Mate 10 Pro (Single-SIM) 128GB Android 8.0 UK version SIM-Free Smartphone -Titanium Grey

After buying a Huawei tablet (MediaPad M3 10 lit, 5*) and loving the build quality I decided to make my next phone Huawei. Decided on the Mate 10 Pro coz it had no notch and a 96hr battery rating on GSM Arena. What can I say? Awesome. Very good looks, solid build and it does have that great battery. The Emui skin is not too intrusive but I always put Nova Launcher on for my own customisation. It comes with a clear case, screen protector applied, fast charge brick and some USB-C earphones (and a 3.5mm to USB-C for normal earphones you may want to use). The screen is great. The new 18:9 ratio that most phones seem to have means it's taller but narrower, easier on the pocket. It does have some strong power saving modes as default but you can soon sort out which ones to turn off. The battery life is really good. After a full, first charge, it took me 8hrs setting it up, with screen full brightness to run it down. Very impressive. After a few days with it being used normally, it easily gets through a day. Sometimes with 60% still left! The audio is another strong point. Using some hi res earphones I get some good, clear audio. I mostly use Spotify at very high quality. I did notice it doesn't like third party equalisers, preferring it's own, very customisable app. Using its own external speakers the phone uses a downward firing port for the lows while the earpiece handles the treble. However, switch to landscape mode, for video viewing and the two speakers then also split the audio to stereo too. Very good idea. The camera is very good, plenty of modes, though to be honest, I don't use it that often. A few stills, when out with friends etc but they look crystal clear. 6gb of ram is more than enough to handle the four constant widgets I have on my home screen and still show no signs of lag. As this model has been superceded by the Mate 20 and P20 models, it's now over half the price it was a year ago. Also, although it's a year old, it still has Android 8 so still pretty much up to date, software wise. It's a great phone, that battery is phenomenal. Very happy with this purchase.

Have had the Mate 10 Pro for a couple of months and really like it. I am a very experienced smartphone user (just adding that as a lot of reviews for phones on Amazon are often by very clueless people) and have had numerous Android phones, and I upgraded from a Samsung S7 Edge. It has a nice 6" screen, but because of the small bezels it doesn't feel large in the hands or pocket at all. The cameras (colour and B&W) are really good, I am an experienced photographer with good cameras and lenses, and normally hate phone cameras, but this is the first phone I have owned where I will use it when out and about and not have to carry a camera with me all the time. The low light pictures are frankly amazing for a phone. Battery life is excellent, I can easily go a day on a charge, and it recharges to full in less than an hour using the supplied USB-C charger. It comes with minimal extra apps installed over standard Android. I can't speak much about the UI for the homescreen as I always use Nova Launcher, but the settings menus are well laid out and have a lot of useful features. Performance of the phone is very good, and the 6GB of RAM helps a lot. Phone comes with screen protector applied in the box, and also a transparent protection case. Downsides: This is the first USB-C device I have owned, and it has no headphone jack. It does have a USB-C to headphone jack dongle which does the job. It has a pair of earphones bundles in, but while the sound quality was pretty decent, they don't stay in my ears at all, they are very poorly shaped with no rubber cover to help them stay in. It has no MicroSD slot, but with 128GB of internal storage that isn't an issue for me. Overall it is a fantastic phone that performs like a flagship model but costs less than half the price. Is a real bargain IMO.

