The disagreement between Huawei and the US has impoverished the smartphone market. Now the company's devices are released without Google services and the Play Store. Missing applications can be downloaded using third-party methods, but not everyone will want to do this.
However, brand loyalty is high, and there is a desire to buy a smartphone from these brands. We have collected for you the best Huawei and Honor devices with Google services - you definitely won’t experience any problems here.
Huawei P30 Pro
Price:
47 thousand rubles.
Perhaps the company's best smartphone in terms of price-quality ratio in principle. This is a camera phone. His trick is zoom. 5x optical, 10x hybrid, 50x digital. The night mode is standard - in low light conditions the camera sees what the human eye does not notice, the detail is high, the dynamic range is wide. There are four main modules, resolution - 40+20+8 megapixels, the fourth sensor is ToF.
The power is flagship. The processor is Kirin 980, the battery capacity is 4000 mAh, the charge lasts for two days, if you don’t hang out for several hours in heavy games. Screen diagonal - 6.47 inches, resolution - Full HD+, curved edges. The case is protected from water and dust according to the IP68 standard.
The main disadvantage of the device is the speaker. There is only one for music and video, so the sound is not voluminous, and if you cover it with your palm in the game, nothing will be heard.
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Huawei Nova 5T or Honor 20
Prices:
20 thousand rubles. and 21 thousand rubles.
These are two absolutely identical smartphones in appearance, in terms of characteristics and set of capabilities. Take the device of the brand you like best.
In 2022, these devices are still relevant. They have no equal in terms of camera performance and quality. We tested the Honor 20. The only drawback of the camera is the lack of optical stabilization; otherwise, in almost any use scenario, high-quality photographs are obtained, even in low light from the ultra-wide-angle module.
The smartphone runs on the Kirin 980 processor. This is the flagship chip, it was also found in last year’s flagships of the company. With it, the device will work without restrictions for at least the next three years. The battery capacity is 4000 mAh, the charge lasts up to two days under moderate load.
Smartphones have two disadvantages: the screen and the fingerprint scanner. Display - IPS, not AMOLED. Because of this, the colors are less saturated and the black is more of a dark gray. The fingerprint scanner is external, located on the right side of the case and combined with the power button. This may be inconvenient. You press a button to view the time or notifications, and you immediately go to the desktop.
Which Honor smartphones will receive Google services
Google Play will allow Honor smartphones to sell better than now
Yes, you are right: not a single Honor smartphone, which was released when the company was a sub-brand of Huawei, will receive Google services. They will be left with a stripped-down version of Android and without GMS, which the search giant cannot give them access to even if it wants to. The point is the general legal principle that laws do not have retroactive effect.
This means that the decree lifting sanctions against Honor will only apply to all new products of the company and those that were released during the period of its independence. And since the first smartphone of the independent Honor will be Honor 50, the sanctions will not apply only to it.
I updated my Honor smartphone to Magic UI 4.0. This is complete trash
Unfortunately, for all other Honor smartphones, including Honor 30 and Honor 40, restrictions will continue to apply in full. Because they are not the exclusive intellectual property of an independent brand, but were developed through the mediation of Huawei, which is under sanctions.
But it’s not even this that’s offensive, but the fact that Google blocks the installation of its services on Honor smartphones, bypassing the rules. Previously, this was at least somehow possible, but now it is not in any form. Apparently, Google received a scolding from the American authorities and began to massively block tools for the unofficial installation of its services on incompatible devices.
Huawei P Smart Z
Price:
12 thousand rubles.
Smartphone with a retractable front camera. You will like it if you avoid devices with cutouts for the front camera in the screen.
The screen itself is IPS. The diagonal is 6.59 inches, occupies about 90% of the front panel area, resolution is Full HD+. The latter is the main advantage of the device. For the price category up to 12 thousand rubles. it is a rarity. So, you will not see “grain” on the screen, and the picture will be clear.
Performance is neither a plus nor a minus of a smartphone. Processor – Kirin 710F. It works with limitations - demanding games run at medium graphics settings. Battery – 4000 mAh. This is two days of moderate work. There is NFC. Double camera, with a resolution of 16+2 megapixels.
Why Huawei still releases smartphones with Google services pre-installed
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In May of this year, it became known that the US government was prohibiting local companies from collaborating with the Chinese technology giant Huawei. This situation could not be called a bolt from the blue, since Huawei's relations with the United States deteriorated throughout the trade war between the US and China. It all started long before Huawei was banned. Last year, in December, Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the founder of Huawei and the company’s financial director, was arrested in Canada.
Be that as it may, sanctions were introduced in late spring, and they significantly affected the Chinese company. One of the main blows was the loss of the license for Google services. Manufacturer's devices from the Middle Kingdom cannot obtain a GMS (Google Mobile Services) license starting from mid-May 2022. In short, this means that Huawei devices cannot come with Google software pre-installed. No one can prohibit the use of the Chinese company's Android operating system.
