**The Huawei Mate 30 Review: A Step Up in Performance, but Not Without Its Flaws**

In this review, we put the Huawei Mate 30 Pro through its paces to see if it's worth upgrading from the popular P30 Pro. With a powerful processor and improved camera software, the Mate 30 Pro promises to deliver excellent performance and image quality.

**Camera Quality: A Mixed Bag**

When it comes to camera quality, the Mate 30 Pro delivers impressive results in certain areas, but falls short in others. The rear camera is capable of 4K video at 30 frames per second, and when used correctly, produces excellent footage with good exposure and stabilization. However, during our testing, we encountered some issues with slow motion video, which was choppy and stuttered. This suggests that the software may not be fully optimized for this feature.

We also noticed that the electronic image stabilization (EIS) on the rear camera worked well most of the time, but sometimes failed to activate or caused the footage to become shaky. The front-facing camera, on the other hand, was a bit more hit-or-miss, producing 1080p video only and occasionally failing to work altogether due to EIS issues.

Despite these limitations, the audio quality on the Mate 30 Pro is excellent, with good bitrate and clear sound. We were also impressed by the camera's ability to produce high-quality images in a variety of lighting conditions.

**The Hardware: A Step Up, but Not Without Its Drawbacks**

In terms of hardware, the Mate 30 Pro offers significant improvements over its predecessor, including a faster processor and improved performance. However, we found that the battery life was not significantly better than on the P30 Pro, which may be disappointing for some users.

The ultra-wide-angle lens is also a highlight of the camera system, allowing for impressive shots with plenty of room to capture more of the scene. However, the focus transition on this lens can be slightly awkward at times, and the camera sometimes struggles to adjust its exposure.

**Software Issues: A Major Letdown**

One of the biggest issues we encountered with the Mate 30 Pro was the software itself. The phone's operating system is plagued by problems, including crashes and freezes, particularly when using certain apps like Google Play Services. While some users may be able to work around these issues, they can be frustrating and annoying.

Additionally, the slow launch times on the phone are a major concern for some users, particularly those who rely on their devices for work or other critical tasks.

**The Verdict: A Solid Upgrade, but Not Without Its Flaws**

Overall, the Huawei Mate 30 Pro is a solid upgrade from the P30 Pro, offering improved performance and camera software. However, it also comes with its fair share of flaws, including slow motion video issues and software problems. If you're considering upgrading to this phone, we recommend waiting for firmware updates to address some of these issues.

We'll have a full review of the Mate 30 Pro in our channel next week, complete with a camera comparison between the P30 Pro and the new device. Be sure to subscribe to our channel for more videos like this one.

**Additional Notes**

If you own a P30 Pro, you may be wondering if the Mate 30 Pro is worth upgrading to. While it offers some significant improvements, we found that the performance was almost identical to what you'd get on the P30 Pro. The camera software also doesn't seem to offer enough of an upgrade to justify the cost.

