Honor Note 10 Unboxing & Hands-On Review (English) By TechTablets

Hi guys Chris here, so, if you follow me and the channel you'd know that I'd, like larger phones and I, decided that yes I have to check this one out, there's been a lot of requests for it. I've just finished: reviewing Xiaomi's Mi Max three for the price is a fantastic last mobile phone. It's got a six point. Nine-inch screen this one IPS and what we have with the honor note in here is a six point. Nine five-inch screen so slightly larger. The resolution is twenty to twenty.

By ten eighty, it's an AMOLED screen as well. That does support HDR, HDR10 spec. So it should look very, very good. This display and the build of it is I, think it's glass, or they have on the rear. They've got twin cameras on the back of it, so one 16 megapixels, the other 24, both with an F 1.8 aperture. So that's relatively bright lens there, and it should perform well in low-light, hopefully a lot better than the likes of the Mi Max 3 and of course it is a more expensive mobile phone here.

So you do expect it to perform a Nears like that, a lot better, so it has highways custom chip in here, which is the learn 970, a five thousand William hour battery. So it's slightly smaller than the Xiaomi me max three, and there is one disappointing thing to note with this that the bootloaders locked. We expected this with far away, and the other thing, of course is there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, which is sad to see on such a large mobile phone okay. So this is going to be a long video, that's going to cover a lot of stuff in detail. There's some time codes here so feel free to skip ahead.

So you see the box very simple. Plain-Looking here just says it's the honor Note 10 with the little AI marketing there. Ok, so just get this out of the wrapper. So for those that are going to ask me, how did you get hold of it so fast, very simple, I bought this from China and I got express delivery, DHL, so there's the phone there just take it out for a second, and we'll take a look at what else we get in the box. So you can see here.

We do have a sentry tool now the SIM tray it does actually support two sims or one sim and a micro SD card. So you have to give up one of the sons if you want to use micro SD card with this, but good to see, they do have support. So this I think has a case in it. My looks of it yeah. Ok, there's some warranty things whatnot, that's all in Chinese as to be expected.

So we'll take a look at this case, as you can see, it's a trance, gray, CPU style, and it's better than having nothing good to see manufacturers a lot of manufacturers, in fact, including cases now in the box and then right here in this little packet we have sadly the adapter here so type C, ? 3.5 millimeter such a shame. They did not include this. This is one of the real kind of dealbreakers almost for me, because I love to use 3.5, millimeter headphone that I have and just plug them straight in without using silly adapters. So here we have the top C, cable, obviously, and then the charger right here, and it is Huawei's supercharged specs. So the maximum output is 5, volts, 4.5 amps. So you see it just comes in this little slip here.

So let's get it out of that and take a look at the phone. So at the bottom we have honor branding there on the chin, and it does come with a pre applied screen protector. So along the bottom, you will find some grills here now. They've got a loudspeaker one of two right here and then the microphone, the type C port, and you can see those two gray antenna lines. The whole bottom of the phone is rounded here, and it does feel really nice any hand.

We've got 2.5 D glass, the resume doubt of glass, we have a fingerprint read, and you can see the marketing branding there, AI camera, the dual tone, LED flash and then those two cameras so once 24 megapixels, the other 16 one of them is just black and white and both of them have an F 1.8 aperture. Now neither of these cameras have any optical image stabilization, so just like the Huawei P 20 Pro, which is a little unfortunate, but it does have electronic image stabilization at 1080p. At least you see here the volume buttons made out of metal, and they do feel perfect. They do not rattle around either and then down the bottom of the right hand. Side you'll find this button, which is dedicated to the CPU turbo and GPO turbo modes, which is basically just marketing.

