Mainly apple had a problem because Huawei was getting dangerously close to 50% market share in the USA. After the ban USA market conveniently became iphone slave.
@@youravghuman5231 i used it till lasth month and you realy dont need GMS for using phone, they maps are better then googles (once you discover hou to use it). All you need you have in AppGallery. Camera is realy good
That RYYB sensor isn't a gimmick, the low light performance was crazy on these phones, kinda sucks they dropped it now because it was leading to issues with color accuracy
I feel like modern phones could handle dslr level lenses now so instead of 5 cameras, one big lense that could do portrait as well as low light would be more reasonable not forgetting the hardware aesthetic. 😉
It was banned for spy ware mainly. They are not an innovative company. They were caught several times stealing information from apple and Samsung by having their own employees work there and steal information such as design engineering etc.
Same, still running the Huawei Watch gt 2, great smartwatch with the only downside i cant use Google Pay due to it being blocked in my country for Huawei watches
@@alice_agogo i had p8, p20 lite and now i have nova 5t which i liked the most of all phones that i had pretty much comfortable phone with performance still good for 2024 but due to me crashing the screen 1 or 2 years ago, is not the same there is bug on the screen, had also 2 or 3 Xiaomi phones but i don't like them, iPhone 15 normal is comfortable like huawei nova 5t, small phone and good, maybe the next one for me it will be iPhone SE or 18
Huawei phones were so good before the ban. In fact my sister is still using her mate 20 pro 6 years on from release and apart from a cracked screen its still perfectly fine. The battery isn't as good as it was back then anymore (i used to get 3 days from it but now its more like half) but it holds up still with the performance and cameras. She takes a LOT of photos and everyone she sends them to always says how good they look which is high praise for a 6 year old phone
Mate 20 pro was a really good phone. Decent zoom, fast charging, good battery. Only downside is the underwhelming speaker, which was incorporated into the type C port.
@tkangwei yh that is a problem tbh. But I commend them for trying something different with that. The zoom was actually amazing for the time I mean you gotta remember in 2018 it was competing against phones like the note 9 and iPhone XS with 10x zoom or the OnePlus 6T with 8x zoom. I can't off the top of my head think of any other phones at the time that had more than the Huawei
Back when innovation was so great that the States was afraid it was too superior and lock them out of supplies. Shame since no company today can ever beat or match their enthusiasm.
Oh they can match their enthusiasm but it's either they will get ban / "asked" to tone it down like Huawei or the higher up is too busy scheming how to profit as big and fast as possible.
@@AlexMkd1984 like putting ads in the home menu? Mrwhosetheboss made a head to head comparison with their latest Xiaomi to Samsung and Samsung won by two points ahead.
Xiaomi doesn't make phones, they make e-waste. Also, they are giving their name to other companies that are making trash products. Which is just more e-waste. They are lacking innovation and are simply reproducing existing designs.
surprisingly, xiaomi is also kinda holding back on innovation, this is especially obvious from the fact that they don't focus much on the mix series anymore, and everything else is just copying the flagships with lower prices. (also their shitty os compared to similar brands)
I also thought about LG. Recently I showed a mix of my best photos over the years to a friend in a non chronological order. He kept guessing the newer iPhone ones correctly, but kept saying “That’s DSLR” on photos that I took 9 years ago on my LG G3. These brands just used to nail it with some of their models. Players that pushed the others to work harder for their money. But one died due to poor marketing choices, the other due to political assassination. Sad.
@@notpikachu8702 I mean HyperOS is not that bad (Without MSA) the main bad thing is their ads in their aps like man is that a mobile game ?! I can talk I have a Xiaomi 13T Pro, honestly without the ads HyperOS Is not bad but i really want to Try the 2.0
@@inconnu_connueyou don't know how to deactivate ads? I find it hilarious when others make this an issue. I've had no ads in my Xiaomi phones since 2018. Lol
Huawei was just so ahead of their time that it could have easily become the best smartphone brand, had there been no ban. And even after the ban they still managed to hold up and even released the world's first tri-fold
Which breaks as soon as you get it open, which you would know if you watched the news and customer support blames it on you and tells you that it costs 600+ to repair
Same here mate...I am looking to get a new phone but I'm extremely underwhelmed by the newer releases...the p30 was goated. So damn fresh in freaking 2024...
Same Here since it came out, broke one and one got stolen and kept buying the P30 pro and wouldnt change it.. Tried the Samsung flags and xaomi but damn the P30 pro is another elad...
I’m currently using an IPhone 15 plus in conjunction with my P30. Using them at the same time shows me how far behind and boring Apple is. I can’t detach from my Huawei because of how easy to use and innovative it is. They were honestly ahead of their time
I still have it on my nightstand. It's my backup phone. Space Silver. 256gb. Not a single scratch on it. I nicknamed it Icarus, because if there was one phone that was close to touching the sky, that was the Mate 30 Pro.
@@Helghast73 But its a very old chip,and the fact remains that you cant use any Google apps nor can you receive any official Android updates on any Huawei devices,which pretty much dooms it outside of PRC.
I had Huawei P30 pro and P50 pro. Today I am using Huawei P60 pro. Huawei phones are phenomenal. Great build quality and best cameras. Pure addiction and love.