However, for those who are looking for a new phone with improved hardware and camera capabilities, the Mate 30 Pro is definitely worth considering. Just be sure to wait for firmware updates to address some of the software issues we encountered during our testing.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enalways mate 30 Pro flagship Android 10 phone is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons the fact that it has a huge hurdle to overcome that it does not ship with Google Play services and you cannot use the Google install anymore to get the App Store on there you need to find workarounds to use third-party app stores or download manually the apk files and install them now apart from that this phone does have some fantastic hardware but the software side as you'll see in my review does definitely need some improvements so I got this phone here from training jin jin and they included also a type CD USB adapter for me and a power plug adapter now we get the 40 watt super charger here from Huawei and this is really quick so fully charges the phone in just one hour and 10 minutes approximately we get some type C headphones because they obviously realize that a lot of people won't have type C headphones which is good that they've included that they're not particularly high quality ones and then of course our cable now the phone does also have in the Box a case for it and it's one of those clear style ones you can see right here so it gives you minimal protection especially with the curved edges they've got that all open but of course it's better having this then nothing all right so let's take a look at the building design of the phone here now this looks like it had a Zeon flash and it did actually fool me when I first saw those leaked images of the mate 30 Pro the camera bulge ok this sticks out about 1.5 millimeters a little you can see when I put it side on and it's okay you get used to it it looks a little bit ugly but really this is just the future of phones and we're just gonna have to go with it really we've got no other choice here so the curved edges around the back here are very similar to the way the p30 pro is as you can see right here with maybe 30 Pro they're about the same size people 30 Pro is just a little tiny fraction narrower now the weight of this phone is 199 grams it is approximately 9 millimeters thick so it's not exactly super thin but that's because it's housing the 4500 minute power battery within it when you take a look at the bottom of the phone here you'll see here we've got the SIM tray and your type-c port microphone and antenna lines pretty much exactly like the p30 pro they all my identical there but they've gone with now this glossy metal frame around the outside well the finish on it if we have a look at how this wears because I wanted to point out that my p3 pro already has a couple of little chips off on the paint job so that paint job is probably why they went with a different sort of finish on this one now look at the edges of the phone here we've got a fingerprint reader of course you can see it's very quick just do that again so it's about a second or so to unlock but look at the edges here very very very curved and okay it gives it maybe a bit of a bit of feel in hand that's the one positive we get here the power button is off centered it's not really an issue I've got easy access to it like that I can get to it I can turn it on I'll just demonstrate face unlocking as well while I'm at it and you can see that takes about a second or so under a second so it's more secure than the 2d face unlocking it is really really quick so we take a look at the screen here we've got a very good maximum brightness of about 520 lux well I say very good but it's actually falling behind other flagships so take a look at the samsung galaxy is 10 plus for example take a look at also they've recently reviewed in the channel Republic of gamers 2 that's got a thousand Lux brightness that's falling behind a little bit there but the chin at the bottom is very nice and small ugly top notch that I'm not a big fan over the 32 megapixel camera right there and we've got no physical volume buttons anymore so how do you trigger them it's very hit and miss I find especially when you're in an application or you're gaming so you have to someone said to me just got a tap and hold oh that doesn't actually work clear you don't have the phone but you've got a double tap and then slide it up and down to control it it can be done from both sides of the screen as you can see but it's hit and miss there we go okay firmware updates will of course approve upon that now are you getting a lot of accidental touches with having such crazy edges on the screen here well not really okay it's not really too much of an issue I think the software's doing a good job to help avoid that in terms of screen quality it's a step down from the mate 20 pro because it's not 1440p anymore and I find it similar to my Kwame P 30 pro if we take a look very quickly at my samsung galaxy s 10 I still believe that this one has the far superior panel of course it does have a higher resolution brightness is better and really look at the sizes there you can see the thickness slightly thicker the make 30 Pro here now when we take a look at the gamut of the screen it's approximately 2.3 or leaning towards a little bit 2.4 there which is not bad 2.2 is ideal here but you can see the top shadow that darkness we're getting at the top right on the edge and if I move it and shift it now you'll see the color is shifting well the brightness of the whites here at the bottom see how this is angled now towards the camera it looks lighter so you're going to get a bit of that on the