Huawei to sling Google-free mid-range P40 Lite 5G at British shores this summer

Huawei has confirmed UK pricing and availability of its latest mid-range blower, the P40 Lite 5G, a pared-down version of this year's flagship with tapered price tag to match – starting at £379.99. Driving this phone is Huawei's octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 820 platform, which bundles a Mali-G57 GPU, as well as the firm's Da …

[Pascal Monett]

A hard sell ?

Maybe.

It will mostly be a measure of how many people are really fed up with phoning their life to Google.

[huuuuuuuh]

Re: A hard sell ?

So instead they would buy this and transmit their data to Huawei and the CCP?

[Paul Crawford]

Re: A hard sell ?

Probably the CCP is less likely to whore your data to world+dog

[Andy Denton]

Could you just not root it and install something like Cyanogen or is that not a thing any more?

[khjohansen]

Cyanogen

Support might be hampered by Huawei preference for "native" silicon

[Anonymous Coward]

Cyanogenmod

Indeed, is not a thing anymore. But the Amazon app store is