In our standard battery test, where brightness is set to 170cd/m2 and data connections are disabled, the phone only lasted 11hrs 22mins in our video rundown test before running out of juice. I own the P20 Pro and it has the same problem, although I can report it’s easily rectified by popping the phone in a case.

It doesn’t get eye-searingly bright, but it was plenty bright enough for outdoor usage in our experience. The Mate 20 Lite follows the iPhone X way of thinking, with a curvy metal frame sandwiched between twin glass surfaces.Let’s be clear that it was a big step down by any analytical metric, but in practical day to day use this screen is more than up to the task. The support camera is purely to add depth data to help produce fake bokeh images, not capture images in its own right and, unlike past Huawei phones, there’s no dedicated mon ochrome camera which, as a fan of moody cat pictures, I find a touch disappointing. Add in some largely charmless head designs (the default chameleon being the worst offender), and it all amounts to a throw-away gimmick you’re unlikely to use much - if at all. There's also a dedicated Night mode, which we hoped would be as magical as on the P20 Pros of this world, but no - we couldn't really get a sharp shot at these long exposures.

The camera handles different light conditions well; light and dark areas within the same shot are uniformly reproduced too. The phone also has an IPS LCD which captivates users when reading webpages, watching videos or changing the color temperature. One is the edge-to-edge display, which removes a fair amount of the bezel for an 81% screen-to-body ratio. Performance is on par with other mid-range Android smartphones, but Huawei has brought nothing innovative to the party.Since artificially defocused backgrounds became all the rage, Huawei and Honor phones have had both a Portrait mode and an Aperture mode.

With the Huawei P20 Pro camera attracting superlative-packed reviews across the web, could a phone costing half as much repeat the feat? In short, the Mate 20 Lite is powerful enough for many applications, with its Kirin 710 SoC around thirty percent faster than the MediaTek Helio P23 MT6763T and ten percent slower than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. Swiping up and down doesn't switch between front and rear camera either, you have a button for that (admittedly, on the bottom within easy reach).We can expect the forthcoming Huawei Mate 20 Pro to essentially be the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 to the Huawei P20 Pro’s Samsung Galaxy S9.

It’s tempting to dismiss this is a simple extension of what digital cameras have been doing for years with their auto settings, adjusting your shots according to surrounding conditions. We have chosen to compare our test device against the ASUS ZenFone 5, the BQ Aquaris X2 Pro, the Nokia 7 Plus and the Sony Xperia XA2 Plus.

Some of the apps – like the mirror mode which Lets you use the front-facing cameras to check out your mug – are quite handy but packing in five games of variable quality is a bit invasive, as is putting Booking. Even intensive games run reasonably well on it: I downloaded both Real Racing 3 and PUBG Mobile to test its graphics capabilities and it didn’t object to either. The popularity rating is based on the total number of benchmark results submitted across all tests in the last 30 days. While AI scene recognition might not always work as advertised, it’s at least fun to play around with and I am hopeful it will get better.