edges the same thing is happening with my samsung galaxy s 10 plus to a certain degree hereness just something that we're gonna have a course with these OLED panels and the fact they're using the waterfall style edges to me is just pushing the limits a little bit too much here having such a curvature and this final course will be a lot more fragile then say the flat screen we have on the make 30 which I also happen to have right here this one with the flat screen I think is there's going to be so much more resistant to drops and a very similar build on this one as well check my video for the comparison of these two phones okay so onto the performance of the phone the ROM so it is running Android 10 it's on emu 18 as well and no we do not have Google Play Store you cannot install it at the moment at the time of this video hopefully there's going to be a way around this hopefully later on Huawei things will ease up relations with the US with Google and then we'll give them permission and they can just push out a firmware update that will include it so hold off on buying this phone I would say until you can see a sound method of installing that so I've got full screen jesters on at the moment I'm not seeing any lag or stutters or issues which is great so if I just swipe up here and hold that's the way you can multitask just like other manufacturers using gestures very smooth performance and really no issues so the toggles from the top typical used to slide down you can see everything there now because I don't have a physical volume down in up button I normally take a screenshot screen grab by holding volume down and power at the same time so I've got to use the toggle here now for that so guess it's been handy that it's there there is a gaming mode to which I will show you later on in the gaming review of this video so let's take a look at a few things so I'm on the latest firmware update at the time of this video remember this is a retail unit it's a Chinese import version so if this is eventually released in Europe you have a way more mature firmware then what this is right now that I'm currently running one that will fix bugs because I'm seeing bugs with the camera even though this did improve the camera performance as you'll see later on there is an issue of 4k 60 frames per second video are dropping huge amounts of frames so Play Store I do have it on this phone but as mentioned it's completely blocked out to us now which is a real shame there is a bit of bloatware too as well that is pre-installed and this will vary between the European release and whenever that comes of course and the Chinese won't they just cram a little bit more on there for them so you're able to hide that ugly notch at the top if you're not happy with it I'm not a huge fan of notches at all and I think that they could have even put an ultra-wide camera in here since they put such a wide not shown here but hey we've got the 3d more secure unlocking there so you can also hide the edges too if you're not happy with the curvature of the screen and the way that is you can see even right now again as I showed you in the beginning how the color does shift out and that's not really great and you can just make it black if you wanted to so Google's play protect which is basically like a virus scanner it's not showing here but there's an application called WPS office it flagged for some reason and that came pre-installed on the phone which was not good to see I ain't it up removing it of course so why advise level 1 cert is not here and this means that Netflix Amazon Prime any video streaming service will now be stuck in standard definition until they sort that out so wireless speeds very very good here ok my line is 600 megabits per second max and this was close to the router other maximum speeds I could get I move over to the other side of the studio here I'm still able to get close to 200 megabits per second which has to be about one of the fastest from that distance so very very good speeds they're really happy with that same goes for the internal storage so ufs the respec which is extremely quick so much faster than emmc 5.1 and you can see there 1700 reads sequential writes are kind of low but dad's to tell it is with the storage but the main thing is the read speeds of course and your random writes and random reads they are good to there as well so very quick storage and to do score not bad at all it's not the highest I've seen because I think it's a snapdragon at 855 plus now that I reviewed is getting scores that are quite a bit higher than this one but it's a big step up over the previous generation in terms of GPU we're getting about 20,000 or so points more in my comparison video between the mate 30 and a mate 30 Pro here you'll see the difference of that and compared to the keren 980 if you're interested in that GPS working really well ok locks onto a huge amount of satellites in news here you can see 34 Hardware compass of course accuracy will stay about 4 meters which is not the most accurate I have actually seen I've seen 2 meters and I think that was on the real me through repro that had very good inaccurate GPS so the 4G plus speeds here of my carrier this was orange I believe it as there was using the sim sim card and yet terrible not good speed but hey the range sorry the reception call quality and signal strength all good there so I didn't have any issues with that now there are air gestures if you are into that sort of thing you know you can move your hand up and down and that will scroll and pages and the internet but to me it's kind of pointless because if your hands already here scrolling why can't you touch the screen I just think it's really just a bit of a gimmick here