Overall love

[Cornish Pasty]

Maybe 10 pro. Love this phone. Too the screen protector off though as it makes it a much nicer experience without it. Can't really fault it. Running pixel 2 launcher and outs great.

 

[xzfddd]

Agreed

 

[synthetikzz]

Delete pls, wrong thread

 

[walkerx]

Got my Pro 10 nearly 2 weeks ago and enjoying it, battery is brilliant especially as have it running BT all day as linked to my Watch 2 - camera is really good and love the fact the emui themes can skin nearly everything.

Only downside I've seen on the phone is when using 3rd party launchers, you can use the built-in huawei widgets and the fact it rebranded itself as being purchased through 3 mobile when it bought sim-free unlocked. This is like buying an iphone from an operator and it locks to the first sim inserted.

Overall very happy with the phone

 

[Bchoon]

Coming from iPhone 6s definitely love my Mate 10 Pro now. Awesome batt life with 7-8 SOT easily and the endless customisation. It is a combination of my mobile, street camera and gopro. All in one body

 

[Joakin2k]

Ok, here i go...

I had an S8 (exynos) then a Oneplus 5T (8gb Ram) i sold my OP5T because i needed money....

Then i save and got the normal Huawei Mate 10 4Gb RAM ,was an option for the price.

Previous i saw the entire Huawei presentation of the Mate 10 and 10 pro, due to their effort to introduce flagships to America (im from Mexico) and push them with lot of enthusiasm well i'll gavi them a chance...

Normal Mate 10 4Gb of RAM single SIM ... (rebranding and make double sim is posible, but this is my stock review)

Screen is ok, coming from an S8 nothing is better... is almost as good as the 5t's screen just the oled thing, well no burning screen issues anymore...

Camera, ok, it's like an HTC M8 improved, not as good like the S8

Battery is so dissapointed, having 4000mah compared to the 5t and s8 looks like 2900 , i want to use 2k screen all time to taste the flagship level of the Mate but it can't handle the battery, it can't last the full day intensive use... the 5t was a dream, smart resolution is "meh" its almost 1080 all the time it lowers when battery is low and 2k ativates when content available... yeah "smart"....

Performance, i could say is a draw with the S8, but the 5t wipes the floor with the Mate 10

UI, coming from an Exynos S8 (almost no bloat) and the 5t.... Emui is a crap UI, just try to drag an icon on the desktop with your finger and move it around, it can't follow your finger, the stock icons are like a kick in the balls... the S8 Touchwiz is miles polished than EMUI.
Screen DPI is another kick in my balls , a hard kick, like a football kick... the best combo is small screen + normal icons, note that the notification icons stay the same huge size... Why you wan't a 6" screen with gigantic UI ....

Sound, its ok... better than the S8, not louder as the single speaker of the 5T

Overall... i should wait, save money and get an Iphone 8 or a Lava Red OP5T

Dont get it, i regret my purchase...
Even 3rd party launcher don't run flawless, no double tap to wake the screen or to lock it ...

I read the developers post from XDA even unlocking bootloader is a pain in the ass, no official TWRP, yeah there is a way and a few roms , but is not that simple (you will need a windows 7 pc in order to install the drivers)...that's the tip of the iceberg...

Sorry for my poor english

 

[BenLB]

A week with the phone and im very pleased, i had a OP One and a ****ty LG G5, there was no single day i was has happy with my lg g5 that with the OP one but now with the mate 10 im happy again and love the phone.
No problems with Nova launcher fluid and no battery drain, i manage to get 7 hours on screen with 40 hours on, without battery savings,i had to use 2 battery to reach the same with the LG!
Photos are good and the speakers are a lot better than the lg ones the things i miss is the wide angle camera and double tap to wake

 

[troublecro]

Battery on pro is amazing but I'm disappointed with fluidity of the system. It's simply below par even compared with 2015.flagships. Cmon Huawei....

 

[marwa90]

Best phone ever! (but then again: I say that about every new phone I get

 

[culiacanazo]

Just got the Mate 10 Pro the day it hit Best Buy, a few day ago. Haven't bothered rooting yet because truthfully it doesn't need it.Im impressed with the overall quality.Extremely fast and stable. High 212k Antutu score. Thumbs up on this one.

