- The P20 and the P20 Pro, two pretty unique phones
from Huawei were just announced.
And Huawei was kind enough to give me a little bit
of time before they were released.
So as is the usual here on my channel,
I tried to use as much of that time
as I could to do a complete walkthrough.
If you're not familiar with my complete walkthroughs,
basically it's me trying to go
through every feature I possibly can
on a device so that you are better informed
should you want to maybe buy the device in the future.
Now personally, I'm a little more interested
in the P20 Pro with its three camera setup,
and its just higher end in features,
so I'm basically gonna focus on that
in this complete walkthrough.
But it is very similar to the P20 in a lot of ways,
but I will link below all of the differences
for anyone who is interested in the baby brother.
Okay so first and foremost,
we have to talk about this color.
It's called twilight, and it's very reminiscent to me
of that color change sometimes called chameleon paint
that you see some celebrities have on their fancy cars,
except in the form of a phone.
I find it far less douchy.
In fact, I'm sort of in love with this color.
It's basically a gradient that goes
from purple to blue to green,
and looks different depending on the lighting.
Now if you're not into the flashy nature of this color
like I clearly am, there are plenty of other options,
including a very sexy midnight blue and a pink gold
that I didn't get a chance to see but was told is gradient
like the twilight, but in a pink to gold version.
And then if none of those appeal to you,
there's of course a black version.
The device is made out of glass,
and has curved edges on all four sides.
The screen is a 6.1 inch OLED 18.7 by nine aspect ratio,
2240 by 1080 resolution.
And yes, at the top of the screen there is a notch.
But Huawei at least had the sense to add software features
that, when turned on, hide the notch
by simply making the status bar entirely black
instead of transparent.
At the other side of the screen,
we have a front facing fingerprint sensor
that Huawei allows to also be used as navigation,
where you can turn off the onscreen navigation buttons
and use a system of swipes and taps to get home,
go back, open multitasking, et cetera.
They've also enabled a face unlocking feature
that I was actually surprised by.
I set it up, and while trying to film it,
kept pushing the button to show you guys it unlocking.
But it just kept taking me to the home screen,
so I actually assumed it wasn't on.
Now I turned it away, though, pushed the button,
and it did, in fact, ask for a face.
Turning it towards me then unlocked it.
So needless to say, at least in the conditions I was in,
it's a seriously fast solution
that I look forward to putting through its paces
when I have a device for a longer period of time.
The P20 Pro is also IP67 certified,
is about 7.8 millimeters thick,
and has a 4,000 milliamp battery
that Huawei says will charge
from zero to 58% in about 30 minutes,
and supports 1.2 gigabit per second LTE.
Audio hardware-wise, it has Sony's LDAC 990 kilobit
per second system, which is some
of the highest quality bluetooth audio streaming
that you can get, although there isn't many devices
that can utilize it, frankly.
With that said, there is, of course, no headphone jack,
and just a USB-C port at the bottom.
At the top we have an IR blaster
that we'll get into more in a sec.
On the left we have a sim card, micro sd card slot.
And on the right, we have
our power button and volume rocker.
Finally, on the hardware side we have the Kirin 970
powering the device, the same as the Huawei Mate 10 Pro,
along with six gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage.
Software-wise, it's running Android 8.1 with EMUI 8.1
on top, and it's the same variety of EMUI
that we're used to seeing,
so I won't go through it too much.
But quickly, here are some of the apps
that Huawei has pre-installed.
We have Backup, which is a phone backup and restore program.
Files, which is their own file explorer
that can sort by type of file or location.
Flashlight, which is used to magically illuminate things
behind the phone when you tap this button.
Gallery, their own photo album that sorts photos and videos
by albums and locations.
Mirror, which is a strange app to use as a mirror
because it offers basically the same features
as just turning on the selfie camera, but whatever.
Music, Huawei's own music player.
Notes, a simple note taking app.
Phone Clone, which allows you to download the app
on another phone and quickly transfer all of your photos,
videos, apps, et cetera, from one device to another.
Phone Management, their own app for cleaning up cache
and storage, monitoring or limiting mobile data,
battery monitoring, and scanning for viruses.
Recorder, a simple voice recording app.
Smart Remote, which uses that builtin IR blast
that we talked about before to use the phone
as a universal remote to control any number of devices
from TVs to air conditionings to cameras, et cetera.
Themes, where you can download or buy new themes
from Huawei's repository.
Tips, which is Huawei's app for showing you
how to get the most out of your device.
And Translator, which is a partnership
between Microsoft and Huawei.