It's all marketing hype here, but this button does have a secondary purpose, and that is the shutter button. When you're in the stock camera app on the top left hand, side you'll find these sim tray so to NATO Sims or a micro SD card, and NATO SIM now note that this does have meal reinforcing around it, but it doesn't have a Banquet they're to keep out any water or dust and along the top. The earpiece then that 13 megapixel camera with an F 2.0 aperture and thankfully they didn't do anything. Silly like put a notch display on this and taking a look at it side-by-side with the Xiaomi me max 3. They are almost identical the dimensions of these two, so we have more of a rock to this one.

When you let on a table which I have now and not so much here with the honor note, because the cameras don't protrude as much, and I will measure it now and weigh it also just after this. So the bottom notch you can see here is slightly smaller on the honor note 10, the top-notch, as well slightly smaller and really the height difference marginally higher taller, the honor note 10, then the max 3 only by about 2 millimeters or so and as it expect the more expensive on a note, 10 feels much better in hand. It feels like a premium flagship. The max. Well, it feels more like a read me phone, because it's got the middle unibody housing on it, and it does have that lip around the edges, which you don't get on the honor note 10 this ones is more rounded and overall, just has a much higher quality feel to it.

Now, looking at the thickness of it, it's approximately 8 millimeters, that's without the cameras and when the camera is there, then that brings it up to 8.5, so not bad at all in terms of thickness and just checking the weight of it, it does feel quite heavy. Yes, it is so two hundred and thirty-five grams making this a large, relatively heavy phone, and the max story, of course, is a little lighter because it doesn't have the glass on the red that comes in at 222 grams, all right so powering this arm. For the first time you get a haptic feedback vibration, and can see now the bezels of this. So the side bezels to me look a little larger than the press images. They tend to do that, don't they photoshopped them to be a little slimmer than they really are.

So this ROM isn't your typical Chinese ROMs from the likes of the show-me devices, our review you've just got English in Chinese. Now you've got every single language you can think of is in here now part of the setup. We do have the following: unlocking options that you get normally with most Android 8.1 devices. Now, as you get faced, unlocking and then fingerprint ID as well, so I will just actually test that out now and set that up and also the face. Unlocking now I've got the camera and the tripod in the way.

So you really don't know how this is going to work out now, it's going to be very difficult and have to do this off camera. Alright, so we'll test out the face, unlocking I managed to get it to scan my face properly without the camera in the way. So, if I tap it now, you can see it's looking for my face its vibrated, that it hasn't found me, and so it's going to be pretty hard for me to do with the camera right here. Try that again recognizing face okay, it's recognized me, but the silly thing is it won't go straight and unlock I still have to swipe to unlock to get into the UI, which is to me a bit silly. There must be a seating, I think there is and then, as the reason why I prefer to use the fingerprint unlocking so the fingerprint reader on the back.

This is always on, and you simply just place your finger there and look. How quick that is. It's almost instantaneous! It works really quick and flawlessly so far, all right, so this screen is looking and perfect so far as you'd expect for a 6.95 AMOLED panel, not bad at all, but just take a look at all of this below where crap we have on here now, of course, I did expect. There's been a Chinese phone, they just love to cram. Just so much junk on here.

Look at it all, and they've even got this top apps, which is full of a bunch of other rubbish in there too, that I'm going to have to uninstall checking the free space. Now we've got 52 gigabytes free just over the Android security patch level is the first of July 2018. Considering now we're in August. This is not bad at all, and you can see that it's also running that Kieran 970 chipset from Huawei. This is my first time with a learn 970, so I did want to have a little detailed look at it here.

So it's an outscore and the GPU is the Male g72, and you can see. We've got four arms, cortex a7 t3 s, and then we've got four. I'm cortex a53 set a lower clock right there, and I've just checked for system updates. There is nothing, so it is on the latest version of EMU eye, which is point two. So the phone doesn't have full screen gestures, which to me is a little disappointing.

