Huawei P40 Pro One Month Later: New Normal?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2020
- The Huawei P40 Pro is a product of massive changes for the company, but despite having no Google services, this device has a ton to offer. JV goes through the parts of this phone that still count, how to navigate the AppGallery and Huawei Mobile Services, and why the whole situation means most of us miss out on a pretty awesome smartphone.
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Correction: Display is not -quite- QuadHD resolution, though it gets pretty close.
- JV
Despite that, a very clean review!
Also the ultra wide camera has focus capabilities
It sits in-between FHD and QHD at 1200p. Just like the refresh rate.
Waiting for Mate 40 Pro for QHD at 120Hz and bigger display.
Display is new LG E6 toc 5gen poled ,in asia its 3gen boe oled display.
I feel like we should take a step back and have a hard think about how much Google is an impactful thing in our lives, we shouldn't be dependent on it this much. Monopolies are never a good thing.
Yep
Technically since Apple is around, Google isn't considered a monopoly, even though we'd all lose a lot if Google went down.
it's kind of the same with microsoft. where would we be without windows, Office etc. And Facebook, who has an iron grip on social media.
There are alternatives. People just don't want to use them because they just flock to wherever the majority is. And this is very true for ecosystem-based technologies like an App Store or a messaging platform. A lot of people in my country depend on Whatsapp as it became the de facto messaging app used for personal and for work. Thats a lot of people who won't be able to escape facebook and just switch to Telegram simply because their contacts aren't on there.
Couldn't agree more, 👍🙂
Yes, google is just like windows. A monopoly. Good comparison
i bought it, installed GMS and now I prefer being in quarantine with my phone instead of going outside. Its a beast with 2 days battery life
someone told me if you installed google apps and updated the phone it will malfunction
is that true ?
@@abugasem2 false in my experience, I've just updated with Google running
I loved android authority literally because of this guy. The Morgan Freeman of Android.
Well that's one hell of a compliment. Appreciated.
- JV
Too ✅ right. He was good there. Good now!
His drop tests , good memories
Yeah kinda agree
I would swap out my Mate 20 Pro for one of these to try it without Google apps...but my Mate 20 Pro is still such a beast.
Hows the speakers
Mine too.
I dont know how focused Huawei team is on abt getting all the local commonly used app onto their Huawei App Gallery for your country (referring to lifestyle apps here, as i hardly play mobile games nowadays so i wont know). I live in Singapore, half year ago it was probably abt 20% of wat google app store, and i went to check recently and am shocked to find out that they already have 80%~90% of them on Huawei App Gallery. With such speed they are working at, i say it is worth giving them a chance.
Got my mate 20 the same month it came out and the battery life is still like the day I got it out the box 🔋😍
20X here, the same.
I have the P40 Pro. While it is an adjustment, and takes some work to get it set up how you want. The hardware, user experience, and cameras make it totally worth it. This is an impressive device even without Google.
There are ways to get Google services on your huawei
@@granddeluxe123 Yeah I watched a tutorial online some months ago, and I have Google services on it now. 👍🏾
@@TBSultimate11 cool all working well. Did u had to update another process to do it again? I'm getting the pro plus. Just wondering what's the latest way to do it
@@granddeluxe123 For awhile everything worked perfectly. About a month ago it stopped being able to update Netflix through the Play Store. Doesn't bother me though, because I can still use the Netflix app regardless. The tutorial I watched to install it was from a TH-camr named RedSkull I believe. Which just involved a factory reset, and following his steps of installing certain processes at specific points in the set up process. You will need an usb-c card reader though. All in all, took about 10-15 minutes or so. Just recently got the EMUI 11 update, and Google Services still works perfectly on it after the software update.
@Ricky Walker
what does it mean by not being able to use Google service. can we still get the apps other ways and can be able to pay apps and buy online. I want to get the phone but hesitated of what people are saying about this pHone
OMG, Huawei made Absolutely Topclass phones
Which why Apple does not want them in the US.
A bit over rated imo , and i own one .
@Emini Magic think he meant huawei are overrated but sure. Enjoy your new $1000 device that will last u like 2 years with bloated software
I got the phone work good, need some work to get the app I need but this is Android nothing is impossible.
I had been eyeing new phones coming out but all seem to come with a caveat.. So I decided to get the p40 Pro and I love it.
Apps can be installed with apkpure, or aurora or aptoide, and most taxi apps like uber can work via browser. Worth the workaround for getting top hardware in return.
