Practical training with Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro: It was connected to Zeitgeist for the smartphone

In just a few years, Huawei has moved from an unfamiliar brand for consumers outside China to the second largest smartphone manufacturing company in the world. Even if you never have the Huawei phone, there are people around you. The leading company in the company was launched in the United States in early 2017, and speculation has been captured about Mate 10 recently. The phone was recently unveiled in Munich – or rather, Phones It was revealed. Mate 10 will come in flavors: The Standard Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro.

I had the opportunity to get my hand on a companion 10 (on the left) and Mate 10 Pro (on the right), and one thing is immediately clear when these devices pick up: Huawei knows how to build a smartphone. The design is elegant, and puts the Huawei building quality in the same group as Samsung and Apple. At the same time, Huawei has taken some of the decisions of devices that are likely to exacerbate smartphone buyers, especially with Mate 10 Pro.

Devices

Mate 10 LCD packages of 5.9 -inch 1440 pixels is not different from the player in the last generation of colleague 9. The 16: 9 plate is still 9, but Huawei says that brightness has been reinforced by 40 % to 730 networks. This is impressive for the LCD screen, and I can confirm that it is incredibly bright personally. The phone is very wide, so it is not very easy to use it with one hand. Mate 10 Pro has a slightly larger 6 -inch panel, but it doesn’t do that Feel greater. This is because this screen contains a larger transverse rate of 18: 9, and therefore the narrower frame makes it easy to handle. This painting is also OLED, but in the first confusing decisions, the decision is only 2160 x 1080 – the longest 1080 pixels. The professional screen looks bright and vibrant for me, but there is also some visible mystery of the OLED matrix when you look closely.

From the inside is Kirin 970 SOC, which unveiled Huawei a few weeks ago. In addition to the CPU, this slide has what the company calls the NPU. It is basically a custom silicone piece for artificial intelligence relationship on the device. As a result, Mate 10 includes some interesting AI’s features that I will get later. There are also 4 GB of RAM in his normal companion 10 and 6 GB in professionals. Both phones are double SIM, and all SIM cards can connect with 4G networks. For storage, you have 64 GB in the standard form and 128 GB in professionals. Strange, Mate 10 has a microSD card slot, but Mate 10 Pro no. Once again, why is this “professional?”

I must hand it over to Huawei. It is definitely connected to Zeitgeist to design smartphones. These phones are “2017.” Mate 10 zigzag phones, elegant, mainly made of glass. I was clear about my feelings on the glass phones (I am not a fan), but not everyone agrees with me. Therefore, let’s take a look at these designs with some objectivity. The background glass plate is slippery, but the way it joins with the aluminum frame shows the experience of industrial design in Huawei. The glass is curved on all four edges, eliminating all the bits that can earn you uncomfortable while carrying the phone. It looks like a polished stone.

^{Rafik 10}

The fingerprint sensor moved to the Mate 10 introduction, but Mate 10 Pro keeps it on the back Where it should be. The professional has a top frame and lower slightly lower, but there is a huwei logo overcrowded as the other phone has a sensor. It does not seem to be embarrassingly embarrassing, but this is the Huawei logo on the supporter for only one on the normal model. Both phones have a smaller edge than his colleague 9, though.

Again, we have dual cameras with the Leica brand. There is a 12 -megapixel RGB camera associated with a 20 -megapixel monochrome sensor. These units work together to sharpen the images and serve 2X. These cameras have a huge F/1.6 hole, which should pull a lot of light. However, visual installation is available on the RGB sensor only. To add a little visible taste to the back of the phone, there is a reflective chips effect in a tape across the cameras. Huawei says the Porsche version of Mate 10 Pro will later be released with a vertical tape instead of the horizontal. At the top there are infrared amplifiers, which is unusual to see these days.

