As one of the most representative brands of domestic mobile phones, Huawei's flagship products affect the heartbeat of domestic mobile phone brands every year. More than half a year after the launch of the flagship P10/P10 Plus of P series, Huawei made a comeback at the end of the year, and Mate 10/Mate 10 Pro came into being, which also continues Huawei's consistent dual flagship strategy. As the first series of products to enter the era of full screen, Huawei is very cautious. Therefore, Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro use screens of different proportions and materials respectively. This configuration also provides different choices for picky consumers and caters to the needs of consumers to the greatest extent. Now let's take a look at the performance of Bian Bian's wide and cute Mate 10.

Appearance and details

In terms of appearance, Mate 10 basically continues the consistent design style of Mate series, which is simple, generous and decent without too much flashy decoration.

Leica represents its identity. Since P9, Huawei has cooperated with Leica to develop a number of products, and its Leica color matching camera has also been highly praised by users.

Mate 10 provides a total of four color combinations: bright black, mocha gold, champagne gold and cherry pink gold. This time, we get the bright black color combination.

This Mate 10's several color combinations are impressive in appearance. Mocha gold is classic, champagne gold is elegant, cherry pink gold is young, and bright black is still the most popular color combination.

Although the shape changes greatly, the overall design style still has the flavor of Mate series. The increase of screen proportion has greatly changed the appearance of the whole machine. In addition to the addition of a large number of rounded corners, the Mate 10 has become one of the most beautiful models in Huawei's entire series.

Unlike most full screen models, Mate 10 uses the traditional 16:9 screen, so after the increase in screen share, the most intuitive feeling is "wide", which forms a sharp contrast with other full screen devices of other brands.

Compared with other brands' full screen products in 2017, Mate 10's design is more rational. Even though the width of the forehead and chin has been very narrow, it still retains the front Home button design. Compared with Samsung's side biased Home button and Apple's more aggressive Face ID, front fingerprint identification is a more practical processing method at this stage.

The design of the back of the fuselage is also amazing. It continues the sleek design style. It uses a large arc of four curved glass back cover, especially the large arc on both sides. Combined with the arc design of the frame, it is quite round on the whole. The grip fits the palm rather well, and there is no feeling of hurting the hand from any angle.

In addition, the glass material is very shiny. In addition, the unique reflection of the inner layer paint makes it feel a bit like HTC U11 at first. It is quite amazing and has a high face value. However, because the glass material is relatively slippery, you need to be careful when holding it.

In terms of cameras, it continued to cooperate with Leica, using the combination of 12 million pixel color cameras and 20 million black and white cameras, with the aperture of f/1.6. However, this time, the well-known photography evaluation agency DxO gave it a super high score of 100 points in the photography category.

The front camera is 8 million pixels and the aperture is f/2.0.

Although some short, thick and wide shapes may not win everyone's heart, in my eyes, this is the most beautiful one in Mate series. The previous Mate series products are too elite and have a strong business atmosphere, which is somewhat daunting for young people. The appearance of Mate 10 is much younger, and the applicable group is much broader. It can be easily controlled by both students and business people. Huawei's change in appearance and style this time is commendable.

System&Experience&PC Mode

In terms of system, the machine adopts the EMUI 8.0 system, which is customized based on Android 8.0, but the overall interface still continues the UI style and operation logic of the EMUI, which is roughly the same as the experience of previous generations.

There are some improvements in the UI, especially in the details, such as the pull bar icons, which are more refined, but the icons with the default theme are still somewhat unsatisfactory. Although the refinement has improved a lot, the style still lags behind the times. Students who don't like this can solve this problem by changing the theme or installing a third-party initiator, which is also the advantage of Android's higher freedom.

In terms of memory usage, the 6GB version has about 4GB of available memory when it is turned on. In daily use, it always has more than 2GB of available memory. After clearing the memory, it has about 3.7GB of available memory. As for the 4GB version, the memory control seems to be more radical. Whether it is started or used normally, it keeps about 2GB of usable memory.

There are two points that need to be highlighted. The first point is that the AI functions brought by AI chips are more changes brought to us unconsciously, such as automatically selecting scenes to adjust the photographing parameters, line by line translation, real-time text translation and other functions when taking photos, and support offline translation of operations by AI chips. In terms of the speed of these applications, compared with the traditional translation of computing through the network, AI has certainly improved a lot, but on the whole, in terms of daily use experience, AI has not yet brought us revolutionary subversion.

Left: PC mode and mobile phone are used separately Right: Projection mode

The second is the PC mode. Although it is not the first manufacturer to propose the PC mode, Huawei has made some different attempts in the PC mode. It does not use the "base mode", but uses Type-C data lines for connection. Therefore, the use of the PC mode does not affect the normal use of the handset.

