Huawei officially unveiled the P40 series and Huawei Watch GT 2e last week at an online-only event in Paris. Long before that in November 2019, the Chinese telecom giant also launched MatePad Pro, its flagship tablet in China, which they eventually brought to Europe in February 2020. Now, the company is set to bring all of the above-mentioned products to Malaysia very soon.
Huawei has been facing difficulties in selling its devices in the international markets after the US government added it to the entity list in May 2019. But still, the company has been trying hard to bring its innovation to other nations apart from its home country China.
The biggest hurdle for Huawei to sell devices running Android is that it no longer has access to Google Mobile Services. Thus, all of its new Android devices including smartphones and tablets are devoid of Google Play Store and other most-used necessary Google services. This makes the Huawei-made devices a tough sell in global markets.
Thus, to overcome this situation, the Chinese tech giant released HMS Core (Huawei Mobile Services), which comes pre-installed on new devices from the company including the Huawei P40 Series and Huawei MatePad Pro that are about to launch in Malaysia. On the other hand, the Huawei Watch GT 2e, which is a sporty makeover of the original Huawei Watch GT 2 runs proprietary software.
The Malaysian launch, as well as the pricing of these Huawei devices, are unknown at the moment. However, the company is giving away a RM 30 discount voucher for simply subscribing to updates on these products on its official website. Ironically, this voucher cannot be used to buy any of the aforementioned products launching soon in the country.
For reference, we have listed the European pricing of the upcoming new Huawei gadgets along with their Malaysian Ringgit conversion rates.
Product |
European Pricing |
Converted Malaysian Pricing |
| Huawei P40 (8GB + 128GB) | €799 | RM 3831 |
| Huawei P40 Pro (8GB + 256GB) | €999 | RM 4790 |
| Huawei P40 Pro+ (8GB + 512GB) | €1399 | RM 6708 |
| Huawei MatePad Pro WiFi (6GB + 128GB) | €549 | RM 2603 |
| Huawei MatePad Pro WiFi (8GB + 256GB) | €649 | RM 3078 |
| Huawei MatePad Pro LTE (6GB + 128GB) | €599 | RM 2841 |
| Huawei MatePad Pro LTE (8GB + 256GB) | €699 | RM 3315 |
| Huawei Watch GT 2e | €199 | RM 944 |
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