As Huawei's dual flagship strategy continues to advance, the steady pace of Huawei has brought us a new flagship of the P series - Huawei P10. Huawei P10, a brand that has been known for many years as a business brand, seems to have regained its youth after entering the P10 era. Diamond blue, grass and wood green, ceramic white, etc., and a variety of light and bright colors make everyone refreshing, Now let's see how P10, full of youth, performs.
Appearance design
From Nova, Huawei seems to have started to move towards youth and liveliness, consciously or unconsciously, and gradually formed Nova's main young users. The P series competed for the mainstream consumer market, while the Mate series continued to focus on business users, still a jazz life.
Every spring, Huawei's P series always arrives as scheduled, and P10 is no surprise. At this year's MWC, Huawei brought us this unexpected but somewhat surprising model. Recently, Huawei finally unveiled its mystery in China.
Diamond blue, grass green, obsidian black, ceramic white, rose gold, diamond gold, bright silver, Huawei has brought us a number of new colors, of which grass green and diamond blue are relatively small and fresh.
Our leading role today is one of the most popular colors - Diamonde Blue, which is also one of the annual new colors launched by Huawei together with Pantone, a color authority.
Of course, the diamond carving blue is not only blue, but also has a diamond carving process. This process uses a micron drill bit to carve countless tiny diamond cutting surfaces on the metal back cover, making the whole back cover have a unique luster no matter what angle.
In addition to its cooperation with Pantone in appearance, it has also continued its cooperation with Leica in camera. It carries a new generation of Leica dual cameras and uses the SUMMILUX lens.
Similar to Mate 9, P10's dual camera combination is 12 million pixel color camera+20 million black and white camera, which supports dual camera zoom, and the main camera is equipped with optical anti shake. The two rear cameras of P10 are both f/2.2 aperture, and the two cameras of P10 Plus are f/1.8 aperture.
The front camera of P10 adopts Leica self timer, which is also the first model equipped with Leica front camera, with 8 million pixels, aperture of f/1.9, and binning technology to improve brightness and weak light performance.
Leica dual camera has become Huawei's landmark design. The layout of the camera is basically the same as that of P9, but the distance between the two cameras has been slightly widened.
The overall structural design is quite similar to P9, but the appearance design is more beautiful and the whole machine is more rounded. The large arc angle design at the four corners can make it more suitable for the palm.
The transition between the back and the frame is quite smooth. The smooth arc processing is used at the frame and the back cover, which is integrated and has a good overall feeling. However, P9 uses CNC polishing at the same position, so the consistency of hand feel will be slightly worse.
Of course, the biggest change is that it no longer uses post fingerprint identification, so the back is more concise. Huawei's logo replaces the previous position of fingerprint identification.
The back cover of the diamond carving process makes it present different gloss at different angles, and its color value is very high. However, only the back cover of the diamond carving process is available for the diamond carving blue and diamond carving gold, and the traditional sandblasting process is used for other color matching.
The fine drilling texture makes it have a good friction coefficient, which is not as slippery as the sandblasted surface. Interestingly, because the surface texture is relatively rough, there will be a rustling sound when you scratch the metal surface with nails or other objects.
The antenna partition strip is also changed, and the dome type U-shaped antenna with better concealment is used.
The layout of the side buttons is almost the same as that of P9. All three buttons are located on the right side of the body, the volume button is higher, and the power button is lower.
The concave design is adopted around the power button. The power button not only has a red logo, but also has a rough texture surface design, which can effectively distinguish the power button from the volume button. The detail design is very careful.
In terms of body openings, most of the openings are located at the bottom of the body. From left to right, there are 3.5mm volume buttons, call microphones, USB Type-C connectors and speaker openings.
From this point of view, the arc design of the frame will be more obvious. The frame is suffused with faint blue light, and the overall texture is good.
Of course, the improvement of the face value is not only because of the color, but also because of the improvement of the front panel design. The redesigned front panel is simple and bright, so the face value of the whole machine has also been improved a lot.
The short and delicate earpiece and the Home button integrated with the front panel simplify the complexity. This Home button is specially processed. Instead of opening a hole on the panel, there is a groove on the whole glass, under which the fingerprint identification is located. In fact, it is a complete glass panel.
P10's Home button is specially designed. It is concave and can not be pressed, and fingerprint identification is integrated into it.
However, on the whole, the design of Huawei P10 is a little amazing. It is simple and simple, and returns to a simple and clear design style. In addition, the small and fresh color matching of the body makes it very simple and lively.
