The Huawei P10 Review: A Great Phone with Some Major Drawbacks

I've been using the Huawei P10 as my main phone for the past few weeks, and I have to say that it's an incredibly powerful device. In fact, use a second SIM in this phone, which is a great feature for those who need to stay connected on the go.

One of the biggest improvements over the previous model, the P9, is the battery life. The P10 has a bigger 3200mAh battery that lasts significantly longer than the 3000mAh battery found on the P9. I've been using the P10 as my main phone for the past few weeks and I found it easily gets through a full day and a few hours into the next with moderate use, with a bit of rationing and using the power saving modes. In fact, I'd say a solid day and a half is doable, which is an improvement over the P9's battery life.

The P10 also uses Huawei's own Quick Charge technology, which they introduced on the Mate 9 through the phone's USB-C Port. This means that you can get enough charge for a full day in just half an hour of charging. The phone's battery life is certainly one of its strongest points, and it's a major improvement over the previous model.

One area where the P10 doesn't quite excel is in low-light photography. The main reason for this is the f/2.2 aperture on the rear camera, which is relatively narrow compared to other phones like the Galaxy S7 and Pixel. This means that light shots are darker, less detailed, and noisier than they would be with a wider aperture.

Despite this, I've found that the P10's camera is still very capable, especially in good light. The phone takes great photos, with sharp images and accurate colors. I also appreciate the pro features, although I do find some of them can get a bit confusing. There are many options to choose from, including Auto face-enhancing portrait mode, which just doesn't work very well in my opinion.

Overall, I think that the P10's camera is a major letdown, especially considering the price and the competition out there. While it's not bad by any means, it's certainly not as good as some of the other phones on the market, like the Galaxy S7 and Pixel. The P10's camera is also relatively narrow, which can result in darker and less detailed images.

The P10 is a great phone, but its high price tag is definitely a major drawback. At €650 or $600, it's far too expensive for my liking. Even if I was going to buy the P10 anyway, I wouldn't pay that much for it if it was say $500. It would be much more competitive and easier to recommend at that price.

However, there is a plus version of the P10 available, which addresses some of its weaknesses. The P10 Plus has a bigger 5.4-inch Quad HD screen, 6GB of RAM, a bigger battery, and a better camera with a wider f/1.8 aperture. All of these upgrades come at a cost of $50 more than the regular P10, which is still a significant amount of money.

In conclusion, I think that the Huawei P10 is a great phone that's worth considering if you're in the market for a new device. However, its high price tag and relatively narrow camera aperture are major drawbacks. If you're willing to pay full price, I highly recommend the P10, but if you can wait for the Plus version or look at other options, it might be worth it.

For those who don't mind paying a premium for a great phone, the Huawei P10 is an excellent choice. Its powerful performance, long battery life, and high-quality display make it a compelling option. However, its camera is not as good as some of the other phones on the market, and its high price tag may be off-putting to some buyers.

In terms of competition, I think that the Huawei P10 will face stiff competition from other flagships like the Galaxy S8 and LG G6. These phones have their own strengths and weaknesses, but they're certainly worth considering if you're in the market for a new device.

