I'm tempted by the P20. Amazon US has the P20 and P20 pro now. The P20 can be had in Blue/Black/Pink for about ~$560 so about the same as the OP6. The P20 Plus though is around $875-$900 for Black/Blue/Twilight. A lot easier to drop $560 than nearly $900. I wish I could go somewhere and play around with the P20 to get a feel for it but that's not happening in the US. I just want to make sure it's fast/fluid, good battery life, and camera of course. I want to see if these things are on par with Pixel 2 and iPhone X. I have had my iPhone X for 4.5 months now without trying purchasing anything. It's a record for me, but I'm getting bored.
Hmm it's probably going to fall short of an iPhone X and a Pixel 2 if I'm totally honest.
It doesn't for me personally, but everyone looks for different things in a phone.
When it comes to build quality, the P20 is on par with both. It's a gorgeous design and it feels amazing in hand. Even better than the Pro.
Battery life is incredible. Again, not as good as Pro, but easily beats most other Androids I've used including the Pixel 2.
Screen for an LCD panel is one of the best displays I've used. Compared directly to the OLED screen of the P20 Pro there is little to no difference at all. When comparing it with the XZ2 I recently tried, the P20 was noticeably better.
Huawei also let you go to town on screen customisation. Never seen such depth in that area before from another Android manufacturer.
Camera is great. The only thing to be mindful of is the grass and sky will often be over saturated, even if you turn Master AI off in settings. It's easy to dismiss the AI mode that auto turns on when it recognises greenery or sky but it still does too much. Often, the photos turn out really nice but sometimes it goes overboard.
Same thing with sharpening. For some reason, on some shots of my dog (with and without AI assistance), it goes to town with sharpness and ends up making the photos look a cartoony like mess. No idea why but it's not very often.
Regarding the fluidity, you'd think I was running stock Android on this. It's literally amazingly fast. Again, the XZ2 I had slowed down sometimes in random tasks, no such thing with this P20 in the 3 months I've had it. I do use the Pixel launcher though, whether that makes a difference or not I don't know.
Huaweis stock launcher is not for me. Pixel launcher makes the phone look sweet and gives you an app tray at a swipe up. Rather than an app button. I love Huaweis skin and don't find it obtrusive at all. I like the additional extras of pinching the screen to get to widgets and settings, double tapping the screen with your knuckle for a screenshot etc. And I like that they offer a built in dark theme if required.
The front facing FPS is a god send and I love how it can also double up as your whole navigation buttons, removing the usual Android on screen ones. It's little things like that which I've grown accustomed to and makes me not really want to move onto anything else. As it won't compare.
The only bad thing to say is all of the Huawei apps, but disable or remove them and you're good.
I have noticed some annoyances as with any phone. Weird things like widgets (Zooper Pro and fox) disappearing every morning from my home screen. It's there when I go to sleep so why does it disappear in the morning? Odd.
Also, when I ask Google assistant to start a timer, it does and then the clock notification will appear in notifications, but then it will disappear for no reason. So I can't quickly check the time remaining until I go back in the clock. V odd.
I don't know if these are launcher things as I haven't used the Huawei one at all since getting it. I threw the pixel one on and it's been on since.
I also miss the AOD from the Pro, even though that was almost pointless as it never actually showed third party apps notifications on it. Only Huawei ones like calls etc. It was more for the time than anything.
Sorry I've ranted. But I think it's good to get someone's perspective if you're curious. I also wanted to post this as just because I am extremely pleased with it, it doesn't mean you would be. I've really found a groove with this phone. It ticks virtually every box for me other than a couple of oddities but what phone doesn't have a trade off these days?