Performance and system experience
Processor performance
In terms of processor performance, it uses Huawei's latest Kirin 960 processor, which has four A73 cores and four A53 cores. It is one of the mobile processors with the strongest performance at present. In GeekBench's score run, its single core performance is around 1940 points, which is the same as that of Mate 9 Mate 9 Pro、 Glory V9 is basically at the same level, but it is slightly behind the Snapdragon 835 processor based on A73 minor changes. The multi-core run score is about 6450, which is almost the same as that of the Kirin 960 model. The multi-core score is at the same level as that of 835. In terms of RAR, P10 also performs well, and multithreading is even ahead of Mate 9 and Glory V9.
Graphics Performance
The graphics processor part is the MaliG71 MP8. The design idea is basically the same as that of Kirin 955/950. The design idea of fewer cores but higher frequency is adopted. In terms of specific score, its GFX Manhattan score is 48FPS, and Huawei's entire series of Kirin 960 processor models also show amazing consistency in this test. Tyrannosaurus Rex reached 101FPS, 10FPS more than the one plus 3T of Snapdragon 821. In terms of 3DMark, P10's performance is relatively average, slightly inferior to that of Snapdragon 821, while the latest Snapdragon 835 has no score in this respect for the time being because it is a test machine. Although the Snapdragon 835 with Aderno 540 has opened up a certain gap, its graphics performance is basically the same as that of the Snapdragon 821. Compared with the Kirin 950, it has a "pathetic" score. The Kirin 960 has made considerable progress in graphics, but compared with the Snapdragon 835 and the Exynos 8895, which is about to be launched in a large scale, its graphics performance still has a gap, Huawei still has a long way to go in terms of its own processors.
Storage performance
In terms of storage, reading and writing performance, all Huawei models have performed well, among which the glory V9 and Mate 9 Porsche designs are the most eye-catching Running points library Both continuous and random reading and writing perform very well. Although Huawei P10 is not so conspicuous, its read-write performance is still excellent. As we all know, the read/write speed of flash memory chips is directly related to the capacity. Generally, the larger the flash memory capacity, the faster the read/write speed. The P10 we get is a 64GB version, so there should be some difference in the read/write speed compared with the 128GB version.
On the whole, Huawei P10 has played up to the level of Kirin 960, which is relatively balanced in all aspects. Although there are some disadvantages in graphics compared with the upcoming Snapdragon 835 and Exynos 8890, which will be shipped in large scale, Huawei P10 has made great progress compared with the previous Kirin 955/950. In addition, considering the small size of P10, compared with the natural disadvantages of P10 Plus, Mate 9 and other large size models in terms of heat dissipation, the frequency reduction problem of P10 in long-term high-intensity use will be more prominent. Users with higher requirements for extreme performance can consider the larger P10 Plus or Mate 9.
System experience
Although Huawei's system is often criticized as ugly, The author also does not deny that although there are many themes that can be changed, the icons are still not good looking, but in addition to the general icons, there are not many other parts of the system that are worth complaining about. The localization, prohibition of application bootstrapping and other functions are all available, and the Google framework is also built-in, From all aspects, it can be regarded as excellent in domestic ROMs. In fact, installing third-party launchers, such as Nova Launcher, makes it easy to change icons.
When it comes to physical experience, we have to mention the Home button, which integrates Home, Return and multitasking. It abandons the design of "Integrated Home button"+"Three entity touch buttons" adopted by Mate 9 Pro, and instead adopts the design of "Integrated Home button"+"Virtual button". The entity button and virtual button cannot be used at the same time. When using the Home button, Touch to return, long press to home, and slide left and right to multi task. Although it seems convenient, in actual use, there are three operations that can be completed with the touch of three buttons. Here, they need to be divided into light touch, long press, and other operations to complete. The operation efficiency is average.
If you switch to using virtual keys, it will not only occupy screen space, but also cause the effect of multiple chins. It can only be said that P10 is a good idea, but it is still not perfect. However, on the whole, the flaws do not hide the merits. Thanks to the blessing of the Kirin 960 processor, the actual use is very smooth and smooth. The performance in various scenes, application switching, games and other links is excellent. If you can provide traditional physical touch three keys like Mate 9 Pro, I believe it will be more popular with consumers.
