Huawei Mate 20 Pro

‘A new perspective to smartphone photography’

HUAWEI has been producing some spectacular smartphones over the past few years, with innovative camera technology that’s co- engineered with Leica. With this latest model, it has taken the already-excellent camera used by its P20 Pro and added a 16mm equivalent lens, alongside 27mm and 80mm camera modules. This makes for a unique device that brings a whole new perspective to smartphone photography, allowing you to switch from ultra-wideangle to short telephoto simply by tapping a button.

Huawei’s camera app is both impressively well-featured and intuitive to use. Alongside the basic point-and-shoot Photo mode, you get an Aperture mode for shallow depth- of-field effects, a Night mode that allows handheld exposures up to eight seconds, and a Portrait mode including various relighting and bokeh-simulation effects. Enthusiast photographers should particularly appreciate the Pro mode, which gives full manual control and the ability to record DNG raw files. The device is based around a lovely 6.39in OLED HDR screen that’s gently curved towards the edges, with a fingerprint reader embedded underneath. Its huge 4200mAh battery charges quickly and is easily capable of lasting a day of intensive use. Last but not least, IP68 waterresistance means it should survive an accidental soaking. For serious photographers, there’s nothing else quite like it.