Should you buy it? Huawei Mate 40 Pro review! By Nasi Lemak Tech

So this is the brand new Huawei Mate 40 pro, and it has all the latest technologies from Huawei and whatnot. We already did our hands on earlier a few weeks ago. Actually, so today we're going to talk about what's it to actually use the Huawei Mate 40 pro for about two weeks or so we'll be talking about the mate 40 pro in a total of six different points like what we did previously in all of our phone reviews. So starting off. We need to talk about the design this one that we have here is in mystic silver, and it is absolutely gorgeous it. Has this kind of iridescent coating on it? Color scheme reflection, so it's very shimmery, and it is also covered by this hazy- matte finish, which I think is just very beautiful to look at and also to touch at the same time.

But then aside, we also need to take a look at the camera here. The whole cutout is big, but it's not that deep, and it also looks like the apples click wheels, so yeah, but then again the cameras. It obviously takes a lot of good pictures and whatnot, so you can have a look at all the picture samples here and this time around, while we also embedded all the camera modules inside the ring and not within that ring. So that's the change compared to the Huawei Mate 30 pro. Instead, now taking a look at the front of the phone, though this is a 6.76-inch screen with a rear resolution of 1344 by 27 by 72 pixels. It is also using an OLED screen with a refresh rate of up to 90 hertz, and it also retains the massive extreme curvatures on both sides, just like the Huawei Mate 30 pro and this time around.

Well, when you look at it from straight on, and you're viewing something with a white background, let's just say Facebook without dark mode turn on. You can see green fringes around these two extreme edges here that is actually caused by physics, not Huawei's fault, but still do you actually need this kind of curvature, though, and by the way, this time around Huawei also has brought back the physical volume control keys, which is a perfectly good thing when you first unbox the Huawei Mate 40 pro, it also comes pre-installed with a screen protector as well. Honestly, it looks weird so all the four corners have this kind of weird 90 degree cutouts, which I removed in this case, because ours was originally damaged, but I still have some extra footage here to show you how weird that screen protector actually looks, and now we have to talk about the software, so the Huawei Mate 40 pro marks the one-year anniversary of being googled listeners. If that's a word and Huawei introduced the Huawei mobile services since then- and it came on with their own Huawei app gallery, which actually grew tremendously throughout that one year from its debut last year, but they also brought in some new features. So, for example, you got the Huawei pay, which is new, but it only supports both union pay and also ICBC for Malaysia, as of now, which I don't know who will actually use it at this point in time and the amount of apps wells, the Huawei app gallery is still not an alternative to Google's play, store or even third party app stores like APK, mirror, Antoine and whatnot, and speaking of that Huawei introduced something called Patti search.

No not, but I search its petal search battle search is a search engine that searches all the apps. That will link you back to APK pure Antoine. APK mirror all of those things, but the problem is: if you want to find some games, then they will actually link you to some other proprietary package. Installation files like APK, POS, proprietary x APK, which does not work even though you downloaded through better search and battle search, also introduced some other issues. For example, if you want to download up mobile, they will search for you the global version instead, but we Malaysians, if you are coming from any other phones with Google you'll, be playing the arena version instead.

So yeah do keep that in mind, because some games have different versions depending on regions and then there's also genii in back for some reason. The previous game, Hong Kong 3, is available in the Huawei app gallery, but the new Gandhi impact is not so. I can't run the latest gunship if I want, but I did download the APK from elsewhere, which initially did not run, but after some minor updates, it did run as of now and speaking of that, we need to talk about the specs and also the performance of the Huawei Mate 40 pro. So the one we have here obviously comes with the new Karin 9000 chipsets, with 5 nanometer lithography process, 8 gigs of ram 256 gigs of storage. All of that good stuff.

But unfortunately, though Huawei, why did you lock down all the benchmark apps from installing even an tutu, which is available in the Huawei? App gallery does not instal, it just says: fail to install, or incompatible same goes to CPU, geek bench and all of those apps. So what we did is to just play games and show you the gaming performance, which you can also check it out in the top right corner there and um from what I can see and tell you are that the frame rate is not that consistent. It's still having some sort of uh dream drops here and there. So I would say the performance is more or less comparable with the snapdragon 865. Now, as for battery life, the Huawei Mate 40 pro can last a full day with its 4 400 William hour battery, which is no surprise to anyone.

But what's surprising here is the 66 watt charger. Unfortunately, it's using a proprietary type, a charger to a type c cable, which is also proprietary, which I honestly don't like proprietary charging, because there's USB pd. That also supports 65 watt. But of course, I think Huawei just want to be like one watt ahead of the other competition just that they can flex. I don't know so at the end of the day, the Huawei Mate 40 pro is actually a smartphone with a good camera, and I think that's the only main selling point of this phone here.

Uh in terms of software. That's my biggest pain point app accessibility is an issue that absolutely hinders my workflow so yeah. It's definitely not for me and at this point in time I do not have the local availability or pricing information about the Huawei Mate 40 pro, but based on the Huawei Mate 30 pro from last year that launch price is kind of high. So I wouldn't go far off that price for the Huawei Mate 40 pro so yeah. That's all we have to say about this phone.

It's a really nice looking phone and yeah. If you have any questions, leave them down in the comment section below I'll see you in the next video.

Source : Nasi Lemak Tech