Huawei still pushing so hard thats crazy...huawei is the most impressive phone brand of all time if you think of there challanges and how good and innovative they still are...wish they still would have google...the Phone market would be so different
@hydzior everyone has cheap phones the highend are very good i own a huawei mate xs2 its a very good phone google is because of america not officialy on Huawei devices and the rest of the software is not that bad as it ones was. Low durability can't be confirmed by me. This is my 3rd phone by huawei and i owen many other phones as well and i had the least durability problems with huawei. Way more with motorola, samsung and microsoft. And customerservice was when i had to make use of it very good and straight forward. But i'm from germany so there could be a difference service wise. And chips from 2019 and still very good because software is good optimiced. Its not huaweis fault that they need to use old soc's its america. Huawei is extremly hold back just because of america
Watching from my Huawei P30 PRO. My P30 just wont get old. Since 2019. It's like a future proofed phone. In a way, it's still my dream phone. Maybe I'll switch to Apple 15 or 16 next year for newer functions cam and Apple AI features, but this phone has been able to serve me daily to the best and for work with everything I needed. The speed, camera, battery, even after 100 falls it never broke- can't find a thing to complain about. Thank you Huawei is all I can say. Thank you!!!
Bought my dad a Mate 10 Pro and my mum a Mate 20 Pro back in the day. Amazing phones that were so ahead of their competition, and held up so well. Still miss the good old Huawei.
@@_M.Silva_who tf use ray tracing in mobile phones. no game supports it and will not support it since it is only on flagship. Just try to compare 865 to 8 gen 3 in day to day usage, you will notice nothing. phones nowadays dont have any lag at all and no apps really pushing it except gacha games.
@@youravghuman5231 where in tf in my statement did i state that people are using ray tracing in mobile? All I ever said was modern mobile chipsets CAN now do ray tracing which is something that is unimaginable back in 2019. My very simple point is to state the CAPABILITIES of modern mobile chipsets which we all never thought they can achieve back in 2019. You're having an imaginary argument my guy
I had a Huawei Mate 20 Pro, that phone was so much better than the competition that it triggered the lobbying alarms at Cupertino and Huawei got sanctioned, it was a loss of competition for all of us consumers.
Another factor is US government feared Huawei spying on them because Huawei is one of the China's GLC company along with ZTE and TCL (TCL never got banned which is weird)
and here I am still using p10. its been 7 years with this phone and still running smooth with good battery. i know i need to upgrade but damn, don't wanna let go.
my brother has a p30 pro still and this phone was so good its chipset capabilities were on par with qualcomms release the year after the phone, the battery and camera together were also undefeated that google got scared, and the craziest thing? They are still updating the chinese model of the phone to run the latest release of harmonyos, they never gave a lifespan for updates, they are giving updates to the phones users still use and i think after 5 years they only recently stopped updates, thats 2 years more than samsungs update lifespan at the time WITHOUT making promises on how long huawei will update the phone.
Huawei would have given tough competition for Google,Samsung and Apple especially when it comes to camera innovations and features if not for US trade sanctions kneecapping its further growth.
That doesn't really add up though. If Huawei was innovating, the sanctions would have had no impact on that at all. The sanctions only impact it, if Huawei was using innovation by western companies that it then bought to use - and all phones had access to those things if they chose.
@@wyterabitt2149 I believe they were restricted from using Google services and Apps for their OS,which literally eliminated Huawei as a serious player outside PRC overnight. Plus,they could not obtain latest 5G SoCs from Qualcomm,and yeah Huawei had its own in house Kirin SoC,but that could be developed further as sanctions also blocked Huawei from using TSMC foundries and other critical tech,even those which were of non US origin,but utilized about 25% American IP in their production. One way or the other,that US ban literally pulled the rug from under someone's feet.
Completely with you Ryan , I owned the Huawei mate 20x I loved that phone ,had it for 3 years and only sold it because of the Google ban I got what I paid for it so win win , I do miss that phone I firmly believe if they didn't ban Huawei they would be the dominant phone by now
You know that phones made before the ban weren't degoogled right? Newer Huawei phones like the Pura70 ultra and P60 pro work with MicroG on the Appgallery so you can use them just fine.
@@Topofthesocks77Not every app plays well with that, especially banking. The situation is the same in the gbox. Speaking from experience, Huawei Mate 40 Lite 5G
Why in 2024 we are still stuck with 2 American operating systems? While we have a huge selection of mobile phones from hundreds of manufacturers 🙄 strange! Very strange!
Huawei now using Harmony OS, while at the same time there's sailfish OS from ex Nokia (maemo/meego team). This means we have 4 smartphone os as we speaks.
I had the Huawei P10 and I absolutely loved it. It was fast. Ui was smooth. Charges way faster than the competition before and the cameras. I really loved taking pictures on it.
Watching this on Mate 40 Pro right now ... Dont have any urge to upgrade to the latest phones .. Camera is fine, speakers is fine, display is fine, 5G is working great, even battery still lasted full day.
My old Huawei phone from 20 years ago did permanent damage to my eardrum. My ear hurt every time I talked on that phone. But back then you just got a new phone every year through your carrier. So I had to wait a year to get a new phone.
