The phone itself comes in five colors, three of which have the standard glossy surface that makes it trivial to slide the phone over slick tables (the slightly-protruding camera block notwithstanding). Two hours of constant gaming in Alto’s Adventure cost me only 18 percent of the battery, which suggests I’d need a true marathon session to drain the phone completely. It includes a 20-megapixel rear-facing camera and 24-megapixel front-facing camera, both accompanied by a secondary sensor for depth sensing.

Competing services upload the photos and perform this on their servers, which requires the sharing of personal data.That means the Mate 20 Pro sometimes produces the most detail of the three, but that noise needs reining in, and that’s why I prefer to keep the AI turned on. The facial recognition works brilliantly for unlocking the phone, but can’t be used for apps that are expecting a fingerprint, which is where the fingerprint scanner comes in.

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro has a massive 4,200mAh battery, which is substantially bigger than the batteries in most phones, though of course this also has a bigger screen than most. It’s a sliver shorter than the Pixel 3 XL and about the same thickness, but it’s much narrower, which makes it significantly easier to use with one hand. The other biometric ID system that Huawei adds here — the pressure-sensing fingerprint reader built into the display — also contributes to this space efficiency by removing the need for a discrete space to install a separate scanner.

But the ultra wide-angle replacement brings some nice bonuses that elevate the Mate 20 Pro over the P20 Pro.

The P20 features a 12-megapixel colour sensor, while the P20 Pro features two cameras—a 40-megapixel wide-angle IMX600 sensor, and an 8-megapixel sensor with 3x optical zoom. The top tier of the smartphone market requires differentiation, and Huawei chose to let its cameras do the talking.We and our partners also use cookies that allow us to measure traffic and show you personalised content and ads rather than basic shiz. As such, the devices utilise a hybrid SIM tray where the second slot can be used for either expanded storage or a second SIM card.