hey everyone michael symon here welcome back to android confidential i got
another phone today i got two phones the May 20 and the mate 20 Pro by Huawei and
let me tell you you're gonna want one but you're probably not gonna buy it let
me explain
so the month of Android keeps rolling along we've already seen the LGV 40 we
saw the pixel 3 and this one from Huawei might be better than both of them
it's the mate 20 series they're calling it and we got two phones like last year
the May 20 and the mate 20 Pro the mate 20 has a six and a half inch screen the
May 20 Pro has a six point four inch screen so it's actually a little bit
smaller but it's higher resolution we got quad HD versus Full HD on the May 20
and the designs are quite a bit different they both have a notch the
mate 20 has a very very small one we're talking about there they're calling it a
teardrop notch and if you remember the essential phone or or or the Oppo phone
from a couple months ago which is it's it's just that little lens it's very
very small the May 20 Pro has a much wider one that's because it has a 3d
sensing camera like the iPhone 10s and so you it has a lot more crammed into
which not so it's bigger so with those two screen sizes and the two different
notches we also have a little bit of a different design between the two phones
the May 20 is with whywe calls a slimline design and it has very very
small bezels at the top at the bottom and you know very very skinny sides you
know it's it's like it's kind of traditional but it's you know they
really kind of compacted the design on the pro they are mimicking the samsung
galaxy s 9 note 9 design and it has those those curved OLED edges so it
feels really nice it looks really nice at how it kind of has that that pseudo
infinity design you can't really see where it ends and it kind of blends into
the sides of the display flip the phones over and they're both very similar we
they have an all-glass design and Huawei has a whole new palette of colors my
favourite is it's called Twilight and it kind of it's like a gradient from purple
to blue and it kind of reflects the light in though it's very shimmery it
looks really nice and at the center of both of them instead of a single or a
dual camera we got three cameras and it's in its unique kind of square format
so we have the three lenses and an L and then there's the flash in the end of
left it's very very distinctive it looks cool when you're when you're using it
people are gonna say what is that it's a it's a great design element and it's got
a very distinctive very kind of unique design it's unlike anything I've seen on
any other phone Apple or Android and just a level of craftsmanship here is
very impressive when I when I held him I didn't want to put him down I wanted to
take him home with me this isn't almost like Apple like level of design it's the
way this the back blends into the front while we did a that I did a killer job
with these phones and along with that unique design always also using its own
chip as we know this is the ki-rin 980 and it's the first phone to use it I
only spent maybe about 10 minutes with it but man is it fast
I've seen tons of Snapdragon a 45 phones and they kind of vary but why away
really optimizes this for their phone and it's like what Apple does with leave
with the h-series chips and it is just a speed demon so we've also got wireless
charging the pro charges at 15 watts which is which is really fast compared
to most other phones but get this you can actually use it as a charger like
literally flip it over put another phone on top of it that also has a key
charging and this thing it'll start charging the phone it'll use the its
battery to power up your friends phone like how cool is that and we got some
new biometrics here too on the pro I said before we have that bigger notch
inside that notch is a 3d sensing camera for facial recognition secure facial
recognition 3d facial recognition like Apple does and there's also no
fingerprint sensor anymore on this the May 20 has one but the May 20 Pro
doesn't that's because it is under the display we've seen this before but
Huawei is one of the first phones to really kind of bring it to the
mainstream and it has a fingerprint sensor under the display that you know I
tested it out and it worked pretty well I don't know how it'll work in everyday
use and over and over again but setting it up and using it to unlock was it was
surprisingly you know really accurate and these phones are also loaded up with
AI now don't worry there's not a new Huawei assistant on these phones but
there's there's AI infused or out there throughout the phone that's due to a new
dual neural processing unit that kind of powers all of this why always says
there's like one hundred and thirty four percent increase in the text
and now akin it can detect objects and then like things on that object and all
that all you're gonna care about is how this affects the camera and the camera
is awesome so we already know that Huawei makes excellent cameras in their
smartphones and the may 20 just takes it to another level
what's cool about this is that there's no separation between the two phones
they made 20 ma 20 pro of the same camera we have a 40 megapixel main lens
we got a 20 megapixel wide lens we got the 8 megapixel 3x zoom lens and like
the LGV 40 these are all independent lenses so you can access all of them any
of them as you see fit you want to take a standard shot you want to zoom you
want a wide-angle shot just tap and go and as I said before we got a I do all
of this so if you point at a nature or a person the the screen will let you know
that this is what we're looking at it'll adjust accordingly while I even says
that they're improvements to the AI engine means that you can do this with
video now - so there's cinema video and it that's all AI powered and a little
adjust the lining of the filters and everything as you're shooting so that's
the may 20 and a may 20 Pro in a nutshell and you want one right yeah you
do but you might not want to buy it because
Huawei isn't making a version for the US this has to do with the whole thing with
Congress and you know we've heard about that months ago so they just said you
know what we're not doing it we're not gonna waste our time making a US version
that means that Verizon and Sprint are out as we knew but a tMT's band might be
compromised t-mobile's band might be compromised
they're their new 600 megahertz band we don't know what kind of upload and
download speeds are gonna get when we buy the International unlocked version
and that just sucks so check out my full review on PC worlds of these phones if I
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you have something to say and I'll see you next time
you