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[Froggy]

Huawei P20 Pro awarded ‘Best Smartphone of the Year’ by EISA

LONDON — Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) Saturday received an award from the European Image and Sound Association (EISA), a group comprising 55 of the world’s most respected consumer electronics magazines. The Huawei P20 Pro was named “EISA Best Smartphone 2018-2019” by the association in recognition of Huawei’s commitment to quality, design and performance, as well as the company’s long track record of introducing stylish, powerful and winning devices. This is the sixth consecutive year that Huawei has been recognized by the EISA.

“For us the most important reward is creating products that let consumers enjoy and experience intelligent and photography through our devices. The Huawei P20 Pro provides a wealth of photography features to help capture and share the moments that mean the most to our users,” said Li Changzhu, vice president of handset business for Huawei Consumer Business Group.

EISA selected the Huawei P20 Pro as the best smartphone of the year for being “the most advanced, innovative and technically superior smartphone ever,” as well as “the perfect companion for mobile users, and also a trendsetter in the mobile photography field.”

The revolutionary Leica Triple Camera on Huawei P20 Pro boasts the highest total pixel count among all smartphone cameras in the market today. In addition, it supports 3x optical zoom and 5x hybrid zoom, plus innovative features including Huawei AIS (AI image stabilization).

“The sleek design of the Huawei P20 Pro features barely-there bezels and all-new gradient colors. The device is enabled with the unprecedented AI-powered chipset that delivers a fast and smooth user experience. The premier camera features allow for a superior low-light photography experience, making it one of the few devices capable of shooting long-exposure photos clearly without a tripod, owing to Huawei’s proprietary AIS technology.

“In addition, the 4,000mAh battery puts the Huawei P20 Pro among the smartphones with the largest battery capacities. Taken together, the Huawei P20 Pro represents “a winning combination of great hardware, optics and craftsmanship,” noted EISA.

EISA members include expert media across the full spectrum of consumer electronics from 27 countries, and each member contributes to one or more of EISA’s six Expert Groups —namely photography, mobile devices, Hi-Fi, home theater audio, home theatre display & video, and in-car electronics. Every year, EISA members nominate a list of products that they consider the standout performers in each of these Expert Groups. Nominations are then presented at EISA’s AGM, where members conduct an in-depth deliberation before voting for the winner of each category.

The award will be formally presented to Huawei during IFA at the EISA Awards Ceremony on Aug. 31 in Berlin. — SG

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Huawei P20 Pro awarded ‘Best Smartphone of the Year’ by EISA

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LONDON — Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) Saturday received an award from the European Image and Sound Association (EISA), a group comprising 55 of the world’s most respected consumer electronics magazines. The Huawei P20 Pro was named “EISA Best Smartphone 2018-2019” by the association in recognition of Huawei’s commitment to quality, design and performance, as well as the company’s long track record of introducing stylish, powerful and winning devices. This is the sixth consecutive year that Huawei has been recognized by the EISA.

“For us the most important reward is creating products that let consumers enjoy and experience intelligent and photography through our devices. The Huawei P20 Pro provides a wealth of photography features to help capture and share the moments that mean the most to our users,” said Li Changzhu, vice president of handset business for Huawei Consumer Business Group.

EISA selected the Huawei P20 Pro as the best smartphone of the year for being “the most advanced, innovative and technically superior smartphone ever,” as well as “the perfect companion for mobile users, and also a trendsetter in the mobile photography field.”

The revolutionary Leica Triple Camera on Huawei P20 Pro boasts the highest total pixel count among all smartphone cameras in the market today. In addition, it supports 3x optical zoom and 5x hybrid zoom, plus innovative features including Huawei AIS (AI image stabilization).

“The sleek design of the Huawei P20 Pro features barely-there bezels and all-new gradient colors. The device is enabled with the unprecedented AI-powered chipset that delivers a fast and smooth user experience. The premier camera features allow for a superior low-light photography experience, making it one of the few devices capable of shooting long-exposure photos clearly without a tripod, owing to Huawei’s proprietary AIS technology.

