Huawei P20 Price in UK, Specifications, and Availability

Huawei P20 was launched on Tuesday at an event in Paris, France, as it had promised. The company had unveiled the Huawei P20 Lite earlier this month and now the turn of the new P-Series smartphone which comes with AI-powered camera features, with the optics ‘co-engineered’ with Leica, a 5.8-inch Full HD+ 2.5D curved glass display with a notch, HiSilicon Kirin 970 10nm SoC and Android 8.1 Oreo with Emotion UI 8.1.

Huawei P20 Price in UK

The Huawei P20 price in UK has been set at £652.50 and it can be purchased via Amazon.co.uk online store in Black and Midnight Blue color options. The device is said to be immediately available globally, but we can expect more details on this front in the near future.

Huawei P20 Specifications

Huawei P20 is a dual-SIM smartphone that runs EMUI 8.1 based on Android 8.1 Oreo. It also supports Google ARCore and a deeply customized Google Assistant. The handset is also powered by the octa-core Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 970 SoC (four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.36GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz) complete with a dedicated NPU (neural processing unit). The NPU provides the AI chops to the phone and is also said to provide up to 60 percent better system response speed, and up to 50 percent smoother operation.

The P20 also offers AI-based noise removal on call. The company also touted NPU acceleration for Android Messages, the new Google-made RCS-based default messaging app on the Huawei phones. The Huawei P20 has 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of inbuilt storage. The device comes with a 360-degree Face Unlock feature, said to unlock the smartphones in as little as 0.6 seconds.

The Huawei Share 2.0 feature was also launched, for easy sharing between phones and even PCs (Windows and Mac) with up to 96Mbps transfer speeds over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Another new feature is the Huawei Phone Clone app, that helps users migrate between smartphones. Also new is the Huawei Health app, which features TruScreen heart rate monitoring, TruSleep technology, and secured fitness data cloud storage. The Huawei PC Mode, similar to the Samsung DeX platform, lets users connect its P20 to a monitor to replicate a PC-style experience that helps multi-task, use multiple windows at the same time, apart from emulating a keyboard and touchpad on the smartphone itself.

Finally, the Huawei P20 come with wireless Hi-Fi audio, with HWA (Hi-Res Wireless Audio), providing 990Kbps bandwidth over Bluetooth. The company has partnered with audio device manufacturers such as Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, and Onkyo to build the HWA ecosystem. Both smartphones also feature stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos and Dolby AC-4 audio.

The Huawei P20 features a 5.8-inch full-HD+ (1080×2244 pixels) RGBW FullView display, with the W standing for White, and meant to provide better sunlight legibility. The display is said to have a peak brightness of 770 nits, which Huawei says is 23 percent brighter than iPhone X. The white elements are also said to provide better power consumption. It has a significantly larger display real estate thanks to smaller bezels and the smaller ‘notch’ design. It also sports a home button that supports ‘edgeless fingerprint’. There is also gesture support on the home button, such as short tap for back, long tap for home, and swiping left or right for multi-tasking.

The Huawei P20 has dual rear camera setup with large 1.55-micron pixels, featuring a 12-megapixel RGB 1/2.3-inch sensor coupled with a f/1.8 aperture and a 20-megapixel monochrome sensor coupled with a f/1.6 aperture (VARIO-SUMMILUX-H 1:1.6/27 ASPH). The combination gives it superior low-light photography performance, the company said. On the front, the Huawei P20 sports a 24.8-megapixel camera. The company is touting front camera features that help take better selfies. The smartphone also comes with a 3D portrait lighting effect. Huawei cites DxOMark to say the P20 has the best smartphone camera ever, with an overall score of 102, a photo score of 107, and a video score of 94, beating out the iPhone X and the Samsung Galaxy S9.