so that's there if you're into that always-on display too as well and then our battery life so I haven't completed fully the better life test here but this is just an estimate like all my videos ok I used the screen continually the phone on all the time so it was set to 200 Lux of brightness and here is my result almost eight hours with 20% left so most phones were this capacity now 4000 million hours I'm seeing almost with this test around about 1011 hours I believe that this phone will be able to get about 11 hours of screen on time maybe even a little more because I was gay a lot of YouTube and also quite a bit of camera used to which does really burn through the batteries especially when recording in 4k 60fps gaming now this is shadow gun legends probably one of the more demanding games you can get on androids I've got it set to the very high setting and also have it set to 60 frames per second I've noticed that it's playing smoother as you'd expect then my why we preferred approach it's because it's got the additional cores here with the GPUs it's got sixteen cause now instead of twelve that we have in the Karen 980 now you occasionally see a few little stutters but the performance is very smooth very good but not quite as good as the azouz republic of gamers phone to that i reviewed that played this game super smooth really good so my review wouldn't be complete without a look at pub G it's super smooth with those extra GPU cause now I wanted to show you that we've got this mode here that if you swipe from the left you've got a gaming mode with this little screen here so you can sit and configure trigger buttons which I've already actually done you've got game acceleration and is also a mode there to prevent accidental touches so if I just get out of that I'll show you tapping at the top here I've got that configured to be my trigger which works well and when you zoom in a course with the sights very good performance here no lag and every pub G gamer out there I think is going to be really pleased with the performance we have now it just seems to be a little bit better you do notice that versus say the p30 pro so let's talk about audio quality now the voice calls are using an earpiece that's behind the screen now it does sound perfectly fine to me but you miss out a little bit on the highs and the mids compared to earpieces that our unnormal speaker so we don't have a 3.5 minute hit phone jack using an adapter the audio output quality sounds good it's loud it's clean it's clear and really what more do you want so we got a loud speaker down the bottom and I believe that the behind the screen speakers also adding a little bit because you can feel vibrations from it you don't really hear it too much and it also resonates quite a bit the speaker within the housing of the phone but it does sound loud there's a bit of bass I'll give you a sample now of the loudspeaker on the mate proce so before I get onto the camera samples I will just quickly show you the application it is straightforward so you can see we've got control there of which lens we are using you can just adjust this manually the slider or tap it so if you tap there on wide we go into the ultra wide new 40 megapixel sensor five times that's using three times optical and two times digital to get there to achieve it that's the three times of course portrait mode note mode aperture pro mode here you've got controls of the shutter rate exposure is oh and the metering as well too if you want it a video would now have 4k in 60 frames per second which is great that they've got this option but it will never actually hold an average of 60 frames or close to 60 frames per second as you see with my samples now swap over to the front and facing cameras right there you've also got some other options on the side too and if I can quickly show you on the more sitting this is where you'll find the slo-mo and other settings here you can see two as well so slow-mo has a very quick sample now I find this to be absolutely terrible very disappointing clearly I'm I need a firmware update it must be that the units they sent out to all the reviewers are on a different firmware because this is absolutely shocking it's flashing away this was shot with very good studio lights on and it looks like VGA quality even though it is 1080p believe it or not but here are those samples now from the cameras now with the front-facing camera we get 1080p only unfortunately and has very good electronic image stabilization when it is working sometimes it doesn't work for some reason it happens about one or two times out of ten that it doesn't work so it's got a little bit of rolling shadow when you move around here the crop is good audio quality again is very good here so overall this is excellent 1080p quality I like the stabilization I just wish we had a 4k option as well because when you look at for example Samsung and other manufacturers they've got 4k with the front cameras as well which would be good so this is the rear camera this is 4k 30 frames per second now there's a quick sample that put in because even though this is just 30 frames per second in this video that you can see here that it gets really choppy this footage now this was during my camera comparison using 4k 60 frames per second it suddenly dips down in the framerate and starts dropping huge amounts of frames and the footage looks really poor in stutter as you can see it happening now and really not good at all it's almost like we've got beta software with the camera I think the review units have a different firmware now as you can see as I'm panning around we're getting those jerky sort of stutters when you pan to do with the exposure and the electronic image