“In addition, the 4,000mAh battery puts the Huawei P20 Pro among the smartphones with the largest battery capacities. Taken together, the Huawei P20 Pro represents “a winning combination of great hardware, optics and craftsmanship,” noted EISA.

EISA members include expert media across the full spectrum of consumer electronics from 27 countries, and each member contributes to one or more of EISA’s six Expert Groups —namely photography, mobile devices, Hi-Fi, home theater audio, home theatre display & video, and in-car electronics. Every year, EISA members nominate a list of products that they consider the standout performers in each of these Expert Groups. Nominations are then presented at EISA’s AGM, where members conduct an in-depth deliberation before voting for the winner of each category.

The award will be formally presented to Huawei during IFA at the EISA Awards Ceremony on Aug. 31 in Berlin. — SG

it is a good phone,,I would have got it if got SD card expansion and 3.5mm headphone jack,,,,,dont see the point of getting an android phone with iphone features.

 

[red amoeba]

That iPhone X imitation can last how long ? Six months before cocking up ?

 

[Leongsam]

If it runs Android it's crap.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

If it runs Android it's crap.

IOS is no better,,,I have received soo many complaints about IOS cannot do this and that etc,,,,,why do ppl like being hamstrung? Oh 70% like that from the PAP

 

[Froggy]

That iPhone X imitation can last how long ? Six months before cocking up ?

This is no iPhone X immitation. How are they the same, in what way it’s an imitation? Also your 6 months claim that it will breakdown in 6 months so where has it been reported or where is the test report that this will happen? By the way this phone was launched in May and less than 4 months old so where has it been reported that it will cock up in 6 months or are you talking cock yourself?

 

[Leongsam]

IOS is no better,,,I have received soo many complaints about IOS cannot do this and that etc,,,,,why do ppl like being hamstrung? Oh 70% like that from the PAP

I don't know what you mean by "can't do this". There has been nothing that I can't do on my iPhone which has hampered me in my day to day life.

However I do know that when it comes to privacy and security iOS is streets ahead and that is what matters to me.

There are ZERO Google or Facebook products on my iPhone. I don't trust them.

 

[PretenderSam]

If it runs Android it's crap.

IOS is no better,,,I have received soo many complaints about IOS cannot do this and that etc,,,,,why do ppl like being hamstrung? Oh 70% like that from the PAP

It's an honest mistake. What Leongsam intended to say is - If it is made by chinks , it's crap

 

[Leongsam]

It's an honest mistake. What Leongsam intended to say is - If it is made by chinks , it's crap

The iPhone is made by chinks too but the redeeming factor is that it is Ang Mohs who ensure that the Chinks go about it the right way.

Chinks can only perform when there are Ang Mohs supervising them closely to ensure they don't cheat or cut corners.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

I don't know what you mean by "can't do this". There has been nothing that I can't do on my iPhone which has hampered me in my day to day life.

However I do know that when it comes to privacy and security iOS is streets ahead and that is what matters to me.

There are ZERO Google or Facebook products on my iPhone. I don't trust them.

Apple reassures customers after Australian media reports hack by teen
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A customer stands underneath an illuminated Apple logo as he looks out the window of the Apple store located in central Sydney, Australia, May 28, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray/Files
17 Aug 2018 11:40AM (Updated: 17 Aug 2018 12:05PM)
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SYDNEY/SAN FRANCISCO: Apple said on Friday (Aug 17) no customer data was compromised after Australian media reported a teenager had pleaded guilty to hacking into its main computer network, downloading internal files and accessing customer accounts.
The boy, 16, from the southern city of Melbourne, broke into the US computer giant's mainframe from his suburban home many times over a year, The Age newspaper reported, citing statements by the teenager's lawyer in court.

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The teen downloaded 90 gigabytes of secure files and accessed customer accounts without exposing his identity, the paper said.
Apple contacted the US Federal Bureau of Investigation when it became aware of the intrusion, The Age said, quoting statements made in court. The FBI then referred the matter to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
The report said an AFP raid on the boy's family home produced two laptops, a mobile phone and a hard drive that matched the intrusion reported by Apple.
The sensitive documents were saved in a folder called "hacky hack hack", the report said.

