![]() Huawei’s AppGallery doesn’t pester me to create a Huawei ID before I can start downloading apps, unlike Google with its Play Store. To Huawei’s credit, it turns out, pretty far. Mostly because I didn’t want yet another account just for a review device that I’ll probably never log into again (like my Samsung account), but also because I wanted to see how far the phone would let me go without one. The first indication that this wasn’t going to be a usual Android experience was the fact that the phone asked me to sign in to my Huawei ID in the setup process. I then download whatever apps I need from the Google Play Store and sign in to my accounts, a process that takes about an hour. I put in my SIM card, sign in to my Google account, and set up the phone fresh. Usually when I receive a phone for review, the process is straightforward and predictable. My past couple of days with the Huawei P40 (update: full review here) have been strange. Huawei Phone Clone, one of Huawei’s responses to its Google ban, does not alter the fact that Google is key to the functioning of Android.
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