Huawei P60 Pro review

11 May 2023


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Nick Tegrataker, 12 May 2023Gmail? Drive/Photos? YouTube? Wallet? Don't tell me th... moreYou been invested in Googles ecosystem has nothing to do with this phone. Same applies to apple.

However the lack of apps in Huawei Appstore might be an issue and that deserves consideration in the review.

    Honestly don't get the fuss about 5G.

    Google I understand partly. In a country like Denmark there is a mandatory government app that needs google play store to function (silly i know) so from that perspective it's a turn off. Otherwise than that it's quite easy to live without that framework.

      Nick Tegrataker, 12 May 2023Gmail? Drive/Photos? YouTube? Wallet? Don't tell me th... moreLooks unique and offers considerable upgrade over the P50 pro. I'm honestly more interested in vanilla version of the P60, it would be a good upgrade to my P40.

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        • sayabosanhidup
        • XVx
        • 13 May 2023

        proshooter, 13 May 2023Surprised that this reviewer uses "mediocre" to d... more& can u please kindly tell me whether the huawei p 40
        pro plus is still in china available brand new in box not
        second hand and please tell me which hua wei phone
        is better than the 10x optical zoom + 100 digital zoom
        of the p40 pro plus as im planning to get one one day

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          Surprised that this reviewer uses "mediocre" to describe a flagship phone.

          I'm based in Shenzhen and had played around with the Huawei P60, P60 Pro and the P60 Pro Art. I've also played around with X3. These are all top class phones, amazing build, great design and of course incredible cameras. I was thinking about Magic 5 pro, then Oppo and now Huawei. Huawei has always been the king of cameraphones, and it wins again on DXOMARK. Couldn't care less about 5G, and 5G implementation in Australia is still garbage. Customer service at Huawei is amazing. I bought an Honor laptop and wanted to upgrade my OS to English. Even though Huawei is a separate company, they still help me upgrade my OS. Would be fantastic to have Huawei stores in Australia. We need them. I'm getting tired of Apple stores and Google corners in JB hifi.

          For the omission of Google, this is not a problem here in China. China's ecosystem is basically wechat/wepay or alipay + social media (weibo, bilibili etc.). It is even more seamless than Google because wepay/alipay work so well for just about everything. Everyone has a phone and use these apps DAILY. That's about 900 million users who don't care about or need Google. I can pretty much go without google in Australia, although Google Maps is still quite useful.

          Now I've mentioned X3 earlier, and I have to say, it is the BEST foldable phone I have ever seen. Not only is it thin, the screen is almost creaseless, you can barely seen any make where it folds! I don't know how Huawei does it but it is miles better than Samsung. You do pay a premium however, it's about 13k RMB, about 4-5k more than the VIVO and other foldables. If you want the coolest foldable phone available/not available near you, then get the Huawei X3. If you want the best cameraphone, get the P60 pro or P60 pro Art.

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            • Anonymous
            • ib7
            • 12 May 2023

            The ultrawide pics are really good, both daylight & night time.

            But lack of 5g is really a deal breaker for me .. That why I still keeping mate 40 pro around.

              Nick Tegrataker, 12 May 2023Gmail? Drive/Photos? YouTube? Wallet? Don't tell me th... moreYeah. I miss the ease of using Google in China. That is one of the reasons why Apple is so popular in China, the ecosystem. If you buy different android brands they all have their own email apps, app markets, wallets and cloud storage systems. When you change brands then you also move to a different brands cloud storage and app market etc. It is a bit of a nuisance unless always sticking with the same Android brand but even then it's not as easy as with Google as all these brands don't have the same reources. With Apple, you can pretty much use the ecosystem the same as if you are outside China

                Lccy, 12 May 2023What is so essential about Google that you couldn't li... moreGmail? Drive/Photos? YouTube? Wallet? Don't tell me that I could just use "alternative apps" or crappier web apps, I'm too invested in Google's ecosystem at this point because it just works so well.

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                  • Lccy
                  • 0CB
                  • 12 May 2023

                  Nick Tegrataker, 12 May 2023I don't really care about the rest of this phone since... moreWhat is so essential about Google that you couldn't live without? Does your old phone work well enough that you could use both phones while you for figure out how to migrate?

                  I have the standard p60 and there are no colour casts from the ryyb, the colours are fantastic, my main complaints are that I wish they would go easier on the noise reduction.

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                    • Ash
                    • KRW
                    • 12 May 2023

                    No google is ok because there are alternative bypass ...but no 5g is suicide because there are not alternative to connect to network

                      I don't really care about the rest of this phone since to me no Google Services = no buy, but I will just point out that Huawei's commitment to their phone camera despite the ban is quite something.

