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Huawei P30 Pro's four rear cameras from every angle

Huawei wants its phone cameras to wow you.

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The Huawei P30 Pro and P30 are the phone-maker's first major phones for 2019.

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The P30 Pro is the larger of the two.

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It has with four rear cameras to the P30's three.

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There's one camera on the front, a 32-megapixel lens.

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Cameras really are the main selling point on both phones, but especially the larger Pro.

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The camera array that looks like an exclamation signifies the Pro. The "dot" is a 3D time-of-flight (TOF) sensor.

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Here's another giveaway that you're looking at a Pro. That square-shaped lens is an 8-megapixel sensor behind a prism, which helps achieve 5x optical zoom and up to 10x hybrid zoom (a mix of optical and digital).

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The other two cameras on the Pro include 40-megapixel and 20-megapixel sensors.

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The P30 Pro has a 6.47-inch screen, while the P30 has a 6.1-inch display.

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They both have an optical in-screen fingerprint reader.

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Huawei excels at color gradients, and you can really see that here on the P30 phones.

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Go ahead and soak it in.

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Just one more...

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You can see a small teardrop-shaped notch for the front-facing camera.

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Here it is from another angle.

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The Huawei P30 Pro isn't a cheap phone by any means.

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The P30 Pro and P30 go up against Samsung's Galaxy S10 Plus and S10 (there's also a smaller S10E for $750).

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The Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus have three rear cameras...

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...and no standalone night mode.

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The P30, compared to the iPhone XS.

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From left to right, the Galaxy S10, Huawei P30 and iPhone XS.

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Can you tell which phone this is? It's the P30, which has a headphone jack.

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The P30 Pro does not.

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Notice how the cameras mount rises out of the phone.

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You can see it while looking at the side buttons.

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Inside, the phones run on a Kirin 980 processor -- Huawei makes that in-house. 

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The Pro has a 4,200-mAh battery while the P30 has a 3,650-mAh battery.

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Storage options on the P30 Pro: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB with up to 256GB in Huawei's NM (nano-memory) storage card.

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The P30's single storage choice keeps things simple: 128GB with the same NM card option.

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A look at the P30's zoom capabilities, in four shots.

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The phones run Android 9.0 Pie with Huawei's EMUI 9.1 on top.

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Enjoy just a few more photos of the Huawei P30 phones.

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Looking for more details on the P30 and P30 Pro? Read our first impressions here.

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