Huawei's high-end smartphone P20 Pro will be released as DoCoMo's summer 2018 carrier model. This time, it is exclusive to DoCoMo, and there is no release from other carriers.
Huawei has made a big contribution to the penetration of SIM lock-free machines, but the sales network by carrier shops must have been very attractive. You can see the attitude of moving forward no matter what is said. As the company's Japan/Korea Region President Wu Bo always says, it's meaningless if it can't survive.
For Huawei, Galaxy will not enter the Japanese open market this time. Although it is only a carrier model, at least at the moment, the S9 and S9+ are lined up as new models from two companies, DoCoMo and au. The two companies do business a little differently.
If you are a core user who has liked and supported Huawei's way of doing things so far, you want the rumored high-end terminal, but it is difficult to buy only the terminal without signing a contract with the operator. You may feel lonely.
When it comes to price alone, the device you buy from your carrier is pretty cheap. It is the so-called “real x yen”. In the case of Huawei P20 Pro HW-01K, monthly support will return 46,656 yen for model changes and 81,000 yen for MNP over two years.
If you don't have this, you'll have to come up with 103,680 yen. In other words, if you are satisfied with the two-year Shibari, you can get it for 57,024 yen if you change the model, and 22,680 yen if you use MNP. Moreover, since the trade-in program is substantial, the real acquisition price should be cheaper.
No matter how good the product is, even if you put a smartphone on the open market at a price of over 100,000 yen, Huawei says that there will be few enthusiastic Huawei fans who will silently buy it. I guess it's an idea.
It is an image that the price has come around for the user. Also, one might think that the really enthusiastic fans who would do so must already have the global model without worrying about technical aptitude.
