**The Huawei P20 Pro Review: A Powerhouse with Some Quirks**

I've had the opportunity to spend some time with the Huawei P20 Pro, and I can confidently say that it's one of the best phones on the market. The phone's design is sleek and premium, with a stainless steel frame and glass back that feels sturdy in the hand.

The camera is undoubtedly one of the standout features of the P20 Pro. With its 24-megapixel front-facing camera and dual rear cameras, the phone can take stunning photos and videos. However, there are some quirks to consider. For example, the phone defaults to portrait mode when switching between front and rear cameras, which can be a bit annoying. Additionally, the beauty mode is not easily accessible through photo mode, requiring a deeper dive into the camera settings.

The P20 Pro also boasts an impressive battery life, thanks to its massive 4000mAh cell. I was able to use the phone for several hours without needing a charge, and it still had over 40% of the battery remaining at night. The phone's fast charging capabilities are also top-notch, with the charger bundling in with the purchase.

However, not everything about the P20 Pro is perfect. The speaker quality, while improved compared to last year's Mate 10 Pro, is still not great. The stereo sound from the bottom speaker and earpiece can be tinny at times, and it doesn't come close to the Galaxy S9 Plus or Pixel XL in terms of audio quality.

Another quirk worth mentioning is the lack of a headphone jack, which may be a deal-breaker for some users. Additionally, one of the speaker grilles on the bottom doesn't actually produce any sound, making it feel like a fake exhaust on a car.

Despite these quirks, I still thoroughly enjoy using the P20 Pro as my main phone. The phone's design is premium and sleek, making it a joy to hold and use. Additionally, the built-in AI features, such as suggesting the best scenes for photos and learning my usage patterns, are incredibly handy.

The performance of the P20 Pro has also been improved significantly compared to last year's model. In benchmarks, the phone's Kirin 970 processor outperforms last year's Snapdragon 835, but in real-world use, I couldn't notice any significant difference.

Overall, the Huawei P20 Pro is a powerhouse of a phone that checks all the right boxes. With its impressive camera capabilities, long battery life, and premium design, it's hard to find fault with this device. While it may not be perfect, the quarks mentioned above are relatively minor compared to the overall experience.

In terms of value, the P20 Pro is relatively affordable at £799, which puts it in competition with other flagship phones like the iPhone 10 and Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus. While it's still not cheap, I believe that the P20 Pro offers great value for its price.

**Conclusion**

The Huawei P20 Pro is an outstanding phone that offers a wealth of features and capabilities. With its premium design, impressive camera, long battery life, and fast charging, it's hard to find fault with this device. While there are some quirks worth mentioning, such as the lack of headphone jack and speaker quality, these are relatively minor compared to the overall experience.

I highly recommend the P20 Pro to anyone looking for a top-notch smartphone. With its great value and impressive performance, it's an excellent choice for anyone in the market for a new phone. I've now switched to using the P20 Pro as my main phone, and I'm excited to see what features Huawei has in store for future updates.

**Technical Specifications**

* Display: 6-inch OLED, 1080 x 2240 pixels

* Processor: Kirin 970

* RAM: 4GB or 6GB

* Storage: 128GB or 256GB

* Rear Cameras: Dual 12MP cameras with f/1.8 aperture and f/2.4 aperture

* Front Camera: 24-megapixel front-facing camera

* Battery: 4000mAh

* Charging: Fast charging capabilities, USB-C port

* Operating System: Android 9.0 (Pie)

* Dimensions: 155 x 75 x 7.8mm

**Final Thoughts**

If you're in the market for a new smartphone and are looking for top-notch features and performance, I highly recommend considering the Huawei P20 Pro. With its impressive camera capabilities, long battery life, and premium design, it's an excellent choice for anyone looking for a great Android phone.

