Huawei P40 review: A phone for the tech-savvy

The P40 is a great bit of the kit that, although missing out on some of the high-end features of the Pro and Pro+ variants, can still take on most 2020 flagships in terms of photography and raw performance. Whether that makes up for the lack of Google Play is another story altogether, but that'll depend on just how tech-savvy you are.

Huawei P40 Silver Frost 1102700045 review

Too big to fail? Huawei certainly is but its Huawei P40 is not yet good enough without Google in my opinion. Yet it has almost everything else to please. The fairly compact and above all very neat design really appealed to me.

A very nice OLED screen; A "compact" format and matte glass back; The camera; especially the zoom; Good in-game performance; Solid battery life; EMUI 10.1

Lack of Google services; The AppGallery catalog is poor; No 90Hz; No wireless charging; No IP68

Huawei P40 Smartphone Review – Tough sell despite its great camera

Can they make this work? The Huawei P40 belongs to the first generation of Huawei's P series smartphones without Google services. The P40's camera takes very sharp pictures and the high-end smartphone looks very promising in general.

Our initial question "Can they make this work?" of course alluded to the fact that the Huawei P40 do...

fast performance; camera pictures with a high degree of sharpness; flexible zoom cameras; good microphone quality; color-accurate display; long battery life; good speakers; fast Wi-Fi; 5G and eSIM; infrared facial recognition;

only digital zoom during video recording; no Google services; limited to nano-memory cards; display refresh rate limited to 60 Hz; no wireless charging;