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It said the boy had boasted about his activities on the mobile messaging service WhatsApp.
An Apple spokesman said the company's information security personnel "discovered the unauthorised access, contained it, and reported the incident to law enforcement" without commenting further on the specifics of the case.
"We ... want to assure our customers that at no point during this incident was their personal data compromised," the spokesman said.
The AFP declined to comment because the matter was before the court. A court spokeswoman also declined to comment other than to say the teenager would be sentenced on Sep 20.
The boy's name could not be made public because he was a juvenile offender.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...ustralian-media-reports-hack-by-teen-10625042

 

[Leongsam]

I'm not referring to hacking you twit. ALL systems can be hacked. Nothing is 100% secure.

What I am against is the data that google collects on all it Android users eg https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ndroid-users-location-services-turned-off-sim

The other issue with Android is I don't trust the google play store.

Same goes with whatsapp. It scans your contact list and then hunts down those contacts on facebook.

Apple reassures customers after Australian media reports hack by teen
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SYDNEY/SAN FRANCISCO: Apple said on Friday (Aug 17) no customer data was compromised after Australian media reported a teenager had pleaded guilty to hacking into its main computer network, downloading internal files and accessing customer accounts.
The boy, 16, from the southern city of Melbourne, broke into the US computer giant's mainframe from his suburban home many times over a year, The Age newspaper reported, citing statements by the teenager's lawyer in court.

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The teen downloaded 90 gigabytes of secure files and accessed customer accounts without exposing his identity, the paper said.
Apple contacted the US Federal Bureau of Investigation when it became aware of the intrusion, The Age said, quoting statements made in court. The FBI then referred the matter to the Australian Federal Police (AFP).
The report said an AFP raid on the boy's family home produced two laptops, a mobile phone and a hard drive that matched the intrusion reported by Apple.
The sensitive documents were saved in a folder called "hacky hack hack", the report said.

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It said the boy had boasted about his activities on the mobile messaging service WhatsApp.
An Apple spokesman said the company's information security personnel "discovered the unauthorised access, contained it, and reported the incident to law enforcement" without commenting further on the specifics of the case.
"We ... want to assure our customers that at no point during this incident was their personal data compromised," the spokesman said.
The AFP declined to comment because the matter was before the court. A court spokeswoman also declined to comment other than to say the teenager would be sentenced on Sep 20.
The boy's name could not be made public because he was a juvenile offender.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...ustralian-media-reports-hack-by-teen-10625042

 

[Rogue Trader]

Chinese phone brands are making waves 5his year. The new Xiaomi phablet Mi Max 3 has been getting a lot of acclaim for the features at that price

 

[Hypocrite-The]

I'm not referring to hacking you twit. ALL systems can be hacked. Nothing is 100% secure.

What I am against is the data that google collects on all it Android users eg https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ndroid-users-location-services-turned-off-sim

The other issue with Android is I don't trust the google play store.

Same goes with whatsapp. It scans your contact list and then hunts down those contacts on facebook.

So says the Apple Fanboy

 

[Leongsam]

Chinese phone brands are making waves 5his year. The new Xiaomi phablet Mi Max 3 has been getting a lot of acclaim for the features at that price

As long as it runs Android it's crap.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

As long as it runs Android it's crap.

so says the apple fanboy

 

[Rogue Trader]

As long as it runs Android it's crap.

You're a dinosaur living in backwater country

 

[eatshitndie]

https://www.itproportal.com/news/android-tracks-your-location-whether-you-like-it-or-not/

Google admits Android tracks your location whether you like it or not
By Sead Fadilpašić November 22, 2017Mobile
Smartphones powered by Android were collecting data on their owners’ locations even if service was turned off.

