Huawei P40 Pro Impressions: What We Should Copy! By Marques Brownlee

What's up guys, MHD here, welcome back to quarantine content, just a little entertainment for you, while we're all staying inside I'm your host marques Brown lee- and this is our first look at a new phone one of the shiniest, as you can tell this- is the Huawei P 40 Pro. Now it's hard to think about Huawei phones without reminding ourselves. You know no frequent Google, Play services updates, no Android updates. So, no matter how good this phone is, it's still not likely to be a phone that people like me in this market are going to buy import or even recommend to others. But that being said, it is still really cool to see a new high-end phone in 2020, the squall weighs showed really cool stuff in the past, so the lens through which I'm looking at this phone is what stuff from this phone should other manufacturers copy so that those features end up in more hands around the world. That's how I'm looking at this phone, so okay, first thing to look at with a new phone is the design and this design is one of my favorite things about it.

Now a lot of it is pretty standard for a high-end flagship right now, and I'm. Not talking about that. You know: we've all seen the rounded square look and the huge camera bump which I'll get to in a second and the metal rails on the side, the speaker at the bottom, with no headphone jack, we've all seen that before, but this material, though it's not even the ceramic back of the Pro Plus, it's just it's got this super soft touch finish on the glass that just feels silky, smooth I, don't know if the word satin is in this color name, but it's pretty great Plus. This lighter gray, color doesn't show many fingerprints at all, and it even refracts light pretty softly. So it's not a mirror, and it's easy to record.

This is one of my favorite phone back finishes ever no offense brand. This is not a phone that should be skinned. This should go naked. People should feel the back, or maybe a clear back case or something like that, but yeah this I hope gets copied, and then you've got the screen up front and this one is a mixed bag. So it's a six point.

Five eight inches OLED display so not to mass, and it's twenty-six, forty by twelve hundred at ninety Hertz, not quite the highest end, but viewing angles and brightness and colors are all high-end, and they're nice to look at. But what's much more interesting in this screen is the shape. So this display not only curves over the edges of the left and right side, but it also kind of has a bit of this overflow shape on the top and bottom edges too, so always said. Their goal with this display shape, was to make the whole thing look like it's. This overflowing screen, like the surface of water, overflowing from the top of a glass with surface tension and the promo material you've probably seen in this phone.

Has it looking like pretty much all screen, but what we've ended up with is this, and it's a good-looking screen, but it mostly just seems like everything's, rounded off and of course, the corners don't really get to curve in, like that. So you end up with this unique shape. That's not necessarily better! It's like, if you imagine, trying to wrap a circular gift with wrapping paper, and you try to wrap over the entire sphere without creasing. Anything like you're going to end up with some creases in that screen at some point. So it's not the worst thing in the world, but you can see it is still mostly screen, but this isn't something I necessarily copy.

Also, you've definitely noticed that huge cut out by now it's for this selfie camera and a depth sensor and infrared. This is about as small as you can get. Actually, a pill shaped cutout if you want to still have all three of those things, but I think we're finding more and more that the extra depth sensors are not necessarily as useful as we've thought they are, but the infrared in the middle is nice to have for face unlock in low-light environments. When I see this I think of the iPhone and its massive notch, because of course they have all those face: ID, sensors and I'm hoping, maybe. Finally, this year we see a much smaller notch in the new iPhone.

They seem pretty committed to face ID and keeping the infrared and all that stuff at the top. But if we're seeing that, while we can do this pill, shape cut out being much smaller than a notch, then hopefully Apple can shrink the notch. This year too, then, underneath this display is the new optical fingerprint reader, which they say is 30% larger, 30% faster when I heard that I was like. Oh, thank you sweet on paper. Those improvements are great I've, been saying we should get these fingerprint readers like the whole bottom half of the screen.

So it's just easy. You don't even have to think about it, but in practice actually using this one I can't even really tell if it's actually bigger. In fact, the animation which you can see where it lights up is about the same size as last year, and it's fast, which is great but really getting that sensor. Larger, is the technical challenge here, plus I think this one's actually a little higher up on the phone than I would have wanted, but I will still say: I hope other manufacturers copy continuing to work on making fitting bigger sensors in these screens. So then, really probably the biggest focus of this new phone is the camera system.