Screen quality
In terms of screen, Huawei P10 uses a 5.1 inch TFT screen with a resolution of 1080P. In terms of color standard, the average DeltaE of 108 colors is 4.7, and the maximum DeltaE is 8.3, which is average. In terms of color gamut, it has more than 100% sRGB color gamut, and Adobe RGB is 87.1%. In terms of color temperature, its default display effect is 7555, which is slightly cold; The contrast is about 1:1500; The highest brightness is 591.4 nits. In addition to the average color accuracy, the overall performance of this IPS screen is good.
photograph
In terms of photography, Huawei P10 has adopted the landmark Leica dual camera, the latest SUMMILUX lens, a 12 million color camera with optical anti shake and a 20 million pixel black and white camera. They all have an aperture of f/2.2 and three color modes of color, and, Now let's take a look at the imaging effect of this new Leica dual camera.
Double focus effect
At 12 million pixels, Huawei P10 can use double "zoom", so we compare the iPhone 7 Plus, which also has double "zoom", but the implementation methods of the two are different. In this part of the comparison, both of them have turned on the double focus mode in the whole process. Let's see how they perform.
Left - iPhone 7 Plus Right - Huawei P10
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In the double mode, in the scene of testing the power of discrimination, the performance of the two is quite small. The fonts of both can be clearly recognized, but on the whole, the iPhone 7 Plus is more fully exposed, so the picture brightness is higher and the appearance is better.
Left - iPhone 7 Plus Right - Huawei P10
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In this set of scenes, the two are still very close in detail, which may be related to the fact that the effective pixels of the two are 12 million pixels at the time of double focus. In addition to details, there are some differences in the color orientation between the two. The iPhone 7 Plus color is more realistic, while the P10 color orientation is more intense, and the overall color orientation is slightly blue, but the overall appearance is OK, a little oil painting.
Left - iPhone 7 Plus Right - Huawei P10
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In this set of scenes, the two are quite similar in details, almost regardless of the degree of resolution. The analytical power is basically at the same level, and the availability of double "zoom" of both is relatively high.
Left - iPhone 7 Plus Right - Huawei P10
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In this group of scenes, the two are still at the same level in analytical power, and there is no obvious gap between them. However, in terms of exposure, P10 is still slightly weaker than the iPhone 7 Plus, so after 100% magnification, the details in the dark part of the building will be weaker than the iPhone 7 Plus. On the whole, the dual "zoom" availability of Huawei P10 and iPhone 7 Plus is relatively high. Although the former uses 12 million pixel color+20 million pixel black and white dual photography+algorithm, the latter simply and violently uses a long focal length lens, but they both achieve the same goal by different routes. Both achieve dual "zoom" photography. However, in terms of exposure, details and white balance, there is still a gap between the Huawei P10 and the iPhone 7 Plus, which uses a telephoto lens.
Daytime proof sheet
For routine test items, we have selected three flagship models for comparison, namely, the 12 megapixel iPhone 7 Plus, the Samsung Galaxy S7, and the 16 megapixel one plus 3T. Let's take a look at the imaging effect of these four flagship models in the daytime.
Top left - iPhone 7 Plus top right - Huawei P10 bottom left - one plus 3T bottom right - Samsung S7
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In this group of scenes, the realization of the four is very close. Except for some differences in the white balance, other aspects are basically at the same level. Under such sufficient light conditions, the difference between pixels is not obvious. What's a little unexpected is that the algorithm of one plus 3T seems to be heavier in the solid color part. At the top edge of the rain lap, other models can distinguish the blue material seam of the edge, but it seems that one plus 3T smears this edge as a whole.
Top left - iPhone 7 Plus top right - Huawei P10 bottom left - one plus 3T bottom right - Samsung S7
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In terms of discrimination, four mobile phones still cannot open a wide gap. Three models with 12 million pixels are among the best. The performance of iPhone 7 Plus is slightly better, but S7 is slightly better in terms of font edge sharpening. In terms of details, the 16 million pixel plus 3T obviously has the natural advantage of high pixels. The font presented is the clearest and recognizable among the four mobile phones, and the edge of the font is sharp and clear without the burr of the other three models.
Top left - iPhone 7 Plus top right - Huawei P10 bottom left - one plus 3T bottom right - Samsung S7
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In terms of tolerance, Huawei P10 is the best. In the dark part of the rain tower, it retains the most details. It can also clearly distinguish the splicing gaps of yellow materials, followed by the iPhone 7 Plus and One Plus 3T, which are basically at the same level. Samsung S7 has been difficult to recognize the details in this part.
Top left - iPhone 7 Plus top right - Huawei P10 bottom left - one plus 3T bottom right - Samsung S7
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In this set of scenes, the four models are also very similar. Except for one plus 3T exposure, they are slightly different from the other three models. In the grating part at the top, all four models have certain smear marks, but the details are not different. One plus 3T does not show the advantages brought by high pixels. In addition, in terms of noise control, the Samsung S7 performs best, while the Huawei P10 is close to the One Plus 3T, and the iPhone 7 Plus is the most grainy. In addition, the sharp edge of Samsung S7 at the junction between the building and the sky is excessive, and white edges appear.
