In this phone, everything is so good that even its only drawback successfully meets the standard for 10 other flaws. 😂
Just a few years ago, Huawei was the king of the entire smartphone sea. 🌊 However, the United States government carried out a boarding operation, as a result of which the Chinese phones lost access to Google services. The ship began to slowly sink. 🛳️ Nevertheless, the manufacturer is still fighting for our favor, showing us time and again that we are missing out on quite a lot due to its absence.
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Recently, it seemed to me that the spark had dimmed a little. 🧯 The two previous flagships from the Chinese manufacturer, the Mate 40 Pro and P50 Pro, made a very good impression. However, they didn't offer anything I could envy when choosing a competitor's flagship model at a similar price. And since ANY "competitor's flagship model at a similar price" ™ fulfilled my extravagant desires like convenient access to YouTube or Google Pay, the choice was simple.
Huawei Mate 50 Pro Launch
The latest Huawei Mate 50 Pro, however, returns to the manufacturer's thousand-year tradition – it tempts mercilessly! I might not be able to upload photos taken with it as comfortably to all existing social media platforms. But the photos will be of such quality that I'll simply threaten random people on the street to look at them. 🤳 This works (the benefit of walking everywhere with a 2-meter axe)! 🪓
Huawei Mate 50 Pro: Camera
Because the Mate inspires desire precisely because of its camera – it's the world's first smartphone with multiple levels of physical aperture adjustment! Alright, I've presented it in such a way that half of you are looking at me questioningly now. 🧐 The other half will start doing so as soon as they finish yawning. 🥱 It works like this: the lower the aperture parameter number (e.g., f/1.5), the more light the lens lets in. Besides making photos brighter and clearer in difficult lighting conditions, they also have a nice, blurred background.
This is what smartphones have been trying to replicate for years in their portrait modes. It's just a trick done with software. Sometimes it manages to convincingly fool everyone, but it's still a bit embarrassing, like a fake beard. 🧔 Want to snap a photo of your 3-meter Christmas tree in the evening 🎄 and by candlelight, so your friends get jealous? An open aperture will be perfect. 💪
When you take a photo of a landscape on the beach, 🏖️ in full sun ☀️ (to make your friends jealous, of course), an open aperture only gets in the way. A photo with a parameter around f/4 will be much sharper across the entire frame and will gain in quality.
Huawei Mate 50 Pro: Aperture for Every Occasion
The Mate 50 Pro allows you to adjust this parameter, so no more compromises of buying a phone only for beach photos or only for Christmas tree photos! 🤩 In reality, it's just a small gimmick, but there's a lot of fun with it. Photos with blurred backgrounds turn out amazing. Overall, the Mate 50 Pro is probably the best photo smartphone on the market. 🔥 It performs excellently not only during the day but also at night, and it has great wide-angle and zoom lenses. When it comes to video, it falls short of the iPhone 14 Pro, which is the best in this field.
Huawei Mate 50 Pro: Other Features
What else? Almost everything! 💪 A beautiful, curved 120Hz OLED screen, excellent stereo speakers, secure face recognition on par with Apple smartphones, a good battery and fast charging (including wireless).
One more incredible detail is important. The Mate's screen is covered with exceptionally durable glass, which cannot be matched by any other used in smartphones. This means it will survive that unfortunate accident when you smash it as hard as you can on the ground due to the lack of Google services. 🙂
Huawei Mate 50 Pro: Lack of Google Services
Okay, in reality, it's not as big a problem as it might seem. 😌 Some of the apps I didn't find in Huawei's store, I downloaded from other sources directly (the phone has a built-in browser). I found the second part through the GSpace app, which tricks Google into thinking we're using a different phone. 🥳 So, I have Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google Maps. Unfortunately, there are still games and programs that simply don't work, like Pokemon Go.
And you don't spend over 5000 Polish zlotys on a smartphone just to then figure out how to have ALMOST the same capabilities as on any other phone costing 500.
In summary, they probably made this Mate just to make us jealous. And very jealous! Like that Viking friend who has a longer beard or more impressive horns on his helmet. If Nordic mythology is to be believed, the Baltic Sea was formed when one of the legendary leaders cried a sea of tears. He saw such an excellent smartphone without official access to Google services. Because even tutorials on polishing an axe on YouTube are hard to play on it.
