The body is metal with a matte finish, and our review model is in a stealthy black, with concealed antenna bands on the top and bottom of the phone. It also comes in Honor’s trademark blue. We appreciate the minimalist gleam of the Honor View 10, but it’s not a fabulous looking phone. Compared to other flagships — from the Mate 10 Pro to the OnePlus 5T — it’s faceless. The fingerprint sensor is on the front, leaving the back of the device untouched aside from a pair of protruding camera lenses.
If the Honor View 10 was yellow, it would look like a Minion.
These camera lenses poke out by a couple of millimeters, and aren’t encased in a OnePlus 5T-style bump. We don’t care for the look at all, and would rather the body was blended around them, instead of sticking out. If the Honor View 10 was yellow, it would look like a Minion.
Barring this, the Honor View 10 is comfortable to hold and lightweight. It’s only 6.97mm thick, but it does slip about in your hand, even when placed on a flat surface. Plus, the back of the phone can get mucky with fingerprints. You’ll need a case.
Sit the Honor View 10 next to the Huawei Mate 10 Pro, and it’s obvious which is the more expensive smartphone. You’ll pay more for it, but if you value aesthetics and a wonderful, expensive in-hand feel, then it’s worth it. If it’s not a massive concern and the price tag matters, then read on.
FLAGSHIP PERFORMANCE, SLIGHTLY SMALLER BEZELS
The Honor View 10 is the second smartphone with the Huawei Kirin 970 processor and the Neural Processing Unit inside. The NPU provides on-device artificial intelligence processing, rather than handing all of it off into the cloud. It’s better for speed, privacy, and performance. The Honor View 10 has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. Let’s put it up against the Huawei Mate 10 Pro in a series of benchmark tests.
- AnTuTu: 176029
- Geekbench 4 CPU: Single-core: 1925; multi-core: 6773
- 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme: 2,964
How close are the scores? Essentially identical to the Mate 10 Pro. Honor’s pulling the same trick as OnePlus, by stuffing the best mobile processor it has access to into a phone that’s cheaper than its rivals. We like that a lot.
The screen gets bright, it’s colorful, and it looks great
After running these tests, and also when playing graphically-intensive games, we did notice the body of the Honor View 10 gets quite warm. Not dangerously so, or where it became impossible to hold; but the phone definitely gets hotter than we expected — hotter than the Mate 10 Pro. Regardless, we enjoyed playing games on the Honor View 10, and we experienced no performance problems. This is no surprise, the Kirin 970 makes special use of Android 8.0 Oreo’s gaming prowess to smooth out performance.
The Honor View 10 minimizes the bezels around its FullView 6-inch screen, which has an LCD panel rather than an OLED screen. It’s not quite to the degree of the Mate 10 Pro or the Galaxy S8. The upper and lower bezels are also slightly larger than the OnePlus 5T. While far from oversize, the Honor View 10’s larger bezels are obvious when compared side-by-side with the competition, and evidence of this is clear with Honor retaining the fingerprint sensor on the front of the phone. It still has an 18:9 aspect ratio though, and you can force apps to run in fullscreen to make the most of it. The screen gets bright, it’s colorful, and it looks great — just as we’d expect from Huawei and Honor.
A GREAT MONOCHROME CAMERA
Those ugly camera bumps on the rear contain a 16-megapixel RGB lens and a 20-megapixel monochrome lens, a slightly different setup to the Mate 10 Pro. The aperture is f/1.8 with PDAF auto-focusing, a bokeh mode, and the NPU-powered scene and object recognition. The latter changes the camera settings, such as color, contrast, and exposure, without you having to do anything except point the camera in the direction of your subject.
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