Thanks for recommending Aurora. Really great solution!
Great to see Josh onboard, a quality review and no mention of OP for a change.
Loving my p40 pro so far! Top-notch design and camera
How the US keep thinking that Huawei need it to survive while its domestic market is more than enough to support Huawei
Another amazing video by you!
Just wondering,if in future, 'android without Google' turn out to be a new normal too.
I ditched my p4xl for this phone!! No regrets.. I used the phone without gservices for 2 weeks then installed them... Honestly, no difference. Love this phone
Fantastic review and so so good to see JV review Huawei phones again:)! Quality.
I have everything working fine. GMS is flawless if you know what you are doing. #1 phone.
Just ordered a Huawei as a early birthday present for myself. From the videos I've seen and things I've read I'm thinking we'll get along just fine. I'm currently using a Motorola and one of the things I don't like about it is all of the screens are not dark in Dark Mode.🤷🏾♂️ Reminds me of the htc I have sitting in a drawer and I could only take using it for four months.
This phone looks so smooth
This man's cuteness show off when he starts talking!😍 That gift of gab becomes too obvious!👏👏👏
imoved from iPhone to this as I am a Leica photographer, and up to now I don’t miss anything, my Withings watch and scale work and synchronie, the Nikon app works as well, really I’m not missing much, love it! Thanks for the video. Keep safe, Cheers
One of the best camera's on any phone, subjective but true, stay safe everyone kind regards Richard U.K
Well, it's not normal, since it's just Huawei of all the major phone makers that's currently not able to use the Google services.
@@RJayRoberts lukl
I Love Huawei and I will continue to support them. Huawei Lover Forever!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Jaime Joshua We’re all eagerly awaiting the NEW Huawei P30 PRO New Edition with Google Services!!!!!!
How is that phone "new"? Its essentially the same exact phone
Team Pascal check the side by side photo comparisons it is different. Huawei has tuned the phone with more natural colours of P40 Pro
Thanks for the video. I am a heavy user of Google photos. How do I use Google photos app on this phone?
have you tried to install the google services yet? look it up here on youtube...seen all the google apps working on a p40 pro
someone told me if you installed google apps and updated the phone, it will malfunction
I have p40 Pro Black. And it's really inspiring
My brother...is this phone compatible with t-mobile 5g?
THUMBS UP FOR DDP YOGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OWN IT BROTHER!!! \m/
Whay does p40 ro has this color? Its not available when i went to tho Huaqei store
Thank you for the top notch review. I'm personally using P40 Lite for about 2 months now and all is running fine. Phone is very fast and responsive. Camera is top in its class and battery is lasting long long without recharging. And when it need charge, it just goes up like crazy with 40W. No worries guys, Huawei with P40 still got the grips on how to do a fantastic smartphone.
Love to have this phone! Had the Honor 8, loved it's camera. Then battery died last fall, got 2 years out of it. Thought that's rather short, purchased OP7 pro. Hope Huawei stay strong!
sir please tell me how to install google drive and chrome,
The biggest issue without GMS is the lack of international banking apps. This is a very significant problem.
Do they work in the U.S with my t-mobile carrier?
Is there a noticeable difference in battery life and system response times without Google Services?
I'm not sure if this is true but somebody said you can scan apps from your old phone? Maybe you can check into that.
I noticed something on mine. The 5x lens does not actually activate when you select 5x sometimes. I am not sure why but I notice it jumping between the normal lens and the 5x one. Why is this so? Is it mine or is this a software thing?
That's very nice, how the IR is always flashing and ready to pick up hand gestures
For me the EMUI is one of the best among the others
is that a default fingerprint icon color?
I dont about huawei. But happy to see Joshua after a long time. Welcome back bro
Did you not consider downloading TH-cam vanced?
Huaweii should continue to build their own ecosystem. Be as independent as possible. And in time you will see app adverts saying “now available on iOS, Android and Huaweii AG”
It's late 2020 still using the p40p as my main phone and it's great I found ways to get full Google support and all of Google's apps no issues at all. Great phone and very cheap now that companies have resulted in dropping prices due to the lack of Google support
can you not install gapps?
I think the p40 pro has one of the best camera's you can get on a smartphone I'm waiting for this to be released in Canada
Expedite Travels yeah same, the p40 series are expected to arrive in June...
