7 Days With Huawei Mate 40 Pro | Like A Marriage!
The Huawei Mate 40 pro has just launched globally, at the Mate 40 series live launch! In this video, I talk through my usage after 1 week, since the unboxing in a full in-depth, walkthrough review, of all the features and my impressions of the Mate 40 Pro after some real everyday use. It has a Kirin 9000 chipset, which performs brilliantly vs the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ and A14 Bionic! 90hz refresh rate 6.76" OLED display, a 50MP Camera, and 4K video! It's great for gaming, like PubG, Fortnite and Call Of Duty (COD) with its powerful benchmark test scores, stereo speakers, 4400 mAh Battery capacity, offer great battery life drain, and up to 8GB Ram and 512GB of Storage! 66W Fast charging, 50w fast wireless and reverse wireless also! It has some awesome flagship features, and an ultra premium build, in either Mystic Silver or Black! It's running on Android 10, with EMUI 11 over the top, and IR blaster, but there is no headphone jack! No Google services out the box, so no play store. But you do get Huawei App Gallery and Petal Search Find Apps, which have been really interesting to use to find the apps I've needed. A possible upgrade to the rumoured Harmony OS in the future, which could improve this smartphone further, but right now, Is this the best premium phone 2020? I also check out the Huawei FreeBuds Studio headphones, which for £299, are not cheap, but they are very premium and offer great build quality, features, ANC and sound quality!
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hi guys it's asbyt and this is the huawei mate 40 pro it may just be the best smartphone available for some of you but equally for some it might be one to skip the way i see is this phone is kind of like a marriage it's not for everyone it's not all gonna be plain sailing and there will be testing times but if you're willing to put the work in you could come out the other side with something truly amazing and unparalleled i will also be looking at huawei's brand new headphones the free bud studios and the ecosystem as a whole let's dive quick disclaimer while we actually reached out to sponsor this in-depth look at the mate 40 pro but all views as always are my own both good and bad so before we talk about anything else we have to address the elephant in the room you probably already know by now but currently in this situation huawei can't work with google like they once did so while,
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the mate 40 pro is running on android 10 it's not operating using google services so no google play store for your apps now this straight away might put some of you off but i've managed to do a couple of neat workarounds to get basically all of the apps that i personally need on this phone but before we get to that let's see whether those workarounds are actually going to be worth it for you let's see how good the actual hardware is starting with the display subjectively this can go one of two ways depending on whether you actually appreciate the perhaps more practical precise flat options of some competitors or the beautifully immersive curves of this here handset personally i do find flat displays sometimes easier to use for reasons you'll see but i do love the aesthetics of the curved design here as the panel rips over the sides and blends seamlessly into the rear it just looks incredible in fact it goes back so dramatically the volume rocker and power button are actually pretty much on the rear panel yes there has been occasional palm rejection issues and typing is slightly hindered when using the letters right on the edges but it does look awesome it's lovely and bright with a 6.7 inch basically qhd oled display with 90 hertz refresh and 240 hertz touch sampling rates so no 120 or crazy 144hz refresh but i still feel that 90 is really nice and smooth even in 2020 you have a shiny aluminium frame which can pick up the occasional fingerprints and dirt although nothing on the level of the iphone 12 pro stainless steel which after two minutes of coming fresh out the box looked like i buried it with snails for a week no issues keeping the back panel clean with this frosted glow finish huawei pretty much started this sort of multi-colored trend a couple of years ago and many have since jumped on the bandwagon but huawei still creates some of the best i'm a massive fan of this finish,
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this matte colored finish is called mystic silver but it also comes in a glossy black as well if that's more your cup of tea i have both as you can see here but i definitely would go with the silver if given the option the same can't be said for the camera module from a personal point of view however as the crop circle ring design is a bit too garish for my own subtle tastes but try and find a good-looking camera module on a smartphone in 2020 i'm waiting this design isn't without thought as huawei have always looked to kind of design smartphone cameras with a sort of professional camera inspiration in mind and they've also gone with a space vibe as well on the mate 40 pro the ring apparently signifies a photo taken of the black hole in 2019 but enough of that outer world experience stuff what's actually going on deep within the actual camera lenses because as you well know huawei do tend to push the boundaries when it comes to the camera department boundaries space atmosphere forget it so we have a primary 50 megapixel ryyyb sensor a 20 megapixel ultra wide and a 20 megapixel periscope telephoto lens with five times optical zoom and 50 times digital zoom the big optical zoom number means you can zoom in really far and still get great details in your photos and the stabilization is really good when zooming results over the sort of 30 times zoom are not great in terms of quality as expected really but still really cool that you can zoom in that far and lengths of around 5 to 10 and 20 times are really good primary and ultra wide shots are quite distinguishable being huawei smartphone pictures there's a kind of ai feel to them so they do stand out and look really nice sharp and vibrant,
