Huawei Mate 50 Pro review

31 October 2022


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  • Sliderpro
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  • 04 Nov 2022

Is this really end of 2022? Display that curved is a disgrace. Everybody already know that curve that massive brings nothing but false touches and makes that curved part untouchable in a case (jic you need to press some button in horizontal layout), light reflects abhorrently too. That's why nobody makes curve that strong! A slight curve is all we need.
13 mpxl ultrawide? Jesus Christ it's abhorrent. OnePlus 8 pro still has best ultrawide. And I shoot ultrawide photos and videos a lot. That is not a sensor fit for a flagship device!
The notch is straight up from 2019-2020 something.
Again is that really mate 50? It looks.. VINTAGE, DATED! slap a snapdragon 845 and that would feel right at home.
No comments on 64mpxl sensor. It has a very long history of being trash. Same as 13 mpxl ultrawide.
And cherry on top...only 8 gb of ram? How much again? 450? Thats how it should cost. And YY sensors are not new. It debuted in mate 30 I think?
Bruh, what a disappointment. How come companies mess up their phones on the drawing board phase?

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    • mike
    • Hq1
    • 04 Nov 2022

    i see alot of gamers on this site saying some phones are no good for playing games on for games guys you build your own gaming pc,tower style,there are so many phones on the market now and we get a very wide choice,the technology is also changing very fast,is their a perfect phone?not really you just get get phones that will suit most of your needs and the main thing is you get a secure phone with good software that you can trust,andriod,apple or whatever,its dont really matter i am very amazed how far phone tecnology has come,its awesome technology

      S Yu, 02 Nov 2022Ah, had a look at the studio shots, the Xiaomi is almost ou... moreYou can't judge only by these studio shots though. You can maybe judge detail and noise when cropped in but you need real world samples to judge all the other facets of camera performance.The Xiaomi phones seem to be better for detail in the studio but have more noise but even then you need to judge noise and detail in a variety of scenarios. In good light a Xiaomi 11 will still easily beat the Xiaomi 12s ultra or Xiaomi 11 ultra for detail (and most other phones) but it will struggle in lowlight. Real world performance is the most important thing. They'll basically trade blows (apart from the front cameras where the Xiaomi phones are weak)

        AnonD-1058210, 03 Nov 2022Since when studio workers shooting with an smartphone ?? Ge... more*laughs in Nokia Lumia 1020 studio photoshoot*

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBdzknfFCwU

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          • S Yu
          • vU9
          • 03 Nov 2022

          AnonD-1058210, 03 Nov 2022Since when studio workers shooting with an smartphone ?? Ge... moreStudio merely means a high degree of standardization, not detachment from reality. Studio shots largely translate to real world results, aside from the color rendition due to specialized artificial lighting.

            Czuba, 02 Nov 2022Where? I see only the white, cd/m^2 for 100% brightness but... moreIt's in the text just above the table with the 100% brightness results.
            "The minimum brightness at point white was below 2 nits, which is great, too."

              There are 2 more gestures in EMUI that are never mentioned:
              - pulling up from screen corner starts Assistant
              - sliding across screen botom(left or right) switches between recent apps(back or forward)
              Great device, sadly crippled by US sanctions...

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                • AnonD-1058210
                • 3aL
                • 03 Nov 2022

                Inedian, 03 Nov 2022Looking at studio shots, 12S Ultra is the best i have seen ... moreSince when studio workers shooting with an smartphone ?? Get proper camera ..🤷‍♂️

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                  • Inedian
                  • L2r
                  • 03 Nov 2022

                  S Yu, 02 Nov 2022Ah, had a look at the studio shots, the Xiaomi is almost ou... moreLooking at studio shots, 12S Ultra is the best i have seen and Mi 11 Ultra second best, while Mi 11 Ultra best for video, even better than iPhone 14 Pro. For video something didn't go right for 12S Ultra and i wonder if they fixed it with updates.

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                    • Czuba
                    • SYG
                    • 02 Nov 2022

                    Chavis, 01 Nov 2022The number is already on Page3.Where? I see only the white, cd/m^2 for 100% brightness but not for 0% brightness.

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                      • S Yu
                      • Uis
                      • 02 Nov 2022

                      Ah, had a look at the studio shots, the Xiaomi is almost outright better in both lighting conditions. It trades all Huawei's assorted aliasing artifacts for a bit of false coloration in some of the blacks with rough texture, most of its details are more convincing than the Huawei's fake structure(the way the color gradients seem to lack a sense of depth, again, I would describe Huawei's output as almost coated in wax), with a notable advantage in actual resolution, while Huawei's sharpening is easily visible with haloing especially apparent in the low light shot, which should indicate the Xiaomi's ISO1175 is superior to the Huawei's ISO250, that's a more than 2 stop advantage. I was expecting the Huawei to put up more of a fight, honestly, but looks like its only advantage lies in the auxiliary modules. The lavish praise in this "review" is unwarranted.

