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huawei leaps forward with a phone that lets you see more not just in terms of how the device looks but how it looks at the world it's Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody and this is the Huawei P 20 and the three camera toting P 20 Pro prepare for some double takes because this phone comes with what Huawei calls the Twilight Edition there are plenty of other colors like black gold blue and a pink gold but we think that this one is going to be the one you want to look at the Twilight Edition we wouldn't be surprised if you called it a unicorn edition has this smooth gradient from blue to purple on it's a very unique look that we haven't seen in pretty much any smartphone rounded corners and the unique screen experience put all of these together into one attractive package though we will get into the triple camera setup later let's first talk about how modernistic the approaches to these small details you have the lenses they're lined up with the official like us specifications and then the small but impacting Huawei logo they're all put over onto the side so that the color it takes center stage but holding the phone up all of these being in a line on the side makes it look like a very attractive and unique point-and-shoot camera turn the device running to get Huawei's version of a full screen display with a notch yes the notch is gonna be more of a thing in Android but at least on this P 20 and P 20 Pro it doesn't take up too much space at the top it has the call speaker and the front-facing camera one interesting feature about this notch is that you can kind of turn it off it just means that that entire bar at the top goes black and everything renders just below it of course this is at the top of the display and then below it you do get a little bit more bezel because they're still trying to put the fingerprint reader there while we did want to have some continuity from one P device to the other so the fingerprint reader returns and it can be used as the home button or rather the navigation button for all of the actions if you turn off the soft keys in the software and you are getting full HD plus displays here at 18 by 9 aspect ratios the smaller five point eight inch p20 gets an LCD panel while the 6.1 inch OLED display provides some great colors in the larger P 20 Pro there are a few other differences under the hood but all of these phones get the ki-rin 970 but the Pro Edition gets 6 gigabytes of RAM over four and it's battery is much larger it has a four thousand milliamp hour battery compared to the p20 3400 and for phones this thin it's interesting that they were able to get that much battery in here and of course tying it all together is the emui which if you have used it before is probably going to feel pretty familiar it is updated to Android Oreo and comes with a lot of different options like we said before you can turn off the soft keys and just have a navigation dock or use the fingerprint reader at the bottom to go back home or to the recent apps screen and then you have other options like dual apps that are things that we've seen in previous editions of emui so finally we can talk about the cameras they all start off with a high-powered front facing shooter at 24 megapixels though high resolution selfies will be tested later we can expect familiar modes like Beauty modes and other features like we've seen before this time with just more power underneath the glass speaking specifically of just the p20 it employs a familiar combination of a 12 megapixel RGB sensor and a 20 megapixel monochrome sensor if the original p10 was any indication this combination should provide some highly detailed pictures and then the p20 Pro which does more than just add a third lens that third lens is an 8 megapixel telephoto lens so you get some zoom capabilities but then you also get back a monochrome sensor that is 20 megapixels and then finally that middle lens is the main RGB sensor that has 40 megapixels behind all of these lenses you get a ton of power and it's like Huawei is trying to put every resource possible together to provide the best possible final shot and we wouldn't blame you for thinking that the 40 megapixels means that low-light shots might not be the best but while we has a couple of answers for that one step in that right direction by Huawei was outfitting the RGB with the biggest sensor found in a typical smartphone it's bigger than the iPhone tens and even bigger than the samsung galaxy s nines and there are a ton of options for this number of lenses but usability is taken into account using Huawei's AI engine this time around compared to the May 10 pro there are more scenes built in and the auto camera is always looking for what kind of scene you're shooting so that it can change the settings accordingly this is something we already tested where we brought it up to somebody's face it detected the face and then turned on the portrait ok mode and then when we moved it over to a plate of food it changed the colors up turned off the bouquet mode and we suddenly got the food mode and then back and forth we went it took about a second for it to recognize it properly and pretty much any other scene but once you get there it is changing the settings on the fly and effectively so if you're worried about having so much power here that you have to get all the settings just right while always trying to make sure that that guesswork is taken out of the equation coming back to low light quality the lack of optical image stabilization was a concern for us but while we had an answer for that as well a I assisted stabilization all of the devices you're carrying this feature much like in the night modes for other devices you have to take a long exposure and you also have to take a bunch of different photos so that the camera software can piece it all together to a good-looking final product normally in those situations you need a tripod to keep the phone steady but this time the AI works to crop all of the shots it takes as needed so that shaky hands won't even mess it up in even the darkest of situations there's still a measure of color and dynamic range which is really impressive and the result is a camera package that can get a photo that is effectively 51,000 iso and all of this is on top of other considerations while we made like putting together all the different forms of autofocus Laser phase detection depth contrast into one system called 4d predictive focus so that means that the camera app is always trying to figure out what focus to put onto the scene and in that way it's also figuring out what scene to apply for the best settings honestly there's a lot to take in when it comes to those cameras and we wouldn't blame you for feeling a bit overwhelmed but the takeaway here is that Huawei is trying to take every hardware piece they can possibly put together into one great package and then adding in its AI engine so that it can make the photography experience as easy and as high quality as possible and of course we're gonna put the P 20 and P 20 Pro up against the likes of the samsung galaxy s 9 and the s 9 plus and you can see those comparisons here at Android Authority once we get down to our review process so if you guys are as excited as we are about this phone whether it's about the camera or the color of the phone or even any of the features and just the way it looks you can head into the comments down below and let us know what you think will be in the comments section responding to what we can and then some of the top comments might be put into a piece of content later on so keep it tuned to Andrew authority for more about the p20 and the p20 pro while ways the latest flagship that is a very exciting prospect and you can also stay tuned for all of the great coverage we do here at andrew authority and over at andrew authority comm because we are your source for all things Android