Smartphones powered by the Android operating system are collecting data on their owners’ locations and sending them back to Google when they’re online, the media are reporting.
This is happening regardless of if the users have actually turned location services on or off.
Quartz reported that since the start of 2017, Android smartphones have been gathering info on the location of nearby cellular towers, and sent the data back to Google, without their users’ unequivocal consent.
A Google spokesperson has confirmed these claims. The data was added to a system used to manage notifications and messages. The spokesperson also said the data wasn’t being stored indefinitely and that the company will terminate the practice.
Google explained that it started using Cell ID codes to speed up message delivery. “However, we never incorporated Cell ID into our network sync system, so that data was immediately discarded, and we updated it to no longer request Cell ID,” Google explained.
Location tracking via one tower can determine a relative, but not definitive position of a device. That can be achieved through multiple towers. This practice is potentially hurtful for all those wanting to stay out of sight, like victims of domestic violence.
According to Quartz’s findings, the location tracking did not appear limited to particular Android phones or tablets. It says Google was apparently collecting cell tower data from all modern Android devices.

https://gizmodo.com/your-android-phone-has-been-sending-location-data-to-go-1820639889

Your Android Phone Has Been Sending Location Data to Google, Even If You Opted Out

Tech companies like Google and Facebook provide services in exchange for your data. We’ve known this. But they’ve always stood by the reasoning that it’s nothing to worry about because you’re given a choice. Sometimes the choice is agreeing to a terms of service. With location tracking, Google has always made it possible to opt out, but according to a new report, Android has been forcing location tracking on you whether you like it or not.

An investigation by Quartz discovered that smartphones and tablets running the Android operating system continued to track a user’s general location even when location services were turned off, the phone didn’t have a SIM card, and no apps were installed. As long as the device was connected to the internet, it transmitted the address of nearby cellphone towers back to Google’s system that’s used for push notifications and messages.

When you give apps like Google Maps permission to track your movements, the resulting data can be pretty darn accurate. GPS tracking can pinpoint which restaurant you’re in and that data can be used to figure out things like wait times the popularity of a destination. But we’re not talking about that kind of accuracy in this case. According to Quartz:

While information about a single cell tower can only offer an approximation of where a mobile device actually is, multiple towers can be used to triangulate its location to within about a quarter-mile radius, or to a more exact pinpoint in urban areas, where cell towers are closer together...
Although the data sent to Google is encrypted, it could potentially be sent to a third party if the phone had been compromised with spyware or other methods of hacking. Each phone has a unique ID number, with which the location data can be associated.​

So, a bad actor could potentially use the data that a person didn’t even know was being transmitted to discover a person’s general location. Imagine if someone who’s in witness protection just got a new Galaxy S8 and they do all the right things to protect their privacy. A hacker with the proper know-how and determination could potentially get within a quarter mile of them. But that’s almost beside the point. Sure, it’s an extreme situation in which someone’s life could be in danger, but no matter how unimportant your location data is, it belongs to you. As a consumer with some proper background on how things work, you had a reasonable expectation you weren’t being tracked. What Quartz found is that Google’s betraying the public’s trust.

Gizmodo contacted Google about these claims and a spokesperson told us:

To ensure messages and notifications are received quickly, modern Android phones use a network sync system that requires the use of Mobile Country Codes (MCC) and Mobile Network Codes (MNC). In January of this year, we began looking into using Cell ID codes as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance of message delivery. However, we never incorporated Cell ID into our network sync system, so that data was immediately discarded, and we updated it to no longer request Cell ID. MCC and MNC provide necessary network information for message and notification delivery and are distinctly separate from Location Services, which provide a device’s location to apps.​

Google claims that it never got around to implementing this feature, and the team has decided to scrap it altogether. A Google spokesperson assured us that the update roll out will be complete by the end of November.

As far as Google’s terms of service go, the language is, of course, a bit confusing. One section reads:

When you use Google services, we may collect and process information about your actual location. We use various technologies to determine location, including IP address, GPS, and other sensors that may, for example, provide Google with information on nearby devices, Wi-Fi access points and cell towers.​

 

[eatshitndie]

gobbledygook is fucking dishonest and abusive when it cums to your privacy, preference and choice of opting out of its tracking features. they just simply ignore your wishes and deceitfully data-mine the shit out of you by tricking you that you can opt out but in fact never allowing you to opt out in any way whatsoever. bunch of thugs and thieves.

https://www.apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb

AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.

An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so.

Computer-science researchers at Princeton confirmed these findings at the AP’s request.

