Huawei held a press conference in Shanghai a few days ago and officially launched the national version of the annual flagship Mate 20 series mobile phone. So, what about Huawei Mate 20 Pro? Is Huawei Mate 20 Pro worth buying? If you want to start with this product, you may wish to take a look at the HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro experience evaluation.

Of course, for the small value-conscious partners, Huawei Mate 20 Pro (UD) design is still very challenging, especially the eyes of super running, visual impact – very strong, to ensure the high recognition of the Mate 20 series. Let’s talk about the use of Huawei Mate 20 Pro (UD) in terms of appearance, battery life, system, performance, and camera.

Design & Appearnace

In the past two years, Huawei has always embodied an attitude in mobile phone design: Breakthrough. In particular, the cooperation with Porsche Design and Pantone have raised the image height of the mobile phone itself. On the Mate 20 Pro, the streamlined curve design and the addition of new color schemes make the Mate series a visually significant breakthrough compared to previous products.

The four-point matrix design of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro rear camera is inspired by the four-eye headlight design of the super-run. The purpose is to create a matrix image system that is the “eye of super running”. And it’s very important that in the era when most mobile phones are imitating the iPhone’s vertical camera, it has a high degree of recognition. As Porsche designer Heinz Redrich said, every Porsche needs an iconic look, and the four-point appearance is our brand identity. It makes people recognize that this is Porsche. The same is true of the Mate 20 series.

The Mate 20 Pro phone adopts a streamlined design. The eight-curved body fits the curvature of the palm. The curved curvature on both sides of the curved screen is large, and the connection with the frame is relatively close. Solid workmanship makes the fingers feel uncomfortable when crossing the surface of the screen and the middle frame.

The body size is only 157.8 x 72.3 x 8.6mm, even if it is not a problem with one-handed operation, the thumb refers to the public. It is easy to touch any corner, and because the bottom speaker sounds through the Type-C hole at the bottom of the machine, the bottom frame is also narrower than other flagships. In terms of feel, thanks to the curved screen and the metal middle frame design, the handshake is very ideal, and the edge transition is still natural, there is no obvious hand-feeling, and the author has a blue slash texture version, which has a slightly matte texture. , helps to hold the phone steady.

The top of the screen is slightly thicker than the P20 Pro, but it has 24MP self-portrait lenses and 3D structured light modules. The top of the set is not equipped with a 3.5mm headphone plug, and the opening of the top is infrared. As for the Mate 20, the 3.5mm headphone plug is reserved. The bottom card slot is an alternative design. Users can choose to insert two nanoSIMs or a nano-SIM with Huawei’s latest nano Memory card. This new NM card is the same size as nano-SIM. For the rear lens, the flash and the three lenses are arranged in a square, and the Leica’s Brand Name is placed above the lens group.

The Mate 20 Pro has five colors: bright black, sapphire blue, cherry pink, enamel, and Aurora. The author is Aurora, and the blue-violet gradient reflected in the light is also fashionable. The two colors of sapphire blue and add super-optical structure on the back, which has the same effect as the “drilling” process on the P10. It enhances the temperament of the product, making it look less greasy and has certain defenses Fingerprint effect. If you choose, I recommend these colors. When turning to an angle, it reflects the green light and the temperament is self-evident.

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro features a 6.39-inch OLED screen with a resolution of 2K+ (3120*1440). Compared with some OLED screens of the same size but still using FHD+ resolution, there is a significant improvement in the display’s fineness. In addition, Mate 20 Pro OLED screen also performed well in transparency. Under the white background, there is almost no OLED screen that will show “dirty” feeling, and there is no obvious color cast phenomenon. It can be seen that Huawei has a color for this screen. Tune is good.

EMUI 9.0

In addition, in order to adapt to the full screen, the operation of EMUI 9.0 has been improved. Sliding from the sides of the screen to the middle is the return/launch, and the bottom end slides out the background management, and the touch operation is more comfortable and humanized.

In the system, Huawei’s superior AI technology also plays a role, such as negative screen information integration, intelligent push, or photo AI photography master, intelligent translation, map shopping and other functions. The AI’s blessing makes the mobile phone more “spiritual”, which can reduce the user’s operation steps, fast and efficient.

The gesture navigation operation is supported on the system navigation key, and the functions are as follows:

• 1. Swipe from the left or right edge of the screen to return to the previous page

• 2. Swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to return to the home screen

• 3. Swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen and pause to enter multitasking

• 4. Swipe up from the bottom left or right side of the screen to turn on Google Voice Assistant

In addition, Mate 20 Pro has also added Huawei’s self-developed 3D structured light technology. In addition to the most basic unlocking function, Mate 20 Pro can also create doll expressions based on user facial expressions, use 3D modeling to make dolls “live”, etc. . Combining the previous screen fingerprints, I turned on the face unlocking and fingerprint recognition function, plus the help of the hand-up bright screen function, I can get a very good unlock speed and experience.

