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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] cash3603:
I agree with dollarpapa, P20 is a decent phone but nothing remarkable really. I bought it 6 months ago for a beefy price tag of 545 euros, it costs around 450 euros now. The main reason I picked p20 at that time was the camera, it was the 2nd best rated camera according to dxomark and bunch of youtubers.

My thoughts in brief:

1. Camera: Really good at night. Not great during the day.

2. Screen: pretty bright and crisp, however Amoleds are always more appealing.

3. Battery: very good.

4. UI: garbage. Like others have mentioned, there is a minor touch lag that kills the smoothness compared to say og Pixel.

5. Speed: the storage is really fast, that means apps open up really quick. Memory management is horrible, worse than og Pixel.

Overall I'd say don't buy this phone in 2019 unless you want it only for night time pictures. A decent alternative is Galaxy S9 without sacrificing much in terms of camera quality. For performance, I'd go with Pocophone f1,but the camera will be much worse.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're a power user. Can the Huawei P20 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Huawei P20. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Would you say that the Huawei P20 is "fast" in day-to-day use? A higher rating indicates that you think the Huawei P20 exhibits fantastic performance. Like, is it as fast as your tears when you watch The Titanic?

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] g_oral:
Geekbench 4

- Single Core: 1903

- Multi-core: 6678

Antutu v7.07

- Overall score: 207668

- CPU: 72078

- GPU: 76138

- UX: 45796

- MEM: 13655
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] wadia13:
poor...

I find overall speed to be poor considering its a flagship. For example, changing the wallpaper takes a several seconds (with the dots going around in a circle showing that the processor is working to do something). In comparison, SD 845 devices such as Sony XZ2 do it almost in an instant. I'm not saying the Sony is a better phone. In fact, some SD 630 devices do it even faster than P20/P20 Pro. Have tried it on more than 1 P20/P20 Pro and its the same. There is just something wrong with software optimization with these Huawei phones, and/or with the hardware.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Shattermatter:
Geekbench 4

- Single Core: 1884

- Multi-core: 6686

Antutu v7.07

- Overall score: 205893

- CPU: 72148

- GPU: 75741

- UX: 44588

- MEM: 13416

Overall performance gets throttled with increasing heat.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Fleonar:
I find that while listening to music with a bluetooth speaker/headphones, the phone gets extremely laggy. As soon as I turn bluetooth off, it's ok...
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] jakal46:
I think it's not fast at all. Some "normal" games even jerk slightly. Since my predecessor model (OnePlus 3T) was faster.

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] fxcool:
I got a EML-L09 (P20)

My geekbench score is :

Single Core : 1891

Multi-Core : 6680

And I don't have GPU Boost update so for 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme I got :

OpenGL 3.1

Overall score: 3008

Graphics score: 3061

Physics score: 2835

Vulkan

Overall score: 3278

Graphics score: 3630

Physics score: 2448

CPU Clock 0.6 GHz to 2.1GHz

Battery drop from 91% to 88%

Temp go to 36°C(96.8°F) - 44°C (111.2°F)

Overall performance of my device get pretty good beside the fact that didn't have the gpu boost update.:good:
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Matt8504:
I cant tell how fast it is, because its my first smartphone. But I had mediapad m2, m3 and now m5 with Kirin 960s processor and overall p20 is faster. But difference between mediapad m3 with 950 processor and kirin 970 is not so big. The all are very fast in everyday use and task. I don't play games. Ive change the animation duration to 0.5 sec because its too slow by default. This make things happen faster.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] kustomizer:
Not impressed with overall speed

I have been using this phone for a week. Thought I took a flagship phone, I am not impressed. I can see it is the software that makes the system slow.

Coming from an Iphone 6S, I would say that the Iphone had much better response and sensitivity.

My wife's Xiaomi redmi Note 5 is much more responsive and quicker.

I should have gone with the Nokia 8 as I wanted to... I can see the responsiveness of the Nokia 8, even being a smaller and older model would have outperformed the Huawei P20.

