These are the best Huawei phones for every need and budget, from the Mate 20 Pro to the P30.
Until 2018, Huawei phones were not that well-known outside of their native China. But after the storming rise of the company thanks to its excellent P20 Pro with a premium design and amazingly good triple cameras, suddenly Huawei was a smartphone maker to contend with on a global scale. But a recent US trade ban means that Huawei cannot work with Google, so all its new phones – including the premium P40 Pro and Mate Xs – can’t ship with Google apps and services. That holds them back, but they still have superb hardware, so are worth considering if you can get by without Google. As such they still make our list, but you’ll also find a number of mostly older Huawei handsets that do still sport Google apps and the Play Store, none of which are more notable than the Huawei P30 Pro. Despite this phone being over a year old it’s still an incredible handset with an amazing zoom camera, great display and class-leading battery life. You can even get most of the features for less in the P30, too.2018’s Mate 20 Pro is still a very good option too, and Huawei’s mid-range phones like the P Smart (2019) offer slick design in an affordable package. The Huawei P30 Pro is the best Huawei phone you can buy right now. It’s also one of the best phone we’ve used when it comes to photography, with the cameras being the P30 Pro’s real party piece, providing staggeringly good 5x and 10x zoom, and a digital 50x zoom with gets you insanely close to objects far off in the distance. Its low-light capabilities are also top-notch. The large 6.47-inch screen on the P30 Pro may ‘only’ have a Full HD+ resolution, but it’s bright, clear and colorful providing an excellent canvas for your apps and games. There’s no worry when it comes to the P30 Pro potentially running out of juice, the battery life here is excellent. We regularly got to the end of the day with 30% or more left in the tank. The P30 Pro not only sets a new standard for Huawei, it sets a new standard for the entire mobile industry. Its cameras are quite simply astonishing, the design is eye-catching and the power plentiful. It’s a true flagship smartphone. Read more: Huawei P30 Pro review The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is a brilliant all-round phone, offering up a heady mix of design, power and performance with a few party pieces thrown in too. It builds on the excellent P20 and P20 Pro offering up even more screen, enhanced triple rear cameras and an in-display fingerprint scanner. The Mate 20 Pro packs a huge 6.39-inch display giving you a large amount of space for gaming and movies, and its QHD resolution and HDR10 support ensures everything looks great. There is a wide notch at the top of the display though. It also boasts three cameras on the rear, nabbing the excellent 40MP wide-angle and 8MP telephoto lenses from the P20 Pro – but the third sensor is new. It’s an ultra-wide 16MP snapper allowing you to cram even more of your surroundings into each shot. The Mate 20 Pro is a full-featured phone for a full-featured price – it even has a few tricks you won’t see elsewhere, and more powerful specs than most of its competitors. Read more: Huawei Mate 20 Pro review The Huawei P30 has a smaller screen than the P30 Pro, and makes do with just the three rear cameras and a maximum zoom of 30x, but it’s still one of the best Huawei phones around. With a 6.1-inch display the P30 is a little easier to manage in the hand than its larger sibling, and with a Full HD+ and plenty of colour it’s a top smartphone screen.
