The Huawei P30 Pro has got all the headlines with the new superzoom camera, but Huawei has another phone that has the same kind of power in a more compact body and at a much more affordable price but this phone - unfortunately - has passed through fine print.
The phone is the regular Huawei P30 (not the Pro) and is the focus of this review where we also describe the differences between the regular P30 and its brother the P30 Pro. Need to keep in mind the regular P30? How good is the camera on the regular model? And finally has the same impressive battery life?
Design
With beautiful colors and designs and consistent build quality, Huawei phones are easy to spot among the crowd and the P30 is no exception. It comes in a choice of five different colors. The phone itself is quite compact and looks durable. The back is made of glass and the frame is made of metal, a typical modern flagship design in other words.
A weird detail is that the P30 Pro is relatively flat up and down. You would imagine that this was done so that the phone can stand upright on a table, but unfortunately, no, the phone is heavy and cannot stand alone.
As for the physical keys, you have a power button and a volume rocker on the right side. At the bottom, you'll find a USB-C port as well as the loudspeaker, and yes, you also have a 3.5mm headphone jack here, an "extra" you won't find in the more expensive Pro model. On the left side, you have the hybrid SIM card slot and on the top, you only have one microphone. What's missing on this phone is the infrared (IR) blaster you have on the Pro model. The IR blaster allows you to use your phone as a remote control for gadgets such as TVs and AC drives, so it's a bit of a shame you can't find it in this model.
Best of all, the regular P30 is just a very small phone. It's smaller than a Galaxy S10, but larger than the Galaxy S10e, so it's not the smallest, but it certainly feels a lot more comfortable to carry it in a pocket and use it with one hand than most others that are significantly larger.
Display
The smaller phone size also comes with a smaller screen size, as the normal P30 has a 6.1-inch screen, slightly smaller than the Pro's 6.47-inch screen. There's something else: the P30 has a flat screen, while the Pro screen is curved to the edges. The curved screen has the advantage of reduced frames and the futuristic look that comes with it, but the flat screen is more practical simply because you can have a more stable grip on the phone. In addition, a curved screen means that there will be no distortion of the image and repairs to a shattered screen are much easier (and cheaper).
In terms of quality, the P30 and P30 Pro screens are almost identical: both are AMOLED screens that can produce brilliant colors, both with great contrast, both with Full HD resolution (1080 x 2340 pixels). ) both look generally good. Are the two best screens out there? Not exactly.
The area where Huawei could and should improve its screens is color balance. By default, the screens are set to a very "cold" white balance, so they all appear in a light blue tint. You could go into settings and change the white balance to a warmer tone, but then what you get is a yellow shade. Basically, despite the fact that you have different options, you just can't get the perfect white that would be ideal and you have to compromise with one of the two "imperfect" color settings. These observations apply to both the regular P30 and the P30 Pro version of the mobile.
Performance
Despite its much cheaper price, the P30 is powered by the same fast Huawei Kirin 980 chip. This was the first Android chip to be built on a 7nm build technology, and Huawei says it has worked on it for several years. And while this chip is not as fast as the Snapdragon 855, it is definitely one of the fastest Android phones on the market. In the AnTuTu, the P30 scores 285595 points, while the Galaxy S10e scores 324967 points and the S10 329546 points, while the Xiaomi Mi 9 escapes with 371009 points. The Kirin 980, despite its benchamarks results, is definitely a good processor that will take you through the day-to-day operations and make it more difficult. But what we see is that there are faster ones.
The Kirin 980 works with 6GB of RAM, slightly smaller than the 8GB of RAM in the Pro model. You also have a generous 128GB of storage here with support for a brand new type of memory card that Huawei calls nanoSD (microSD cards won't fit as their slot is a bit larger).
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