Left: touch pad mode Right: touch pad+keyboard mode

In addition, the mobile phone screen can also be used as a touchpad/keyboard in PC mode. It can also be used without external Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, which is very convenient. However, PC mode has certain requirements for the display. Models that do not support USB Type-C signal input need to be connected with adapter cables. Although the connection mode is not as cool as Samsung's base, the Mate 10 is obviously more convenient in terms of practicality. In case of emergency or business trip, a Mate 10 can meet the office needs very well, with very low hardware requirements, which is what the PC mode of mobile phones should do.

Performance and running score

In terms of configuration, it adopts Kirin 970 processor. The CPU part is composed of four 2.36GHz A73+four 1.8GHz A53, and the GPU part is Mali-G72 MP12. In addition, it also adds a micro intelligent core i7 neural network processing unit dedicated to AI.

In terms of processor score, the Kirin 970 has reached the top of the current Android camp in terms of single core and multi-core, but overall, the improvement is not strong. Its GeekBench single core score remains at about 1900, on the same level as Snapdragon 835 and Exynos8895. In terms of multi-core, there has been some improvement. Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro are both better than other current Android Android, but the advantages are not obvious. Compared with Kirin 960, it is also not a big improvement. However, this may be because Kirin uses ARM public core, while A73 is not significantly improved compared with A72. Surprisingly, the performance of RAR is not normal whether it is single core or multi-core. It is only at the same level as the Snapdragon 821, and may have the compatibility of RAR version. After the application is updated, we will retest it.

In terms of graphics, the performance of Kirin 970 has made great progress compared with that of Kirin 960. Both GFX and 3DMark have significantly improved their scores. The performance of Mali-G72 MP12 has made Kirin chip enter the ranks of top graphics performance for the first time. Most of the test items have reached the mainstream camp of Android, and are compared with Snapdragon 835 Exynos8895、 The Apple A10 will win or lose each other. GFX is relatively strong, slightly outperforming other Android models; The performance of 3DMark is relatively weak, but the gap is not large.

In general, the performance of the Kirin 970 is quite remarkable. Although the A73 core is used in the processor part, it is not a performance killer, but this reinforcement is just right. The Kirin chip's relatively weak graphics performance has been greatly improved, and its graphics processor has finally caught up with the current mainstream SoC, It can be said that the Kirin 970 is already a versatile bucket without obvious shortcomings.

In terms of storage, reading and writing performance, Mate 10 performs extremely well, and its performance in continuous reading, random reading and random writing is extremely exaggerated. Continuous writing is still one of the strongest models in the current Android camp, just behind Xiaomi Note2 and Samsung Galaxy Note8, although it does not brush the list.

Screen quality

In terms of screen, Huawei Mate 10 adopts a 5.9-inch RGBW negative liquid crystal TFT screen with a resolution of 2K, which can provide 499PPI pixel density and 1:1500 contrast. At the beginning, this screen gives people a good impression. The stable color performance of the LCD screen is still popular with many people. In addition, the brightness performance is excellent enough to give a good impression both indoors and outdoors.

In view of the fact that some consumers still cannot accept the pixel arrangement and color characteristics of AMOLED, Huawei has provided LCD and OLED screens with different materials on Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro, giving consumers more room for independent choice. In terms of objective parameters, the Mate 10 screen also has no black spots. The manual maximum brightness is about 440 nits, and the automatic brightness is more than 800 nits. The maximum brightness is not the limit brightness of local white of AMOLED screen when the full screen displays white. It is also one of the highest brightness screens in LCD screens at present, The super high brightness makes it still have good recognition under strong outdoor light. The contrast is 1500:1, which is also the normal performance of LCD screen.

The color temperature in bright mode is relatively high, about 8300k, and relatively cold. The sRGB color gamut is 100%, the DCI-P3 color gamut is 96.1%, the Adobe RGB color gamut is 86.8%, and the NTSC color gamut is 84.7%. The color gamut performance is still excellent.

The color temperature in standard mode is about 7200k, close to the standard value of 6700k. SRGB color gamut is 93.8%.

The average DeltaE of 104 colors in bright mode is 3 3. The highest DeltaE is 6.7, which is already quite good, but then the color accuracy in standard mode is even more amazing.

In standard mode, the average DeltaE of 104 colors is 1.9, and the highest DeltaE is 3.2, which is quite amazing. This is one of the best color accurate screens in history.

On the whole, the overall quality of this screen is excellent. The performance of color accuracy, color gamut and appearance is impeccable. Brightness is one of the peaks of LCD screen. Although it comes from JDI, it does not prevent it from becoming one of the best screens in 2017.