stabilization I'm currently in the ultra wide and I've noticed that when you swap over now so I'll going over to the one x camera it can be a little bit awkward to do this is sometimes just go far - there we go this one times now you see the transition where it flashes and I notice that now the electronic image stabilization it's very good it's not quite as good as the ultra wide so when I put my hand up the focus sometimes struggles there we go we've got a lock now focus transition is good but the focus are found with the make 30 Pro happens to be better than the make 30 I do have the camera comparison so make sure you check that out between both of those phones so go over now to the three times again as it's a little bit awkward to do this you can see slowly zooming and this is now just digital and you'll see the transition there we go over to three right now the electronic image stabilization is working but sometimes it bugs out and it doesn't work and then it's all shaky audio quality is very good very happy with the audio here good bitrate nice and clear and I found the audio to be better on the mate City Pro than the mate 30 all right I'm not a drag the ending out here but I won't okay with this one I just want to say that the hard way is definitely there it's the software that's letting qui way down and that's not of course talking about the huge problems they have with Google Play services having Google Play Store now there's workarounds for that some people are actually quite happy there's no Google on there because they just say I don't want Google anyway so then go for the phone but I would say hold off for now wait for course the firmware updates because the 4k video is shocking the slow motion video at the moment is shocking now there will be I'm sure Huawei fanboys in the comments posting right now that you know I'm on a beta firmware that's not a released phone in fact this is a retail phone on the retail firmware you can pick this up today in China this is an input from China and this is the exact state it is in okay so the hardware has said is there it is really good now if you own a p30 pro like myself I've got it right here all the make 20 Pro this is not a huge step up this phone okay I believe a lot of people like myself will be very disappointed because you get it and you go oh hang on this isn't really a big enough increase in terms of performance in terms of what you're getting over the p30 Pro for example and that really needs you with buyer's remorse going oh you know so really think long and hard because it's not a huge step up performance wise it seems almost exactly the same the camera software isn't mature as I've showing you so we'll have a full review of the mate 30 okay that's going to be in the channel probably next week sometime towards the end I'm very busy at the moment there's also a camera comparison between both of these do check that out and I hope to see you back on the channel if you are new here please do subscribe for more videos from me bye for nowalways mate 30 Pro flagship Android 10 phone is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons the fact that it has a huge hurdle to overcome that it does not ship with Google Play services and you cannot use the Google install anymore to get the App Store on there you need to find workarounds to use third-party app stores or download manually the apk files and install them now apart from that this phone does have some fantastic hardware but the software side as you'll see in my review does definitely need some improvements so I got this phone here from training jin jin and they included also a type CD USB adapter for me and a power plug adapter now we get the 40 watt super charger here from Huawei and this is really quick so fully charges the phone in just one hour and 10 minutes approximately we get some type C headphones because they obviously realize that a lot of people won't have type C headphones which is good that they've included that they're not particularly high quality ones and then of course our cable now the phone does also have in the Box a case for it and it's one of those clear style ones you can see right here so it gives you minimal protection especially with the curved edges they've got that all open but of course it's better having this then nothing all right so let's take a look at the building design of the phone here now this looks like it had a Zeon flash and it did actually fool me when I first saw those leaked images of the mate 30 Pro the camera bulge ok this sticks out about 1.5 millimeters a little you can see when I put it side on and it's okay you get used to it it looks a little bit ugly but really this is just the future of phones and we're just gonna have to go with it really we've got no other choice here so the curved edges around the back here are very similar to the way the p30 pro is as you can see right here with maybe 30 Pro they're about the same size people 30 Pro is just a little tiny fraction narrower now the weight of this phone is 199 grams it is approximately 9 millimeters thick so it's not exactly super thin but that's because it's housing the 4500 minute power battery within it when you take a look at the bottom of the phone here you'll see here we've got the SIM tray and your type-c port microphone and antenna lines pretty much exactly like the p30 pro they all my identical there but they've gone with now this glossy metal frame around the outside well the finish on it if we have a look at how this wears because I wanted to point out that my p3 pro already has a couple of little chips off on the paint job so that paint job is probably why they went with a different sort of finish on this one now look at the edges of