⇡#design, ergonomics and software
The Honor 30 Pro directly follows the example of the Huawei P40 Pro — it is a premium design in the Huawei sense: taking into account last year’s trends, but minus the mistake made in the Mate 30 Pro, where the physical volume key disappeared, and disappeared by mistake. Glass front and back, radically curved display, metal edges, a window with a front camera instead of a cutout in the center of the status bar.
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The back panel, if you choose the black version (a similar design, but green, is also available in China), is quite ordinary — beveled edges, frosted glass, cameras, sensors and flash, placed in a black rectangle with noble-looking markings. Not bad, but nothing more.
But the silver version (Titanium Silver) looks very cool. The “Honor” inscription across the entire rear panel may seem too radical to some, but it is at least unusual, and at most fresh and appropriate. Quite in the spirit of current trends in the fashion world — and the fact that it is flying into the world of gadgets in this way is very cool. But it’s probably correct that out of the three versions, only one is performed exactly like this.
Honor 30 Pro, front panel: in the corner of the screen there is a dual camera unit, under the top edge there is a speaker
Honor 30 Pro, rear panel: in the corner — rear camera unit with four lenses, single LED camera and sensors
Honor 30 Pro, as is customary today, is a hefty gadget that, although it fits in your pocket, is felt there for all its less than seven inches. It’s not easy to hold in your hand, but we’re already getting used to it. Thanks to the matte back, it holds in the hand a little more confidently than its glossy predecessors. But it can crawl off the table if you put it there not carefully enough.
Honor 30 Pro, the left side is free from functional elements
Honor 30 Pro, right side: power/lock and volume/camera shutter keys
One of the features that distinguishes Honor 30 Pro from Huawei P40 Pro (we must somehow separate more expensive and less expensive gadgets) is Honor’s lack of declared moisture protection according to serious standards. There is only IP54 splash protection — in the absence of a mini-jack, of course. It is clear that the arguments about the need to get rid of the analog connector for better protection from external influences were just an invention of Apple. But everyone is now diligently selling their wireless headsets and trying not to remember the classic connector unnecessarily.
Honor 30 Pro, top edge: light sensor and microphone
Honor 30 Pro, bottom edge: slot for SIM cards and/or memory card, microphone, USB Type-C port, speaker
Another difference from the Huawei P40 Pro is rather a plus. Instead of a piezoelectric speaker built into the display panel, there is a regular, dynamic one, under the top edge. Not so premium, but the phone now has stereo sound, while the Huawei P40 Pro is content with a mono external speaker. So it goes.
The fingerprint scanner is still built into the screen — it’s optical and works so-so. It does not differ in stability and speed of operation, which is even a little strange, after all, Huawei/Honor already have positive experience in using and configuring such sensors. In Honor 30 Pro it works like a C — well, maybe with a plus, but no more.
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Изумительные истории про жизнь без сервисов Google мы в последние полгода рассказывали уже столько раз, что больше не можем. Поэтому вкратце, со ссылками: да, тут Android 10 с отличной оболочкой Magic UI 3.1 (почти не измененный EMUI 10.1, но для Honor), в которой нет Google Play и сопутствующего софта.
Покупать и качать приложения предлагается либо в фирменном магазине AppGallery, где есть, мягко говоря, не все, либо с использованием сторонних сервисов вроде APK Pure или AppGo. Но надо быть готовым к тому, что какие-то программы так и не заработают — во многих вшиты обращения к сервисам Google (вроде гугловской системы оплаты), и на этом этапе неизбежны ошибки.
Honor 30 Pro очень старается и дает опыт, близкий к обычному, но, увы, не полноценный. Чего-то недосчитаетесь. Хотя Huawei очень старается быстро уменьшать ущерб от американских санкций — например, в России уже работает сервис бесконтактной оплаты «Кошелек», доступный в AppGallery; он вполне успешно заменяет недостающий Google Pay.
⇡#дисплей и звук
Одной из границ, разделяющих Honor и Huawei, были и остаются матрицы дисплеев. Более простой статус Honor всегда подчеркивался использованием ЖК-экранов даже в локальных флагманах — за исключением «домашней» серии Magic (мы писали о Honor Magic2). Honor View 30 Pro — не исключение. Despite the complete “package” in terms of other characteristics, there is an IPS screen installed, which is a rarity for a smartphone costing 35-40 thousand rubles today. The exception to the rule is if it’s not a Google Pixel 3a or an iPhone SE.
In more detail, this is a 6.57-inch display with a 20:9 aspect ratio and a resolution of 2400 × 1080 pixels. Density — 400 ppi. Last year’s status of the screen is emphasized by the absence of a high-frequency mode — there is simply no such option in the menu; the refresh rate will always be 60 Hz. The panel itself is of high quality, with good viewing angles and an excellent oleophobic coating.
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The measured maximum brightness level without software enhancement during auto-adjustment is 488 cd/m2 — a good result even for an LCD screen. But the contrast level is rather disappointing — 1068:1. You probably won’t get deep blacks on the View 30 Pro.
Screen settings are familiar from devices running EMUI 10, with one exception — there is no mode for displaying the time and notification icons on the locked screen (Always-On Display). In a smartphone with an LCD screen, this option is really useless; excessive power consumption would overshadow its convenience.
Otherwise, everything is familiar: you can choose a dark or light shell theme (this is purely a visual preference, there will be no gain in energy efficiency), font size, resolution (flexible, Full HD or HD), hide it with a dark fill or leave the front camera’s double peephole in the area of the status bar, activate the e-book mode — in this case the screen goes into a monochrome state and “warmers”.
