this is huawei's new mid-range phone the nova 10 pro so the nova 10 pro is really selfie
orientated for those of you who like to shoot a lot of vlog footage you do like to take a lot
of selfies because we have a wide 100 degree field of view 60 megapixel front facing camera
with a two times optical zoom 8 megapixel camera the screen is an oled 120 hertz 6.78 inches
and it's all powered by the snapdragon 778 g 4g version it has a 4 500 milliamp hour
battery and even very fast charging at 100 watts the rear main camera is a 50 megapixel
sensor it's the ryyb setup 2 with that one with the pixels and it does have an accompanying 8
megapixel ultra wide and 2 megapixel camera for depth information for portrait shots
now included with the nova 10 pro you will find our sim tray tool a type a to type c
cable a tpu case clear one it even covers over the buttons which is good and then our charger now it
is a large charger but it's very powerful this is huawei's supercharged 100 watts so very quick it
charges the phone in just over 35 minutes first thing you notice about this phone is the camera
module it really does stand out it's got quite a bit of bling to it the gold around the edges
of it and everything there so the main camera is 50 megapixels f 1.8 aperture and 8 megapixel
ultra wide which is f 2.2 it is the wiki camera and a 2 megapixel which is just used for depth
for portrait shots and we've got an led flash now this material here on the back here is a frosted
glass it's really good because it doesn't actually pick up any fingerprints whatsoever we've got the
unique nova branding there that you can see and our buttons on the side these are made out of
metal but the frame around the outside is plastic now you can tell because when you look just inside
where the type c port is you'll see that there is plastic in there and if it was metal you'd
see antenna lines that you normally do but it feels really good so we have two
speakers the downward fire speaker right here our microphone our sim tray takes two nano sims
and then right at the top we have the second loudspeaker through the earpiece little port there
and a secondary microphone there is no ir blaster with this particular model the nova 10 pro has a
6.78 inch screen it's oled it's curved 120 hertz hdr 10 support and i'll get onto the
screen in a little more detail shortly so the thickness of the phone it is 7.9 millimeters
however the camera does protrude out almost four millimeters as you can see on the side here
the weight of it being 191 grams isn't bad so it doesn't feel like it's too heavy and you'll see
that with our end screen fingerprint reader it's very low the position i wish it was about here
you do get used to it but you have to hold the phone up quite high in order to scan with your
thumb which i think most people will be doing it is quick this optical fingerprint reader i've had
no problems with it seems to be very accurate it's one thing that huawei does really well are their
fingerprint readers normally in my experience they are excellent the bottom bezel is very small
and the top bezel and because of the curvature of the screen it does make the left and right bezels
look very slim there so this 120 hertz oled screen can display up to a billion colors
hdr 10 support and i've measured the maximum brightness to be almost 900 net so it's a
very bright screen you can make it out in direct sunlight colors do look indeed good on the screen
now i have noticed that if you're going to lie it down on a table without the case like i have here
that it does tend to rock around a little bit there so you probably want to be using that case
for it so the screen overall is very nice to look at it is curved however so you see that right now
there's a bit of a blue tint here from the oled and if you look at it on an angle like this you
see it's a little bit brighter there are some pros and cons today of course that when you're holding
it it feels nicer in hand and for the gestures to swipe those swiping on the corners does feel
very good because it is curved however i prefer i don't know about you flat displays now you get
all your typical settings in here too as well with the screen so you got all your white balance color
temperature you can set you can even have the resolution to scale and that refresh rate now i've
forced it on to high for this review and the whole time i've been testing it because i feel that
if you've got 120 hertz you probably want it always on 120 hertz so what is missing here
is a 90 hertz option which would be good now is that dc dimming under more display
settings i don't see anything about their dc dimming unfortunately but i'm not seeing any
flicker coming through with the screen you see there's no banding happening on camera and when
i look at it at angles when i first turn it on which you sometimes see a bit of flicker on some
oled or amoled screens it's not happening with this particular panel the nova 10 pro is running
emui now it is version 12 that we do have and you'll see here that i've got eight gigabytes of
ram and it is of course the snapdragon 778 g that is powering this and it's got the 4g modem only so