For the most part, Google is upfront about asking permission to use your location information. An app like Google Maps will remind you to allow access to location if you use it for navigating. If you agree to let it record your location over time, Google Maps will display that history for you in a “timeline” that maps out your daily movements.

Storing your minute-by-minute travels carries privacy risks and has been used by police to determine the location of suspects — such as a warrant that police in Raleigh, North Carolina, served on Google last year to find devices near a murder scene. So the company lets you “pause” a setting called Location History.

Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you’ve been. Google’s support page on the subject states: “You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.”

That isn’t true. Even with Location History paused, some Google apps automatically store time-stamped location data without asking. (It’s possible, although laborious, to delete it .)

For example, Google stores a snapshot of where you are when you merely open its Maps app. Automatic daily weather updates on Android phones pinpoint roughly where you are. And some searches that have nothing to do with location, like “chocolate chip cookies,” or “kids science kits,” pinpoint your precise latitude and longitude — accurate to the square foot — and save it to your Google account.

The privacy issue affects some two billion users of devices that run Google’s Android operating software and hundreds of millions of worldwide iPhone users who rely on Google for maps or search.

Storing location data in violation of a user’s preferences is wrong, said Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton computer scientist and former chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission’s enforcement bureau. A researcher from Mayer’s lab confirmed the AP’s findings on multiple Android devices; the AP conducted its own tests on several iPhones that found the same behavior.

“If you’re going to allow users to turn off something called ‘Location History,’ then all the places where you maintain location history should be turned off,” Mayer said. “That seems like a pretty straightforward position to have.”

Google says it is being perfectly clear.

“There are a number of different ways that Google may use location to improve people’s experience, including: Location History, Web and App Activity, and through device-level Location Services,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement to the AP. “We provide clear descriptions of these tools, and robust controls so people can turn them on or off, and delete their histories at any time.”

Google’s explanation did not convince several lawmakers.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia told the AP it is “frustratingly common” for technology companies “to have corporate practices that diverge wildly from the totally reasonable expectations of their users,” and urged policies that would give users more control of their data. Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey called for “comprehensive consumer privacy and data security legislation” in the wake of the AP report.

To stop Google from saving these location markers, the company says, users can turn off another setting, one that does not specifically reference location information. Called “Web and App Activity” and enabled by default, that setting stores a variety of information from Google apps and websites to your Google account.

When paused, it will prevent activity on any device from being saved to your account. But leaving “Web & App Activity” on and turning “Location History” off only prevents Google from adding your movements to the “timeline,” its visualization of your daily travels. It does not stop Google’s collection of other location markers.

You can delete these location markers by hand, but it’s a painstaking process since you have to select them individually, unless you want to delete all of your stored activity.

You can see the stored location markers on a page in your Google account at myactivity.google.com, although they’re typically scattered under several different headers, many of which are unrelated to location.

To demonstrate how powerful these other markers can be, the AP created a visual map of the movements of Princeton postdoctoral researcher Gunes Acar, who carried an Android phone with Location history off, and shared a record of his Google account.

The map includes Acar’s train commute on two trips to New York and visits to The High Line park, Chelsea Market, Hell’s Kitchen, Central Park and Harlem. To protect his privacy, The AP didn’t plot the most telling and frequent marker — his home address.

Huge tech companies are under increasing scrutiny over their data practices, following a series of privacy scandals at Facebook and new data-privacy rules recently adopted by the European Union. Last year, the business news site Quartz found that Google was tracking Android users by collecting the addresses of nearby cellphone towers even if all location services were off. Google changed the practice and insisted it never recorded the data anyway.

Critics say Google’s insistence on tracking its users’ locations stems from its drive to boost advertising revenue.

“They build advertising information out of data,” said Peter Lenz, the senior geospatial analyst at Dstillery, a rival advertising technology company. “More data for them presumably means more profit.”

The AP learned of the issue from K. Shankari, a graduate researcher at UC Berkeley who studies the commuting patterns of volunteers in order to help urban planners. She noticed that her Android phone prompted her to rate a shopping trip to Kohl’s, even though she had turned Location History off.

“So how did Google Maps know where I was?” she asked in a blog post .