Honor View 30 Pro, bright mode, gamma. Yellow line – View 30 Pro performance, dotted line – reference gamma
Honor View 30 Pro, bright mode, color temperature. Blue line – View 30 Pro performance, dotted line – reference temperature
Honor View 30 Pro, bright mode, color gamut. Gray triangle – DCI-P3 coverage, white triangle – View 30 Pro coverage
In bright mode, the color gamut is approximately the same as the DCI-P3 standard and even slightly exceeds it — albeit with some offset. The gamma is adequate — 2.18 with almost normal curves. The color temperature is noticeably increased — the curve runs very smoothly at 8,000 K. Average deviation DeltaE for the extended Color Checker palette (grayscale, a wide range of color shades)
Honor View 30 Pro, normal mode, gamma. Yellow line – View 30 Pro performance, dotted line – reference gamma
Honor View 30 Pro, normal mode, color temperature. Blue line – View 30 Pro performance, dotted line – reference temperature
Honor View 30 Pro, normal mode, color gamut. Gray triangle – sRGB coverage, white triangle – View 30 Pro coverage
Standard situation in Honor/Huawei smartphones: for those who like to see the picture as the authors intended it, there is a normal color rendering mode. You shouldn’t count on an expanded color gamut and increased brightness/saturation, but everything is very fair. The color gamut corresponds exactly to the sRGB standard, the average gamma is slightly lower than in the bright mode (2.12), as well as the color temperature — here it is almost standard (the curve remains at 6,600 K). The average deviation DeltaE on the Color Checker scale is within the normal range — 2.50.
Honor View 30 Pro does not stand out in terms of sound characteristics: there is no mini-jack, the path is ordinary, the external speaker is monaural. But everything you need is in place — there are no problems with wireless data transmission (aptX, aptX HD, LDAC profiles are supported), you will hear the call.
⇡#camera
When it came to the camera, Honor made a Solomonic decision when creating the 30 Pro: it was not possible to completely repeat the Huawei P40 Pro in order to maintain the elite status of this device, but they did not deprive the smartphone of its main trump card in the form of the main module. Honor 30 Pro lost only a special “video” camera, receiving instead a standard wide-angle module. However, first things first.
The main camera in the quad module received an Ultra Vision sensor with a resolution of 50 megapixels and physical dimensions of 1/1.28″. An individual pixel (combined from four subpixels using the Quad Bayer system) reaches a size of 2.44 microns. As in last year’s flagships, The RYYB color filter system is used, which allows the photosensitive elements to capture more light.
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On the left is an example of a photo with a resolution of 12.5 megapixels, on the right — 50 megapixels | ||
By default, the main camera takes pictures with a resolution of 12.5 megapixels, but at any time you can turn on the maximum resolution mode and get images at 8192 × 6144 pixels. Examples are above.
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Examples of shooting with ultra wide angle, normal field of view, 5x optical zoom and 10x hybrid zoom — from left to right | ||||||
The Honor 30 Pro camera can shoot from both a regular viewing angle and an extended one, which is achieved through a camera with a resolution of 16 megapixels and a lens with a focal length of 18 mm (35 mm equivalent) and an aperture of ƒ/2.2 . This module doesn’t have enough stars from the sky: it doesn’t have autofocus, and it produces images of fairly ordinary quality, and doesn’t offer any kind of ultra-wide angle — competitors have wider coverage.
But with zoom, the Honor 30 Pro is doing well: there is a periscope camera with a resolution of 8 megapixels and a lens with an EGF of 125 mm with an aperture of f/3.4 — we saw this module on last year’s flagship Huawei P30 Pro . It provides 5x optical zoom and 10x hybrid zoom.
Fifty-fold digital zoom is also possible. The image quality at 5x zoom is quite decent, the main thing is not to expect too much from it at night; here the telephoto module gives in. The proprietary night mode doesn’t help either. The fourth camera has a resolution of 2 megapixels — this is a depth sensor, it is used in portrait mode.
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On the left is a picture in normal mode, on the right is in night mode | ||
When shooting at night with the main (50-megapixel) camera, the same feature appeared as in the Huawei P40/P40 Pro — it produces a better picture in standard mode than in a special night mode, that is, multi-frame exposure for 3 -6 seconds doesn’t do any good. Surprisingly, the image looks smoother in dynamic range and brighter in the shadows — and the manufacturer has clearly worked on the software since March, and now the picture looks more natural, plus there are no more defective images.
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On the left is a picture with artificial intelligence turned on, on the right is with it turned off | ||
Neural networks are connected to the shooting process at the user’s request — they are disabled by default. “Artificial intelligence” works in the usual way for Honor — saturation increases, highlights/shadows are selectively tightened. H DR works by default, although again you can enable a cruder and more powerful high dynamic range option by selecting it from the list of available settings.
In portrait mode, three focal lengths are available, which allow you to shoot both full-length and half-length portraits, as well as close-ups without distorting the proportions of the face. The background is blurred efficiently, with almost no artifacts at the edges of the object.
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Examples of shooting with various filters | ||||||
The set of filters when shooting has not changed for several years. Examples of how filters work are above.
Macro mode is available, with two focal lengths. How exactly it is implemented is not clear, but it definitely uses the main module, and not just the wide-angle one; Autofocus available. The quality of macro photography is very high.
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Honor 30 Pro, camera app interface | ||||
The camera app hasn’t changed either. It looks neat, the logic of the arrangement of elements is excellent, the range of capabilities is good (you can shoot in RAW and paste panoramas), but the zoom control, especially when shooting video, is poorly implemented. Switching between fixed viewing angle and zoom options is inconvenient (you have to hit the circle on a long scale — if you don’t hit it, you break into the digital zoom zone), and when shooting video it’s simply impossible — just drag the slider on the scale, constantly missing the desired value.
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