UNBOXING of HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro – Review / First Impression

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Welcome. In front of me I have a Huawei made 40 Pro and today I will go over
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unboxing along with an overview of this phone. So without further to do let's pop it open
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and see there I would call it a flagship but it's actually not a flagship anymore I guess
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considering there's a plus version so just pop it open There we go
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So right of the bat you can see the phone right there
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So let's take it out. Let's set it right over here. Obviously nothing in here so I'm just going to put that to the side
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And here, just a cardboard, whatever one cares. Now this is looking a little bit different than what I'm used to, so you have a little marking on here for the semi-ject tool
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I guess they show you where the tray is, even though no one has ever needed that I guess
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And just a pamphlet, not really much in here, that's basically everything that we get
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So again, to decide. And then we got something that I just consider kind of funny every time I see
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it. So obviously Huawei isn't coming with Google anymore so they're trying to
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you know show you that hey it's okay we have different ways of giving you the
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applications that you're looking for and that is one of the come on get out no
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go I have to basically destroy everything but I am so obviously we have the
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app gallery the phone clone and I'm not really sure what that is actually
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It's just... Gives there... Oh, I know what it is. It's just an alternative to Google search
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As you always have on your home screen, the Google search. They don't have Google, so they needed to have their own
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Phone clone is actually a good way of getting an apps that you won't find an app gallery to this device
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So basically you have your phone, you download the phone clone app, and then you simply clone the app to your new device that doesn't actually have Google
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And that will allow you to transfer apps that aren't actually actually online. aren't actually on the app gallery
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Really need trick, I would say. So yeah, let's just throw that aside
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And then here we get the charger. So this is a massive, and I really mean massive
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66 watt charger. So I just set that to the side right here
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And then we got a Type C cable. I'm really sure what that is
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Oh, they're included Type C earbuds. Okay, so now they're not wireless, obviously
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But still the inclusion of them is quite nice considering considering majority of their phones didn't actually come with it
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So yeah, there we go, that's basically all we get in the bags out of the actual important stuff
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Something that I actually found funny is the fact that they started to or changed their color
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Usually I believe it was purple before, now it's orange. I guess that just signifies the cable's charging capacity
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Not sure if you ever tried it, but if you used, for instance, their charger, which for me, just as an example, I have the old mate, which is really beat up, as you can see
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So on the mate 20, I believe their charger was rated at 40 watts
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And if you didn't use their cable, it wouldn't charge the phone at the max wattage
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So I guess I'll be probably getting like half or so, something like that
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I'm not exactly sure, haven't actually checked it, but I know it wasn't charging at its full speed
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Because when you plug it in with their, well, with their cable and charger
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and it charges at full speed, you can basically see the percentage or, like
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go up on front of your eyes. So it's like, for instance, 50% point, and the point just keeps going up
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Without their charger, it will not do that. So, let's actually open it up
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Now, it's kind of funny because usually this is the front of the phone at a display
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Here it's kind of they've flipped it all around and it looks like their primary focus is not the display, it's more the cameras, which
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Seems to be interesting idea of Just shifting it a bit to a different
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A different way, but now we go, there is a phone Looks really trimium obviously
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The only thing that is I guess higher than this is the the mate 40 Pro Plus which this isn't
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Now as you can already see at the back we have the quadruple camera setup and this
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well fairly big circle right here and we have the periscope lens we also have the
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ultra wide the wide one which is normal and also there is is
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hmm what is the other one should be only three so there's there
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the 50 megapixel wide 12 megapixel periscope which is this one the ultra wide and I'm
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not exactly sure what the last one actually is if that is even a camera looks really
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tiny honestly trying to look at it as you can see this is maybe that's just a
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sensor of sorts because it looks just it looks just minuscule compared like
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their sensors right here right here the ultra wide and the white one so
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So I believe that might be just a sensor. But anyway, as you can see, let me just kind of move this to the side
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As you can see, after I power it on, you will be able to see the display
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So this comes with a 6.7 inch OLED display at resolution of 1344 by 27 or 27 or 2,7
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too. That's kind of how I should probably say it. And nice thing, it has a 90
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hertz refresh rate. I really nice that they included that. Something that I
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would kind of be, I probably will be comparing it to is the iPhone. That is, I would say
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the closest thing that I can consider this to being because Huawei with their chipsets their Kirin I believe they faster than basically every Snapdragon so it wouldn be a fair comparison
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Now, comparing it to iPhone, I don't think it's a fair comparison either
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But in terms of how they're doing everything and how, well, apart from the fact that it's running on Android