Okay my LG G4 finally went bootloop after just over 3 years. So I needed a new phone. I'm never that much of a mug to pay more than £400 for a phone if I have to so took a look at what was going on Amazon for £250 to £400. So we had the Nokia 8 which looked great and super cheap but no notification light. Google Pixel XL MK1...great again but comes out of update support right now so no point. The LG G6 was looking solid if a little dull but I fancied a change maybe. Then the Mate 10 Pro was up. Great looking camera, half the launch price and plenty of storage. The other thing was the 4000mAh battery. If I can't change them at least I'll get a phone with a bigger battery. Oh and it has a notification light. Sold! Okay the phone took nearly a week to arrive but hey. First niggle is the charging cable is 18" too short. The phone itself is great. I made sure I left the screen protector on by peeling the removal tab off instead. Into the case it went. Power on and two updates went straight on which was a good start. I then put back my apps and installed MS Launcher as I didn't want to get involved with EMUI. MS Launcher gives me the most barebones launcher once its tweaked as I want it. I was able to remove/disable 80% of the pre-installed stuff. The only stuff I couldn't was the usual own brand contacts/mail/messaging type stuff. Not terrible I suppose. So speed it great, as is the screen. You can change the screen colour but it comes pretty settled out of the box. The camera seems great though I haven't done much yet. B&W photography does look gorgeous I have to say. I don't take selfies being a 47 year old bloke. I don't listen to music on my phone so the loss of headphone jack is not an issue nor is wireless charging. One feature I miss from the G4 is the split audio levels for ringtone and notifications. Also I have to say the notification light on the 10 pro is a bit pathetic. It's the tiniest LED. Womp Womp! Battery life is tough to call as I'm still in the honeymoon period but it will do me fine I think. It's since dropped another £15 since I ordered it so even more or a bargain! Here's hoping it lasts me three years! Edit - As of Jan 8th, all going well, super well in fact. I got the Android Pie upgrade pushed to my phone about three days ago (about the 5th update I've had since October so not bad). Very nice indeed. Was amazed when the price jumped from the £360 I paid to £699 but seems to be coming back down now.

UPDATE: As of 19/05/2019, Huawei is no longer supported by Google. No more OS updates (maybe exception for security patches). Future Huawei phones will have no acess to Play Store and Google Apps. I advise anyone to stay the hell away from Huawei for a good while. ------------------- The phone is amazing - great battery life, speed, camera, storage... But in the last few months Huawei has decided to remove support for unlocking the bootloader (which is used to install a new operative system, - a ROM - if one desires). This feature was especially good considering Project Treble, supported by this phone, which enables easier development of ROMs that can extend the phone's life by a lot when it no longer receives OS updates. All this suddenly ended in April when the webpage to request bootloader unlocking codes was deleted from Huawei's website. So the device itself is great, but as a customer I can't tolerate a company locking down a product in such a criminal way. As long as Huawei behaves like this, I'll never buy any more products from them.

It's taken hours to get this phone to work the way I want. Even simple things like changing the launcher (to something far superior to Huawei Home) required search engines! The amount of garbage apps pre-installed is staggering - easily as bad as Samsung. Luckily, most can be uninstalled. I'm not regretting buying the Mate 10 Pro but, as a power user, it's Oreo software is a real PITA to set up. I wish Dirty Unicorns would do a custom ROM for it!! Lots of issues with the new version of android - unwarranted permissions and incompatibility with apps that were perfectly fine with 7 Nougat. This isn't the phone's fault but something to be aware of. Another downside is that the unused SIM slot (there's a dual SIM model available) isn't microSD which meant a loooong time transferring data from my old phone to this via the PC. It came with a screen protector, a gel bumper case and USB-C to 3.5mm adapter along with USB-C earbuds, charging cable and wall plug. The fingerprint unlock is well positioned and very fast/instant! Bsttery life is really, very good. I usually get 36 hours to a charge. The main reason I purchased this was the reviews for music playback - the speakers were highly rated for their power. This is nonsense. It's no louder than my Moto X 2015 - The HTC U12+ should have been my choice but of course, phone shops don't have all the models in stock to allow side-by-side comparison. Another issue is that the enhanced audio feature enabled in landscape mode disables itself when the screen turns off so it's actually no good for what I wanted it for.