Overall, I'm glad to be using the Huawei P10 as my main phone, despite its few drawbacks. It's an incredibly powerful device that's well-suited to my needs, and it's definitely worth recommending to anyone who's in the market for a new phone.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso Huawei are pretty confident they've made this their new P10 one of the best smartphones you can buy why else would they've priced it at 650 or £600 the same price as the Google pixel or iPhone 7 but does it really compete is it a big upgrade over the P9 from last year and is it worth buying let's find out I think Huawei have seriously uped their game over the past couple of years the P9 and the mate 9 were two of my favorite phones from 2016 and while on the face of it the p only looks to be a bit of a minor facelift a slight evolution of last year's P9 it's actually a significantly better phone thanks to the latest software including Android 7 and emui 5.1 a much faster Kieran 960 processor a reposition home button and fingerprint reader which is on the front now rather than the back a bigger battery life and also an updated version of their fancy Li engineered dual camera setup these will add up to make the P10 a much better phone and even convinced me to jump ship for my Galaxy S7 I'm now using this as my main phone although whether I continue to use it when the S8 comes out in late April we'll have to wait and see I think the P10 looks and feels great in the hand but there's no denying its similarities to the iPhone 7 thanks to the less than 7 mm thick metal body rounded corners and even the antenna on the bottom Curves in the same way as the iPhone 7 but that's no bad thing iPhone 7's look great I think the P10 looks great and I do quite like this contrasting matte versus glossy black on the back but it's also available a whole range of colors that's something Huawei were really biging up this year including a Greenery green and dazzling blue both of which have slightly strange plasticky textures I'm not a big fan if I'm honest when I use them at mwc when they launched the P10 for me the black or the silver or the gold are probably your Best Bets but as comfortable as it is to hold it is quite slippery again like the iPhone so you may want to put a case on it it's also not waterproof unlike a lot of the competition so be careful you don't drop it down the toilet the P10 has a 5.1 in 10 0p screen which looks fantastic and it's seriously bright too this thing can push out up to 500 nits so you're going to have any trouble using this outside in bright sunlight and the colors are vibrant they really pop out of the screen on the IPS LCD display although you won't get quite the same Inky blacks as you do on the Super AMOLED display you get on the Galaxy S7 the P10 is also one of the first phones to come with gorilla glass 5 to protect the screen so it shouldn't scratch easily although it does come with a screen protector already on if you want to leave it the biggest difference for me over last year's P9 and the P10 is that reposition home button last year we just had the fingerprint reader on the back there wasn't really a home button this year it's all built into to this home button on the lower bezel it's so fast I've barely ever seen the lock screen on this phone it's just as quick as that it's less than a second it's incredible but for me the best part is you can now get rid of the on-screen software buttons you can actually use the home button to go back to open up uh recently used apps and to go to the home screen basically all you need to do let's uh say we've got Chrome open uh I can hold it down for a couple of seconds goes back to the home screen I could say open an email like this some spam uh tap it once and it goes back hold it down go to the home button or I can swipe to the right and it opens up recently used apps initially I was not quite sure I wasn't quite convinced about how useful that is now I use it all the time and sometimes I go back to my other phone and I think I kind of miss it it's actually really intuitive it takes a couple of hours to get used to but I think it works really well and you do get that extra bit of screen back where the on screen buttons used to be now as for actually using the phone well I reckon Huawei software is probably what's going to put off most people aside from the price buying a new phone like this but the truth is it shouldn't the latest Android 7 nouar combined with their emotion UI uh emui 5.1 is actually a pleasure to use of course I still prefer stock Android like you get on the Google pixel but for me this is on the same level as Samsung's Touch wiz although there is still quite a lot of bloatware and random outs pre-installed that you have to take a few minutes to uninstall or hide in a folder uh but despite that I actually really like it and there's so many ways of customizing how things look and changing things you can actually make it look just the way you want combine that with huawei's own octacore Kieran 960 processor which Powers the P10 that's the same one used in last year's mate 9 alongside 4 GB of RAM the P10 feels super fast and responsive I haven't noticed any slowdowns or crash es and every single game and app I've thrownness it runs flawlessly as for storage you get a generous 64 GB built in which puts the recently announced LG G6 is 32 gigs to shame as well as a Micro SD card which supports up to 256 gig cards or if you prefer you don't have to use a Micro SD and you can in fact use a second Sim in this phone as for battery life well last year's P9 was average at best the good news is that the P10 does last a fair bit longer thanks to the bigger 3200 mAh battery that's up from 3 000 on the P9 I've been using the P10 as my main phone for the past few weeks and I found it easily gets through a full day and a few hours into the next with moderate use with a bit of rationing and using the power saving modes I'd say a solid day and a half is doable so it is an improvement over the P9 in my experience and lasts a couple of hours longer than say the iPhone 7 and about the same as the Galaxy S7 the P10 also uses huawei's own Quick Charge technology which they introduce on the mate 9 through the phone's USB C Port which means you can get enough charge for a full day in just half an hour of charge now let's talk about that camera Huawei introduced