Please let me know what you think of the P20 in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys I'm Tom the tech chap and this is the Huawei P 20 pro I've been using it for nearly a month now and I've officially jumped ship from my S line plus that I was using to make this my new everyday phone or daily driver if you will I'm incredibly lucky that as a tech youtuber I get to play with and test and review all the latest and greatest smart phones I've got a whole drawer of phones which seems a bit excessive but it comes in handy for camera comparisons and battery tests and also just so I've had the experience of using all the phones out there while these all the flagship phones so when I do then switch to a Huawei phone and make the p20 Pro my new everyday daily driver well I guess that's just not something I expected to say before this came out and while there's a lot to like about the p20 pro there's two main reasons why I think anyone who's looking to buy a new high-end phone should buy this but before we get to that let's address the elephant in the room the fact that it does look a lot like the iPhone 10 but then again so does the newest su stem phone five or the upcoming one plus six and basically any phone with the now-infamous knotch so yes Huawei must be taking some inspiration from Apple from their p20 phones to their mate book X Pro laptop but I'm okay with that it looks great it feels really nice to hold I think it's one of the best-looking phones out there right now and if you're not a fan of the knotch you can effectively get rid of it by adding a black bar which gives the phone a more symmetrical look what does separate it from the iPhone 10 and some of its Android rivals is the fact that they've kept the home button on the bottom bezel now ordinarily that wouldn't be great because now you've got a bit of an asymmetrical bezel it's chunky at the bottom and it is the top but by keeping the home button which also doubles as a very fast fingerprint reader we can actually get rid of the Android software keys which would normally be here taking up a fair bit of room on the screen and that's because you can actually now do everything through the home button you can swipe left or right to bring up recently used ABS tap it wants to go back off tap it longer to go home and that fingerprint reader is one of the fastest I've ever used but you could also use the face unlock which is surprisingly good too I actually use a combination of both the p20 Pro comes with a six inch OLED Green with a taller aspect ratio 18.7 by nine to be exact and has a full HD rather than a quad HD resolution so it's not the sharpest screen out there but I think he'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference on ways otherwise a lovely screen it's bright colourful and has perfect contrast although it's a bit of a shame it doesn't support HDR like some of its rivals now let's talk about this camera when I'm in good light I switch the camera tissue in the full 14 megapixel mode photos look great and even zooming in they're still super sharp and detailed and they don't have some of the over sharpening you can find when shooting in 10 megapixel mode but when I'm in low-light I'll drop the camera back down to 10 megapixels where the phone then uses a technique called pixel binning to combine four pixels into one for less noise then I'll switch from auto to night mode and just look at the difference the four second exposure you get in night mode makes a almost literal night and day difference it's insane and the p20 pro's AI stabilization means it's not a shaky mess either something most other phones would be unless you had a tripod night mode also works quite well in the day giving you better dynamic range and a slightly sharper look almost as if someone's up the clarity slider in Photoshop you've also got a monochrome lens I was insult spoke recently and took this shot in auto mode but then I took it again using the monochrome camera sensor which not only gave it a more interesting tone but it's a lot more detailed compared to the main RGB lens and unlike a color filter it doesn't lose any quality and finally you've got the third telephoto lens which gives you a three times optical zoom or a five times hybrid zoom which combines the obstacle with a bit of digital zoom so there's a lot going on with a P 20s camera but that doesn't mean you can't just open the camera and tap the shutter button and you won't get a great picture and that's where the new master AI feature comes in handy it automatically selects the best shooting mode based on your setting whether it's blue skies grass food portraits or close-ups this makes it a great point and shoot but at the same time if you do try different modes and take some time to learn how to get the best pictures you'll get even more out of it so it's great for photos but not so much for video and that's the main reason I have a bit of an issue with the combined photo and video score of 109 from DX Omar it seems a bit unforgivable on a 2018 flagship that there's no stabilization when you shoot at 4k but if you drop it down to Full HD which is the default mode then it's super smooth this won't be a big deal for everyone but if video is important to you it might be best to look elsewhere and if you big into your selfies well the front camera is pretty good 24 megapixels but what I have found that is if you take photos from the front camera make sure you then swipe to photo mode rather than portrait mode which it defaults to when you switch the camera around so the user savvy camera because the portrait mode it just smooths out your skin way too much if you want a ton of beauty mode which you just can't really switch to photo mode that's another one of those things where you just don't really discover that until you use it for a whole bunch of time so the camera is a big reason why I love this phone but it's not just that it's also the battery life the p20 pro packs in a massive four thousand milliamp hour cell which is the same size as last year's mate 10 Pro and if you saw my recent battery rundown test you'll see the p20 Pro out lasting every other flagship phone I had available to test against it I'll get in to bed at like 11:00 p.m. sometimes after a full day of using it and it'll still have 43 or 45 percent