Huawei Mate 10 Design, Antutu, Camera, Battery, Functions Review

Huawei has released Huawei Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro and Mate 10 Porsche version, selling at 699 euros, 799 euros and 1,395 euros. Compared with Huawei Mate 9, Huawei Mate 10 series highlights are in processor and camera. It is first time to use Kirin 970 AI chipset and latest gen Leica dual rear camera. Let’s know more details about Huawei MATE 10.

Design

In design, Huawei  Mate 10 body is more sleek than Mate 9, on the back, it adopts 3D glass design, although the back is very smooth, Huawei still adds some details in its camera, it adopts third-gen Leica dual rear camera vertically, the flash light and infrared module is also put on two sides of camera lens, the camera still stands out.

Huawei Mate 10 fingerprint scanner doesn’t use on back, but on the Home button that can’t be pressed. Huawei Mate 10 Pro and Huawei Mate 10 Porsche version keeps fingerprint scanner on the back design, the front doesn’t have physical home button, the forehead and chin narrow a little more than Huawei Mate 10, the body looks longer.

On the front design is very simple, it only has receiver, proximity sensor and front camera on the forehead. Due to different position, Mate 10 doesn’t use front Leica dual camera like Huawei P10, just using a 8MP front camera, F/2.0 aperture.

Hardware and System

Huawei Mate 10 is powered by Kirin 970 processor, RAM 4GB, Mate 10 Pro and Porsche version run RAM 6GB. According to its Antutu, it has got 176,670 points, compared with those RAM 6GB Android flagships, it has some gaps, it owns 64GB ROM, Huawei makes MicroSD design compatible with SIM card slot, users can expand the storage.

From the experience, Huawei Mate 10 running is fluent, without stuck issue, it runs EMUI 8.0 OS based on Android 8.0 OS, and many functions of Huawei has been remained. And Huawei MATE 10 has added Big Bang fonts, USB Type C with display to turn into desktop mode function.

Camera

In camera, Mate 10 uses 12MP color+20MP black/white dual rear camera, F/1.6 aperture, the third-Gen Leica dual rear camera, larger aperture improves light-in, and taking better images in dim light, but black/white+color lens is the most common dual rear camera, in order to improving details.

Its own camera app operation doesn’t change. users can press shutter button to get professional mode, much convenient. In addition, Huawei Mate 10 camera supports auto recognition function,after turning on the app, camera can open corresponding mode according to current environment.

In performance of its camera, at the day, dual rear camera can take high quality images, its toning is more stable than before, which is good news for those taking photos and then toning.

In addition, whether in day or dim light, the picture can be enlarged well, except under extreme dim light.

We have to say Huawei Mate 10 with f/1.6 aperture has obvious depth of field change when photographing, plus nearest focus distance function, it can still take some impacted pictures.

Although Huawei Mate 10 can take nice images under daylight, under default mode, it is a little tough to face high gloss scene. Although Huawei says improving images processing ability, this performance can not make us satisfy. Under this condition, it is better to open HDR.

More light-in amount plus Huawei light measuring strategy has improved taking photos at night, so Huawei mate 10 night details perform well.

Facing with different environment condition, Huawei Mate 10 recognition is good.

Under dim light to use black, white mode, the contrast will be higer.

Therefore, after experience, the highlight of the third-gen of Leica dual rear camera is in image balance and aperture improving, which can make common photographing have better bokeh effect, the image become more balanced. But with large light environment, Huawei Mate 10 processes not very easily.

Battery

Huawei Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro both are built in 4,000mAh battery, and support SuperCharge to keep fast enough charging speed, in addition, they have got approval by Germany Rheinland safe certification, getting global first safe quick charge certification.

It is wortwhile to know that Huawei Mate 10 has brought SuperCharge car charger , and 10,000mAh SuperCharge power bank to let you enjoy convenience of quick charge.

Functions

RGBW screen

Huawei Mate 10 comes with a RGBW OLED screen, compared with traditional RGB, RGBW screen adds white pixel, under same brightness, it saves more power than traditional RGB line, so Huawei MATE 10 screen resolution is up to 2K level, higher than Huawei Mate 10 pro.

PC Mode

Huawei Mate 10 series is built in PC mode, compared with other phone’s PC Mode, Huawei Mate 10/10 Pro only needs a USB cable to connect other displays, making it like a PC interface. We can connect Bluetooth mouse, keyboard, or change Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro screen into touch panel, in PC mode, Check more review from igeekphone here.EMUI can block phone call, messages harassment.

Huawei Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro supports up to 384k/32bit Hi-Res high quality music playing, with the help of AI technology, this two smartphones support Huawei Easytalk technology, under noise environment, it can not reduce noise to take phone call smartly, even in quiet places, we can still hear others talking.

Of course, AI technology is applied in camera, EMUI and other aspect, such as recognizing automatically up to 13 types of objects, and then switch different photographing mode.

Huawei Mate 10 with Kirin 970 processor supports 4*4 MIMO+256QAM modem and 3CC CA technology, up to 1.2Gbps（Cat.18）downloading rate, enjoying high speed network experience by 4.5G LTE network. In addition, Huawei Mate 10 can support dual SIM card, dual standby, and dual4G VoLTE.

Conclusion

According to Huawei Mate 10 different aspects introduction, which aspect do you impress most? Although in terms of its Antutu test, it is not the most powerful in terms of its hardware performance, it is famous for its quality, camera, quick charge, AI technology, processor, etc. Please share with us if you will choose this phone.