Top left - iPhone 7 Plus top right - Huawei P10 bottom left - one plus 3T bottom right - Samsung S7
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In this set of sunset scenes, the iPhone 7 Plus is slightly white, the noise particles are a little heavy, and the analytical power at the balcony of the high-rise building in the distance is not enough. Huawei P10, on the other hand, is heavily smeared on the balcony of high-rise buildings, and its analytical power is also insufficient. The Samsung S7 has the best overall performance, which is relatively outstanding in terms of resolution, daubing, and color temperature. One plus 3T is close to S7, but the color temperature is slightly red, and the exposure is also slightly insufficient. It is not enough for its high pixel advantage to perform slightly better in terms of ultimate discrimination, such as the tower crane on the far roof.
In terms of daytime performance, the four mobile phones are basically at the same level. In addition to slightly different white balance, there is little difference in discrimination, sharpness and tolerance. In addition to the one plus 3T with 16 million pixels has a slight advantage in detail and ultimate discrimination, everyone is at the same level.
Night proof sheet
Top left - iPhone 7 Plus top right - Huawei P10 bottom left - one plus 3T bottom right - Samsung S7
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The overall appearance of the four is quite similar. The exposure and brightness are similar. Samsung S7 has the highest brightness and the best overall appearance, but some are slightly red, which is a common problem for Samsung in the night scene. In terms of noise control, the Samsung S7, iPhone 7 Plus and Huawei P10 are similar. Only one plus 3T has obvious graininess in noise. After 100% magnification, the purest picture is the iPhone 7 Plus, which is smeared cleanly, with the best details. The blue seam is still visible. Next is Samsung, which benefits from the largest area of unit pixel, so the picture has the highest brightness and the most distinct hierarchy. In addition to poor noise control, the smearing algorithm of one plus 3T is still a little heavy, and the details are smeared out more. Fortunately, the smearing is relatively clean. The problem of Huawei P10 is close to that of One Plus 3T, with heavy graininess. Surprisingly, it has obvious color noise, which is rare in flagship models. Huawei's night algorithm still needs to be strengthened.
Top left - iPhone 7 Plus top right - Huawei P10 bottom left - one plus 3T bottom right - Samsung S7
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In this set of scenes, the four flagship models can clearly identify the text on the billboard. The iPhone 7 Plus with the lowest brightness has the highest picture purity, and the font edge sharpening is also good. With the addition of 3T, it is close to the iPhone, but the noise will be obvious and slightly grainy. Huawei P10 has made significant progress in the night scene. Its font performance is similar to that of Samsung S7, but the sharpening is slightly weaker. On the whole, Huawei P10 and Samsung S7 have similar observations. S7 performs better in non main parts, such as the details of the canopy leaves on the right. P10 has a sense of smudging in this part. The P10 has the highest picture brightness, which is also a rare model with the same level of brightness as Samsung at night. Compared with the iPhone 7 Plus and One Plus 3T, the performance is not so ideal. Except the main part, the other parts are dark.
Top left - iPhone 7 Plus top right - Huawei P10 bottom left - one plus 3T bottom right - Samsung S7
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In the test of tolerance, the Samsung S7 is closer to the iPhone 7 Plus, followed by the Huawei P10, but the three are closer. In the high brightness part, such as the display in the middle of the screen, the Huawei P10 performs even better. The worst part is one plus 3T. The exposure is not enough. The distant buildings have been integrated into the night. In terms of details, the Samsung S7, the best performer, still has a rich hierarchy of leaves, and the details are well preserved, followed by one plus 3T, and the details of the leaves are also well preserved, followed by the iPhone 7 Plus. Although it also retains many details, it has some sense of daubing, which can not be as clear as the Samsung S7. Finally, Huawei P10, which is heavily daubed, Although some details are retained, the paint is blurred.
Top left - iPhone 7 Plus top right - Huawei P10 bottom left - one plus 3T bottom right - Samsung S7
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In the white balance scene of the postgraduate entrance examination, unexpected results emerged. Samsung S7 and iPhone 7 Plus are relatively close and accurate. Because of the higher exposure of the iPhone, the color will appear slightly lighter than S7, which also makes the indoor part overexposed. Huawei P10 is slightly red and Bread is slightly yellow, but it is also within the acceptable range. The performance of adding 3T is quite unexpected. Its Bread has turned yellow, which is quite different from the original color. The original word is slightly light yellow, but does not reach the color number.