not the 5g version we don't get 5g unfortunately with huawei here with this so i have 256 gigabytes
of storage and everything's pretty fast on this very fast indeed so there's no problems i've found
with launch times i don't see any noticeable lag when you swipe down for your toggles your gestures
all of that is really really quick now you will notice here that we've got a few little options
you've got huawei super device i've mentioned this in many of my other videos and there's some
of the other tech and if you do happen to have say a huawei tablet like their mate pad pro 11
or you have for example one of their laptops one of their mate books you can seamlessly move your
files between them and you can even share the screen of this phone on your actual laptop which
is very handy to have so performance optimization really good here with this nova 10 pro
when you first power on the nova 10 pro you will be greeted with this so there are a few
bloatware applications here now they're not all installed it's like placeholders these folders
so under social you'll find like tick tock and a few other things so if you don't click them they
won't install if you do it'll take you over to app gallery by the way app gallery this is it right
here is their app store so all the applications that you use most of them are all in here and
i keep mentioning this in my videos that every time i test it out it just keeps getting better
and better so for example if i wanted uh what's app okay is it actually going to be in there
well i do know the answer to that that it's going to come up and tell me that okay it's not there
there's a few other things you've got what's at business but it'll give me the result here we're
actually using pedal search find the apk file the installation file for it so i can click on this
touch that and it will take me over to the official website you can download the app
now for most apps you can find the apks for them a lot of them now don't require anything
from the google framework google play store framework so they'll run just fine by themselves
it's only just a few games that i have found that haven't run or for example like antutu
but you can run antutu lite so free space with the 256 gigabyte model you have approximately
236 gigabytes free and you'll see the internal storage speeds they are excellent very good
really fast there so ufs 3.1 uh random reads i have seen faster the sequentials are very good
and overall this is not of course going to be slowing down this particular mid-range phone at
all so here is our antutu score now this version i got here is antutu light so the scores are a
little lower a little different here but they are still very good for the chipset so the 778g
from qualcomm the snapdragon chip is reasonably fast getting almost 500 000 points so it's got
good performance gpu is good it's not of course at the level of their snapdragon 8 plus gen 1 but for
the price point it's not a bad chip at all i find for general use so we do have a widevine security
level one here but there is a catch so far netflix seems to be in standard definition they're not
acknowledging this drm cert that we do have for streaming and amazon prime video is in standard
definition as well which is one of the cons here of this phone hopefully that can be corrected
we do have camera 2 api support is full it's not quite level 3 which is the maximum but full
is still enough i believe to use pretty much all of the features if you look for
any gcam ports to run on this out of the cameras if you want just a different style
with your photos so charging speeds on it are very quick if you plug it in in charge you've
got the option it will tell you if you want to actually charge it even quicker you hold down
and you get the max 100 watts you can even pull down the top menu and select it to then use the
100 watt charging it's very quick it takes around about 35 just over 35 minutes to fully charge
which is not bad at all for a 4 500 milliamp hour battery it's really quick and it can go from 20
to 80 percent in just 10 minutes which is really quick again using the 100 watt charging mode
so there it wasn't actually charged well sorry it wasn't timed correctly here which i use and
two to four it took 27 minutes to go to 43 to 100 but it's only about 10 minutes to go to 20
to 80. so it really depends on where the battery is and of course it's got sensors and everything
to tick that it's not going to be overheating and it's going to be safe to charge at the 100 watts
so almost 9 hours of run time here for my fixed battery life test this is not real world
but it is a fixed test so you can compare it against all of the other phones that i
do review because it's the same test looped the same 200 nits of brightness and this is not a
bad score at all for 120 hertz so realistically you are looking around about seven and a half
hours seven hours seven and a half tops of real world screen on time use out of this battery
so we don't have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack you can use one of those adapters
and the quality sounds pretty good now these loudspeakers have a little bit of bass to them
and of course it's coming out the top here and the bottom and i'll play