this Leica branded dual camera setup on the P9 last year now there were lots of rumors around how much input Leica actually had or whether it was more of a marketing stunt huawe do insist that Leica played a big part in making these cameras which uses two different sensors one 20 megap monochrome and one 12 megap RGB that's boosted from 10 megapixels last year to produce brighter and more detailed photos well that's the idea at least in truth I'm not that impressed by the P9 camera and while there have been a few improvements it's still not as good as I hoped and phones like the Galaxy S7 and Google pixel are still a fair bit better in terms of camera quality especially in low light and the main reason the P10 struggles in low light is written right on the back f2.2 the P10s f2.2 aperture on the rear camera is relatively narrow compared to the Galaxy s7s f1.7 and pixels F2 so it simply doesn't let as much light into the sensor so light shots are darker less detailed and noisier in good light the P10 actually takes great photos it's really sharp colors are accurate there's a good amount of detail and I really like the pro features although it can get a little bit confusing there's so many different options to choose from and there's also loads of like Auto face enhancing portrait mode stuff that just in my opinion doesn't work very well so for me as fancy as their dual camera setup and like a branding sounds at the end of the day it just doesn't quite deliver to the level I'd expect especially considering the price and the competition out there and while it's buying no means bad it probably is my single biggest issue with the P10 that is except for the price at €650 or 600 Quid it's far too expensive in my opinion and as good as it is as much as I like it as much as I am genuinely using this every day now I wouldn't pay that much for it if the P10 was say 500 it would be much more competitive and far easier to recommend and not only that if I was going to go out and buy a P10 and I really like these new Huawei phones I'd actually go for the P10 plus it's got a bigger 5.4 5in Quad HD screen 6 GB of RAM a bigger battery and crucially a much better camera with a wider f1.8 aperture all that and it's only 50 more at $699 which I'm sure you'll agree is ridiculously expensive but if I was going to go and pay 650 for this anyway I definitely pay that 50 more and go for the plus so the P10 is genuinely a great phone I really like it but it's just far too expensive I'm not sure how competitive it will be against the Galaxy S8 and LG G6 I will of course be making comparisons uh when these phones come out but for now if the price doesn't bother you I do highly recommend the P10 as I say I'm actually switching from the S7 to this myself even though the camera isn't quite as good so that's what I think but what do you reckon do let me know in the comments below and if you do fancy buying the P10 you can find links in the description below and also if you're in the US if you're in the states I don't think the P10 is actually coming to you which is a bit of a shame actually because it is still a terrific phone I will let you know and update the description if that changes butth to my American friends I'm sorry I think this may just be coming to Europe UK and some of parts of the world but hopefully that will changeso Huawei are pretty confident they've made this their new P10 one of the best smartphones you can buy why else would they've priced it at 650 or £600 the same price as the Google pixel or iPhone 7 but does it really compete is it a big upgrade over the P9 from last year and is it worth buying let's find out I think Huawei have seriously uped their game over the past couple of years the P9 and the mate 9 were two of my favorite phones from 2016 and while on the face of it the p only looks to be a bit of a minor facelift a slight evolution of last year's P9 it's actually a significantly better phone thanks to the latest software including Android 7 and emui 5.1 a much faster Kieran 960 processor a reposition home button and fingerprint reader which is on the front now rather than the back a bigger battery life and also an updated version of their fancy Li engineered dual camera setup these will add up to make the P10 a much better phone and even convinced me to jump ship for my Galaxy S7 I'm now using this as my main phone although whether I continue to use it when the S8 comes out in late April we'll have to wait and see I think the P10 looks and feels great in the hand but there's no denying its similarities to the iPhone 7 thanks to the less than 7 mm thick metal body rounded corners and even the antenna on the bottom Curves in the same way as the iPhone 7 but that's no bad thing iPhone 7's look great I think the P10 looks great and I do quite like this contrasting matte versus glossy black on the back but it's also available a whole range of colors that's something Huawei were really biging up this year including a Greenery green and dazzling blue both of which have slightly strange plasticky textures I'm not a big fan if I'm honest when I use them at mwc when they launched the P10 for me the black or the silver or the gold are probably your Best Bets but as comfortable as it is to hold it is quite slippery again like the iPhone so you may want to put a case on it it's also not waterproof unlike a lot of the competition so be careful you don't drop it down the toilet the P10 has a 5.1 in 10 0p screen which looks fantastic and it's seriously bright too this thing can push out up to 500 nits so you're going to have any trouble using this outside in bright sunlight and the colors are vibrant they really pop out of the screen on the IPS LCD display although you won't get quite the same Inky blacks as you do on the Super AMOLED display you get on the Galaxy S7 the P10 is also one of the first phones to come with gorilla glass 5 to protect the screen so it shouldn't scratch easily although it does come with a screen protector already on if you want to leave it the biggest difference for me over last year's P9 and the P10 is that reposition home button last year we just had the fingerprint reader on the back there wasn't really a home button this year it's all built into to this home button on the lower bezel it's so fast I've barely ever seen the lock screen on this phone it's just as quick as that it's less than a