They really need to put that in their just get a little more modern. Other phones are switching to jesters, so you've got single key navigation mode. There you've got the three key navigation which I've got at the moment and then navigation dock, which is basically just like a little button. There that you can use to navigate I would have liked to have seen capacitive menu keys here, Hardware one's down the bottom, so you could touch those because there's actually room and that bottom bezel for a bit of manufacturers are switching away from that and just going with on-screen buttons or gestures now getting placed or on the Huawei phones is quite easy. So you just need to go to what's called the app gallery and then search Google you'll find Google, Play Store and then install it.

So now taking a look at the screen, but first I wanted to show you that the white balance you can adjust this and the color temperature, so your own personal preference here good to see they have this setting here. All manufacturers should include this, but surprisingly, some don't actually, so you can tweak that white balance and tweak the colors. So the gamma comes out to be two points. Three and the closest to two point: two is perfect, but this isn't far off. So this is quite good viewing angles as expected for an AMOLED panel.

They are perfect, some of the best that you will see on a mobile phone, and now I'm quickly, looking at the display side by side with the max 3. So the max trees got the IPS panel and really okay, the difference between the two. You definitely notice that the panel on the honor Note 10 is superior when it comes to color reproductions, it just seems to be a little more accurate there, but all in all really there's not a massive difference, and it's definitely not worth that extra price tag. When you look at both of these devices, so we have to factor in the whole thing. What are the cameras like on this phone? But overall it is a really good-looking screen, more accurate, definitely more accurate than the max threes display.

Blacks, of course, is where the screen looks perfect, because they are a deep black, and I'm not noticing too much of a grayness. When you move it. Of course, I do have the screen protector on I'm going to leave it on there, because I don't want to scratch. The screen up. Maximum brightness is also perfect.

I, just measured 690 lux, that's a huge step up, that's about 220 or so Lux more than the ciao Mimi max 3, so I've just run an tutu, and this is a perfect score.209,000, very quick and that isn't in that CPU turboboost mode either. So it turns out for storage. They are using UFS 2.1 and look at this speed. This is crazy. Fast, the fastest I have seen actually on a mobile phone.

Yet, with the sequential reads, very good, random reads and writes, and also the sequential writes is also up there.204 now, I just assumed that qua way would have gone with MMC 5.1 speed, but I'm glad to see there heaven. This is really flagship. Storage speeds also checking out the Wide vine editors level 1, and this is great so Netflix you can install it from Google Play Store and you can run it in HD, you're, not limited just to STS. So she'll me needs to take note here. They are still running with only version 3 and no surprises here with treble check.

So it does not support treble, even though it does have Android 8.1. This is a shame. Camera API to check here so hit as limited support. So this means you're not going to get full features using other apps and that will connect up and use the camera API ? from Google. So one thing I like about this phone as it has dual loudspeakers on the top and then on the bottom as well.

But the thing I don't like is we're missing a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. But anyway, let's test out those loudspeakers and I can say now they do sound much better than the max threes and overall, not bad loudspeakers at all. Wireless speeds. Now they're, not the fastest I, have seen I've seen in the 400s from the Snapdragon 805, but this is still very good. The kind of throughput we can get here up to around 780 megabits per second 4G speeds well I'm with orange.

Here at the moment you can see, and they're not wonderful, but it's getting what every other single mobile phone out there is getting. Our call quality seems also very good, and I notice. The signal strength, fine, as well. No problems with that either Wireless range also seems very good. Just like GPS, it saw 20 satellites, it locked onto 20 satellites.

The lock was really quick and the accuracy hovers around 4 to 5 meters, which is perfectly fine. So just looking now at the phone's performance in general, just real world use I've noticed it is very quick and snappy, especially with a really fast storage and I, haven't noticed any problems with the task manager. So it's not automatically killing off any applications too soon, I feel it. It seems to be fine but swapping between your apps going back home loading things, and this is all really, really quick. I mean this feels every bit a flagship phone and I haven't seen really any start of what I have noticed.