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                        • S Yu
                        • Uis
                        • 02 Nov 2022

                        Hmm, I'd say the day samples are better than the night samples, relative to the competition, and likewise the UWA and tele samples stand out more than the main's samples. The blur close up is decent, but that's determined by the exit pupil, and a Type 1/1.5 even at f/1.4 cannot enable "marvelous bokehy portraits", by the limits of physics. And I still cringe at the fake bokeh, because no matter how accurately(not that this is already pixel-perfect, not even at a glance) the edges are cut out, that's not the issue at this level of blur. The shallow DoF of a 28/1.4 at that magnification should render a person's ears slightly out of focus when the nose is perfectly in focus, and when the face is in focus, the pants would likely be somewhat out of focus. None of that's implemented so it can't possibly look realistic. There are some strange artifacts on his sweater though, but they don't seem to come from DoF, and they seem unnatural compared to the rendering of his face. Details also cannot be "resolved in the best possible way", because we're far from the limits of software processing, so nobody knows what's "the best possible way". Even some DNG output achieved with current software look more natural. The night samples have a *lot* of aliasing artifacts, suggesting lack of oversampling during processing combined with a detrimental upscaling step very far down the pipeline, and still have too much NR. At 1:1 they have the typical Huawei waxy look similar to models 2-3 years ago, and night mode doesn't help as much as it's supposed to.
                        Anyhow, an objective review should avoid hyperbole such as those mentioned above, or those such as calling the camera setup "as cool as you can imagine" in the intro. I can easily imagine "cooler", thank you. This isn't supposed to be an ad piece, but it comes across as very unprofessional, not up to par with GSMA's usual reviews.

                          YUKI93, 02 Nov 2022That is also a world first. There has never been any smartp... moreThere have been a few Xiaomi phones that have a telemacro lens, although they all had tiny 5MP sensors that would also struggle to focus on a distant subject. The one on Mate 50 RS is quite special because not only it doubles as a regular telephoto lens, does it also have a longer 90mm equivalent focal length and a much higher resolution sensor that allows for extreme cropping, making it far more versatile as a secondary camera.

                            "The Portrait mode on the Mate 50 Pro offers 1x, 2x and 3x zoom levels - they all use the main camera and are shot at f/1.4 aperture for natural bokeh, rather than artificially generated one."

                            No GSMArena, this is still a synthetic bokeh applied to the photos afterwards using the software processing. I get that the edge detection on this phone is so precise that it's hard to distinguish it from the "real" bokeh until you start zooming in, but it's impossible for any phone to produce this amount of blur with its relatively tiny optics - In fact these portrait shots seem to have just as much subject separation as what would be captured by a full-frame sensor paired with an F1.4 lens of the same 35mm equivalent focal length.

                            Huawei is slowly coming to its senses in terms of image quality after the effective death of Kirin. The cameras on the SD variant of P50 Pro completely failed to impress, but this one seems to be a lot better rounded. The lens is now tack sharp all the way down to the extreme corners, details are no longer oversharpened (at least during the day, low light shots have more processed looking to them), and they finally nailed the colour balance on the RYYB CFA and managed to make the photos look pretty much indistinguishable from those taken by a regular RGGB sensor. 2x crop zoom shots look a bit blurry, but I guess that's due to their image stacking algorithms still not being properly optimised for a SD chipset. Hopefully Honor can learn a thing or two from Huawei to keep up their mobile photography game.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • f4v
                              • 02 Nov 2022

                              huawei has the best cameras, this is an amazing phone

                                YUKI93, 02 Nov 2022It's not really the end of the world as there are mult... moreBut not all of the apps work, and that is a big shame. I'm a bit lost now. I have a OnePlus 7T Pro, and I would like to replace it with something newer. I do care almost only about still shots. I can wait until the premiere of the Samsung S23 Ultra, and mobiles that I do consider are iPhone 14 PRO, Pixel 7 PRO, and S22 Ultra. For JPGs, they are somehow similar, but when it comes to RAWs iPhone shines, and I do care about it, as I used to care my mirrorless on vacations, and I would like to replace it with that new mobile. Huawei Mate 50 PRO looks great as for what I need, but I don't like the idea that some of the apps that I use might not be working on my new phone... Ehh..

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • tZk
                                  • 02 Nov 2022

                                  YUKI93, 02 Nov 2022It's not really the end of the world as there are mult... moreUnfortunately, there is still no 100% legal method to circumvent the lack of Google services. Googlefier is not usable from EMUI 11 upwards. The currently most used method Gspace is mostly usable but there are still grey areas of privacy protection, data safety and worse battery life reported by users.

                                    Anonymous, 02 Nov 2022Xiaomi has telemacro lens. That one is a native macro sensor but with a telephoto focal length. In other words, it's still a macro camera in the first place. The one on the Mate 50 RS Porsche Design is the other way around, as in a native telephoto sensor but with macro autofocus capability.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • K1L
                                      • 02 Nov 2022

                                      YUKI93, 02 Nov 2022That is also a world first. There has never been any smartp... moreXiaomi has telemacro lens.

                                        bulbulito.bayagbag, 31 Oct 2022Just like the other phones that came before it, the lack of... moreIt's not really the end of the world as there are multiple solutions to install GMS legally.

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