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also highlights the efforts the company is making
to ensure that Western users don’t feel completely
alienated by the resultant differences of a phone
without the big ‘G’ built in.
Microsoft has a license approved by the US
government to continue working with Huawei,
meaning Bing resides within the search bar of the
phone’s native web browser (for better or worse)
and the App Gallery – Huawei’s own Android
appstore– letsyoudownloada numberof
Microsoft-branded tools, from Microsoft Translator
to Microsoft News, without issue.
Compared to the App Gallery experience on
previous Huawei phones, it’s also clear that the
company has worked hard on both better localisation
by market and onboarding developers to ensure
popular apps from the Play Store, such as TikTok and
The Huawei offers
5G as standard
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