Huawei Mate 20 Pro Review
Mate 20 Pro features Huawei’s 7nm Kirin 980 oct core SoC All round performance is very good, especially the battery life The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is priced at Rs. 69,990
The Indian smartphone market might be one of the fastest growing worldwide, but it’s also one of the toughest to survive in. Just ask Huawei, which despite being the second largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, is still struggling to find its footing here.
In addition to building a strong online presence for its sub brand Honor, the company plans on aggressively tackling the offline market adding more localised content and features, and launching more coque iphone 6s feuilles of its premium products in the country. Just a week ago, Huawei finally brought its flagship Mate series to coque iphone 6 fibre de carbon India, with the Mate 20 Pro.
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro has Huawei’s custom silicon, a custom software experience, and an incredible camera setup thanks to the company’s ongoing partnership with Leica. It has pretty coque iphone 5s silicone bleu marine much everything one could ask for from a flagship phone. However, in our opinion, coque iphone 4s fast and furious Huawei’s biggest challenge will be capturing the mindshare of the Indian customer. Is the Mate 20 Pro the phone that changes this Only time will tell, but for now, let’s see if it makes sense spending nearly Rs. 70,000 on it.
Huawei Mate 20 Pro designThe phone ships in a very unassuming black box coque iphone 8 plus phrase with nothing but the its name and some Leica branding on it. Inside, we’re greeted by the typical accessories such as a USB Type C headset, data cable, charger, SIM eject tool, Type C to 3.5mm adapter, and some instructions. The Mate 20 Pro feels incredible from the moment you pick it up. The exposed metal frame along https://www.anten.fr/collections/coque-samsung-s7 the sides offers very good rigidity, and the glass front and back taper at the sides, blending seamlessly with the metal so you barely feel any of the edges. In fact, the design is reminiscent of Samsung’s Galaxy S9 (Review) and Galaxy S9+ (Review).
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro comes in two new colours, in addition to Pink Gold and the classic Twilight shade. One of them is Emerald Green, which we have. It features a new ‘hyper optical pattern’ on the glass which is said to result in better grip and fewer fingerprints. The fine diagonal stripes can be felt if you run a fingernail along the body, and this is definitely less slippery in the hand than plain glass. It doesn’t pick up too many fingerprints either. However, leave this phone on coque iphone 7 plus princesse disney a couch or any uneven surface, and it will happily slide all over the place.
The new ‘hyper optical’ pattern on this Emerald Green variant makes more coque iphone 6s odell beckham jr resilient to fingerprints
The display is massive, measuring 6.39 waahooo coque iphone 6s inches diagonally, and has a suitably high QHD+ resolution with support for HDR (Dolby Vision isn’t supported). Huawei lets reduce this if you want, or you can set it to scale automatically based on what you’re doing. It’s an OLED panel, which means blacks are deep, colours are punchy, https://www.simonjara.fr/collections/coque-huawei-p9 and you get little conveniences such as an https://www.lastage.fr/collections/coque-samsung-s5 always on mode. The phone has an incredible screen to body ratio, as the display curves to the left and right sides, and the chin at the bottom is very small.
The notch on the top isn’t too deep but it is wide, to accommodate all the sensors. There are multiple display customisation options including colour mode and colour temperature. All of this combined, makes the Mate 20 Pro look absolutely stunning and it’s easily one of the best smartphone displays in the market. The Mate 20 Pro also has Gorilla Glass protection although we’re yet to get a confirmation from Huawei about the version it’s using.
The Mate 20 Pro features an in display fingerprint sensor, which is placed closer to the middle of the display rather than towards the bottom. It’s quite ergonomic, as your thumb lines up with the sensor easily, without having to reach for it. It works fairly well, although we did face a few instances when it had a bit of trouble recognising our fingerprint. Like all in display sensors, there’s a slight but perceptible lag before it can read your fingerprint.
When you lift the phone, a little fingerprint symbol appears, telling you where to place your finger. You get a little animation when it’s being recognised. Other than unlocking the phone, you can use your registered fingerprints to access locked apps, and a private space. You can even program a specific fingerprint to launch the coque iphone 7 plus le roi lion Paytm app directly from the lock screen.
The IR emitter (left) is on the top and USB Type C port, which is also the speaker outlet, is placed at the bottom
The volume and power buttons are placed on the right of the phone, and they have a good clicky feel to them. We also love the contrasting red colour given to the power button, which adds to the phone’s style. On the top, we have an IR emitter for controlling infrared electronics, while at the bottom we have a USB Type C port and a dual Nano SIM tray. The phone supports dual 4G with VoLTE, which is nice.
The Mate 20 Pro also supports Huawei’s custom NM card format for storage expansion, coque iphone 6 verre trempé integrale which is a smaller version of the microSD standard and can fit in the second SIM slot. The company unveiled this format at the global launch of the Mate 20 Pro, and has promised capacities of up to 256GB. However, we don’t have any details as to when this will be available or how much the cards will cost.
The phone doesn’t have a headphone socket but it’s also missing a speaker grille. That’s because Huawei actually uses the USB Type C port as an outlet for sound. The drawback of this solution is that the sound gets muffled when you’re charging the phone, but this wasn’t a major inconvenience for us. The Mate 20 Pro also uses the earpiece for audio playback, thereby giving you a stereo effect. It’s not entirely balanced though, as the earpiece’s volume is noticeably lower than that of the main speaker.