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everything here works, is really, really similar to iPhone. Even through to like the way the phone looks, the packaging, how premium it is and all that stuff, it kind of resembles an inspiration from Apple
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So that's kind of what I'm going to be comparing it to it. And enable and continue
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Just finish up on the setup. Now, unfortunately, I do have to go through the gestures right here
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There we go. And so with their Kiryenne, 9,000. This is, come on. There we go. With their carrier in 9,000, this is probably going to be one of the fastest Android. Unfortunately, it's, I don't think it's going to be faster than iPhone. iPhone just has a bit of an advantage with their AI chips on their phone. So just putting that out there. But I can see right here, the benefit with this one is it has 90 hertz refresh rate, something that iPhone is
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didn't actually have the newest one the 12 series so that is already a little bit of
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a advantage here now I will have to say you will not be able to see the 90
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hertz refresh rate on the camera I'm recording only at 60 so anything past
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that is just kind of lost but it does bring a little bit of a better experience
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to the device at least that's in my opinion any kind of phone that has a 90 or
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120 preferably 120 it's just a win in my book this one stops only at 90 not
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sure why maybe the pro plus version has 120 I haven't actually checked it so I
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am not sure about it but that'll be kind of a not very good way of doing it but yeah
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so like I said this is a 6.7 inch display 90 Hertz OLED certified HDR 10 and
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when it comes down to screen to body ratio it comes out 94.1% so this is a fairly
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well fairly bezel minimal bezel phone basically bezel less I would say almost
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if you mitigate like the 6% that it has of bezzles it would have just a screen itself
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and as you can see probably one of the bigger part all that percentage is taken by the cameras right over here
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so you have two cameras or at least one I would assume. Let's see
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It kind of looks like too. So we have two cameras right here and
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yeah, as you can see they're fairly spaced out. I'm not really sure why they went with it
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It just creates this kind of like super lengthy, just not notch but I guess a hole
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which they could have just put it really close together minimize this size. This is the second time I've seen it while we're doing this, so I guess
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there might have some reason for it. I just, from a consumer standpoint, this just kind of looks
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like it's overly white for no reason and it takes up a little bit too much screen space
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right here. So, moving on further, the display with its resolution has a
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456 pixels per inch so it is a fairly dense display which you would expect at a
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well display that comes basically at 1440p resolution so yeah now moving to the
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backside of the phone where we have the camera setup as you can see right over
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here so we have a 50 megapixel wide then we have 12 megapixel periscope
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telephoto lens then 20 megapixel ultra ultra wide and well obviously as you can see their branded Laika right here from the
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lenses and with that you can shoot out 4k 30 or 60 frames which is just something
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that we already expected I would say considering majority of their newer P series
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and mate series could do it so nothing really mind-blowing here obviously you can
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shoot at 1080p 30 60 and also slow motions at 120 240 and 480 and if you drop it even lower to 720 p you can shoot at 930 along with going to ridiculous
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3,080 or 300 3,840 frames per second so this is a little bit over the top is just ridiculous I would say
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but if you want you can do it and then the front can shoot out 4k 3060 again and
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an 80p 3060 and also slow motion off 240 now let me just flip it over I get our
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little plant right here and capture a couple photos now obviously whatever I'm
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gonna be capturing here will not be even unlocked there we go nothing that will
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put the camera to any kind of like strain so all the photos here will be
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just a quick photos just so you can kind of see how well they look but it's
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still gonna be well thoroughly crap considering I'm not a great photographer
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and also this is just a fairly well lit environment and just a single little
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photo here that I can prop that I can capture but let's just
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get a photo so right now we have a couple tutorials here but okay so
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just capture it now it looks like the AI is disabled by default so let me
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enable it so it captures or changes it up until capture the best photo I would say
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so now we can get a look at it So this is the AI photo Hopefully it will be fairly clear on the camera But as you can see the detail is there
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It did capture most of the focus right over here. That's why it's kind of blurry on the bottom and a little bit here
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But I have to say it did a fairly decent job, obviously
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The colors are... Fairly correct. The plant is a little bit greener on here than it is to me right here
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Um, but other than that it looks well like an outstanding photo as you would expect from this device
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If we go to this one which didn't use AI, you can see that it is clearly, clearly darker overall
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And just so you see it is max brightness. So the photo here came out a bit darker without the AI
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Now it's still a really good photo, just putting that out there
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Now apart from the normal photos as I captured, we have also the ultra wide
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Just close this off. There it is, there's the ultra wide, so obviously it can capture way more with it
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And look what it did here. So the ultra-white looks also really good, but it may actually even expect it
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Hopefully, like I said, it looks good on the camera, but this looks really good here
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Let's see what else we got. So we want to the normal one, the one-time zoom. We also have a five-time zoom, which..
