Review of Huawei P40 Pro Plus

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Welcome to Techno Beyond. Today we are going to take the complete review of Huawei P40 Pro Plus. So let’s get started. Huawei released three flagship phones you've got the Huawei P40, Huawei P40 pro and the Huawei P40 Pro Plus with true 10x optical zoom.

Design:

It's got a rounded screen and a rounded back although the P40 Pro Plus uses ceramic which feels really nice and the screens also curved on the bottom which actually makes a lot of sense because now most people use gesture navigation and if you're going home or doing multitasking swiping up from the bottom is just a lot more comfortable when you've got a curved display there. Now Huawei did include these nice thick rails in the corners to protect that screen and I honestly think this design is a really nice it still feels fairly thin even though it's definitely a little thicker than you're probably used to in a smartphone.

Processor:

You got on the Huawei p40 pro as well you're getting the KIRIN 990 processor with 5G built in you're getting 8GB RAM in 90 Hz Full HD Plus display. The big difference here is that you're getting 512GB of storage versus the 256GB of storage that you're going to see on the Huawei p40 Pro.

Performance overall was really great I didn't really notice any hiccups or stuttering and performance on benchmarks is about the same as a snapdragon 855 and yes that's not quite as good as a 855 plus or the 865 but when you can't really notice any stuttering or hiccups.

Battery and Charging:

The P40 pro plus also has the same 4200 mAh battery and Huawei phones have traditionally had really good battery life and that's mostly because that KIRIN processor sips battery very slowly. I got just under two days of battery life on the P40 Pro Plus which is about unplugging in at 9:30 a.m. and having it die around 7:00 p.m. the next day and that's fine. The P40 Pro Plus charges at 40 watts with the included fast charger and when you can charge at a rate of 40 watts and get almost two day battery life that's kind of the sweet spot.

One other upgrade that Huawei did make with the p40 Pro Plus over the normal p40 Pro is that you have the option of using a wireless 40 watt fast charger. We know this is a proprietary charger you're gonna have to buy it from Huawei if you want to get the 40 watt fast charging.

Camera:

The big difference here is in the camera system. Now the thing that makes the Huawei P40 Pro pluses camera system really unique is the fact that it has true 10x optical zoom and this is actually a really big deal. Huawei p40 Pro Plus iterated on this a lot and it's bouncing that light off of five different mirrors to increase that focal length. When you look in this lens you're not gonna see a lens you see a mirror and there's a multi mirror path that that light has to take to get to that sensor it's a really cool piece of engineering.

Zoom:

Now another thing that the Huawei P40 Pro Plus can do is zooming to up to a 100X. In fact it's got a space zoom marker on the back of its lens. If you're zoomed into a 100X and then you take the shot the actual image that comes out will be shifted slightly to the left so it's actually hard to get a shot at 100X zoom so it's cool it's nice to have a camera that can zoom that much and has that big of a focal range.

Sensor:

The main sensor on the Huawei P40 Pro Plus is a huge one over 1.2 an inch sensor that uses a RYYB filter array and this means that it actually is using red yellow and blue pixels instead of red green and blue pixels the reason they did this is because the spectrum of yellow light is much wider than the spectrum of green light.

Picture Quality:

General imaging with the sensor is also really good things had really nice sharpness and they didn't feel like they had over dynamic range where you lift the shadows too much but I didn't notice that Huawei really likes to shifts the hue of Reds more towards this like pink or magenta color.

Now there's also a wide camera on the Huawei P40 Pro Plus which was also really good it had good sharpness and color reproduction I did see a weird color shift between this and the main sensor.

There is a 3x telephoto lens and this allows Huawei to more consistently go from really wide to a 10x optical zoom and it's really nice to have that full range.

Selfie camera:

On the front you've got a punch hole selfie camera which some people love some people hate I personally like it now these selfie cameras 13MP and it also has autofocus which is not something that we see in a lot of smart phones usually that's a fixed focus camera now the other camera is an IR depth camera so that can help for things like face unlock and also with bokeh mode.

Overall quality of the front-facing camera was pretty good especially in high light situations it was very sharp with very good color but when you get into lower light situations it started to distort the color a bit and it was just a little bit muddy and it just didn't look quite nearly as good as you would get if you just took the photo with the back camera ok.

Services:

The United States which is to say they're not allowed to work with a lot of US companies and that includes Google now even if you don't like Google and you don't like using any of their apps having no access to Google Play services means that you can't use the Google Play Store and that's kind of the backbone and foundation of all Android smartphones.

So to try to get around this Huawei created an alternative app store called App gallery and they're slowly trying to get people to bring their apps over to their proprietary app store for Huawei phones to their credit they've got things like Microsoft apps and they've got snap chat and they've got zoom and telegram but there's still a ton of apps that you would normally use every single day missing from app gallery.

Apps and other:

Apps I use every day like Twitter, Instagram and Spotify they're not on App gallery and there's not really an indication of when they might be on App gallery. Now I was able to sort of get around this by making desktop versions of websites and for some websites they actually work just like the app in the mobile browser so Instagram and Spotify look almost identical in the browser as they do in the actual app but not having physical apps on a phone is really difficult.

My opinion:

1. If you're totally okay with not using that many apps on your phone or you actually like Huawei’s apps that they have pre-installed on their phone then go for it but it's really hard for me to recommend a device that won't give you access to all the apps on the Google Play Store.

2. Let's break it down on the Huawei P40 pro plus you're getting really good build quality, really good cameras, really good performance and super fast charging under any other circumstance this would be a very good phone.

3. Which I could whole heartedly recommend but look the reality is our phones are just portals to apps and services and the quality of a phone is determined by how well that phone can interact with those apps and services and when you can't interact with those services at all what do you have a pocket camera.

4. Now Huawei is able to fix its relationship with the United States and in effect Google in the next year or so then I'll probably go back to recommending their phones as long as they're still as good as this phone is but until then you might want to check out some competition.

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Review of Huawei P40 Pro Plus