Huawei Mate 10

[TheOutsider]

There are many articles raving about P20 pro. Here's one:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/huawei-p20-pro-leica-street-photography

The main item to me is the night mode. It's coming to Mate 10 series too. AIS also will be coming in Oreo 8.1.

I also playing camera so if I need particular shot, I will grab it on camera instead. It's not going to make me give up my camera by any mean but rather just let me have more opportunity to capture a photo on the go. Just say something like wide angle. On phone, no matter what you do, the best is add adaptor then it becomes super wide or fish eye but the quality drop is normally awful. On camera I can just switch lens and get a nicely done wide angle photo.

Then for some people you might find the 3x zoom nice. But Huawei did make some compromise there. The 40MP RGB and 20MP monochrome sensors both no OIS. Only the 3x 8mp sensor got OIS.

To me, I would not upgrade now la. Rather wait for Mate 20. Unless the mate 20 got announced without the tri-camera setup la haha.

P20 Pro also lacking some latest tech like Bluetooth 5.0 then soon to be 5G capability.

But of course it's personal thing la. Decision is yours!

For me if not no choice must get new phone to replace my broken one, I wouldn't buy a phone now haha. Snapdragon 855 is going to debut in phone in about 6 month time and that marks the entry into 5G era. I'll just stay with Mate 10 till next major upgrade - 5G, LPDDR5, Bluetooth 5.0 etc etc.

 

[Ruriel]

The main item to me is the night mode. It's coming to Mate 10 series too. AIS also will be coming in Oreo 8.1.

I also playing camera so if I need particular shot, I will grab it on camera instead. It's not going to make me give up my camera by any mean but rather just let me have more opportunity to capture a photo on the go. Just say something like wide angle. On phone, no matter what you do, the best is add adaptor then it becomes super wide or fish eye but the quality drop is normally awful. On camera I can just switch lens and get a nicely done wide angle photo.

Then for some people you might find the 3x zoom nice. But Huawei did make some compromise there. The 40MP RGB and 20MP monochrome sensors both no OIS. Only the 3x 8mp sensor got OIS.

To me, I would not upgrade now la. Rather wait for Mate 20. Unless the mate 20 got announced without the tri-camera setup la haha.

P20 Pro also lacking some latest tech like Bluetooth 5.0 then soon to be 5G capability.

But of course it's personal thing la. Decision is yours!

For me if not no choice must get new phone to replace my broken one, I wouldn't buy a phone now haha. Snapdragon 855 is going to debut in phone in about 6 month time and that marks the entry into 5G era. I'll just stay with Mate 10 till next major upgrade - 5G, LPDDR5, Bluetooth 5.0 etc etc.

I'm personally more than satisfied with my Mate 10 too. Won't go for a new phone so soon.

 

[charleslin]

I'm personally more than satisfied with my Mate 10 too. Won't go for a new phone so soon.

Same here, partly because P20 also using the same CPU so to me the upgrade is purely for camera not that worth it.

But with the functions being rolled into M10 as well (although for sure not as good), makes me want to stick with M10 even longer now lol, unless the 20 is super good.

 

[CrispyPeddler]

I'm personally more than satisfied with my Mate 10 too. Won't go for a new phone so soon.

same. no regrets using mate10pro. and the latest updates also include in.

probably will change agn when mate 14pro come out or something

 

[watzup_ken]

Personally, I see no reason to upgrade from Mate 10 series to the P20 series. I don't deny that the camera is better than the Mate 10 Pro, but overall, pretty much nothing have changed. Agree that it will be better to see what Mate 20 Pro will bring to the table since it is after all, the flagship Huawei phone. New SOC is to be expected, but likely the camera will see further improvements.

 

[TheOutsider]

Same here, partly because P20 also using the same CPU so to me the upgrade is purely for camera not that worth it.

But with the functions being rolled into M10 as well (although for sure not as good), makes me want to stick with M10 even longer now lol, unless the 20 is super good.

Omg this Huawei, just launched Nova 3 and Nova 3i. Nova 3 at 3000RMB is using the same Kirin 970 also. Somemore comes with 6GB ram and the camera setup looks promising with GPU Turbo out of the box. Seriously Huawei?? Mate 10 only got 4GB RAM, still waiting for GPU turbo and super night mode update. Sien sia

 

[Igene]

Omg this Huawei, just launched Nova 3 and Nova 3i. Nova 3 at 3000RMB is using the same Kirin 970 also. Somemore comes with 6GB ram and the camera setup looks promising with GPU Turbo out of the box. Seriously Huawei?? Mate 10 only got 4GB RAM, still waiting for GPU turbo and super night mode update. Sien sia

Ya man... Like anyhow release phone one...

 

[CrispyPeddler]

Omg this Huawei, just launched Nova 3 and Nova 3i. Nova 3 at 3000RMB is using the same Kirin 970 also. Somemore comes with 6GB ram and the camera setup looks promising with GPU Turbo out of the box. Seriously Huawei?? Mate 10 only got 4GB RAM, still waiting for GPU turbo and super night mode update. Sien sia

hahaha. they manufactured too many 970..have to clear stock

 

[GReddy G9 RS]

Omg this Huawei, just launched Nova 3 and Nova 3i. Nova 3 at 3000RMB is using the same Kirin 970 also. Somemore comes with 6GB ram and the camera setup looks promising with GPU Turbo out of the box. Seriously Huawei?? Mate 10 only got 4GB RAM, still waiting for GPU turbo and super night mode update. Sien sia

I read from huawei facebook that it's using kirin 710 chip.

