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
Battery Life
Huawei always proclaimed to have excellent battery life in their products, and this seems to be a management directed priority in device development. Having said that, power consumption on the recent OLED devices hasn’t always been as optimised as it could be.
The P30 Pro’s 4100mAh rated battery and the P30’s 3550mAh unit compete at the higher end of the spectrum. We’ve already proven that the Kirin 980 SoC is able to deliver fantastic power efficiency, and the Mate 20 still tops the charts as one of the most efficient and long-lasting devices.
In the web-test, we see both P30s not far apart from each other, with the P30 Pro reaching 11.83h and the P30 11.43h. Overall these are great results, in line with what Huawei was able to achieve in the past. Again I would like to point out the difference in battery life between the P30 Pro and the new Galaxy S10+s – both have similarly sized batteries and screens, yet the Samsung devices lead even though they’re 1440p screen, again showcasing that fundamentally the resolution should have very little impact when implemented correctly.
In the PCMark battery test both P30s perform excellently, as is usualy with Huawei devices. The P30 Pro lags behind the P20 Pro because the latter wasn’t more efficient, but rather because it was much slower and operating at lower (and more efficient) performance points. The P30 Pro along with the new Kirin 980 devices showcase leading battery life along with leading performance.
Another change that I noted in the P30s is that their idle battery life is significantly better than past Huawei flagships, a notorious issue that I hadn’t covered nearly as much as I should have.
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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?