Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!
So today, I've been at the Mobile World Congress checking out the brand new P10 thanks to EE.
Now, I asked you guys on Twitter what you wanted to see, either the LG G6 or the P10
video, first look sort of, first thoughts.
And the interest was great on both but, unfortunately, I don't have enough B roll of the G6 to make
a video so we're tackling the P10 first.
So, starting the conference, we took the stage and we saw the design of the phone - how has
it changed from the P9?
Well, the P10 has a more refined design than the P9.
It's got a front mounted fingerprint sensor rather than it being on the rear of the device
and both the P9 and the P10 support USB C. With the P10, we've now got a metal body with
curved edges and a dual camera set up within the antennae strip at the top of the device.
So, on the P10, we're actually rocking a 5.1 inch, full HD resolution display which puts
it in at a whopping 431 PPI making it ever so sharper and crisper than its predecessor,
the P9, thanks to the 0.1 inch reduction in size.
We also saw some crazy, new colours being announced - majestic silver, rose gold, graphite
black, dazzling gold, dazzling blue and greenery.
The new dazzling blue colour - they said, well: "Blue is the colour of the sky" and
they mentioned that the sky has never fallen down, therefore that makes the phone reliable.
It was a really, really, really, really, really strange keynote.
But no matter what they said, I'm a fan of the new colours.
So, the P10 follows the path of the predecessor, the P9, with its Leica branded, dual rear
camera in a horizontal set up.
We've got a 20 megapixel mono-chrome sensor next to a 12 megapixel colour sensor which
both have an aperture of F2.2.
Now, we've also got Leica technology in the front facing camera on the P10 too, for some
dazzling selfies.
Obviously, we've got 4K support in the P10 too which is brilliant.
Inside the phone, we've got 4 GB of RAM, a 960 high silicon processor coupled with a
3200 mAh battery.
And they were adamant that this is 31% more battery life than you'd get out of your typical
iPhone 7.
On the front of the phone, we've got the Gorilla glass four screen which blends in perfectly
with the metal.
Underneath that, we've got the underneath, glass fingerprint sensor - yes, the fingerprint
sensor is actually underneath the glass on this phone.
There's no camera bump on the back and we've got 56% less bezels on this phone than the
iPhone 7.
And they were also claiming up to two days worth of battery life with this 3200 mAh battery.
Now, I was actually a massive fan of the P10 - you guys know that I am primarily an iPhone
user, not an Android guy, so it's strange that I'm sat here talking about an Android phone
but, here me out: I was, number one, super impressed with the colours that this phone
has come out with.
More especially, the research that they have put in to choosing these colours.
It seemed very thorough and it just seemed sort of right.
The screen on this phone was absolutely phenomenal when I got to use it, which, all-be-it wasn't
a very long time, but it still was very vibrant.
And the camera, now, woooh, the camera - so, as I mentioned, we've got this dual camera
set up on the back which can do the same thing that the iPhone 7 boasted with its, sort of,
you know - portrait mode.
It does a pretty good job of picking out people and objects and blowing out the background
but the thing that caught my eye the most is the front-facing camera.
So, we've actually brought Leica technology to the front-facing camera and it can do the
exact same thing.
So, the, the lens on the front of the phone is very wide angled so, you know, if there's
three or four of you trying to take a selfie - it will use that full wide angled lens but
sometimes, wide-angle can look a little bit odd so the phone detects that there's only
one person using the selfie camera, it'll zoom in - it zooms in to minimise that fish
eye effect and it really works.
And, on top of that, not just on the back camera but on the front camera, there's also
the depth effect.
So, it can blur out the background and smooth out your face.
Now, inside this diamond-cut body, you can find yourself 64 GB of internal storage but
if you want more than that, you can also put in a micro SD card up to 256 GB which is something
that I wish you could do on an iPhone.
But, other than the gorgeous looks of this device, there's nothing much more to say.
Coming from a primarily iPhone user here, I think that Android phones have played a
massive game in the last year of catch up and they're getting pretty on par with the
build quality, I would say, I would find, on an iPhone.
Like, you can't really go wrong with either nowadays.
I love the new colours, the camera was amazing, the screen was amazing and, obviously, we
didn't get to test out the battery life but from what they've said, it's going to be pretty
decent.
Like, lasting up to two days.
So, if you guys are looking for a new phone for 2017, I would highly recommend that you
put the P10 in your option list or at least go and try it out for yourself.
But for now guys, this has been my first take on the P10 from the conference today.
Thanks to EE for bringing me out here and I'll catch you in the next one.
Adios!