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- Overview
- Huawei P8 (2015)
- Huawei Mate 8 (2015)
- Huawei P9 (2016)
- Huawei Mate 9 (2016)
- Huawei P10 (2017)
- Huawei Mate 10 (2017)
- Huawei P20 (2018)
- Huawei Mate 20 (2018)
- Huawei P30 (2019)
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By David Nield
published 18 April 2021
The P series, the Mate series, and foldables
(Image credit: Future)
When it comes to the best smartphones around, Huawei handsets are always somewhere in the conversation: the Chinese tech giant has helped push forward mobile phone development in all kinds of ways, from camera optics to innovations in device design.
With the P8, Huawei dropped the Ascend name from its flagship line of phones, making the naming a bit easier to keep track of. Back in 2015 we liked a lot of what the Huawei P9 had to offer, giving it 4 out of 5 stars in our review.
The phone came running the Kirin 930 chipset made by Huawei itself, and that was paired with 3GB of RAM and up to 64GB of internal storage (a lot of space at the time). The rear camera was a single-lens 13MP affair, and software duties were handled by Android 5.0 Lollipop, with Huawei's Emotion UI on top.
This was the year when the Huawei Mate series really got into its stride: the Huawei Mate 8 was a phone that scored 4 stars out of 5 in our review, and it set the template that these Mate phones would follow in the years afterwards.
First and foremost, that meant a bigger display – the Mate 8 came rocking a 6-inch, 1080 x 1920 pixel LCD screen, so it was significantly larger than the one on the P series handset from the same year. This was back in the day when the term "phablet" was still in use, and the Huawei Mate 8 earned it.
On to the Huawei P9, which kept a lot of the design cues of the P8 that preceded it, but upgraded the rear camera to a dual-lens 12MP + 12MP rear camera – the P9 was one of the first handsets to feature more than one rear camera, something which is now commonplace even on budget phones.
The LCD display stayed at 5.2 inches, and the display resolution stayed at 1080 x 1920 pixels. Under the hood there was a Kirin 955 processor, together with up to 4GB of RAM and up to 64GB of internal storage. The phone came with Android 6.0 Marshmallow on board, with the usual Huawei tweaks.
The Huawei Mate 9 was a phone that got just about everything right, including the design, the performance, and the camera. It was a sign of Huawei hitting its stride as a phone maker, especially outside of China, and we gave it 4 out of 5 stars in our review.
That review was very complimentary about the build quality of the phone. The 5.9-inch, 1080 x 1920 pixel LCD display was a touch smaller than the Mate 8 screen, and in terms of software the phone arrived with Huawei's own take on Android 7.0 Nougat on board.
The Huawei P9 was followed by the Huawei P10, which arrived running the Kirin 960 processor, alongside 4GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage. This phone made its debut with Android 7.0 Nougat on board, with Huawei's Emotion UI skin restyled as EMUI for the P10 handset.
In our review we had plenty of praise for the design of the camera, and the fingerprint sensor that doubled up as a gesture navigation control. The battery life wasn't quite as impressive though, and overall we awarded the phone 3.5 stars out of 5.
The Mate 10 had the same set of models as the Mate 9: standard, Pro, Lite, and Porsche Design. The standard Mate 10 brought with it a 12MP + 20MP rear camera, and a 5.9-inch, 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution LCD display.
Rounding out the specs we had a Kirin 970 processor powering everything, and that came with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. Android 8.0 Oreo was the software that the phone arrived with, and Huawei's usual EMUI skin was on top.
Next up in the P series was the Huawei P20, a phone which we described in our review as having "plenty of high points" – it got 4 out of 5 stars, though we preferred the Pro edition of the handset. There was also a Lite version.
This 2018 handset came sporting a 5.84-inch, 1080 x 2244 pixel LCD screen, as Huawei joined in with the trend for larger and larger phone displays. This time there was Android 8.1 Oreo on board, with the usual flourishes added by the Huawei EMUI software.
The Mate 20 succeeded the Mate 10, and had plenty of variations – another Porsche edition, a Lite edition, a Pro edition, and even an X edition with 5G (not common at all at the time). We loved the standard Huawei Mate 20, giving it 4.5 stars out of 5 in our review.
That review praised the power you got for the price – courtesy of a Kirin 980 processor, up to 6GB of RAM, and up to 256GB of internal storage. We also liked the performance from the triple lens 12MP+16MP+8MP rear camera on the Mate 20, offering 2x optical zoom amongst other goodies.
The cameras were once again the highlight when the Huawei P30 (and P30 Pro and P30 Lite) appeared: the standard P30 came with a triple-lens 40MP+16MP+8MP snapper on the back, offering 3x optical zoom and excellent low light photography.
In our review we gave the handset 4 stars out of 5, picking out the camera setup as particularly good. The aesthetics of the phone also impressed, led by a 6.1-inch, 1080 x 2340 OLED display (the first OLED display on a P series phone).
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