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[TheOutsider]

I read from huawei facebook that it's using kirin 710 chip.

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I mean the Nova 3. Nova 3i indeed does come with Kirin 710.



Wow just read the announcement from Huawei. Mate 10 series is getting AIS, night shot, 960fps slow mo, the new AI camera app, GPU Turbo and EMUI 8.1 with Android Oreo 8.1.

Well done Huawei. Haha

 

[GReddy G9 RS]

I mean the Nova 3. Nova 3i indeed does come with Kirin 710.



Wow just read the announcement from Huawei. Mate 10 series is getting AIS, night shot, 960fps slow mo, the new AI camera app, GPU Turbo and EMUI 8.1 with Android Oreo 8.1.

Well done Huawei. Haha

Oic. So nova 3 is better then nova 3i?

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[KYLee]

I mean the Nova 3. Nova 3i indeed does come with Kirin 710.



Wow just read the announcement from Huawei. Mate 10 series is getting AIS, night shot, 960fps slow mo, the new AI camera app, GPU Turbo and EMUI 8.1 with Android Oreo 8.1.

Well done Huawei. Haha

question is when? coming from samsung camp, they always say this say that end up s7 is still not on oreo yet... i hope huawei is different!

 

[GReddy G9 RS]

question is when? coming from samsung camp, they always say this say that end up s7 is still not on oreo yet... i hope huawei is different!

Have been using my huawei for 1yr 7mths so far love it. And my office phone S7 for 1yr 3mths recently auto brightness n auto rotation not working. Battery life also getting bad. Give up on Samsung.

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[watzup_ken]

Wow just read the announcement from Huawei. Mate 10 series is getting AIS, night shot, 960fps slow mo, the new AI camera app, GPU Turbo and EMUI 8.1 with Android Oreo 8.1.

Well done Huawei. Haha

Don't count your chicken until it hatches. Some of the things, Huawei have mentioned some of these enhancements sometime back. As long as it is not implemented, there is always a chance things may drop off the enhancement list.

 

[watzup_ken]

question is when? coming from samsung camp, they always say this say that end up s7 is still not on oreo yet... i hope huawei is different!

I can't say when, but I know at least from my personal experience using my Mate 10 Pro, that Huawei is more proactive when it comes to rolling out new firmware. Having used quite a few Samsung flagship phones, the firmware update is very sporadic and usually a very long wait between firmware. Just observing the number of firmware updates my wife's S8 is receiving vs my Mate 10 Pro, the ratio is at least 4:1 now.

 

[Audiology93]

From my experience, Samsung usually is big update, but Huawei is many small incremental update.

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[charleslin]

Omg this Huawei, just launched Nova 3 and Nova 3i. Nova 3 at 3000RMB is using the same Kirin 970 also. Somemore comes with 6GB ram and the camera setup looks promising with GPU Turbo out of the box. Seriously Huawei?? Mate 10 only got 4GB RAM, still waiting for GPU turbo and super night mode update. Sien sia

The 970 is gonna trickle down now since the production costs is lowered, and they likely ramping up the next generation chips for the upcoming smart phone. So the excess 970s will be used for the upcoming cheaper budget phones.

question is when? coming from samsung camp, they always say this say that end up s7 is still not on oreo yet... i hope huawei is different!

So far Huawei is quite ok la, to be honest. Compared to other big name manufacturers, although EMUI is not the fanciest overlay right now. But only a few other manufacturers like OnePlus or those almost stock Android updates faster.

Huawei may not be the fastest but they are also not the slowest, and they seem committed to try and bring features down to the previous generation.

The last gen flagships all updated to 8.0 already as well.

 

[walkofwinners]

Having more firmware updates may not necessarily be a good or bad thing anyway.

Samsung phones are stable as it is nowadays so may not need to update too frequently. Even iOS only have major updates every now and then too.

 

[watzup_ken]

Having more firmware updates may not necessarily be a good or bad thing anyway.

Samsung phones are stable as it is nowadays so may not need to update too frequently. Even iOS only have major updates every now and then too.

I don't agree that the firmware is always stable for Samsung. Couple of Samsung phones I own previously was very unstable and unfortunately, no firmware to rectify them. In the end, I sold them off instead of waiting for another 6 months. Which is why till now I have not purchased another Samsung phone for myself.

Too many firmware updates may not be good, that I agree. Which is why I don't rush to upgrade in case it messes things up.

 

[watzup_ken]

From my experience, Samsung usually is big update, but Huawei is many small incremental update.

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Samsung's big updates generally is a result of consolidating multi months of updates. So far, I don't recall them adding more features to old phones through these updates, unless it is a new feature as a result of a different version of Android.

What I see different about Huawei is that they will bring features from new phones, back to older phones. This is great after sale value add that I observe is missing from the Korean and Japan phone brands. They typically sell you the phone, and do the minimal of fixing bugs and security issues. And other times you may hear from them is when there is a new version of Android.