As of the present moment, it’s a hugely indulgent purchase for those who are (a) outside the US, and (b) absolutely convinced they need its extensive list of good features and desirable specs. Both models utilise the Kirin 980 system-on-chip, an octa-core SoC featuring Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 CPU cores, Mali-G76 MP10 GPU, and a pair of AI accelerators. We’re coming towards the end of 2018 now and one of the best phones of the year has been saved almost until last.

But if you’d rather unlock the phone with your face you can do that too, with its 3D face unlock feature.a first number of 6 denotes that it is completely dustproof, and a second number of 7 denotes that the device can withstand full immersion in water. In theory, this makes it easier to unlock your phone while it’s resting flat than using a back-mounted fingerprint button or facial recognition. It’ll even charge other wirelessly-charged phones that are stacked on the back, which is… a very niche addition. You can't see the sensor with your naked eye, and there's absolutely no way of telling it's there when the screen's on.

Looking at the Mate 20 Pro tells you two things: 1) it likely costs quite a bit of money, and 2) it’s got a signature look – but only from the back.

In conclusion, it was argued that "Instead of gimmicks and gaudiness, the Huawei P20 Pro delivers refinement and efficiency. The Mate 20 Pro’s 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage haven’t improved from the P20 Pro, though you can expand the storage via a new proprietary “nanoSD” format card to a maximum of 256GB. In many ways, the Mate 20 Pro is a superlative device that rivals the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, Google Pixel 3 , iPhone XS , and other 2018 phones. The feature will also turn itself off after a while, so you'll need to keep an eye on it if you're desperately hoping to give more power to a second phone.

There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. CNET was similarly positive, noting that the Mate 20 Pro "not only has a spec list that's the equal of any flagship phone out there, but it comes with enough new features to make it a truly exciting phone", and was less aggressive in its use of color saturation on photos than the P20 Pro, but panned Huawei's switch to a proprietary memory card format due to pricing and availability not having yet been announced. The phone is using graphene film cooling technology for thermal management, and is one of the first commercial products to utilize graphene for such purposes. We’ve mentioned above that the Mate 20 Pro has a curved screen, and that’s one of the most immediately noticeable parts of its design. I wasn’t particularly wowed by this fingerprint reader, which is nowhere near as fast as the more conventional ones Huawei puts in its other devices, but it’s still good and accurate enough.

It’s a refined, beautiful piece of hardware that manages to squeeze what reads like a tech enthusiast’s ultimate wishlist into a truly impressive phone. With raise-to-wake and the option to skip the lockscreen when you’re recognised, it is so fast you could be forgiven for thinking it was broken.

It looked like great fun, but this is still slated as a "coming soon" feature and Huawei hasn't yet said exactly when this will arrive. The Unlimited version runs off-screen so that factors such as display resolution don’t affect the score. The main camera on the Mate 20 pro has a 40-megapixel sensor, which combines four neighboring pixels into one to deliver 10-megapixel shots with enhanced detail. You have to be a bit more precise with your finger placement, and it isn’t as quick as Huawei’s recent capacitive fingerprint scanners, but it still works great.If that’s a dealbreaker, consider the vanilla Mate 20 or the gamer-focused Mate 20 X – both of which include the standard audio port. That means the Mate 20 Pro sometimes produces the most detail of the three, but that noise needs reining in, and that’s why I prefer to keep the AI turned on.