                      The 10-step variable aperture is a complete overkill given a relatively small sensor size, but it's worth praising that they managed to fit that mechanism inside a phone. The RYYB sensor seems to be no longer a major drawback since there isn't any weird colour cast I can notice on these sample photos (except for the Night Mode telephoto shots, but then auto looks just as good with better colours anyway), the detail rendition is fantastic during the day, and all the photos have a very wide dynamic range - Not a whole lot to complain about the main camera apart from the smudgy low light photos (This amount of noise reduction and sharpening are completely unnecessary given how much light this sensor + lens combo is capable of collecting).

                      I was actually ready to complain about slight oversharpening in the safari shots, but then I read the description and realised that these were taken from a moving vehicle.. All right, that's actually damn impressive, especially given the tricky lighting in those scenes.

                      Macro capability with a telephoto camera is something EVERYONE should copy. Xiaomi technically did it first with Mi Mix Fold, but Huawei's implementation is by far the best due to its long focal length and very wide aperture. I would say the flower shot in the gallery looks impressive and certainly doesn't look like something captured by a smartphone camera at first glance.

                      I still prefer the overall look of the photos from Mate 30 Pro - But Huawei's camera prowess slowly coming back since their Kirin SoC was dead, and there is still a lot of stuff that other manufacturers could learn from them.

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                        • Kev
                        • 0Za
                        • 11 May 2023

                        XAn4ETO, 11 May 2023Actually I don't like the sound quality in the video c... moreYour headphones and earphones will fail you WELL before any bitrate will. No smartphone will ever match a dedicated microphone. The P60 Pro won't either.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • Sr1
                          • 11 May 2023

                          larger display is not an advantage! (stated when compared to honor magic)

                          stop saying that, we want smaller screen phones... p60 and p60 pro is already too big

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                            • Anonymous
                            • gDf
                            • 11 May 2023

                            "the achieved magnification and quality are quite impressive given the limitation of the sensor and its lens."
                            Limitation of the lens? It has a larger effective lens diameter than the S23 Ultra! 6.93mm whereas the S23 Ultra's periscope only has 5.55m. This means that regarding diffraction, Huawei's periscope could let you zoom 6.93/5.55 = 25% more than the S23 Ultra (at the same quality), if Huawei's periscope had smaller pixels (slightly smaller than 0.5 micrometer).

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                              • Anonymous
                              • gDf
                              • 11 May 2023

                              "Let's look at the 10x zoomed photos now. Surprisingly, we found those to be more detailed than the 10x zoomed images taken on the Huawei Mate 50 Pro, which used a 64MP camera with a similar lens."
                              Similar lens? What are you talking about? The Mate 50 Pro likely had the same periscope lens as the P50 Pro: A 16.85mm f/3.5 lens , so the effective lens diameter was only 4.81mm and the camera suffered from diffraction due to a pixel size / f-number / micrometer ratio of only 0.2.
                              The P60 Pro's periscope has an effective lens diameter of 6.93mm. This means that distant objects suffer less from diffraction and this compensates for the lower megapixel count at least slightly.
                              It could be also possible that Huawei uses a better demosaicing algorithm or that a Quad RYB sensor produces maybe sharper results than a Quad Bayer sensor or that the lens is of higher quality.

                                Actually I don't like the sound quality in the video clips. 96kbps is too low and I don't know how you describe it as crisp and good. For me is awful.

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                                  • BMT
                                  • 3Zf
                                  • 11 May 2023

                                  I did use gspace about 8 years ago, and it was horrible, I didn't think that the day will come that they(similar apps) get this close to real Google services. I mean, even on some phones that that did have Google services we sometimes have problem with hdr10 on some apps and this not official one is getting the job done! In mho lack of 5g and esim isn't still a big issue for most of people, but the thing is that, this is the same price as others while they have these. It's not drawback for me but it's very good reason to not buy it.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • gDf
                                    • 11 May 2023

                                    "The telephoto camera on the Huawei P60 Pro has 90mm f/2.1 lens - meaning it offers the largest aperture on such a long telephoto camera"
                                    That's wrong. 90mm is not a specification of the lens, but a specification for the field of view, which also depends on the sensor size. It's actually a 14.55mm f/2.1 lens and it has a large effective lens diameter because 14.55mm/2.1 = 6.93mm is one of the largest effective lens diameters you can get in a smartphone (including main cameras) (only the Galaxy K Zoom has slightly more: 6.98mm) , this means that it can capture more light per exposure time from distant objects than any smartphone camera (including main camera) on the market.

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                                      • AnonD-1067213
                                      • fC@
                                      • 11 May 2023

                                      Huawei literally has the Ph.D in Camera department! I'm impressed by the results!

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • pWD
                                        • 11 May 2023

                                        [deleted post]No, rounded edges are superior comfort-wise and that's why I refuse to buy a damn rectangle phone. They are horrible to handle, especially without a case.

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