar. The power button with a red stripe and a dual volume control button on the right:

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They decided to make the top and bottom edges “chopped.” Looks good. An additional microphone and an infrared port for controlling electronics were moved upstairs:

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On the left side of the smartphone is empty:

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Below is an external speaker, USB Type-C connector and a tray:

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The tray is similar to the Mate 20 Pro.It is double-sided, you can install either two nanoSIMs, or insert a Nano Memory (NM) format memory card instead of the second one. But we don’t sell such cards, and it’s not a fact that they will:

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The back cover is glass, as long as we have it3 colors available. Classic black and two gradient ones. Gradient colors first appeared a year ago, in the previous flagship P20 line. We will have available blue and white (aka pearl) and the one in the review. The company called it “northern lights”:

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The main camera module has become even more sophisticated.Three main modules under a common protective glass protrude slightly above the smartphone. Nearby there is a flash, a laser rangefinder and a ToF camera. Traditionally for the line, the camera module and all the inscriptions on the back cover are located in a horizontal orientation. As if hinting at a relationship with digital cameras:

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Huawei P30 Pro turned out big and weighty,it is comfortable to perform only basic operations with one hand. For the rest - either connect the second hand, or use the reduced window mode. Although I do not think that this will be particularly embarrassing, given the universal love of smartphones with large displays. It looks solid and stylish, although it is a pity that the red-amber version did not reach us. The case of the smartphone is protected by the IP68 standard, so that theoretically it will survive the dive. Although for underwater photography, the company recommends corporate box.

How good is the screen?

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The smartphone has a large 6.A 47-inch OLED screen with curved sides, a drop-shaped cutout for the front camera, an aspect ratio of 19.5:9 and a resolution of 2340x1080, which does not give the highest pixel density of 398 ppi. There is no problem with this: individual pixels cannot be seen, the picture and fonts do not look “loose”. The screen itself is pleasant: the viewing angles are maximum, the brightness margin is very decent. Always on Display supported.

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In the screen settings you can adjust the brightness,scale of interface elements, resolution, hide the cutout and turn on the blue filter. In a separate menu there are two color modes “Normal” and “Bright” and color temperature setting:

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In “Yarkiy” maximum brightness modeis 447.247 cd/m2. In bright mode, the picture goes into cool shades: there is an excess of blue and a slight lack of red, the color temperature is about 9000K, and the color gamut is wider than sRGB:

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In “Normal” maximum modebrightness is slightly lower than 435.845 cd/m2, but color rendition is much closer to natural, color temperature tends to 7500K (with reference 6500K), and color gamut is closer to sRGB:

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Comparison with other models:

Device name
White field brightness,
cd / m2
The brightness of the black field,
cd / m2
Contrast

Huawei P30 Pro
447.247
0
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Samsung Galaxy S10 +
397.816
0
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Sony Xperia XZ3
408.047
0
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Xiaomi Mi8
432.107
0
∞

Xiaomi Mi Mix 3
473.797
0
∞

How fast and accurate does the scanner and face recognition work?

To identify the owner you can useeither face recognition or an optical fingerprint scanner that is embedded in the screen. Unlike the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, there are no additional sensors in the smartphone and face recognition occurs only by the front camera, so it’s impossible to call such a method reliable.

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The fingerprint scanner is fast and accurate.Indeed, it is already close to traditional modern options. The desired location on the screen is highlighted when you take the smartphone in your hand and is even more highlighted at the time of scanning (a feature of the technology itself). But, of course, you won’t be able to get into such a sensor with your finger without looking. At least the first time.

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What about performance and autonomy?

