Huawei Mate 40 Pro - Smartphone 256GB, 8GB RAM, Dual Sim, Mystic Silver

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That said, neither phone outperforms the other in every respect, and the Mate 40 Pro is probably the best across-the-board Android phone you can buy, alongside the P40 Pro and Pro Plus. What’s more, with a slew of manual modes and RAW capture available, there’s plenty here to appeal to enthusiasts who like to tinker. Battery life Huawei’s phones have been among the best camera phones around for a few years now, and in this regard nothing changes with the Mate 40 Pro. At the helm is a 50-megapixel f/1.9 camera; identical to the one included with the excellent Huawei P40 Pro Plus . Alongside it sits a P40 Pro -a-like 12-megapixel f/3.4 5x zoom periscope camera, and a 20-megapixel f/1.8 ultra-wide. Product size, product weight, and related specifications are theoretical values only. Actual measurements between individual products may vary. All specifications are subject to the actual product. While popular benchmark apps don’t run on the Mate 40 Pro (an issue encountered on a number of phones from Motorola through to Nokia), it’s easy to confirm that when it comes to speed, the Mate 40 Pro presented no issues at all for gaming and general day-to-day use. The Huawei Mate 40 Pro is a tremendously exciting and stylish handset, with a stunning design that you won’t see on many other phones, some of the best smartphone cameras around, loads of power, long battery life, and just about every other spec you could ask for.

charge the phone when it is wet or in moist environments. Refer to the manual for cleaning and drying Beyond the app situation, the phone runs Android 10 (Google banned Huawei from using its apps and services, not Android itself) with EMUI 11 laid over the top. Along the phone’s bottom is a loudspeaker, a USB-C port and a SIM tray, which doubles up as a nano memory card slot. You’ll find all the buttons along the left edge, while up top is an infrared blaster and the second speaker.screen - The Huawei Mate 40 Pro sports a 90 Hz OLED display that stretches 6.76 inches across, providing an immersive and ultra-smooth visual experience. With a resolution of 1344 x 2772 pixels, and a pixel density of around 456 pixels per inch, you're guaranteed a crisp and vivid display.

There’s also 8GB of RAM, which isn’t a massive amount for a flagship, but again it’s enough. This is a very speedy phone, even when multi-tasking or playing demanding games. Camera In May, Huawei officially came up with an upgrade plan for smartphones and it was quite short as compared to past releases. There were only 11 models selected to receive EMUI 13 in the one and only batch. Despite launching a few months ago and running EMUI 11, the Huawei Mate 40 Pro still runs Android 10, which isn’t the latest version of Google’s mobile OS. However, this doesn’t really affect the UI you end up interacting with, given how heavily customised Huawei’s interface is.

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It’s been painful for mobile photography fans sitting on the sideline waiting to see what happens with Huawei smartphones. The Chinese tech giant is producing the best camera phones you can buy, and has been consistently doing so throughout 2020. Charging here is equally impressive: there’s 66W wired charging, which will power up the phone in under an hour, and also 50W wireless powering, which is certainly a rarity in smartphones. We didn’t actually get to test out this latter speed, as to get it you need to buy a separate 50W pad from Huawei, but we used the phone with one of the company’s other wireless pads, and it seemed pretty snappy too.