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Ooh, I need to take it out of there. Now, we have five-time zoom, but..
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We can also go to 10, 20, 30, 50 times zoom, but at this point I cannot capture anything
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As you can see, I can barely figure out what I'm looking at
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The only thing that is helping me is this tiny little image right over here to distinguish what I'm actually looking at
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But in terms of detail, I am way too close to even capture it
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If I probably move it somewhere else. If you're wondering what you're looking at is basically the camera
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just there's the tripod barely visible but you can only see it on here so yeah I
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cannot even test the the periscope lens here because that's what it is using to
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capture these photos now outside of that we can also go to more where we have far
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more options time lapses light paintings monochromes even high resolution which will use the full resolution of the sensor dual view which
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Let's see. Ooh, that's nice. Interesting. So I probably believe this will look better in this perspective
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So it looks like it uses the periscope lens and also the normal one to capture two different views, which honestly I really like
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Can I zoom in here as well? Oh, I just closed it. Not what I wanted to do
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Let's go back. So I can zoom it all the way to times 15 while still keeping this image as it is
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Now that is really neat and I kind of like this. And I believe this isn't really new
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I think it already was in some of the Huawei's before. But obviously you can see that the cameras here are way above average and they capture outstanding photos
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Now let's also take out the selfie. I'm going to capture myself here
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Beauty mode. Okay, so they started adding option for a toggle to have a beauty on or off, which obviously
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I'm going to go with off. Okay. Okay. Hmm
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Now also once you capture it, it gives you the option to either a mirror. or not mirror it
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So I'm gonna go with mirror. It just looks better to me. And right here, we have the photo now
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This actually came out better than I even expected with this kind of lighting that I have here
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So, I'm not sure if it's visible on the camera, like I said
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But overly, even the background is still, as you can see, visible, clear enough
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The colors of the skin tone are, I would say, basically on point. This is probably the closest thing that I feel like looks like an
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actual skin tone that I have encountered for a while. So yeah, the selfie camera here is
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better than I even expected but nope, never mind. There is no beauty effect here. It's
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basically fully off and without any kind of sharpening it looks outstanding
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on this photo might not look outstanding but the photo itself does so yeah this is
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amazing for selfies if you're into that now moving out of the camera itself and
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on to other things like already mentioned before the downside of this phone is the
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fact that it's lacking a play store so if you want of those people that rely on it you're not gonna get it here but from what I've seen there is scared there's still
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apps being added to the app gallery but already in my opinion there's a fairly decent amount of
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apps in here which at this point around I before I was critical of it I didn't really like it
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but at this point around the app gallery contains enough apps for me to actually not care now
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there is going to be downsides like I believe you won't be able to use Google pay because it's a
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Google app but I'm not sure there might be some kind of alternatives I would really hope that
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there are so you can actually for instance pay with your phone but finishing it
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off with the specifications of this device like what it comes with there is one
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variant of RAM and two of storage so it comes with a Kyrian 9,000 which is a
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5g V versions 8 gigabytes of RAM and then the storage is you have two 256 and 512 and this is a UFS 3 So you going to be getting really fast read and write speeds
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It's not going to be as fast as iPhone. iPhone uses MVME so their storage is just on a whole new level
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But in terms of comparing it to the majority of the other iPhones, this is basically blowing majority of them out of the water
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I think the only thing that uses like the UFS 3.1 or like the Samsung and majority, not even all, but a fairly decent amount of actual flagship devices, which this is, so that's why it's there
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And also, like I said before, it has a 66 watt wireless charging, which is amazing, but something that caught me off guard is apparently a