the phone here we've got a fingerprint reader of course you can see it's very quick just do that again so it's about a second or so to unlock but look at the edges here very very very curved and okay it gives it maybe a bit of a bit of feel in hand that's the one positive we get here the power button is off centered it's not really an issue I've got easy access to it like that I can get to it I can turn it on I'll just demonstrate face unlocking as well while I'm at it and you can see that takes about a second or so under a second so it's more secure than the 2d face unlocking it is really really quick so we take a look at the screen here we've got a very good maximum brightness of about 520 lux well I say very good but it's actually falling behind other flagships so take a look at the samsung galaxy is 10 plus for example take a look at also they've recently reviewed in the channel Republic of gamers 2 that's got a thousand Lux brightness that's falling behind a little bit there but the chin at the bottom is very nice and small ugly top notch that I'm not a big fan over the 32 megapixel camera right there and we've got no physical volume buttons anymore so how do you trigger them it's very hit and miss I find especially when you're in an application or you're gaming so you have to someone said to me just got a tap and hold oh that doesn't actually work clear you don't have the phone but you've got a double tap and then slide it up and down to control it it can be done from both sides of the screen as you can see but it's hit and miss there we go okay firmware updates will of course approve upon that now are you getting a lot of accidental touches with having such crazy edges on the screen here well not really okay it's not really too much of an issue I think the software's doing a good job to help avoid that in terms of screen quality it's a step down from the mate 20 pro because it's not 1440p anymore and I find it similar to my Kwame P 30 pro if we take a look very quickly at my samsung galaxy s 10 I still believe that this one has the far superior panel of course it does have a higher resolution brightness is better and really look at the sizes there you can see the thickness slightly thicker the make 30 Pro here now when we take a look at the gamut of the screen it's approximately 2.3 or leaning towards a little bit 2.4 there which is not bad 2.2 is ideal here but you can see the top shadow that darkness we're getting at the top right on the edge and if I move it and shift it now you'll see the color is shifting well the brightness of the whites here at the bottom see how this is angled now towards the camera it looks lighter so you're going to get a bit of that on the edges the same thing is happening with my samsung galaxy s 10 plus to a certain degree hereness just something that we're gonna have a course with these OLED panels and the fact they're using the waterfall style edges to me is just pushing the limits a little bit too much here having such a curvature and this final course will be a lot more fragile then say the flat screen we have on the make 30 which I also happen to have right here this one with the flat screen I think is there's going to be so much more resistant to drops and a very similar build on this one as well check my video for the comparison of these two phones okay so onto the performance of the phone the ROM so it is running Android 10 it's on emu 18 as well and no we do not have Google Play Store you cannot install it at the moment at the time of this video hopefully there's going to be a way around this hopefully later on Huawei things will ease up relations with the US with Google and then we'll give them permission and they can just push out a firmware update that will include it so hold off on buying this phone I would say until you can see a sound method of installing that so I've got full screen jesters on at the moment I'm not seeing any lag or stutters or issues which is great so if I just swipe up here and hold that's the way you can multitask just like other manufacturers using gestures very smooth performance and really no issues so the toggles from the top typical used to slide down you can see everything there now because I don't have a physical volume down in up button I normally take a screenshot screen grab by holding volume down and power at the same time so I've got to use the toggle here now for that so guess it's been handy that it's there there is a gaming mode to which I will show you later on in the gaming review of this video so let's take a look at a few things so I'm on the latest firmware update at the time of this video remember this is a retail unit it's a Chinese import version so if this is eventually released in Europe you have a way more mature firmware then what this is right now that I'm currently running one that will fix bugs because I'm seeing bugs with the camera even though this did improve the camera performance as you'll see later on there is an issue of 4k 60 frames per second video are dropping huge amounts of frames so Play Store I do have it on this phone but as mentioned it's completely blocked out to us now which is a real shame there is a bit of bloatware too as well that is pre-installed and this will vary between the European release and whenever that comes of course and the Chinese won't they just cram a little bit more on there for them so you're able to hide that ugly notch at the top if you're not happy with it I'm not a huge fan of notches at all and I think that they could have even put an ultra-wide camera in here since they put such a wide not shown here but hey we've got the 3d more secure unlocking there so you can also hide the edges too if you're not happy with the