The camera is outstanding however.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] OlaffLudwig:
I would say it is ok for my day to day use, but I would not consider myself a power user, since I use it mostly for chatting, checking emails, browsing 9gag / tapatalk and some mild gaming (like Angry birds 2 or Last day on earth) when in subway. Though when using google maps it is extremely lagy... I don't know whether it is the app or phone itself.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Spanishnico:
This is because Bluetooth and WiFi both use 2.4 GHz spectrum , so it fools both antennas , decreasing their signal reception.

I have Honor View 10 and i have the same issue , so when i use Bluetooth and have enough data i prefer to use it instead.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] MomentaryPixels:
Drops frames even when just scrolling through the UI.

Very jerky at times, and but the greatest experience when browsing through websites.

Still prefer my reading articles on my old iPhone 5s for its smoothness, to give you an idea.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
OMG! Kim K posted another selfie with tons of cleavage! Rate this thread to express how quickly apps launch on the Huawei P20. A higher rating indicates that even the most intensive apps launch quickly and without hesitation, even if they are no longer in RAM.

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're busy and don't have time to wait, which is why you need to stop reading this thread and get back to organizing your Pogs. Rate this thread to express how the Huawei P20 performs when multitasking. A higher rating indicates that the Huawei P20 keeps many apps in memory so that they don't need to reload, and that when moving between apps, transitions are smooth and performance is excellent.

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Some phones exhibit choppy scrolling, especially when navigating long web pages when multiple apps are running in the background. Rate this thread to express how you smooth scrolling feels on the Huawei P20 under such conditions. A higher rating indicates that scrolling is always buttery smooth, even when you're reading a 10,000 word article on "how to kiss a girl".

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Ephixi4:
Overall it feels good, just rarely I get these little stutters. Can't recall in what app atm.

System-wise it's perfect, I'd say 4/5 atm, will try to see when exactly and in what apps I get this stutter.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] onlinejobwork:
I am coming from Oneplus5 and it's not as smooth, menu opening and closing is bit slow, scrolling through web pages is not smooth and occasional lag occurred, Huawei launcher is a joke, hardly any people will prefer to use, I have to use developer option and set animation to 0.5x from 1.x to get fast menu speed. also, 960 frame per second video is a joke and its limited to few seconds, it seems like to complete with Sony and Samsung the feature been added without proper implementation, front camera has strange waved going across when trying to take the shot TV and monitor etc.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] paulrod:
I've had my P20 for 5 days and find WEB scrolling to be pretty good, however screen swipe transitions can feel a little jerky compared to the

iPhone 6S (the phone I had before this). But all in all the P20 is good, fast and I have had no problems.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] johnny8910:
I'm using AdGuard to stop most of the back ground advertising to load.

Cures the stutters in web page loading and scrolling.

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Yeh, seen that before on other phones. Something to do with frequency/refresh of TV screens.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] igor mortis:
I got my P20 Pro 4 days ago, and to me it's been a frustrating experience due to scrolling lag. The overall experience when I scroll in the Facebook app, Instagram or webpages using Chrome is really laggy and disappointing. I came from a OnePlus 5T without and lag problems at all. So hoping for a quick fix or I move to another phone.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] HUAWEI P20:
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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Shattermatter:
I can confirm there are occasional stutter while navigating through apps and webpages (AdGuard is installed).
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] zgomot:
I have not experienced any of these stutters. Scrolling is smooth AF.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] fredriks:
I have some problems in Tapatalk and Google photos, there is scrolling not smooth. Haven't noticed it somewhere else, I use Samsung browser and browsing scrolling is fine. Same in settings and between screens it works flawless
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Some phones are great to take camping because if you play Asphalt 8 long enough, the back warms up to the ideal temperature that can bake bread. Rate this thread to express the extent to which the Huawei P20 stays cool under extended heavy use. A higher rating indicates that even when playing strenuous games for long periods of time, the phone doesn't get uncomfortably warm.

