10x Zoom, Killer Design

The P30 Pro, Huawei's brand new high-end Android smartphone , comes with a whole bunch of innovative imaging features but to many users the most exciting one will arguably be the new device's innovative zoom system. Get excited: the four-camera setup of the Huawei P30 Pro looks and sounds pretty spectacular. Questions around Huawei's EMUI user experience and that new fingerprint sensor remain to be answered, but in terms of pure engineering firepower, the P30 Pro gives you about as much performance as you can ask for today.

P30 & P30 ProThe P30 Pro also shares the Mate 20 Pro's 4,200 mAh battery pack, along with fast-charging and wireless charging capabilities. Like the Mate 20 Pro (and a lot of phones these days), the Huawei P30 Pro has an in-display fingerprint reader. The larger phone's 4,200 mAh battery supports Huawei's 40-watt Super Charge, which can juice up the device from 0 to 70 percent in 30 minutes.

While Huawei's sub-brand Honor has switched to a hole-punch design , Huawei is keeping the good old notch for its flagship device. Huawei is today also launching a non-Pro P30, which scales the screen size down to 6.1 inches, has a smaller 3,650mAh battery, and accepts slower 22.5W charging.

The new images also reveal the various color options for the two new phones, and tease that they may be bundled with other gadgets, such as wireless speakers and charging accessories, during preorders. Don't forget that it also comes with a very useful ultra-wide lens not present on the P20 Pro and not tested by DxOMark.

The Kirin 980 SoC powers both smartphones. The camera apps even allows for a maximum 50x zoom factor but it's 4g probably best to limit yourself to 10x for usable results. Rounding out the P30 Pro's internals are 8GB of RAM and 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB of storage expandable with Huawei's proprietary NanoMemory storage cards (up from 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage on the P20).

The Huawei P30 and P30 Pro meanwhile, have a small water drop notch at the top of their displays, housing the front camera. The longer lens compresses the scene a lot more than the wider conventional smartphone lenses and offers a field-of-view that most of us will be familiar with from travel compact cameras.