In this 2020, Huawei has decided to feed the smartphone market with a rather expensive product. Let's talk about the Huawei P40 Pro, which after leaving Google services wants to raise i Huawei Mobile Services. As you can see at the following link, the price of the product slightly exceeds a thousand euros, and that is why the company must certainly justify the figure through a considerable quality and various features. Let's analyze the product together in the next few lines, finding out if Huawei has successfully bridged the lack of Google Play Services, making its ecosystem ready for use through its new top of the range.
First impact with the Huawei P40 Pro
Already in the unboxing phase, it is easy to realize how you are faced with a product that really oozes quality from every pore. The shell is indeed extremely solid e resistant, but at the same time really elegance in form and invoice. It takes little to notice that however, the weight of the product is not indifferent, also due to the ceramic that makes up the back, which provides a truly appreciable tactile feedback. The phone is patented to withstand drops and bumps, thanks to a surprising consistency in the assembly. At the same time, the certification IP68 assures us that the Huawei P40 Pro can go up to 1,5 meters underwater without suffering damage, at least for the first 30 minutes in these conditions.
The real flaw of the Huawei P40 Pro can be found in the mono audio, which partially destroys an almost perfect system.
To accompany us in the package we find a USB to USB-C cable, USB-C headphones, and a really performing 40W power supply, although the Huawei P40 Pro also allows the approach of the wireless charging. The product screen is curved on all four sides, and even this to the touch is really well done, giving the user the feeling of the premium product necessary for top-of-the-range smartphones. At the top left there is a notch placed on the screen, consisting of two rooms somewhat distant from each other, which guarantee an extreme final quality thanks to this feature. The panel has a resolution of 1200 × 2640, and is configured as a OLED from 6,85 inches. Nothing to say for the excellent performances on a visual level, accompanied by a lighting that is more than promoted, with the possibility of vary the refresh rate from 60hz to 90hz. In this case the battery consumption increases slightly, but guarantees performance more similar to the screens from 120hz, with the icing on the cake being full compatibility with HDR +. Interesting lfingerprint placed in the center of the screen, obviously under the panel, which together with 2D facial recognition allows fast unlocks ensured. The audio turns out to be the weakest part of the system, allowing playback only in mono and therefore offering performance that is not in line with the top of the range of the competition.
Inside the premium system
As for the hardware configuration, we can be more than satisfied, starting from the processor Kirin 990 which evolves the potential of the previous models, resulting for each action more than excellent. There Total RAM is 8GB, while system memory settles on 256GB. The connections are well allowed thanks to the technologies of the 5G, the Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6. The battery from 4200 mAh manages to guarantee all the functions very well, allowing users to get to the end of the day without too many problems, although it is not particularly large in relation to the various requests of the system.
The cameras are the most successful part of the system, which thanks to Huawei Mobile Services successfully fills the absence of the partnership with Google.
The flagship of the product, however, concerns the camera sector, which besides an amazing quality have various interesting features. Suffice it to say that the article itself is aimed precisely at the user who prefers to focus everything on photos and videos, who will be more than satisfied. We speak of a image stabilization by textbook and aartificial intelligence in really aggressive and impactful photos, which can of course be easily deactivated for more "natural" results. The resolution is also excellent by taking the zoom to 10x, considering that each of the rooms offers an excellent 4K is 60 fps. It is also possible to realize timelapse e slow motions at the same resolution, with full support up to 7680 fps. We then come to the possible big flaw of the telephone, concerning its system EMUI 10.1 based on Android. Although this offers a proven and surprising optimization, it is still a branded ecosystem Huawei, which is therefore no longer compatible with i Google Mobile Services. Tuttavia, i Huawei Mobile Services are now at the forefront, and smoothly mitigate the inevitable nostalgia perceived by consumers, receiving interesting updates day after day. We can confirm that the services are now almost equivalent, and that this new road is practically cleared and easy to follow. Despite this, it is clear that many applications are exclusive to Google services and that, consequently, some users will not be able to easily make these compromises, abandoning the various possibilities offered by Google.