My New Phone

30 Days of Blogging: Day 7

Today I set up my new phone, the Mate 20 by Huawei. I know the American government has been putting pressure on carriers to not carry Huawei phones because they are a Chinese company, but they make a great phone for the money and I’m not too worried about them spying on me. I can totally understand if you worked in some capacity for the federal government, that it would probably not be a good idea to have a Chinese phone. 

Otherwise, it is very much like my old phone, the Mate 10, just with updated hardware and software. The battery life has been awesome on the Mate 10 and I’m expecting similar performance from the Mate 20.  It should also have a great camera because it is just like the Mate 10, but better. I also like that it has a fingerprint sensor on the back instead of on a button on the front. Having it on the back is so much easier than trying to get a thumb on the front. 

What I wasn’t too excited about with the Mate 10 was the way they tried to make it look like an iPhone or a Samsung. The Mate 10 had design elements that were similar to both of those kinds of phones and to be honest if I’m getting a Huawei phone, they should just create their own style. On the Mate 20, I’m a little concerned about the fact that it has removable storage but its a Nano SD card which is something new that Huawei is trying to push on everyone. I wish they had just stayed with the regular micro SD card like everyone else. I guess if it catches on then I can say that I had one of the first phones to use it, but because its not by someone like Samsung, Google or Apple, it probably won’t be something that becomes standard. The good news is that the Mate 20 comes with 128Gb of storage so I don’t really think I’ll need any extra storage for a while.

One other issue that I’ve only been having recently is that I can’t get a good cell signal from AT&T at my house. It hasn’t been a big issue, since I can make IP calls from my house so I don’t need the cell signal, but I’m a little concerned because I don’t know if its a cell tower issue or a phone issue.

Well, now I get to live with my new phone for a while and I have to fend off my boys who both want my old Mate 10.