It'll even transmit a presentation from phone to screen wirelessly, making it a great choice as a work phone. Unlike previous Huawei phones, it does not include a monochrome lens for contrast adjustment and greyscale images, with the company citing improvements to the colour sensors as making it redundant. Huawei is doing some marvelous power optimization work, too, because I can’t do anything to run down this battery quickly. It has no lag, the battery is still amazing (4200mAh lasts an entire day), it's convenient in the hand, no scratches and breaks, camera quality is on-par with modern 2022 smartphones, night mode is stellar.

Other top options this year include the Google Pixel 3, the OnePlus 6T, the Samsung Galaxy S9, and Huawei's own P20 Pro. These specs are about on par with other flagship smartphones, though the Kirin 980 is speedier than Snapdragon 845 which first appeared in a phone earlier in March.Luckily then, it comes with 128GB as standard, so you probably won't run out of space any time soon. And lastly, if you lamented when the Mate 10 ditched the headphone jack, hopefully you bought some Bluetooth headphones in the interim: the Mate 20 Pro doesn’t have a 3.

It doesn’t quite have the same dynamic range in challenging lighting conditions as the Pixel 3, but its low-light performance was great and it’s dedicated night mode is very impressive. I compared it extensively against the Pixel 3 XL and Galaxy Note 9, and I found that Huawei’s hardware just doesn’t have the dynamic range of the other two. whereby the camera recognises what it's looking at ("trees" or "blue sky," for example) and adjusts the settings accordingly. While this may give its predecessor the edge on low-light and nighttime shots, the Mate 20 Pro is no slouch there, and you’ll love having the option to ‘zoom out’ with the ultra-wide.

The Mate 20 Pro’s 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage haven’t improved from the P20 Pro, though you can expand the storage via a new proprietary “nanoSD” format card to a maximum of 256GB. CNET praised the design of the P20 Pro, noting that its "Twilight" color finish was reminiscent of when phones "dared to look different" in the early 2000s, but that its glass backing was likely to attract fingerprints.

The P20 Pro’s camera setup is what set it apart from the rest of the flagship class earlier this year, elevating it to the top of the pile.CNET was similarly positive, noting that the Mate 20 Pro "not only has a spec list that's the equal of any flagship phone out there, but it comes with enough new features to make it a truly exciting phone", and was less aggressive in its use of color saturation on photos than the P20 Pro, but panned Huawei's switch to a proprietary memory card format due to pricing and availability not having yet been announced. The speed and responsiveness of the Mate 20 Pro are iPhone-like, with apps launching quickly, the camera exhibiting zero delay, and gesture animations displaying smoothly and fluidly. You can cancel the changes with a little toast notification that pops up on the screen, but only before you’ve shot the photo. The 3D face unlock was praised for its speed, contrasting the in-screen fingerprint reader (which did not have the same performance as the capacitive sensor on the P20), while the pre-release EMUI 9 software on the review device was noted to be buggy (but that its gesture implementation made more sense than the similar one implemented on Android 9 itself).