Challenger to Leader | Huawei P20 Pro Product Reviews

'Consumption upgrade' has become the most popular hot word in the mobile phone circle in the past two years. On the one hand, when consumers buy mobile phones, they not only look at the so-called 'cost-effectiveness' of their products, but also care about their products; On the other hand, for domestic mobile phone brands, it provides opportunities for the brand to promote the image. All along, due to the history of the brand and the ability to integrate the supply chain, domestic brands have always been regarded by everyone as Apple, the challenger of Samsung. When the mobile phone market reshuffles and provides domestic mobile phones with the opportunity to promote the brand, it needs to change from 'challengers' to 'leaders'.

To become a 'leader', you need to test the hard power of the product itself.

In the field of electronic technology, “Courtesy” is nothing new. And when P20 series in Paris global conference, PPT turned page after page on the central stage, P20 and P20 Pro refresh DxOMark ranking twice The scores on the list, while being dubbed 'Kan List', can't help but appetite everyone's appetites: How strong is it? For this review, let's take a look. Huawei P20 Pro, is there any legend? Strong.

Configuration parameters

The Huawei P20 series is divided into two P20 and P20 Pro models. It can be seen from the naming (suffix is ​​Pro instead of Plus) that the two products are not only different in size, but also have more obvious product positioning. This difference is reflected in the hardware parts of the two phones. We first look at the table, the two products are different in the hardware configuration.

From the table, we can see that Huawei P20 Pro has made some partitions in the hardware configuration with the P20: the most important three shots and the Aurora purple color and screen material. For the P20 series, it has maintained the previous generations. The P series is well-designed. The P20 Pro is the first to create a post-Like three-shot camera, making it the strongest smartphone ever.

Design: Aurora is the most beautiful domestic mobile phone I have ever seen

When the Huawei Ascend P1 was released six years ago, the body thickness of 7.69mm could be considered extremely thin at the time. Since then, the P series has also been injected with the genes of excellent ID design. And then, 6.18mm was made on the P6. The thin all-metal body laid the foundation for Huawei's P series in the ID design. The annual color matching and metal diamond carving process jointly created with Pant on the P10 enabled Huawei to explore the integration of technology and fashion in the ID design. On the P20 Pro, the aurora color is even more beautiful.

As the main color matching of the P20 Pro, the aurora color adopted by Huawei P20 Pro is inspired by 'light', and the transition from ultraviolet light to deep blue to light blue creates a two-tone gradient through nano-vacuum optical coating technology. The design of the fuselage is both mysterious and stylish, and the 3D glass body reflects different colors at different angles. Compared with other products of the current monochrome body, the visual effect is truly amazing.

As the main color of the gradation structure color, Ultra Violet is the 2018 color of Pantone released, color number 18-3838. Pure purple itself is bright, it has some visual stimuli to people, and the color of pure purple is saturated. The degree of high, easy to produce visual fatigue. In contrast, ultraviolet light is more blue, more active in color sensitivity, visual effects emphasize creativity and forward-looking.

The front of the fuselage, Huawei P20 Pro uses a 6.1-inch profiled full-screen, but did not compromise accordingly, still put the fingerprint identification module on the front of the fuselage. The profile of the overall screen brings about a higher proportion of the screen, making the P20 Pro is relatively wide and positive.

At the top of the fuselage, the P20 Pro even transforms the handset into a circular shape, which is very simple.

Despite the use of an all-round screen, the P20 Pro still puts the fingerprint identification module on the front of the camera body, which preserves the integrity of the very beautiful body back.

It is worth mentioning that the 3D glass used on the back of the Huawei P20 Pro, with its curved surface design, makes the P20 Pro feel completely free of hands, and there is no extra processing at the edges of the glass and the borders. The transition feels very delicate. .

Overall, the Huawei P20 Pro is the first domestically produced mobile phone. I truly feel that there is a top-level product in terms of design. Regardless of the 'design feeling' at first glance, attention to detail and color choice, Huawei P20 Pro is worthy of the P series heritage of excellent ID design genes.

Photo experience: no doubt, this is the strongest camera phone

Huawei's P20 Pro is a radical change in imaging hardware. It has been equipped with three cameras, namely a combination of 40 million pixels color, 20 million pixels of black and white, and 8 million pixels of telephoto. If you further analyze the parameters of each camera You will find this is a three-shot combination of "Dacheng Dacheng."

