The Huawei Mate 30 Pro Review: Top Hardware without Google?
by Andrei Frumusanu on November 27, 2019 10:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Mobile
- Smartphones
- Huawei
- Kirin 990
- Mate 30 Pro
Battery Life
The Mate 30 Pro comes with a quite large battery measuring at 4400mAh rated / 4500mAh typical. This is 5% larger than its predecessor, and the new phone also comes with a new more efficient SoC. The question of how the new phone will end up in the battery charts is largely dependent on how its new screen will behave, and if it’s going to be nearly as efficient as some of the new generation Samsung panels we’ve seen employed in the new Galaxy and iPhones this year.
Starting off with the web browsing test, we do see the Mate 30 Pro edge out the Mate 20 Pro by 18% and achieving a good battery life result of 11.75 hours. While in absolute terms of a good result, it doesn’t manage to keep up with the more efficient devices from Samsung and Apple. Whilst the Mate 30 Pro has a good base power consumption of ~420mW, the screen panel’s luminosity efficiency doesn’t seem to have improved much compared to last year’s model, and this results in the Mate 30 Pro falling behind even though it has a bigger battery and more efficient SoC.
PCMark is more a heavier compute workload which puts more stress on the SoC and less on the display panel due to the lower APL, and here the Mate 30 Pro actually fares very well, landing in as amongst the most efficient devices. Keeping in mind that the performance exhibited here is excellent, the Kirin 990 does really make the phone shine.
The overall conclusion for battery life is that there’s two aspects to the phone. The phone itself is extremely efficient and sports a very large battery, however it’s hampered by a quite inefficient screen. This is a scenario where battery life will differ a lot depending on how you use your phone – if you’re the type of person using it outside at maximum brightness a lot of times, then the Mate 30 Pro won’t fare as well as the competition. If you’re using it more extensively at lower brightness levels, the inefficiency of the display will impact battery life less and here the phone’s excellent internal hardware will outpace other devices by greater margins.
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Alistair - Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - link
"Count" me ;)prisonerX - Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - link
Curved screens are ugly, distracting and generally idiotic.invinciblegod - Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - link
The curved screen is the worst part about my Note 9, cases don't protect properly and it just looks ugly to me.StevoLincolnite - Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - link
My Note 8 has the same screen as the Note 9. Can't say the curvature bothers me... But then I also have a Galaxy Note 10+ and it actually bothers me there.It was less pronounced on older devices and had no case issues with my Note 8.
yetanotherhuman - Thursday, November 28, 2019 - link
Yes. Curved screens are simply a ploy to make phones more easily damaged, and remove the possibility of having a well-fitting screen protector or case. Curved screens, forget 'em.GXCoder - Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - link
K990 5G's GPU frequency is also 600MHz. Suppliers of screen are LG,BOE and SamsungA5 - Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - link
Having to play panel lottery with a flagship phone is kind of a dealbreaker if the Google stuff isn't already.s.yu - Thursday, November 28, 2019 - link
A three-way lottery, at that.Sttm - Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - link
Huawei should try and sell it to the Iranians, now that they are US banned, might as well go back to selling to Iran...Oh wait Iran turned off the internet to brutally repress their people, so no one needs a Mate Pro.
airdrifting - Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - link
Huawei sells to all over the world, including entire Europe and India. There is no international law says you can not sell phones to Iran, US can whine and moan all she wants but Huawei is free to do business with whoever they want because they are not a US company. The world is bigger than US, even if US bans Huawei (not because Huawei sells to Iran but rather Huawei is ahead in 5G technology), there is still rest of the world buying Huawei 5G. It's also pretty ironic and a slap to the face to a country which promotes free market when itself is doing the opposite. But I guess it's all okay because there are plenty of pathetic brainwashed losers in the US thinking they are the center of the world.