Hahaha dude that's exactly what i said earlier! :highfive:

 

[Qooqoo1917]

If I'd give a valuation probably I'll write 8 in 1-10 system. I'm a bit disappointed in camera.

 

[anthropoidape]

After five years with a Galaxy Note 3, and just unimpressed by any of the current Samsung options, I have taken delivery of a Huawei Mate 10 Pro.
Really like it so far, but of course there are some things I want to tweak.

Big positives:

• I am already impressed with the battery and the speed of charging it with “supercharge”
• The screen is very nice
• Everything is very snappy. It's a quick and smooth experience using this phone for anything.
• Fingerprint scanner… I always thought this was a bit of an over-the-top inclusion on phones but I love it now that I’ve tried it. And on this phone, recognition is instant. Personally, the back-panel location is also optimal. I have set up both my index fingers and I am already used to using this feature and can't understand how I put up with entering a pattern or PIN for so long.

Things I was worried about that are okay:

• EMUI seems okay to me, not sure why people hate it.
• Bloat and customising and branding from my carrier is really unobtrusive. Kudos to Optus for this, they used to really suck.
• WiFi… I read that some people find wifi lousy on this phone. Totally fine and quick for me, perhaps because my previous phone was so old anything would look better.
• Bluetooth audio – seems totally fine. For me, this pretty much just means Spotify. Works fine so far.

What I’ve done to get it working and looking the way I want:

• First, fixed ads. Man it is incredible how much ads ruin the internet. I don’t know how anyone can stand using a mobile device without ad-blocking. DO THIS.
  https://xdaforums.com/mate-10/themes/help-unrooted-device-ad-spam-t3740126
  nb Spotify and FB Messenger don’t work properly with the hosts file in that thread; I had to grab a different hosts file.
• Installed an OLD version of ES File Explorer and blocked updating on it. I need to have a useable file system just as a matter of principle.
• Installed chrome beta and disabled notifications from it, so I stop getting that “close all incognito tabs” notification. No, it’s not porn… incognito’s the only way I know to stop some news sites I read from counting how many articles I’ve viewed that month and then hitting me with a “pay up” overlay.
• Chopped up my micro sim card so I could get a mobile connection (thanks for supplying one Optus).
• After some playing around with EMUI, I am using Nova Launcher instead. I couldn’t get EMUI to look the way I wanted it to – it’s not so much functionality as being able to customise. I have the desktop grid set to 10x6 and the app draw to 11x7, which for me looks spot on at 500dpi. Using Nova means the EMUI widgets, eg weather widget, don’t work. I am using Chronus for these widgets. I already had the paid versions of both Nova and Chronus.
• Switch on the navigation dock and hide the navbar
• Enabled developer options and set DPI to 500.

Some things to be aware of (culled out of various threads):

• Huawei uses fairly aggressive battery management which shuts down apps you do in fact want to keep running such as Virtual Hosts (for ad blocking - see above), and anything that runs a widget that should keep updating.
  
  To keep an app running you have to (I think!) change settings in both “Apps” and “special access”, that is:
  • Settings – Apps & Notifications – Apps – [name of the app] – Battery – Launch, then set to “manage manually” and turn on auto launch, secondary launch, and run in background.
  • Under “special access” (no idea how to get there, I just search settings), allow “ignore battery optimisation”.

Things I still want to sort out (I will try to edit this post when I find solutions):

• Media volume through the speakers and headphones is a bit quiet. Bluetooth audio is fine though. Not that critical and for me, a problem with just about every device out there. Time for a Bluetooth headset?
• The phone comes with Swiftkey installed. I am not sure yet but it feels like swiftkey freezes briefly every now and again. I will play around with keyboards to check.
• Make the change to DPI persistent. Maybe this can be done with ADB? I have not tried yet.
• It would be great if the fingerprint scanner could be given more uses. For example it would make a great “home” button. It can be made to work by sliding to show the notification panel or to browse photos. That’s cool, probably not what I would have picked for functions though.
• No sound on some videos through speakers, but sound through headphones. Clearly a software problem.

At this stage I am not rooting. I will at least wait until I’m satisfied I don’t have any hardware issues requiring warranty. It doesn’t look like there is anything I need to root for now though.

