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Welcome. In front of me I have the Huawei P40 Light and it's the 5G version so the upgraded one
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And today I'm going to go over unboxing along with an overview of the phone itself
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So starting off let's pop it open. Packaging just a typical box from Huawei, nothing really special here
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and the phone itself. Just gonna take it out and set it to the side for now
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Get that out of the way. Then we get some paperwork. Again, nothing special here
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No one really cares about the paperwork. Then we get the SIM eject tool
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So go that to the side, nothing in here. And then we got the accessories
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So we got a brick. Now this is a fairly nice one
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It's a 40 watt charger. So for a somewhat like, a budget to a mid-range device it's I really like the fact that they stuck
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around and keep including the 40-watt bricks it's still better than some other
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flagship phones do for instance like Galaxy Fold which costs about 10 times
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more and it includes basically half of that in charging so then we got the
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charger itself or the cable I mean and I will mention The cable that they include is coated in purple right here, as you can see
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Hopefully it doesn't look blue on the camera. Kind of does, but whatever
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So you'll see that it is coated in a color there. And if you use this charger and cable, you'll get the max charging speed
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If you use basically any kind of other cable, it doesn't work with the super fast charging
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Now, the way you can know that it is charging at the max speed is when you plug it in, it will
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literally show you the percentage and then dot and then just the decibels of percentage that it is
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aught and this will be basically visibly going up so at that point you know you're using the correct
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cable along with the correct charger any other cable like I said will not start that so you
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will just have that it's charging and current for instance like 30% and nothing if you use this
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it will be 30% point for instance 57 58 time will be going up. Then apart from that just throw that out of the way. We also
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got some cable headphones and as a surprise the phone actually has a headphone jack so
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you can use your headphones if you have better ones than this. It probably wouldn't
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be hard to find better than this. So yeah. Now personally I think
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including headphones as a bad choice I would rather have that price of them including headphones be put into something different
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for instance like not including a two megapixel sensors that are basically useless that's probably a good better choice so yeah
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so this is basically all we got in the box let's turn on the device itself
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so while it's turning on we can go over the features so the back this one has the black version
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or as they call it it's midnight black and as you can see the key difference
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between the previous version or the P40 light non 5g is the fact that the cameras
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there were in a square so basically two by two while these warrants are all
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going down and it looks like the bump on here is a little bit bigger than it
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was on the P40 light now that might be caused also by the fact that the cameras
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are better here at least one of them I'm going to quickly go to the setup process right here
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As you can see I'm skipping most of this, I don't really care. Trying to just get the access to home screen
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And there we go. So now it's set up. So let's start off with the display
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While we're already looking at it, this is a 6.5 inch display and it's just a 1080p or precisely
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1080 by 2400. Just a typical display in 2020 I would say
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Basically all flagships, majority of them along with mid-range devices are using this resolution
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And honestly there is no need for anything higher than that in my opinion. Now when it comes onto it it's a 83.8% screen to body ratio so you're getting a
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fairly minimal pezzles which you can see clearly right here. So you have a little bit of a chunky chin but that's about it
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Other than that everything looks really nice. It also has a 405 pixels per inch that's because of the resolution so it's a fairly dense
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display now if you have no idea how resolutions look and what they affect
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basically the same resolution you have is most likely on your monitor from
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your computer if you have something like a typical just a tower PC with a
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standalone monitor for it majority of those devices or monitors for instance
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like at work majority of them are using a 1080p display and also the screen is
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HDR 10 certified. Now honestly this I'll say means almost nothing on here. I mean it's an LCD iPS
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display so don't expect anything outstanding here. The certification here is just more for
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look at us, we got the certification. You won't be getting any
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super deep blacks. As you can see, this device is I believe right now maxed out