second it's incredible but for me the best part is you can now get rid of the on-screen software buttons you can actually use the home button to go back to open up uh recently used apps and to go to the home screen basically all you need to do let's uh say we've got Chrome open uh I can hold it down for a couple of seconds goes back to the home screen I could say open an email like this some spam uh tap it once and it goes back hold it down go to the home button or I can swipe to the right and it opens up recently used apps initially I was not quite sure I wasn't quite convinced about how useful that is now I use it all the time and sometimes I go back to my other phone and I think I kind of miss it it's actually really intuitive it takes a couple of hours to get used to but I think it works really well and you do get that extra bit of screen back where the on screen buttons used to be now as for actually using the phone well I reckon Huawei software is probably what's going to put off most people aside from the price buying a new phone like this but the truth is it shouldn't the latest Android 7 nouar combined with their emotion UI uh emui 5.1 is actually a pleasure to use of course I still prefer stock Android like you get on the Google pixel but for me this is on the same level as Samsung's Touch wiz although there is still quite a lot of bloatware and random outs pre-installed that you have to take a few minutes to uninstall or hide in a folder uh but despite that I actually really like it and there's so many ways of customizing how things look and changing things you can actually make it look just the way you want combine that with huawei's own octacore Kieran 960 processor which Powers the P10 that's the same one used in last year's mate 9 alongside 4 GB of RAM the P10 feels super fast and responsive I haven't noticed any slowdowns or crash es and every single game and app I've thrownness it runs flawlessly as for storage you get a generous 64 GB built in which puts the recently announced LG G6 is 32 gigs to shame as well as a Micro SD card which supports up to 256 gig cards or if you prefer you don't have to use a Micro SD and you can in fact use a second Sim in this phone as for battery life well last year's P9 was average at best the good news is that the P10 does last a fair bit longer thanks to the bigger 3200 mAh battery that's up from 3 000 on the P9 I've been using the P10 as my main phone for the past few weeks and I found it easily gets through a full day and a few hours into the next with moderate use with a bit of rationing and using the power saving modes I'd say a solid day and a half is doable so it is an improvement over the P9 in my experience and lasts a couple of hours longer than say the iPhone 7 and about the same as the Galaxy S7 the P10 also uses huawei's own Quick Charge technology which they introduce on the mate 9 through the phone's USB C Port which means you can get enough charge for a full day in just half an hour of charge now let's talk about that camera Huawei introduced this Leica branded dual camera setup on the P9 last year now there were lots of rumors around how much input Leica actually had or whether it was more of a marketing stunt huawe do insist that Leica played a big part in making these cameras which uses two different sensors one 20 megap monochrome and one 12 megap RGB that's boosted from 10 megapixels last year to produce brighter and more detailed photos well that's the idea at least in truth I'm not that impressed by the P9 camera and while there have been a few improvements it's still not as good as I hoped and phones like the Galaxy S7 and Google pixel are still a fair bit better in terms of camera quality especially in low light and the main reason the P10 struggles in low light is written right on the back f2.2 the P10s f2.2 aperture on the rear camera is relatively narrow compared to the Galaxy s7s f1.7 and pixels F2 so it simply doesn't let as much light into the sensor so light shots are darker less detailed and noisier in good light the P10 actually takes great photos it's really sharp colors are accurate there's a good amount of detail and I really like the pro features although it can get a little bit confusing there's so many different options to choose from and there's also loads of like Auto face enhancing portrait mode stuff that just in my opinion doesn't work very well so for me as fancy as their dual camera setup and like a branding sounds at the end of the day it just doesn't quite deliver to the level I'd expect especially considering the price and the competition out there and while it's buying no means bad it probably is my single biggest issue with the P10 that is except for the price at €650 or 600 Quid it's far too expensive in my opinion and as good as it is as much as I like it as much as I am genuinely using this every day now I wouldn't pay that much for it if the P10 was say 500 it would be much more competitive and far easier to recommend and not only that if I was going to go out and buy a P10 and I really like these new Huawei phones I'd actually go for the P10 plus it's got a bigger 5.4 5in Quad HD screen 6 GB of RAM a bigger battery and crucially a much better camera with a wider f1.8 aperture all that and it's only 50 more at $699 which I'm sure you'll agree is ridiculously expensive but if I was going to go and pay 650 for this anyway I definitely pay that 50 more and go for the plus so the P10 is genuinely a great phone I really like it but it's just far too expensive I'm not sure how competitive it will be against the Galaxy S8 and LG G6 I will of course be making comparisons uh when these phones come out but for now if the price doesn't bother you I do highly recommend the P10 as I say I'm actually switching from the S7 to this myself even though the camera isn't quite as good so that's what I think but what do you reckon do let me know in the comments below and if you do fancy buying the P10 you can find links in the description below and also if you're in the US if you're in the states I don't think the P10 is actually coming to you which is a bit of a shame actually because it is still a terrific phone I will let you know and update the description if that changes butth to my American friends I'm sorry I think this may just be coming to Europe UK and some of parts of the world but hopefully that will change\n"