Huawei Mate 30 Pro Full Specifications
What's up guys I'm Tech Writer here okay so wha why was in a really odd place in 2019 being banned in the u.s. I did an entire video about their situation I'll leave that link right up there so because of that every single huawei phone that's come out since then comes with like a giant asterisk next to it at least in the US because it doesn't make sense to buy here an Android phone without Google Play services and that whole connection to Android so the new flagship came out and that's one of those the huawei mate 30 Pro .
I didn't really get to use it too much until now and it turns out this is a really really nice piece of hardware one of my favorites of the year but it still can't make up for this software situation here's what I mean just look at this phone this is actually one of my favorite designs of all of last year I've always been a fan of boxy designs like I've said and this is one of those but it's also quite unique mainly because of this next level waterfall display now I typically do not like when phone displays curve a bit over the edges like that's one of my complaints for the oneplus 7 pro the Galaxy S 10 a bunch of others but this one is so dramatic it falls off so steeply that it gives it that boxy square look again it gives the phone and actually pretty futuristic and impressive look in the hand it's a six and a half inch bright slightly above 1080p OLED display.
it's got the fingerprint reader underneath the glass in the middle where it's reachable the forehead and the chin are pretty thin and the knotch it isn't tiny but it isn't as big as the iPhone either and overall it just makes for a nice viewing experience unlike any other smartphone that's come out but that is about where the good stuff ends as far as the display goes and then you start to notice the quirks as far as the Cork's and features first of all there is light fall-off on both edges it's kind of hard to capture exactly what it looks like on camera because the light's still coming from the OLED seems to fill that in but looking at it in person both sides of the phone have this darker edge to them and then this screen curves so far back onto the side of the phone that it is this the phone like it actually is legitimately half of the side and it's pushed that red power button all the way to almost the back of the phone it's like really offset from the center line.
fif you're into that then the speaker at the bottom it's small and kind of easily blocked but it does get pretty loud and the whole phone is ip68 water-resistant and you even get an IR blaster at the top remember these from back in a day you can program them to turn your TV on and off or just troll other nearby people and turn their TVs on and off really about the only cons I can come up with for this phone's hardware are nitpicks there's no headphone jack which feels like a nitpick in 2020 not a lot of phones in this range have them anymore also the back it's glass and glass breaks but also that camera bump is not small and it sticks out the back of the phone a little bit in a way that like catches a lot of lint because it's a sharp edge and it's hard to get the dust from around the circle if you put it in your pocket even once the expandable storage is by a proprietary nan memory card so it's not a microSD card slot is technically expandable storage but you might not be able to use the one you currently have lying around and also no high refresh rate on the display that is a nitpick for 2019 but coming into 2020 that's starting to feel like a pretty big deal but other than that you can clearly tell there's a lot to like with this phone and it doesn't just stop on the outside it gets to the inside too you get the high silicon Karen 990
which if you haven't heard of it is a high-end chip not quite matching the power of the snapdragon a 55 but very close and with eight gigs of ram and ufs 3.0 storage this phone is quick it's no slouch at all it games just fine Scrolls around multitasks as good as any other 60 Hertz phone and the camera hardware is beastly too we're talking well you can see the quadruple cameras on the back 40 megapixel main camera at F 1.6 with oh is and it is a big sensor at 1-over 1.7 inches and you also have an 8 megapixel 3x telephoto with OIS and a 40 megapixel ultra wide at F 1.8 and it's an even bigger sensor than the main camera at one over 1.5 4 inches and then that fourth sensor is a 3d time-of-flight camera plus the dual LED flash in my opinion now that I've actually gotten to use this more the ultra wide best technical performance of any ultra wide that I've seen in any smart phone camera it's not the best camera quality still it's kind of weird with the colors but technically speaking very impressive ultra wide the sensor is so big that I found myself just switching to the ultra wide and shooting with it all the time it's not super fish eye wide.
then you can still get up close and be near subjects and get a naturally blurred bokeh without needing portrait mode skin tones and overall color were a little weird I think they could use some work dynamic range was good though focus was on point and of course all those pixels give you a lot of detail that most secondary cameras are not exactly crushing so the primary camera is good but the ultra wide was fun so this phone is clearly capable of doing pretty great things but that's the problem is I've been using this phone and kind of having a hard time doing almost anything see because of Huawei's relationship with the US right now me importing this phone buying it online and getting it shipped here means I get a phone with its Android ten point oh right now and the latest version of EMU I also ten point oh but with no Google Play services and none of that connection to Google at all this has created the biggest delta between awesome hardware and software holding it back that i've ever seen no play services means no google play store on this phone which means no instagram no gmail no google calendar there is of course a huawei app store called app gallery but a lot of stuff is region-locked and you can change your region but good luck finding pretty much anything of the same selection of apps that you'd find working functionally in the Play Store there's no twitter or youtube here you can still download or sideload other apps from their respective websites if they host them so like dropbox and whatsapp and things like that and there have been attempts to sideload Google Play services onto the phone as well with varying levels of success basically you're getting really deep into you got a know what you're doing territory here so all this change has brought huawei phones in the u.s. anyway from very good alternatives to basically unusable which is a shame because this is actually kind of a really nice phone and Huawei's emui software on top of android it's never been my favorite but it's actually getting better too they have really gone out of their way and started cloning other popular stuff they've seen they built a copy of apple's measure app called it AR measure it seems to work pretty decently the house will have smart display resolution switching in the settings to save battery and an overall much nicer cleaned up Settings app which is important with a functional search so yeah it's not perfect but they have been getting better but now this phone is just clearly so hobbled by the lack of Google connection that it's clearly not just bad for huawei but bad for competition like this is bad for us too so at the end of the day this phone will be fine in China and Huawei will be fine in China where millions of their customers are who just don't need Google Play services at all China is the biggest smartphone market in the world they'll be just fine but I'm just not about to go out of my way and recommend anyone goes in imports one of these like I did so moral of the story re emphasis on the importance of software you and me we already knew for a smartphone you know the builds got to be good the batteries got to be big the displays got to be crisp but behind the scenes with software the battery optimization the displays responsiveness the quality of the camera which you can get out of a sensor.
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