I have talked about many products on WtR, from smartphones to laptops and more than a few people have communicated with me and or Svetochka to tell us that they also purchased and are using many of the devices that I have suggested. Today I will talk about a device that literally blows away Samsung and iPhone 100%…
I am not a big fan of Google in any form and I am not a fan of iPhone at all. So yes what I will be talking about is a phone that has nothing to do with anything that many western countries find acceptable. The Huawei Mate 30….comes in Mate 30 Lite, Mate 30 Pro and just as mine is, Mate 30…
Forget me listing specs. The internet is full of sites with the specs. Just Google it…
First off:
Svetochka and I went to the famous Cellphone computer market in downtown Moscow. I had very little hope of finding a phone that met my needs. Svetochka has a Huawei P30 Pro and for her it is the finest phone she has ever had. It just fits her hands good and is superb quality, exceeding anything else on the market. Huawei makes literally the best quality phone that you can buy these days. The issue with her phone is that it does not feel good and correct in my hands…
Sveta wore out a Samsung Galaxy Zoom phone and that phone did not fit my hands correct either. Sveta has tiny delicate hands and well, I have these huge bear paws for hands….thus what works for her is not going to work for me. I knew what I wanted when we went to the market the other day, yet I also knew that finding what I wanted was not probably going to happen. Out of hundreds of shops, we found one shop that had one phone, actually two, but one had a scratch on the camera. It was a Huawei P20 Pro and it fit the bill for me, yet buying a scratched camera was not going to happen…
We kept looking and found that it was best to look elsewhere, yet I was drawn back one last time to the only store that had something worth it to buy. I looked the Huawei mate 30 over very carefully. It was a Chinese version and it did have Google Apps installed. I knew that the store had installed them and I also knew that resetting the phone would put it back to all original…
So we made a deal finally after eating at the pancake place as I call it and decided to buy the phone…
I found it interesting that out of literally millions and millions of phones, the type I was looking for was almost non-existent. There was every thing else but what I desired. Any and all iPhone’s where available, Samsung had display after display, Chinese phones of all types, except high level Huawei’s. Lots of middle level and low level Huawei’s, but not the flagship versions…
The reason I am telling you all this is because, since Huawei is being illegally treated unfairly by the USA and sanctions stuff. Going anti-Google is the way to go. We have to wean ourselves from actions that illegally bend us to accept things that are not as good as what we should have available to us in a free market. America is not a free market anymore…
Second thing: Do you and or I need Google?
I have studied what the reaction is to no Google on an android phone. You would think from the western press and people in the west that not having Google is like waking up and finding that your family has moved out in the night and never let you know where they went…
I can tell you that you can live without Google. Google is not your family and Google is not your friend also…
Google made it easy to use. I used Google Fit, Gmail and many other Google apps myself and looked at all this no-Google issue as a challenge. Then I found it was not a challenge at all. I found that Huawei has a wonderful App Store. I found F-Droid that is full of non Google needing apps to be perfect for what was missing on the Huawei Store and most of all; I found that battery life tripled by removing all Google. I found One Drive by Microsoft and replaced my Google Drive – damn if it does not work better than GDrive…
I replaced Google Fit with GEOTracker…
That image is a screenshot of my walk to Globus. This was a test run this morning and it was to see if GEOTracker will replace Google Fit and yes it does. This app uses Yandex maps instead of Google maps and for me in Russia that is better by far…
Huawei Mail replaces Gmail and so on and so on. I am finding no learning curve is necessary. These apps are straight forward and very light on resources. That is something Google is not…
My phone now is a GPS animal. It uses everything available to track me. Not just GPS, but everything…
GPS (L1 + L5 dual band) / AGPS / Glonass / BeiDou / Galileo (E1 + E5a dual band) / QZSS (L1 + L5 dual band)
The accuracy is not meters, but centimeters now….I step a few feet to the side and it knows that I did it and this app tracks that. Thus why there is so many wiggles on my walk. I like to stop and look at things as I walk. It is amazing…
I could go on and on, but getting rid of Google could be the start of your life for many people. It is sad really to see comments and hear comments from Russians about no Google on a phone. People are seriously brainwashed into believing that life without Google is akin to death…
Enough about that…
Last but not least:
The camera is the best camera I have ever carried in my pocket. Sveta’s Huawei P30 Pro might have a slightly better camera, but as I said earlier, it just does not work right in my hands. Yet in her hands it is perfect. The mate 30 just fits my hands correctly and therefore, I am able to get really good images when I want to. It has a pro mode that is way beyond my abilities, yet the auto mode makes me happy. I just point and shoot and 99% of the time what I get is wonderful…
The night images are the Cat’s Meow…
The big issue is this:
When we are limited to only certain products then we are not living in a free society. To be told that Huawei is bad and iPhone is good, is not freedom. The choice is mine to make, not the governments, any government. When you have all products to chose from and you make a decision based on your needs, then those products need to be available if they are on the world market. If the demand is there? Then you should be able to find that product in a free market society…
Using the ballyhoo about security against Chinese companies, is nothing but trying to hurt the competition whom has proven to have better products and better prices…
When you live in a country that curtails what is available? For any reason! What is that called? (Authoritarian and or Totalitarian type government?)
By Huawei being banned in America and or whatever country you reside in doing the same, you are missing out on one of the finest cellphone companies in the world….bar none!
WtR
PS: Want Specs?
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/phones/mate30/
https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_mate_30-9886.php
PSS: It is waterproof….IP58 = 5 means: Protected from limited dust ingress. – 8 means: Protected from long term immersion up to a specified pressure.