Huawei’s P30 Pro launches again to keep Google’s dream alive

Huawei is relaunching its flagship phone from last year as the P30 Pro “New Edition”. The device is now shipped with Android 10 pre-installed, and it has a new silver color option that was previously only available on the P40 Pro. Otherwise, this is a device identical to last year’s phone, which means it has a display 6.47-inch OLED, four rear cameras and, more importantly, it comes with a full suite of Google apps and services.

By emphasizing its compatibility with Google applications and services, an image of the phone on the German Huawei website announces that the phone allows you (through Google Translate) “to use the best applications as usual”, “to use Android as usual “and get” security updates as usual “.

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The P30 Pro is an important device for Huawei because it was the last flagship phone the company released before the US trade restrictions. USA Prevent you from using Google applications or services. While it continued to roll out new phones like Mate 30 and P40 Pro based on Android’s open source core in October 2019 and April 2020 respectively, it also re-launched the P30 Pro once before for users who were not prepared to leave Google ecosystem behind. The “new” version of the P30 Pro that it announced in September last year was the same phone as the March original, only with new color schemes.

Huawei’s sales figures suggest that many people don’t want to buy an Android phone without Google. The Wall Street Journal It recently reported that Huawei smartphone shipments outside of China fell 35 percent in the first quarter of the year. Although the coronavirus pandemic explains part of the drop, Huawei’s sales decreased twice as much as Samsung’s and four times more than Apple’s. the WSJ It notes that the drop threatens Huawei’s location as the world’s second-largest smartphone maker.

For now, Huawei has only officially confirmed a German release for the P30 Pro New Edition, where it says the device will ship on June 1. The device is currently on the € 749 list for the model with 256GB of internal storage, which is a pretty big discount on its original price of € 1,099 last year. However, there are no signs of their original 128GB and 512GB storage options. Android Authority reports that the phone will launch in more countries outside of Germany, but there is no official information on what or what its release dates would be.