Huawei mate 40 pro review

Posted on August 13, 2021August 15, 2021 by King Naphtali in gadgets, Nae Tech rankings, posts, reviews

Huawei mate 40 pro reviews

Huawei be like back again with a new, unique and special device , the Huawei mate 40 pro.

There is a lot to love about this new and admirable device, starting from the fantastic cameras, great build design, battery life, top-notch performance, the mate 40 pro shines.

There’s a lot to say about this device but I’ll begin with the special functions and parts of this device, starting from

1. 5G support

One of the most exciting thing about this device is the fact that this device supports the 5G network, seams like not only is Huawei staying updated to the surprisingly amazing cameras and builds of phones of the generation, but they are also and most importantly staying updated to the network of this generation.

Currently, the 5G network had become one of the most considered part of choosing a device, and luckily for us, Huawei is staying up to date with that fact.

5G is the 5th generation mobile network. 5G wireless technology is meant to deliver higher multi-Gbps peak data speeds, ultra low latency, more reliability, massive network capacity, increased availability, and a more uniform user experience to more users.

5G offers massive speed improvements and lower latency compared to existing networks, making your online experience better in almost every way.

In telecommunications, 5G is the fifth generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, which cellular phone companies began deploying worldwide in 2019, and is the planned successor to the 4G networks which provide connectivity to most current cellphones.

5G moves with a speed of 10 gigabits per second

Some of the compound of the 5G network are

Data network (DN), e.g. operator services, Internet access or 3rd party services.
User plane function (UPF)
Core access and mobility Management function (AMF)
Authentication server function
Session Management Function (SMF)
Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF)
Network Exposure Function (NEF)
NF Repository Function (NRF)
Policy Control function (PCF)
Unified Data Management (UDM)
Application Function (AF)

(More 5G info)

So next time you think of 5G, think of Huawei Mate 40 pro

2. Camera

Ever since the very beginning Huawei has been really good in cameras, but it seems like now Huawei has taken an update in their cameras in this Huawei mate 40 pro.

The Huawei mate 40 pro is one of the top 10 best camera phones in 2021 and also one of the top 10 Huawei camera phones.

The Huawei mate 40 pro is known and addored for it’s camera.

awei Mate 40 Pro offers wonderful pictures of high quality. It has the main camera which is Triple, It has 50 MP, f/1.9, 23mm (wide), 1/1.28″, 1.22µm, omnidirectional PDAF, Laser AF, It has 12 MP, f/3.4, 125mm (periscope telephoto), PDAF, OIS, 5x optical zoom, It contains 20 MP, f/1.8, 18mm (ultrawide), PDAF, It has features such as Leica optics, LED flash, panorama, HDR.

MAIN CAMERA
Triple	50 MP, f/1.9, 23mm (wide), 1/1.28″, 1.22µm, omnidirectional PDAF, Laser AF 12 MP, f/3.4, 125mm (periscope telephoto), PDAF, OIS, 5x optical zoom 20 MP, f/1.8, 18mm (ultrawide), PDAF
Features	Leica optics, LED flash, panorama, HDR
Video	4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120/240/480fps, 720p@960fps, 720p@3840fps, HDR, gyro-EIS

Main camera

Huawei Mate 40 Pro offers superb selfies, It presents a video of 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/120/240/480fps, 720p@960fps, 720p@3840fps, HDR, gyro-EIS, it has a selfie camera which is Dual 13 MP, f/2.4, 18mm (ultrawide), it offers TOF 3D, (depth/biometrics sensor), it includes features such as HDR, panorama, It has a video of 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/240fps, the images, videos & text look very sharp & clear, it can take superb images without losing any details.

SELFIE CAMERA
Dual	13 MP, f/2.4, 18mm (ultrawide) TOF 3D, (depth/biometrics sensor)
Features	HDR, panorama
Video	4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/240fps

selfie camera

3. Ram and memory

Huawei Mate 40 Pro presents lots of RAM & a large memory, It has a high expandable memory via card slot NM (Nano Memory), up to 256GB (uses shared SIM slot), It offers a high internal memory of 256GB 8GB RAM, It offers 512GB 8GB RAM that is very useful for multitasking performance, It has UFS 3.1, It presents a high-end processor & graphics processor.

Huawei Mate 40 Pro dimension of 162.9 x 75.5 x 9.1 mm while it weighs 212 grams. The device is powered by the Kirin 9000 5G Octa-core processor while the GPU is Mali-G78 MP24. The smartphone is pack with 8 GB RAM and 256 GB internal storage.

