HUAWEIP30 Pro 128GB+8GB RAM (VOG-L29) 40MP LTE Factory Unlocked GSM Smartphone (International Version, No Warranty in the US) (Aurora)

bought this after my original Huawei p30 bit the dust finally; it's getting a bit on in years, but the p30 itself is a great phone and I didn't want to move too far from what I was used to. comes with a bunch of accoutrements that my old iPhones didn't, including a serviceable case, and was just as easy to set up. it's a bit zippier- obviously, it's the upgraded version- and I do already miss no aux port, but they give you an adapter at least. only thing I'm not fond of is just how incredibly sensitive the screen is, but I'm hoping once the screen protector arrives that'll dull it down a bit.and, of course, it's absolutely beautiful, and I wish the newer Huawei phones had kept the iridescence.

I intended to buy a Note 10+ but every review, without exception, rated the P30 Pro camera as the absolute best. I have since seen the Note 10+ and the features are comparable but the P30 Pro is more professional (the Pro settings are more like a 35mm than the Note 10+) and the zoom is a marvel. The Pixl 4+ may be better yet but it's not out. The iPhone 11's are nowhere near the P30 Pro in their specs. Look at the MP ratings.I included three pictures. The butterfly (a Mourning Cloak) was taken hand held at 1X on a windy day. It shows the detail the camera can get under difficult conditions. The boats show the detail it can pick out in a standard landscape. The waterlilies were shot with the telephoto from about 30 yards. All these were handheld and a tripod would have allowed the AI to beef up the detail. None have been modified or edited. I have only had this phone about 3 weeks and I'm still learning how to use it. I have a picture of a heron that was about 100 yards away handheld. The camera's AI tries to improve detail by having you hold the camera steady but without a tripod it produced shadowing.Other features need work by the owner. Google software takes the place of Huawei's systems in most cases. This is not always smooth for me as I am not an expert on the area. After three weeks I've adjusted to most of the software differences.The current price at Amazon for a Huawei P30 Pro is about 60% of the best new iPhones and much less than Samsung's. Worried about the "spy thing"? The President of MicroSoft, its chief legal officer, recently asked the administration to stop the nonsense and allow Huawei to fully enter the US market. Whom to believe -- an industry bigwig or twelve-lies-a-day-Donnie? Politics aside, the Huawei P30 Pro packs a great camera into an excellent phone. Did I mention the 2-day battery?

I haven't had the phone long, but have quickly learned to love it! The camera is what makes me the happiest. It takes wonderful pictures in all kinds of ligt and, if you read the latest 2020 reviews, you will see that the camera is one of the very best around. The trick about using the camera is that, even if you set the resolution to 40 MP, it will automatically be set to 10 MP when you zoom and you will then have to set it back to 40 MP if you want to shoot at that resolution. In reality, if you shoot at 40 MP, you can crop pictures which will look as if you used the zoom feature (I like this option better). Since the phone is made by Huawei, it comes with EMUI (main navigation software), and has Android 9 installed. It effortlessly updated to Android 10 when applying Software Updates. Previously I owned an Honor 8X and it was easy to remove the sim card from the slot and insert it in the new P30 Pro. The phone comes with a charging cable, but the wall adapter is not for U.S. outlets. This is the 128 GB model with 8 GB RAM. The processor is fast, chargining is fast, and the battery lasts a long time but, then again, I do not use my phone for playing games or viewing lots of videos. All in all, I am very please with my purchase and feel that the camera alone is worth the price. My only complaint is that Google is getting more and more agressive in making you do things "their way" and asking for all kinds of "permissions", so their Google Play Services nofications can be very annoying.

The Huawei P30 is an amazing device. I have no complaints with the phone itself. However, I feel that for this one the seller replaced the screen, and is not the original one that comes with the phone (it seems like the seller may have replaced the original screen with a lower quality one). I compared the phone against the previous one I had, both phones are exactly the same specs, but my old one got the screen cracked and that's why I had to replace it. This one has a very dark backlight, and the picture quality is low. The edges on the screen seem like the phone was serviced before they sold it to me as new. Adding more to the list of disappointments, the charger is not the original one from Huawei and I feel like I got scammed… I'm so mad that I didn't say anything before, I had this device for 4 months, and the screen just went out.

I eventually want to get away from Google services but the Huawei flavor of Android doesn't have everything I need yet.I had to tell the Google app store that I'm in Mexico in order for it to work. I'm in New Orleans so that's close enough, LOL. You can change the language to English although every now and then something comes up in Spanish. It's not a showstopper.This is the last Huawei that will work with the Google app store and even then, a lot of the apps I use have to be installed manually from the apk. Once you get used to the process it's no biggie.The battery is super long lasting and the camera is incredible! It can even do slow motion capture at a decent rate.I am very pleased by this phone and I'm a very picky person.