• Main camera: 40 megapixel, 1/1.7 inch RGB color image sensor, Quad Bayer structure, f/1.8 aperture, equivalent focal length 27mm

• Vice camera: 20 megapixel, 1/2.78 inch black and white image sensor, f/1.6 aperture lens, equivalent focal length 27mm

• Telephoto camera: 8 million pixels, 1/4.4 inch RGB color image sensor, f/2.4 aperture lens, equivalent focal length 80mm, support optical image stabilization

In terms of layout, the main camera is centered, the black and white sub camera is at the bottom, and the telephoto camera is at the top. Based on this design, the main camera can be combined with the other two cameras to form a high-sensitivity with “color + black and white”. Can also achieve "wide-angle + telephoto" optical zoom, can be described as the current imaging program "together."

Surprisingly more than this, and continuing to analyze, this main camera has a sensor area as high as 1/1.7 inch, more than twice the size of the iPhone X sensor, and even more than the flagship card machine of the past, it is a well-deserved one." Outsole”. With a super high output of 40 million pixels, it will undoubtedly retain more detail in the imaging and have more advantages in resolving power.

However, for mobile phones, due to the limitation of the unit pixel area, usually high pixels means that the high quality of the picture is degraded, and the performance of dark light will be compromised. Huawei obviously also took this into consideration. This “outsole” uses the Quad. Bayer structure, adjacent four pixels can synthesize a large pixel imaging, the default output of 10 million pixels, making the unit pixel area raised to a terrible 2μm, significantly enhance the performance of dark light imaging.

At the same time, we also learned that in order to give full play to this "outsole" strength, Huawei's Finnish Institute will involve the former Nokia's video team to reorganize its revenue into R&D. We must know that this team once created the Nokia 808, 1020 and other legends. The product, which has extensive experience in the tuning of ultra-high pixel sensors, will now be inherited on the P20 Pro, allowing the P20 Pro to achieve a balance between resolving power and high image quality.

Below we analyze the imaging strength of P20 Pro through proofs.

It can be seen that Huawei P20 Pro's proofs have excellent perception, rich details, good latitude, very eye-catching colors, and fast focusing speed. After the Leica bright mode is turned on, the phone is red and green. The presentation is very sensitive. With the treatment of the dark corners, it is often possible to take a photo with a temperament and it is easy to get started.

AI scene recognition

Based on the Unicorn 970's NPU, Huawei P20 Pro supports AI scene recognition, which can instantly identify the subject of the screen and make specific styles and parameter settings during imaging to improve the final filming effect. For example, when shooting a blue sky, the camera will Adjust the blue saturation to express the sense of comfort. When taking a good meal, the camera will adjust the color to a saturated and rich color to reflect the delicious food. When shooting the night scene, the camera will turn on the super night scene mode to brighten and reduce noise.

It should be emphasized that the Huawei P20 Pro's AI supports smart operations in more scenes, such as automatically turning on portrait mode when shooting portraits, automatically switching telephoto lenses at macros, and providing natural bokeh, etc. Obviously in AI 3. With the help of blessings, the threshold for mobile photography is even lower. Everyone can shoot large blocks in their minds.

By default, AI scene recognition is turned on automatically. If you don't want the AI ​​to intervene in your photographic creation, you can turn it off in settings.

1-3-5 times zoom

Based on three different camera models, the Huawei P20 Pro supports 3x optical zoom and 5x hybrid zoom. The optical zoom is based on the 8-megapixel telephoto lens, while the hybrid zoom is based on high-pixel cutting. As well as the support of algorithms, both can provide rich details and give authors a richer choice in composition.

Because telephoto is more sensitive to jitter, the P20 Pro is equipped with OIS optical image stabilization at a 3x telephoto lens to ensure image quality. As for a 5x blend, it requires the user to maintain the posture of the hand for a short time to enhance the details of the picture. Performance. Here we look at more zoom proofs.

Superb night view

For Super Night mode, friends who are familiar with Huawei mobile phones are not unfamiliar. In this mode, the longest support for handheld exposure is 6S, which can present a clear and bright night-time picture. On P20 Pro, super night mode is upgraded. , Can deal with the hand of the conventional jitter, support the super night scene hand-held. In other words, without the need for tripod assistance, you can shoot a night scene.