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] onlinejobwork:
Done stress test using app and in 10 minutes phone top half, but top half of the front screen heated most
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] paul678:
Overall use for the last 3 days phone didn't manage to get hot. And just played around 30-40 minutes of NFS No Limits resulting again in almost no noticeable difference in heat.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Ephixi4:
Used a couple of days.

During normal use didn't notice it getting any warmer. Same goes for some not so demanding games.

With some more hardcore gaming I can maybe feel a warmer spot when I look for it.

Will update after I run a stress test for funsies and do a longer gaming session.

Overall, awesome imo!

edit: While gaming for longer time, Less demanding games like clash royale and so on do not heat up the phone at all. Playing Hearthstone and PUBG also didn't notice any significant heat-up. It all depends on how the game is optimized, overall good games even these more demanding won't heat up the phone much. I tested some early access game, it heat up a lot and drained battery very quickly, the phone heated up in the top part near the camera.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Theandroidfan:
My one does tend to get fairly warm but that's about it.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] speedking:
hi!

i'm a Qtek user and i'm using the "Jwrightmcps Crossbow 2.12.08 WWE ROM".

i was trying to overclock my ppc but i couldn't :-(

i don't know the reason why..i was thinking if its because of the rom?!?...or maybe the cpu is locked?!?!

there is no special reason (for me) to overclock...just for fun!!

*i upload the cab if someone wants to try it out!

thanks alot from GREECE!
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
At the club, at the bar, or just in your mom's basement, nighttime is when you come out to play. Rate this thread to express how the Huawei P20's camera performs when no or low light is present. A higher rating indicates that the camera sensor "sees" lots of light in dim conditions, and that the resulting photos have minimal noise. A higher rating also indicates that when the flash fires, the resulting photo is evenly-lit without any bright spots.

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] cash3603:
Really good at night, and the noise reduction is pretty good. The night mode tends to oversharpen and mess up the white balance. However, it still adds a ton of dynamic rabge and if held steady, gives you very decent shot half the times. It can't always nail the exposure though, Google does that better with night sight.

Non night mode shots are usually a bit underexposed to save the highlights from blowing out. Sometimes, the Auto Hdr will kuck in , and you will have to hold your phone steady for a second.I find taking hdr pucs rather slow with p20.

There is a decent amount of detail, but sometimes the oversharpening can make it look bad, but of course p20 pro beats p20 by a decent margin because of the quad bayer pixel binning.

The manual mode is really handy for low light. You can even shoot bulb mode(super long exposure), the iso range 50-3200, exposure is +-3, same for the monochrome camera. Manual focusing sucks with the stock camera, as there is no focus peaking.

I prefer using OpenCamera HDR for daytime, it's way better than stock camera app as long as we are talking close to base ISO.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Say "cheese", then rate this thread to express how photos taken with the Huawei P20 come out. A higher rating indicates that photos offer rich color (without over-saturating), sharp detail (with all subjects in-focus), and appropriate exposure (with even lighting).

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] onlinejobwork:
2 more days to go before I got my hands on P20, will shot and compare image with P20, S7, OnePlus 5 and Sony A7 full frame without mention name on pics
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] paul678:
P20 vs P10 portrait mode on

Below you can find a comparison on portrait mode quality between P20 and P10.

The photos where shot with portrait mode on and from distance of around 2meters. Same lighting conditions (basically shot in the same time).

The image is cropped a lot so you can see the difference in the detail level. Also the portrait mode recognized the face better and did a better job with the blur (cannot be seen in the sample).

I can also confirm that the low light performance is ... nigh and day difference. Overall, from my point of view, the camera upgrade is very much visible and worth it under most conditions.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] g_oral:
with HDR on
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] jigodi:
Without tripod, night mode
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] berre:
Hi,

Posted this as a separate topic but no feedback so far, as this topic is specifically about the camera I'm looking forward to feedback here

I'm in the market for a new phone and really interested in the P20, it ticks a lot of boxes for me.