curvature of the screen and the way that is you can see even right now again as I showed you in the beginning how the color does shift out and that's not really great and you can just make it black if you wanted to so Google's play protect which is basically like a virus scanner it's not showing here but there's an application called WPS office it flagged for some reason and that came pre-installed on the phone which was not good to see I ain't it up removing it of course so why advise level 1 cert is not here and this means that Netflix Amazon Prime any video streaming service will now be stuck in standard definition until they sort that out so wireless speeds very very good here ok my line is 600 megabits per second max and this was close to the router other maximum speeds I could get I move over to the other side of the studio here I'm still able to get close to 200 megabits per second which has to be about one of the fastest from that distance so very very good speeds they're really happy with that same goes for the internal storage so ufs the respec which is extremely quick so much faster than emmc 5.1 and you can see there 1700 reads sequential writes are kind of low but dad's to tell it is with the storage but the main thing is the read speeds of course and your random writes and random reads they are good to there as well so very quick storage and to do score not bad at all it's not the highest I've seen because I think it's a snapdragon at 855 plus now that I reviewed is getting scores that are quite a bit higher than this one but it's a big step up over the previous generation in terms of GPU we're getting about 20,000 or so points more in my comparison video between the mate 30 and a mate 30 Pro here you'll see the difference of that and compared to the keren 980 if you're interested in that GPS working really well ok locks onto a huge amount of satellites in news here you can see 34 Hardware compass of course accuracy will stay about 4 meters which is not the most accurate I have actually seen I've seen 2 meters and I think that was on the real me through repro that had very good inaccurate GPS so the 4G plus speeds here of my carrier this was orange I believe it as there was using the sim sim card and yet terrible not good speed but hey the range sorry the reception call quality and signal strength all good there so I didn't have any issues with that now there are air gestures if you are into that sort of thing you know you can move your hand up and down and that will scroll and pages and the internet but to me it's kind of pointless because if your hands already here scrolling why can't you touch the screen I just think it's really just a bit of a gimmick here so that's there if you're into that always-on display too as well and then our battery life so I haven't completed fully the better life test here but this is just an estimate like all my videos ok I used the screen continually the phone on all the time so it was set to 200 Lux of brightness and here is my result almost eight hours with 20% left so most phones were this capacity now 4000 million hours I'm seeing almost with this test around about 1011 hours I believe that this phone will be able to get about 11 hours of screen on time maybe even a little more because I was gay a lot of YouTube and also quite a bit of camera used to which does really burn through the batteries especially when recording in 4k 60fps gaming now this is shadow gun legends probably one of the more demanding games you can get on androids I've got it set to the very high setting and also have it set to 60 frames per second I've noticed that it's playing smoother as you'd expect then my why we preferred approach it's because it's got the additional cores here with the GPUs it's got sixteen cause now instead of twelve that we have in the Karen 980 now you occasionally see a few little stutters but the performance is very smooth very good but not quite as good as the azouz republic of gamers phone to that i reviewed that played this game super smooth really good so my review wouldn't be complete without a look at pub G it's super smooth with those extra GPU cause now I wanted to show you that we've got this mode here that if you swipe from the left you've got a gaming mode with this little screen here so you can sit and configure trigger buttons which I've already actually done you've got game acceleration and is also a mode there to prevent accidental touches so if I just get out of that I'll show you tapping at the top here I've got that configured to be my trigger which works well and when you zoom in a course with the sights very good performance here no lag and every pub G gamer out there I think is going to be really pleased with the performance we have now it just seems to be a little bit better you do notice that versus say the p30 pro so let's talk about audio quality now the voice calls are using an earpiece that's behind the screen now it does sound perfectly fine to me but you miss out a little bit on the highs and the mids compared to earpieces that our unnormal speaker so we don't have a 3.5 minute hit phone jack using an adapter the audio output quality sounds good it's loud it's clean it's clear and really what more do you want so we got a loud speaker down the bottom and I believe that the behind the screen speakers also adding a little bit because you can feel vibrations from it you don't really hear it too much and it also resonates quite a bit the speaker within the housing of the phone but it does sound loud there's a bit of bass I'll give you a sample now of the loudspeaker on the mate proce so before I get onto the camera samples I will just quickly show you the application it is straightforward