Overall:

Overall I am really, really happy with this phone. I tried to make myself want a Galaxy S9 or a Note 8, but I just can't take to the look of them. The Mate 10 Pro is very, very close to ticking all my boxes. It doesn't trip any deal-breakers for me and I am really picky about getting things to work the way I'd like them to. I would like to be able to customise a little more and if I could have root and xposed etc without blowing my warranty I would, but there would only be minimal reason to do this.

 

[vherong29]

Overall i love my huawei mate 10 pro im very satisfied overall in performance battery life, and so on! After it was announced last year it was love at first sight!

 

[Socialnotworking]

Just sold it

Had mine about a month having tried the Note 8, S8+ and iPhone 7 previously.

Good points:

• Camera once you worked out when to activate HDR mode and manual modes at the right times it was very good and I could edit RAW from manual mode to enhance them further.
• I dont take selfies so I dont care about that side but I took a portrait of my eldest son and it worked very well providing great edge detection and a nice bokeh.
• I would say the camera is close to the Note 8 albeit slightly more interesting to use
• Battery life is amazing and it charges really quick on the super charger, the best I have experienced as yet.
• Screen is great and you can always see it in any lighting conditions
• Size and weight is ideal for the screen size, never felt heavy like the Note 8 and easy to hold in one hand
• Performance was as quick as I would expect although interestingly Nova launcher provided lower benchmark performance compared to the stock home launcher
• I didnt mind EMUI I dont see any problem with it at all

Bad Points

• Bluetooth audio through headphones sounded heavily compressed even at 320k and using USB C cable with wired headphones didnt really improve it. The S8+ was better but neither come close to the Note 8 or iPhone 7 for headphone audio quality.
• Shiny back was a nightmare to keep clean so you really have to use a case all the time which covers up the nice looks
• Notifications on lock screen were random depending on the lock screen type and sometimes when locked you couldnt operate the music player or third party apps like Deezer

Overall it is a very interesting phone with lots of great features and if it wasnt for the headphone audio I probably would have kept it, but even my old iPhone 5C sounds better wired or bluethooth.

 

[alex_official]

My Mate 10 Pro quick review:

GREAT:

• Battery: Great battery life (obviously) with the 4000mAh cell, also very fast charging (as advertised).
• Display: Very good screen brightness and overall quality (very readable in direct sunlight and with sunglasses on). Very comparable with the Samsung AMOLED panels in my opinion.
• Audio quality: great audio quality through the original dongle with 3.5mm headphones (I haven`t tested it with wireless ones, as I am still going "old school" on this topic). I read before that someone said that this phone has worse audio quality than an iPhone 5c...hmmm...to me it sounds clearer than my LG G6 and better through wired headphones than Galaxy S9 plus (which I had on test for a couple of weeks). So, in my opinion, the sound quality is very good, better than most phones out there (I doubt the iPhone 5c had such awesome audio quality but I didn`t test it so I won`t judge).
• Design: elegant design, loving the camera strip and overall feel of the phone, fingerprint magnet of course, not a particularly huge fan of the HUAWEI branding on the front but you can`t have it all.

GOOD:

• Camera: well, if I wouldn`t have had my LG G6 with a google camera port from the guys here at XDA, I would have probably rated it higher, towards great. However, on auto mode, sometimes it is on par with my G6, but in high contrast situations the dynamic range from the HDR+ processings leaves the stock Huawei algorithms behind. But the manual mode is very very good, the monochrome feature is also amazing (especially in low light) as it retains a lot of details, the HDR mode doesn`t do much from what I can see (in any case, it doesn`t get close to HDR+, but it is OK). Can`t wait to try out the special effects (water painting, light trails etc). It is a good camera, if it weren`t for the Pixel 2 XL (and now the S9 and the P20 Pro), it would have been rated higher in my book.
  One thing I would like to mention here: why does everybody seem to think that the iPhone X has such a better camera than the Mate 10 Pro (talking strictly about image quality here)? I have a number of friends who own iPhone Xs and they rarely get a better picture than me. On video however, it`s best to not talk about it. Unless you have a tripod. Then the Mate 10 Pro has a fighting chance against the other big boys.
  One other question: I saw on gsmarena that the front camera seems to have suspiciously similar specs as the Pixel 2 XL (8 MP, 1/3.2 sensor, 1.4 um pixel size, only the aperture differs). Can anyone confirm this? If it would be true, then I can only imagine how good the Mate 10 Pro FC would be with a google cam port.