of the battery remaining so it's a proper 2 day battery phone and the super fast charger you get bundled with it gives you eighty percent charge in just 45 minutes it doesn't support wireless charging but that's not a big deal for me speaker quality isn't great well you do get a stereo sound from the bottom speaker and the earpiece and the knotch it's quite tinny and doesn't sound nearly as good as the galaxy s 9 plus or the pixel to excel I really like the design of the p20 pro but it's a shame there's no headphone jack and also one of the speaker grilles on the bottom doesn't actually produce any sound so it's kind of like a fake exhaust on a car the phone's also very very slippery so I definitely recommend putting a case on this thing I'm also a lot of fan of the billion or so pre-installed Huawei apps that you get on the phone the reason for it apparently is because Google and a lot of Google services are banned or not available in China so while we have got their own calendar and gallery and health and fitness apps so all that comes on the home screen when you first start the phone which isn't great but to be fair in takes a minute or so just to hide them all away in a folder but the big reason I think a lot of people have been put off from buying Huawei phones in the past is the software and maybe also the performance out of the box I found it to be a little animation heavy but going into the phone's developer options and reducing animation times I mean it feel much faster and you can click at the top right to see my tips video that walks you through how to do that of course you can always add your own launcher but in my opinion emui is now just as good as the Samsung experience UI for speed and responsiveness so while we have finally sorted out their software and actually it's now a selling point rather than a reason to give it a Miss and that's because of their new built-in ai which is easy to dismiss as a marketing gimmick but using the phone over the last few weeks I found my battery life has improved as it learns my use patents and what apps I use and when and it's also really handy in the camera suggesting the best scenes for photos and while in benchmarks the karin 970 is closer to last year's snapdragon 835 than the new 845 in terms of raw performance I bet you to struggle to notice the difference in real-world use the p20 pro handled every app and game I threw at it so at 799 pounds the Huawei P 20 pro isn't cheap but then again it's still 200 less than the iPhone 10 and 70 pounds less than the s9 plus so relatively I guess it's Cali good value and while it may not be perfect I do highly recommend the p20 pro and it's a real shame it's not going to be widely available in the US hopefully they'll be less or that out so I'm now using the p20 pro as my main phone but would you let me know what you make off the p20 in the comments thank you very much for watching guys and if you enjoyed this video and you want to see more phone videos from me make sure you click that like and subscribe button and also check that notification bell so you don't miss any of my videos thank you very much for watching guys and I'll see you next time right here on the texturehey guys I'm Tom the tech chap and this is the Huawei P 20 pro I've been using it for nearly a month now and I've officially jumped ship from my S line plus that I was using to make this my new everyday phone or daily driver if you will I'm incredibly lucky that as a tech youtuber I get to play with and test and review all the latest and greatest smart phones I've got a whole drawer of phones which seems a bit excessive but it comes in handy for camera comparisons and battery tests and also just so I've had the experience of using all the phones out there while these all the flagship phones so when I do then switch to a Huawei phone and make the p20 Pro my new everyday daily driver well I guess that's just not something I expected to say before this came out and while there's a lot to like about the p20 pro there's two main reasons why I think anyone who's looking to buy a new high-end phone should buy this but before we get to that let's address the elephant in the room the fact that it does look a lot like the iPhone 10 but then again so does the newest su stem phone five or the upcoming one plus six and basically any phone with the now-infamous knotch so yes Huawei must be taking some inspiration from Apple from their p20 phones to their mate book X Pro laptop but I'm okay with that it looks great it feels really nice to hold I think it's one of the best-looking phones out there right now and if you're not a fan of the knotch you can effectively get rid of it by adding a black bar which gives the phone a more symmetrical look what does separate it from the iPhone 10 and some of its Android rivals is the fact that they've kept the home button on the bottom bezel now ordinarily that wouldn't be great because now you've got a bit of an asymmetrical bezel it's chunky at the bottom and it is the top but by keeping the home button which also doubles as a very fast fingerprint reader we can actually get rid of the Android software keys which would normally be here taking up a fair bit of room on the screen and that's because you can actually now do everything through the home button you can swipe left or right to bring up recently used ABS tap it wants to go back off tap it longer to go home and that fingerprint reader is one of the fastest I've ever used but you could also use the face unlock which is surprisingly good too I actually use a combination of both the p20 Pro comes with a six inch OLED Green with a taller aspect ratio 18.7 by nine to be exact and has a full HD rather than a quad HD resolution so it's not the sharpest screen out there but I think he'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference on ways otherwise a lovely screen it's bright colourful and has perfect contrast although it's a bit of a shame it doesn't support HDR like some of its rivals now let's talk about this camera when I'm in good light I switch the camera tissue in the full 14 megapixel mode photos look great and even zooming in they're still super sharp and detailed and they don't have some of the over sharpening you can find when shooting in 10 megapixel mode but when I'm in low-light