First Impressions of the Huawei P60 Pro: Innovative Features and Stunning Design

Huawei is a brand I’ve always supported, but I haven’t really gotten around to checking out or exploring their phones until now. I was given the chance to experience the brand new Huawei P60 Pro ahead of its local Philippine launch, and was it a treat! The Huawei P60 Pro is jam-packed with loads of innovative features, both cosmetically and technologically.

First Impressions

Unboxing the phone for the first time is your usual affair with phones. You, of course, get the phone itself, a clear protective case, a USB-C cable, obligatory paperwork, and I’m glad to still see these in phone packages, a wall adaptor. But not just any wall adaptor, this one has the regular USB Type-A port and Type-C port on it for charging almost any device.

Here’s where it gets exciting, the stunning Rococo Pearl color variant of the Huawei P60 Pro is quite literally one of a kind because every single phone with this color is going to have its own unique pattern. The one-of-a-kind pearl pattern and texture on the back of the phone is just breathtaking, and I thoroughly enjoyed comparing every single phone available to me and seeing the differences in their pattern.

The camera bump is something you’d immediately notice on the phone as well, where the main camera takes precedence as the main shooter, flanked by the ultra-wide angle and trick periscope zoom camera that provides 3.6 Optical zoom.

What you see

Powering up the Huawei P60 Pro for the first time, and I’m greeted by the bright Quad-Curve display protected with Kunlun glass, which was originally introduced all the way back in the Huawei P40 Series. This glass technology allows the user not to worry about scratching or shattering the phone screen in normal day-to-day use.

The screen itself measures 6.67″ and uses LTPO OLED technology capable of dynamically adjusting its framerate from 1hz to 120hz depending on the content being displayed. This also means that content will be displayed as accurately and smoothly as if you were there yourself, of course, for videos that is. Gamers would also love this as the phone also has the performance to back it up on games to achieve 120FPS on games.

What the phone sees

This is where I’m personally most excited about the cameras they managed to pack into this powerhouse. Starting off with the main star or the show, the 48MP main camera with a lens that starts off at an aperture of f/1.4 and can stop all the way down to f/4 using physical aperture blades, which at this size is pretty amazing for me. Additionally, the main camera is backed up with OIS and Laser Autofocus. Combine that impressive technical specification with XMAGE Image processing, and what you get are stunning photos that some people might find hard to differentiate from a professional camera.

Then co-starting the camera array of the Huawei P60 Pro, the trick Periscope Telephoto camera system with 48MP delivers the same crisp images as the main camera, OIS & Sensor Shift to keep the optical system as steady as possible in those low light shooting, and an RYYB SuperSensing Sensor which replaces the standard Green sensor with 2 Yellow ones to increase low light sensitivity.

What’s under the hood

Powering the Huawei P60 Pro is a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 4G SOC with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of internal non-expandable storage. It’s running the latest version EMUI with plenty of new features from Huawei, including Gbox, which aids you in installing apps from the Huawei AppStore.

Battery life is not something you’d find lacking on the Huawei P60 Pro with its 4815mAh battery, but if you do somehow manage to run out before the day has ended, you can always charge via Huawei’s 88W wired charging capability or 50W on wireless.

Overall, the Huawei P60 Pro is a very enticing phone for my personal use-case, especially with the camera features it brings to the table, performance, and the stunning design of the Rococo Pearl back glass, which exudes quality not only physically but also in terms of performance. Even with the lack of services, I don’t think the usability of the phone is really hampered, and I would love to see how users receive the phone as it launches in a few days.