The dazzling beauty?

               I absolutely love the smartphones that Huawei presents. The P10 is a beautiful device that’s supposed to be their flagship, I suppose. Instead, it has components that are somewhat comparable to last year’s smartphones.

On a little bit of a side note: although there is a Plus version, there’s no difference that is worth the comparison between both devices, so I’ll just review the “normal” version. And yes, the P10 Lite also exists but the P10 is the actual flagship, the Lite version is the same as the budget version of the device.

DESIGN

Has I have said, Huawei never fails to deliver beautifully designed smartphones, and this gorgeous is no exception, even though it doesn’t have a bezel-less display (2017’s trend). The back of the phone is metal with a glass stripe on top where the Leica branded cameras are. The front of the device contains the display, the physical button (that doubles as a fingerprint reader and a gesture-based navigation key) and the front-facing shooter. At only 7.1mm of thickness and 143 grams, the phone feels really premium, I’m just disappointed that the back of the phone still gets toasty.

DISPLAY

The 16:9 5.1 inches display is a great accomplishment by Huawei: it’s vivid, bright and visible even in direct sunlight. The 71% screen-to-body ratio might be a bit of a disappointment to some fans who probably expected Huawei to adopt the bezel-less trend. It’s still a FullHD LCD IPS display with a high pixel density of 432PPI

PERFORMANCE

                The device containsHuawei’s own chipset: the Kirin 960. ANTUTU’s scored is comparable to some smartphones with last year’s  Snapdragon 821, with 147.800 points. It’s a 4/6GB of RAM device, with the Mali-G71 MP8 GPU, four 2.4GHz cores and other four 1.8GHz cores. Its 64 or 128GB of ROM are expandable via SDCard. It’s not the best when it comes to performance, but it’s good though.

CAMERA

It’s the second Huawei’s P line smartphone to carry Leica’s branding on its camera. The phone carries a 20MP monochrome sensor and a 12MP RGB one.The shots are taken from both at the same time and are combined, creating sharper and better colour corrected media. Both lenses carry an aperture of f/2.2, so low-light performance isn’t good nor bad, not even OIS can compensate for it. The front-facing 8MP camera actually has a lower aperture of f/1.9.

The camera app is well packed and has a light painting mode, a night mode and a portrait mode amongst many other.

BATTERY

                The smartphone has a 3200mAh battery and I’m actually tired of not seeing bigger cells on such expensive devices. The battery life is just plain bad; being an LCD display, it consumes a lot of energy. The fast-charging technology is a good incrementation to the device.

FINAL VERDICT

                The phone is actually quite expensive for what you get. With those 650€, you can buy a better device, like last year’s Google Pixel, the HTC U11 or the already reviewed LG G6.

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