Huawei Mate 40 Pro
Price: £1,099 (inc VAT) from fave.co/3mULOHR
I’ve had the Mate 40 Pro a month now and I’ve been waiting for a promised software update before writing this review. In the meantime, Huawei has decided to sell off its Honor business, cutting ties completely in the hope that the sub-brand will survive and live on.
The problem, of course, is that both Huawei and Honor are hampered by the same trade restrictions which prevent them working with US companies. And this causes not just the absence of Google services but also limitations in which components Huawei can put in its phones.
What this means is that the Mate 40 Pro could never score well in this review. Not because of the hardware – that’s exemplary – but because you can’t get and use the apps you want to run on it.
We’re not yet at a stage where Huawei phones don’t even run Android, but having tried the workarounds to acquire and run the apps I need on a daily basis,
