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Huawei Mate 30 Pro front camera review

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The Mate 30 Pro is the new premium smartphone from Chinese device maker Huawei, featuring top-end specs all around, including a large 6.53-inch OLED display, a powerful Kirin 990 chipset with a new image signal processor ( ISP ), and an impressive-looking quad-camera setup at the rear. In front, things look a little more conventional from a camera point of view. The Mate 30 Pro’s front camera uses a 32Mp sensor that is coupled with a 28mm-equivalent, f/2.0- aperture fixed-focus lens. Thus far the front camera specs are very similar to those of the P30 Pro, which was launched in February 2019. However, for better depth estimation in bokeh mode, Huawei has added a time-of-flight (ToF) sensor to the Mate 30 Pro’s front camera. In video mode,  the Mate 30 Pro records 1080p footage at 30 frames per second. Read on to find out how the Huawei Mate 30 Pro performed in our front camera tests. Key front camera specifications: 32Mp Quad-Bayer sensor 26mm-equivalent, f/2.0-aperture, fix...

Huawei Mate 30 Pro camera review

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The Huawei Mate 30 Pro is the Chinese manufacturer’s latest flagship smartphone and comes with a 6.53-inch OLED display, a 4,500 mAh battery, and Huawei’s brand-new Kirin 990 chipset. The rear camera features a total of four modules, including a time-of-flight (ToF) sensor for 3D improved depth-sensing in bokeh mode. On paper, the primary camera’s hardware specs are the same as last year’s P30 Pro model, with a 40Mp Quad-Bayer sensor and a f/1.7- aperture lens. But the Mate 30 Pro doesn’t get the P30 Pro’s 5x tele; instead it uses a 3x tele module very similar to what we saw in the (non-Pro) P30. The ultra-wide camera is brand new, however. At 18mm, it is far from the widest we have seen, but has a very large 1/1.54″ sensor, a fast f/1.8 aperture, and unusually, a 3:2 aspect ratio. On the software side of things, the new Huawei makes use of the Kirin chipset’s improved processing power and deploys a new AI- RAW algorithm that uses artificial intelligence to optimize demosaicing f...