Good news

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Luckily it is ridiculously easy to get Google Play Services, and therefore, Google apps working on the Huawei Mate 30 Pro. I need to preface this by saying that you can ‘sideload’ many Google apps using sites like APKmirror but without the underlying libraries and necessary data, they will fail to load or encounter issues.

Installing the Google Play Services frameworks turns the Huawei Mate 30 Pro into what you’d consider a ‘normal’ Android smartphone. You can use every Google app as normal and all-in-all, the process takes less than 10 minutes and doesn’t need any real technical know-how — meaning it can be done by just about anyone.

While Huawei cannot tell you how to install Google apps on the Mate 30 Pro for legal reasons, it’s unclear if employees in carrier stores will be able to help potential buyers add the Google Service Assistant APK file to their devices and streamline the process even further.

I have personally been running Google Play Services since the Mate 30 launch with zero issues, everything works as expected with no major hiccups beyond the fact the phone comes without the ‘normal’ setup process we’re all used to.

It was initially believed that an unlocked bootloader would be needed to install custom ROMs with Google Play Services and apps included but the solution is far more simple than that. The Huawei AppGallery does have a substantial library but it won’t ever be able to compete with the Google Play Store in sheer size and scale.

Read more at

https://9to5google.com/2019/09/23/how-to-in...on-mate-30-pro/

What a bummer..
I'm like so ready for the phone launch in msia tomorrow!

Oh well guess have to wait awhile and see.
If not note10+ tho I see the fingerprint on note looks Abit slower than some phones .

Im eyeing on the pro version(go big or go home).
I dont really mind as i dont have any good wired earphones other than the one that comes with the phone.
Currently using xiaomi airdots. not to say is super good but its decent for its price.

we shall see tomorrow how huawei going to address the app issue.

Are we the first non china country that they will announce the launch and the price?

Cool. Am really looking for the announcement.
Using mate9 now. Think it's time to retire that for an upgrade.

I just owned Mate 20x not long ago and my wife just changed to P30 Pro. Not really buying within next 2 years. Lol.....

honest i don't own any huawei phone but i'm very sure HUAWEI after sales service is BAD.
Because of mate 30, i join fb huawei group, today i complaint why huawei offer free gift and warranty exclusive with such condition.
now they kick me out from that group.

I think probably it depends on who you talk to and which age group.  Huawei phone can be easily doubled as a camera, which happened to be a phone, and others. If you think like that, suddenly it opened up a huge possibility. You see, the issue of smartphone nowadays is the ability to combine lots of functions. I know many ppl knows that but somehow forgotten the fact that when iphone was introduced, Steve jobs specifically mentioned that he has camera, phone and internet devices combined as one.

The problem with engineering innovation is that, this Mate 30Pro can easily replace a mobile Micro four third camera easily. What about zoom you may say? Well I suppose there are some photographer, like me, who do not mind a solid 35mm or 28mm camera for street photography, no zoom. Zoom lens breaks image quality. With better and better sensor on camera phone nowadays, suddenly the border between a phone and a dedicated small camera becomes hazy.

I am planning my trip end of the year. Before that I took my Nokia Pureview 808 (42Mpix sensor) to Japan, and I was really happy with the results. Its mobile, chargable, and really good quality at the time. Now with huawei, not only it has great lens, it has better sensor and a host of other photography features too, namely timelapse, possibility of astrophotography (milky way snap). Then it has lots of memory (256GB) for storage, linkable to internet for uploads, and it comes with maps, messageing, wait, it also makes calls! 

All for RM3800.  Sony RTS100 cost about RM5000 brand new.

When we put things into perspective this way, suddenly certain things becomes a bargain. 

If I can install outlook ( I doubt it, its also part of the black listing right?) to access gmail, and another don't know what for youtube.  I think that would be it. I don't move around that much, so I would have done complex gmail, or google drive stuff on desktop. Mobile phone is just for, 'mobile' activities, which is very limited in the first place. 

Another issue is for the financial trader alike: Metatrader apps, super important for financial traders. And no one talked about that.

Huh? when you saw it?