I hope we can get this in the Philippines
Using mate 30 myself I can say TH-cam vanced really is the ultimate TH-cam replacement no ads etc, hopefully more apps can develop so I don't need to depend on third party apps store as much. My learning curve is around a week or so just to see which apps have Google services and location services. P40 Pro no doubt is a top phone 👍
could you tell me if you can side load WhatsApp and Telegram ? If you can do they work with no problems ?
Can you use your google play account in a game?
TH-cam vanced will be an alternative for this phone
Yeah I use it instead of regular youtube anyways
www.reddit.com/r/vanced/comments/g32orj
It doesn't work that well apparently.
@@03Chris25 works now.
@Matthew Henry yes and its TH-cam premium version, only this you cannot login to google account... Search on google, you can download it from their official website
@@YashKumar-lj8jt yes you can log in to the Google account, check xda, I've got the P40 Pro with vanced and logged in nicely with Google account
Is that an NFC ring you are wearing, Joshua?
I feel that this is still a great phone. It sucks that politics have to mess with technologies. It could have been a win-win for us consumers!
Did you notice any lag during your daily usage? Or is it smooth like iOS? I’m so tempted to move from apple to huawei but then I don’t want to deal with severe lagging and performance issues on most android phones after like 1 year :(
Huawei phones especially those in recent years do not lag at all even after using it for more than a year, so unlike Samsung and Apple phones. You can look up some of the reviews online, like www.androidpit.com/one-year-with-huawei-p20-pro
I want one
Its really unlucky for users that such a great phone doesn't have google services
Honestly a great device and if not too reliant on google, I would use it.
Why?,.. this phone work in Canada? Plus it doesn't have an Snapdragon 8xx SoC 🤬
AwesomeBlackDude
Can’t trust Chinese products and processors. The way they cheated the world by hiding corona virus details and it’s nature, world should boycott cheater chinese
@@AwesomeBlackDude my Mate 20 Pro runs just fine and held its own just fine to the SD845. They may be a half step behind on the GPU front vs Qualcomm chips, but on the CPU front, Kirin chips run level.
Ain't you concern with all those security issue? Like all your data sent back to China?
@@cwong548 So you want all of your data and privacy to be sent back to USA??
P40 is complete package without google services. I love Huawei Leica Camera technology even compete with iPhone Cameras module.
I have used P40 lite. It's a bliss for me. There is nothing I miss.
I wish I had used this before. I had been a Samsung fan boy😅.
Watching TH-cam with the mobile app on my P40 Pro 😜
wanted the phone wanted my apps i paid for so ended up googlfiering the phone. and its a bigggg work to get it right if there are some prolems .. took me 3hours. but well worth it.now i got p40pro with google services
Great review... but, when will you have the Pro+ for review? And then another ask.... P40 Pro+ vs Oppo FindX2 Pro - my first 2 choices to replace my Note 10+
Soon. Already working on that.
Great video as always.
I have an important suggestion for you.
For these foreign phones you should do a speedtest.net to check their network speeds. This is because most of them are missing certain bands that would make them as fast as US counterparts.
I would pay an extra few hundred dollars for a phone that gets me 20-100mbps (or higher) download speeds and than one that gets 4-8mbps even if all other things are equal or close.
Just do a quick speedtest.net comparison with say a fast 4g phone (iPhone) or a 5g phone (galaxy or LG phone etc). That would definitely help my purchase decisions.
Got 1 for 445usd used, like new condition. It's good that I'm not over reliant on Google.
VMOS for few apps you need with play services
How how it becomes successful. Three lead companies are essential for great competition.
I'm trying figure if I'm google reliant or not. I cant remember the last time I used the play store for an app and you can sideload google into the phone so I might just buy this
If you have some banking apps that you use, make sure that the P40 supports it first.
@@03Chris25 honestly I walk to my bank 🤷🏾♂️ or use my home computer so that doesnt bother me really bother me
You can use Google photos via the browser and manually upload the photos. It works perfectly and is worth the extra steps .
For that price, I don't want a phone that makes me go do extra steps.
Right now I use Google Chromecast and have a pixel 4 xl and Google home mini. So honestly I would rather keep with my Google pixel 4 xl.
I dont know how focused Huawei team is on abt getting all the local commonly used app onto their Huawei App Gallery for your country (referring to lifestyle apps here, as i hardly play mobile games nowadays so i wont know). I live in Singapore, half year ago it was probably abt 20% of wat google app store have, and i went to check recently and am shocked to find out that they already have 80%~90% of them on Huawei App Gallery. With such speed they are working at, i say it is worth giving them a chance.