Inside the Huawei P30 Pro is installed similar to the Mate20 Pro configuration. Self-developed 7nm Kirin 980 processor. It includes two powerful ARM Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2.6 GHz, two Cortex-A76 at 1.92 GHz and 4 energy-efficient Cortex-A55 at 1.8 GHz, dual neural processing unit (NPU) for machine learning and a Mali-G76 MP10 graphics accelerator. Configurations are available with 6 or 8 GB of RAM and 128 or 256/512 GB of internal memory. As mentioned above, there is a theoretical opportunity to expand the memory, but you can only buy a Nano Memory (NM) card abroad. We don't have them officially. Of course, there are no problems with performance: this is a flagship after all. Adreno solutions still handle games a little better: there are no slowdowns, but the Mali-G76 MP10 is somewhat inferior in display quality:

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The results in synthetic tests are very impressive, although there was no doubt about it:

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At the same time, there is no problem with the stability of the work. With prolonged load, the system throttly up to 91% of the maximum performance, but this is an indicator within the normal range and in real conditions the user will not notice this:

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Wireless interfaces include dual-band2.4/5 GHz Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.0 with support for aptX, aptX HD, LDAC codecs and the new HWA Audio. There is NFC for contactless payment using a smartphone. Global positioning systems GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou are supported:

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There is also an IR port for controlling electronics and a corresponding application:

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Sound, unfortunately, not the strongest sidesmartphone The decision to abandon the conversational dynamics resulted in the absence of stereo sound, and the volume of the sound emitted by the display during a conversation leaves much to be desired. On the street you have to ask the interlocutor. The 3.5mm headphone jack is missing, as is the adapter included. The complete headset is very formal and you should not listen to music on it. But if you connect something adequate through the adapter, the sound is quite good.

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In terms of battery life, the smartphone is very close to the Mate20 Pro, which is not surprising: a 4200 mAh battery of similar capacity, a bundled 40 W HUAWEI SuperCharge charger that can charge a smartphone by 70% in half an hour. There is support for wireless charging according to the Qi standard with a power of up to 15 W, and there is also a reverse wireless charging function. The screen dimensions of the Huawei P30 Pro are larger than those of the Mate, but the resolution is lower. As a result, without any problems, we have one and a half to two days of battery life, depending on the intensity. It will be extremely difficult to drain the battery completely in a day. Plus, there are proprietary energy saving scenarios and the “Digital Balance” function. with control and monitoring of smartphone use:

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Is the interface convenient?

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Huawei P30 Pro runs on Android 9 Pie OS withupdated proprietary shell EMUI 9.1. There are no fundamental changes compared to the previous closest versions, but something has been added. Overall, the shell is fast and stable, as always. A black theme has been added throughout the system, which will be especially relevant for the OLED display. The user has three options for organizing the workspace: desktops, desktops plus an application menu, and a simplified version with large icons:

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There are several navigation options:standard on-screen buttons with the ability to choose their order and options with a fourth button for the curtain, a round movable button and gestures. In the latter option, going back is done with a horizontal movement from the left or right edge of the screen, “home” - swipe up from the bottom edge and swipe the application manager up from the bottom edge and hold your finger:

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The application manager is made in the form of a horizontal carousel, there is a two-window mode:

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There is support for additional gestures and mini-windows:

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Branded Applications:

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How are things going with the camera?

About cameras we have already released two great material (timeAndtwo), but surely readers will be too lazy to climbother materials, so we’ll duplicate it here too. The main camera received as many as four modules: the main one with 40 megapixels 1/1.7″ with optical stabilization, f/1.6 aperture, phase detection and laser autofocus. But the trick is that it uses a non-standard RYYB (Red-Yellow-Yellow-Blue) pixel arrangement instead of the usual RGBG (Red-Green-Blue-Green). At the same time, the Bayer filter itself is not “checkerboard”, but a combination of four pixels of the same color is used. As a result, the sensor receives more light and can take more detailed pictures at night. 40 MP turns into 10 MP. Huawei claims a light sensitivity range of ISO 50 to ISO 409600, so the Huawei P30 Pro “see” better in the dark than a man. Additionally, the smartphone is equipped with an 8-megapixel periscopic telephoto module (f/3.4 aperture, optical stabilization), a 20-megapixel ultra-wide-angle (f/2.2, without stabilization) and a ToF (Time of Flight) camera for measuring the distance to objects. Thanks to all this goodness, 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom, excellent photos in extremely low light, macro photography at a distance of 2.5cm and realistic background blur are provided. That's what Huawei says, and that's roughly how it is.