4. Battery

We spend around 12-17 hours with the phone off the charger, with mostly Wi-Fi connectivity, an hour or so of 5G, Bluetooth always on (with an hour or so of music streaming and an hour or two of calls), and location always on (with around half an hour of GPS navigation).

Huawei Mate 40 Pro takes about 49 minutes to recharge 100% battery, with recommended Huawei charger.

5. Display

You might find the camera bump pretty eye-catching – it’s a big circle, with the lenses mounted within, as well as the flash module. It doesn’t stick out too much, and gives the phone a distinct and commanding look, as if telling the subject of your photo ‘you’re being snapped by one of the best camera phones out there’.Display6.76-inch OLED displayColors look great90Hz refresh rate lags behind competitionThe Huawei Mate 40 Pro display looks pretty great, though the paucity of streaming service apps means that opportunities for enoying it are somewhat limited.AdvertisementThis screen is 6.76 inches diagonally, which is pretty big, but as we’ve mentioned the design goes some way in mitigating any issues with this. It has a 2772 x 1344 resolution, which is higher than that of many other phones (most stick with 1080p) and as a result images look sharp.

The OLED HDR10 tech makes colors pop – Huawei claims that the display shows off 16.7 million colors, although we didn’t stop to count. The high max brightness helps with this too.Huawei Mate 40 Pro(Image credit: Future)Fast screen refresh rates are the latest battleground in the smartphone spec wars, but the Huawei Mate 40 Pro caps out at 90Hz, which some might find a little low for a premium smartphone (others hit 120Hz or 144Hz). You can dial this down to 60Hz if you like, which saves battery, but we went with the dynamic mode option, which automatically switched between the two depending on what you’re doing.If we have one issue with the Mate 40 Pro display, it’s the pill-shaped cut-out that houses the two front-facing cameras at the top-left of the screen. It’s not exactly small, with quite some distance between the two lenses, so it cuts a fair amount out of your viewable area.

6. software

Uses EMUI 11 laid over Android 10
No Google apps, including Play Store
Huawei’s AppGallery is hit-and-miss

We’ve finally reached the elephant on the phone, the apps situation. We could write thousands of words about AppGallery’s strengths and weaknesses, but to cut it down to six: ‘AppGallery is no Play Store replacement’.

AppGallery does have plenty of apps, but few of the popular ones you’ll likely have installed on your Android device or iPhone. There are few social media apps save Tiktok and Snapchat, no major entertainment services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Spotify, and a relatively trim list of games. We found the social media absence the real killer – we had to use a second phone alongside the Mate 40 Pro for WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter and the Facebook suite.

There’s a strange, though not unwelcome, focus on regional apps in AppGallery. In the UK we were recommended plenty of apps from national retailers, catch-up apps from certain channels, telecoms hubs and banking services, and we’d imagine in other countries, you’ll find plenty of apps for you. The UK’s All4 is no substitute for Netflix, though.Advertisement

Perhaps the most annoying absence here is Google’s own apps – especially, of course, the Play Store, but the others too. The lack of Google Drive leaves no mainstream cloud storage services available; Google Maps’ replacement, TomTom GO, is slow, costs money, and only gives driving instructions; the Huawei news feed, replacing Google News, exclusively recommended us tabloid stories, with an emphasis on celebrity clickbait. Some of the Google services are actually available via the browser app, but you shouldn’t have to rely on this kind of workaround to access apps.

We’ve also got to query the way Huawei handles its apps. When you turn on the phone for the first time, the menu is littered with folders of app icons – these aren’t actually installed on the phone, so we can’t accuse them of being bloatware, and you have to click them to download the app. Still, this feels a little too pushy in the way it encourages you to download the apps – and in the case of dating apps like Tinder and Badoo, whether they’re pre-installed or not you might not be comfortable with having those icons on your phone for a partner, or acquaintances, to see.

To its credit, Huawei does seem proactive in bringing new apps to AppGallery, and in the next few months or years we’ll almost certainly see its app roster swell. But until there are more of the bigger apps you likely use in your current smartphone, it’s hard to recommend the Mate 40 Pro as your next handset.

There is a potential remedy to the app problem in the form of ‘Petal Search’ which comes installed on the phone – it lets you search for non-app-store ways to install apps, like APKs, straight from the app website, or similar. This technically lets you install apps you otherwise wouldn’t be able to find like WhatsApp and Instagram, and the vast majority of apps you likely use every day are included, though not every single app.

Some might find Petal Search solves all their app problems, especially for social media, with many popular platforms available this way. We didn’t actually use most apps downloaded this way, as our WhatsApp backup and social media logins are tied to our Google account, which means we can’t access them on the phone.

