The Huawei P30 & P30 Pro Reviews: Photography Enhanced
by Andrei Frumusanu on April 18, 2019 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Mobile
- Smartphones
- Huawei
- P30
- P30 Pro
System Performance
System performance of the new P30s is expected to be excellent. In essence, there shouldn’t be any large difference to the Mate 20’s and the recent Honor View20. All of the aforementioned devices sport the same Kirin 980 chipset as the P30s, and there shouldn’t be any major software differences in the new flagship phones.
Indeed, in PCMark, the P30 and P30 Pro tie in with the recent Huawei flagships, showcasing only minor deviations in the scores.
Interestingly, we see a slightly larger uplift in the web benchmarks, however I found this not to be caused by an increase in performance of the devices themselves but rather seemingly an update in the OS WebView of Android, as re-testing the Mate 20 again showcases the same increased performance figures.
Overall, the P30 and P30 Pro perform identically to the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro – excellently. There’s still instances where Qualcomm (& new Exynos S10) devices perform notably better, such as app opening or activity switching. I think this is due to Huawei’s possible lack of framework boosters.
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techgadgetgeek - Thursday, May 2, 2019 - link
I bought one of these in Hong Kong. Use it with T-Mobile in California. So far so good. Pictures not too shabby. Two bad things are it came with Facebook Pre-Installed and I could not do a complete clean uninstall. Second bad part is if you go to Google Play and download a song you like from Google Play Music you can not find the song/file in the music file to set as a ringtone.coho - Friday, May 10, 2019 - link
weird how in the battery life tests you have the S10+ on top, followed very closely by the P20 Pro, and then the P30 Pro last by a wider delta.GSMArena paint the P30 Pro top, followed by the 10+, and lastly the P20 Pro.....with relatively larger deltas??? Particularly as web browsing (of interest to me) is a specific test in both situations?
coho - Friday, May 10, 2019 - link
https://www.gsmarena.com/battery-test.php3?idPhone...Robyee - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link
I am very baffled by the verification of the display compared to that of the Samsung S10 Plus, also because in the diagrams shown i do not think there are huge distances between the P30 Pro and S10 Plus, both for the colors and for brightness.And i was told by those who tested them both that visually they did not notice huge quality differences.
I have to be honest i didn't have an S10 and i don't know if that's the case, maybe the display for the European market is better?
As for photos Huawei also in June, if I'm not mistaken, updated the camera software to have better performance and more natural colors
MSCH72 - Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - link
I believe even in March 2020, the P30 pro is a pretty good camera. I wonder how the next generation phones such as the Xiaomi Mi 10 pro (claiming to have really good photographic capabilities) look like in this comparison?