- Hey guys, this is Austin.
2017 was a pretty great year for smartphones,
but it's time to kick off 2018 right with the new View 10.
This video is sponsored by Honor.
So I've had the chance to check out the View 10
just a little bit early.
Last year was all about pushing phone designs
to the next level and introducing AI with smart features
like: a camera that can actually figure out what you're
taking pictures of, as well as smart-battery management.
That's a big part of the View 10,
with a Kirin 970 processor,
with a dedicated neural processing unit,
you're actually going to be able to get some pretty
impressive AI features with this guy.
So, if we crack open the box here,
we see the phone itself in actually a pretty
nice-looking shade of blue.
You also get the enormous power-brick,
so this is not actually going to be US-spec'ed,
so I imagine that ours might be a little bit
smaller up here.
But the idea is with Super Charge,
you're going to be able to charge the phone,
I think it's like 50% in 30 minutes, which is nice.
You also get a USB A to USB C cable.
Take a closer look at the phone
and it's an all-aluminum build,
with the dual-camera's around back.
When you take a look up-front,
it's a pretty close to bezel-less display.
So six inches, and pretty much all you're gonna get here
is just a small fingerprint since they're on bottom,
but other than that, its all-screen up-front.
Something else you're getting,
is not only a USB C port on-bottom,
but, thankfully, we also still have the headphone jack.
With a Kirin 970 on-board,
not only are you getting an octa-core processor,
backed up with either four or six gigs of RAM,
but you also have 64 or 128 gigs of storage,
which can be expanded with MicroSD.
And it also have a potent, 12-core GPU.
Over the last couple of year, Honor's done a good job
of making sure that their phone's
don't slow down that much over time.
So, of course, being brand new, everything is super-snappy,
and as responsive as you would expect.
But they've actually done a lot of work on the backend
to make sure that it will stay snappy,
even after a couple of years.
Something that this helps with is with gaming.
So not only do you have that powerful processor,
but you also have games like Modern Combat Versus,
that will support the 2:1 aspect ratio.
Now, yes, not all Android games are going
to support this just yet.
But the ones that do, like this,
actually pretty good on display, and I didn't die, cool.
You've also got the GameSuite,
which gives you some options,
depending on what game you're playing.
So, for example, when I'm playing Modern Combat Versus,
maybe I wanna switch it over to Gaming Mode
to give me maximum performance.
Or I don't really care about that,
and just want to save some battery, I can do that as well.
Now you also have some options for making sure
that your gameplay isn't interrupted by notifications,
and you can also hide the navigation keys.
The View 10 has a nice looking, six-inch panel
with a resolution of 2160 x 1080.
The screen is nice, you're getting good color,
you're getting good contrast.
And again with that screen resolution being a little bit
wider than normal, it means that you actually
get a little bit extra added video,
especially if it has been shot in widescreen.
This guy is rocking dual-cameras.
A 16-MegaPixel sensor, as well as a 20-MegaPixel sensor.
And they both have an aperture of F/1.8.
There's actually some cool AI features
that go along with the camera.
So for example, if I try to take a picture
of some text here, it's actually automatically gonna
see that and popup and optimize it for that text.
It also can recognize other scenes, for example,
it knows when I'm trying to take a picture of Ken.
And will get me the most beautiful shot possible.
I mean, you know, given what it's got
to work with, of course.
You also get a surprisingly good-looking,
portrait selfie mode.
So, if I snap a shot here, that is really not bad at all.
So even though it only has a single camera up-front,
it's still able to do a really good job of detecting
what's me, what's the background
and being able to blur that out.
You also have other features that take advantage of AI,
including the built-in Microsoft Translator.
So, using some wonderful translations
from our good buddy Ken,
you can see that it actually does a pretty good job
of recognizing that this is Japanese
and translating even the small text.
There's also a built-in Smart Assistant,
which will do its best job to be able
to give you notifications,
when you say you're late for something,
or when it thinks that you actually might
want a reminder for something.
There's also the Screen-Split mode,
which a lot of other Android phones have.
And this'll allow you to run a couple of apps,
such as YouTube and say the Play Store at the same time.
Especially useful considering just how big this screen is.
You're also getting a sizeable 3,750 milliamp-hour battery.
Which is a lot bigger than most other flagships today,
and combined with the Super Charge,
to allow you to charge it up to 50% in 30 minutes,
should mean that battery life is not going to be a problem.
The bottom line is that AI is absolutely going
to take over smartphones soon.
And the View 10 does a good job
of giving you a glimpse into the future.
So I'm curious, what do you guys think
about the new Honor, View 10?
Let me know in the comments below
and I will catch you on the next one.