For people who aren’t in that position, or just want some extra services and games not available through the AppGallery, it’s a valid option. However if your accounts on games, shopping apps and more are tied to your Google log-in, you might have issues. For more information on Petal Search check out Huawei’s website here.

Beyond the app situation, the phone runs Android 10 (Google banned Huawei from using its apps and services, not Android itself) with EMUI 11 laid over the top.

We’re big fans of EMUI – it has loads of options to change the way the phone works, from visual tweaks (Dark mode, Eye Comfort filter, the ability to change color temperature) to functional (editable always-on display, various navigation options, useful pre-installed apps). It brings quite a big visual overhaul from stock Android, with vibrant backgrounds and app icons, which helps you appreciate the display technology.Advertisement

As with most Huawei phones, EMUI has a built-in step counter, potentially making your fitness tracker redundant if you like this kind of information, though it’s likely not as accurate as a dedicated device.

Good Things

Dual stereo speakers.
IP68 rating against dust and water.
Beautiful 90Hz curved 3D display.
- Excellent image and video quality
Kirin 9000 5G enabled chipset and highly efficient.
66W fast charging and 50W wireless charging
Same time Rear and Selfie camera video recording.
AI gesture control
Available in 4G model with HarmonyOS

Bad things

A little expensive.
No Google apps.
Only 5W reverse wireless charging
A little heavy in weight
Shared SIM slot for microSD card.
Without any gorilla glass protection

Motorola Motor G stylus

Posted on July 10, 2021August 12, 2021 by King Naphtali in gadgets, reviews

*The Moto G Stylus offers a big 6.8-inch screen and 5,000mAh battery.*

THE MOTOROLA MOTO G STYLUS 5G IS A GOOD PHONE WITH A TOO-SHORT SHELF LIFE

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he Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G, as you may have pieced together, is a phone with a built-in stylus and 5G. It’s a slightly upgraded version of the 4G-only, 2021-edition Moto G Stylus (I’m sorry, that’s really how these phones are named).

The Stylus 5G includes a few more hardware upgrades in addition to 5G connectivity, including a bigger battery, more storage and RAM (256GB and 6GB on the version I tested, respectively), and a newer Snapdragon 480 processor. There’s a new stylus-friendly GIF creator mode, which is fun. Fun is good! But it more or less feels like the same phone: the rear camera array is identical with the exception of a different macro sensor, its 6.8-inch screen is the same, and overall dimensions are similar.

This puts the G Stylus 5G in a kind of awkward spot. At $399, it sits between the $279 G Stylus and the $1,000 Galaxy Note 20 (the next step up if you want a stylus with your phone), but it doesn’t go far enough to clearly offer more than the budget-friendlier version. Performance and battery life are a bit better, but these aren’t really weak spots for the 4G version.

GOOD STUFF

Great battery life
Handy stylus features
Healthy performance

BAD STUFF

Only two years of security updates
Not a significant upgrade over the 4G-only version

Having 5G is nice, too, but the value is diminished when you consider that the G Stylus 5G is only guaranteed two years of security updates. That’s about when 5G in the US will start getting good, so most of us can get away with a 4G device for the next couple of years.

It all adds up to a good phone without a compelling case to recommend it.

MOTO G STYLUS 5G SCREEN AND PERFORMANCE

he G Stylus 5G is a big phone — big with a capital B. Its 6.8-inch display is about as large as they come, at least until all of our phones start folding and expanding into weird little Transformer-style tablets. It’s a 1080p LCD panel that’s just fine — lacking the nice contrast of OLEDs but still usable in bright daylight conditions.

Battery life is very good, thanks to a large 5,000mAh cell. Using it on Wi-Fi I’ve gotten four hours of screen-on time out of it and it’s only down to 36 percent. You could certainly get two days’ worth of use out of it — including relatively heavy use on cellular data — and even a full day of very demanding use seems reasonable.FOR $400, YOU REALLY SHOULD GET MORE THAN A COUPLE OF YEARS OF SUPPORT FOR YOUR DEVICE

Performance is good, too; jumping between apps is quick and smooth, and heavier tasks like zooming in and out of Google Maps shows only a bit of stuttering. There’s minimal but noticeable shutter lag in the camera app, which feels like a problem this phone shouldn’t have, but not enough to ruin anyone’s day.

The G Stylus 5G ships with Android 11 and will only be supported with one major OS platform update and two years of security updates. That’s an unfortunately short lifespan, especially considering that Samsung’s Galaxy A-series phones are now guaranteed four years of security updates. For $400, you really should get more than a couple of years of support for your device.