I still use my 2019 Huawei P30 Pro, which has had no issues with the battery, display, or camera. It features an impressive zoom and excels in low light. The only drawback is the absence of security updates due to the ban, but overall, it's still a fantastic phone.
Wow Mate 30 pro is one of those greatest phones, i bet "Mate 20 pro" is also has the same Respect and a Goat would love to see that too Ryan. One of my dream phones.
I still very destinctly remember that at one point, Huawei was more popular than apple here in Germany. The Galaxy S4 and Huawei P6 were some of the most popular phones at the time and pretty much no-one had an iPhone.
One feature on I think it was a Huawei mate nine I had, was if I had an alarm set, and powered off the phone, it would give the option to turn on, I don't think I have seen a phone do that since.
The mate 30pro is the testament of how phone companies been delaying actual upgrades from their flagship phones, current techs doesnt actually represent the final products..
One of the best built quality phones. It was still going strong until I cracked the screen 6 months ago and the replacement was too expensive and had to retire it.
Had a Mate 40 Pro in 2021 and I loved everything on it. Even if the core ran on andoid 10 (if I'm not mistaken), it was so well optimised that it made my oneplus 5t obsolete. The camera, the screen, the battery life, all were really great. The lack of GMS support is what made me sell it after one year, because I moved to university. Still miss that phone till this day... Thinking of buying a Honor as it is available in my region, just so I could get almost the same user experience as I did with Huawei.
Many people in my country (Indonésia) still looking for this phone. Because You know what, it's really amazing, this phone is really so cool in terms of design and features.
My mate 9 pro bought around 8 years ago still works. I changed the battery recently but power buttons have issues, I am using it for dev testing only occasionally. But the build quality is awesome, it is far better than iphone 7 of that time.
i got to use this phone a couple days when my cousin bought it and lemme tell you , it felt SO incredibly premium and amazing in hand , the display was fabulous and the camera was just mind blowing . love huwawei phones , shame on us.
I remember those days where I really considered buying this over the iPhone XR back in 2019. The only dealbreaker back then was the google issue. But if that didn’t happen, huawei would basically be as good as Samsung and iPhone or even better
What’s also important is that this phone worked incredibly well with the Huawei Matebook laptops, it brought a level of experience that rivalled the Apple walled garden. It wasn’t quite as good, but they were a rival. With time, who knows where they would have gone.
Been daily driving the mate 40 pro for years the only thing i hate is the lack of google play services because using 3rd party app may sometimes have bugs and ads but overall i have a great experience with it’s durability screen and still great cameras.
The mate 40 pro is the ultimate global version of a Huawei phone running android , owned one up until recently when my uncle needed a new phone and loved the phone every step of the way despite it not having google, fixed almost all the issues and refined the mate 30 pro sooo much and kept all the good stuff from the 30 pro, it also has official unresitrcted 5g support even in the USA
I got this phone during the pandemic. The camera was not the best but it was crazy consistent and I liked the image processing that Huawei did. It wasn't too saturated or too sharp, it was perfectly balanced. This phone is a beast.
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Don't forget the Huawei Mate 40 Pro+ 5G's storage tech is SFS 1.0 which is way faster than UFS 4.0. I can't seem to find the source but I've read it somewhere about that storage tech and that Huawei was a threat to Apple that's why they were banned. Huawei was way ahead in terms of tech innovation and the competition were so scared they had to resort to lobbying.
7:07 vivo continues that legacy and has delivered much desirable results with ZEISS style portraits on older and newer X series + V30 Pro and V40 series
I am still using this device, I'm not sure what it is. But I still love it, even though the camera starting to show its age. But that waterfall display nothing can win me over that
I was in love with this phone when it came out.this, the p30 pro, mate 20 pro, i was crazy about those phones. I'd still love to own one, but it'll be hard to find one now.
I bought the Huawei nova 3e 6 years ago and it's what I'm using right now. I bought for about $200, I'm about to get a new phone only reason being is I need more space and I'd like a bit better camera. Other than that it's been a perfect phone! I've dropped it more times than anyone could imagine and it's never cracked or stopped working! I'll definitely keep it spare incase my next phone breaks.
As we all know we now has circle to search but in my Huawei Y9 2019 if you touch and hold any objects it will search for it and shows where you can buy it all back in 2018, Huawei was so ahead of it's time
I loved my P30 pro. Would happily have another huawei phone, sadly I'm now with Samsung but if the Google ban ever gets lifted I'm jumping straight back 👌
My Ex Girlfriend had it , she was techie enough to sideload gapps on it on her own but unfortunately reckless enough to break the phone (& the relationship)
Recently got the oneplus 12 and I honestly don't like the low light performance. I think fans complained that night modes have been making pics too bright so OP turned it down, but it's too dark now. I have a gcam configuration that was for the poco f3 (when I copied files over from the poco to the oneplus that gcam app carried over too) and yet the night sight on that is just objectively better than the stock cam night mode.
It's crazy to think that this model came out 5 years ago. If your putting it into perspective, in 2014, 5 years ago would be 2009, the jump for the innovation of mobile phone industry was big and noticeable back then. But in 2019, the smartphones released that year would be just as good as the ones released this year of 2024. Ps. I'm still using my Huawei Nova 5T that I bought 5 years ago. I can still run games like Genshin Impact and Wuthering Waves no problem.