A couple of times is just what I've gone like this swapping for side to side. I've seen a tiny, tiny little of animation, stutter now one annoying thing. Of course this is a Chinese phone and, as expected really are you going to see this okay, so you can see a little of Chinese text here now. We've got that AI button on the side. I, don't really know what it does it just really clocks up the governor.

Doesn't it for the CPU and the GPU clocks holds them at maximum speed, I think, so it's going to chew through the battery and when you tap it, so you turn it on I, don't actually know, there's no way to see where it's on or off. It gives you all this thing right here in Chinese which I don't read, but what I think it's saying is probably that what it's doing, or it's going to consume more battery life, yada-yada yeah, and yet it's kind of annoying that that is there. So you're going to see this Chinese popping up here and there now we do. Have you seen it again, but a Chinese right there? So it's telling me some new app things, so that's always going to be there. We do have NFC on here as well, which is good to see.

So you can buy a dock for this and running like Samsung's. Next, really so can have like a desktop, but I tested it out. If you don't have that specific hardware for it, which I don't have on hand, I've tried, my HDMI adapters I've also tried my type C hubs and everything I cannot get any HDMI signal out of this, which is a little unfortunate. I didn't expect it to work. I'm OTG does work by the way, so we'll do that.

One game here, which is a very popular one here. This is pub G. Now it auto-detects these settings as high so high graphics, high frame rate, as you can see here, but you can adjust this to HDR and ultra if you want and that's what I'm going to test out now, so you can see where the map frame rate is perfect as expected on Ultra and with this chipset they learn 970, just jump out of the plane, so I have turned on that. Well, at least I think it's on the GPU turbo. You tap it, and it doesn't actually give you any signs.

It's on, or I'm turning it off, which was rather silly or maybe that's what it was telling me in Chinese that I didn't actually understand there. So you can see here there's a little of stutter just then, and that seems to happen on every single device, just loading in the textures and things, so I've been playing for a few minutes now and the frame rate is perfect. The graphics look good and because we've got the large immersive screen, it's just a real joy to play this game here, and the speakers also, they add quite a bit to because they've got a bit of bass to them. They sound nice and I, almost crashed just then. Yes, very playable I'll just get off the motorbike here, and I'll zoom in with the scope to show you that that that's very smooth- and there is no lag with that either.

You can see it's a perfect performance here for demanding games like pop G. So Huawei has marketed a lot about the cooling on this. It's got some sort of copper heat transfer pipe on there to lower temperatures, 10 degrees, I, don't know what that's compared to though 10 degrees less than what so the front of its getting up to 35 degrees, and I've noticed that the rear so around this part he just below the fingerprint reader here. It is actually getting quite warm to the touch. That is actually it's cool in the front of it.

So that's about 32 degrees, though so it's going to get warm, but it looks like at this point: thermals are definitely under control over in the camera app now, so we're not going to go through everything, because it's just going to be very lengthy. This is already long enough, this video, so we have a IMO that says on by default. Now to me these AI boosting photography modes they're, all just a gimmick, because all they do is just bolster up the saturation, the colors boost them and the brightness sometimes so. I don't particularly actually like that. But maybe some people do like this kind of feature.

There. That's got that. Obviously we have the portrait mode using the dual cameras on the rear, a night mode there as well, and you can shoot with the front-facing camera up to 720p, and you can also shoot with the rear, camera 4k, but no optical image, stabilization or electronic image stabilization in 4k, which is a little disappointing. So, just like the p20 pro there, you can see if we go into the pro mode which I wanted to show you here, we've got ISO shutter exposure and in the focus, control and white balance, we can also shoot in RAW format, which is good to see and then the resolution up to 24 megapixels here the default is the 16 and all the other settings. Here you can see there are pretty straightforward there, so sample now, probably better with noise, because it is quite windy at the moment only 720p max with the front camera, which is slightly disappointing really, because a lot of other manufacturers are offering at least 1080p and on budget phones and some even up to 4k like the VIVO phone.

