Review: Rewrite the rules with Huawei's P30 Pro camera tech
Huawei aims to 'rewrite the rules' of photography with the P30 Pro devices by giving it an amazing camera tech set-up with sleek new designs.
The Huawei P30 Pro features a larger screen than the 6.1-inch panel seen on the P20 Pro which is a 6.47-inch FHD+ resolution OLED screen with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio.
The display looks solid and is very it's colourful and vibrant with shadows that are deep, and whites crisper.
Huawei introduced a "dewdrop" notch that is reduced in size at the top of the display for the front camera.
The main attraction of this device is the camera, with this in mind, Huawei featured both Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) and AI-powered digital stabilisation to remove any wobble from your still images and videos.
The camera is a quad-camera system created with Leica, the P30 Pro’s camera features 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom and a huge 50x digital zoom.
The 50x digital zoom on the camera was something I didn't really make use of but when I did, the imagery was a bit unstable but and not very detailed but could still be used.
The fingerprint scanner is now embedded in the bottom of the display and works well when it is set-up. However, it is not better than the ultrasonic scanner found on the Samsung Galaxy S10 which works through rain or sweat.
The device features a 4 200mAh battery and reverse wireless charging.
There’s no headphone jack on the P30 Pro, so you have to use Bluetooth or USB Type-C headphones because Huawei stated that there was no space to add an audio head jack port.
The internal speaker exits through a grill on the bottom of the phone, and through the USB Type-C charging port. It’s louder and clearer than the one fitted to the Mate 20 Pro.
It is powered by Huawei’s next-generation Kirin 980 chipset, comes with 8GB of RAM, and a bumped-up 256GB of storage that is expandable using an NM card.
Overall, my favourite parts of the device are the 6.47-inch OLED display which is almost manageable in one hand and the camera.
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Written by: Gabriella Steyn.
Guzzle Media
