Yeah, £899 for the 128gb mate 20 pro, so £100 more than the xs but to me the camera seems far superior, it’s sleeker and generally looks better than the xr and has a far better screen.
Cant call the camera superior if it’s unable to capture 4K video @ 60fps. Not to mention the mate 20 still uses ufs storage and not nvme like the xr does.
I’d want more than 64gb storage, but don’t need 256gb so it’s hard to compare to the xs due to apple’s pure greed strategy of cutting out the 128gb tier, so would have to compare it to the 256 which is a huge difference:
Mate 20 pro £899 v xs £1,199. £300 extra is an awful lot.
It’s not greed, if you look at profit margins on the iPhone it’s components cost more because they are superior to what android oems offer on their range.
Firstly if your coming from the iPhone 6 and your liking to keep your phone for 4 years, you won’t be able to do that. Huawei isn’t as fast upgrading their devices to the latest android releases as some other oems and security updates are inconsistent across the different vendors peddling android.
Secondly Huawei will only commit two years of android update if that. So if you keep your android handset for two years your phone would cost around £450 per year for two years and be close to worthless at the end of the two years. With the iPhone X’s max yes it does cost more at £1200 but if you keep your phone for 4 years the device will work out to £300 per year, or £400 pound per year for 3years, or £600 pounds for 2 years and still retain value when you decide to sell the device. Keep in mind android device start to hiccup, slow down and become unreliable a little after the 1 year mark of owning a device and retail value drops precipitously, it’s the cost of going android.
Bear in mind with the iPhone you will get throughout this period, day 1 iOS updates as soon as apple releases said updates where you don’t have to wait for 2-6 months just to update the os given the vendors schedule and list of priorities that may change 1 or 2 years out.
Thirdly if you have a problem with your device good luck getting Huawei or any android oem to service it or even fix problems or defects associated with said device. Apple on the on there hand will replace your phone or send it out to be fixed either through their iOS app or network of stores in the UK and around the world. You can’t put a price on that, especially given the problems surfacing regarding The mate 20 pros display which seem to be suffering from either quality control issues, design defects, or panel lottery that have been popping up and deleted by Huawei on their forums in China.
You might think your getting good deal but I guarantee you, if something happens you will learn that sometime paying a bit more might go a long way to have a stress free user experience.
If you do decide to switch to android wait until you get a good deal, 30%-40% of rrp, or your just burning money.
Good luck on your whatever phone you decide to purchase.