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but not necessarily the most natural hdr is good with a nice balance between raising the shadows and not completely blowing out the bright spots although sometimes skies can be slightly on the bright side details and edge detection are really nice on the front camera with the 13 megapixel shooter being aided by the timer flight sensor in that dual punch hole cutout personally if given the choice between having that timer flight sensor there or not and having just the one punch hole cut out lens and therefore a bigger display screen-to-body ratio anyway i would probably go with that i don't think the advantages of having that time-of-flight sensor there for camera purposes outweigh the how i feel about having a better looking display but this is of course subjective you may not and this setup also helps with 3d face unlock for added security now huawei have always been kind of one of the kings of low-light photography on their smartphones and again no real difference here with the mate 40 pro yes again it doesn't sometimes necessarily look the most natural but the details you can get sometimes in near pitch black conditions are insane on the contrary i've never been necessarily a huge fan of some of the features of huawei smartphone video such as audio and the frame rate options as examples but these have largely been addressed from the mate 30 series onwards and again for most people with its 4k 60 frames a second both front and back and the ability to use the ultra wide lens and good stabilization on the mate 40 pro it's another pretty great video tool yes there are no crazy features,
like 8k video and i still think the audio could be improved a little bit as can exposure because when it's really bright outside skies can sometimes still overexpose in video but as an overall photo and video package it takes pretty much every box to a very high standard and another thing that's of a very high standard is the sheer brute of the internals that are powering this little slab the mate 40 pro is rocking the brand new five nanometer kieran 9000 chip which is more powerful than the snapdragon 865 plus although of course qualcomm's new chips won't be here until the new year and right up there with the apple a14 bionic in the iphone 12 series it's an absolute beast it scores around 690 000 on antutu benchmark and has real improvements in especially gpu performance which will of course mean it will completely crush amongst other things gaming tasks with eight gigabytes of ram stereo speakers this display and chipset it's a gaming and medium monster if you are going to be gaming and watching tv shows and movies etc quite a lot because i mean we've headed back into lockdown in the uk and you might be where you are in the world you're going to of course need a big battery as well or at least good battery life because there is a difference huawei phones are notorious for their battery optimization and generally making the very most out of the cell size and again the mate 40 pro is no different all day use has not been a problem whatsoever and if you do need to charge not only does it have fast wireless and reverse wireless charging but the wire charging goes from naught to 100 in around 45 minutes thanks to its 66 watt charger that's included in the box again i'm blown away by the speed that these things can now charge again just ticking the boxes but and there is there is a big but here the one big box that of course huawei need to uh tick is software i ran a poll on twitter would you prefer great hardware and poor software or great software and poor hardware or average of both and it was somewhat mixed so how good is the software with the mate 40 pro
and can it live up to the brilliant hardware and the truth of the answer here is yes and no and before you get confused i'll try and elaborate first off huawei's emui skin over the top of android has got a lot better in recent times this iteration over android 10 feels much more like stock with the settings swipe down quick toggles app drawer icons and animations much more to my liking and once you've got the apps that you need it feels fast fluid and user friendly once you've got the apps you need and you can see where i'm going with this because this has always been the problem ever since huawei and google kind of had that split and while we were no longer able to use the google play store for all the apps now yes there are ways of getting the google play store onto your new huawei mate 40 pro but huawei don't necessarily recommend it and it may void any warranties etc that you may have so you may be sat there thinking okay well how have you got all the traditional apps that most people would use well with a few caveats as you will see they're basically all on here from two main sources first you have the huawei app gallery which has loads of popular apps on there like sky go office suite deezer all four uk tv play and tick tock don't judge just go and watch my tech videos on tiktok don't worry i'm not dancing or singing or lip syncing the app gallery is growing all the time but it's currently not all there and if this was the only way to get apps i would say i can't really recommend this phone but luckily it's not a few months ago huawei introduced petal search find apps which is a search app slash widget which comes pre-loaded on,
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the home screen here of course you can remove that widget if you don't want it but basically when you go into it you can search for whatever app you want to try and download and it will scour the internet to find those apps or apks to download from different locations and offers you web browser versions of those apps if it can't find one you can also simply search for apks yourself using an internet browser which may seem alien to some of you but after a little bit of research it's really not that difficult and even the greatest technophobe can do it with a little bit of guidance if the phone is worth it for you so this combination of petal search and the app gallery i've been able to get like i said pretty much every single app that i personally need we're talking whatsapp facebook instagram twitter tik tok google maps chrome sky sports youtube music youtube vance which is basically the same as youtube just a slightly different layout but everything is basically all there and you can sign in and you can have your own account you can have your subscriptions and it works pretty much