There is a big market to have for degoogled phones. They just need to understand that privacy is a mayor feature most devices lack and could be capitalized on
Remember the first curved screen from Samsung? Was note 5 edge with only 1 side but very pronounced curve. It was first $1000 phone from Samsung if I remember correctly….
Huawei was so ahead of its competition back then, if the ban wasn't imposed, it would have eaten apple and Samsung by a large margin by this time.
Mainly apple had a problem because Huawei was getting dangerously close to 50% market share in the USA. After the ban USA market conveniently became iphone slave.
And still have really good phones
huawei still is far ahead, it just not many people covers it anymore since no one outside China uses it.
Probably that is the reason it was banned for being better than the competition
@@youravghuman5231 i used it till lasth month and you realy dont need GMS for using phone, they maps are better then googles (once you discover hou to use it). All you need you have in AppGallery. Camera is realy good
The fact that it has such good low light performance 5 years later is insane.
That RYYB sensor isn't a gimmick, the low light performance was crazy on these phones, kinda sucks they dropped it now because it was leading to issues with color accuracy
@@govardhanposina17 The Pura 70 Ultra uses RYYB, now with variable aperture is even better
@@SimaoPieruz oh fr? Nice, I thought they stopped using it post Mate 40
I feel like modern phones could handle dslr level lenses now so instead of 5 cameras, one big lense that could do portrait as well as low light would be more reasonable not forgetting the hardware aesthetic. 😉
if it wasn't for the ban, I'd probably neck deep in the Huawei ecosystem tbh.
I got P8 P9 P10 all have PlayStore side loaded
It was banned for spy ware mainly. They are not an innovative company. They were caught several times stealing information from apple and Samsung by having their own employees work there and steal information such as design engineering etc.
Same, still running the Huawei Watch gt 2, great smartwatch with the only downside i cant use Google Pay due to it being blocked in my country for Huawei watches
I switched after the P30. I am tempted to look at Honor fold but it depends if it's got Google services.
@@alice_agogo i had p8, p20 lite and now i have nova 5t which i liked the most of all phones that i had pretty much comfortable phone with performance still good for 2024 but due to me crashing the screen 1 or 2 years ago, is not the same there is bug on the screen, had also 2 or 3 Xiaomi phones but i don't like them, iPhone 15 normal is comfortable like huawei nova 5t, small phone and good, maybe the next one for me it will be iPhone SE or 18
This channel is just Mr Mobile's 'When Phones were fun' series but with critical reflection of 2010s rather than nostalgic reverence of 2000's phones
Omg yes! Loving these reviews…want more!
Mr mobile series is nice but a lot of the phone featured are outdated but great at the time. ...these phones are still amazing
That is one of the best compliments I've ever received. Thank you so much
I find that guy too slimy and exaggerated for my taste..you're more my cup of tea. @@theryanthomas
@@theryanthomascan you review old OnePlus devices?
Huawei phones were so good before the ban. In fact my sister is still using her mate 20 pro 6 years on from release and apart from a cracked screen its still perfectly fine. The battery isn't as good as it was back then anymore (i used to get 3 days from it but now its more like half) but it holds up still with the performance and cameras. She takes a LOT of photos and everyone she sends them to always says how good they look which is high praise for a 6 year old phone
In china, You can ask the huawei store to replace a new battery by 100RMB(about 14dollars)
my training partner rocks a mate 20 as well. Still works like a charm
Im still using the mate 20 pro rn. Just changed the battery and it still holds up perfectly
Mate 20 pro was a really good phone. Decent zoom, fast charging, good battery. Only downside is the underwhelming speaker, which was incorporated into the type C port.
@tkangwei yh that is a problem tbh. But I commend them for trying something different with that. The zoom was actually amazing for the time I mean you gotta remember in 2018 it was competing against phones like the note 9 and iPhone XS with 10x zoom or the OnePlus 6T with 8x zoom. I can't off the top of my head think of any other phones at the time that had more than the Huawei
Back when innovation was so great that the States was afraid it was too superior and lock them out of supplies. Shame since no company today can ever beat or match their enthusiasm.
Oh they can match their enthusiasm but it's either they will get ban / "asked" to tone it down like Huawei or the higher up is too busy scheming how to profit as big and fast as possible.
Xiaomi still innova apple and samsung are not
Yes, and now they innovated again with the Mate XT
@@AlexMkd1984 like putting ads in the home menu? Mrwhosetheboss made a head to head comparison with their latest Xiaomi to Samsung and Samsung won by two points ahead.
@@aubinbaldonado so much for innovation, Huawei execs still use iPhones instead of their own phones
True. Samsung and apple have been stuck in innovation. Players like LG , Huawei were true innovators. I hope they dont cut Xiaomi head soon.
