Huawei finally publicized the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro. The two phones are the latest entries in the company’s flagship Mate series, with both of them aggressive the photography envelope with three rear cameras.
This is not the first time we have seen three cameras on a Huawei smartphone — hello, P20 Pro — but this is decent news for those that want to flex their smartphone photography skills a bit. Thanks to the telephoto, standard, and wide-angle lens, the Mate 20 Pro proposals plenty of leeway for those with an eye for diverse shots.
Thankfully, the rest of the bundle is up to snuff and can compete with the best Android smartphones that 2018 can offer. That being said, how well does the Mate 20 Pro stack up compared to the Mate 10 Pro? Are there sufficient upgrades to defend a potential purchase of the newer phone?
Before we touch on the display, it is time to dispense one out for the no-notch life. Whereas the Mate 10 Pro simply featured a tall 18:9 display with slim side bezels, the Mate 20 Pro features an actual wide display cut-out. It permits the Mate 20 Pro to feature an even bigger and taller 6.39-inch 19.5:9 display, which packs an advanced 3,120 x 1,440 resolution than the Mate 10 Pro’s 6-inch display with 2,160 x 1,080 resolution.
The notch also makes a scope for Huawei’s 3D depth-sensing camera collection that features a dot projector, 24MP RGB sensor, TOF proximity sensor, flood illuminator, an IR camera. All of this is to say that the Mate 20 Pro’s facial gratitude feature should work as well as it does on the iPhone XS and XS Max while existence just as secure, but we will discover out for sure in the full review.
| Huawei Mate 20 Pro | Huawei Mate 10 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Display | 6.39-inch OLED 3,120 x 1,440 resolution 545 ppi 19.5:9 aspect ratio | 6.0-inch Huawei FullView OLED 2,160 x 1,080 resolution 402 ppi 18:9 aspect ratio |
| Processor | Huawei Kirin 980 Octa-core CPU (2x Cortex A76 @ 2.6GHz, 2x Cortex A76 @ 1.92GHz, 2x Cortex A55 @ 1.8GHz) Dual NPU | Huawei Kirin 970 Octa-core CPU (4 Cortex A73 @ 2.36GHz + 4 Cortex A53 @ 1.8GHz) i7 co-processor NPU |
| GPU | Mali-G76 | Mali-G72 MP12 |
| RAM | 6GB | 4/6GB |
| Storage | 128GB Up to 256GB extra through nanoSD card slot | 64/128GB No microSD card slot |
The more substantial changes are with the Mate 20’s processing package. Whereas the Mate 10 Pro features the Kirin 970, the Mate 20 Pro contains the Kirin 980. Huawei states that the Kirin 980 is the first mobile AI 7nm chipset and that it is 75 percent faster and 58 percent more power-efficient than the Kirin 970.
The Mate 20 Pro also features two neural dispensation units (NPU) versus the one NPU that the Mate 10 Pro has. It might not appear like much, but the extra NPU allows the Mate 20 Pro to split up logical and complex fundamentals.
Even the GPU gets considerable gains, with the Mate 20 Pro’s Mali-G76 GPU being 45 percent quicker and 105 percent more power-efficient than the Mate 10 Pro’s Mali-G72 GPU.
Memory and storing options also diverge between the two phones. Whereas you can get the Mate 10 Pro with either 4GB or 6GB of RAM, you can get the Mate 20 Pro with 6GB of RAM. In terms of storing, the Mate 10 Pro is obtainable with either 64GB or 128GB. The Mate 20 Pro, meanwhile, features 128GB of storage. Neither phone sports microSD card slots, though the Mate 20 Pro features a Nano SD card slot for up to 256GB of extra storage.
The changes get starker when you go to the rear cameras. The Mate 20 Pro is the first Mate smartphone to feature three cameras: a 40MP steady sensor, 8MP telephoto lens, and a 20MP wide-angle camera. The Mate 10 Pro becomes two cameras, one being a 20MP monochrome sensor and the other a 12MP color sensor.
Notice how the Mate 20 Pro does not feature a monochrome sensor. Huawei told us that the Mate 10 Pro used its monochrome sensor to improve the RGB image. Thanks to developments in sensor technology, that was no longer needed with the Mate 20 Pro’s 40MP sensor. The Mate 20 Pro still features a black and white filter in the camera surroundings, though it will not be similar to having a devoted monochrome sensor.
The Mate 20 Pro also makes extra use of AI with Master AI 2.0, which now notices over 1,500 scenes due to the two NPUs. A 4D analytical focus, meanwhile, uses object gratitude and real-time motion recognition to track a subject and retain it in focus. AI Cinema Mode features real-time video filters that can have a person’s color with a grayscale background. Spotlight Reel picks a face in a video and creates a ten-second mixture with only that person’s face.
The idea is that the Mate 20 Pro’s Kirin 980, joint with the two NPUs, allows more AI features than the Mate 10 Pro’s Kirin 970 and single NPU. The real question is whether people will go out of their way to use innovative features.
Elsewhere, the Mate 10 Pro and Mate 20 Pro lack headphone jacks. Both phones feature stereo speakers and can also push out audio over the USB Type-C port, though the Mate 20 Pro replaces the Mate 10 Pro’s Bluetooth 4.2 protocol with the newer Bluetooth 5.0.
Even though the Mate 20 Pro’s 4,200mAh battery is slightly larger than the Mate 10 Pro’s 4,000mAh power pack, both phones should bring great battery life. Both batteries also support Huawei’s SuperCharge indicting standard, though the Mate 20 Pro’s SuperCharge is now 40W. Huawei claims the newer phone should go from zero to 70 percent in 30 minutes.
The Mate 20 Pro also features 15W wireless charging, the first time slightly device features such as fast wireless charging. Huawei entitlements the Mate 20 Pro’s wireless accusing is 200 percent faster than the iPhone X’s and 100 percent faster than the iPhone X’s wired charging.
As a bonus, the Mate 20 Pro doubles as a wireless charger for other Qi-enabled devices. That means we live in a world where you can charge your Galaxy Note 9 or Pixel 3 with the Mate 20 Pro. Very weird, but the feature should come in convenient if you need to charge smaller devices.
The Mate 20 Pro’s IP68 rating is a small development over the Mate 10 Pro’s IP68 rating, but it only means the previous can survive in half a meter of water profound than the latter for up to 30 minutes. Finally, the Mate 20 Pro runs Android 9 Pie underneath EMUI 9.0 out of the box. The Mate 10 Pro still runs Android 8.0 Oreo underneath EMUI 8.0, though it is in line to obtain the Pie update sometime soon.
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