With the Samsung S20 Ultra and the Huawei P40 Pro in hand, I managed to test and maybe even dispel a whole bunch of claims made by two of our favourite smartphone manufacturers. Although the loss of Google services will hit some of us hard, the possibility of living without them is there, but is the compromise worth it?

Samsung and Huawei have long been duelling for world domination in the smartphone arena and with these two heavyweights currently in my possession it seemed necessary to pit them up against each other.

Ideally, I would have...