64 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 63sample phone Huawei provided for this test, photos
from the ultra-wide camera had noticeably different
colours to those from the main and telephoto
cameras, being darker and more saturated.
That’s most annoying when you’re shooting video
and you switch from the main camera to ultra-wide,
as the colours visibly shift.
The Apple-like camera app is easy to use, but is
packed with a few too many settings and features.
One feature we wish it had was auto HDR. But no.
Even though Huawei has improved the HDR mode
on the P30 Pro, it remains a separate mode of its
own which you have to switch to manually. And so,
for the vast majority of the time, you won’t use it –
a shame as it’s very good.
The P30 Pro is Huawei’s first phone to offer
stabilization in 4K, but there’s still no option to
record it at 60fps. Video quality is very good (see
fave.co/2Wqd1Z2), with lots of detail and good stereo
sound. Stabilization isn’t great in 4K, sadly, so you may
want to stick to 1080p or invest in a phone gimbal.
As if 24Mp weren’t enough for the front camera,
Huawei has upgraded it to 32Mp on the P30 Pro.
And it does take a good selfie, but we couldn’t see
a whole lot more detail than the P20 Pro’s 24Mp
camera. Look up close and details are smeary (see
page 63), as you tend to see when there’s heavy
noise reduction going on, but it’s possible there’s
some ‘beauty’ processing even when the slider is
set to zero as it was for the selfies we took here.
So, the P30 Pro isn’t perfect: the ultra-wide and
zoom cameras each have their flaws. But overallROUND-UP