Mate 20 Pro

Looks a great device. I’ve got the p20pro and it’s very good. It lakes wireless charging, which has never bothered me, however my new incoming car has a witless charger. Typical after years of having wireless phone, and never using it!

Anyhow the only real down side to my P20pro (and the wife’s P20 non pro) is the front facing camera 20mp camera takes the worst selfies ever. You get this horrid beauty mode that even when off, it’s very on. Luckily I don’t do selfies, so it doesn’t bother me. Someone said if you take a selfie using a 3rd party camera app like snap chat, you don’t get the horrid beauty effect. So it’s defo software related. Apparently the aisans love their beauty smoothing. To me on full you like like plastic, on off, you look like a sky sports reporter on HD, ie full of makeup.

I’d recommend you install the Nova launcher and the pixel icon pack from the start. As EMUI launcher is bad. Trys to emulate the ios look, and it has no app draw like ios, so all your apps are on your desktop/homepage.

Li like a minimal look, only apps I use often live on my single homepage, the rest live in the draw. Out of site.

I agree. Loving it at the moment, though I had to remember my Google admin account login to enable assistant.

The new screen ratio will take a little getting used to, though. My case should arrive tomorrow. Gone for the equivalent of the one on my P9, which I love.

Anyone figured out where on earth the files are stored from a restore from the old phone? Want to copy more music over, but the music folder on the Mate is empty. They are there somewhere, just can’t find them.

Have you sent them to an SD card at all, or did they just go there when transferred? I’ve just connected my phone via usb and the picture/music folders marked “internal storage” are empty, the corresponding folders on the SD card contain them. I think I told the phone to store them there away from the android system like I do on the PC.

Had a game of Russian roulette with my battery. Took it off charge on Saturday morning at 7am, and haven’t plugged it back in yet. Normal weekend usage (which is a little heavier than weekday). Bluetooth music on the commute to and from work today. Couple of calls, bluetooth speakers overnight for my sleeping music, a bit of gaming yesterday (Real Racing 3 – quite a heavy game, with some 3D Bowling thrown in), FB browsing etc. 20:45 on Monday and still have 20% charge.

The battery life puts other smart phones to shame.

It will be charged tonight. I’m starting to lose my bottle.