ISSUE 73 • ANDROID ADVISOR 55Snapchat, are available. Obvious omissions include
services like Instagram, Twitter and Netflix, though.
While things are moving in the right direction, it’s
hard not to shake the feeling that all these presented
‘solutions’ feel like workarounds, and there’s little
Huawei can do about that, except continue to
strengthen what App Gallery offers for a more global
audience and hope that Google’s license to continue
doing business is approved sooner, rather than later.
If you do want Google experiences on the P40
Pro in its current incarnation, you’ll likely have to rely
on each (available) services’ web-based counterpart.
Also, say farewell to ‘OK, Google’, it’s Celia who now
answers your queries. Presently, she covers basic voice
assistant tasks, not to mention she’s only available in
UK English, Spanish and French at the time of writing.
If you want to get the likes of WhatsApp installed
on your P40 Pro, you’ll have to use Huawei’s transfer
tool, Phone Clone, to sideload the app from another
Android device in your possession, and if you want
apps that you don’t already own on an existing device,
you’ll have to resort to websites like APKMirror to
download and install them manually – a solution
that requires them to be manually updated too.
The P40 Pro will be released on 7 April with a
price of £899, getting you 8GB of RAM and 256GB
of storage. Alex Walker-Todd
Specifications
- 6.58in (2,460x1,200; 441ppi) OLED capacitive
touchscreen - Android 10.0 (AOSP + HMS); EMUI 10.1