The Huawei Mate 10 Professional has rather a lot going for it. Along with a slick, premium design, the display screen packs vibrant, OLED know-how with an 18:9 facet ratio – much like that discovered on the Google Pixel 2 XL and iPhone X.

Huawei’s Mate 10 Professional additionally has a twin digicam set-up paying homage to the wonderful iPhone 8 Plus and Galaxy Note 8. It’s even loaded up with Android eight, the most recent model of Google’s working system, out of the field, that means you get the working system’s newest security measures and UI highlights – akin to picture-in-picture viewing.

When its specs are laid out alongside the remainder of the flagship competitors, the Huawei Mate 10 Professional even wins out in some key areas. For starters, it gives extra storage – 128GB as commonplace vs 64GB on different flagships.

It additionally has a beefier battery than the competitors – an enormous four,000mAh, in contrast with, three,300mAh within the Samsung Galaxy Notice eight and below 2,691mAh within the iPhone eight Plus.

The Mate 10 Professional even has an IR blaster for some added nostalgia-factor, that means it may double up as a TV distant management for these occasions you’re attempting to spook your mates within the pub, or just can’t discover your individual.

Even on paper although, this cellphone isn’t excellent. The display screen is not the sharpest at 1,zero80 x 2,160, placing it under the crystal clear 2K and even 4K shows on competing smartphones just like the Sony Xperia XZ Premium. 

It additionally has no headphone jack, or microSD card slot – so that you’ll want to make use of a dongle to your wired headphones and assure the ample inside storage is sufficient to final you your entire life-cycle of the cellphone.

Huawei Mate 10 Professional value and launch date

To date, the Huawei Mate collection has all the time felt just like the extra area of interest, phablet collection within the shadows of the Huawei P10 and Huawei P10 Plus, however the Mate 10 Professional seems set to vary that.

It isn’t the largest mainstream cellphone on the block in the meanwhile and Huawei is taking part in hardball on value, charging barely lower than its key opponents at €799 / £699 / AU$1,099 (roughly $945).

The cellphone is offered on EE, Three and O2 within the UK, plus you should purchase it SIM free too. We have additionally seen the cellphone on sale in Australia too, however there are not any plans but for a US launch. Huawei can be hoping it may lastly mainstream its Mates, relatively than giving us one other glorious, however cumbersome and arduous to seek out smartphone just like the Mate 9 earlier than it.

What’s within the ‘Professional’?

• An OLED display screen
• An f/1.6 dual-lens digicam
• A number of storage however no microSD slot or headphone port

The Huawei Mate 10 Professional has launched alongside the Huawei Mate 10, which, could be very comparable on paper to the Huawei Mate 9.

The principle variations between the Mate 10 Professional and Mate 10 because of this, are additionally the primary variations between the Mate 10 Professional and the Mate 9.

For starters, Huawei has ditched IPS LCD display screen know-how for the Professional, as an alternative choosing an OLED show – and it was completely the appropriate name. This factor pops superbly.

Additionally ditched is the headphone jack and the microSD card slot – although there’s double the storage within the mannequin presently confirmed for launch, at 128GB.

The Mate 10 and Mate 10 Professional do share some key commonalities not discovered within the Mate 9 nonetheless. They each undertake glass backs for instance, feeling immediately richer than the blasted steel of previous. As well as, they sport the most recent model of Android, full with the most recent model of Emotion UI, Huawei’s customized interface.

EMUI eight.zero because it’s additionally recognized enhances these two telephones in plenty of very tangible methods, probably the most notable being the PC expertise generated when hooking them as much as a monitor or TV utilizing an HDMI cable.

The digicam set-ups on the brand new Mates are much like what we’ve seen on the Huawei Mate 9, P10 and P10 Plus, in as far as they provide dual-cameras, combining an RGB and a monochrome sensor. This time spherical although, Huawei has stepped issues up within the aperture division, with f/1.6 lenses throughout every of the digicam modules.

This could end in higher low-light pictures, hitting residence Huawei’s digicam partnership with Leica.

Design and show

• The perfect trying Mate but
• Modern mixture of steel and glass
• Punchy display screen however rivals are sharper

Due to a few generations of producing superb trying glass-backed telephones below the Honor identify, Huawei is aware of precisely what it’s doing with the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Professional.

A curved Gorilla Glass again panel combines with a steel body to create a cellphone that appears glossy, feels wealthy and doesn’t disappoint alongside different telephones in the identical price-bracket.

Huawei Mate 10 Professional palms on gallery

The entrance of the cellphone is critically screen-heavy, providing a 6-inch show expertise whereas sustaining a smaller footprint than the 5.5-inch iPhone eight Plus.

Its 80.9% screen-to-bezel ratio additionally impresses in comparison with the classical iPhone 8 and eight Plus design, although isn’t fairly as gentle on bezels because the iPhone X. Just like the iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy Notice eight and LG V30 although, the display screen’s facet ratio is ultra-wide with an 18:9 facet ratio.

OLED know-how with some added HDR10 assist mix to offers the Mate 10 Professional’s show ample punch and pop – greater than the comparatively muted Google Pixel 2 XL.

At full HD decision although, it doesn’t have the readability to compete with the likes of the Sony Xperia XZ Premium, Galaxy Notice eight and S8 collection, neither is it fairly as breathtaking almost about colour replica because the latter two.

Regardless of this although, it nonetheless fares higher than the Google Pixel 2 and LG V30 in the case of colour integrity and viewing angles, positioning it firmly in the midst of the premium smartphone display screen hierarchy.

Loaded up with a screen-protector pre-fitted, in addition to a gentle plastic case within the field, it’s additionally reassuring that you simply received’t should make any extra investments to maintain your dear new smartphone protected against all sides.

Even with no case and display screen protector although, the Mate 10 Professional is a sturdy contender due to Gorilla Glass 5 on either side and IP67 water and mud resistance.

The glass again has a slight curve throughout each axis, softening the texture considerably. It additionally seamlessly transitions into the high-gloss steel sides and produces a sufficiently straightforward to grip form and texture mixture.

Much less slippery than blasted steel it might be, however due to all of the glass, the Huawei Mate 10 Professional’s design can also be far more fingerprint-friendly.

The twin-camera leads to two mini digicam bumps, whereas the fingerprint scanner has a properly tactile recess to make sure a fast finger fumble will naturally discover it.

Whereas digicam bumps aren’t very best, as with the Google Pixel 2, the very fact the cameras are bodily impartial discs of glass implies that a smashed again received’t essentially imply a smashed digicam.

Straightforward to press buttons adorn the cellphone’s right-side, a USB-C port is at its base whereas the SIM tray sits on the left-side. Which means with no actual complaints in the case of the design and display screen, save for the marginally irksome digicam bumps, issues have gotten off to a wonderful begin.

Add to that availability in 4 colours, Mocha Brown, Midnight Blue, Titanium Grey and Pink Gold, and there needs to be one thing for everybody within the Mate 10 Professional colour portfolio – even when their communications strategy around the colors could do with some refining.