In recent years, the Android flagship machine has collectively reversed, and the experience is not as good as a year, resulting in many consumers having lost the desire to change the machine. Even some consumers, can not wait for the Huawei Mate50 series, still want to start with the Huawei Mate40 Pro, which leads to the Mate40 Pro 5G in the market is still difficult to find, the price of the new machine is still 7000-8000 yuan, quite outrageous. So if you put aside the premium and brand bonus, just look at the product strength, the Huawei Mate40 Pro released two years ago, equivalent to what level of Android phone is now?
1. Performance
Don't look at those boring parameters, only from the experience point of view, the daily performance of the Kirin 9000 chip is still the first echelon now. The daily use of Kirin 9000 has very low power consumption, and the energy efficiency ratio is much higher than that of the flagship chip of friends. I can hardly feel the chip being hot, and the ice unicorn is well deserved! And with the arrival of summer, the energy efficiency ratio advantage of Kirin 9000 will be further magnified.
However, the bottleneck of Kirin 9000 is that the peak performance performance has not caught up with the Snapdragon 8Gen1 and Tianji 9000, according to the measured data of Geek Bay, Huawei Mate40 Pro ran the original god with 5.6W of the whole machine power consumption, got an average frame rate of 47fps. Therefore, according to this standard, kirin 9000 can be regarded as a sub-flagship chip with a good energy efficiency ratio, and it is very reasonable to put it in the 3500-4000 yuan file.
2. Appearance
The brilliance of the exterior design is also one of the reasons why Huawei can break through the high-end in the past few days, almost every generation of flagship machines has an iconic design language, such as the Mate20 bath master lens, the Mate30 waterfall screen and circular module, and the Mate40 series of star ring design, with a pure white glass backplane, this texture is simply amazing. And even in 2022, the appearance of Huawei Mate40 Pro is still one of the most coordinated, exquisite and attractive.
However, from another point of view, at present, other domestic brands have also caught up with Huawei's footsteps in ID design, such as the ceramic backplane + founder lens module of Xiaomi 11 Ultra, the cloud window of vivo X80, and the irregular crater shape of OPPO, which are more advanced.
3. Images
In terms of imaging systems, when the Huawei Mate40 Pro was just listed, it can be said that it was in the limelight. The first IMX700 super-large bottom sensor, with a 20-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens and a 5x periscope zoom lens, is the top level in both focal length and picture quality. But in recent years, domestic mobile phone manufacturers have taken pictures of the inner volume is too fierce, there is xiaomi 11 ultra such an extreme stacker, as well as vivo, which relies on self-developed chips + ZEISS + algorithm + micro-gimbal all-round players, Huawei Mate40 Pro can only be reduced to the second echelon of images, basically that is, 4000 yuan level.
4. Screen
The screen is the biggest shortcoming of Huawei's Mate40 Pro, which is a 1080P level screen with a slotted design and a refresh rate of only 90Hz. In addition, the display quality is not the top even if it is placed 2 years ago, and the screen of the Mate40 Pro is a mixture of Samsung drill row, LG drill row and BOE zhou dongyu arrangement, if the boE zhou dongyu arrangement is drawn, then the clarity of the display text edge is obviously poor.
You know, now even some models of the 3000 yuan file, such as the realmeGT2 Pro, Redmi K50, etc., use the Samsung 2K 120Hz screen, so the Huawei Mate40 Pro screen can only barely give a 2500 yuan gear level.
summary
After combining all aspects of quality, I think the reasonable price segment of Huawei Mate40 Pro should be between 3500-4000 yuan, even if you count the brand and system bonus, the price is now more reasonable at 4000 yuan.