The AP wasn’t able to recreate Shankari’s experience exactly. But its attempts to do so revealed Google’s tracking. The findings disturbed her.

“I am not opposed to background location tracking in principle,” she said. “It just really bothers me that it is not explicitly stated.”

Google offers a more accurate description of how Location History actually works in a place you’d only see if you turn it off — a popup that appears when you “pause” Location History on your Google account webpage . There the company notes that “some location data may be saved as part of your activity on other Google services, like Search and Maps.”

Google offers additional information in a popup that appears if you re-activate the “Web & App Activity” setting — an uncommon action for many users, since this setting is on by default. That popup states that, when active, the setting “saves the things you do on Google sites, apps, and services ... and associated information, like location.”

Warnings when you’re about to turn Location History off via Android and iPhone device settings are more difficult to interpret. On Android, the popup explains that “places you go with your devices will stop being added to your Location History map.” On the iPhone, it simply reads, “None of your Google apps will be able to store location data in Location History.”

The iPhone text is technically true if potentially misleading. With Location History off, Google Maps and other apps store your whereabouts in a section of your account called “My Activity,” not “Location History.”

Since 2014, Google has let advertisers track the effectiveness of online ads at driving foot traffic , a feature that Google has said relies on user location histories.

The company is pushing further into such location-aware tracking to drive ad revenue, which rose 20 percent last year to $95.4 billion. At a Google Marketing Live summit in July, Google executives unveiled a new tool called “local campaigns” that dynamically uses ads to boost in-person store visits. It says it can measure how well a campaign drove foot traffic with data pulled from Google users’ location histories.

Google also says location records stored in My Activity are used to target ads. Ad buyers can target ads to specific locations — say, a mile radius around a particular landmark — and typically have to pay more to reach this narrower audience.

While disabling “Web & App Activity” will stop Google from storing location markers, it also prevents Google from storing information generated by searches and other activity. That can limit the effectiveness of the Google Assistant, the company’s digital concierge.

Sean O’Brien, a Yale Privacy Lab researcher with whom the AP shared its findings, said it is “disingenuous” for Google to continuously record these locations even when users disable Location History. “To me, it’s something people should know,” he said.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Android Giants: Samsung Note 9 vs. Huawei P20 Pro, which one should you go for?
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Intelligent night photography, triple camera and 5x zoom make Huawei P20 Pro a clear winner




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The global smartphone industry has become a battle of Android phones, especially now with Huawei becoming the second largest smartphone vendor globally, surpassing Apple. With the competition getting fierce, it’s time to compare Samsung’s latest Galaxy Note 9 to the HUAWEI P20 Pro in four areas that drive an end user to buy their new: Camera, chipset, design and, ultimately, value for money!

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We took the camera out for a few fun test shots, both during the day and night and found that even though launched in March, the HUAWEI P20 Pro, is still the best smart camera phone on the market.

Equipped with Leica Triple Camera, HUAWEI P20 Pro has a leading rear camera system comprised of a 40MP RGB sensor, 20MP monochrome sensor and an 8MP sensor with telephoto lens. Compared to the Note9’s 12+12MP dual lens camera, HUAWEI P20 Pro supports a higher resolution in both its primary and secondary sensors, and on top of that, it also has a third sensor with a dedicated telephoto lens.

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In the simplest terms, the images shot on a camera with a higher resolution are clearer and more detailed, whilst a low-resolution camera is only capable of producing images that are comparatively blurrier and noisier. However, there are several more factors that impact image quality– for instance, the sizes of the sensor and photosites (pixels on the sensor).

With AI being the recent game changer in camera specs in smartphones, it is safe to say that Huawei was the first to launch the AI powered camera feature last year in its flagship device HUAWEI Mate 10 series, which offered Real-Time Scene and Object Recognition. This basically meant that the camera settings were automatically set based on the object and scene, where actually the phone recognizes the object and scene and adjusts the camera setting automatically to capture a clear and sharp picture.