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Despite all this, until mid-September the manufacturer quietly released smartphones in Europe with all Google software. Only in early autumn the problem of the lack of a license became acutely felt when it came to the announcement of Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro. The flagships received Android 10 OS out of the box, but were left without Google services. There were suggestions that the new items would begin to be sold in Europe, but at low prices. However, at the presentation in Munich it became clear that Huawei does not intend to reduce the cost and will wait for the issue of sanctions to be resolved.
There was a possibility that the company would add the ability to automatically install Google services the first time you turn on the smartphone. But that did not happen. In addition, a few days after the announcement of the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro, users lost the ability to manually install the Play Market. The September flagships are still not on the European market, but the company sells other smartphones without any problems. To understand how this is possible, you need to understand the process of obtaining a GMS license.
And the Honor 9X smartphone, which recently began officially being sold in Europe, will help us with this. In China, the model was announced several months ago. It received a 7-nanometer Kirin 810 mobile processor, a fingerprint scanner on the right side and was left without Google services, which are of no particular use in China. The European version has a 12nm Kirin 710F chip, a fingerprint sensor located on the back and Google Mobile Services.
However, Honor 9X has the same model number as Huawei P Smart Z – STK-LX1. The latter was announced in May 2022. There are many similarities between the two devices. This includes a 4000 mAh battery, a Kirin 710 chip, a 6.59-inch IPS screen, and a fingerprint sensor on the back. The difference lies in the design, memory configuration and camera specifications. Huawei P Smart Z and Honor 9X are not the same device, as is often the case with these companies, despite the same model number. Honor 20 and Huawei Nova 5T also share one model number. Both smartphones are sold in Russia, but there is practically no difference between them, but we will return to this later.
Every manufacturer who wants to add Google services to the Android operating system must obtain a GMS license. Every smartphone must pass several compatibility tests. To test the API, as well as software and hardware components, there is a special compatibility program called Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS). After this, multimedia capabilities and the OS kernel are tested using the Google Mobile Services Test Suite (GTS) and Vendor Test Suite (VTS) programs. The latter also determines whether the Android OS can run after an update while maintaining the hardware vendor's low-level code.
The main point here is that these tests depend on two things: the version of the Android operating system and the hardware it runs on. With a high degree of probability, all tests are performed on engineering samples, which are still far from the final stage of production. Changing the OS will be accompanied by repeated testing. However, some components can be replaced without the need for new tests. First of all, this concerns appearance. Nothing will stop the company from producing identical models with different back designs, for example.
GMS certification does not depend on the appearance of the smartphone, but on the filling and the market where it is sold. The second point refutes the theory that Huawei could install the latter’s services without Google’s knowledge, since when entering each individual market, the phone must pass tests again. This also applies to operator versions. Hardware changes should only be made if the presence of new components will not affect the results of tests via VTS and CTS. This, for example, could be replacing memory modules or sensors in cameras.
Interestingly, Huawei does not confirm that it is releasing new smartphones, which, in fact, are either slightly improved or completely identical to older models. For example, the company said that Honor 20 and Huawei Nova 5T have different target audiences, different designs and different firmware: Magic UI and EMUI. But in fairness, it should be noted that there is no full confidence that Huawei is passing off old developments as new. It is possible that the company received certification for the Honor 9X and Huawei Nova 5T before the Trump embargo, and their release was originally planned. But the smartphones were presented 2 and 5 months after the ban, respectively, which is a very long time by the standards of the modern market.
Now Huawei can release a device with a Kirin 980 or Kirin 970 processor costing, for example, $250-300. Many companies are installing old flagship hardware into modern smartphones. For example, a few months before the announcement of the Mate 20 model on the Kirin 980, Honor Play on the Kirin 970 was introduced for $300. Now Sharp uses the Snapdragon 835 flagship processor from last year, and vivo installs the Snapdragon 845 chip in devices under $300. In general, this is a common practice. And users do not lose in , since the same SD845 can cope with any task. Yes, the power reserve is not as large as that of the Snapdragon 855 Plus, but it is still better than the next device on the Snapdragon 710.
But this practice is relevant only for smartphones in the budget and mid-budget price segments. This doesn't work at the flagship level. The same Google Pixel 4 / XL is criticized for the fact that they received a Snapdragon 855 instead of the Plus version, although the difference in performance is 5%. Huawei cannot afford to release the Mate 30 Pro with the best camera on the market and a price of 1100 euros on a Kirin 980 or Kirin 970 processor. The market requires a more powerful platform, although there is nowhere to use that same power at 100%. And the company has to install an uncertified Kirin 990 / 5G processor and wait until the situation with sanctions is resolved in its favor. Moreover, even in the mid-range and budget segments, sticking with old chips is a short-term solution. This cannot continue in the long term, so Huawei must find a way to resolve the Google Mobile Services certification issue.
In the meantime, the US government has issued a temporary license, and American companies will be able to continue to cooperate with Huawei for three months.
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