Gadgetory

hot new phone just released announced it's the Huawei P 30 Pro and this one claims to be the camera champion the P stands for photography I mean you've got Pro in the name as well you got like on the box and it's a quad camera setup they are squarely aiming at smartphone champion status in the camera department it's got a front-facing 32 megapixel camera selfie so a lot of camera tech inside of here but also other flagship specs this model in front of me breathing crystal 256 gigs of storage and eight gigabytes of RAM it's got an OLED display it's got a tiny little cutout let's just get into it and see what makes up Huawei's latest competitor in the flagship smartphone space and I guess figure out whether or not it can dethrone the Samsung Galaxy S 10 s 10 plus that just recently came out because that seems to be what it's kind of targeting here's the color let's check that out real quick whoa that's a color Wow as a bit of a pearl to it there's a violet into a sky-blue type of situation man they got innovative with the colors you get you have to admit that you have a USB type-c cable to charge this thing up of course it also has wireless charging and wireless charge sharing just like the bigger mate device that Huawei makes and a quick charge power brick as well okay so let's look around the device real quick you can see Huawei has the little red identifier once again on the power switch volume rocker up above there bottom of the device you have your SIM card tray as well as the type-c connector also your speaker unit the other side is completely clean there's like a an edge design to this to this deal it's a similar to what Samsung is doing but maybe even a little more slender hang on a second you just grabbed the s10 real quick maybe maybe even more curved to the back of the unit and the front side so it kind of both front and back curved into this edge it's got a slender fee to it especially for a device that's this big six point four seven inches on the display according to Willie do so that's I mean these displays are getting huge considering the form factors that they're being fit into this is reminiscent of the essential cut out the essential phone and oh if you guys recall that particular device all it is is a camera lens though so unlike the previous version Huawei devices that featured more high-end face recognition tech similar to what the iPhone is doing they opted for a smaller notch in exchange for just a simple camera to take selfie pictures with obviously okay there's the look Kirk in case you're wondering you get a quick look at the cutout alongside the slim bezel around the whole device bit of a chin there but impressive screen to body ratio nonetheless this is an in display fingerprint scanner it's using optical technology so it's gonna illuminate the finger similar to some other products on the market this is a comprehensive scan here now there's also face unlock in here but remember when it comes to image based face unlock it's not the most secure form of locking your device so use it at your own risk wow that was quick setup complete holy moly alright we're gonna do direct on lock are you ready looks for the face boom Louis for the face boom I mean there's something so nice about the speed at which this tech operates but as I said you just need to understand the limitations with this security method I mean that time you don't even see the lock screen it just goes right in when it's looking at me fingerprint on the other hand let's give that a shot whoo all right that's pretty quick these are getting better they're definitely in a territory right now where you could get used to it and you could live this particular life right here so this is 23 40 by 1080 resolution you can see I mean that's fibrin colors it's OLED the notch is tiny it's barely there you can decide aesthetically how that stacks up for you compared to the hole punch cut out so there you can see the difference it definitely reaches down farther and therefore it pushes the status bar a little further down as well in the case of the whole bunch but it is off to the side so again to each their own alright let's open up the camera here let's take a peek at this it's a it's this collaboration you get the the like a brand name on here now this camera setup is just bananas there's so much going on here we have a 40 megapixel camera with a typical focal range a wide angle which becomes obvious given the amount of glass that you see in there and then of course the 5x optical zoom in telescopic camera setup on the bottom that's pretty wild and then this other time of flight lens over here which is used mostly for depth recognition a little bit more data information within the photo frame now the AI is picking up that this is a portrait and it's blurring everything else around I don't necessarily want to do this I'm gonna X that out now this is 1x so this is just your general 40 megapixel smartphone camera boom there's your photo now this is the 5x that's a huge jump from one to the next it doesn't in there because you can keep zooming in it just goes digital at a certain point so as you can tell quality here on the main shot is very similar to the 5x zoom then it starts to degrade as you use the digital zoom to get in closer now on the flip side you've got the wide let's peel this all the way down so we can get quite wide here on the widest setting to me this is the most useful extra camera lens situation on any of these smartphones because there are circumstances in which you're trying to take a picture of a group of people let's say or possibly some architecture you're traveling and whatnot and I like seeing it on all smartphone cameras I've been using it on the s10 used it previous to that on other devices as well and now you know it's here I think it's useful so to give you one more breakdown standard focal length 5x optical zoom digital zoom at 10x it goes even further than that and then of course the wide-angle let me turn the AI back on dog it got it can you see that Kirk it knows a dog oh no see taking pictures of dogs is hard oh he's he's lit well there that's fine look at that what a star you can see various settings here so lots of control if you happen to want it settings for video mode will take you all the way up to 4k UHD and you can shoot in h.265 for higher efficiency at that higher resolution more interesting to me is night mode I first checked this out on a huawei device and it blew my mind once upon a time and of course it's still here in the p30 Pro and this I mean this is just capable of shall we hit the Lights real quick it's kind of incredible you saw that happen there Kirk the lights went out and somehow this thing I mean it's he's better than I do right now I'm in pitch black and it still sees a plant here look at this is the plant in real life takes a couple of shots merges it together and I mean it makes day out of night it's incredible alright so obviously lots going on in the camera department the sheer diversity of ways to interact with the various cameras the options the manual mode the night mode and so on things are looking promising at the moment selfie camera let's do a quick one whoa it's a detailed selfie ladies and gentlemen are you seeing this right now that is a 32 megapixel sensor this is a realistic-looking selfie like that's what I look like you understand the beard hair test holy moly this thing's doing selfies the eyeball Kirk just had an interesting point he says the knotch is not as hidden in the official themes like apples trying to do so if you were curious about potential knotch distraction during video watching this should give you an idea of how much it interrupts your video stream it ain't much let's play some music real quick oh boy Saturday morning cartoons I mean awesome tunes obviously ghost notes the speaker's not that loud I don't know I'd say it's average really the speaker it's clear it's doing the trick place not it's not blowing me away or anything like that it's just doing the trick so what can I say about this phone I mean in this some Posse it's pretty it's a beauty look at that I think it's gonna turn some heads people gonna be like what are you rocking right there that that nice little gradient going on the whole unit has five cameras if you include the front one the front one well you saw what it did to my face it's all very promising I mean it's a good time to be a smartphone fan that's really the take away when I see products like this I feel bad for Apple people because they only get to really you don't have one moment per year like they get one option like holy smokes from month to month the flagships just slapping you in the face hey you mean it forces these guys to bring the eight-game all the time it's all a game we got to shrink the notches we get to hole punch OLED everywhere more cameras how many cameras I don't know ten cameras long-range short-range wide-angle portrait algorithms computational photography AI color gradients slim batteries did I even mention the battery on this 4,200 milliamp hours gotta get that in I mean I should say this guy's expensive but I should definitely mention that flagship territory also price-wise this is a thousand euros to start they do have a cheaper model the p30 it's only two hundred dollars less look out for a video on that it strips down this just a little bit at a lower price point because that seems to be what the flagships are doing now they got the flagship and then the sub flagship and that might be the better deal nonetheless you got to pay to play in this department it's an expensive phone that's for sure but you gotta admit it's kind of pretty