On the back. What I know it's so subtle? Did you even notice it back there? The p40 Pro has a quad camera system, so 50 megapixel main camera with oh, is with an absolutely massive one. Over 1.2 inch sensor, then a 40 megapixel ultra-wide camera and a 12 megapixel 5x optical periscope camera. You can see over there on the side with that recognizable rectangle, all on the back with the time-of-flight sensor and a mic and the flash as well. Interestingly, if the galaxy s 20 Ultra, didn't exist, I think it would be easy to look at this camera and the numbers and think oh wow, it looks like, while it was just playing the numbers game with their camera they're, trying to throw as many of the biggest numbers as possible at us to hopefully equal a good camera, but Huawei's angle is actually almost the exact opposite of that they said.

Basically, we don't think we need to go all out with the numbers- we're not hitting a hundred here, but we do want to strike a balance between high numbers and actually good performance. Okay, please copy that. But of course you can only copy the approach of the camera as far as getting to actual execution. Now this camera, as far as it translates it's still early I've only had this phone for two days for my first impressions, but it seems pretty good, usually perfect I've, taken a lot of good photos, a lot of sharp photos with this camera. It is binning and spitting out 12 megapixel photos by default and, for the most part, both standard and the ultra-wide are giving me pretty consistent photos, although the ultra-wide is still a little softer despite it's 40 megapixels, but you're, also going to notice from the main camera that huge sensor has some of the same problems as the huge sensor from the s20 ultra, basically with the plane of focus being so thin.

That close up subjects aren't completely in focus, and you do start to get some fringing. No autofocus problems, though, that phase attack autofocus in this phone seems rock-solid, despite the problems the s20 ultra had but yeah overall here, if you look past the numbers, this is a solid camera that reminds me of many Huawei cameras in the past. As far as color and high exposure and just a general shot style matter of fact, if any of the cameras here impressed me, it was actually the selfie camera with all the beauty modes turned off because it kept a ton of detail. That, to me, is a perfect. First impression: the battery in this phone is 4200 William hours and, if anything, it feels like a bigger battery trend is sort of a way of everyone's hopping on now.

Everyone copies. That is a good thing, but this one takes it a step. Further p40 pro has 40 watt, wired charging and incredibly support for 40 watt fast wireless charging, which is awesome for context. The thousand dollar iPhone 11 Pro max ships with an 18 watt, wired, fast charger, I, don't even know if I have access to a wireless charger that cranks out 40 watts of power, but the second I can, I will try to get my hands on it, but until then other manufacturers. Yes, please copy that, and then the rest of the specs of this phone are pretty high-end, if you're wondering not bleeding edge, but the Karen 998 gigs of ram 128 or 256 gigs of storage, ip68, water-resistant 5g enabled, and there are a bunch of other little things.

It does well. There's software mew 10.1. While it is better with every iteration, it's still nowhere near being able to recommend for this market. Yes, they do have Huawei zap gallery and a lot of other familiar features and UI tweaks, like oh I, don't know swiping down from the home screen to bring up a search box and app suggestions and a stock weather app that it's not just eerily close but pretty obviously close to another certain weather app and even a new voice assistant they're launching called Celia, and you can trigger it by saying: hey Celia, which I don't want to say: they're copying anyone, but if you say it fasts enough, hey Celia, so you know I think what you wish, but really the software. If it was anything amazing or game-changing here.

That would be the easiest to tell other manufacturers to copy because they copy software. All the time seems like, while was just already ahead of the game in that department. So overall my take is p40. Pro is a nice package, and it wouldn't be a bad upgrade for pretty much anyone with a two or three-year-old phone and while it is missing a couple of the absolute highest end, bleeding-edge stuff, like a Que video or a hundred twenty Hertz, there is a lot of good stuff in here for the rest of the industry to pick up on and that's a win for all of us, alright. So to end it big shout out to this video sponsor Word VPN.

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Source : Marques Brownlee