Huawei P40 Pro Unboxing and Camera Test By Unbox Therapy

Okay, we are back the event just took place. The livestream actually well for a variety of p40 series devices from Huawei. The one that I have today been the p40 pro. This one is the matte gray color, but they put out so many models today, including a plus version of this. They put out a tremendous number of color options. There was the p40 regular version, so that makes p40 Pro P, 40, Pro Plus and then a variety of color availability within there all the way up to a Pent camera set up on the Pro Plus model.

Funny enough, when I was watching the live stream, I was hoping that I would get the silver version and that's what I got anyways KOH engineered with Lacey, and if you look at the bottom side of the box there part of the Box you see, explore it on App gallery. So obviously, Huawei is advertising their own app store. In the absence of the Google stores, and they're gonna. Try to your know: they're gonna aim to get as many developers interested or excited about their app store as possible. They did name a few during the live broadcast.

They're going to want to expand that to keep people interested in this device and any of their devices going forward. Okay, so here is the phone Oh interesting that kind of looks different from what I expected for the color. It's got a little more blue tone to it. It's really shimmery and cool-looking though, so it is a matte finish. That's on there.

Now, this back being this matte finish, makes it quite a bit different from what you're seeing in the marketplace. Of course, I've seen it before this combination of matte finish, which still has a shimmer to it and a bit of a effectiveness, but still mostly matte. It included a kind of basic clear case just to get you protected straight out the gate this. This is just your USB cable to charge it up, USB type-c, something that was really exciting, that they announced 40 watt wireless charging for the Pro Plus model me I get excited about weird things, including very fast charging, and if it can be Wireless, that's just an even more of a bonus, but this one does include a fast charging power, brick supercharged power, brick, which is also 40, watts, yeah right there, supercharged 40 watts max from the wired connection, and they also give you some type C earbuds, there's no headphone jack, obviously, because I should also mention. Of course, away makes they're fully wireless earbuds, the free buds 3, and if you head over to my Twitter, account right now, there's a giveaway for two of these.

In fact, as well as two of these guys watch gt2, this is the two-week battery Smartwatch. So all you have to do is retweet a tweet. That's if it's pretty simple, so go check that out. Ok here is the device, and I'm going to go ahead and boot it up real quick. Now it has a pill style cut out on the front for your front-facing cameras, but this implementation is actually a little different because it's a single 32, megapixel camera and then in IR, which is going to help with more secure face on lock.

This is cool to how the frame of the device you can see it sort of juts up in the corners. You see how it sort of just juts up in the corner there and then drops back down for your waterfall edge along the side, a USB type-c connector on the bottom, and that's where your speaker is as well, and we have our SIM card tray in that location. Also, around the side of the device is where you're going to find your power switch as well as your volume rocker. This is gonna. Give you an idea of that screen to body ratio and just how that bezel operates with the waterfall design.

There's a bit more of a bezel than showed up in the presentation, but somehow the curvature of the glass and the reflection that it creates actually allows for a greater impression screen to body ratio, then might actually be there, especially on the forehead here, of course, we're in a pretty crazy territory right now for screen to body ratio and just how aggressive manufacturers are getting I think it's just sort of a science fiction effect where you feel like you're holding all screen, and that can be exciting. You kind of want to feel like you're holding the future and that's that's the whole initiative with these screen types. Alright. So for unlock options we have fingerprint which is in display, and we have face recognition now, I'm a fan of face unlock when it works quickly. I hate it when there's any kind of delay to it or secondary step.

I've used the optical based face on locks on various devices, but the question the problem is whether they're properly secured. Of course, you've seen on this channel I've used pictures of myself videos of myself to unlock other devices that are strictly optical. So it appears that hallways angle here is to go with the more secure style face unlock, including IR, and then on the Apple side. You don't get the fingerprint unlock in conjunction, which I think a lot of people would like having both versions devices I've used where I have both options. There are times when it's more convenient to use the fingerprint and times when it's more convenient to use the face, unlock setup, face recognition and include enable raise to wake.