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has a 50 watt wireless charging which I think it is the highest one unless I think
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there might be one that it comes at 66 but that was from like a different brand so
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so I'm not really going to include it but just so you can see this isn't going to put
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the phone into full charging mode this is like their old wireless charger but you can
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obviously see that it does charge it wireless Leslie that's kind of all I can really show off. I don't really have a 50 watt wireless charger
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So now moving out of this, it also has a whoops sorry, it also has a reverse reverse wireless charging. Now it is only 5 watts, so nothing really super fast, but
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this is only going to be used to either, I don't know, boost up someone's phone. They need a phone, to make a phone call and they really need their phone to be charged
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a tiny bit or to simply charge up your headphones if you have ones that have a wireless
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charging case so you just kind of flip it over and slap them on here and charge them up
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something that I don't have any more to even showcase but yeah now when it comes on to
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price tag it does come on a little bit of a pricey side it comes up about
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$1,400 give or take like 50 I would say And also depending when you're buying it, right now it's Black Friday, so there is a chance you can get it cheaper than that
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But I'm not really sure haven't really checked it And also the device does come with a couple different colors. So we have silver black white green and yellow now the one that I've been showing here is the black version obviously
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And it is a fingerprint magnet as you can see This is kind of hilarious how
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how much fingerprints you can see on it. It does also have a curved screen, obviously
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As you've probably seen it, so it is a fairly aggressive curve. As you can see right here, there's some road on here
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So you can clearly see the side of whatever is on the display
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And also, it comes with a fingerprint sensor under the display, which is really fast
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Now, you can actually go through a screen. You can actually go through a setup of it. So let's go to..
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Where is it? Biometrics and Password. Face, fingerprint. There we go. And we can set it up quickly
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And let's add a fingerprint. So let me just quickly like swipe it so it's fairly clean
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At a fingerprint. Okay, cool. So we can see how quickly it unlocks the device
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Come on, come on, there we go. Now, apart from me just kind of showing you of a couple different features right here, like the fingerpin and how quickly it works
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there is not much more I can say here. Now obviously the, this phone probably at least won't be really accessible in US
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If you're from there, you might have a little bit of a problem getting it
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사랑 because of the Huawei ban. But still if you can, it's a really good device
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It works like a flagship. Now I don't really like the fact that they decided to go with even higher model with the plus one
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It kind of taints, in my opinion, the Mades series. Before we had the P-Series, P-Pro for instance, or P20, 30, 40 Pro
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And that was the max. And same with Mates. like for instance my mate right here the old one that was the at that time the flagship
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right now if you go with a made 40 pro it is not the highest you can get the highest
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will be the mate 40 pro plus and I don't really like them adding more and trying to
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rack up the price to even higher one it just seems like a I don't know it just
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feels wrong in my opinion so just like it as you can see the fingerprint works really quickly it is
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reliable if you can actually press it there we go so it does work really well
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and yeah apart from that there's not much more I can say it has a only single
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sim slot no SD card expansion unless they're using the nano memory or
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whatever it was called. And from that the phone works outstandingly. The photos are just
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like I said top notch and I really like it. And if you're getting this device, you're probably
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going to be getting it for the photos themselves. That's one of the reasons why I give you the
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phone flipped on the on the screen with showcasing the cameras instead of like every other one
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comes with just phone upside instead of your downside. So yeah. But yeah, it is a really
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good phone. I wouldn't say it's worth $1,400, but that is for you to decide if whatever it comes
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with it is worth for you to pay that much. Well, that being said, this will conclude the video. And
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if you found it helpful, don't forget to tell a like, subscribe, and thanks for watching

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