Huawei P30 Pro Review

The 3-Minute Huawei P30 Pro Review

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By Graeme Messina | April 23, 2019

The Specifics:

Features & Design: 4.5/5 ● Performance: 4.5/5 ● Value: 4/5 ● Sound Quality 4/5 

The Best:

The Huawei P30 Pro design is really eye catching, the breathing crystal manages to catch the hues of pink and blue that make it stand out from the rest of the cover. It is made from glass and has an amazing in hand feel. It also comes standard with an IP68 rating, meaning that it is splash, water, and dust resistant.

The Kirin 980 is the world's first 7nm mobile process chipset with stronger performance and lower power consumption. This innovative chipset plus up to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of onboard storage, reveals a performance powerhouse in the Huawei P30 Pro.

The Bugs:

The P30 pro does not have a head phone jack port but it does come with Type-C Earphones or Bluetooth pods. With the phone being made from glass it can make it more susceptible to breaks and is more slippery to handle. The thin size of the phone leaves you with a large lens bulge but this is a minor issue.

Is it for you?

The Huawei P30 Pro has one of the best phone cameras on the market rivalling some stand-alone cameras, it also offers an amazing screen size of6.47’’ OLED Dewdrop display brings stunning colours for greater viewing. The Acoustic Display Technology provides a larger display and increased hearing area. The electromagnetic sound levitation will project sound from the vibrations in the display to your ear.

The Specs:

Display 6.5" 1080 x 2340 pixels

Camera 40 MP / 32 MP front

Processor HiSilicon Kirin 980, Octa-core, 2600 MHz

Storage 512 GB + Nano Memory (NM)

Battery 4200 mAh                                      

What we like

The intelligent power saving technology gives you more everyday with the full support of a long-lasting battery.Charge up your phone to 70% power in 30 minutes with the TÜV Safety certified Huawei 40 W supercharger or the wireless quick charge.HUAWEI P30 Pro's Reverse Charge feature can refuel earbuds or save your friend's dying phone.The powerful AR measurement toolkit in the TOF Camera can accurately and instantly measure the length, width and depth of the object that you are trying to capture. Utilizing the Face Recognition technology makes measuring the height of a person is a simple task for the phone. It simply scans the subject from toe to head and then performs the calculation.

What we don’t like

The P30 pro is hard to fault as it is really a pioneer on the smart phone front but with this means there is a larger price tag attached.

Should you buy it?

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The upgraded Vlog’s features and effects are pre-installed for simple editing. Highlight videos are automatically edited with dramatic filters, different speeds and unique background music. The professional AIS plus OIS makes handheld video seamless and steady. The Super Spectrum sensor allows for more light to be captured for those low light videos and pictures.The 32MP front camera intelligently recognise you to produce expert selfies by contouring your face with accurate brightness and sharpness. Your selfies will glow with stunning detail, even in overexposed backlight or during a night party. The Micro lens will allow you to take shots from 2.5cm, much like a macro lens attachment on a standard standalone camera. The ultra-wide-angle lens allows for some stunning landscapes or use the new periscope telephoto lens. The optical zooming capabilities allows for a compact body without losing image quality this together with the colour saturation provided by the 40 MP main camera, and stability of OIS, the Super Zoom Lens offers 10x hybrid zoom to see the never-before-seen with great resolution and rich detail.