Photo effect

In terms of photographing, the camera adopts a dual camera combination of 12 million pixels+20 million pixels, and the aperture is f/1.6, of which the main camera is IMX386, which is one of the most powerful camera configurations of Huawei mobile phones at present. The well-known photography evaluation organization DxO has given it 100 points for photographing and 91 points for photographing, which is also the highest scoring domestic model at present, Now let's take a look at the camera performance.

Daytime proof sheet

In terms of daytime proofs, flagship models, especially those with the same pixel level sensors, have been difficult to open a significant gap in daytime proofs. Mate 10 is no exception. In daytime proofs, there are only some changes in white balance and exposure, and there are no significant advantages or disadvantages. In terms of color orientation, Note8 is the closest to reality, iPhone X is more realistic in some colors, such as red, and Mate 10 is between the two. However, Mate 10 retains two color blending modes, namely bright and soft. Consumers who like the straight out effect of thick ink and heavy color will not be disappointed.

Indoor lighting scene

Scene 1 100% magnification

Scene 2 100% magnification

Scene 3 100% magnification

Scene 4 100% magnification

Scene 5 100% magnification

At night and in the indoor light, there is a big difference. In terms of noise, Mate 10 is close to Samsung, but Mate 10's noise is cleaner and the image purity is better, while iPhone X's noise is more moving and grainy. In terms of discrimination, Note8 and Mate 10 have similar performance and win or lose each other. iPhone X has a heavy sense of smearing and many details are lost. However, in weak light, such as the crown of scene 5, iPhone X performs best of the three. In terms of overall performance, Note8 is still the best. There are not too many details, white balance and exposure to be picky, but it seems a little too sharp. The second is Mate 10. The image is pure and the noise is well controlled, but the exposure is slightly insufficient and the image brightness is dim. In addition, it should be mentioned that Mate 10 has built-in AI based intelligent scene switching, which will automatically switch parameters according to the scene. For example, the color performance of scene 2 is slightly different from the other two, which is also a capability that other smart phones do not have at present.

Telephoto imaging

In terms of telephoto, Huawei Mate 10's solution is different from that of iPhone X and Note8. The latter two adopt the solution of conventional focal length lens+telephoto lens, while Huawei has always adopted the solution of color 12 million+black and white 20 million. The telephoto end is completed by high pixel+sharpening+algorithm, which is a non-traditional optical solution.

Long focus proof sheet 1

Long focus proof sheet 2

Long focus proof sheet 3

Long focus proof sheet 4

Long focus proof sheet 5

On the whole, Mate 10 performs well in the performance of the telephoto end. Although the solution must be inferior to the physical implementation, its actual imaging effect is still excellent. Note8 is undoubtedly the best medium and long focus among the three, with excellent analytical power, white balance and noise control. Mate 10 and iPhone X have both won and lost. iPhone X is slightly better in terms of analytical power. Although Mate 10 performs better in the dark, its performance is not very stable. After 100% magnification, the sharpening algorithm has made up a lot, but there are still some edge sawtooth problems caused by digital zoom. In general, although the long focus imaging quality is still incomparable with the standard focus segment, compared with the previous two generations of products, this scheme of 12 million colors+20 million black and white has reached a very high level.

Endurance/charging/heating

In terms of endurance, the machine uses the consistent high-capacity battery of Huawei Mate series. Both Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro have reached 4000mAh. The high-capacity battery is also the basic guarantee of endurance. After two hours of intensive testing, Mate 10's remaining battery power is as high as 82%, which is excellent, even slightly outperforming Note8 and iPhone 8 Plus. This performance is also the best in the current top smartphones.

In terms of charging, Huawei adopts its own fast charging standard, but the unusual QC or PD standard, so we test the charging with original chargers. In terms of charging power, its maximum power is about 23W in low battery, and the charging power is still excellent.

In terms of charging speed, its charging speed is relatively fast in the first 85%, and then slows down, reaching 90% in about 60 minutes. Then it enters trickle charging, and reaches 100% in 38 minutes. The total charging time is about 98 minutes, which is also one of the fastest charging mobile phones at present.

summary

On the whole, Huawei Mate 10 is a fairly comprehensive model. It is impeccable in terms of performance, photography, endurance and screen quality. There are almost no shortcomings. If you have to pick a bone in the egg, the 16:9 screen will lead to a wide body, and the grip still needs to be improved.

However, the Mate series has never been a model that pursues single hand operation, and this body design is also justifiable, especially considering the excellent quality of this LCD screen, it is not unacceptable to sacrifice the feel for this screen.

As the most important domestic flagship model in 2017, In addition to all-round reinforcement, Mate 10 has also added artificial intelligence chips, which is also the first artificial intelligence model shipped in the world. However, in the current application scenarios, there are not many places that can reflect artificial intelligence, but it is believed that after several generations of development, artificial intelligence can bring us more convenient experiences in future life, Huawei has also taken the lead in this future war.

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