Mate 20 Pro Vs Xs Max

Huawei'south gunning for the industry leaders with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, merely how does it compare to Apple'southward pricey but popular Apple iPhone XS Max?


Product Name	Huawei Mate 20 Pro	Apple iPhone XS
Display size	6.39	5.8
Operating system	Android 9	iOS 12
Height (mm)	157.8	143.half dozen
Width (mm)	72.3	seventy.ix
Depth (mm)	viii.six	seven.vii
Weight (g)	189	177
Battery size (mAh)	4,200	ii,659
Front end camera (1) megapixels	24	7
Rear camera (1) megapixels	xl	12
Rear photographic camera (2) megapixels	20	12
Water Resistance	IP68	IP68
Wi-Fi connectivity	802.xi a/b/g/n/ac	802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Network Category Speed	Category 21	Category 16

Huawei Mate xx Pro vs Apple tree iPhone XS Max: What to look for

Huawei has slowly and gradually been improving its mobile phones and with it, the attention they grab. It has simply launched the Huawei Mate 20 and Huawei Mate 20 Pro in London amid a flurry of attention-grabbing hype, just it doesn't operate in a vacuum. Apple's pretty adept at hype too, but how do the two flagships really compare?

Huawei Mate 20 Pro vs Apple iPhone XS Max: Power

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro runs on Huawei's Kirin 980 processor, the first in the industry to be built on a 7nm procedure. Huawei's hype effectually its capabilities for AI processing is pretty relentless, merely our own hands-on testing does suggest that information technology's a very powerful processor. Information technology'due south likewise running Android 9.0 ("Pie") natively at launch, which should give it a petty more performance overhead. That's tempered confronting the fact that information technology uses Huawei's EMUI launcher, which is very much a love-it-or-detest-it prospect amidst Android fans.

The A12 Fusion processor that powers the iPhone XS is the processor to beat out right now and that's not going to be an easy fight. The A12 Fusion beats out every Android device we've tested running the Snapdragon 845 in benchmarks and real-earth performance past a very wide margin.

Every bit a telephone, the Huawei Mate twenty Pro has a network advantage over the iPhone XS Max. While Apple touts it as the "fastest" iPhone, information technology's notwithstanding only a category 16 handset, capable of a maximum download of 1Gbps from a compatible 4G LTE network.

The category 21 modem in the Huawei Mate 20 Pro gives it a speed edge, although as yet there's no announced category 21 support on Australian mobile networks.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro vs Apple iPhone XS Max: Camera

Huawei very much had itself to beat when it came to smartphone photography, thanks to the very loftier quality of the cameras in the Huawei P20 Pro. The Huawei Mate 20 Pro sticks with the same triple rear camera formula, but instead of a monochrome lens, you get a broad, super-wide and telephoto lens trio to play with, supplemented with Huawei's AI-led camera applications. The results, at least from our early tests, are very impressive indeed.

The iPhone XS Max features dual-lens cameras at the rear and in our review, we found information technology had excellent quality for those who want the camera to handle the majority of the shot selection decisions. Which means, in one sense that both Huawei and Apple are staking a claim to the vast majority of photographic camera phone users who simply want practiced photos but don't want to stress with camera settings to speak of.

Huawei Mate 20 Pro vs Apple iPhone XS Max: Bombardment

Apple never makes much fuss nearly relative battery specifications for its iPhone lines, although it does state that the Apple tree iPhone XS Max has the largest battery information technology has put into whatever iPhone to engagement. This is true, with tear downs revealing a 3,174 mAh battery. Our own tests suggest that while the Apple tree iPhone XS Max's bombardment life is proficient enough for most unmarried-day usage scenarios, it withal lags behind the Android competition.

Huawei'due south not going to make this battle like shooting fish in a barrel for Apple in any way, packing a 4,200 mAh bombardment into the Huawei Mate 20 Pro's frame that should give it a lot of stamina. While both phones support wireless charging via the Qi standard, Huawei'southward flipping the equation by making the Huawei Mate 20 Pro a wireless charger in its ain right. Which means you tin can charge the iPhone XS Max with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Yep, nosotros've already tested that this works.

Huawei Mate twenty Pro vs Apple iPhone XS Max: Pricing

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro volition be Huawei's virtually expensive regular handset (ignoring those exclusive Porsche Design models) to date, retailing at $1,599 in Australia when it goes on sale from 1 November 2018.

That's a fair clamper of change to drop on a smartphone, only it doesn't lucifer upwardly to Apple's pricing for the Apple iPhone XS Max. It retails for $1,799 (64GB), $2,049 (256GB) and $2,369 (512GB) respectively, making it the most expensive smartphone y'all tin purchase in Australia today.

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro volition exist available on contract terms through Vodafone and Optus. Check out our breakdown of Optus' Huawei Mate 20 Pro plans here.

The iPhone XS Max is bachelor across major carriers on contract terms, which you can check below: