Huawei's P20 Pro nabs TIPA award for Best Photo Smartphone

A month or so ago, a snowstorm prevented me from getting to New York and seeing the new Huawei P20 unveiled.  Stupid snow.  I was really looking forward to checking it out with it's Leica lenses. 

Looked amazing.  Well, it's more than 'looking' amazing as TIPA (the Technical Image Press Association) has just awarded it the Best Photo Smartphone.


Not too shabby!  Can't wait to test it out.


HUAWEI P20 Pro Awarded TIPA World Award for 2018

TORONTO—April 20, 2018: Huawei Consumer Business Group today announced that the TIPA General Assembly recognized the HUAWEI P20 Pro as one of the Best Products of 2018, awarding the device the title of “Best Photo Smartphone.” This prestigious award reflects the dedication and efforts of Huawei’s engineers and designers in developing industry-leading devices for consumers globally, prioritizing quality, design and performance.

Li Changzhu, Vice President of Handset Business for Huawei Consumer Business Group, said, “The HUAWEI P Series has always been known for its extraordinary cameras. Sporting the world’s first triple camera system we co-engineered with Leica, the P20 series continues this lineage of excellence and enables anyone from amateur photographers to professionals to take incredible photos. We would like to thank TIPA for recognizing our newest flagship product and bestowing upon it the coveted title. Please stay tuned for more Huawei innovation in the years ahead.”

The HUAWEI P20 Pro was selected by representatives from 29 photo and imaging publications from around the world, involving a rigorous course of nominations, testing and comparisons. Sporting the world’s first Leica triple lens and the highest pixel count available in a smartphone with f/1.8, f/1.6 and f/2.4 wide aperture, the HUAWEI P20 Pro features a 40MP RGB sensor, a 20MP monochrome sensor and an 8MP sensor with an optically stabilized 3X telephoto lens. These combined with the master AI system’s over 500 scene recognition algorithms in 19 categories allow consumers to capture professional quality images effortlessly.

“TIPA for the second year in a row has awarded a Huawei smartphone for its excellence in smart photography,” said Thomas Gerwers, chairman of TIPA. “The new P20 Pro, developed in cooperation with Leica, is an amazing milestone in the development of smartphone devices for high-quality
photographic imaging.”

The Huawei P20 Series’ camera capabilities set a new benchmark in smartphone photography, as recently demonstrated by DxOMark, the industry standard for camera and lens image quality measurements and ratings. In fact, the HUAWEI P20 Pro and HUAWEI P20 received the two highest total scores ever for smartphones and are also the first two smartphones to achieve a three-digit DxOMark score at 109 and 102, respectively. According to Lars Rehm of DxOMark, “We are used to every new  smartphone camera generation being slightly better than the previous one, but looking at the images and test results from the P20 Pro, it seems Huawei has skipped one or two generations. The results are simply that good. The P20 Pro’s triple camera setup is the biggest innovation we have seen in mobileimaging for quite some time and is a real game changer.”