I’m just happy my old huawei mate 9 makes my mom happy considering it’s a phone that came out in 2017 it was ahead of its time. Sadly stuck on android 8.0 but still has access to all google apps and play store. Still as fast as the day I got it. My mom loves it as well. Lol
Mate 9 supposed is upgradeable to 9 I think?
I like how the back of the p40 pro is almost identical to the S20
Wish Huawei would unofficially give us a link for us to put stock Android on its phones.
Cool...
I get used to using Android OS with GMS and I'm ok to use it without only in a case when all other services will be at the same helpful level.
If you in China you still do not need GMS and this phone is one of the best, but if you're at another place than this is another question.
Loving this phone. Go Huawei !
So no recap?
Amazing piece of tech... Got Google working perfectly apart from GPay which I never used anyway.
Can we get Google out of US on this phone?
Problem is pricing...... And lack of Google apps.
Why not just have a bit of a top bezel rather that a cutout? A top bezel is much less distracting.
You get more scree to body ratio with the hole punch that also makes it more viewing area
Yes without GMS is the new normal. Only if they can find a way to link all the paid services together. Or ask the app dev to provide email/serial number authentication.
Tried it for 48 hours, but to many essential apps ( for me ) don't have a non GMS option, the phone its self : fantastic (after my OnePlus 7t pro and Huawei p30 pro) the smart features of Huawei are really great, it's much smarter then other phones, but due to the fact that essential apps don't have a work around a sadly had to return it and switch back to the p30 pro, hope that Huawei fixes these issues soon so I can switch
Can you sign in with Google account in all the apps?
Yup
Guess👶🏻
Huawei is the best ♥️
use youtube vanced it works perfectly
I've had the Mate 20 Pro & the P30 Pro and when I get to pick a new phone in a couple of months, it's probably the P40 Pro or I might wait for the Mate 40 Pro. I don't care about the restrictions; I'll make it work.
How's the p30 pro? Am thinking to get a new one.
Nice balanced look at an exceptional smartphone. For those of us who are tech savvy it's a great smartphone. Likewise for those prepared to put in a relatively small amount of effort. For those Googleholics who don't want to it in any effort keep away I guess. My next smartphone will be either this or the upcoming Mate 40 pro
I heard you mention the size of the display being great at least twice but never heard what size the screen actually is? Apologies if I am stupid and deaf and you did say it (I'm old). Great review. Thanks. I am due an upgrade and we have no such ban of Huawei here in England and this device looks excellent.
If I may, the size of the display is 6.58" diagonal. The dimension of the phone is 6.23" × 2.86" × 0.35". It fits comfortably on an average Joe's palm.
@@Georgeklee Thanks George (my grand father and my son's name). All George's are polite and helpful it would seem.lol. Many thanks.
You're welcome. Hope the info is helpful for you to make your next purchase.
2:09 Wow, can't believe KBZPay tops at huawei stores
Tip for the next video: remove the white background (very distracting) in the photo samples part and try to fill the whole screen with the photos
Then you're cropping in the pictures and making them look worse than they actually are.
@@arwlyx No cropping man, you fill the screen maintaining their original aspect ratio, of course
If you charge $1,000 for a phone there should be no compromises.. It doesn't matter what year it is... That type of money is no joke.. No google apps is a BIG COMPROMISE!
Is it still am Android if it's not Google
It's Huaweidroid not Android
Welcome back joshua , you returning to pocketnow , reminded me of the old days of the htc one m8 , reviews u did back then😀
I would love Huawei support for bootloader unlock like Xiaomi - without losing warranty scenario. They should allow it - dev friendly aosp non emui rom with great hardware... and they should lower its price a bit. That would fit me perfectly! Even though I don't like Samsung for the same price - Samy + Google is much better than Huawei + emui (i admit maybe name of their Android skin is wrong - last time used it with p9 lol).
I really think that Huawei should make a linux phone and call it a day. Plenty of software and software support available around the world.
On a side note, for those who a Huawei phone and want a google app, just download TH-cam vanced. It is a modified youtube app that has no ads and runs in the background. You're welcome.
Josh is in pocketnow
AC Market has most Google apps. But other apps are mostly pirated and modded ones
For 400 pound , is this phone worth it?
I forget about this phone
Dude be wearing smart ring