Huawei Mate 40 Pro

Why the Chinese camera-phone king is still bigly important

To say 2020 has been a tough year would be like calling a tornado a stiff breeze. But when 75 million American voters recently decided they’d had enough of Adolf Twitter, right-minded people all over the world finally had something to celebrate. Even at Huawei HQ it probably went down pretty well, as it could mean the Chinese company will soon be allowed to offer Google Play services on its phones again – and when they’re as mighty as the Mate 40 Pro, that can only be a good thing.

Its headline feature is the trio of cameras housed in the black halo on the back: a 50MP main sensor, a 12MP 10x hybrid zoom telephoto and an ultra-wide 20MP cine camera with laser autofocus. You can use them to capture the looks of pure jealousy when you tell people it’s running a 3.13Ghz Kirin 9000 chipset with 8GB of RAM and 5G support, having just shown them the 6.76in 90Hz OLED display with in-screen fingerprint reader and 13MP ‘Ultra Vision’ selfie camera.

For now, you’ll still have to make do with Huawei’s own app store, mail and maps… but 2021 is definitely looking up.

As hot as… Trump’s furious tweeting finger £1100 / consumer.huawei.com