Blocking the https://www.artcorekirbies.fr/collections/coque-huawei-pro earpiece doesn’t actually make a big difference to the sound. Dolby Atmos is enabled by default and cannot be switched off when using the speaker. You can set it to auto optimise sound based on the content being played, or manually choose between the Film and Music presets. With Atmos encoded videos, the surround effect isn’t too noticeable when playing audio from the speaker but headphones deliver better results.
The bundled coque iphone 6s ebay USB Type C earphones that ship with the Mate 20 Pro
Finally, we come to the back of the phone, which has three camera sensors and a dual LED flash in a distinctive four point layout. The camera module doesn’t sit flush with the rest of the body, due to which there is a slight bump. In the week that we used this phone, it didn’t pick up any scratches.
Huawei Mate 20 Pro specifications and softwareHidden inside this exquisite body is yet another triumph for Huawei. A few weeks later, Apple also launched its first 7nm SoC called the A12 Bionic, which technically was the first 7nm SoC to ship in a product, inside this year’s iPhone trio. Coming back to Huawei, the Kirin 980 is the successor to the Kirin 970, and promises better performance and efficiency across the board. It’s also the first SoC to feature ARM Cortex A76 cores, the new Mali G76 GPU, and dual NPUs (Neural Processing Units) for more efficient AI processing.
Huawei Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (Google Pixel 3 XL) Apple A12 Bionic (iPhone XS) Geekbench 4 Single core 3,340 2,371 4,776 Multi core 9,901 8,388 11,321 AnTuTu 2,71,607 2,42,899 3,06,912 GFXbench T Rex 59fps 60fps 59.4fps Car Chase 27fps 20fps 46fps Manhattan 3.1 49fps 34fps 54fps
Benchmarks reveal pretty good performance. The Kirin 980 is still behind the Apple A12 Bionic in singleand multi threaded performance of Geekbench 4, but is considerably faster than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 as seen on the Google Pixel 3 XL (Review). In AnTuTu, the Mate 20 Pro doesn’t score as high as the iPhone XS but it’s still better than what the Pixel 3 XL manages.
All phones managed to max out the T Rex OpenGL gaming test in GFXbench. However, coque iphone 5s avocado in the more advanced gaming tests, the A12 Bionic was able to pull ahead comfortably. Qualcomm also just announced the Snapdragon 855 processor, which could close the performance gap once it makes its way in phones in 2019. But like we always say, benchmark numbers should be seen as mere performance guidelines and not a metric for actual day to day usage.
There is a ‘Performance mode’ in the battery section claims to “optimise device settings for maximum performance.” With it coque iphone 6 plus x enabled, we saw a jump in scores of some benchmark suites like AnTuTu, PCMark and 3DMark but graphics tests in GFXbench showed little to no difference.
In India, the Mate 20 Pro is only available with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Connectivity features include dual band Wi Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5, NFC, USB OTG, support for five satellite location systems, a Hall sensor, a barometer, a temperature sensor, and a laser sensor, in addition to the usual sensors. The Mate 20 Pro is also dust and water resistant with an IP68 certification. FM radio is one thing that isn’t present.
In addition to the new hardware, the Mate 20 Pro is also one of the first devices to get Huawei’s new EMUI 9.0 skin, which https://www.sushicube.fr/collections/coque-huawei-1 is coque iphone 7 a imprimer based on Android 9 Pie. Visually, it looks similar to previous iterations, and many of the of the customisation settings are the same too. Huawei has made a few new additions, some coque iphone 6 alfa romeo of which are specific to the Indian market.
The first one is tighter integration for local digital wallets such as Paytm, which as we mentioned before, can be accessed directly from the lock screen. Next, the Calendar app now has calendars including a Hindu Panchang and one for Islamic prayer timings. If you dig through the Calendar settings, you’ll also find an ‘Indian National Calendar’ which will show you regional holidays.
Some of the new features (from left to right) in EMUI 9.0 include Password vault, App Assistance, and regional calendars
HiVision is Huawei’s answer to Google Lens and Bixby Vision. It can be accessed through the camera app or from the universal search field on any home screen. It does a decent job of identifying objects and even attempts to “identiy” the calorie counts of food items. In Shopping mode, you can point it at objects and it will try and find similar items from local online retailers. It can read QR codes too, and there’s a Translate option that lets you auto translate text in realtime. This overlays the translated text over the object itself, and it can can be hard to read at times. Local languages aren’t supported as of now, so this feature is not particularly useful in India.
According to Huawei, EMUI 9.0’s main focus is “keeping things clean and accessible,” and to an extent, it has made coque iphone 7 plus qui protege bien good on that promise. It’s based on Android 9 Pie, which is good but our unit was still on the slightly older October 2018 Android security patch. The interface is snappy and it’s relatively easy to find what you’re looking for in the Settings app. You can always search for something if you need to find it quickly. EMUI is a single layered interface by default, but it can switched to the app drawer style. The traditional navigation buttons can be ditched for gestures, but we don’t recommend this as it’s not implemented very well. For example, opening the app switcher requires you to perform a long swipe up gesture and to go a step back, you have to swipe inwards from either sides of the display, which interferes with the functionality of some apps like Slack…
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