Xiaomi doesn't make phones, they make e-waste. Also, they are giving their name to other companies that are making trash products. Which is just more e-waste. They are lacking innovation and are simply reproducing existing designs.
surprisingly, xiaomi is also kinda holding back on innovation, this is especially obvious from the fact that they don't focus much on the mix series anymore, and everything else is just copying the flagships with lower prices. (also their shitty os compared to similar brands)
I also thought about LG. Recently I showed a mix of my best photos over the years to a friend in a non chronological order. He kept guessing the newer iPhone ones correctly, but kept saying “That’s DSLR” on photos that I took 9 years ago on my LG G3. These brands just used to nail it with some of their models. Players that pushed the others to work harder for their money. But one died due to poor marketing choices, the other due to political assassination. Sad.
@@notpikachu8702 I mean HyperOS is not that bad (Without MSA) the main bad thing is their ads in their aps like man is that a mobile game ?! I can talk I have a Xiaomi 13T Pro, honestly without the ads HyperOS Is not bad but i really want to Try the 2.0
@@inconnu_connueyou don't know how to deactivate ads? I find it hilarious when others make this an issue. I've had no ads in my Xiaomi phones since 2018. Lol
Huawei was just so ahead of their time that it could have easily become the best smartphone brand, had there been no ban. And even after the ban they still managed to hold up and even released the world's first tri-fold
and the best camera on a smartphone every year even since banning. and Kirin chip is the dark horse amongst Qualcomm and Apple silicon.
@@brydcsd Sadly its quite average compared to other chips like mediatek in terms of running games but it sure does get the job done perfectly.
Which breaks as soon as you get it open, which you would know if you watched the news and customer support blames it on you and tells you that it costs 600+ to repair
@@BelaPumalol bs, get in line for your cut though, Wolfowitz will pay you if JB don't.
@Helghast73 lol at least try researching and educate yourself or are you incapabale of processing any information
I remember reading about this at the time! Also, so sick to see the channel get the support it deserves man! let's goo 100k!
Cheers la. Appreciate it ♥️
Hi ben great to know you and Ryan are close 😁
I switched from apple to Huwaei and still using the pro 30 for the last 6 years. Still going strong
Same here mate...I am looking to get a new phone but I'm extremely underwhelmed by the newer releases...the p30 was goated. So damn fresh in freaking 2024...
Same Here since it came out, broke one and one got stolen and kept buying the P30 pro and wouldnt change it.. Tried the Samsung flags and xaomi but damn the P30 pro is another elad...
I’m currently using an IPhone 15 plus in conjunction with my P30. Using them at the same time shows me how far behind and boring Apple is. I can’t detach from my Huawei because of how easy to use and innovative it is. They were honestly ahead of their time
Apple sucks now. Apple used to feel good and new back then. Now it's same thing over over again
I have the Huawei P30 PRO but in England you can't get the Huawei Pura 70. Luckily it's available in France so I'll get it from there soon.
I still have it on my nightstand. It's my backup phone. Space Silver. 256gb. Not a single scratch on it.
I nicknamed it Icarus, because if there was one phone that was close to touching the sky, that was the Mate 30 Pro.
Huawei was at the top of their game when it got banned suddenly
True,and if Huawei was still around and they would surely given sleepless nights to the likes of Samsung and Apple.
That was a power move cause it came sudden and swift but they still won even for 1 month
They were banned because they were at the top of their game.
It was related to the 5g network and they needed a way to stop Huawei.
So they did.
@@mihirshetye4624 They are still about, they've just done a triple screen fold phone the Mate XT.
@@Helghast73 But its a very old chip,and the fact remains that you cant use any Google apps nor can you receive any official Android updates on any Huawei devices,which pretty much dooms it outside of PRC.
I had Huawei P30 pro and P50 pro. Today I am using Huawei P60 pro. Huawei phones are phenomenal. Great build quality and best cameras. Pure addiction and love.
@@ahmedkamalhasin2070 it's automatic by youtube app
I am using p60 pro as well this phone is superb
Thumbs up, but not for the comment, for your name 👍
@@jtec99 Are U ManU fan? Or Nemanja Vidic maybe? 🙂
Using p60pro also better than iphone
My first ever huawei the experience was so joyfull and i couldn’t get enough!
Oh man, I still have this phone, the battery still holds up after almost 5 years of daily usage.
Same with my S6 Edge
Huawei still pushing so hard thats crazy...huawei is the most impressive phone brand of all time if you think of there challanges and how good and innovative they still are...wish they still would have google...the Phone market would be so different
Impressive? Cheap phones with mediocre software with almost zero support. Low durability and crappy customer support. Plus cpus from 2019…
@hydzior everyone has cheap phones the highend are very good i own a huawei mate xs2 its a very good phone google is because of america not officialy on Huawei devices and the rest of the software is not that bad as it ones was. Low durability can't be confirmed by me. This is my 3rd phone by huawei and i owen many other phones as well and i had the least durability problems with huawei. Way more with motorola, samsung and microsoft. And customerservice was when i had to make use of it very good and straight forward. But i'm from germany so there could be a difference service wise.
And chips from 2019 and still very good because software is good optimiced. Its not huaweis fault that they need to use old soc's its america. Huawei is extremly hold back just because of america
Watching from my Huawei P30 PRO. My P30 just wont get old. Since 2019. It's like a future proofed phone. In a way, it's still my dream phone. Maybe I'll switch to Apple 15 or 16 next year for newer functions cam and Apple AI features, but this phone has been able to serve me daily to the best and for work with everything I needed. The speed, camera, battery, even after 100 falls it never broke- can't find a thing to complain about. Thank you Huawei is all I can say. Thank you!!!
