Huawei P40 Pro review

26 Mar 2020


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Allergia, 27 Mar 2020Totally agree with you. All this go at 1200 EUR price level... moreI shall be go for a gaming pc and a good mid range phone for that money as I find it nonsense to spend that much money on a freaking phone:)

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    • dfo
    • L67
    • 27 Mar 2020

    So conclusion is that this phone is without google services (totally unusable) , mono speaker, has a SD quality in Netflix, and it deserved a score 4.4 and a phone (S20 Ultra) with google services, HD Netflix, and stereo speakers has a 4.0 score? Something is not correct here in the scoring methodology.

      Nick Tagataka, 27 Mar 2020My guess is that they opted for wider angle lens for the ma... moreMi 10 Pro lacks IP68 and is inferior in video and stabilization.
      Also the camera processing needs improvement.

      https://youtu.be/vQVBUB5703o

      Hopefully the new upgrade fixes some issues.

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        • Allergia
        • Jb$
        • 27 Mar 2020

        Davy Jones, 27 Mar 2020So people goona spend 1200€ on a phone With 1-display ha... moreTotally agree with you. All this go at 1200 EUR price level. I am not a big iPhone fun, but for this amount of money I would rather choose the 11 Pro Max.... Just can't understand why anyone would buy the P40 Pro....

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          • qNG
          • 27 Mar 2020

          Hey GSMarena, this is not the first Huawei flagship with autofocus selfie camera. The Mate 9/ 9 Pro had it before.

            So people goona spend 1200€ on a phone
            With
            1-display having 90hz refresh rate
            2-average mono speaker
            3- small battery
            4- without having most of the popular apps
            5-1080p+ resolution display
            6-same cameras as previous year phone(p30 pro)
            7-average 4k footage
            8-last year chipset


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              • ing005
              • 8as
              • 27 Mar 2020

              Why can't you just be consistent on GFX test?
              Some device you test both offscreen and onscreen, others you only showed onscreen result.

              it's like you tried to favour some device( in this case P40 Pro) because onscreen test shows more favourable results (when compare the numbers with S20 Ultra, X2 Pro which have higher resolution)

              It's frustating!

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                • Ejshin
                • t7X
                • 27 Mar 2020

                With no google apps, this phone is a cameraphone less a smartphone.

                  Emeline Shaw, 26 Mar 2020Hey, they upgrade the price too ;)Well that was inevitable.lol!

                    AnonD-546724, 26 Mar 2020Wtf did you expect ?Better design
                    Better night mode
                    Stereo speakers
                    Better display resolution
                    Higher refresh rate

                      Anonymous, 26 Mar 2020Maybe you need to get your eyes checked. There is a huge d... moreAs I already said the the dynamic range is better on S20 Ultra, but then the texts look sharper and noise is better controlled on P40 Pro in the samples I linked, so it's really not bad either. And before you shift us to "which phone has a better telephoto in low light" flame war, I should repeat myself that my original argument was that P40P's telephoto lens wouldn't be as bad in low light as you would think (and you said it would be "garbage" IIRC). P40P's zoomed night time shots are overall inferiour in quality to S20U, but it's decent enough at this point and colour issues will be fixed in upcoming updates. So my point did stand, end of story. No more discussion is needed on this topic.

                      "And gcam works on Exynos as well"
                      It didn't work well on my Exynos S10 last time I tried it. Sure it ran, but the time taken to capture photos was quite long and the app frequently hung up in the middle of the processing which made it nigh unusable. I was able to go into the settings and change sensor settings and processing profiles, though it didn't do much to improve the overall performance. I'm sure SD variant users are having a lot of fun with it but it wasn't exactly a good experience for me, unfortunately.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 2Au
                        • 27 Mar 2020

                        You can say anything you can say to P40 but accept it, it takes the market as soon as it step on the spotlight

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                          • Anonymous
                          • pQr
                          • 27 Mar 2020

                          I wonder what Huawei's Octa PD is. It seems to be dual pixel autofocus for Quad Bayer sensors. No other smartphone camera offers this (Oppo's smartphone has Quad Pixel autofocus, which is a different thing)

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                            • Anonymous
                            • UNy
                            • 27 Mar 2020

                            Can anybody tell me the sound quality using moniter earphones of p40. My present phone is Samsung S8+ which I normally use as reference.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • pQr
                              • 27 Mar 2020

                              "Well, if you do the math, the optical zoom isn't exactly 5x as 125/27 equals 4.63 (if shooting in default mode), but then 125/23 equals 5.43x (for when shooting in high-res mode). Yes, 5x seems to be the average of these two"
                              No, it isn't. The P30 Pro cropped the 125mm camera, so you got 27x5=135mm. Only in pro mode with raw turned on, you could use the full 125mm field of view of the periscope camera, then the field of view is larger indeed. If you use less than 5.0x (for example 4.9x) in the default mode, then the image quality is much worse, so you couldn't use the periscope camera at 125mm in the default mode.
                              The P40 Pro exif data indicate the same behaviour. At 5x you get a 135mm field of view and not 12 megapixels, but rather 10.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • PE3
                                • 27 Mar 2020

                                "The Mate 30 and the P40 series are here to prove that there is a life after Google" actually the opposite of it .
                                The mate 30 launch for 4 months in singapore and the price already $430 now less than half of the launch price .

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • PAm
                                  • 27 Mar 2020

                                  Nice

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                                    • HACKERBOY
                                    • XET
                                    • 27 Mar 2020

                                    SpiritWolf, 26 Mar 2020As P30Pro owner I must admit that all three cameras are bet... moreNokia 808 pure view is the best.

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                                      • IVy
                                      • 27 Mar 2020

                                      Anonymous, 27 Mar 2020I will preorder this or P40 PRO Plus... Bro, but Huawei does not have google play store and googler service. Think twice

                                        S Yu, 26 Mar 2020So, while they boasted about a bigger sensor than the Samsu... moreMy guess is that they opted for wider angle lens for the main camera so that they can crop in during the video recording more and make more room for the frame to move around for smoother stabilisation, similar to why Sony had been opting for 24-25mm equiv. lens for years back in Xperia Z/X/XZ era. This is quite questionable decision, however, since UWA camera should be better suited for this kind of purpose, and cropping photos to 27mm equiv. FoV without giving users an option to toggle it on or off is nothing but user-unfriendly IMO.

                                        The processing in general is a regression from Mate 30 Pro's very natural detail rendition mainly due to increased sharpening, though the low light performance looks to be a noticeable upgrade and those photos admittedly look quite amazing. There are some glitches and bugs to iron out (mainly the colour rendition of telephoto lens in low light) but hopefully they will fix it by the time it becomes available to consumer.

                                        And meanwhile I'll be patiently waiting Mi 10 Pro to be released in where I live... I'll consider buying Huawei once AppGallery has all the business/personal apps that I use on my current phones and good alternative to Google Services (I don't think it'll come out any time soon), but until then, no go for me.

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