Huawei P10 Review: Is Evolution Enough?

Huawei P10 Review: Is Evolution Enough?

2017-03-27    12'38''

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Huawei P10 Review: Is Evolution Enough? Free talk: Is the Huawei P10 a better phone than the sum of its improvements? Selena: Hardware and Design If it feels like we’ve been discussing this hardware for a while now, it’s because we have. The P10 inherits a lot of what we liked from last year’s Mate 9. Screen resolution, chipset, RAM, storage options, and cameras are all shrunk down and crammed into a smaller form factor. For those of us with hobbit hands, it’s a much easier size to use one-handed while on the go. The P10 is just a touch taller, and slightly skinnier, than a Galaxy S7. Where the Mate as a phablet is something of a big old diesel truck, Huawei’s focus for the P10 is on aesthetics and design, making it more of a small roadster. The P10 draws some obvious inspirations from other popular phones, rounding corners and softening edges from last year’s more angular P9. Bolder color options are appreciated though, as we’ll be spending our review time with the dazzling blue model. This hyper cut back panel shimmers in sunlight, but achieves the goal of remaining nearly impervious to fingerprint smudges. It’s a refreshing change of pace from glass back phones, and helps with just a bit of additional grip over traditional aluminum rear cases. Zoey: Fingerprint One of the larger departures from previous Huawei phones, the fingerprint sensor moves to the front bezel. It requires more of a reach to unlock than rear mounted sensors, but it also doubles as a one stop shop for navigation. A single tap is a back button, long press will take you home, but the gesture swipe to use multi-tasking is the hardest piece of muscle memory to reprogram. Going on week two with this phone, I still miss this gesture about half the time I try it. At any time, you can just swap back to normal on screen controls, sacrificing a few pixels at the bottom of your display. Display We’re treated to a properly usable 1080p display. The HD resolution looking sharp enough at this 5.1” screen diagonal. Color and contrast are well represented for an LCD, and the brightness is competitive for a phone in this tier. In our basic Lux testing, the P10 edges out the LG G6, while falling far behind the burst outdoor brightness mode found on the Galaxy S7. Tom: Software Happily we get another improvement to Huawei’s custom software EMUI. Now on version 5.1, you get options to swap your homescreen from apps to an app drawer, and the general layout for notifications and settings is closer to stock android. There’s still a lot of UI customization, especially to things like confirmation dialog bubbles, but all the pieces are generally where you would expect them to be. We no longer suffer that odd mish-mash of iOS design found in the old EMUI notification shade. New for the P10, Huawei is promoting a partnership with GoPro, and the new photo gallery app delivers improved tools for editing and sharing videos. Similar to some of the filters and templates you might find in Google Photos or Instagram. It’s a fun add on for folks who like to share short clips with family and friends. We still get the benefits of Android 7, split screening apps and alt-tab style swapping, though accessing those features takes an additional bit of hunting if you’re using the fingerprint scanner navigation gestures. Nougat improves performance alongside Huawei’s aggressive resource management and garbage collection. Our Mate 9 is aging well in that regard, so we’re optimistic that the P10 will also perform well over time with future updates. Selena: Audio Headphone performance is adequate to good. Again, similar in performance to the Mate 9, though with a wider frequency response on 24bit files. We also see very subtle improvements to noise floor and dynamic range, but we’d be hard press to hear any significant differences. Though disabling the headphone DTS mode, we see more EQ tweaking which the user is unable to completely disable. The speaker performance is one of the weaker links of this phone, performing well for notifications, but it’s not going to break any records for music and movie playback. On the whole, it’s unlikely the P10 will make our list of audiophile phones at the end of the year, but it gets the job done well enough for most daily use situations. Bluetooth users might also be annoyed at how poorly this phone will hand off the connection between audio accessories. A common gripe on Huawei hardware, if I have headphones connected and get in my car, the phone won’t automatically prioritize the car for hands free calling. Manually disabling one accessory will occasionally lead to the Bluetooth connection locking up, requiring me to manually reestablish the connection in my car’s stereo settings. Not a process one would want to undertake while operating a motor vehicle. Zoey: Camera New for this phone, we get a “Portrait Mode” in addition to the terrific Wide Aperture setting. This add on incorporates beauty filters options normally found on the selfie camera. Where the Wide Aperture mode easily bests the background blur options found on other phones, this Portrait mode is a lot more destructive to skin tone at max settings. It also seems to create a harder border around your subject, so we’d recommend using it judiciously, maybe dialing back the effect to around level 3. Battery Battery life is very good for this capacity. During our streaming test, the P10 was well competitive against current flagship phones. Streaming thirty minutes of HD video over WiFi resulted in a 5% battery drain. This translated to good daily run time, making it to dinner with moderate use and room to spare. For power users, recharging during the day is made a lot easier with Huawei’s supercharger. A quick top off will easily deliver hours of run time after a short stint plugged in. Only 15 minutes on the charger topped off 19% of the cell. Huawei’s performance here is top tier, and is very impressive for how cool the phone remains while charging.