I used to barely use my phone camera for photography, but the Huawei P30 got me to change that.
I’ve reviewed a few phones for TechRadar now, but I hadn’t found the camera a particularly compelling part of them – until I picked up the new Huawei P30.
With its tri-lens offering and range of features, the Huawei P30 got me to re-think how I use the camera in my phone, and the way I use it to take pictures on a day-to-day basis.
That’s not to say the cameras in other phones were bad – the Xiaomi Mi 9 has a fantastic snapper for its price, and the ROKiT IO Pro 3D’s 3D photography is a novelty if nothing else — but while it was fun experimenting with these handsets for the purpose of a review, I’d never used a phone camera for novelty, non-review purposes.
In fact, not since my first smartphone in the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (I was reluctant to give up my LG flip-phone, okay?) with its feeble 5MP snapper, had I actually opted to use my phone camera to take normal pictures, and since then I’d lost interest in taking ‘artistic’ or memorable shots.
However when I started using the Huawei P30, and the range of image optimization features it boasts, I broke the habit of a lifetime (well, several years).
You can read all about the specs of the Huawei P30’s camera, and what we thought about it, in our in-depth review, but these are the highlights.
The main camera has a 40MP sensor which ‘sees’ red-yellow-yellow-blue light instead of the red-green-blue that other digital cameras do, and the point of this is both to pick up and boost colors better, and to take better night-time shots.
