Huawei Mate 20 Pro

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Model: The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is one of the company’s flagship phones with high-end performance, design and features. The Mate 20 Pro’s camera is co-engineered by Leica. Besides that, the phone’s screen has a forged masterpiece of 3D glass with smooth curves and seams that dissolve into the design. As a tribute to nature’s rich colors, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is available in four vibrant colors. Light reflects beautifully off the back of midnight blue and emerald green making the unique Hyper Optical Patterns glitter. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro’s lines and features are symmetrically in harmony. A slim design makes the phone size a pleasure to look at and touch. The IP68 rated water and dust resistance means no worry of taking spills, splashes, and dunks too. The Mate 20 Pro has a 6.32” 2K+ curved OLED HRD display with 19.5:9 screen ratio. It offers rich, crisp detail for users to enjoy photos, videos, games and more.

At the back of the Mate 20 Pro, there is an iconic square combining the Leica Triple Camera and one flash. The phone inherits the Mate series’ central and simple camera design concept to create an aesthetic signature. Equipped with a brand-new Leica triple camera system, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is ready to snap life-like photographs whether from afar or up close. The ultra wide angle lens can photograph wider surroundings, or complex detail in close-up, macro shots. If users are taking videos, they can also use the AI Cinema Mode to add unique cinematography effects.

The Mate 20 Pro also comes with an impressive set of features, including a new NM card for maximum data security, easy wireless projection, and extra-large batteries. The Mate 20 Pro uses a super powerful Kirin 980 chipset, paired with 6 GB RAM + 128 GB ROM, while also comes with a DPS in-screen fingerprint sensor. By adopting the advanced and flexible CPU and GPU multi-core architecture, task and operation speed of the device have been greatly increased. One of the DUAL-NPU offers vast AI computing and the other focuses on specific tasks to create massive efficiencies and a drastically improved user experience. Featuring an incredible 5000 mAh battery and a Kirin 980 chipset, this device is built to deliver a level of power that can handle long hours of gaming or multitasking. The 40 W Huawei SuperCharge with TÜV Safe Fast-Charge System Certification makes the Huawei Mate 20 Pro a powerful mate to trust. In 30 minutes, users can refuel the battery up to 70%.

Thanks to the 3D Depth Sensing Camera projecting over 30,000 points, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro recognizes you easily to unlock your phone swiftly. The user’s face ID can also be used to securely access a private screen containing locked APPs and personal data. With ergonomic design and Dynamic Pressure Sensing technology, users just need to raise their finger and touch the screen, and the phone will get unlocked securely and instantly. As a conclusion, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is a high performance smartphone with high end hardware and camera. It certainly lives up to the Mate series, featuring top notch features and being speedy. However, it has a high price point. Thus, is is only suitable for users who don’t mind paying high price for a smartphone.

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ARM Mali-G76 MP10: Integrated graphics card based on the second generation of the Bifrost architecture. Uses 10 of the 20 possible clusters and according to ARM offers twice the performance per cluster than the old Mali-G72. Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Kirin 980: ARM based octa-core SoC with 2x Cortex-A76 up to 2.6 GHz (performance), 2x A76 with up to 1.92 (balance) and 4x Cortex-A53 with up to 1.8 GHz (power saving). Furthermore, it integrates a fast LTE modem with up to 1.4 GBit/s and is manufactured in 7nm at TSMC.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
6.3":

Only a few smartphones have larger screens.
Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.

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0.189 kg:

Only few smartphones are more lightweight than this.

Huawei: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company founded in 1987 with focus on telecommunications hardware and 170000 employees. In the first quarter of 2016, Huawei had a market share of 8.2% in the smartphone market, making it the third-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Compared to the same quarter of 2015, Huawei increased its market share by more than 58%.
In 2014, Huawei created the sub brand Honor and offers certain smartphone series under this name. The name Huawei is usually not listed for these products.
There are a lot of reviews on Huawei phones with slightly above average ratings (as of 2016).
90.13%: There do not exist many models, which are rated better. The most ratings get ratings, which are a bit worse.
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