Performance

Since the Huawei Mate 20 Pro (UD) is called the Emperor, then you can’t help but say performance. Kirin 980 is not unfamiliar to everyone. As the first 7nm chip, the CPU /GPU and AI performance have been improved. Together with Huawei’s advanced technologies such as GPU Turbo, the experience is significantly improved, such as the smoothness of the game. mobile phone cooling, AI recognition speed and so on.

On the CPU side, the Kirin 980 is based on the ARM Cortex-A76 CPU architecture. Performance, according to ARM official, Cortex A76 in the latest 7nm process, the operating frequency will reach 3GHz, compared to the previous generation of Kirin 970 used A73, integer performance increased by 90%, floating point performance increased by 150%, comprehensive Performance increased by 80%. Although such a comparison is not in the same state of the same process, it does not fully reflect the performance of the new architecture. So we have to look at the actual data applied to the chip. At the launch of the Kirin 980, Huawei officially said that compared with the previous generation Kirin 970 increased by 75%, while energy consumption increased by 58%. This is also the balance between the power consumption and the heat generated by the Kirin 980, which has a maximum frequency of 2.6 GHz. Comparing ARM’s official reference data, it is more reliable.

In terms of energy efficiency core, Kirin 980 chose A55. When it comes to the A55, it has to mention its predecessor A53, the 12-year-old architecture that still dominates the low-end processors. The excellent energy consumption ratio and powerful scalability make the A53 suitable for almost all low-end and mid-range processors. The A55 is an upgraded version of the A53.

The Kirin 980 uses the Mali-G76 MP10 with a clock speed of 720MHz. Compared with the previous generation, the Mali-G76 improves unit power performance and unit area performance, and the performance density is 30% higher than that of the previous generation Mali-G72. Increased by 30% and machine learning processing capacity increased by 2.7 times. It can be seen that the whole game process is relatively smooth, except for the normal drop frame between the levels, the frame rate during combat is almost no fluctuation, and it is relatively stable.

The strong performance is only the foundation. The satisfaction of Huawei Mate 20 Pro (UD) is that the interaction is also improved. For example, in-screen fingerprints and face recognition for security, unlocking is more efficient and accurate. At the same time, the two unlock modes can be opened to quickly unlock the bright screen while taking out the mobile phone.

Cameras

In the past two years, Huawei has not made much effort in taking pictures. It is not only the improvement of the hardware level, but also the software and even the communication and service Huawei have done their homework, such as holding a photo contest, which has captured the pain points of users. When the P20 series was released, many of my friends told me that I saw the camera part and planted grass.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro (UD) camera – stable! The new Leica three camera is different from the P20 Pro, adding a super wide-angle lens , so the difference between the game and the mainstream flagship machine is more obvious, and it is easy to take wide-angle photos. Therefore, when shooting in a large scene, it is more impactful or the subject is more stereoscopic.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro’s main camera is a 40 Megapixels camera, f / 1.8 large aperture, using 1 / 1.7 inch Sony IMX600 sensor, equivalent focal length of 27mm; telephoto sub-photo also retained The same 8-megapixel camera, f/2.4 aperture, equivalent focal length 80mm, supports OIS. As for the 20 megapixel black and white camera on the P20 Pro, the Mate 20 Pro was replaced by a 20 megapixel color super wide-angle camera with f/2.2 aperture and 16mm equivalent focal length. This design is undoubtedly more advanced and practical.

Ultra-wide-angle lenses have precedents in the field of mobile phone photography, but most of them use the principle of “super focus” to lock the focus point at infinity, so that the scene after a certain distance can be clearly imaged, thus eliminating the need for autofocus. The module (a point-and-shoot camera takes advantage of this principle without the need to focus directly on the camera). After all, in the perception of ordinary users, the role of the wide-angle lens is to “shoot distant landscapes.” The hyperfocal scheme cleverly caters to this demand and has low cost. However, Huawei obviously thinks more about adding an autofocus module to this equivalent 16mm lens. It recently supported 62.5px focus and developed the super macro function on the basis of the original super wide angle.

(One Focal Length And Wide-Angle Lens At The Same Distance)

From the actual effect, the equivalent 16mm lens can be expressed in a relatively wide space in a narrow space, with a strong screen tension, suitable for shooting landscapes, buildings and other large scenes.

