European Hardware Association names Huawei P20 Pro as 'Best Smartphone of 2018'

The HUAWEI P20 Pro was named “Best Smartphone of 2018” at European Hardware Awards 2018, an annual awards organised by the European Hardware Association. The European Hardware Awards recognise and celebrate the best electronic products in the European market, as selected by experienced editors from around the world. The 2018 event saw more than 100 editors voting for their favourite products across 42 categories of electronic devices and hardware, including smartphones, wearables and PC components.

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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

Huawei P20 Pro wins ‘Best Photo Smartphone’ from TIPA World Award 2018

First impressions of the Huawei P20 and P20 Pro

For the second year in a row, the TIPA General Assembly has recognized Huawei for its smartphone camera efforts awarding the P20 Pro this time around as the “Best Photo Smartphone.” According to TIPA Chairman Thomas Gerwers, ““The new P20 Pro, developed in cooperation with Leica, is an amazing milestone in the development of smartphone devices for high-quality photographic imaging.”

This smartphone is considered to have the world’s first triple-camera system with what is considered from this generation as having the highest pixel count available for a smartphone with with f/1.8, f/1.6 and f/2.4 wide aperture. It has a 40MP RGB sensor, a 20MP monochrome sensor, and an 8MP sensor with an optically stabilized 3X telephoto lens. Huawei promises you get the best low light photos with the P20 Pro and combined with its homegrown artificial intelligence system the phone recognizes over 500 scenes in 19 categories, making sure you get the best photos you can from any scenario.

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