*The phone’s stylus features are basic but make it easier to do things like add handwriting to an Instagram story post.*

A couple of side notes on the Stylus 5G’s 5G connectivity: at launch it will work on Verizon and T-Mobile’s 5G networks but will operate as 4G-only on AT&T. Motorola says AT&T 5G support will be available “in the coming months.” It’s not compatible with any of the networks’ mmWave 5G (the super fast, hard-to-find variety), but that’s not a big loss. More importantly, it will work with the C-band 5G frequencies Verizon and AT&T will start using at the end of the year.

The Stylus 5G’s stylus features are basic but adequate. The capacitive stylus is spring-loaded into the phone’s lower right corner and automatically brings up a quick menu of options when you remove it. If you’re on the lock screen, you can jot down a note without having to unlock the device, which is handy. You won’t find productivity features or neat tricks like wireless control a la the Note series, but rather some handy shortcuts to grab a GIF or doodle on a screenshot. They’re useful and fair for the price.

*There are standard wide, ultrawide, macro, and depth cameras on the Stylus 5G’s rear panel.*

MOTO G STYLUS 5G CAMERA

he 5G offers three rear cameras — The 4G G Stylus has a 2-megapixel macro camera, but that’s the only difference between them.

Much like the 4G version, the Stylus 5G takes good photos in abundant light with a surprising level of detail, thanks to the way it processes 48-megapixel images into 12-megapixel files. The ultrawide camera is nice to have, though its images can be a little noisier in challenging lighting conditions, and the macro camera is still underwhelming, despite the modest resolution boost. GRID VIEW

he main camera is prone to some drastic color shifts with even slightly different compositions of the same scene and subject — in one shot my orange cat is orange, and in the next one taken at a slightly different position, he suddenly looks blue. This happens more frequently in mixed lighting conditions, which many cameras will struggle with, but it popped up just often enough in my testing to annoy me.

*The Moto G Stylus 5G doesn’t quite do enough to stand out.*

he 4G-only G Stylus is a good deal for $279, and there’s nothing really wrong with the $399 G Stylus 5G, but it’s harder to justify its higher cost. With only a couple of years of security updates guaranteed, this phone will only see the beginning of truly good 5G in the US. It’s a nice step-up option if you’re inclined toward a stylus phone and the Note isn’t in your budget, but for most people, I’d recommend either sticking with the 4G-only model for a couple of years or looking into a 5G phone with a little more longevity.STYLUS ENTHUSIASTS ON A BUDGET HAVE A GOOD OPTION IN THE MOTO G STYLUS 5G

If you’re more interested in the big screen and battery than the stylus, you could save quite a bit and go with the Moto G Power (2021). Its processor isn’t as good and you miss out on the ultrawide camera, but if you want to cover the basics for a couple of years, it will do.

On the other hand, if you can afford to spend a little more and you do want to get more than a few years out of your phone, the Samsung Galaxy A52 5G is a great pick. It has a big, lovely screen, 5G, and comes with a generous support policy. Stylus enthusiasts on a budget have a good option in the Moto G Stylus 5G, but most others could do better elsewhere.

AGREE TO CONTINUE: MOTOROLA MOTO G STYLUS 5G

Every smart device now requires you to agree to a series of terms and conditions before you can use it — contracts that no one actually reads. It’s impossible for us to read and analyze every single one of these agreements. But we started counting exactly how many times you have to hit “agree” to use devices when we review them since these are agreements most people don’t read and definitely can’t negotiate.

To actually use the Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G, you must agree to:

Motorola Privacy Policy
Google Terms of Service
Install updates and apps: “You agree this device may also automatically download and install updates and apps from Google, your carrier, and your device’s manufacturer, possibly using cellular data. Some of these apps may offer in-app purchases.”

To add a Google account, you’ll also need to agree to two more things:

The following agreements are optional:

Back up to Google Drive: “Your backup includes apps, app data, all history, contacts, device settings (including Wi-Fi passwords and permissions), and SMS.”
Use location: “Google may collect location data periodically and use this data in any anonymous way to improve location accuracy and location-based services.”
Allow scanning: “Allow apps and services to scan for Wi-Fi networks and nearby devices at any time, even when Wi-Fi or Bluetooth is off.”
Send usage and diagnostic data: “Help improve your Android device experience by automatically sending diagnostic, device and app usage data to Google.”
Carrier location access: “Your carrier occasionally requires location data to improve its services and analytics.”

Additionally, for Google Assistant, there’s an option to agree to use Voice Match: “Allows your Assistant to identify you and tell you apart from others. The Assistant takes clips of your voice to form a unique voice model, which is only stored on your device(s). Your voice model may be sent temporarily to Google to better identify your voice.”

Final tally: three mandatory agreements to use the phone at all, another two for Google account services, and six additional optional agreements.