Honor View 20 is now available, at cheaper price.

The main different is the rear camera. Other specs almost the same.

Honor is a brand under Huawei too.

You get the red plastic Bluetooth speaker, or the stone Bluetooth speaker?

If stone one then very nice gift.

The red one also come with selfie stick and ring in the box.

The video below has done a pretty good comparison among the 20, 20pro, 20rs and 20x.

Well, have to take note that the external card of mate 20 series is different and not compatible from normal SD card for most other phones.

This post has been edited by ppfoong: Feb 6 2019, 04:58 PM

I gone through this video before I decided to buy which one of them. Couldn't find such a detail comparison article or video in English, presented the same way in simple and easy to understand comparison tables.

There is also similar comparison table in pamphlet available at Huawei store in shopping malls, but not as detail. There are also specs comparison websites, but information might not be 100% correct, and the comparison also quite on surface only.


Well, HW Mate 20 series main USP against other competitors is its AI in HiVision, which you can open from Hi Search (swipe down in Home Screen, the icon at the right of Search bar) or from Camera (Photo mode, left most top icon).

In HiVision, under Translate mode, while playing the video, put your phone in front of the screen, all the text will instantly become English

HiVision also can be used to scan QR code or barcode, check the price in online mall (so far I only see Shopee though) for the object you are pointing the camera to, or to identify the object you are pointing the camera to (will give calory count on identified food items).

Note: If your online mall is showing Pound price instead of Ringgit, probably your default language is English (UK), you need to change to English and select Malaysia to be English (Malaysia) in Language & Input > Language Preferances. Can keep the English (UK) as secondary in the list.

For audio translate, can use the bundled Translator app. Use the microphone icon to capture the audio, the translation will show in text on the screen. However, the result is about the same as Google Translate, sentence will be weird, but should be good enough to figure out the meaning

This post has been edited by ppfoong: Feb 7 2019, 05:06 PM

Only mate 20 pro has wireless charging (and reverse wireless charging) feature.

Mate 20 / 20x not support wireless charging.

Portrait mode will have a lot of AI processing, and user adjustable settings to the level of processing.

Switch to Photo mode or Pro mode will be more natural.

Emphasize on camera, will be mate 20 pro.

Yes you can. Check with telco postpaid plan with bundled phone.

Can transfer saved WiFi passwords?

It is under Settings > System > Developer Options > Memory

Will show you memory usage in last 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day.


You can also install Device Info HW app below. Will show you a lot of things about the phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...7e.deviceinfohw

You will be surprised that although you have plenty of RAM, the phone will allocate 2GB of swap and will actually utilize few hundred MB of the swap space.

My TP is having problem with the stock TPU case.

Without the case, there is no bubble. When case on, one corner will have bubble. Reapplied the TP many times, only managed to minimize it.

I wonder if this problem can be fixed by changing case.

Note that Mate 20 and Mate 20X has the same display resolution of 1080p. At bigger screen, Mate 20X has lower ppi than Mate 20, which mean it is more likely to see pixelated image in Mate 20X screen. But, Mate 20X has OLED screen, and Mate 20 is using IPS screen.

Mate 20 Pro has the highest display resolution and OLED screen.

This is version 9.0.0.183 patch05.

I think the latest update is version 9.0.0.195 related to AI Color mode.

"The ‘AI color’ mode allows you to take a video with the background in greyscale and the subject in color. As a result, even when the subject moves, the color goes with them."

Not yet rolled out to Malaysia?

The key differences:
1. Battery quality - Huawei uses high grade battery, while Samsung used to use low grade battery until the Note 7 explode cases. Now they use better battery than before, but Huawei's battery still better. You will feel more different after use for 1 year later, Samsung battery will be weaker and weaker in holding charge.

2. Memory card - Huawei Mate 20 series use proprietary memory card, while Samsung uses standard microSD card. Huawei's memory card share the same slot with SIM2, if you use a memory card, you cannot use dual SIM. In this case, Samsung wins. However, avoid using external memory card in your phone, as the read/write speed of external memory card is much slower than the internal storage of the phone. Using external memory card will drag down your phone storage read/write speed. (You can install a benchmark app and run the storage read/write speed test on the same phone, with external memory card in it and without external memory card, to see the different)

3. Fast charging - Samsung S10 charging of 15W max is very slow compared with most of the flagship phones in 2018/2019. One advantage of Huawei fast charging against others is its compatibility with Qualcomm standard. You can still fast charge your Huawei phone at nice speed using 3rd party charger and 3rd party 5V data cable that complies with Qualcomm fast charging standard (such as Belkin, Aukey, Anker, UGreen, ...) Latest OnePlus fast charging is faster than Huawei, but OnePlus can only fast charge using own charger and cable. If you use 3rd party, the charging speed on OnePlus become ordinary charge, even slower than Samsung fast charge.

4. Mobile network interoperability - Huawei Mate 20 series support a wide variety of mobile network 2G/3G/4G bands. If you travel a lot to other countries, you don't have to worry about unsupported band used in other country, your phone still can be used either with roaming or local SIM card.

5. GPS interoperability - Huawei Mate 20 series support dual-band GPS and all kinds of satellite positioning systems.

6. AI features - can play around the AI features especially with the camera - face unlocking, identify objects, show calorie of foods, real-time translate on text your camera is pointing at (very handy feature to read restaurant menu in foreign language), avatar creation, ...

7. Speakers - I think Samsung phone speakers are louder with better sound quality.


For point 4 & 5 above, can refer to the specs for list of supported bands:
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/phones/mate20-pro/specs/

This post has been edited by ppfoong: Feb 25 2019, 10:48 PM

Well, talking about processor, Mate 20 series are the first in the world using 7nm processor while others are still using 10nm or above. Lower nm means less heat produce and less battery consumption.

Anyhow, I think all major flagship phones in 2019 will join the 7nm processor bandwagon. Let's see if Huawei will launch the world's first 5nm processor phone in near future.

EMUI and the default SwiftKey keyboard are 2 main weaknesses of Huawei phones.

EMUI 9 is much better than before, but still lack of official dark theme and choices of official fonts.

Simple comparison table:

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/compare-mobile-p...-Huawei-P30-Pro

I think Mate X will be naked without any case and SP for a while.

And its price will position it similar to iPhone when first launched - for premium owner