Huawei Mate 10 Pro

Huawei Mate 10 Pro

Huawei Mate 10 Pro is the new Flagship Smartphone from Huawei. HUAWEI’S MATE 10 is the most recent flagship big-screen handset from the Chinese manufacture, and it goes up against the regular contenders in the form of Samsung’s Galaxy S8+ and Note 8 and Apple’s iPhone 8, as well as cheaper rivals like the OnePlus 5T. Huawei’s been refining the finish of both its hardware and software in recent years, and the result for the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is a flagship that feels almost as premium as devices like  the similarly sized Samsung Galaxy S8+, albeit without the same curved edge design. It’s worth noting to avoid any accidents that same curved edge design. It’s worth nothing to avoid any accidents that the regular Huawei Mate 10 isn’t waterproof.  But  the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is like its high-end rivals, the phone is a combination of a metal chassis with a glass rear panel. And finished product is an impressive package-but not for anyone that hates fingerprints all over the front and back of their phone. To the right side of the 6 inch QHD (2160*1080,402 ppi) OLED display is the power button and volume rocker. While the left side of the chassis houses only the combined microSD and SIM slot. At the bottom of the phone is the USB-c and there’s no 3.5mm headphone socket in sight, so you’ll need to use the included adapter if you want to use wired headphones.

                                                                                    Notably, on the rear of the phone, the Leica-branded main camera has a 20MP monochrome sensor and a 12MP RGB sensor that combine to form higher resolution images. You also get a dual-LED flash and optical image stabilisation on the camera too. Sitting beneath the camera arrangement is the zippy  fingerprint sensor that unlocks the phone in almost no time at all-you’re not left waiting around to see if your print has been registered. Returning to the front of the device, the selfie camera is a more regular affair, comprised of an f/2.0 wide-angle lens and 8MP sensor. Powering everything along is Huawei’s own Kirin  970 octa-core CPU with i7 core processor, and  a Mail-G72  MP12 GPU. RAM is either 4GB or 6GB,depending on which model you have-we’ve reviewed the 6GB RAM model with 128GB storage. You also get  a “neural network  processing unit”. Which is essentially Huawei’s response to artificial intelligence-based processing units in some  other Android and iphone handsets. It’s harder   to say specifically when this processor is being used, but it kicks into life for things like object identification when you’re taking photos and predicting which apps you might need to use next,as well as on-the-fly language translations. Similarly, depending on where you’re buying your Huawei Mate 10 Pro. There are few different colours to choose between-Midnight Blue, Titanium Grey, or Mocha Brown. In the UK,only the 128GB version is being sold so far.  

Running beneath Huawei’s Emotions UI is Google Android Oreo(8.0). Features are the A I  based integrations in some of Huawei’s own apps that draw on that neural processor. For example, the camera makes use of it for object identification. And the photo gallery app uses a smart loading mechanism that detects when you’re quickly, scrolling past photos looking for a  specific one so that you don’t need to wait for all the thumbnails to load. The Navigation Dock is another EMUI 8 feature that you’ll either love or never use. In short, it places a virtual joystick-like button on your screen that functions as the traditional home, back and recent buttons found at the bottom of most Android  handsets. You still have the option of using the regular virtual buttons at the bottom of the screen. If you want to keep both options in play at once though. If you do go for the Navigation Dock option, it’ll take a little while for you to get used to navigating your phone with it,but when you do, you won’t miss reaching for the usual buttons.

There are some productivity features tucked in the new UI too, including an option to connect the Huawei mate 10 Pro to a PC (via a USB to DisplayPort or HDMI) for a full computer experience, a bit like Samsung’s DeX setup but without the need for a dock. Overall, and thankfully EMUI 8 is now refined enough to allow you to have things pretty much like stock or as customised as you can make make it with Huawei’s tweaks. Regardless of how you like your phone, none  of the EMUI changes are likely to leave any precious Android user feeling lost. I did have a few minor software niggles-EMUI has historically not played nicely with the passwords manager I use. For example. In this case, the phone constantly removes one of the permissions required to let you log into apps automatically. It’s no deal breaker and likely won’t be a problem for 99.9 percent of potential purchasers, though.

There are certain things you came to expect on a high-end smartphone nowadays that means things like waterproofing and bio-metric security-and you’ll find these on the Huawei Mate 10 Pro too. However, what you perhaps don’t expect is a design that does so well at making the 6 inch panel feels smaller than it really is and with a magical coating that makes it positively suicidal the moment you place it down on a surface. Seriously, it’s slightly more slippery than oil and appears to generate its own kinetic forces that propel it off any given surface. The result is that after just a few weeks of use,the review model we have is peppered with fairly significant scratches. The expansive display at 6 inch QHD is one of the best things  about the phone-being both bright enough to remain visible on sunny days. And with enough pop to the colors to make movies and games really shine. Like the back of the phone. However, it is bit of a fingerprint magnet. Another of the best features of the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is its large 4,000mAh battery pack, which will see heavy users through a full day,and regular users up to two-days of battery life. It’s an impressive feat that many phones claim, but few deliver against. Combined with the speedy performance and instant unlock fingerprint scanner, the overall impressions of the handset is one of absolute capability. There is also an IR blaster, an almost retro throwback that I entirely appreciated in the Huawei Mate 10 Pro too. But no3.5mm headphone jack(though there is one in the regular Huawei Mate 10).

That hardware,co-developed by Leica,consists of a 20MP monochrome sensor,combined with a 12MP RGB sensor,and unlike previous generations, truly seem to now show the point of the partnership.