The Honor 10 is right here and when you’re available in the market for a borderline flagship at an higher mid-range worth then it’s price getting enthusiastic about, because it’s positioned as precisely that, and it’s the successor to the Honor 9 – a telephone we favored sufficient to provide four.5 stars to in our overview.
However the Honor 10 can be barely dearer than that handset and comparable in lots of methods, so might you be higher off sticking with the outdated mannequin?
You’ll have to attend for our full Honor 10 overview to know for positive, however under you’ll discover a full comparability of the specs of the 2 handsets, so you may see what’s completely different and what’s not.
Honor 10 vs Honor 9 design
Gentle can bounce throughout the again of the Honor 10
The Honor 10 and Honor 9 have comparable designs, not less than from the again and sides, with each telephones sporting a metallic body and a glass again. That is no plain, atypical glass, quite it diffracts gentle to eye-catching impact, and within the case of the Honor 10 the colour may even change barely relying on what angle you view the telephone at.
Considered from the entrance although they’re quite completely different, because the Honor 10 has a notch above the display screen, whereas the Honor 9 has a strip of bezel all the best way throughout.
Each telephones have a backside bezel housing a fingerprint scanner, however on the Honor 10 it’s beneath the glass, so the entrance of the telephone is totally easy, whereas on the Honor 9 it’s a separate button-like element. Plus, the Honor 9’s bezel is bigger than the Honor 10’s.
The Honor 9’s again seems just like the Honor 10’s
As for the size and weight, the Honor 10 is available in at 149.6 x 71.2 x 7.7mm and 153g, whereas the Honor 9 is 147.three x 70.9 x 7.5mm and 155g, so the Honor 9 is marginally smaller and a tiny bit heavier however they’re roughly the identical.
It’s additionally price noting that neither telephone has any actual water resistance. The primary distinction, then, is the notch – or lack thereof within the case of the Honor 9 – on the entrance.
Honor 10 vs Honor 9 show
The Honor 10 has a slender display screen with a notch
The Honor 10 has a 5.84-inch 1080 x 2280 IPS LCD show with a pixel density of 432 pixels per inch and a facet ratio of 19:9.
The Honor 9 in the meantime has a 5.15-inch 1080 x 1920 IPS LCD display screen with a pixel density of 428 pixels per inch and a facet ratio of 16:9.
Breaking that down then, the Honor 10’s display screen is a bit bigger and a bit increased decision, however with roughly the identical pixel density, so the standard of the picture won’t differ a lot between them, however we’ll let you understand how good the picture on the Honor 10 really is once we’ve had an opportunity to totally overview it.
There’s an entire lot of bezel across the Honor 9’s display screen
The facet ratio is a much bigger distinction, with the Honor 10 being extra widescreen, like many latest flagships. Because it has a notch and fewer bezel it additionally has a better screen-to-body ratio than the Honor 9, although when you don’t just like the notch you may conceal it, by activating a setting that blacks out the display screen to both facet.
Honor 10 vs Honor 9 OS and energy
The Honor 10 and Honor 9 each are available 4GB and 6GB variants with regards to RAM, so that they’re comparable there, however the Honor 9 is utilizing an older octa-core Kirin 960 chipset to the Honor 10’s octa-core Kirin 970.
As such, the Honor 10 will carry out higher below strain. Actually, that’s the identical chipset as you’ll discover within the Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro, whereas the Honor 9’s might be discovered within the likes of the Huawei P10.
That stated, in benchmarks the Honor 9 nonetheless stored tempo with a lot of 2017’s flagships, such because the Samsung Galaxy S8, so efficiency shouldn’t really feel too missing.
The Honor 10 has extra energy however comparable software program
As for the working system, you get Android 7 Nougat out of the field with the Honor 9, however it may possibly now be up to date to Android 8 Oreo, whereas the Honor 10 runs Oreo from day one. That places the Honor 10 as whereas they may have comparable software program now, the newer handset is prone to be stored updated for longer.
Each telephones have an overlay after all although, particularly EMUI eight.zero within the case of the Honor 9 and EMUI eight.1 with the Honor 10. These are comparable and will likely be acquainted when you’ve used one other latest Honor or Huawei handset, but it surely’s price noting that they stray farther from inventory Android than many producer overlays.
Honor 10 vs Honor 9 digicam and battery
The Honor 10 has a dual-lens digicam with AI energy
The Honor 10 and Honor 9 each have dual-lens rear cameras with one colour lens and one monochrome one, however their specs differ. The Honor 10 has a 16MP f/1.eight colour lens and a 24MP monochrome one, whereas the Honor 9 has a 12MP f/2.2 colour lens and a 20MP f/2.2 black and white one.
In each instances the lenses might be mixed for a single, extra detailed picture or for a large aperture mode. Within the case of the Honor 10 you’ve additionally received AI serving to it alongside, which permits it to detect what you’re taking an image of and regulate the digicam settings accordingly. It could actually detect over 500 completely different scene varieties in all and may even type between a number of objects inside a scene.
The bigger aperture of the lenses on the Honor 10 means extra gentle can get in, which in idea might additionally result in higher low gentle photographs, however we’ll should put that to the take a look at to know for positive.
The Honor 9 additionally has a dual-lens digicam
Each telephones can shoot video in as much as 4K decision and whereas the Honor 10 has a 24MP front-facing digicam the Honor 9 has simply an 8MP one. So on paper at any fee the cameras are comparable however with extra megapixels and varied enhancements within the case of the Honor 10.
As for the battery, you get a three,400mAh one with the Honor 10 and a three,200mAh one with the Honor 9. We discovered the Honor 9 might comfortably final a day or extra generally, so hopefully the Honor 10 will likely be not less than pretty much as good. Each telephones additionally assist quick charging, however not wi-fi charging.
Honor 10 vs Honor 9 worth and availability
The Honor 10 prices £399.99 (round $545 / AU$720), which is barely greater than the £379.99 (roughly $515 / AU$685) launch worth of the Honor 9. The Honor 9 may now typically be discovered from round £340 (roughly $460 / AU615), so it’s a bit cheaper, however after all additionally extra dated.
You should purchase the Honor 10 from at present within the UK and the Honor 9 has lengthy been accessible, however the 9 didn’t get a launch within the US or Australia and we’re not anticipating to see the Honor 10 in these areas both.
Takeaway
On paper the Honor 10 is just about precisely what you’d count on because the successor to the Honor 9. It’s a minor improve in most areas, from the chipset to the display screen, digicam, battery and design.
The visible change is maybe the most important distinction, because the notch, new facet ratio and smaller bezels make it look fairly completely different from the entrance, however beneath all that it seems to be fairly the same telephone to its predecessor.
However whereas the upgrades could be small the value enhance can be fairly minor and on condition that the Honor 9 received four.5 stars in our overview the Honor 10 seems promising, assuming every part comes collectively in use. We’ll let you realize if it does as soon as we’ve put it via a full overview.