Super macro is a somewhat subversive function of cognition. Under this lens, the details beyond the naked eye are presented one by one, such as the wing pattern of insects, a slender flower, and the level of detail is embarrassing. tongue. You will love it for the first time, and you can shoot for a long time for a common renminbi, because the details are too rich.

Leica Three Shots, The Strongest Lossless Zoom

Based on three cameras with different specifications, Huawei Mate 20 Pro supports 3x optical zoom and 5x hybrid zoom, where optical zoom is based on the 8 megapixel telephoto lens, while hybrid zoom is based on high pixel Cut and algorithm support, both can provide rich details, and give the creator a richer choice in composition. Because telephoto is more sensitive to jitter, the Mate 20 Pro is equipped with OIS optical image stabilization for 3x telephoto lenses. As for the 5x hybrid zoom, the user needs to maintain the posture of the hand for a short time to enhance the detail of the picture.

(1x, 3x, 5x Zoom Samples)

In this set of proofs, the Mate 20 Pro still has a fine picture quality with a 5x hybrid zoom, and thanks to the Mate 20 Pro’s AI camera, the text will further enhance the edge details, making the text on the sign clearly visible. Far beyond the digital zoom quality of ordinary mobile phones.

Optimize Super Night Scenes, Color Details Are More Harmonious

Super Night Scene is the most amazing function on the P20 Pro. Its essence is to continuously take multiple photos with different exposure parameters, and then align and align the objects in the AI ??algorithm to offset the image shift caused by jitter during shooting. In turn, a stack of clear, high-dynamic night photos is synthesized.

(Mate 20 Pro Sample)

On the Mate 20 Pro, this feature is further optimized, with support for all three cameras, and because of the main camera IMX600 itself “bottom level one” advantage, compared to the iPhone X, Mate 20 Pro night shot color, details As well as the tolerance, it is definitely the top level of the current smart machine.

Other Daily Proofs

To sum up, the Mate 20 Pro’s imaging has been further improved on the basis of the P20 Pro. The focal length coverage is wider, the multi-scene response is free, and the performance on the macro is amazing, representing the strongest mobile phone camera strength.

Battery

Huawei Mate 20 Pro uses a 4200mAh battery, which has been upgraded from the previous generation’s 4.5V/5A to 10V/4A fast charging specifications. Compared with the high voltage and low current used by Qualcomm, Huawei’s high current and low voltage scheme has less current loss for charging and higher charging efficiency. And in the charging process, since there is no need to do more voltage conversion, the temperature of the mobile phone will be lower when charging.

Throughout the test, the Mate 20 Pro was charged from 0-100 for about 60 minutes. The first 15% of the power is 35W, the rise to 16%-70% is 20W, and the 71%-85% is 10W, while 86%-95% starts to turbulent charge, and finally 96-100% is back. To 5V power. Overall, the charging experience of the Mate 20 Pro is still very good.

It is worth mentioning that Mate 20 Pro not only supports the latest Super Charge, but also supports the output of Huawei 5V4A super fast charge, 9V2A, 5V2A and other common fast charge output standards, the data line is the same as the previous 5A data line, and supports USB PD protocol. After our actual measurement, we can reach 9V2A power, which is comparable to the standard fast charge of many mobile phones.

Verdict

Huawei Mate 20 Pro (UD) once again demonstrated Huawei’s innovation and AI strength. EMUI 9.0’s improvements in functionality and interactivity make the mobile experience more natural and user-friendly, and can be easily switched between various applications with a full screen or even one-handed. Ingenious layout + meticulous design to create a “super-running eye” matrix multi-focal imaging system, the camera and camera experience have improved, more importantly, AI blessing allows Xiaomi users to easily play new tricks, so that everyone is “Image Master” makes life more interesting.

As one of the first models equipped with the Kirin 980, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro (UD) also performed very well in terms of performance, battery life and charging. Whether it’s a gaming experience or watching videos for a long time, even screencasting and light office applications can handle it.

Compared with the HUAWEI Mate 10 Pro released last year, Mate 20 Pro brings hardware upgrades and design changes, making Mate 20 Pro less “Mate”, and a Mate series has begun to reinvent the charm.

Privately, the top-level configuration is just the foundation, and more importantly, how to combine these top-level configurations into a harmonious whole body. On the HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro, whether it is a full-screen curved surface, a rear three-shot, or 3D structured light and in-screen fingerprint recognition, Huawei’s understanding of the “flagship” is always explained.

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The imperfections on the Mate 20 Pro are less important. It is no exaggeration to say that Mate 20 Pro will be a very strong mobile phone this year and even next year.

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