Great camera for the price

Just like most of Huawei’s offerings in the mid-range market, the P20 Lite utilizes dual cameras on the rear: a 16-megapixel main sensor and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. Both cameras come with f/2.2 aperture lenses, and both lack the Leica branding on the rear. Many of the imaging tricks that made the P20 Pro’s photos so amazing are missing in the P20 Lite, since the phone doesn’t have the same AI brawn as its more expensive brothers.

Despite that, the photos produced by the phone are pretty impressive nonetheless. There’s a lot of detail in the photos we took, and color reproduction looked solid without the obvious overprocessed look that’s in other phones. Just like the P20 Pro, the P20 Lite has a myriad of shooting modes available to it, and you can even shoot in RAW though it’s only supported in PRO mode.

The P20 Lite does have a bit of an issue with low-light shots, which we can chalk up to the aperture settings on the phones.

The front camera is no slouch as well. It’s the same megapixel count as the primary rear camera, though it has a lower aperture lens, at f/2.0. Selfies taken during the evening look good considering the conditions.

Long battery life, and fast charging makes life so much easier

Just like with the Nova 2i, the P20 Lite’s Kirin 659 processor doesn’t suck a lot of power, which means better longevity between charges. We usually clock in around a full day’s use with a single charge, and if we ran out Huawei’s fast charge tech had our back (provided you brought the included charger) filling up almost half of our phone’s juice in just 30 minutes.

Head on to the final page for our verdict!