Huawei faces serious technological challenges at the moment, and it needs to do something different. The folding P50 Pocket needed to be more expensive.
Huawei should charge more for the P50 Pocket, its Galaxy Z Flip 3-like folding smartphone. This may sound like a strange statement, especially since $1,800 isn’t exactly cheap — quite the opposite actually. But I’m suggesting Huawei should have used even better materials to make it, gone overboard with luxury accouterments, and even got the designer of the Premium Edition to sign the device personally — then jacked up the price accordingly.
Vertu phones were never about technology. The phones usually had passable cameras, often used an older processor, and rarely had the most up-to-date version of Android. It actually took a while for the company to adopt Android at all, and its most popular phones used a version of the feature phone operating system found on a $50 Nokia.
It doesn’t have the Google Play Store or Google apps, so you use the Huawei App Gallery and other third-party options, and the process is fraught with issues. If you have any link to Google services at all, it’s a massive pain to swap, and if you want an app that’s not in the App Gallery, it’s a serious security concern.
The HarmonyOS app situation is only part of the problem. Due to restrictions placed on Huawei by the U.S. government, it cannot build 5G smartphones at the moment, so the P50 Pocket is a 4G smartphone. It’s powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, not a Huawei-made Kirin processor like the Huawei Mate X2.
I like the main camera. The 40-megapixel True-Chroma camera takes lovely, detailed, bright, and colorful photos, just like I expect from Huawei. White balance is delicate and precise, and the way it handles color makes your photos look natural but never dull. It’s a fine balance between eye-catching, natural-looking pictures and oversaturated or hyper-real ones, but the P50 Pocket’s main camera never crosses the line.
Vertu faced the same problem, but Huawei can succeed where it failed. It understands luxury, and now is the time to embrace it properly. Go the whole way with everything that makes me want a Huawei phone on a personal level, as a thing I aspire to own. Huawei has the manufacturing ability, proven power to make great partnerships , and a talented design division.
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