However the most important thing for me is the camera: I take a lot of pictures of my kids - often indoors

I went to 2 shops to test the phone and noticed that the pictures came out sharp but dark. The light grey carpet turned out dark grey in many instances.

Only when tapping on the screen (and focusing on the carpet) the brightness was increased but then the focus of the picture was on the carpet instead of the overall picture I wanted to take.

Also the pictures were sometimes not consistent, taking a couple of pictures in a row produced different results.

I tried switching on/off different settings but pictures remained quite dark.

The night mode really took a good picture but asking my kids to sit still for 4 seconds is nearly impossible*

Same thing for the P20 pro, pictures also turned out darker then irl.

The S9 was in the shop as well and this phone actually made everything a bit more bright then irl but the pictures seemed more pleasing.

Where I really had to focus on the picture to see what was in the darker parts in the P20's pictures, the S9's photo revealed all without effort.

Although a samsung user for a long time, I'm not attached to the brand, I was in fact really hoping to make a switch to another brand but the test pictures I took are putting me off a bit.

Anybody else experience this? Any advice on which combo of settings to try?

Cheers

B
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Al3xxxinho:
Hi,

Does the p20 have ois or not ? Some sites say it does ( like gsmarena ) others do not mention anything.

Thanks !
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] g_oral:
i would say that p20 dont have OIS because there is only EIS in movies (there is a crop when recording 1080p video).

if you want a good camera i would choose the LG G6. my girlfriend bought it in the same time as i bought my p20. LG G6 is now cheap as hell, it has OIS, wide angle camea (it worth more than zoom in P20). and even that selfie camera has only 5Mpix in LG there is an autofocus (p20 dont have autofocus in selfie camera). photos from p20 are overexposed, green color is unnatural.

and LG G6 got few days ago Oreo and even that Snapdragon in LG is slower than Kirin the Andrid on LG is buttery smooth (P20 is not so smooth).
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] zgomot:
It DOES have OIS on both lenses, up to 108030fps, after that, at 108060fps it uses EIS and at 2160p it has zero IS.

Get your facts straight.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Al3xxxinho:
Hi [MENTION=4132346]g_oral[/MENTION]

I'we owned the LG G6 H870DS variant and I won't come back to LG too soon.

While all the other flagships received Oreo, the G6 was stuck on 7.0. And you know what is more frustating than that ? The annoying 7.0 bug in which the phone idle consumes more power than the screen on time ( which was resolved in 7.1 ).

Overall it was a great phone, but you cannot compare it to P20 which is a lot better than the G6 :) Also, camera performance was not stelar, I was not impressed.

P.S: G6 does not have autofocus on selfie camera, only HTC 10 does ;)
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] g_oral:
Selfie camera does much better work in lg g6. The colora are better, not overexposed, you can tap the sceen for exposure balance.

I can say that p20 is not worth the money. I bought it because of the free bose headphones but without them p20 should have price of lg g6. Not more.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Rajaasim1980:
Camera is basically overhyped ..not better than even old s7 edge, pixel or HTC U11 unless you love over sharpening and oversaturation..Its worse mostly when you take photos of faces look like oil painting
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Ephixi4:
I like the back camera. Can make some nice pictures that are good for making edits.

Night mode is also impressive.

Overall not disappointed.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Diwosin:
For me, the camera has given pretty good results, the sharpening is good, but in night mode is oversharpened, colors may be a little bit intense, not saturated. In video is a deception just for the stabilization (i fix that with Photos app) and the selfie is good with enough light and if you go to snapseed and use the brush tool with -0.3EV. To summarize, is a great camera if you can spend time fixing its tiny errors, but if you don't, it's just what you can expect from a high-end smartphone this days.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] papyzebike:
I have a Honor 10, and i would like to change for a P20. Because photos are important for me...But i'm not sure... my question is , Is there a big difference (in photo) between the Honor 10 and the P20 ? Somebody already tried the Honor 10 and the P20 ? I see a lot of comparaison on the web always with different results...