This is the ultimate setup. You just lift it up: okay, cool! Alright, there isn't this activity which existed in the past with other manufacturers not necessary. Now it asks to do a fingerprint as well, so I might as well do that okay, so the device is set up now, I'm going to blast the brightness for you to give you an idea of what that OLED is looking like there, you go, that's full pop brightness. This also gives you an idea of the camera cutout. You can see at the top there considerations with this when you're doing front-facing images, you get it tilt it just a little because it is off-center advantage.

There's its a bit less distracting as having a large notch in the center of the display when you're watching the video and stuff like that by default. A lot of manufacturers still have the two-stage thing where you have to swipe up after it identifies you now often, you can turn that off. It feels so much faster without the slide. So this is something I wish Apple. Let you do to directly go into the interface when it sees your face.

I understand the advantage of the two-step thing, there's something so satisfying about just hitting the switch and being in it almost whoa. What hangs on its crazy, fast all right hold up. It's instant, it's a very, very quick face on lock in display fingerprint as a secondary option. So I like this I, think a lot of other manufacturers should have this. Do this face plus fingerprint it's the right way to go all right.

Now, obviously, the camera setup, that's a big deal. You're going to be very interested. This is kind of the trend. I mean obviously you're, aware of it. It's like these things are increasingly becoming cameras with smartphones in them the widest shot we can get, so that is, that is a pretty cool image.

Now I know it's just a bottle of water, but surprisingly it got some detail out of it, and it managed the exposure in a really difficult environment more towards the text and the blue portion of the bottle now keep in mind. This is the ultra-wide, but they still have a pretty big aperture on their ultra-wide camera. The 1x camera is going to outperform on almost any smartphone, probably just an overall kind of sharpness and detail. I would say so, but it's a different camera for a different purpose. Right now we have 5x spoon and I might as well.

Well in here do a quick 10x as well all right. So this is pretty wild. You can see the versatility of camera options all right, so this is what you're going to get with 10x and then, if we swipe over, that's your 5x shot, and then we move over. That's your standard 1x and that's your ultra-wide right there. It's a lot of versatility smartphones in 2020 got to bring the versatility, particularly in the camera, Department um, I, guess: I'll load up some loot later real, quick, also I just want to give a shout-out to everybody.

Who's been on the live streams on the loo later channel, as I've sort of been dealing with the solo enterprise here at the studio, I'm trying to I rearrange things, and you remember yesterday, when I was on here, I had no audio on the jump almost forgot. We have to do a selfie, let's go ahead. I'm going to turn the beauty effects off. So you see the beard hairs as nature intended and let's go ahead and grab one real, quick, oh wow, okay! Well, that is beyond that is tremendous detail. I hope you can appreciate it.

There's a beard hair off to the side, they're jumping out of jumping off the face needing a trim, they've been doing it in the camera department. No doubt I was sitting there. Thinking about previous events. I went to when I first saw night mode, and I was blown away when he started putting a tremendous number of cameras on there and now, of course, you checked the industry, and it's like everybody's got these cameras. Everybody's got the night mode during the presentation.

You can go back and watch if it's on the channel. They were citing some camera specs on this thing that we're bananas. All that aside, it's impossible to really look at this phone and talk about this phone without referencing the fact that Google is really not involved and if you're in a part of the world where you rely on Google services, you need to know that as it stands, there is obviously conflict, not necessarily conflict between the companies of software companies, service providers in Huawei. There are restrictions in place that are not allowing those companies to work together. Will that be the case forever? Of course, I? Don't know nobody knows in the meantime, Huawei has its own app gallery.

Is it gonna? Have what you need? Of course, you're going to have to take a look for yourself now. I know the power users are out there saying I, don't care I'm, just going to side load, my app I'm gonna mod it up I'm gonna, completely, configure it the way that I want and that's fine. Those people are going to exist, but as far as out of the box, as far as software updates go and so forth, it's a bit of its kind of some untested waters. So it's important to put that disclaimer out there for the time being this phone, not so Google. Granted, as you saw you jump into the browser you still get on, YouTube I mean it's not an impossible hurdle to overcome.

It's just a kind of it's a thing you need to be aware of so the new silver color Matt finish with the tremendous camera module on there. This is the pro version. I do want to check out the Pro Plus and the supercharger wireless supercharged at 40 watts. It is the new P 40 Pro from Huawei.

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