ISSUE 45 • ANDROID ADVISOR 45REVIEWactually see less (as is the case with all 18:9 screens
at the moment).
Battery life, from our weekend of testing, shows
that the 3,340mAh battery can make it through a
whole day with normal use, but it drains quickly
if you’re playing games. There’s no fast charging,
so you’ll probably end up connecting the charger
each night when you go to bed.
Cameras
The main camera has a 16Mp sensor and uses PDAF
for focusing in a claimed 0.18 seconds. The second
camera has a 2Mp sensor and is simply used for depth
sensing rather than capturing photos or video. It
means you get the same portrait and wide-aperture
modes that you’ll find on the Huawei Mate 10 Pro and
the stock camera app is essentially the same minus a
couple of features, and the Leica branding.
One of those is video stabilisation: the 7X doesn’t
have any. It’s limited to recording at 1080p30 with no
60fps option, so this will put some off.
There’s an 8Mp selfie cam and you can enable
depth effect for blurry backgrounds. Thanks to gesture
support you can wave and get a countdown for group
shots. In selfie mode there’s the expected beauty
mode, but you can also apply fun masks and effects.
Photo quality isn’t amazing from the main camera.
It’s best in good light, where photos look sharp and
have good detail levels. HDR isn’t automatic, so you
have to select this from the list of modes if you think
it’s needed. This was taken with HDR (image 1) on a
gloomy day, but even so we’d expect colours to be