so you can see we've got control there of which lens we are using you can just adjust this manually the slider or tap it so if you tap there on wide we go into the ultra wide new 40 megapixel sensor five times that's using three times optical and two times digital to get there to achieve it that's the three times of course portrait mode note mode aperture pro mode here you've got controls of the shutter rate exposure is oh and the metering as well too if you want it a video would now have 4k in 60 frames per second which is great that they've got this option but it will never actually hold an average of 60 frames or close to 60 frames per second as you see with my samples now swap over to the front and facing cameras right there you've also got some other options on the side too and if I can quickly show you on the more sitting this is where you'll find the slo-mo and other settings here you can see two as well so slow-mo has a very quick sample now I find this to be absolutely terrible very disappointing clearly I'm I need a firmware update it must be that the units they sent out to all the reviewers are on a different firmware because this is absolutely shocking it's flashing away this was shot with very good studio lights on and it looks like VGA quality even though it is 1080p believe it or not but here are those samples now from the cameras now with the front-facing camera we get 1080p only unfortunately and has very good electronic image stabilization when it is working sometimes it doesn't work for some reason it happens about one or two times out of ten that it doesn't work so it's got a little bit of rolling shadow when you move around here the crop is good audio quality again is very good here so overall this is excellent 1080p quality I like the stabilization I just wish we had a 4k option as well because when you look at for example Samsung and other manufacturers they've got 4k with the front cameras as well which would be good so this is the rear camera this is 4k 30 frames per second now there's a quick sample that put in because even though this is just 30 frames per second in this video that you can see here that it gets really choppy this footage now this was during my camera comparison using 4k 60 frames per second it suddenly dips down in the framerate and starts dropping huge amounts of frames and the footage looks really poor in stutter as you can see it happening now and really not good at all it's almost like we've got beta software with the camera I think the review units have a different firmware now as you can see as I'm panning around we're getting those jerky sort of stutters when you pan to do with the exposure and the electronic image stabilization I'm currently in the ultra wide and I've noticed that when you swap over now so I'll going over to the one x camera it can be a little bit awkward to do this is sometimes just go far - there we go this one times now you see the transition where it flashes and I notice that now the electronic image stabilization it's very good it's not quite as good as the ultra wide so when I put my hand up the focus sometimes struggles there we go we've got a lock now focus transition is good but the focus are found with the make 30 Pro happens to be better than the make 30 I do have the camera comparison so make sure you check that out between both of those phones so go over now to the three times again as it's a little bit awkward to do this you can see slowly zooming and this is now just digital and you'll see the transition there we go over to three right now the electronic image stabilization is working but sometimes it bugs out and it doesn't work and then it's all shaky audio quality is very good very happy with the audio here good bitrate nice and clear and I found the audio to be better on the mate City Pro than the mate 30 all right I'm not a drag the ending out here but I won't okay with this one I just want to say that the hard way is definitely there it's the software that's letting qui way down and that's not of course talking about the huge problems they have with Google Play services having Google Play Store now there's workarounds for that some people are actually quite happy there's no Google on there because they just say I don't want Google anyway so then go for the phone but I would say hold off for now wait for course the firmware updates because the 4k video is shocking the slow motion video at the moment is shocking now there will be I'm sure Huawei fanboys in the comments posting right now that you know I'm on a beta firmware that's not a released phone in fact this is a retail phone on the retail firmware you can pick this up today in China this is an input from China and this is the exact state it is in okay so the hardware has said is there it is really good now if you own a p30 pro like myself I've got it right here all the make 20 Pro this is not a huge step up this phone okay I believe a lot of people like myself will be very disappointed because you get it and you go oh hang on this isn't really a big enough increase in terms of performance in terms of what you're getting over the p30 Pro for example and that really needs you with buyer's remorse going oh you know so really think long and hard because it's not a huge step up performance wise it seems almost exactly the same the camera software isn't mature as I've showing you so we'll have a full review of the mate 30 okay that's going to be in the channel probably next week sometime towards the end I'm very busy at the moment there's also a camera comparison between both of these do check that out and I hope to see you back on the channel if you are new here please do subscribe for more videos from me bye for now\n"