On the whole, Huawei P10 has made remarkable progress at night. It is commendable in exposure, white balance, and noise control, but the daubing algorithm is heavy. There is still much room for improvement in some details of the postgraduate entrance examination. Although there is still some gap with manufacturers like Samsung and Apple, Huawei P10 has been firmly in the forefront of domestic manufacturers, Huawei P10 has greatly improved compared with the previous generation P9.
Leica color effect
As a model with Leica dual camera as its selling point, its Leica color effect cannot be ignored. Many users have a special preference for P9 because of its unique Leica color. Although similar effects can be obtained through certain filter effects, for many users, photos taken with color mode can be directly sent to friends, which is enough. P10 provides three color modes: standard, bright and soft. Let's see how different these three modes are in color.
Left - standard medium - bright right - soft
Left - standard medium - bright right - soft
Left - standard medium - bright right - soft
From left to right, there are standard effect, bright effect and soft effect in turn. When the bright mode and soft mode are turned on, we can clearly see the change of color bias and color temperature. Among them, the bright effect is the most obvious, and its color bias is also the most thick. We can clearly see that it is more heavily colored in red and blue, and the color temperature is also biased toward warm colors. Although the bright mode will decrease in details such as the veins of flowers, and the color restoration has nothing to do with accuracy, the overall color and appearance of the photos are really quite pleasing. As a model with Leica color matching as its selling point, this is enough, which may be the charm of Leica. As for the soft mode, we can reduce the bright mode, which is understood as one level lower in color mixing. The color temperature and color bias have changed compared with the standard mode, but the starting point is not so heavy, and it looks more natural than the bright mode.
Endurance&Charging&Heating
In terms of endurance, its built-in 3200mAh lithium-ion battery, after our 3-hour endurance test, has 74% remaining power, which is fairly good, slightly improved compared with the previous generation P9. However, compared with another series of flagship Mate 9, there is still a gap. After all, due to the size of the body, the battery capacity will be relatively small. For users with high requirements for endurance, you can look forward to the P10 Plus with a battery capacity of 3750mAh.
In terms of charging, P10 uses Huawei's own SuperCharge. With the original charger, its charging power can reach about 18W, which is a normal performance, but inferior to the Mate 9. In addition, through our test, its fast charge is also compatible with the PD standard, but only about 14W is available with the PD charger, while only about 9W is available with the QC charger.
In terms of heating, after more than half an hour of NBA 2K15 testing, the maximum temperature of its front is 42.9 degrees Celsius and the maximum temperature of its back is 40.4 degrees Celsius, which is still within a reasonable range. Similar to the structural design of most mobile phones, its processor and main heating parts are concentrated on the upper part of the body, so the main heating parts avoid the holding part.
summary
In general, as the latest flagship of Huawei, the P10 is not radical. It belongs to a stable generation, without fancy hyperbolic screens or newer processors. On Huawei's dual flagship line, the P series is always the one that seeks stability. However, compared with the previous generation's works, P10's progress is obvious. It has a stronger processor, a better dual camera experience, and a better feel and workmanship. Although it seems that there is no rapid progress, they are combined to form a platform that seems to have made little progress, but actually improves the use experience of the P series.
In addition to the improvement of the use experience, the biggest improvement of Huawei P10 is obviously the appearance. As a brand that has been firmly branded with business, to a certain extent, it can even be said that Huawei has the blood of business. When people mention Huawei, they can't help thinking of the word business. However, Huawei will not limit itself to a certain field. It has been trying to create a youthful and lively style, so P10/P10 Plus came into being. Vegetation green, diamond carving blue, obsidian black, ceramic white, diamond carving gold, rose gold, Huawei once brought us a variety of lively and fresh colors. The appearance design has also become much more fashionable, and finally let the P series get rid of the feeling of "business machine". It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most beautiful model of Huawei P series ever.
However, everything is not perfect. Although it is a model with excellent design, the P10 still has some small shortcomings, such as the integrated Home button, for example, there is no oil drainage screen glass. The former has been explained in detail in the system experience, while the latter seems a bit strange, especially on a flagship fuselage with a high price, which may be because it uses fingerprint recognition integrated with the front panel, and the coating will affect the power of fingerprint recognition. Huawei has a protective film when it leaves the factory, which makes it difficult for most users to detect this directly. However, if you are a streaker, you may feel uncomfortable. However, in addition, P10 is a good mobile phone on the whole. Its beautiful design, powerful processor, and the special imaging color brought by Leica imaging make it have enough attractive gimmicks. If you can accept the film, then P10 is a flagship model worth choosing.
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