With the standard P20 Pro, it has an
iPhone X-style front camera notch and a thick bottom "chin" bezel. It's also one-upping the rest of the
smartphone camera world with a whopping three cameras on the back.
Huawei is one of the rare smartphone manufacturers with its own SoC manufacturing
business, so instead of the usual
Snapdragon SoC, the heart of the P20 Pro is a HiSilicon Kirin 970.
The Kirin 970 is a 10nm, eight-core chip, with four 2.36GHz Cortex A73 cores and four 1.8GHz Cortex A53 cores providing CPU power. That is paired with a 767MHz Mali-G72 MP12 GPU, 6GB of RAM, a generous 128GB of storage, and a 4000mAh battery in the P20 Pro. There's also a
USB-C port, IP67 water and dust resistance, NFC, and an IR blaster.
The real highlight here is the camera setup, which seems to be going for maximum overkill. The P20 Pro has a first-ever triple camera setup on the back. The main RGB camera is an outrageously large 40MP, 1/1.78-inch sensor with an f/1.8 aperture. This is paired with a 20MP monochrome camera with an f/1.6 aperture and an 8MP, f/2.4 telephoto camera. The overkill mentality applies to the front camera, too, which has a whopping 24MP sensor. This can no doubt render every facial imperfection and skin pore in stunning detail.
