The Best Smartphone You Won't Buy

So this is a phone that's actually been requested a lot but as you know kind of difficult to get

Huawei United States trade ban type of stuff. I've talked a lot about the trade dispute and so forth

on the show downstairs on Lulater so I mean you could go look at a variety of videos on that

It is the Huawei Mate 30 Pro and the Huawei Mate 30

So the release kind of changed significantly because of that ban. So that's the important piece of this particular unboxing video

You don't have Google Play services. There's no Google Play Store. There's no Google Apps

You pretty much can only buy this thing in China as it stands right now

An aggressively curved OLED display on here. A sort of violet look to it

The gigantic camera portion as well, which of course we've seen in photos, but I haven't looked at yet

That's the Pro, and we might as well, let's do this in conjunction here

Here is the non-Pro version. That one looks like it's just in black, and obviously it's going to be a slightly different setup

The Pro is substantially more slender. Oh, the Pro one actually comes with a case

It's an actual hard shell case. Pretty slender, without covering up the edges

Now they're calling the display Horizon Display. The encircled glass has an 88 degree ultra curve

A fairly powerful supercharged power brick with a max 40 watt charge

You have a USB type C cable and they even include a wired headset

Now this is not gonna be mini jack because there is no headphone connector natively on the device

Instead it's type C. And in the non-pro unboxing, Boxing the non pro model comes with the softer one that we're used to seeing frequently power brick looks to be identical

Yes max 40 watts supercharged We do have a mini jack headset because the non pro made 30 does have a headphone jack kind of a mirror type of finish to it

It looks almost silver and then at others you start to get some purple in there

So i'm gonna go with cosmic purple, but even cosmic purple. It's not an overwhelming purple

The crazy thing here is that the wrap around on the sides is so aggressive that there's no buttons

You actually only have one single button here And it practically it almost on the backside of the phone when you look at it gigantic camera array which they done in a circular fashion okay i giving a little juice

to the pro model in the meantime let's check out the non-pro so for the non-pro it's about 600 bucks

and for the pro it's 800 battery life i should mention 4500 milliamp hours in the pro model

which is an upgrade over the previous version this one is 4200 this one is a more typical

smartphone layout. This color, far more conservative. It's black. It's a smaller

notch on the non-pro. Huawei is one of the few manufacturers now that's

maintaining a more advanced version of face unlock to provide a more secure

type of face unlock. I actually was surprised the standard non-pro mate still

has a pretty slim bezel going on. Of course you do have the notch. This one is

larger however now in order to make up for that on the pro model which it just supercharged up to

35 in a very short period of time they've made up for it by going crazy aggressive on the sides

jack can pick this up better than anyone on the side angle of course it's kind of similar to what

samsung is doing mostly a wow factor will oh yeah we're doing cool stuff we're flexing screens

around edges we're doing cool stuff also less buttons it's gesture based so as you saw your

swiping it's iphone-esque if you want to adjust the volume you double tap on the side here and

then there's also a tactile kind of feedback i'm getting like a buzz as i move up and down we are

looking at 2400 by 1176 that's fhd plus of course it's an oled display 6.53 inches let's go ahead

and try out this face unlock i'm curious about it you look to the side and down round it's missing

over there, over there. It can require eye contact or not, which is kind of interesting

A lot of people stressing out on the Pixel that the eyes didn't have to be open for the unlock

A lot of people stressed out, Will. A lot of people paranoid. Of course, there's also fingerprint scanning capabilities

in the display. This is your typical stuff. That's an optical scanner

If I lock it and I'm not looking at it, I can go with the fingerprint

which is pretty quick It not like the optical face unlock it requires the 3D So the profile is not going to unlock it

You have to be looking at it. But when you're looking at it

Okay, let's try raise to wake. It's just on the table. Pick it up

Boom. What? That's really fast. Whoa. That's quite quick. The cameras, obviously, we got to spend some time there because that's really what people can be interested in

It's become the characteristic that people care about most with smartphones. And as we know, this device, Will, is constantly, it's near the top of DxOMark

And it's just referred to as a real player in the space. Take DxOMark for what it is, right

It's up for grabs. It's up for dispute. But it's hard not to mention the fact that they put this device at the very top

In video, a super wild slow-mo available to you and it's got a variety of cameras to choose from, lenses to choose from on the back

And we're gonna go ahead and take our first photo at 1x

Boom. Sharpening stays steady. Okay, so there's some processing taking place. Let's see here we go down to the wide angle, which is something I like to have, something I like to use

This is the 3x. and last up the 5x so many options there i presume that at the far end of it it's some sort of hybrid

situation even the 5x as i examine it here looks pretty good that's your 2x optical look at the

fibers over here see that so lots of detail this is our wide angle the contrast on the wide actually

looks pretty nice. Let's see if we still are left over with some detail on the crop. Yes, we are

And then you also have your standard field of view, and that's the stock that's going to come

out of the camera. So we've seen this before, obviously, but it's interesting to see each year

how it changes. In the past, when it sees it as greenery, as it does right here, Jack, you can make

that out. It tends to kind of enhance the saturation. It's making some smart decisions for

based on track record and obviously whatever it thinks is gonna produce the best results for your particular image And in some cases this can be really useful It can speed things up for you The selfie camera over here It looks like I got some beauty stuff by default

I'm going to toggle that off. It's tracking my face right now within the image

It also has HDR baked into that. That's a lot of detail on the selfie as well

This is up near the top from a performance perspective. just yzing this slim number of photos

I would be happy to point and shoot this thing, so the DxO isn't completely off

when it comes to this particular device. Now kind of the elephant in the room here

is the fact that we're looking at a device that has no Google Play services. The complexity of living with this phone goes way up

for anyone who relies on those services, uses those services, things like YouTube

So Huawei launched its own app gallery in the meantime. Is this a substitute

I don't think it's gonna be a substitute for most people it stands right now and that's probably the reason this thing launched in China and they're in no rush

to launch it elsewhere because they probably realized that as well now if you enjoy tinkering

if you're the type of person you don't mind diving in there you could still get a lot out of this

device if you're willing to import it or if you choose to as far as being adopted in a big way

with all the press and the fact that the carriers pretty much have to stay away from it now

It's just it's a major step back for the hardware, which is unfortunate

The hardware on its own justifies looking at it. It has a mono speaker

The upper part of the phone, the screen actually is delivering audio for phone calls

There is no speaker unit at the top. It's this new tech. We've seen it in other devices in the past

All right, so I've had some difficulty trying to get YouTube to work on here. It's strange

Either way, you still end up with a mobile YouTube experience. You don't have nearly as many options for configuration as you would have in the app

The resolution is not there. This is actually not great. Not a great res at all

And you have black bars. Yeah, you want the app. This is one of those circumstances

If you watch YouTube, you want the app. Maybe you just want to jump on the TikTok

And then, look, it's perfect. I think this is a major setback for Huawei

And it's kind of an unfortunate setback. Especially when you consider the hardware. You look at the cameras

You have the whole experience and you wonder what it could have been