The Huawei P50 Pro is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset found in most of last year’s flagship phones of last year, with one omission: it only comes with an LTE/4G connectivity. FM Radio: No, USB: microUSB 3.1 Type-C, Music, Alert MP3, Ringtones, Vibration, Polyphonic, Infrared Port Maximum brightness is rather good, too, with the screen pushing out a peak luminance of 597cd/m². My only slight complaint with the P50 Pro’s screen is that peak HDR brightness is rather low – we measured the iPhone 13 Pro at 1,200 cd/m², which is almost double what the P50 Pro managed in our tests. Huawei P50 Pro review: Performance and battery life The front-facing camera on both those phones is 13MP, so a little low-res compared to the other snappers, but more than you'll need for selfies.

All new Huawei P50 phones run HarmonyOS 2, the company's Android rival that it unveiled earlier in the year. Admittedly the software doesn't feel a million miles from Android, but it brings a few changes. When it comes to video capture, the P50 Pro can record up to 4K video at 60fps. Both the primary wide lens and the periscope telephoto lens have optical image stabilization, (OIS) but there is no such assistance for the ultra-wide lens. Moreover, the ultra-wide lens is capped at 4K 30fps. If you’re smooth with your movements and don’t switch lenses mid-recording, the video experience from the P50 Pro camera is good. But when you want to use multiple lenses, the transitions are jagged and rough.

Huawei’s ultra-wide camera doubles up as a macro camera for super close-up shots, while also grabbing entire scenes at an expansive 13mm focal length. It does a great job in well-lit environments, though falls down in the dark, even with night mode fired up. Low-light results from using the ultra-wide camera are relatively disappointing. Modern day flagships employ a setup where both the primary and the ultra-wide lens are of similar calibre. But in the case of the P50 Pro, the lower-resolution sensor, combined with the inconsistencies in color we’ve mentioned, make for a less-than-ideal low-light experience. Even when you want to use the ultra-wide lens for a 0.8x or 0.9x zoomed-out view, the resulting quality loss is quite noticeable. You can make up for it to a certain extent by using night-mode; however this leads to purple fringing in the resulting image. Color reproduction is excellent, and the OLED screen is great for watching movies and videos on. Huawei has also increased the refresh rate to 120Hz, up from 90Hz on the P40 Pro, which makes navigating the UI or scrolling through apps super-smooth. You can set the refresh rate to Dynamic, which adjusts the refresh rate depending on what you’re doing on your phone, to save battery life, but you’ll get the smoothest all-round experience by setting it to High. Specs and performance

What a mixed bag the P50 Pro’s software is. On the one hand, it’s got a nippy Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset, which is good for gaming and day to day use, but on the other, thanks to sanctions against Huawei, its 5G is disabled. When you look inside the P50 Pro, users will come across something unexpected; despite being one of the world's leading authorities on 5G hardware, Huawei has used the 4G version of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 processor, which is matched with either 8GB or 12GB of RAM and 256GB storage. There are reports that Huawei will offer a Kirin 9000 version of the P50 Pro that will be 5G enabled, but there are no details of when or where it will be available - or for how much. For Laptops / Tablets: lets you select a monthly Device Plan Credit Agreement (3-48 months) with a 24 month Data Plan. You can pay off your Device Plan early, and if you do, you can then keep your Data Plan on a 30-day contract or leave. If your Data Plan ends for any reason, you will need to keep on paying your monthly Device Plan (either in full or monthly) Calling and standby time data under Low battery emergency mode comes from Huawei lab tests conducted in controlled environments. Actual performance may vary due to differing network conditions and usage conditions. All data is subject to actual usage.For European customers, the P50 Pro comes with its EMUI 12, rather than the HarmonyOS software used in China. It has a slightly messy default UI full of subfolders and apps you'll never use or see again if you leave the Huawei ecosystem. but these can be switched about effortlessly.

Huawei also loads up the phone with a tonne of shooting modes: Monochrome, Dual-View, Snapshot, AR Lens, Story Creator and all your standards like Pro mode and Panorama. These all just add to a fundamentally reliable camera experience, and while the P50 Pro’s photos don’t look as natural and flat as those captured on Sony phones like the Xperia I III and the Xperia Pro-I, the results will be preferable for most. If you’re not big on apps and games, don’t mind being fed sensationalist stories in your newsfeed every now and then, and can handle elements that feel like a work in progress, the Huawei P50 Pro gets a lot very right. It sports one of the most reliable cameras around, delivers the best multi-device collaboration experiences outside Apple’s ecosystem, and it also looks and feels sleek – from screen to design.W is the maximum charging power, and can only be reached when the dedicated 66 W HUAWEI SuperCharge charger and cable are used. The chipset is teamed up with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage on our review model, which should be sufficient storage for most people, but 128GB and 512GB versions are available in other markets, with the latter also getting a bump in RAM to 12GB. You must have a 5G enabled device on the Vodafone 5G network, a Vodafone 5G plan and 5G coverage in the area that you are in. Coverage may be affected by a number of factors. Find out more about our 5G network