The Huawei Mate 20 Pro has been pronounced the best smartphone at the just ended Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona.

The phone which won the GLOMO Award by Judges’ Choice beat Apple’s iPhone XS Max, Google Pixel 3, OnePlus 6T, and Samsung Galaxy Note 9 to be crowned the Best.

The Huawei Mate 20 Pro was launched in November, 2018 along with the Huawei Mate 20 and Huawei Mate 20 X. It is with no doubt that Huawei’s Mate series smartphones kept enjoying the spotlight throughout 2018 till date.

The phone has embedded premium features like, a triple rear camera setup (40MP+20MP+8MP), 40W Huawei SuperCharge (supports reverse wireless charging) technology, high screen-to-body ratio, and HiSilicon Kirin 980 7nm SoC. The most premium offering of the lot, is an in-display fingerprint sensor:, same feature seen on the Galaxy S10.

Its performance, build & design, number of sales are possible factors that could have contributed to it winning the Best Smartphone of the GLOMO Award.

Aside those, the handset is equipped with distinctive and functional features that could take down its strongest competition, Apple, and Samsung.

Early this year, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro scored 109 points on DxOMark’s smartphone photography and videography tests—tying up with the Huawei P20 Pro at the top.

Still beating Google Pixel 3, iPhone XS Max, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, in the same competition that was nominated in the category of best smartphone.

According to DxOMark’s Tally results, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro scored 114 points when it came to still photography and 97 points in videography.

AnTuTu, regarded as one of the popular benchmarking apps for Android phones, late last year, released the top ten smartphones that have the highest average score, the Huawei Mate phones, Mate 20, Mate 20 Pro, Mate 20 X came in top three positions with the Mate 20 Pro listed second receiving a benchmark score of 307,693.

The Chinese smartphone maker keeps innovating and adding more tech useful and cutting-edge technology into its smartphone to beat its competition.

The Huawei Mate X, which was recently launched, is getting more attraction and its patronage is surging continuously compared to the Samsung Galaxy Fold, both of which are foldable devices.

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