It's the translator app that you'd basically find
in the PlayStore, but Huawei says
that Microsoft has tuned it to use the NPU in the Kirin 970,
and so it can translate a lot faster than normal.
Another software thing that Huawei has
in the P20 Pro is Huawei Share that allows you
to share photos, videos, whatever, between devices
and any other Huawei device a lot faster
than pairing with bluetooth manually.
Think AirDrop, but for Huawei.
And sharing that photo brings us to the big feature
that Huawei's been teasing with this phone for weeks.
It's the three Os in their See Mooore campaign, the cameras.
This is now the first Leica-powered three camera system,
and honestly it's more than a gimmick,
at least in my initial use, but we'll put the camera
through proper paces soon as I get more time with it.
This collection of three cameras is comprised
of a 20 megapixel monochrome sensor
with an aperture of f/1.6,
a 40 megapixel RGB main camera with an aperture of f/1.8,
and an eight megapixel telephoto one with f/2.4.
There's also a three meter laser sensor for autofocusing,
a colored temperature sensor to detect light temperature
and adjust the white balance of photos,
and they claim to have a 40 predictive focus
that attempts to guess where a moving subject will be
and keep better focus on it.
The idea here is familiar for the most part.
When in auto mode, the camera will automatically take
the image from the monochrome and RGB sensors,
and combine them to make a higher quality image.
The telephoto lens is here just
for another option when zooming in.
Now, it's a three times optical zoom,
compared to the two times on the S9 Plus,
Note 8, and the iPhone 10, and they've added
up to five times zoom through software
that they say doesn't affect quality.
And then from there, it's the normal crappy digital zoom
that we get on every phone that gets blurred
as you pinch in up to 10 times.
Now it could be interesting to see how that telephoto does,
because I for one like the idea
of having a three times telephoto lens on my phone.
It basically will allow me to take a lot of different photos
that I wouldn't normally be able to take
in the same way that having different lenses
for my mirrorless camera would.
Now according to Huawei, we not only have
these higher megapixel cameras,
but we also have a sensor that is 223% larger
than the iPhone 10 sensor and 170% larger
than the Galaxy S9 sensor, which allows the device to get
up to 102,400 extended ISO, which, by the way,
I wasn't able to display in Pro mode,
but was told that the camera is capable of,
so we'll test that, too, when we can.
As far as stabilization, the telephoto camera has
optical stabilization, while the other cameras have AIS
as Huawei is calling it, which they claim is
AI assisted stabilization, or an advanced form
of electronic stabilization, basically,
which you can see me quickly messing
with in a video test here.
Full test, of course, in the future.
The device also has the same AIC detection that,
in auto mode, will detect what you are trying to shoot
and automatically adjust the camera settings
for you to optimize for that type of photo
like we saw in the Mate 10 Pro.
The nice thing here, though, is that there is an X
that you can easily tap if you don't want it
to apply the settings, and even a setting
in the camera settings itself to completely disable it.
Going through the camera settings,
we have the following modes
besides our normal photo and video.
Pro, which allows you to adjust all
the camera's functions, like ISO, shutter speed,
exposure, auto focus, white balance, et cetera.
Night shot, now this setting allows you
to take a long exposure shot
that holds the shutter open for four seconds.
Huawei claims that because of the AIS stabilization,
this feature can even work handheld,
which is unlike the normal way of having to make sure
to mount a camera doing these types of shots,
or you'll just have lots of streaks and blurs in your image.
Super slow-mo, you knew it was coming
because of all the other devices this year
that are coming with it,
but it allows 960 frame per second slow motion
in .2 second bursts, creating six second
super slow-mo clips in 720p.
Slow-mo, which is our regular slow-mo that allows you
to record 120 frames a second in 1080p only,
not the 240 that we see in some other devices.
Monochrome, which of course allows you
to use the monochrome sensor
by itself to take black and white photos.
Time lapse, which allows you to shoot
at lower frame rates to have a sped up video.
HDR, which is a mode on Huawei devices
instead of just being an automatically detected thing
in auto mode like most manufacturers,
which I don't really understand.
Light painting, which allows you
to create long exposure photos that you've undoubtedly seen
on social media somewhere where people write words
with their cell phone or other forms of light.
Portrait mode, now this mode does automatically
actually turn on as part of the AI scene detection
if you're taking a photo of a person.
You can also X it out if you don't wanna use that.
But you can turn it on manually here.
If you aren't familiar, by the way,
it's the concept of blurring out the background
of a photo using software.
There you go, guys, I hope that wasn't too long
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