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The camera application has not changed much. In general, it is visual, but not the most convenient. Modes are traditionally switched by scrolling, most of the main necessary settings are on the main screen, a number of modes are in the additional menu. But the switch between cameras and zoom is not entirely logical if you shoot horizontally (as we usually do) and have to reach for it with your finger. It would be more logical to place it next to the shutter button:

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The camera does, to some extent, domiracles. Yes, now the “experts” with a bunch of arguments about the fact that smartphones “never” will not replace a professional DSLR. To some extent they will be right, but that’s why they are “about” DSLRs. And the ordinary “everyman” You will be delighted with what the Huawei P30 Pro camera can do. And at the moment this is perhaps the best camera in a smartphone for photos. The clarification is correct: in terms of video, it does well, but not perfectly. First, many, many photos taken with the main camera in different lighting conditions (download the originals):

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Wide angle (originals):

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Zoom (originals):

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Next is a series of photos in a dark room with the lights completely off. That is, a personnothingdoes not see. At all. In Pro mode, the ISO gradually increased to a maximum value of 409600 (originals):

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But there is a nuance: on the PC, the ISO value in the properties of the file is not written at all, they are a bit strange in Photoshop. On the smartphone itself, the info in the indicators is legitimate:

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In general, anyone will be interested - the above link to the originals. But in general it looks like magic or the work of some night vision device.

With a blurred background, the smartphone is great toocopes. Well it can be seen in the photo with the pot. Usually, smartphones due to imperfect processing algorithms blur only around, and the space between the leaves is clear and it does not look very good. In this case, it looks quite realistic:

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In the dry residue

This is not the first year that the flagship P-lineHuawei smartphones are at the top in terms of camera quality, but the Huawei P30 Pro goes even further. At the moment, it can safely be called the owner of the most advanced, multifunctional and unique main camera, which takes great pictures and boasts a five-fold optical zoom. At the same time, the advantages of a smartphone do not end with the camera. It will delight future owners with an excellent large OLED display, extremely high (albeit not maximum) performance, long battery life, very fast both wired and wireless charging, a fast fingerprint scanner built into the screen and a stylish case with dust and moisture protection. There are also controversial issues, but where would we be without it? A vibration emitter built into the screen as a conversational “speaker” Quiet and not very high quality, plus it doesn’t allow you to reproduce stereo sound. Well, and the traditional flagship price, which not everyone can afford.

6 reasons to buy Huawei P30 Pro:

the best main camera at the moment in terms of photo capabilities;
high-quality OLED-display;
powerful iron;
stylish, high-quality materials and assembly;
dust and moisture protection according to IP68;
long battery life, very fast wired and wireless charging.

2 reasons not to buy Huawei P30 Pro:

high price;
Quiet, not very high quality “on-screen speaker” and lack of stereo sound.

Specifications Huawei P30 Pro

Display
OLED, 6.47 inches, 2340×1080, 398 ppi, 2.5D glass

Housing
dimensions 158×73.4×8.4 mm, weight: 192 g

CPU
64-bit 7nm HiSilicon Kirin 980, 2×2.6 GHz Cortex-A76, 2×1.92 GHz Cortex-A76 and 4×1.8 GHz Cortex-A55, Mali-G76 MP10 graphics, 2xNPU

RAM
6/8 GB

Flash memory
128/256/512 GB + Nano Memory (NM) slot

Camera
40 MP, f/1.6, 1/1.7″, PDAF, OIS, 20 MP, f/2.2, (wide-angle), 1/2.7″, PDAF, periscopic 8 MP, f/3.4, (telephoto), 1/4″, 5x optical zoom, OIS, PDAF, ToF camera, laser autofocus, LED flash. video 4K@30 fps, HD 960 fps, front camera - 32 MP, f/2.0

Wireless technology
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 2.4+5 GHz, Bluetooth 5.0 LE, NFC, IR

GPS
GPS, Glonass, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS

Battery
4200 mAh, non-removable

operating system
Android 9 Pie + EMUI 9.1

Sim card
2x nanoSIM

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Huawei P30 Pro Review: Night Vision

What is it?

What makes him interesting?

What is in the box?

How does it look and assembled?

How good is the screen?

How fast and accurate does the scanner and face recognition work?

What about performance and autonomy?

Is the interface convenient?

How are things going with the camera?

In the dry residue