Every few months, my fellow smartphone enthusiasts and I scour social media for the Huawei P20 Pro, the 2018 phone that almost everyone (including Huawei employees) considers the company's breakthrough product worldwide. At the time, it introduced the first triple camera system in a phone capable of taking ghostly night and zoom photos. Before the P20 Pro, Huawei was just a big Chinese phone brand. After that, Huawei became a major phone brand.
Of course, smartphone fans probably know what happened after the P20 Pro. Huawei began a rapid rise and almost surpassed Samsung as the world's largest phone brand by unit sales before the US ban.
But here's the thing: Huawei hasn't stopped making great smartphones. It still has a healthy domestic market and the tech giant has very limited appeal outside of China, launching phones around the world in markets like Hong Kong, Singapore and Europe.
And the Huawei P60 Pro is another reminder of Huawei's hardware prowess and brings back memories of the P20 Pro as it's another advancement in mobile photography that the P20 Pro represents.
The Huawei P60 Pro has a main camera with a 10-stop aperture and a physical shutter that allows the camera lens to control the amount of light absorption as well as depth of field. The only phone brands to attempt such an ambitious move are Samsung in 2019 and Xiaomi this year, each at less than half that.
Not only that: the P60 Pro's zoom lens, a 3.5x periscope camera, can shoot almost flawlessly at 10x zoom and can be used as a macro sensor, allowing me to take close-up shots of objects without the lens directly in the camera. Objects must be attached. subject or object.
I took these pictures without changing the position and without moving the phone at all.
This variable aperture allows you to shoot at completely different depths and angles of field.
The magic of the camera's amazing features lies not only in the camera hardware, but also in Huawei's Xmage engine, an image processing software algorithm developed by Huawei.
On the other hand, the P60 Pro has a beautiful Quad OLED 120Hz display and weighs only 200g (although most flagship phones are heavier), the P60 Pro is a very useful phone. Battery life is great as with Huawei phones. But unfortunately, the P60 Pro has some expected limitations.
Current restrictions prevent the P60 Pro from running Google's flagship apps and using the 5G network. As such, the phone is powered by a year-old Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip without 5G support. Sure, it's a clear hardware failure, but it's due to external factors and not a lack of will or skill on Huawei's part.
Too bad, because the P60 Pro reminded me yet again why the P20 Pro remains a valuable phone even today, remembered by mobile phone fans. If sanctions and politics don't stand in Huawei's way, the P60 Pro will almost certainly be the best smartphone ever.
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