- Huawei has been an absolute juggernaut
in the worldwide smartphone market,
outselling a bunch of more established smartphone brands
on a global scale.
Now Huawei's looking to make a big splash in the US
with the release of the Huawei Mate 10 Pro.
In this episode, I give you a look
at the top five features of the Mate 10 Pro,
and why this just might be the best Android smartphone
you can buy on February 18.
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As I said, Huawei's taking a big step
into the United States with the release of this right here.
This is the new Huawei Mate 10 Pro United States version,
and in this episode, I want to give you
the top five features of Huawei's flagship smartphone.
Huawei made the announcement at CES
that the Mate 10 was coming to the US.
Big shout out by the way to Huawei
for sending over the Mate 10 and for sponsoring this video.
Now the Mate 10 Pro is a beautiful device.
So let's start off right there by talking about
the design.
The Huawei Mate 10 Pro is comprised of glass on the front
and the back.
On the rear, you've got ergonomic curved glass
according to the company, and as you can see,
it's got two cameras on the back,
that's dual cameras, from Leica,
and that stripe that goes across the cameras
right above the fingerprint sensor is part of
Huawei's new signature design.
I assume you're gonna see that on future smartphones
going forward as well.
Between the two pieces of glass,
you've got a metal band holding everything together,
and on the bottom, as you can see,
it's got a speaker as well as a USB-C port
for charging and syncing.
I did mention that it has a fingerprint reader on the back
which is actually very fast.
That's not surprising in this day and age though.
Pretty much every fingerprint sensor that we come across
is super fast these days.
And looking up front, as you can see,
that screen-to-body ratio is killer.
There's just a small bezel on the top and bottom.
Otherwise, you've got that nice large display.
The other thing to keep in mind
about the design of this phone is that
Huawei did make this phone IP67 water and dust resistant.
That means you can drop it in a liter of water
and leave it there for up to 30 minutes
without suffering any damage.
So again, beautiful-looking device, but of course,
the main thing about the device
that you're gonna be looking at isn't the back.
It's the front.
That is feature number two, Huawei's full-view display.
Up front, you've got a six-inch 18 by 9 aspect ratio display
at a resolution of 2160 by 1080.
Huawei calls this the full-view display.
It's an OLED display, again with minimal bezels.
It's also an HDR-capable display
with support for HDR10 content from places like Netflix,
Amazon, YouTube, and more.
It supports 16.7 million colors
and has a contrast ratio of 70,000 to one.
The display is also very responsive to touch.
It's not 120 hertz true-motion display or anything like that
but it does get the job done and looks fantastic,
especially when you're streaming HDR content.
Up next, let's talk about one of the most important features
out there, something most people don't think about
until after they buy the device.
It is battery life, and Huawei is killing it
on the battery front.
On the inside, Huawei's Mate 10 Pro packs in
a 4,000 milliamp hour battery.
That is one of the largest batteries you're going to find
in any smartphone today.
A lot of them are a lot less.
Huawei is bringing the heat
with a 4,000 milliamp hour battery.
In fact, I've been able to use that battery
from morning until night and go to bed with power left over
without having to charge up one time during the day.
So super impressed with Huawei's battery life,
but there's also Huawei's battery charging tech
that also deserves to be called out as well.
Huawei calls it Super Charge.
It's the fast-charging tech that gives you a full day's use
from a 20-minute charge.
So if you have an empty battery of if you have a low battery
you plug in for 20 minutes with Huawei's charger
and you'll have a full day's battery life.
Very impressive and a feature that is very much appreciated.
Up next on my list of the top features
for the Huawei Mate 10 Pro is this impressive camera
on the back.
I mentioned that stripe design.
The Leica cameras are flanked right in there,
and they do a really good job.
Inside the Huawei Mate 10 Pro
is the Kirin 970 optical processor
with a neural network processing unit.
That is what powers the camera and gives it its AI,
artificial intelligence capabilities.
The Leica dual cameras are both f/1.6 apertures,
which is the largest aperture you're gonna find
on any dual-camera smartphone.
You've got one 20-megapixel monochrome camera
and one 12-megapixel RGB camera
with optical image stabilization built in.
Together, they take some great photos,
and the real-time recognition
for what you're taking photos of built in.
Using that neural network processing,
it'll sense what you're pointing the camera at
and optimize all of the settings
for that particular scene.
Some examples of things that Mate 10 Pro can recognize
are flowers, the sky, plants, nightscapes, food,
sunrise and sunset, text, beaches, portraits, snow,
and more.
So if you point at any of those things, and again,
there's more than that, it'll recognize exactly
what you're trying to take a picture of
and then optimize all the different settings of the camera
so that when you snap the photo,
it takes the perfect picture.
The Mate 10 Pro does also have a portrait mode built in.
That's where you take a photo of someone
and have the background all blurred that.
It does that using AI as well.
And that's something we're seeing
on a lot of flagship smartphones recently,
at least with the iPhone X, iPhone 8, the Google Pixel 2,
and the Samsung Galaxy Note8.
Huawei is doing the same thing here using that dual camera
to produce DSLR-like quality.
Now this next feature is interesting
because it's not so much a feature as it is a category,
but Huawei's done a really good job
of optimizing for this category, and that is travel.
If you're a business traveler,
there are some features built in to the Mate 10 Pro
that you really don't see elsewhere,
but they deserve a mention.
First is a built-in real-time translator.
You can speak to the Mate 10 Pro
in one of 50 supported languages and it'll translate
into another of those 50 supported languages.
You can go back and forth with someone
using just this phone and have a full conversation.
Not only does it support one-way voice,
but like I said, it supports conversations.
It support images.
It even supports text.
So you can take the camera here, point it at something
in another of the 50 languages that are supported,
and it will translate what's in that text
that you're pointing the camera at
into your native language.
The translator is preinstalled on the device
so you're ready to go right out of the box.
For business travel or even for personal travel,
that is a great feature to have
built right into the phone.
That was your look at my top five features
of the Huawei Mate 10 Pro.
The company did also have some other non-smartphone news
to share at CES this year.
They're launching the world's first hybrid smart home
network solution, which aims to support the long list
of WiFi connected home products.
This is called the Huawei WiFi Q2 series,
which will automatically connect
to the fastest hotspot and frequency nearby
to deliver a reliable signal throughout your house.
If you're interested in the Huawei Mate 10 Pro,
Huawei is selling this for $799
with 128 gigabytes of storage on board.
It'll be available in three colors, Titanium Gray,
Midnight Blue, and Mocha Brown.
If you want the Mate 10 Pro but want to up your game,
there will also be a Porsche Design version
with 256 gigabytes of storage
and a different external design.
That will sell for $1,225.
If you want to get your hands on the Mate 10 Pro,
you can find it at Amazon, Best Buy, the Microsoft Store,
Newegg, and B&H Photo.
And if you want the Porsche Design version,
you can find that at Porsche Design retail outlets.
The phone will ship on February 18.
There you have it, guys.
That was your look at the top five features
of Huawei's Mate 10 Pro.
This is Huawei's flagship entry
into the United States market.
Any questions about the phone, drop 'em down below.
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