Don't switch to apple, I recommend you vivo or Oppo, their flagship still inovates
agree. my p30 pro never let me down in the past 4 yrs. love huawei. shame on the ban from the West
Buy any Pura 70 series phone, install aurora store and microG and you'll be right back to 2019 vibes
My most advanced phones are Xperia XZ3 and S9 from 2018. Will try to find P30
Xie xie
Bought my dad a Mate 10 Pro and my mum a Mate 20 Pro back in the day. Amazing phones that were so ahead of their competition, and held up so well. Still miss the good old Huawei.
Smart phone innovation stopped after 2019😢...
Haha sorry innovation is here, outside of US, they desolate themselves
Mate XT definitely is an innovative
The innovation now is more on performance. Back in 2019 you can't imagine that phones can do ray tracing. But now they can. Insane
@@_M.Silva_who tf use ray tracing in mobile phones. no game supports it and will not support it since it is only on flagship. Just try to compare 865 to 8 gen 3 in day to day usage, you will notice nothing. phones nowadays dont have any lag at all and no apps really pushing it except gacha games.
@@youravghuman5231 where in tf in my statement did i state that people are using ray tracing in mobile? All I ever said was modern mobile chipsets CAN now do ray tracing which is something that is unimaginable back in 2019. My very simple point is to state the CAPABILITIES of modern mobile chipsets which we all never thought they can achieve back in 2019. You're having an imaginary argument my guy
Honestly the ban is ridiculous
Nah, screw Chinese spyware. Ban them all.
It was amazing
You slow huh @@QuantumChrist
I had a Huawei Mate 20 Pro, that phone was so much better than the competition that it triggered the lobbying alarms at Cupertino and Huawei got sanctioned, it was a loss of competition for all of us consumers.
Another factor is US government feared Huawei spying on them because Huawei is one of the China's GLC company along with ZTE and TCL (TCL never got banned which is weird)
and here I am still using p10. its been 7 years with this phone and still running smooth with good battery. i know i need to upgrade but damn, don't wanna let go.
my brother has a p30 pro still and this phone was so good its chipset capabilities were on par with qualcomms release the year after the phone, the battery and camera together were also undefeated that google got scared, and the craziest thing? They are still updating the chinese model of the phone to run the latest release of harmonyos, they never gave a lifespan for updates, they are giving updates to the phones users still use and i think after 5 years they only recently stopped updates, thats 2 years more than samsungs update lifespan at the time WITHOUT making promises on how long huawei will update the phone.
Huawei would have given tough competition for Google,Samsung and Apple especially when it comes to camera innovations and features if not for US trade sanctions kneecapping its further growth.
That doesn't really add up though. If Huawei was innovating, the sanctions would have had no impact on that at all.
The sanctions only impact it, if Huawei was using innovation by western companies that it then bought to use - and all phones had access to those things if they chose.
@@wyterabitt2149 I believe they were restricted from using Google services and Apps for their OS,which literally eliminated Huawei as a serious player outside PRC overnight.
Plus,they could not obtain latest 5G SoCs from Qualcomm,and yeah Huawei had its own in house Kirin SoC,but that could be developed further as sanctions also blocked Huawei from using TSMC foundries and other critical tech,even those which were of non US origin,but utilized about 25% American IP in their production.
One way or the other,that US ban literally pulled the rug from under someone's feet.
@@wyterabitt2149 If someone cuts off your legs, you could be the greatest crawler but its nothing compared to having legs
@@VocaFan4ever Very well put together.
Completely with you Ryan , I owned the Huawei mate 20x I loved that phone ,had it for 3 years and only sold it because of the Google ban I got what I paid for it so win win , I do miss that phone I firmly believe if they didn't ban Huawei they would be the dominant phone by now
You know that phones made before the ban weren't degoogled right? Newer Huawei phones like the Pura70 ultra and P60 pro work with MicroG on the Appgallery so you can use them just fine.
@@Topofthesocks77Not every app plays well with that, especially banking. The situation is the same in the gbox. Speaking from experience, Huawei Mate 40 Lite 5G
Why in 2024 we are still stuck with 2 American operating systems? While we have a huge selection of mobile phones from hundreds of manufacturers 🙄 strange! Very strange!
New Harmony OS by Huawei is coming. already released in China
It is not so strange. We used to have plenty of operating systems but they failed to conquer the market (Symbian, Windows phone, Tizen …)
Short answer; Intelligent people will never buy and use any Chinese operating system.
Even windows failed.
Huawei now using Harmony OS, while at the same time there's sailfish OS from ex Nokia (maemo/meego team).
This means we have 4 smartphone os as we speaks.
I had the Huawei P10 and I absolutely loved it. It was fast. Ui was smooth. Charges way faster than the competition before and the cameras. I really loved taking pictures on it.
My 6 years old Honor 8X is still working perfectly today apart from the battery which lasts about half a day.
