Smartphone Huawei Mate 10 Dual Sim: A year has passed, to summarize

The Huawei Mate 10 Dual Sim smartphone, the subject of this review, has been on the market for a year now. It's time to sum up the intermediate results and consider the strengths and weaknesses of the phone.

A bit of history

Huawei has traditionally placed Mate series phones as the flagships of the range. And 2017 was no exception. This year, not one, but two new products from the manufacturer entered the market: Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro.

The Huawei Mate 10 smartphone was released in October 2017. And almost immediately, the phone earned the respect of consumers thanks to its powerful body, pleasing to the eye appearance, high-quality images and a good price. In Russia, buyers have been able to purchase Huawei Mate 10 since November 2017 at an affordable price.

It's been almost a year since the Huawei Mate 10 Dual Sim hit the market.And today we have the opportunity for almost a year of history to talk about its characteristics, to consider its best and weaker sides, which manufacturers do not openly declare.

Specifications and equipment

Strict appearance

The design of the P10 / P10 Plus with rounded edges and a black body, in contrast to the beveled edges and matte metal facade of the Mate 9, found its development in Huawei Mate 10.

Mate 10 draws attention with a durable glass body, which allowed manufacturers to achieve an elegant and unique design. It strikes the imagination of users with a harmonious fusion of glass and metal. Large screen size.

The phone is powerful, comfortable, strictly seasoned, symmetrical, beautiful. Nothing extra.

Worthy criteria for choosing this particular phone will allow you to understand which company's phone is better.

Advanced materials and functional

Huawei Mate 10 is reliable, smart, nimble, adaptive, responding instantly to any user request. It is no coincidence that it is included in the category of "popular models".

Harmony of materials and functionality

HiSilicon's latest latest Kirin 970 processor, built on the 10th process, is equipped with 8 cores. It is paired with a Mali-G72 GPU and – a first for Huawei – a Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU), boosting its AI capabilities.

The phone also has 64GB of internal storage and 4GB of RAM, with the former expandable by 256GB via micro-SD but at the cost of a second 4G compatible SIM slot.

It should be noted the innovative technology of glass development. Equipped with a 6.0-inch Corning Gorilla Glass IPS-LCD display with resolutions up to 1440 x 2560, the phone is strong, beautiful and undeniably reliable. While it doesn't have the "pop" of today's OLED displays, you won't have to worry about any of the infamous burn-in issues associated with other flagships.

Huawei has crammed a massive 4,000mAh battery into the Mate 10, which, when combined with the included fast charger, gives you an instant day and a half with virtually no time to recharge.

Just make sure you keep your phone out of the water as it doesn't have the same high protection rating as its older sibling, the Mate 10 Pro.

Phone Manager also welcomes the return and, combined with the NPU module and proprietary machine learning algorithm, the phone is able to recognize your usage patterns and improve performance over time.

And for active demanding games, the phone is suitable thanks to the powerful built-in graphics chip.The phone is so powerful that its high image processing speed guarantees an impressive visual effect.

Unlocking is carried out literally with one movement of the hand.

New heights - new problems - new solutions!

The Huawei Mate 10 is the first non-Google phone to launch with bare-bones Android Oreo, which was covered by Huawei EMUI 8.0 OS.

The working process

EMUI is its usual all-encompassing and self-configuring part. But you may encounter a few "quirks" that go along with how EMUI interacts with native Oreo features. For example, using picture-in-picture mode with Google Maps results in undesired zooming of the map itself, and the "Delete" feature in the Gmail dropdown may occasionally not work.

However, there are a number of EMUI-based features that users may find particularly useful. The most impressive of these is the built-in "Translator" feature. Using the device, the user can take a photo, dictate a phrase or write it down while talking in a foreign language. "Translator" translates into English (or another) language and superimposes the translation on the drawing, responds with a translated version of the recorded phrase. Also, thanks to this function, you can translate someone's speech in real time, and the phone shows the result of the translation on the screen.

High quality photography

Huawei proves its superiority over other models on the photography front. How the phone takes photos at night, in low light levels, can be judged by the incredible quality images that Leica Optics allows you to take.

The phone's laser focus provides good macro quality, and also allows you to shoot high-quality images both in the sun and in low light.
Excellent natural screen with real colors. The classic 16:9 aspect ratio provides a really large screen area.

One of the trickier camera tricks is the 3D panorama mode. The 8MP front camera's Intelligent Mode allows you to detect multiple faces and automatically adjust to a wide angle. As the phone takes pictures, you can fully experience all the Leica effects available to it with this flagship.

The camera without settings allows you to take pictures like inexpensive DSLRs. The camera software also benefits from the NPU, taking advantage of the ability to recognize everyday objects, adjust sharpness and practice the much-loved bokeh.

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Video quality is also very good, though it doesn't compare to the phone's phenomenal still image capabilities.

Reliable battery

Harmoniously. Aesthetically. functional

The smartphone is equipped with a capacious 4000 mAh battery that supports fast charging, which ensures good autonomy of the phone. If the device is turned off, it takes only 26 minutes to charge from 0% to 50%. A full charge cycle is no more than 90 minutes. Agree, the speed is impressive.

The hardware and software parts of the smartphone are maximally sharpened for minimal energy consumption. As a result, it is able to work for a long time on a single charge.

A charge with an average level of use is enough for one day (enough for the Internet, and for SMS, and for social networks). And the length of the cord will allow you to not be "attached" to the outlet when charging.

You can use it not only for conversations, but also for games, and for viewing photos and videos. With very intensive use, it works for 6 hours. With the battery optimization settings enabled, the phone will provide 5 hours of use during the day with a remaining charge level of 50%.

Summarize

The Huawei Mate 10 tops the list of quality phones as it offers consumers impressive features such as Hislilicon's latest AI-enabled Kirin 970 processor, amazing camera, the latest version of Android, a bright and memorable design, great battery life, and the ability to use your smartphone in PC quality. Reviews for the phone, if you look them up online, are positive. And if you are considering budget phones, then this model is for you.

• Memorable modern design;
• Ergonomics;
• Long-life battery;
• Quality camera;
• Convenient firmware.

• Heavy weight (especially for a female hand) and slippery surface;
• The software is not the latest version;
• FM radio.

Conclusion: good!

Even though the phone is not perfect, the manufacturers promise that it will only get better as Huawei invests more in the development of this technology and the popularity of the models grows. And today it is a highly professional, competent, and also financially attractive flagship that can be purchased. How and based on what criteria to choose a phone, we think it's obvious to you. We suspect that you are already wondering how much this masterpiece costs. The average price of a flagship is about 90,000 tenge or 34,000 rubles. Where it is profitable to buy - in Moscow, Almaty or Tokyo, for rubles, tenge, euros or dollars - you decide.