the sample track now at 100 just to give you an idea what they sound like they're quite good
in our gaming performance so with pubg you can select the extreme frame rate but you have to
select smooth for the graphics option if you put it on to balance or anything over that you only
get the ultra frame rate option as expected for the snapdragon 778 g that the performance is good
i don't see any lags here with that ultra frame rate option really smooth and what i do like is
the speakers here because they're quite loud very loud in fact they do add to the immersion
although i've got the volume turned down a little bit here so you can easily get kills you know
not going to get any lag in a game like pubg so all the titles out there that you will test out
will run just fine on this chipset as for thermals well it looks like we're not going to have any
problems it's not a very hot chipset it's very similar to say the snapdragon 865 or the 870
it is getting a little hot around this area right here but not bad
and moving over to the video so with the two front facing cameras we've got the 8 megapixel two times
optical and then the 16 megapixel camera now it's quite a wide field of view it's a hundred degrees
so right now it is 0.8 but if i then just set it back to the ultra wide setting which is even
wider of course you can see there we have the 100 degree field of view for a front facing
camera is really good and this is 4k 30 only so we cannot shoot 4k 60 sadly and i have noticed
that some of the footage does look quite juttery especially when i pan around that it seems to be
dropping frames here i can even zoom in and that is now over to the two times hang on i'll get to
the two times there we go you'll see it change over that is the two times camera which has well
a bit too much zoom for me when it comes to selfie video let's take a look at the rare video now
so with our video here we can shoot 4k 30 frames per second this is the ultra wide which tends to
have a lot of jutter in it it doesn't really look that good at all so i'll just zoom in now
and we'll go from the ultra wide to then the main 50 megapixel camera there we go which is looking a
little better but i'm still seeing what looks like dropped frames and some clear juddering especially
when i do pan around now so i have digital zoom to zoom into the mountain range here that's two
times and again it looks like it's still dropping frame so i hope a firmware update can correct this
so the pros of the nova 10 are that it has an excellent screen 120 hertz very fast
very fluid ui you don't see any lags or stutters the screen 120 hertz means that the battery life
isn't going to be as great as running at 60 hertz but it's still decent you can still get
over seven hours of screen on time with this particular model here and then of course we've
got the 100 watt fast charging which is great the build of it is really solid the camera module does
protrude a little more than some of the others out there but we do have a good set of cameras
well at least the main rear camera is very good and the front-facing camera is above average what
you typically get with a lot of mid-range phones it's 16 megapixels and then it has a 100 degree
field of view which is great for just getting so much more into the shot and great for those group
selfie photos it even has then the two times eight megapixel zoom camera which is okay quality you
can get portrait shots with it that just you know look a little bit better a little bit different
than what you get with other phones again however the video quality for vlog with the 4k is just
limited to 4k 30. i hope with a firmware update they can add 4k 60. the loudspeakers they are
really good they're loud they've got a bit of bass to them and they sound great now pricing of this i
think it's a little expensive here considering it is a mid-range spec right snapdragon 778g but it's
priced leaning towards more flagship price point i feel so i hope that huawei can work on the pricing
i have also noticed a couple of things with it well one of them is the ultra wide camera is not
that great especially at video it looks washed out not good at all and the other is a problem that
has somehow come back into this particular highway phone something that demir frank the nitpicker has
talked about well many years ago when he had his english videos and that is the manual brightness
is fluctuating it's dimming when it shouldn't really happen because normally when you set your
manual brightness on the phone that's where it should always stay but i've noticed when you go
into the app gallery it will dim down you go into some other applications it will then be brighter
like in settings so i hope that they can fix that and make the brightness setting global no matter
what application you are running there and that is really it when it comes to some of the little cons
with it it is a very good release a solid release here the main one for me is that pricing i just
hope that while we can to work on that bring it down a little bit at its current release price so
thanks a lot for watching my thoughts and opinions and the review here of the nova 10 pro from huawei