Huawei P40 Pro Plus with Curve, the latest App Gallery arrival.
David PhelanHuawei’s App Gallery has just has a shot in the arm with the arrival of the cool new banking app, Curve.
Huawei makes some of the best phones around, with innovative hardware, great build quality and dazzling cameras. But Huawei is prevented from using Google Mobile Services, meaning there’s no Google Maps or Gmail or Play Store, and its own alternative to Play Store has some big holes. In some cases, Huawei has been able to plug the gaps magnificently: the free Here WeGo mapping app is in several ways better than Google Maps, and Huawei is working with TomTom on its own navigation feature. However, financial service apps have been a notable App Gallery weakness.
This has been an issue for people considering Huawei but realizing they use their smartphone as a digital wallet. Curve is far from the first financial services app to arrive on Huawei’s store, but it’s easily the coolest.
Curve is a smart credit card, operating in the U.K. and Ireland now but with ambitions to be in more countries. It works in a unique way: you add your Visa and Mastercard debit and credit cards to the Curve card and use just the one card to spend from any of your accounts. It makes managing your money and all your accounts straightforward and seamless, all from within the Curve app.
Like other challenger bank cards, there are cute benefits like the capability to freeze a card instantly from within the app if you lose it, and thaw it again when you find it was at the bottom of your bag all along.
It also shows real-time updates on your balances as you spend.
Huawei P40 Pro Plus.
HuaweiThe fact that this app has arrived in the Huawei App Gallery is potentially game-changing for Huawei as it will allow other banks to check out how it fares on the platform. It was announced in the last day and has already attracted some interest with over 7,000 installs. A small start, but it’s something.
The Huawei App Gallery has been growing fast since its launch just over two years ago. While its 81,000 apps are no match for Android’s total in the millions, its credentials have been burnished recently by the addition of LBC and Absolute Radio, Deezer, Booking.com and TikTok, plus the Bolt ride-hailing app.
It’s a long way from critical mass, then, but it’s doing increasingly well. The App Gallery is well laid-out, has the excellent Petal Search to help you find stuff, and even a cute way of installing apps, where the download shows up in the app icon like a fast-filling liquid (in a way that’s oddly meditative).
Each new big-name app is another step towards the tipping point for those held back from choosing Huawei by the software while coveting the hardware.
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