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in brightness and I am indoors in a fairly dark room and the only light in here
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is the spotlight right here and just a tiny light behind me
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which they barely do the job of lighting up the room and this display already kind of seems a bit dim
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to be honest so in direct sunlight I believe this will be just a complete
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nightmare to use but I might be wrong else but honestly it's an LCD so I don't expect any
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kind of any kind of miracles here if this would have been an
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amulet then that a different game so moving on to the next part it gonna be the camera setup so at the front we got a 16 megapixel wide sensor that shoots up to an 80p 30 And this is just a well it a typical Huawei sensor nothing really here
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At the back, we got an upgrade in terms of the camera setup
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So before, let me quickly lock the device. So I'm going to compare it to the previous version
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If I can call that a previous version, the non-5G version. honestly I would have expected them to be basically the same with just the difference of the newer one using a 5G chip
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but that is not the case they're basically like two different devices so number one this one is bigger the screen is bigger
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comparing to the previous one screen was at 6.4 this one is 6.5 so just a 0.1 inch bigger display nothing really drastic here
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probably something that you won't even see the difference in but still it's a difference. The resolution is also a little bit different. The old one was using a
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1080p by 2310, so a little bit smaller. And in terms of cameras, the main sensor was a 48 megapixel
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while this one here is a 64 megapixel. So that's probably some of the biggest changes along
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with the chip. The old one was using a Curian 810 while this one is using a Curian
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820 which is a 5G chip and going back to the cameras which I was going to focus on
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with a 64 main sensor white sensor you also have a 8 megapixel ultra-white 2 megapixel
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macro and 2 megapixel depth and with that sensor you can shoot out 4k 30 frames
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something that the old one couldn't do and 1080p 30 now there is no 60 unfortunately
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so don't hope for that and also I'll mention that the 2 megapixel macro and
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and 2 megapixel depth are complete garbage. Any way you see a 2 megapixel any sensor, basically
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on your device, especially in a mid-range, it's just a company trying to boost up the number of cameras
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that they have just so it sells better. Those sensors are basically useless
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They contribute in nothing, and with that 64-mixel sensor, you can take better macros
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than you can take with that 2-mixel macro. So basically instead of four, look at this as two sensors instead of four
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You're not going to be getting much use out of the two, both two megapixel depth and macro
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And honestly, if you get this device and you start taking photos, try to stay away from taking it with the two megapixel macro
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Those photos, like I said, will come out looking less detailed than if you take a normal photo at a further distance with a six or a six
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64 megapixel and just kind of zoom in on it. So just a heads up here
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And let me actually quickly maybe demonstrate it so we can get a really good idea of what we are dealing here with
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So just let me get something. There we go. Maybe there's receipt right here
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So you can see what I mean. As you can see, this is just a receipt right here
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and we unlock it, open up that camera. So we're going to start off with the..
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I'm going to start off with the normal photo right here, which let me quickly check what the setting is at
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So aspect ratio, video, frame right. And... Yes, it looks like we don't get any options for quality right here
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I'm trying to basically check what sensors I'm using right now, it's probably it would be easier just to block it
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which I don't think I'm using the main one maybe I am I guess we'll see you in a second
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now let me quickly also wipe it off so it isn't dirty or anything
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and see how close I can get so this is the main one
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it's not the macro okay
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I'm just checking if this is sharp. And it looks sharpish. So now let's go into more
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Go into macro or super macro. Can't really get it without causing a shadow, so I'm going to move the light
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Let's go back to the gallery right. So obviously you can get it closer in
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Let's look at the quality though. So I can actually get in closer that would be really nice
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Let me actually try that again. We're just a normal one. My hands are a little bit shaky, so that's not helping me
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Let's check this out. So I use a zoom so it gets even closer
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And let's compare them. So this is the macro. It looks fairly blurry
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This is the 40 or 60, what is it? 60, 4 megapixel sensor
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And let's see where is the price? let me try that again so we have the same kind of area I believe that what I was capturing
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I'm going to do the same with the macro right now. So let's see how they compare
