Huawei Mate 20 Pro

The Mate 20 Pro is by far the best phone I've owned. It's fast with no lag or stutters. Feature packed UI which isn't as bad as what I was expecting. It all seems to work well together.The camera is exceptionally good. I couldn't find any weak points at all with this.Audio quality through the speakers is quite average but then it's a different story through the earphones. Using Player Pro and with a Dolby Atmos switched off, I found the sound exceptionally good, in fact the best by far of any previous phones I've had.Face Unlock is super fast and secure. The embedded fingerprint scanner is excellent. No more having to mess about with rear fingerprint readers.An excellent phone. It's the first phone to excite me in years, but....GREEN SCREEN ISSUE.A lot of the early production units that were fitted with an LG screen have suffered from a green coloured light bleed around the edges. This unit was affected by it and had to be returned for a refund. Using other retailers before I used Amazon, in total I've sent back 5 phones affected by this problem. All retailers including Amazon were great at exchanging or refunding. My complaint here is with Huawei.Huawei have yet to issue a formal statement about what has been known about for weeks. Instead they seem to be using their customers to seek out all the affected units for them instead of issuing a product recall. Not good at all, and shame on Huawei for how they have handled this problem.If you're prepared for a possible disappointment, if you get a bad screen, and the hassle of having to return for refund or replacement, then stick with it because the phone is worth the effort.I finally got a good phone with a great screen and 6 days there's no issues at all.

So I'm not one for upgrading my phone to keep up with the trends but my oneplus (the original) is coming up to four years old and just doesn't seem to be as quick as it once was so I decided to upgrade. I ummed. I ahhed. The Mate 20 Pro is expensive but in the end I decided to bite the bullet and spoil myself. I'm sure I'd have been happy with a lesser phone and the upcoming Oneplus 6T looks good (and not far off the spec of this one while being a good bit cheaper) but so far I'm really happy with my choice to spoil myself.I've seen lots of bad reviews of the EMUI skin but I don't think it's too bad. The phone flys. Performance is great and I'm looking to get out on the weekend to put the camera through its paces. If you have the funds to burn, this looks to be a great phone and hopefully it'll provide me the four years use my last phone did.

Excellent phone, fantastic quality, super fast response, excellent camera. You will not be disappointed. Very happy.

It's been almost two weeks now since I've been using the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. I received this product as part of a review program in return for an unbiased review, and so I've been putting it through it's paces. I would consider myself a heavy phone user, normally by around 7pm, I'm reaching for the charger with my old phone. Not so with the Mate 20 Pro. The battery is immense! I can easily double the screen time from my old phone using this one! So that's a good point. Another good point, the camera. At first I wasn't amazed, then I released you must change resolution in settings. Default is 10 meg pixels, switching to 40mp gives amazing results. BTW, switching to 40mp disables the zoom and wide lens options, so remember to switch back to 10mp to get the use of those lenses back. About those other lenses, I've found the wide angle extremely useful, fitting in to the frame a lot more when there is no option to walk further back from what you want to capture. Beware though, there can be barrel distortion if you get too close to your subject using this wide lens. The telephoto I'm not so sure about. Granted it does get the long shots, but the quality to my eyes could be improved. It's a small niggle, but overall, considering, all the cameras as a package, I really can't grumble. The 3D live maker app is immense fun and should be your 1st app to download when you get your Mate 20 Pro. It shows off the forward facing 3d scanner to it's best. Bringing small toys to life is so much fun, even for a nigh on 50 year old kid like me. That same front scanner is also used for facial unlock. This works in total darkness, and I find it can unlock faster than the in screen finger print sensor. I've found the finger print sensor to be accurate I'd say 80% of the time. I am using a film type screen protector, so going without may improve on that, but personally I prefer the odd miss read knowing I have the security of the screen protection. BTW, don't bother with tempered glass screen protectors if you ever want to use the fingerprint sensor. The few I tried were abysmal, so that is one downside of having that sensor embedded in the screen. The only other problem I've come up against is using Google Assistant. You say "OK Google", to wake phone, however, I've found then that although the dots on the bottom are waiting for your next dictation, the mike is turned off. Maybe it's a Huawei problem, maybe Google? (Edit. I fixed this problem by uninstalling google assistant, and re-installing it) All in all I've immensely enjoyed using the Mate 20 PRO, 5 STARS

I have been an absolute fan of the Huawei Mate 9 and 10. Brilliant phones.I do not like the Mate 20 Pro. It has a very nice screen. The screen curvature makes it hard to hold in a comfortable landscape position without pressing the screen and adds absolutely nothing to the device.Google pay refuses to work with this device for me, I've tried everything that has been suggested to me to resolve the issue but it just isn't detected. NFC works fine, but I don't know why google pay doesn't work with this Mate 20 Pro.The sound quality of the speakers has been diving since the Mate 9 Pro. The sound is now located in the USB port and is extremely poor.The lack of a 3.5mm jack is not unexpected given Huawei's desperation to attract Apple's audience but is still extremely annoying in any phone.Phone performs well and the battery life lasts an excellent amount of time.Fingerprint reader in-screen is very, very bad - especially in comparison to the Mate 9 and Mate 10.I have heard the face recognition is really good in the Mate 20 Pro, I have a beard (and that's probably not good for face recognition) and this phone cannot recognise my face probably 60% of the time.I am extremely aggravated by a strange delay that occurs when trying to delete gmail notifications from the notification - it takes about 5-10 seconds to respond. This is not something I've experienced in any other phone. It isn't a big deal but I don't understand why this happens and find it aggravating.I find the screen easily scratchable and have so far not found a screen protector that hasn't lasted more than 2 weeks due to the screen curvature.The camera seems good. Sometimes. The 40MP camera doesn't seem to take any particularly special pictures in quality - it seems to take very high quality blurry pictures. Like seeing the blur in high definition. The other camera is 10MP only and also seems to take blurry pictures. The ultrawide lens is a good addition.Frankly not a good purchase for the price at all. if you are considering a Huawei Phone, a Mate 10 Pro is an excellent choice over this pointlessly curved device.