Same, Honor 7s, dailied this since 2019, battery still legit, it's slower but not nearly unusable, camera has gotten complemented this year... ❤
Watching this on Mate 40 Pro right now ... Dont have any urge to upgrade to the latest phones .. Camera is fine, speakers is fine, display is fine, 5G is working great, even battery still lasted full day.
The volume control was so easy it was scary. I thought it would be a gimmick.
My old Huawei phone from 20 years ago did permanent damage to my eardrum. My ear hurt every time I talked on that phone. But back then you just got a new phone every year through your carrier. So I had to wait a year to get a new phone.
you just reminded me of that good old days about phones i love the videos that you make about old tech
Subbed. Outstanding production quality like damn
2019 was peak innovation. You could see huge jumps from 2018 phones from the mate 30 to the galaxy S10, note 10, fold and edge to edge A series
I'll hold you to that. My most advanced phones are from 2018 Xperia XZ3 and S9
I still use my 2019 Huawei P30 Pro, which has had no issues with the battery, display, or camera. It features an impressive zoom and excels in low light. The only drawback is the absence of security updates due to the ban, but overall, it's still a fantastic phone.
Wow Mate 30 pro is one of those greatest phones, i bet "Mate 20 pro" is also has the same Respect and a Goat would love to see that too Ryan. One of my dream phones.
Good on you Ryan for giving us unbiased info
American systems are also not trustable...
And chinese are trust worthy 😂
@@gordanbabic8028 they are as trustworthy as americans, I do not trust americans for anything, they spy on you as much as the chinese, fuck Glowies.
@@gordanbabic8028Chinese is trustworthy as American
No country is trustworthy they all sell your data lol just everyone has my country is superior attitude
My huawei p9's camera was so good back then, then the ban happened. What a shame
Really love this series, brings back some memories :)
Keep it up, really love your content!
I still very destinctly remember that at one point, Huawei was more popular than apple here in Germany. The Galaxy S4 and Huawei P6 were some of the most popular phones at the time and pretty much no-one had an iPhone.
One feature on I think it was a Huawei mate nine I had, was if I had an alarm set, and powered off the phone, it would give the option to turn on, I don't think I have seen a phone do that since.
Ryan is awesome content creator! Keep pushing mate ! I love your work*
Had the p20 pro still one of the best phones i had, camera was crazy good and battery life/charging was amazing
Currently using a s23 ultra
I think the "Aura" of the Huawei devices can be seen on the Honor foldables
I almost bought this phone but the lack of Google services was hard to live without.
The Mate 20 series and P30 is still working smoothly today and have Google Play Store support which makes them the last of the best Huawei.
The mate 30pro is the testament of how phone companies been delaying actual upgrades from their flagship phones, current techs doesnt actually represent the final products..
Watching on Huawei P40 Pro+...4 years since its launched, performance is still topnotched 💪
Huawei tri fold is an perfect example literally a living example
How ahead it was from top brands
I have been using P40 Pro 3 years till today, it's fantastic battery camera and using screen without protector and no scratchs seen, it amazed me
2019-2020 were some of the weird innovative phones we had that time
One of the best built quality phones. It was still going strong until I cracked the screen 6 months ago and the replacement was too expensive and had to retire it.
Hi, I'm just curious what phone you bought to replace it?
@@katinasoutherland7693 Honor Magic 6Pro.
Am planning on replacing mine with another P30 still. Atkeast as a secondary phone. It's a basically good all rounder for the price now
0:25 why you blur out your statistics?
Had a Mate 40 Pro in 2021 and I loved everything on it. Even if the core ran on andoid 10 (if I'm not mistaken), it was so well optimised that it made my oneplus 5t obsolete. The camera, the screen, the battery life, all were really great. The lack of GMS support is what made me sell it after one year, because I moved to university. Still miss that phone till this day... Thinking of buying a Honor as it is available in my region, just so I could get almost the same user experience as I did with Huawei.
Many people in my country (Indonésia) still looking for this phone. Because You know what, it's really amazing, this phone is really so cool in terms of design and features.
Do you remember the Samsung A80 where the camera popped up
Didn't one Plus have one from around 2015?
My mate 9 pro bought around 8 years ago still works. I changed the battery recently but power buttons have issues, I am using it for dev testing only occasionally. But the build quality is awesome, it is far better than iphone 7 of that time.
i got to use this phone a couple days when my cousin bought it and lemme tell you , it felt SO incredibly premium and amazing in hand , the display was fabulous and the camera was just mind blowing . love huwawei phones , shame on us.
For now, you are my favorite youtuber.
4:25 I don't think Huawei's ban stopped the innovation. The smartphone market has just matured plain and simple
I remember those days where I really considered buying this over the iPhone XR back in 2019. The only dealbreaker back then was the google issue. But if that didn’t happen, huawei would basically be as good as Samsung and iPhone or even better
Use a Huawei Pura 70 ultra with micro g I think you'll be really surprised
All I have is a Huawei Nova 11i and I also use MicroG with Emui 14.2. Now the phone is perfect
What’s also important is that this phone worked incredibly well with the Huawei Matebook laptops, it brought a level of experience that rivalled the Apple walled garden. It wasn’t quite as good, but they were a rival. With time, who knows where they would have gone.
yo I just found this channel, great smartphone videos, listens to post malone, and watches counter strike??? my goat you getting a sub
I can always tell someone is really young when they talk about 5 years like it is a long time.
