Huawei P30 Lite Review: Stunning Design, Average Power

The Huawei P30 Lite mainly competed with Redmi Note 7 and Moto G7 Plus at launch but now, users have had many other cheaper phones with better specs.

Huawei P30 Lite Price And Availability

The phone is the cheapest in the P30 lineup and is available in India, UAE, and the UK.

The handset retails for £329 (around $300). Huawei P30 Lite price in India is Rs 19,990.

Huawei P30 Lite Design

The Huawei P30 Lite is a combination of a bold design and an accessible size.

With a 6.15-inch display, the phone is perfect for users with smaller hands, but it still exudes a premium feeling in your hands.

The phone might have a plastic frame but it can easily emulate the metal of other members of the P30 family. Flat glass with thin bezels dominates the front of the phone while the back features an elegant curve.

Under the triple camera module on the back is the fingerprint scanner. All of the phone’s buttons are on the right and at the bottom, there are a 3.5mm headphone jack, a mono speaker, and a USB-C port.

Weighing 159g and measured 7.4mm in thickness, the Huawei P30 Lite is comfortable to hold, slender, and light. Users have the choice to acquire the phone in Pearl White, Peacock Blue, and Midnight Black.

Huawei P30 Lite Display

The phone’s 6.15-inch Full HD+ panel has a perfect size that balances manageability and immersion. The 19.5:9 aspect ratio means this is a long phone. It features minimal bezels and a teardrop notch from which the selfie camera pokes.

The 1080x2312 resolution and LCD screen tech are what everyone should expect at this price point. Compared to AMOLED, LCD screens offer a tad more clarity but less punch, depth, and pop.

Overall, the Huawei P30 Lite has an excellent display with strong brightness, sharpness, and viewing angles.

Huawei P30 Lite Battery Life

The battery life of the Huawei P30 Lite isn’t the best in the class but it’s enough for day-to-day use.

The phone draws power from a 3,340mAh power cell and to prolong the time you have between charges, Huawei offers a slew of optimization tools in settings to alert users of apps that are hogging power, limit background activities, and disable unused connectivity.

With moderate use, the phone can breeze through a workday of video-streaming and photo-taking. In our test with a 90-minute video at Full HD and max brightness, the phone lost 18% of battery life, proving that the power cell on the Huawei P30 Lite is good, but far from great.

The bundled 18W charger gives the phone Huawei’s Quick Charge technology which fills up the battery in 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Huawei P30 Lite Camera

The Huawei P30 Lite features a triple camera setup consisting of a 48MP f/1.8 wide primary camera, an 8MP f/2.4 ultra-wide snapper, and a 2MP f/2.4 depth camera.

While the phone’s main camera has a higher resolution than that of Huawei P30, it has no support for 4K video nor optical image stabilization.

Because of a technology called pixel binning, photos taken by the main camera have the default 12MP resolution but with better noise handling and tonal accuracy.

The camera app works quickly and shots in good lighting have decent contrast. With the HDR mode, shots pack an impressive dynamic range.

For the price, the Huawei P30 Lite has respectable low-light performance. The photos pack more noise than Huawei P30 but that is reasonable given its position as a mid-range phone.

The ultra-wide camera is also impressive but users will have to deal with its fisheye effect which is worse than on the P30.

Huawei P30 Lite Specs

The Huawei P30 Lite comes with EMUI based on Android 9 out of the box but given the ongoing tension between Huawei and the U.S, software updates aren’t something users should put their hopes on.

Under the hood, the phone runs on a HiSilicon Kirin 710 chipset paired with 4GB of RAM and onboard storage of 128GB. While you have the right to expect a more powerful chipset for the price, the storage and RAM are great.

The handset can handle most day-to-day tasks with ease, with occasional lag with multitasking.

The Huawei P30 Lite runs 2D games without any problem, it can even support some basic 3D titles.

Users have a decent connectivity set consisting of Bluetooth, 4G, and Wi-Fi. You will also have a USB-C port and NFC.

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