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So this is the macro right now. As you can see because I can actually zoom in really close in here
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And I mean it's looking okay. It's nothing really special. And this is the actual 40 or 64 megapixel zoom
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Now this one looks actually sharper but the text looks a little bit less detailed
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or maybe not detailed, but... but it seems a little bit more washed out in terms of colors
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Honestly, probably in terms of accuracy and colors this is more accurate
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because this is the backside of a receipt and it is kind of faint
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I can barely see it on the camera. So this seems a little bit too detailed
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It's almost like I'm taking the front of it. So, yeah. But honestly, I do have to say they're fairly close
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fairly close at the moment just by capturing it. It seems like this one just gets a little bit blurrier
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maybe that's because I'm assuming it close, but that's kind of what macro is supposed to do
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So yeah, nothing really much to say here. I'm going to do also a comparison to an actual macro lens
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that uses, in my case I believe it's an ultra-white sensor and it's a 16 megapixel
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megapixel it is also a Huawei device but just an older one the mate 20 pro so let's go
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into super macro and also get the light and see how that will compare so this one I can
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basically get as close to even see the grain of of the paper
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So that is kind of how it's supposed to work. That is what super or macro lens supposed to do
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As you can see, all these weird grooves in here, that's just the paper grooves
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So that is how it's supposed to look like and that is something that you will not get
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out of this phone whatsoever. So that is just a comparison of
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what they're trying to sell just by marketing. And yeah, so once we actually got the cameras out of the way, at least the front one
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well, this case actually the back, we can now turn on the front and see how it deals with me
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So, quickly get rid of this and this. So this is kind of a drastic scenario with the light being only on my face, everything being super dark around
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But honestly, held to the face. okay. It is a little bit saturated which I can see by the business red is right here
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Nothing too extreme. It does look actually fairly okay. So the front facing camera seems
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to do a okay job. I'm not going to complain about that one for a mid-ranked device
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with a 16 megapixel sensor. This is doing a okay job. So moving on, we're going to go into the actual specs of it. So like I said before
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The device comes with a Curian 820, which is a 5G chip
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and also it has 128 gigabyte built-in storage. That's the only option, along with 6 gigabytes of RAM
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And you can expand the storage further, I believe, by 200 and what is it, 40 or 56 gigs
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But it is using the Huawei's nano memory, which is just you won't be able to use your typical SDGs
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card you have to get it specifically from that Huawei or any kind of off-brand that produces those
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tiny little sim-sized cards which is honestly don't support that it is just other garbage that you
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have to do this but it is what it is so if you want it you have to basically buy their nano memory
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but then moving on to the a little bit brighter side of it like I said before it has the
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40 watt charger which allows the phone to be charged to set 70% in 30 minutes
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That is advertised at least. And honestly, based on my device, also being Huawei
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it does seem to charge really quickly. I think I plugged in my phone for like 10 minutes
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and I charged to about like 20-something percent from almost being dead
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So they do charge fairly quickly. And that is a real... I really like that super fast charge here
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And it also does something that I wasn't super fast charge here. expecting which is a 5 watt reverse charge so if you plug in the device with a
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cable and you plug in another device so you basically have to have two type C cables
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in this case you can basically give the power of your device to another one just to
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charge it up so if you have the need for that I guess you always have a
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almost a power bank power bank with you kind of how I'll explain it and apart
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from that there is also a side mounted fingerprint which is same thing as
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the previous one also at a sign mounted fingerprint and that is the double
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power buttons you can use it as a fingerprint along with a power key and apart
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from that there is not much more to say about the device it comes with in three
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different colors so you have the space silver crush green and midnight
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black midnight black is the one that I have and probably lastly
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the elephant in the room it is a Huawei device so it doesn come out to play a store and I tried to install play services on it but it seems like either Huawei is trying to really make it hard
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or Google maybe, I'm not really sure. So anytime there is some kind of way of getting Google Play services on here
