20 days ago we reported that the Huawei Mate 30 series will launch in Europe this month without Gapps. Now this has become true.
Huawei is now offering the Mate 30 Pro to customers in Madrid, Spain at the Huawei Space Store with limited supply available.
The phone is priced at €1099 as it was announced at the September event. Huawei will give those who buy before December 9 a €299 voucher that can be used to purchase any items in the store.
It is worth noting there is no Google Mobile Services installed, and Spanish consumers can only buy the phone in Space Silver with a combination of 8GB RAM + 256GB storage.
Huawei unveiled the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro in Germany back in September, but never disclosed a launch date for the devices in Europe before today.
Both the Mate 30 and the Mate 30 Pro have the Kirin 990 5G chipset, which is clocked at 2.86 GHz. The SoC is slightly different from the basic Kirin 990, running in the non-5G variants of the phones.
It has slightly faster CPU clusters and two big NPU cores to match the faster performance of the chipset, given the higher bandwidth speeds.
Both the devices have a total of 21 antennas each where 14 are for 5G, more than double the 6-antenna design of other 5G phones.
The phones will run the Android 10-based EMUI 10 but will not be able to use Google apps in an official way because of the U.S. ban. However, there is already some alternative methods that allow having Gapps.
At first there is a workaround called the LZPlay, an easy-to-use app enabling the installation of Google apps and services on the Mate 30 devices.
This was big news because a US blacklisting prohibits Huawei from using American components and software. The process allowed the Mate 30 Pro (along with the basic Mate 30) to run popular apps like Google Maps and Gmail that otherwise would not be permitted.
But only two days after the workarounds were found, they were taken away.
Good news is developers soon found a new way and posted it on XDA Developers forum that can again get Google apps running on the Huawei Mate 30 Pro.
While this method is not as simple as installing Google Services Assistant and letting it do everything, it still works — with the caveat that SafetyNet will continue to fail since that is a server-side change from Google.
You can follow the steps here.
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