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Our quick take
Huawei Mate 10 Pro - 4.5 / 5
Design: Glass front and back brings visual delight and downfalls
- Multi-axis curved glass design to rear 6H tempered glass for scratch-resistance Fingerprint scanner positioned to rear, no home key USB-C, no 3.5mm headphone jack IP67 water and dust resistant Colours: Midnight Blue, Titanium Gray, Pink Gold, Mocha Brown
Screen: Breaking out of the Full HD shackles
6-inch, 2160 x 1080 resolution, 18:9 aspect ratio OLED display ‘Huawei FullView’ for minimal bezel design HDR10 support for high dynamic range ‘Floating dock’ virtual home key option (Android soft keys also available)
What is HDR?
Hardware and software: It’s all about AI, apparently
- Kirin 970 (2.4GHz) chipset, 6GB RAM 12-core Mali G72 GPU ‘Neural Processing Unit (NPU)’ for Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhancements
EMUI: Huawei’s new closer-to-Google operating system
- At launch: EMUI 8.0 over Android 8.0 (Oreo) operating system Update (October 2018): EMUI 9 over Android 9.0 Pie Dual SIM (no microSD slot), 128GB storage Cat.18 LTE modem (to 1.25Gb/s)
A battery that will last all day - and then some
- 4,000mAh battery Huawei SuperCharge (quick charge) No wireless charging
Dual cameras: Battling it out with the best
- Dual Leica Cameras, f/1.6 at 27mm equivalent for both 12-megapixel colour with optical stabilisation (OIS) 20-megapixel true monochrome with no stabilisation New auto scene recognition, based on machine learning 8-megapixel f/2.0 front-facing camera
To recap
The Mate 10 Pro was a defining handset for Huawei when it launched in 2017. Every bit as capable as its Samsung, LG and Apple competition, it marked the moment Huawei made it to the big time. And that’s still the case, following a series of updates.