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This feature was further developed and improved upon with the launch of their HUAWEI P20 Pro that comes equipped with a triple 40 MP AI camera. In all fairness, one of the most unmatchable features of HUAWEI P20 Pro is its low light photography capability, which is equipped with state-of-the-art AI Image Stabilization. Phone users are be able to capture incredible blur-free, handheld shots in low-light using Night Mode, without the need for a tripod. The HUAWEI P20 Pros night mode also balances high-contrast scenes for effortlessly clear, light-balanced snaps in any setting. In fact, HUAWEI P20 Pro’s Night Mode feature can sometimes capture scenes that even the naked eye cannot see.

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Besides HUAWEI P20 Pro’s edge in sensor specifications, HUAWEI’s current top-of-the-line flagship also supports 3x optical zoom, allowing the HUAWEI P20 Pro to zoom farther than the Note9, which only can manage 2x optical zoom. Also, though both devices support 10x digital zoom, HUAWEI P20 Pro also supports 5x hybrid zoom, which leverages its on-device AI capabilities to combine both optical and digital data to minimize quality loss while zooming.

AI is the future and the P20 Pro is designed for it
CPUs are poorly optimized to execute AI tasks. Without the support of a dedicated AI processor, they struggle in areas such as image recognition.The Huawei P20 Pro comes built-in with a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) inside the Kirin 970 that is optimized for AI tasks. The EMEA models of the Galaxy Note 9 are powered by the Exynos 9810 processor which lacks a a discrete processor for AI tasks.

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Without the support of a dedicated AI processor, the EMEA model of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will likely provide a subpar user experience compared to the HUAWEI P20 Pro. Another score for HUAWEI P20 Pro with its AI enabled Kirin 970 chipset.


Beauty beyond Compare
We chose phones that are trendy and stand out from the crowd. Over the years, phones have become a fashion statement that is an extension of ourselves. The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will be launched in three colors in the Middle East: Lavender Purple, Ocean Blue and Midnight Black. However, their visual impact pales in comparison with HUAWEI P20 Pro’s Twilight color. Whereas all Note9 variants have a singular color, some also with a metallic finish, HUAWEI P20 Pro is available in an iridescent gradient color.

Drawing inspiration from the Northern Lights, Huawei created the unique Twilight purple-to-blue gradient color using the NCVM process, a lengthy industrial process that involves high costs and low yields, but produces a unique look that makes the HUAWEI P20 Pro instantly stand out from amongst others.



Huawei’s designers deliberately aligned the camera module in a way so that when a user holds the device horizontally, the look of the device resemble that of a compact camera. This is an exemplification of how Huawei speaks through design—just from looking at the device, a user can tell that it’s made for photography. On the other hand, Note9’s design showcases Samsung’s clear lack of attention to detail. The primary rear camera on the Note9 is slightly, though noticeably off from the center

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Yet again, HAUWEI P20 Pro’s gradient colours and camera + key placement, makes it a user-friendly and ‘haute’ phone to own and hold.

Better Value
Lastly, which works better for your pocket and gives you the best value for your money?

Launched in March 2018, the HUAWEI P20 Pro comes with a trove of innovations and features that competitor devices have only recently caught up to. For instance, when Samsung put a 3300mAh into its Note8 and a 3500mAh battery into the S9+, Huawei designed the HUAWEI P20 Pro with a massive 4000mAh battery. Following in Huawei’s footsteps, Samsung included a 4000mAh battery in the latest Note9.

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But that wasn’t the only feature that Huawei introduced first. One of the features that Samsung highlighted during its Unpacked event was the Samsung DeX desktop mode without the need of a dedicated dock. Huawei has the same feature on the HUAWEI P20 Pro under the name “Easy Projection”, for over five months now. Perhaps most importantly, Huawei is offering these premium features at a very competitive price today—while Samsung still needs another few weeks before they can put their costly new flagship into the hands of consumers.

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Our Verdict:
The Huawei P20 Pro looks to be a significant upgrade on what came before it, with genuinely useful camera innovations, a top-end design and a significant upgrade to the internals thrown in for good measure.

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Android Giants: Samsung Note 9 vs. Huawei P20 Pro, which one should you go for?

The problem is that all of them are ANDROID "giants".

As long as a phone runs Android it is crap. Case closed. There is nothing further that needs to be said.