It sounds complicated but the newly outed Huawei Mate 30 Pro still has bits of Android in it. But as long insinuated, the latest flagship device from China will no longer enjoy the usual nod from Google. Huawei is betting success remains in the horizon notwithstanding the current circumstances.
Now unboxed and presented in Germany, the Mate 30 Pro is a sight to behold and hardware-wise it would be hard to dismiss the latest and greatest from Huawei. The build and design stun as usual and the components inside and out scream only of luxury.
The Huawei Mate 30 Pro boasts a massive 6.53-inch OLED display panel, which is made even glorious by the Mali G76 GPU that has 16-core. This surely is a toy designed for multi-function - mobile productivity and entertainment.
The power under the hood is the Kirin 990 CPU that is anticipated to again impress like its predecessors. This in-house processor is both luxurious and a monster packed into a module. And there's a bonus - the Kirin 990 comes built-in with a 5G chip, and this promises that the device will oblige where the high-speed wireless connectivity is available.
To keep the Mate 30 Pro running for up to two days, the device is packed with a giant 4,500mAh battery that can be charged up to 70 percent in 30 minutes.
And on the shooting side, the Mate 30 Pro's quad-camera setup consists of a 40-megapixel camera, a 40-megapixel ultrawide-angle camera, an 8-megapixel telephoto lens and a time-of-flight sensor, which helps add depth to photos. This is in keeping with the premium camera offerings that Huawei is known with the Mate and P series.
So the Huawei hardware package is nothing short of amazing. The complication arises with the software as Huawei admitted: "We cannot use the Google Mobile Services core, we can use the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) core."
"That's because of a US ban that these phones cannot preinstall the GMS core, it has forced us to use the HMS Core running the Huawei app gallery on the Mate 30 series phones," the China-based tech giant was reported by The Verge as saying.
Sure enough, the Mate 30 Pro unpacked lacks the Chrome browser, Google Map and the Google Play Store. These apps and services from Google were denied from the device so Huawei was forced to use the open-source Android instead.
That would mean, according to CNET, that future buyers of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro will be kept off from Android 10 and future versions, and the apps they want and require will have to be sourced from the Huawei AppGallery. As of the last check, that same AppGallery only counts about 45,000 available applications as opposed to Google Play Store's 2.7 million.
To be certain, that has to be a serious consideration before grabbing the Mate 30 Pro. And one has to be reminded that the device will only get the crucial system and security updates once they become available on the open-source channel.
