Huawei P10, the high-end of the Chinese firm in our hands

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On February 26 The Huawei company presented its star terminal or in this case, star terminals: the Huawei P10 and P10 Plus. Without a doubt we have already said on previous occasions that having the time factor in your favor is something very good in a market as competitive as that of smartphones and this year Huawei proposed to show its terminals at the beginning of the year and in the most important event of telephony worldwide, the Mobile World Congress.

We can say that the first round came out since one of the company's greatest rivals to date, Samsung, did not launch its new devices for reasons that we all know, although it is true that it has had to fight for its protagonism in the MWC, Huawei has known how to play its cards perfectly in this event And not long ago it announced through one of its executives that next year they will repeat their experience in Barcelona, ​​leaving behind the presentations at the end of March and beginning of April.

But let's take a closer look at Huawei's new device, the P10.. In this case, we all know that there are two devices, but the Huawei P10 Plus has not yet reached our hands, so let's hope we can "touch" it more thoroughly and share with you our impressions of it, while we see all the details, specifications and conclusions of the entry model the new Huawei P10.

Design and construction materials

Undoubtedly the design of this device is something that has raised a lot of expectation and after all it must be said that it is somewhat conservative, but the bold color palette it can be a point to consider with Pantone in the lead. Regarding its design, many have already compared this new Huawei P10 from the front with the Xiaomi Mi5 and from the back with the Apple iPhone, but leaving aside the similarities between terminals (something common today) we have to emphasize that the design is really beautiful.

The Huawei P10 adds a remarkable design change, the fingerprint sensor has come to the fore of the smartphone and this makes many users, followers of the firm, say that it has lost personality and others, while others thank it for the simple reason that when we are going to unlock the terminal that is on the table it is not necessary to lift it, in addition this button now brings together several functions that we can customize to Eliminate virtual screen buttons using their capacitive functions.

As for the chassis, it is made of aluminum with a glass finish on the back where the two 20MP + 12MP cameras co-developed with Leica, being 12 (RGB) + 20 (monochrome) mpx, OIS, dual LED flash and f / 2.2. We have ap5.1-inch Full HD screen which really looks good even if it gets sunlight and for me enough on a smartphone, with thin frames, a rounder look than the previous model, the P9 and a 2.5D glass that makes it somewhat more rounded at the ends offering a better grip and feeling when holding it in one hand.

Huawei P10 Specifications

We have already talked about these specifications on previous occasions and we are facing a spectacular device from its entry model. It has a capacity of 64GB of internal storage expandable by microSD card, in addition to having 4GB of LPDDR4 type RAM and the latest processor of the firm, the Kirin 960 Octa-core (4 × 2,4 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4 × 1,8GHz Cortex-A53 ) accompanied by the GPU: Mali-G71 Mp8.

About connectivity, we have everything, in addition to the new port USB type C for smartphone charging, the connector 3,5mm jack for headphones and latest generation 4G LTE 4 × 4 MIMO (4 physical antennas) to support a 4.5G network. 2 × 2 Wi-Fi MIMO (2 antennas) for high speed wireless coverage, Bluetooth, GPS and aGPS, OTG.

The audio is really good and its speaker is loud, pretty loud I would say. On the other hand, it should be noted the speed of unlocking the fingerprint sensor, this is really fast and effective, and we were pleasantly surprised despite the fact that Huawei has taken the measure well in its fingerprint sensors.

Dual camera of the Huawei P10

This is one of those sections that could go along with the specifications but it is good to separate the specifications from what it really offers the user when taking a photo, so let's talk about them a bit. What stands out in them along with the double camera of the P9 or the Mate 9 that already had this double camera signed by Leica, is perhaps the most intense colors something that not all users alike like. An option is added to the front so that group selfies come out better, allowing the camera field to be opened more when people are added around us, something simple but effective to make selfies look better.

The previous Huawei with dual lenses already took photos with depth of field that allow us the well-known «bokeh» effect. In this sense, we believe that it may still lack a bit of work if we want to compare it with that of the iPhone 7 Plus, but Thanks to Huawei's post-processing, quite good results can be achieved. We know that comparisons are never good, but it is clear that even they did it in their presentation and although you do not really get the same result in this type of photos, it is quite good. The night photos are not much better than in previous generations, so in this sense the camera of the Huawei P10 has improved in a very fair way obtaining a good grade in general considering the value for money.

The conclusions

Okay, all these specs are a good bunch of numbers and not just any numbers, but we can really say that This device is fast, we have not suffered crashes in these two weeks of use, it is able to last a whole day with its battery (3.200 mAh) even though we are performing numerous tasks with the terminal demanding the maximum, but if gets a bit warm with heavy use, nothing alarming by any means. So we can confirm that although it is true that the Huawei P10 Plus model adds some options that we would have liked to see in this new P10, such as water resistance or a larger battery, this P10 is willing to rub shoulders and win with the big smartphones that we will soon have at our fingertips.

In addition, we repeat what we commented at the beginning of this post, the time factor plays an important role and having the smartphone available in just 2 days (on sale on March 15) and giving away -in Spain- a Huawei Watch 2 with the pre-reservation of the same, they make the advantage over their rivals can be considerable so we will see the rate of sales that they achieve since to date nothing has been commented on the reservations.

Huawei P10
  • Editor's rating
  • 4.5 star rating
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  • Integrated
    Publisher: 95%
  • Screen
    Publisher: 90%
  • Performance
    Publisher: 95%
  • Camera
    Publisher: 90%
  • Autonomy
    Publisher: 90%
  • Price quality
    Publisher: 95%

Pros

  • We liked the little design change
  • Really fast front fingerprint sensor
  • Smartphone content size
  • Price quality
  • Improved fast charging

Cons

  • Night photos
  • Somewhat loaded software
  • The screen is good, but could be better


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