Delivery was on time, no problems there. Phone was in absolutely amazing condition, even came with all cables that was needed (I thought It was only coming with a charger but came with a type C dongle and even phone protector) Phone looks amazing, cameras are very good, screen quality is great for a 1080p+ screen but there's problems (honestly they seem to be software on Huawei's side). Battery is awful imo, it's get beaten by a Samsung galaxy s7 edge and a xiaomi redmi note 5 pro, both having better battery even though it should be the other way round with the s7 edge having a much older, less energy efficienct cpu, smaller battery and higher res screen. From what it looks like it's when it's asleep/screen off that it uses more power which would mean exynos and snapdragon have far better power efficient cpu's. (I do hours of research looking at everything right and wrong with a device before I purchase and this should have best battery of the 3). Software with face recognition and using gestures to navigate is frustrating half of the time for me. Sometimes it does what you want perfectly and fluid as hell, mostly it's repeating actions which shouldn't happen, an example is using the back gesture, sometimes you need to do the gesture multiple time for it to work which it should be 1st time 90% of the time. (again a redmi note 5 pro at under £200 new was a lot more fluid to use with less hiccups). Settings options and layout is way worse than that of Samsung and xiaomi aswell (in my opinion), had to go back and forth and sit there thinking about how to find a certain setting for it not to be on the device (again had the settings on other android devices that are older and cheaper). So delivery was great, physically the phone is amazing and looks great, amazing camera and screen is amazing, speakers are very good aswell but for me the interface and Huawei emui ( Huawei take on android) is just below par for and needs work to sort the software side of things (again it could just be my preference on how a phone should work/how I use my phone). Overall happy with purchase and happy with the seller, on time and phone is in top quality specially for 2nd hand phone. (again my expectation was a little higher because this is still meant to be a higher end phone, specially higher end than the other 2 devices I stated).

Then you should consider this phone. Lots of reviews here covering this phone so I won't go into all the details - but I bought this phone outright at the give-away then present price of £360 (inc vat although the seller couldn't provide a UK vat receipt for the phone claiming they weren't vat-registered (which seems almost impossible for the size of their operation)) but that aside (or even included) the phone is both excellent by any standards and excellent value outright (at the current price). I bought it to replace an ageing Huawei P9 which I bought on contract in 2016 so to anyone who considering the same, don't hesitate at this kind of price to grab one while you can. It's noticably faster with an even better screen than the P9s which was already very, very good IMO. To anyone who is still weighing up spending over £300 more for equivalent 'top brand' phone (Apple, Samsung etc) then DON'T unless: 1. You're very fussy about having a Mac-like interface/options etc, etc, and you're happy to pay a £300+ premium for it. 2. You think you can find an equivalent phone elsewhere for the same kind of price - which I don't think you'll be able to - especially if photography is important to you (in which I don't think you can beat this phone with it's Leica lens/software (which is excellent) either). 3. Unless having a superfast phone/battery + OLED screen isn't that important to you either* *I was looking at my UHD/HDR Netflix movies/box sets on my phone last night and the contrast/colours when viewing those on this phone is truly astonishing and 100% better than my 10bit 50" UHD/HDR LG TV (although it's LED and not OLED). The contrast/colour quality of this phone is astonishing. I actually prefer watching UHD/HRD content on my phone with my a headset on (although the sound quality doesn't compare that way) to watching UDH/HDR movies/box content on my £600 50" LG TV. The build-quality of this phone is excellent too. There's nothing to fault here unless you do prefer an original iPhone/Mac interface + lock-in and don't care about the aforementioned £300+ premium. Bottom line: Buy one while you can. Personally I wouldn't bother getting the Huawei P20 Mate Pro either as I can't see the minor extra features of the P20 Pro justify the £300-£400 premium for that phone either, as excellent as that phone no doubt is too.

I've had Sony and Samsung phones historically, and then an iPhone 5 & 6 more recently. I have completely lost faith in the iPhone, as the battery life is appalling. I also found out after replacing the battery that the iPhone 6 was cobbled together from different phones and then sold as a factory sealed and unlocked unit. Anyway, the Huawei P10 Pro is everything I wanted in a phone. The major appeal being a keen photographer was having the dual Leica lenses, and boy do they rock! The screen is large, and is a joy to edit images in Lightroom on the fly. The finger print sensor is amazing. My old iPhone 6 sensor was sluggish and often I'd have to input my pin tomunlock it. The P10 Pro is instant. My finger barely has to brush the sensor and as if by magic, the screen unlocks. Having used the phone for a couple of weeks now, I'm finding it a joy to use. The interface is very intuitve, and isn't a million miles away from using iOS. The only difference to an iPhone is that I miss is imessage, but I can live without that. The battery life is superb. I charge in the evening once a day, and the battery sees me through until the next evening, even using a lot of demanding apps throughout the day. There's really nothing negative I can say about it. The rest of my family have seen it, and all want to make the jump from Apple to Huawei! A few friends have commented on the Chinese being party to my personal information, but as far as I can see, it's really no worse than the Americans or whoever having the same information via Apple or another brand. A great handset with loads of features and an amazing phone to boot! Love it!