Two years later.How is the phone or tablet with HMS today?

Huawei Mate 40 Pro, for me still the best not only because of the huge potential of photo-video

It is enough to give her a chance, and therefore a chance to Huawei smartphones.For me, still impossible to beat in terms of photo-video, despite the stalking that other manufacturers do.They are getting closer, but still a step behind Huawei products.

I also have moments of doubt in HMS, but I can do it

I will not hide that I am a fan of the Huawei product ecosystem.I will not hide that I had moments of doubt when switching to another smartphone as a basic one seemed inevitable.Who does not doubt?Even now, at the time of writing this text.Truth.Finally, the road to the ideal that stands in front of HMS still long.Even Huawei himself does not hide it, aware that not everything is already working tip-top.It is praise when the company is able to accept this state of affairs.

However, I survived this crisis and I still use the HMS phone.I am also looking forward to the upcoming premiere of a flagship.

What decided about it?I looked into HMS again and saw what was apparently known, but what I didn't quite notice.HMS is already a mature ecosystem.Perhaps such a look will also be useful to you.

Id huawei, you should start with that

Let's start with ID Huawei, whose owners in Poland are already 2.4 million users.This may not be a stunning number, but also notice that it is associated with only one brand.

We have already written about him on the occasion of the "debut" of HMS services, but even Huawei phone users could pass by this solution indifferently.It is wrong, because it fastens access to more and more solutions of this brand.It slowly allows you to go beyond the world of phones.

ID Huawei allows you to protect the phone from loss, find it, as well as block or clean.What's more, if the "random finder" of the phone is not able to log in to the ID Huawei, and not knowing our data will not do it, he will benefit from our device.It will be better to give them to us than to increase the top of electronic garbage.

As part of ID Huawei, we are gathering all our smartphone activity today.We log in to all the tools of this brand on the phone, we use access to the cloud (which is quite cheap by the way), we synchronize the data between the devices, we can even encourage our payment tools (payment cards, fees via a mobile operator, PayPal, PayU).Not all of them yet, but it is still changing.

What can discourage such solutions as an online identifier is uncomfortable logging at every opportunity when you need to link another product, service, application.Fortunately, ID Huawei allows you to do it very simply, using the QR code, which we scan to authorize the operation.ID Huawei itself at the time of establishing we can associate with our e-mail address, but also with Google or Facebook account.

Backup, i.e. with HMS, you can feel safe

I belong to a group of people who already make backups, which means that unpleasant experience has taught me the importance of this tool.In the case of a phone, a backup is even even more practical than one on a computer.

In the case of HMS, we are not alone in this respect.Immediately after it is started and logging in to ID, we get access to a backup tool.It may store copies of several devices within one ID.How many depends on the capacity of our Huawei cloud.

A backup may contain a complete system, as well as selected settings, application data, including third -party companies.Importantly, we can play them at any time, not just after the phone reset or buying a new product.

Petal maps are really good maps on the Huawei phone

Maps.Yes, it's one of the applications without which we can't imagine the phone.Huawei works with TomTom creating the Petal map application, which today practically meets all my needs as tools to find myself in space, navigating while driving a car, cycling or walking.At first glance, the Map of Petal Map seems poor, but you can plan a journey according to your preferences, search for stops on the route, as well as add and synchronize your favorite places and navigation history with the cloud.

The Petal map application interface adapts to the screen size

The maps work very quickly, precisely (maybe it is the fault of the Huawei phone;)) can be opened through links with coordinates or from other applications.In the car you can activate HUD mode, which simulates a leaf display.

They temporarily lack satellite view, but it is a matter of formal, not technical complexities.Soon this function will come back because it was already available.Now the only thing I expect is more and more support for maps of Petal in subsequent applications added to the Appgallery.

Appgalllery and Petal Search, Paragraphs

Exactly.Appgalllery, or application store, is also developing intensively.There are most necessary in it, from my perspective, applications, including Allegro, Bolt, InPost, Empik, Player, Librus.There is even a set of Office application, necessary in my editorial work.In addition, Huawei offers a system of Huawei points, promotion and gifts for customers of its online stores.

With millions of active and potential users, however, it is difficult for everyone to get what they expect even in two years of intensive development.This can be the cause of crises, reluctance, but the QuickApp mechanism, applications opened through the browser, allows you to bypass a lot of inconvenience.And in the end the effect is similar to us as we use the application.In this way, I run almost all applications that cannot be installed in the HMS environment, and which can easily work in it.

Photoshop Lightroom obtained through the Petal tool works without any problems

The most important applications, i.e. those for the service of banks, are fortunately available natively in the Appgallery, which ensures high safety of use.Two years ago we talked about whether such applications would appear in the store.Today, at most, the question remains when.Unless our bank has yet registered in the Appgallery.More and more banks already available also support BLIK payments, and some BLIK proximity payments.The list of such banks, on which there are, among others, PKO BP, Millennium, mBank, Credit Agricole, Noble Bank and Getin, are still growing.

Speaking of Appgallery, it is impossible to ignore Petal tools.This is not only a universal content search engine on the web, services present on the Internet, but also help in installing these applications, which we still cannot find in the Appgallery.In this way I installed Microsoft Outlook complementing the mentioned office.

The Petal tool automates the installation procedure, limiting our choice to yes or no, so even by downloading the application from an unofficial repository, the threat is negligible.Part of the application is offered directly through developers on their pages.Then the Get button appears in the search engine.

After starting the Petal tool, it is worth taking a deeper look at its capabilities.Because tools such as searching nearby, offers in the shopping tab, currency calculator or integrated translator could escape your attention.In Petal, like in the ordinary Huawei browser, we can search using incognito mode.

Huawei phone from HMS is really nice

Transfer to the phone with HMS may, and even have to be associated with the need to adapt to the new reality.But this is the case with each change to new ones.Today it is much simpler than two years ago.The ecosystem is richer, and we got used to the Huawei tools, which once could be concerned about us.

The advantage of the whole HMS is that it is not created as a prosthesis, something that is to fill the gaps in the functionality of the phone.This is a complete ecosystem, which is supposed to go beyond what the phones have allowed so far.Just look at the Huawei Music application, Huawei Video.It's not just local file browsers.

Huawei also has tools such as Huawei Health, which you probably know well if you use the watch of this brand, Link Now to solve logistics issues in interpersonal contacts or Meetime video messenger.Many of the application can escape your attention, for example Huawei books, so it's worth spending some time to familiarize yourself with the Appgalllery offer and digging by the options for system tools.

It is known that man is comfortable, when he learns something, he hates switching to another solution.However, only the beginning is difficult.Perhaps HMS suits you more than you think.If you want to direct your choice to the HMS product, it's definitely worth it.

The text was created in cooperation with Huawei