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it gets patched up fairly quickly and basically becomes obsolete. So you're constantly in that search for a way to try to install them
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That is assuming you really care about Google Play. services. If you don't you'll have to put up with the app gallery which is the
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equivalent of the Google Play Store which is the difference of it having less
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apps. I'm going to quickly connect to Wi-Fi. So I'll give it a moment
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Yep. Okay, next agree. Keep later. As you can see, there we go
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That's basically their store for applications. And you get the majority of the typical apps that you do, but there is some apps that are missing from here
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For instance, I really love something like a smart launcher. I honestly just cannot use a Android device without it
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So let's see. Let's type in smart. Not now
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I love that pressing that now does nothing. Okay, so I have to say that Smart Launcher is now on here
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That is just something that I knew, stop it. That I know that before was not accessible
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So it is now here. And if you're wondering, for instance, if the app that you're looking for is not accessible here
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you're wondering what it is dependent on, it is basically dependent solely on the developer
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wanting to port their device to Huawei. So there probably could be instances where the developer will be flat out against it and will not do it
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And your app may never see the light of day on Huawei device. So keep that in mind
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But Huawei is constantly trying to get the apps on here, really basically bothering the developers
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to port their application. So all the Huawei users can use their store and get basically what any kind of other Android
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device has. And lastly, that's going to be the price tag. And it comes at about 500, or 500, what am I saying
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$2509.99 euros. Now this price, I guess, in euros, the phone isn't sold in US anymore
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That's because of the China van, obviously. And the previous one, I believe, was the last device that was being sold in US
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And if you're wondering, the price difference between those, it's about $60
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The previous one was cutting around $200. so this one is coming a little bit higher I believe euros is I think a little bit
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stronger than the dollar so it's about 60 maybe 70 dollars more now the question
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is I really that in that need of a number one a 5G device to pay a little bit more
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for it and number two I don't really or maybe put it this way I don't think this
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device is worth paying that's 60 extra dollars if for instance you can get the
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Huawei P40 light without a 5G. At the moment, the infrastructure isn't necessarily the
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greatest for it, at least where I'm from. And I personally, for me, living in a fairly
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decent city, I wouldn't be really benefiting from it at all. And paying more for it doesn't
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seem to be a great idea. So yeah. Now also, personally, I am really
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dependent on Play Store and all the Play services which I really came to be accustomed to
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So losing them would be a little bit of a bummer, which I kind of wouldn't want to put up with
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So that's just my personal opinion here. But if we're talking about purely the device itself and without any kind of political problems that it brings
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whatever the US is doing with it, the device runs fine. Camera is decent, nothing really mind-blowing here
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does the job, I won't be winning any awards here for best photos or anything like that
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it's just here, like I said before, also the two sensors that it has are basically useless
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which I also kind of showed in comparison. And apart from that the device is just purely mediocre which probably fits in with the kind
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of shelf that it's trying to cater to which is a mid-range device
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although the price isn't necessarily mid-range, it's approaching a little bit higher from the mid-range devices that I've reviewed in recent timing
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which some of them, for instance, like RealMe, come with Google Play services
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and in certain cases are even better than this device at a cheaper price range
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So it feels right now like the Huawei is still trying to bring out devices, pump them out
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even though they're lacking in features that probably a lot of people are looking for
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they're still trying to keep that higher price that they were selling their devices at
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about what a year ago and it seems a bit of a kind of misguided idea here that people
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will still buy their devices at a higher price range just because they used to be good
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and used to be respected I guess which personally I wouldn't buy it anymore
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That's just my opinion here. But like I said, the device itself, there's nothing against it
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It works really well. It's just a typical mid-range device at a slightly higher price range
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than I would be willing to pay for a mid-range device. And that being said, at the end of the day
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it's your choice if you want a Huawei device. And for instance, if that headphone jack is really worth that much to you
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