Many thanks guys
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Rajaasim1980:
Master Al ON

Master Al OFF

Night Mode
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Devmil:
I quite like the camera. There are some things to consider though:

- Master AI goes crazy from time to time (too much color) but does really help in other situations (e.g. automatic bokeh effect)

- Even with Master AI turned off there are occasions where the lighting and / or the subject lead to strange effects. E.g. sometimes the hair of our dog looks like a painting when zooming a little bit into the picture.

- The image processing tends to oversharpen

Overall I would say the Pixel 2 and even the S9 take good photos more constantly but for me the combination of screen size, device size, camera quality and battery life is best on the Huawei P20. I hope that they improve the mentioned problems or that a good Pixel Camera app port arrives (not much hope as we have a different processor)

Difficult light conditions (dark outside)

https://imgur.com/PuRtF5X

Macro

https://imgur.com/ngK031U

https://imgur.com/pxTwaX5

https://imgur.com/E4yNK8n

Good light conditions

https://imgur.com/CeDEWbW

Here you can see the "painting" style when zooming in

https://imgur.com/mykptOL
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Rajaasim1980:
Weak point of p20 camera is video recording ..If someone liek natural looking photos then this camera is not for them
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] dbkflyer:
Huawei P20 camera specs

Rear cameras:

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Huawei P20 camera specs

Rear cameras:
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Rokas M.:
Let me disagree with you :) The camera of this phone is equal or not far behind the entry-level DSLR. This is of course, considering if you shoot exclusively in RAW format.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Allek84:
Camera on this phone is simply great, but somtimes is needed to know how to use her.

Poslato sa EML-L29 pomoću Tapatoka
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Allek84:
Here some my photos

Huawei P20 by Aleksandar Markovic, on Flickr

Huawei P20 5,2 X zoom by Aleksandar Markovic, on Flickr

Huawei P20 AI by Aleksandar Markovic, on Flickr

Huawei P20 by Aleksandar Markovic, on Flickr

Huawei P20 auto mode by Aleksandar Markovic, on Flickr

Huawei P30 aurora
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Allek84:
night mode

Huawei P20 midnight blue
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Your friends are never going to believe what you did. The only way to prove it to them is with that video you took. Rate this thread to express how videos shot on the Huawei P20 come out. A higher rating indicates that videos are smooth (and not choppy) and that auto-focus works very well, and that the camera adjusts quickly to different lighting conditions while recording.

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
You're beautiful and everyone knows it. That's why you take selfies. Rate this thread to express how the front-facing camera of the Huawei P20 performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.

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[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] onlinejobwork:
I test front camera of P20 myself I'm not impressed with quality , it's 24 MP but not autofocus , it's a big let down and also as in specs gsmarena mention about FM radio but I can't find FM radio app from demo handset and also infra red which is only present in P20 pro. also compare same shot from P20, P20 pro and OnePlus 5 and it's unbelievable and shocked that OnePlus 5 pics is more brighter and sharper , I already decided to sell my OP5 to get P20 and I think mate 10 pro is much better choice than P20
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] onlinejobwork:
Got mine yesterday and front camera is worst I have ever seen, can't focus on all people in group pics, looks overexposed unsharpened and unrealistic image even with beatification off
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] g_oral:
Selfie camera is not very good. Mostly because of software. Photos are overexposed and unsharp.

And this camera has no autofocus like in some cheap phones
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] Fleonar:
My problem with the front camera so far is with focus, as stated by other users. It would, weirdly, focus on my t-shirt's text, but not my face.
[Huawei P20 Real Life Review] prowsterz:
The front camera softens and overexposes as soon as it detects a face. I've tried many different camera apps with the same result. Has anyone been able to find a solution to this problem?