Now this is a sample shot with the rear cameras, and it's 4k, but you'll see it's a little shaky because there is no electronic or optical image. Stabilization, which I feel is a bit of an error there. They really should have put optical image stabilization, at least with the sensor. You can shoot up to 10 minutes max. The focus is face, detection autofocus, and you can see it tends to do an okay job.

It's not quite as good as you. You can see there as that dual pixel face detection example on the Samsung Galaxy S8 s9, and even the Xiaomi me max 3 has that now. If you drop the resolution down to 1080p, then you do have electronic image stabilization, which you can see, does an excellent job. This is super smooth and steady. It almost looks like I am using a gamble, but I'm not definitely not.

This is a shame. It's not working in 4k all right so to quickly recap here: we're looking at a phone. That, of course, has a super large screen. It's not gonna, be if, for everyone, it's quite heavy at 200 in what was at 235 grams and when you're, using it yeah you're, holding up basically a seven-inch tablet to your ear. Now we have an AMOLED screen, so it comes out a much better than the max three that I have.

The screen is definitely a lot better. The build quality is better the cameras better as well there, and this is to be expected, of course, because there's a massive difference in the prices as a premium. Mid-Range err that's more of a budget device, so this is selling for a nothing's for 250 us versus 400, plus 409 450. It is a big difference there, so no 3.5, millimeter, headphone jack, that's a real shame, I feel on such a large tablet. It should definitely have that now the face unlocking I'll just do it again.

Furthermore, it works really well, but it's kind of silly that you have to slide to unlock, and it just doesn't go straight into the UI. Like other phones do their fingerprint reader works really great cameras. They do look really promising, perfect. Actually they'd, step up, I feel yeah better than the max cameras yeah, even though that one's got quite a good camera. Maybe the focus isn't quite as good.

This is dual pixel face: detection autofocus on this one, and this one has the phase detection autofocus, but everyone is looking perfect, but the lack of any optical or even electronic image. Stabilization on 4k is a bit of a deal-breaker, and this is the reason why I did not actually get the P20 Pro to review I thought about buying that phone, and then I realized that 4k there's no way to get any form of image stabilization. You have to use a gimbals to get nice steady, smooth footage, which is your know, that's just an error. Hopefully that'll be fixed with the update with the Karin. The new model I think it's going to be called the 980 that one hopefully is then going to have electronic image.

Stabilization on 4k have the power to actually do that very powerful chipset really high speed, fast storage that surprised, Matt and expected to be that fast, I really thought they were going to use even see if I put one speck so nice to see that it is just super quick, I roll, the performance is perfect. Now the gimmicky toggle button a press it at the top I'm using that as a camera shutter, but there's no way to actually tell it's on. It's really silly. So when you press that there's no notification, it doesn't pop up, saying: hey turbo mode is on marketing hype mode. On no, I, don't know why really they've even bothered with it, they could.

They could have put a two-stage camera button here would have been much better and I would have been happier with that actually than just this going to key a little button thing there, no I, don't read: Chinese I, don't actually know what it really said there. So maybe someone can correct me in the comments, if I'm wrong about that, but still it should tell you when it's on, so all the premium build very much a premium large, almost like a flagship phone really with the cameras, front-facing camera, it's too white, it's kind of overexposing, even though I've turned off beautify mode. Now, not really that great portrait mode looks good. Cameron general is good. Low light definitely looks quite good there, and they've got that advantage with the megapixels as well having 24 versus 12.

You get on, save me max 3, so if you're on a budget definitely go when you want a large phone go for this one than me max 3 check out my review that one up here, and now I will be back with a part. Two you could say of this particular phone here, so I need to use it obviously, for quite a few days full-on. As my main phone check, my battery life I'll be back with better life updates full charge times and possibly probably do some low-light video samples as well and some other low-light photography, so compare it to the mi max 3. So you can get an idea of just the kind of difference you can expect from there. Thank you so much for watching this video.

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