I'll drop the camera back down to 10 megapixels where the phone then uses a technique called pixel binning to combine four pixels into one for less noise then I'll switch from auto to night mode and just look at the difference the four second exposure you get in night mode makes a almost literal night and day difference it's insane and the p20 pro's AI stabilization means it's not a shaky mess either something most other phones would be unless you had a tripod night mode also works quite well in the day giving you better dynamic range and a slightly sharper look almost as if someone's up the clarity slider in Photoshop you've also got a monochrome lens I was insult spoke recently and took this shot in auto mode but then I took it again using the monochrome camera sensor which not only gave it a more interesting tone but it's a lot more detailed compared to the main RGB lens and unlike a color filter it doesn't lose any quality and finally you've got the third telephoto lens which gives you a three times optical zoom or a five times hybrid zoom which combines the obstacle with a bit of digital zoom so there's a lot going on with a P 20s camera but that doesn't mean you can't just open the camera and tap the shutter button and you won't get a great picture and that's where the new master AI feature comes in handy it automatically selects the best shooting mode based on your setting whether it's blue skies grass food portraits or close-ups this makes it a great point and shoot but at the same time if you do try different modes and take some time to learn how to get the best pictures you'll get even more out of it so it's great for photos but not so much for video and that's the main reason I have a bit of an issue with the combined photo and video score of 109 from DX Omar it seems a bit unforgivable on a 2018 flagship that there's no stabilization when you shoot at 4k but if you drop it down to Full HD which is the default mode then it's super smooth this won't be a big deal for everyone but if video is important to you it might be best to look elsewhere and if you big into your selfies well the front camera is pretty good 24 megapixels but what I have found that is if you take photos from the front camera make sure you then swipe to photo mode rather than portrait mode which it defaults to when you switch the camera around so the user savvy camera because the portrait mode it just smooths out your skin way too much if you want a ton of beauty mode which you just can't really switch to photo mode that's another one of those things where you just don't really discover that until you use it for a whole bunch of time so the camera is a big reason why I love this phone but it's not just that it's also the battery life the p20 pro packs in a massive four thousand milliamp hour cell which is the same size as last year's mate 10 Pro and if you saw my recent battery rundown test you'll see the p20 Pro out lasting every other flagship phone I had available to test against it I'll get in to bed at like 11:00 p.m. sometimes after a full day of using it and it'll still have 43 or 45 percent of the battery remaining so it's a proper 2 day battery phone and the super fast charger you get bundled with it gives you eighty percent charge in just 45 minutes it doesn't support wireless charging but that's not a big deal for me speaker quality isn't great well you do get a stereo sound from the bottom speaker and the earpiece and the knotch it's quite tinny and doesn't sound nearly as good as the galaxy s 9 plus or the pixel to excel I really like the design of the p20 pro but it's a shame there's no headphone jack and also one of the speaker grilles on the bottom doesn't actually produce any sound so it's kind of like a fake exhaust on a car the phone's also very very slippery so I definitely recommend putting a case on this thing I'm also a lot of fan of the billion or so pre-installed Huawei apps that you get on the phone the reason for it apparently is because Google and a lot of Google services are banned or not available in China so while we have got their own calendar and gallery and health and fitness apps so all that comes on the home screen when you first start the phone which isn't great but to be fair in takes a minute or so just to hide them all away in a folder but the big reason I think a lot of people have been put off from buying Huawei phones in the past is the software and maybe also the performance out of the box I found it to be a little animation heavy but going into the phone's developer options and reducing animation times I mean it feel much faster and you can click at the top right to see my tips video that walks you through how to do that of course you can always add your own launcher but in my opinion emui is now just as good as the Samsung experience UI for speed and responsiveness so while we have finally sorted out their software and actually it's now a selling point rather than a reason to give it a Miss and that's because of their new built-in ai which is easy to dismiss as a marketing gimmick but using the phone over the last few weeks I found my battery life has improved as it learns my use patents and what apps I use and when and it's also really handy in the camera suggesting the best scenes for photos and while in benchmarks the karin 970 is closer to last year's snapdragon 835 than the new 845 in terms of raw performance I bet you to struggle to notice the difference in real-world use the p20 pro handled every app and game I threw at it so at 799 pounds the Huawei P 20 pro isn't cheap but then again it's still 200 less than the iPhone 10 and 70 pounds less than the s9 plus so relatively I guess it's Cali good value and while it may not be perfect I do highly recommend the p20 pro and it's a real shame it's not going to be widely available in the US hopefully they'll be less or that out so I'm now using the p20 pro as my main phone but would you let me know what you make off the p20 in the comments thank you very much for watching guys and if you enjoyed this video and you want to see more phone videos from me make sure you click that like and subscribe button and also check that notification bell so you don't miss any of my videos thank you very much for watching guys and I'll see you next time right here on the texture\n"