Huawei Announces New Smartphone Flagships
- Paul Thurrott
- Mar 26, 2019
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Huawei this morning announced its P30 series of flagship handsets, raising the bar yet again on smartphone photography.
“Thanks for the warm up Tim,” a Huawei tweet reads, referencing Apple CEO Tim Cook. “Now on to the main event.”
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That main event is the Huawei P30 Pro, which includes a quad-lens camera system that was made in partnership with Leica. The camera system includes a 40 MP main lens, a wide-angle lens, a telephoto lens with 10X optical zoom, and a time-of-flight lens that captures blurred effects.
The P30 Pro’s camera system is designed to solve the biggest problems with smartphone cameras, like low-light situations and optical zoom, which has been stuck at 2X since Apple released the iPhone 7 Plus in 2016. The camera system also uses two lens for video recording, further leapfrogging other smartphones.
“The Huawei P30 Pro completely rewrite the rules of smartphone photography,” Huawei senior product manager Peter Gauden says.
We shall see: I was invited to the launch event—in Paris, no less—but couldn’t attend because of a previous work-related commitment. But I’m hoping to review the P30 Pro soon. Please note that the triple-lens camera system in the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is my current pick for best smartphone camera. So I have high hopes for the P30 Pro as well.
More soon.
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#415569">In reply to red.radar:</a></em></blockquote><p>I get the lock-in factor, but for those who aren't locked in, there are better inexpensive phone and point and shoot camera options than what you can get with Apple.</p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#415569">In reply to red.radar:</a></em></blockquote><p>You make a great case to ONLY use vendor agnostic apps. </p><p><br></p><p>I use the browser and Apple music on my iPhone. I could very easily move to Android because Apple music is on that platform. So are all of the Microsoft apps I use and of course Google maps.</p><p><br></p><p>I guess the average iPhone user would have a hard time moving….but then again looking at my kids I think 99% of smartphones have a camera and snapchat….so it would be easy for them to move.</p><p><br></p><p>Apple has jumped the ship and Tim needs to go. I have a iPhone X and honestly I wish it had touch ID and a audio jack, both of which I miss greatly.</p>
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pargon
Premium Member<blockquote><em><a href="#415612">In reply to Polycrastinator:</a></em></blockquote><p>Why are you afraid they might block a company that is of a communist country when China steals hundreds of Billions of dollars worth of Intellectual Property? This issue against Huawei is NOT new, NOT due to the Trump administration, it was brought up in Congress under Bush and Obama. Only now is everyone freaking out and saying "Oh, I am afraid they may block Huawei". Our nation is meant to protect our people from threats, China has killed millions of their own people under communism. </p><p><br></p><p>Huawei official avoids the question numerous times that they have Communist Government Officials on the board of directors. </p><p><br></p><p>Cell phones were not allowed on my submarine when I was in the Navy in 2013 due to surveillance from China. They would hack phones so that when you performed the normal power off routine that it would look normal, the screen would go black but the phone was on….and voice activated to record. As soon as a cell signal was re-established it would send off the recording back to China. Cellular espionage has been going on a very long time, and it makes no sense to allow a company with Chinese Party Members on the board of directors to sell critical infrastructure here. The US Navy has intelligence that China specifically was targeting sailors that had cell phones on in berthing near the Ward Room / aka. War Room during mission vital to national security.</p><p><br></p><p>https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/huawei-the-china-government-is-not-us </p>
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dontbe evil
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Thanks for the warm up Tim,” </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">love it … apple as usual is million of years behind, but apple fan will keep buing next best iPhone evaaaaaaaaaaaaa, starting from only 1999$</span></p>
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Bats
<p>Huawei raising the bar? Raising the bar? What bar? Soap bar? Candy Bar? Is Thurrott serious? Huawei's cameras are good, but they are not great. Thurrott overrates Huawei cameras like parents overrating their children. </p><p><br></p><p>We all learned from failed Windows Phone that the higher the megapixels means….absolutely nothing. Want proof? Go to Youtube and search for Pixel 3 camera vs Huawei P20 Pro. It's not even funny, how the Pixel 3 is simply better than Huawei. The Pixel 3 kicked the Mate 20 Pro's butt….BIG TIME…..with just one lens!!! The Pixel 3 was tested against a Canon DSLR and…..WON!!! Do a Youtube search for Pixel 3 vs DSLR and you'll see what I mean.</p><p><br></p><p>However, my point is not to promote the Pixel 3/3XL over the Huawei. Rather, to show that the Huawei does not have the capability to (LOL) "rewrite the rules of smartphone photography." AGAIN…..if you don't believe me…..GO TO YOUTUBE. They'll show you instances where a photographer (I think from PC World) takes a picture of a model wearing a yellow shirt using with Thurrott's favorite Huawei P20. you can even see the lettering!!! However with a Pixel 3, LG V40, and even the iPhone XS you can see the lettering. LOL…..and you want me to believe that the P30 is going to be really that good? </p><p><br></p><p>Again, Huawei is not re-writing rules. This concerns me, when Thurrott writes something weird like this. Remember, when he glowingly praised and hailed the OnePlus phone (I think it was "6") when he got it? LOL….where is that phone now? I remember people in his website bought that phone because of him. Now he is doing the same for Huawei with these very "peculiar" posts. LOL…..it makes me laugh when he writes "the triple-lens camera system in the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is my current pick for best camera system." You know why that makes me laugh? It reminds me when Thurrott, a few years ago, wrote a year-end "Best of Year" blog post and he named all Microsoft products to be the best in almost everything. I remember, "best smartwatch" was the Microsoft Band. GONE! </p><p><br></p><p>Again,…..if you don't believe me…..like I said…..go to the Youtube and see for yourself. </p>