like the standard youtube app would now the two main things i'm missing is gmail and youtube studio which is for creators on the platform which on both say they are not supported if it was only the gmail app that was a problem for you i would personally just use another mail app i use the huawei mail app here and you can actually link up your gmail account anyway so it's pretty much a similar thing or you can use the mobile browser version of gmail if that's more up your street the lack of the youtube studio app as a creator on the platform is a little bit of it is a little bit of a problem for me but that won't really affect probably 99 of people that would buy this phone but if you are a youtube creator and need youtube studio then using the web browser dashboard version is not great so that's something to consider i'm not a massive fan of the ads that run for a few seconds when you launch the app gallery store but it's not too intrusive now there is of course big talk of a whole new software completely from huawei separate from android that's gonna run potentially across loads of different devices in one massive ecosystem harmony os so the future of present and future huawei phones is something of a little bit of an unknown potentially risky but also potentially brilliant and in my opinion really exciting huawei are apparently looking to start from the ground up reshaping their own products around this new software creating this one giant ecosystem of completely interchangeable devices which i for one am incredibly intrigued to see because in my opinion more competition is always good none of this of course
will affect the mate 40 pro as of right now it is still running with android 10. no word from huawei as yet to see whether this will upgrade to harmony os or whatever they are going to call it when it comes out but if they do then hopefully it'll make this an even better phone and speaking of devices and ecosystem before we hit that final huge talking point about the mate 40 pro let's have a little dabble on the free buds studio headphones that have come as part of a brand new wave of devices from huawei including their free buds pro their watch gt2 pro and of course the amd powered matebook 14 which i will have a review on as well very soon for you without going into too much detail as they probably weren't their own video all on themselves that doesn't even make sense you know what i mean if you are looking to buy a brand new premium set of headphones then uh from my use so far these are definitely ones to consider i've got a couple of main things that i can share in my early brief use they're really comfortable to wear with the leather material and really flexible ear cups and headband meaning you can wear these for a really long time without any problems the active and passive noise cancellation is really good so great for planes trains etc if you're not in lockdown but you also thanks to the new six mic system have awareness and voice modes which when selected allow you to hear not only what you're listening to but also things going on around you like traffic people talking etc you have smart connectivity so you can seamlessly move between devices like your mate 40 pro matebook 14 or your matepad pro as examples,
this connectivity is also aided by an industry first dual bluetooth antenna system providing 360 degree signal coverage and you can connect two devices to them at once for even easier movement between laptop phone etc the right ear cup has all the controls you need with clicks and swipes that can adjust volume play pause answer and end calls change tracks and activating your voice assistant and music also pauses and restarts when you take the headphones off and on which is really useful full charge in around 60 minutes and that lasts for around 24 hours of music playtime again ticking those boxes what is this what am i doing and when it comes to sound we have a hi-fi level acoustic system offering a huge range between 4 hertz and 48 kilohertz so you can get a huge amount of detail if you're listening to high-resolution music in layman's terms and clues in the studio name the sound is really really nice and balanced you've got really good punchy bass without being too over the top it doesn't get distorted right at the top volumes and vocals and the highs etcetera are really nice and crisp it's a really great all-round sound and yes it's not the cheapest most budget pair of headphones but you're not going to get this sort of level of quality audio from a 50 40 30 pound set of headphones but i think if you're looking at a really premium set up there with the likes of bose and sony et cetera then for 299 these should definitely be on your list to check out they're in that sort of ballpark and i love the matte finish as well beautiful so just to jump back to my original point about the mate 40 pro and the statement that i made about it being kind of like a marriage hopefully that statement makes a little bit more sense now if you want a completely easy no frills just turn it on and it kind of works software situation then i wouldn't necessarily go with the mate 40 pro as good as the hardware is because the app situation isn't straightforward straight out of the box however and it's a pretty big however if you're willing to put in the work and you like a bit of a challenge like to customize your phone to your own specific tastes and needs then uh,
the mate 40 pro is definitely one of the greatest phones of 2020. i absolutely love it if you're willing to put in a little bit of graft like a marriage then uh the results can be oh so beautiful because this phone ticks all of the major boxes it really is top top draw should you buy it well that's down to you let me know in the comment section below what you think about the mate 40 pro are you willing to put in a little bit of graft to customize it in the way you want to take advantage of the amazing world-class hardware or are you someone that prefers something a little bit easier just turn it on and it kind of just works up to you let me know in the comment section below as always i'd love to hear your thoughts like and share if you enjoyed the video and found it helpful subscribe if you love everything tech weekly tech videos breaking tech news unboxings reviews i love you maybe i'll see you next time