NOT SO GOOD:

• Notifications & app management: here, it seems like the much marketed NPU is doing its best to annoy users like me who like to take care themselves of what notifications to appear, what apps to use mobile data, what apps to run in background always and so on. I can`t get Whatsapp to stop showing banners, sounds and vibrations for each message no matter what. Everytime I set it to just show the icon on the status bar, it seems to work, but after I receive the first (new) message, it defaults back to showing everything (banners, sounds, vibrations, etc). Annoying! Another annoying thing is that it always stops my Pacer app to count my steps (although it does count some, but only like 10% of what I actually walk or run). I have disabled every possible restriction and enable every possible exception, but it still does this. Anyway, maybe these are not the worst niggles you can have with this EmotionUI software, but they are so basic so why can`t they fix them? That said, the battery optimizations and memory management are very good (too good, as you could read above).

All in all, I mostly love the phone, and I can live without being able to set my Whatsapp notifications the way I want to, but I honestly hope that I`ll eventually have a working google camera port on this phone, so the camera would go from good to amazing!

 

[alex_official]

Great phone overall

 

[nottmbantam]

Not Bad.

Hello All,
First post here. I have the Mate 10 ( non Pro ) and also the Dual Sim Middle East version and been using it as my only device for a little over two weeks now.The main reason for getting the phone, coming from a iPhone 7Plus, I wanted the same screen aspect rather than the trend of 'long and narrow' and also dual sim capability . The Mate 10 is about the only dual sim 16:9 device I could find. Here in Saudi, the new price was 1,999 SR, which was I thought, an excellent price. I sold my year old iPhone 7plus for more money. I did look seriously at the S9+ but thought it was too much money. I dabbled with the S8 last year, but couldn't get to grips with the narrowish screen. Also considered he Note 8, but alas, same screen aspect ratio. Not many phones out there with the same width resembling an iPhone Plus.

So - good points: ( daily use is mainly light use - occasional pics, browsing news media, messaging, internet, emails and a few phone calls. The biggest drain is running a wifi hotspot all day long to connect my laptop to the device's data sim )

Screen aspect ratio. I like the wide screen format and the display itself. Nothing to choose from with the 7+ and the Mate 10 to my naked eye.
Dual Sim. I run a voice sim and data sim. Could if I wanted to, install a second sim and an SD card but the phone has 64gb which is enough for me, for now.
Fingerprint sensor - works perfectly every time. Though due to it's somewhat elliptical shape, it can be a bit awkward.
Camera - good enough for social snaps
Practical day to day use - no issues really. Configured all my contacts , emails, pics to my iCloud account, so nothing major.

Downsides ( being really pedantic )
Had to put the case on due to slippery nature of the case. I use a magnetic mount on the car dashboard, so even had to superglue the steel disc to the case. I think the curved back made it difficult.
The EMUI - whilst its ok, I wanted to customise it to take advantage of the ability to do so, and downloaded Action Launcher. The first few attempts always resulted in AL crashing and being unusable . I then tried the Beta versions, which seemed better. However, I came across Microsoft Launcher, and this works brilliantly.
Notifications seem inconsistent. Some come with banners sometimes, and other times, just a status bar icon alert. Not consistent enough.
Battery - its ok, not as good as I hoped, but appreciate running the wifi hotspot all day is killing the battery.
Audio / Audio over Bluetooth - find the quality not as good as the 7Plus. That was always crystal clear.

Generally for the money, I think this is an excellent device. I think though I may be tempted when the new iPhone X Plus hits the markets later this year, just hope the screen aspect doesn't default to the new fashion. Expected prices of the new iPhone X Plus though are still a right kick in the slats., and I kind of resent having to pay that much for a premium phone when this one ticks most of the boxes.

 

[tkalfaoglu]

Best phone I ever had.. even after YEARS of constant use.

 

[Ugglaimossen]

Have had my half a year soon. What a phone! Can't believe such an "old" phone still feels so good. Recently upgraded to Android 10 also. Love the form factor and size. I hope manufacturers bring similar phones in the future

 

[redmi_3g]

Mate 10 is perfect phone for me. Only lack of wide angle camera.. Damn that BW lens is sooo uselesss