The essence of Super Night is not a real long exposure, but a series of photo stacks that continuously capture many different exposure parameters. In order to solve the image shift caused by jitter during the shooting of multiple photos, Huawei introduced AI. The algorithm recognizes and synthesizes the objects, and finally presents a clear and clean night-view photo. The so-called 6S exposure is actually the sum of the time taken by the shooting + synthesis.

From the final result, the Huawei P20 Pro's night shot was impressive, the highlights were not overexposed, the shadows were rich in details, and the noise was also very well suppressed. It was very clean.

Sitting on the advantage of “outsole”, the night shoot of Huawei P20 Pro has a good quality, but the presence of the super night mode has increased the level of night shooting by another level, opening a clear gap with existing products. The existence of "Bug level".

960fps super slow motion

Similar to the Sony Xperia XZ2, Samsung Galaxy S9 and other flagship models, the Huawei P20 Pro adds an additional DRAM layer in the CMOS to record a large amount of data in a short period of time, enabling super slow-motion recording of 960fps (condensation time photography) ), suitable for recording objects in motion or instantaneous instant.

At present, P20 Pro supports 960fps video recording under the 720P standard. The author also tried to experience it. The P20 Pro's shutter shutter is correspondingly timely enough. The success rate of the fear is high. The video processing after the shooting takes about 5 seconds. wait.

Overall, the superior hardware plus the AI ​​algorithm upgrade, Huawei P20 Pro has absolute strength in photography, authoritative camera evaluation agency DxOMark also scored a comprehensive score of 109 points for its history.

System Experience: Continued Improvement of EMUI 8.0

The Huawei P20 Pro is equipped with the EMUI 8.1.0 version. Since EMUI 7.0, Huawei has kept the EMUI version number and the version number of the Android system, and has always been the fastest for all third-party OSs in upgrading the latest system speed. Click here for the EMUI team. As you can see, Google is actually getting tighter and tighter on the AOSP source code of Android. Therefore, when updating the system version (most importantly new features and security patches), third-party vendors Must meet the AOSP specification. Today, timely follow-up Android native version, has a very important role for user experience.

In the optimization of this special-shaped screen, EMUI 8.1 also adds one-button navigation gesture operation. The user can touch, long press, slide left and right, and click left and right icons to realize the function of virtual home button.

EMUI 8.1 (left) is adjusted in the camera shooting interface. Several shooting modes are clearly indicated at the bottom. Swipe left and right to enter different shooting modes. And the front/rear camera shift button is moved from the upper right corner. To the lower right corner, you can easily switch the front and rear cameras with one hand.

For details, EMUI 8.1 (left) makes the phone more transparent and the system looks younger.

In terms of display perception, EMUI 8.1 has added natural color display to adjust the screen color according to the ambient light. For OLED screens, the author suggests that this function be enabled.

Overall, EMUI 8.1 adds adjustments to the overall screen of the opposite sex on the basis of EMUI 8.0, and continues to optimize at the details, as a whole towards a more flattened operational logic.

Hardware Configuration:

The Huawei P20 Pro is still equipped with a Kirin 970 processor and built-in 5.5 billion transistors. The CPU uses an 8-core design and 4*Cortex A73@2.36Ghz+4*Cortex A53@1.8Ghz, forming a BigLITTLE architecture for performance and performance. Intelligent allocation, taking into account the performance and power consumption. Thanks to the improvement of the 10nm process technology, the energy efficiency of the Kirin 970 CPU part has actually made significant progress. The GPU part is Mali-G72, MP12, compared to the Kirin 960, Kirin 970 has a 20% increase in performance and an energy efficiency improvement of 50%.

Charging speed

The P20 Pro has a 4000mAh high-capacity battery, comes standard with a 5V 4.5A SuperCharge, and can achieve a peak power of 21W under actual testing. In the half-hour test, the P20 Pro also rushes from 0 to 58%. This speed is The current Android flagship still belongs to a good standard.

to sum up:

Back to the beginning of the review, whether the Huawei P20 Pro has become the new 'leader'. The answer is obvious from the point of view of the author. As a leader, the product must be at least 'I have no people', not just 'people'. I have excellent.. And Huawei's P20 Pro equipped with the industry's first Leica three camera, brought on the unprecedented image quality brought by the camera, not only makes the P20 Pro the most competitive Android phone at this stage, and It has truly witnessed the evolution of the Huawei P series over a period of 6 years. From the original Android brand, a toddler brand became a leader in today's industry standards.