^{Matti 10 professionals}

Both phones are charged via USB Type-C with a super-charging standard in Huawei to get the maximum speed of more than 20 watts. Phones also contain huge 4000 mAh batteries just like Mate 9. This phone had an incredible battery life, and I expect the same thing from the Mate 10 series. It is clear that I couldn’t confirm this during my limited time with phones. The Type-C port is attached to the headphone socket on Mate 10, but for some reason, Huawei chose to remove the socket on Mate 10 Pro. It comes with a USB adapter to headphone instead. This is Bomer, but Mate 10 Pro has the advantage of being the IP68 water resistant. The normal is not.

programming

Huawei comes out of the gate with Android 8.0 Oreo on the Mate 10 series, which is very proud of that. Very proud, in fact, the new EMUI version was shocked from 5.1 to 8.0 to match. NPU in the new Kirin 970 in Huawei leads several large components of EMUI 8. For example, Mate 10 will have built -in textual and pronounced translation via Microsoft Translate. The phone can also set the screen color based on the surrounding lighting to make it more comfortable to look at it. All this happens on the phone with NPU instead of using external sources to the cloud.

NPU also runs the new camera feature. While moving the camera lens around it, Mate 10 determines what it indicates. Then, the camera shares different photography modes automatically. It can discover things like food, flowers, text, dogs, outdoor landscapes, people, dogs, etc. Huawei is keen to indicate that this happens in the actual time on the device without any data to the cloud. Phone He is It is surprising that you discover what you envision. The camera was directed to a flower, and immediately emerged the flower symbol in the corner to indicate that it turned the shooting modes. The same happened when I directed it to a plate of fruits, but in this case I properly set food. I cannot say with certainty whether the photography modes will do anything good, but the first part of the equation works as intended.

^{Mate 10 correctly select the flowers (note the symbol in the upper left corner).}

EMUI 8 also has a quick access to the division mode on the screen-there is the A button in the hero notification. Just click this, and you can drop the application in the division mode on the screen with anything else you open to the other half. It was not clear during practical training, but this may Work only with Huawei stock applications. The embedded applications will also have new multi -column mode to guidance the landscape.

My time with Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro was not tainted by any slowdown or delay. These phones seem faster than competition, even with the presence of luxury AI things that occur in the background. Mobility buttons are slightly larger, too, many will consider improvement. Previous Huawei phones were small buttons on the screen. Mate 10 Pro fails to have no visible buttons, but there is one floating button that can be used to excite the home, back, and a general view with taps and gestures. I did not find this particularly convincing experience, but it may be just a matter of time to adjust it. You can turn on the buttons again if you want, or both transport facades work at the same time.

^{Standing the desktop at work}

It is also rumored, Huawei designed its own version of UI Dex Desktop Samsung, but it does not require a berth. All you need is a Type-C cable that supports video output, either by Type-C or Displayport. Huawei was a little clear any The cables will work, but there is a list of the approved cables available later. When you connect one of these cables, you will get an amazing Windows interface with Windows applications, taskbar, notification center, and “Start” menu. All your applications and data are available in this interface, but third -party applications will strike or miss a little. This is very well done in the demonstration. The phone was able to download the content in one application while playing the video in another window, and there was no distinct delay.

One of the smart developments here is that you can maintain your own personal media instead of appearing on the expected screen for everyone to see. Mate 10 itself can work as a keyboard and mouse for this user interface, but you can also associate two Bluetooth devices simultaneously thanks to another Mod Huawei.

conclusion

Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro look like it can compete with the best Android phones. The design is attractive, Huawei has long long. And 4000mAh battery on the phone? Yes, please. Personally, I don’t like glass phones, but some of the most popular devices in 2017 Sport Glass. I think Huawei only gives people what they want.

EMUI 8 offers a lot of great promises about AI on devices, but I don’t know these are convincing reasons to get a 10 -year -old for something else. Mate 10 Pro also looks less attractive than the regular phone in several important ways – the screen is less accurate, there is no headphone socket, and there is no microSD card slot.

^{Mate 9, Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro}

Pricing and availability will be essential, and these are both my hearts that Huwi keeps themselves. We must get international price details and buy today, but the American data will come later. All I can make sure is that the cost of Mate 10 will be on the same stadium as Mate 9 (about $ 500), and the professional will be somewhat higher. I think both models will be available in the United States in the end.