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One way to become more self-sufficient would be to have all of China's mobile makers use a new, homegrown operating system, such as the one Huawei says it is working on. To gain a similar level of global influence and market share as the two leading operating systems, Huawei would need to not only "dominate the Chinese market" but also make inroads into other countries, Levis said.
And that is where Huawei could face another high hurdle, as the company will inevitably face close scrutiny regarding the security of its system. After all, it is a mobile company, not a software company," Shah said. Without Google acting as a security controller for its new operating system, Huawei might have a hard time winning over the trust of international customers.
The overseas market? Not so sure," Tian said. Even if Huawei overcomes the above challenges, there is still one long-term concern looming over its operating system: the underlying chipset. Part of an operating system's code is specific to the chipset.
The operating system that Huawei is developing will be specific to the chipset it is currently using, in other words, the ARM chipset. If there is an update to that chipset that Huawei is not be able to obtain, it could affect the overall quality of its operating system. He added that the two major chipsets on the market now are Intel's x86 and the ARM v8.
But that may not be an ideal solution, according to Levis. According to Wu Hequan, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Huawei has perpetually licensed the ARM v8 technology and can manufacture and update chipsets based on the existing v8 technology if necessary, without help from ARM. Tian said chipsets will not present a problem right away. But it won't affect Huawei's operating system in the short to medium term. Sign up to our newsletters to get our best stories delivered straight to your inbox.
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Huawei started strong with the excellent P30 Pro phone, but things went downhill from there. The Mate 30 Pro, its latest flagship, has no Google Play Store, and no apps like Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. Entering the AppGallery, Huawei's version of the Google Play Store, I. Every phone to come or be updated to this version will get a new file system called EROFS. The ERO file system is supposed to offer 3x increase.
The main shooter has 40 megapixels. Then there's an 8-megapixel telephoto lens, which has a 3x optical zoom and 30x digital zoom; a megapixel ultrawide-angle lens; and there's a 3D "time-of-flight" sensor that helps with depth perception. But it has a bigger, better ultrawide-angle sensor over the P30 Pro.
This is a worthwhile trade, because I find ultrawide-angle capability much more useful than better zoom functionality. Photography isn't perfect. Thanks to heavy software processing, skin can look artificially brushed in Portrait shots. This processing also makes Night Mode superfluous: Low-light shots capture an impressive amount of light, and toggling on Night Mode often results in overkill. I didn't have the option to shoot a dark photo even when I wanted to because the scene is brightened with software by default.
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But despite these issues, the Mate 30 Pro has one of the best camera setups on any Android phone. Photos generally look spectacular, with rich color and crisp detail.
And Huawei packed in another innovative trick, but this time for the video camera. The Mate 30 Pro features stupefying slow-motion capabilities.
There are four options: 4x, 8x, 32x, 64x and an astonishing x. That x option uses AI software to slow things down to 7, frames per second. Slow-motion cameras need more light, so you'll need a reasonably bright environment to take advantage of ultra-slow-mo.
And since x slow motion makes 25 seconds out of one-tenth of a second, you'll need good timing to shoot the split second you want in slow-mo. But I found the feature super fun to play around with. It makes something as little as a water splash look spectacular. Its 6. Its OLED screen is a waterfall display, meaning it wraps around the side of the phone all the way to the aluminum back.
Videos and browsing were a joy, and the glass body felt more luxe to hold than aluminum. The downside is that there are no volume buttons, so I had to tap the side of the display to activate an on-screen volume slider instead. This generally works OK, but makes quick volume changes more cumbersome than they need be.
But where the Mate 30 Pro really shines is battery life. Running it through CNET's battery test -- turning the phone on Airplane mode and looping an HD video -- it lasted 24 hours, 12 minutes. That's crazy. I wish I could say that the Kirin CPU also scored well on Geekbench 5, a benchmark we run to test a processor's efficiency.
Saying it performed well would be a safe bet but, after downloading the APK for Geekbench 5 from four different sites, the app never worked. It's a beautiful device with powerful parts and a sublime camera. But its software situation is a disaster. Don't buy this phone.
Originally published Dec. Update, Dec.
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