Android Pie starts rolling out to Huawei P20 series in China, international market could soon follow

Power Trio: The Huawei P20 Pro Review

Huawei has begun rolling out Android 9.0 Pie via the EMUI 9 skin in China. It’s being reported that it’s hitting both the P20 and P20 Pro units. It’s the final build and it brings with it Huawei’s take on Google’s Digital Wellbeing app—Digital Balance—as well as better volume controls, GPU Turbo for smoother gameply, and gesture navigation. There is no word yet when it’ll be hitting the international market but with this being the final build, it shouldn’t be that long of a wait.

Source: GSMArena

Huawei credits its triple rear camera on the P20 for boost in smartphone sales

China-based Huawei believes its innovations in the smartphone photography category has helped improve their sales drastically. Kevin Ho, Huawei’s president for its phone business, announced during his keynote speech at CES Asia in Shanghai that the company has shipped six million units of its P20 and P20 Pro worldwide. And that shipment of its phones are up by 81 percent when compared to the same 10 week period in 2017, when the P10 was launched. Shipments in China went up by 63 percent, while those outside the country jumped a significant 150 percent.

Ho attributes this significant gain to the triple rear camera on the P20 Pro. He claims that the innovations they’ve put into that flagship phone’s camera have “pushed up shipments of P20 both at home and abroad.” The P20 Pro features the world’s first triple camera system with a 40-megapixel RGB lens, a 20-megapixel monochrome lens, and an 8-megapixel telephoto lens.

Source: South China Morning Post

Overview: Huawei P20 creates its own smartphone category

Text and photos by Emily Chung

The new Huawei P20 and P20Pro have come out as  solutions for consumers who want the high quality photos of a digital camera within their smartphone. This is one of the first AI powered camera available in a smartphone, and Huawei makes it very clear that it’s not trying to compete in the traditional smartphone category. They’ve gone beyond that, offering Leica’s triple camera system on the P20 Pro.

This system also achieved the highest overall DxOMark Score of 109. Huawei is making the distinction between their ‘professional photography’ versus ‘smartphone photography’ that's available with other brands.

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The Huawei P20’s AI features will come to the Mate 10 through Android 8.1 update

For owners of the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro, Huawei is giving you access to the additional artificial intelligence-detected scenes introduced in the Huawei P20 and P20 Pro. The caveat is you’ll have to wait for the Android 8.1 Oreo update to hit your device. These AI-detected scenes help take the guesswork out of what settings are needed for a specific scene. Huawei introduced six on top of the 13 already available in the Mate 10s, including fireworks, document scan, waterfall, group photo, natural colors, and macro.

But if this isn’t a feature you want, the Mate 10s will also soon get the P20s’ ability to disable scene recognition. This option isn’t available to the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro at the moment. Huawei’s Richard Yu did give a specific timeline though when the update will come to these devices.

Source: Android Authority