That's what makes me feel old
how old are you?
@prozaic7069 40ish
I still use a Huawei P20 as my everyday phone, typing this in it now almost 7 years later
Been daily driving the mate 40 pro for years the only thing i hate is the lack of google play services because using 3rd party app may sometimes have bugs and ads but overall i have a great experience with it’s durability screen and still great cameras.
The mate 40 pro is the ultimate global version of a Huawei phone running android , owned one up until recently when my uncle needed a new phone and loved the phone every step of the way despite it not having google, fixed almost all the issues and refined the mate 30 pro sooo much and kept all the good stuff from the 30 pro, it also has official unresitrcted 5g support even in the USA
I got this phone during the pandemic. The camera was not the best but it was crazy consistent and I liked the image processing that Huawei did. It wasn't too saturated or too sharp, it was perfectly balanced. This phone is a beast.
I never left Huawei invaluable google services and never will
I bought 2 P30 Pro when it was launched, still gives my S24+ a run for its money today Nov 2024. Camera still a beast. Games? No problemo.
I am fan of your content since day one. When u went to work Android Authority. I was missing ur own content a lot. But u r free now again. I really appropriated ur content a lot. Love from Bangladesh ❤
Thank you brother ♥️
To this day I have the feeling that this ban was simply done so that the big competitors could remain marketable.
Don't forget the Huawei Mate 40 Pro+ 5G's storage tech is SFS 1.0 which is way faster than UFS 4.0. I can't seem to find the source but I've read it somewhere about that storage tech and that Huawei was a threat to Apple that's why they were banned. Huawei was way ahead in terms of tech innovation and the competition were so scared they had to resort to lobbying.
7:07 vivo continues that legacy and has delivered much desirable results with ZEISS style portraits on older and newer X series + V30 Pro and V40 series
Bro, I still have my Huawei p30 pro and it is absolutely amazing to this day!
I love this serie about older flagships!
I am still using this device, I'm not sure what it is. But I still love it, even though the camera starting to show its age. But that waterfall display nothing can win me over that
I was in love with this phone when it came out.this, the p30 pro, mate 20 pro, i was crazy about those phones.
I'd still love to own one, but it'll be hard to find one now.
The Mate 40 Pro that I own was equally revolutionary with amazing performance and camera, same with the P30 Pro and P20 pro.
7:09 Vivo phones with Zeiss cameras also let you change bokeh in potrait mode
(even if one of their bokeh options is capital C Cringe)
I bought the Huawei nova 3e 6 years ago and it's what I'm using right now. I bought for about $200, I'm about to get a new phone only reason being is I need more space and I'd like a bit better camera. Other than that it's been a perfect phone! I've dropped it more times than anyone could imagine and it's never cracked or stopped working! I'll definitely keep it spare incase my next phone breaks.
As we all know we now has circle to search but in my Huawei Y9 2019 if you touch and hold any objects it will search for it and shows where you can buy it all back in 2018, Huawei was so ahead of it's time
I loved my P30 pro. Would happily have another huawei phone, sadly I'm now with Samsung but if the Google ban ever gets lifted I'm jumping straight back 👌
They used Honor which was able to run Google services with the same hardware to do the same thing but get past the restrictions
i like how Ryan covers this era so bery good in the age of boring designs and ai
What is this phone name?
Still a proud owner of a phone from Huawei, the nova 5t. Still going good 5 years later.
You deserve a mil ASAP✨❤️
My Ex Girlfriend had it , she was techie enough to sideload gapps on it on her own but unfortunately reckless enough to break the phone (& the relationship)
Sorry to hear that mate
Recently got the oneplus 12 and I honestly don't like the low light performance. I think fans complained that night modes have been making pics too bright so OP turned it down, but it's too dark now. I have a gcam configuration that was for the poco f3 (when I copied files over from the poco to the oneplus that gcam app carried over too) and yet the night sight on that is just objectively better than the stock cam night mode.
BRUH WHAT'S UP WITH THE DIRTY FILTER AT 7:49 😂 I WAS WIPING MY SCREEN FOR A HOT MINUTE 😂
It's crazy to think that this model came out 5 years ago.
If your putting it into perspective, in 2014, 5 years ago would be 2009, the jump for the innovation of mobile phone industry was big and noticeable back then.
But in 2019, the smartphones released that year would be just as good as the ones released this year of 2024.
Ps. I'm still using my Huawei Nova 5T that I bought 5 years ago. I can still run games like Genshin Impact and Wuthering Waves no problem.
There is a big market to have for degoogled phones. They just need to understand that privacy is a mayor feature most devices lack and could be capitalized on
Got a P50 last month to contrast with my Xiaomi and if it wasn't for the ban in the states I would've absolutely slapped my SIM in it.
Still using my Mate 20X
I still use the Mate 10 Pro.Great camera for photos, long exposure shots looks stunning.
I still have P30 Pro and it was the last phone that had GMS. It still works flawlessly 🙂
Remember the first curved screen from Samsung? Was note 5 edge with only 1 side but very pronounced curve. It was first $1000 phone from Samsung if I remember correctly….