Hi guys Chris here back with an update with the honor note 10 so I've had the
phone now for 10 days and I have been using it those full 10 days and a lot of
you been asking for update so where's the full review I'm gonna post that
maybe next week I just wanted to use this and get really familiar with the
phone first so I didn't have problems that I posted on the last video with a
couple of things so what was happening is I wasn't getting a notification so I
am getting notifications on everything now and it's just these tiny little
quirks that you have our e Mui that what you had to do actually to get those
notifications was actually just go through the settings under the battery
saver so what the phone was doing was killing off my whatsapp and the
background and I noticed that and I'm not getting these messages people asking
me say your whatsapp messages you're not even receiving them not seeing the
double tick that you get the confirmation and what it turns out it
was that problem so once I fixed that the phone has been just a lot better
because now I'm getting all my emails are coming through
I'm getting my whatsapp messages Twitter as well as also coming through so that
is all good now one area where he did mess up was with the front-facing camera
I didn't realize that when I had if you go into video mode the beautifying
there's actually like this little icon here they have to tap that to disable it
now I do actually remember trying this or I did it but what happens is when you
reboot the phone it seems to at one point seem to reset itself and re-enable
itself will then enable Beauty enable even though you have this set to zero
which I did I said that right down to zero and normally zero is off or
disabled for everyone else but it seems further Chinese that's not the case here
all the way that Hawaii we have this set up and that was a bit of a trap for me
so once you have a truly disabled I can now show you that with a front-facing
camera do you get video all the way up to 4k that you can see here which is
really great but it doesn't have a course any image
stabilization because the chipset just cannot handle 4k stabilization which is
a little bit of a shame there but you do get Full HD which you can turn on the
electronic image stabilization and I will show a sample of that later on
probably in my final review when I post that so great to see we can do
and up to 4k you don't see this on a lot of phones and normally flagships and
vivo one of the vivaz was the first actually to do that so over these 10
days I have been really enjoying this phone it is just super quick compared to
the Snapdragon 636 my max which I have in the background now that one gets
better battery life a lot of people have been asking me like what are you gonna
end up keeping and really I want to keep the note 10 but because I mostly buy all
of the stuff you see on my channel to review if it's over 200 us then more
than likely I have actually bought that so just for the financials economics of
my channel I really probably do have to actually sell this model after I've
finished reviewing it now please do not contact me asking to buy it off me okay
I just don't want to really sell to anyone anyway apart from that yeah I
probably will end up going to this for the battery life because they do like
the microphones much better actually on the me max 3 I didn't do shoot a lot of
video so I prefer the phase detection autofocus that's on the me max 3 and
that for me is quite important just the dual pixel phase detection autofocus
you've only got phase detection autofocus on of course the honor note 10
here now one tip that someone pointed up and the comments sorry I just got lost
in all the comments from my videos to find your name here to mention you that
you mentioned to me that if you law on the ceiling so you don't actually use I
always just go for standard video resolution so I don't normally go for
these non-standard ones you could say but if you do lower it down from the 4k
then you do actually get some electronic image stabilization coming through on
the video it's just for me the video if you check out my first video I posted
the unboxing I don't find the audio quality on the mics that good it really
does remind me of xiaomi's me 8 or the me mix 2's so that to me is the real
true con of this model I'll find that in the lack of the 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack now I don't use Android pay here in Spain so it does have NFC you can take
advantage of that something of course that the me max 3 does not have so does
not have any of you see the Chinese aren't really big on that but great to
see it on this mobile so when you're multitasking everything the performance
in general is really smooth and really good I've shown this before Twitter
performance really really as fast and I haven't really noticed any
problems now what I'm getting with the me max 3 that is still bugging me and I
don't understand why their house shall me have not fixed it yet I'm still
seeing full screen gestures and I believe it's not down to the chip set on
that one I think it's just the ROM that they still need to optimize the full
screen gestures and I do miss that however worth the honor note in here and
I find what what happens with me probably because I'm so used to having
just as enabled that when I am using the on-screen keyboard that a lot of times
they accidentally tap one of the buttons down here when I go for space and that's
obviously that's just me because I've got so used now to having the full
screen gestures or my me max - that I have here of course it has the hardware
keys down the bottom and that's very handy you don't I don't find I have that
problem with the typos and things so that's the only tiny things that are
really bugging me with the honor other than that is a fantastic mobile I really
do like gaming on this is great because of the speakers they do sound really
good I step up over the larger or the large me max 3 to me max - of course and
for those that were asking about gaming performance in particular shadow fight 3
they said it was really stuttery and had problems with lag and things I think
that's just the other Kirin chipset I think it's just the 960 that had some
problems but here it's perfectly fine all the games that I have tested and
been playing I haven't seen any lags and you do get the occasional little stutter
and things but for the most part it's being perfectly fine really good frame
rates as you can see it's smooth one of the other comments actually being
mentioned quite a few times with people asking can you just run Apex Launcher or
a Nova Launcher third-party launcher do you have to use huawei's well you don't
you can see here I have nova launcher running so if you're not very fond of
their launcher then you're able to of course just run this and this gives you
a much more you could say stock Android feel to it and the performance of this
is really quite fast but now and then I do see occasional little tiny little
micro stutter when launching an apple things like that but it really isn't
much of a problem the only thing you have to do is just go into the settings
where it's the default apps so I'm currently just in where you set it and
change that launcher from Huawei home to nova long
and that's all you need to do that's the only thing and the good thing as they
let us override the launcher application with default apps some phones I think it
was vivo that really annoy me or it could even be me so they do not let you
do this it's one of those brands and that really
frustrated me so you can't get rid of their custom launcher at least of course
you can here and now because I don't have it set as default it's gone back to
qua ways the battery life as well has been fantastic I'm getting with my
medium use now my typical normal use and my heavy battery test that I did I got
nine hours out of this just over nine so about nine and a half
and I got with the same kind of test thirteen out of my Xiaomi me max three
now I calibrate the display as always to 200 lux so they're equal there but it's
still phenomenal I'm still getting yet about three I could probably even make
three and a half days of battery life on this with my own muse so really good
battery life the face unlocking is working really well just demonstrate
that so tap to unlock and then look at it I did have the camera in the way so
just had to turn the phone a little bit but it's very quick once you get that
seating of course to go straight into the UI it's perfectly fine now one thing
to point out that the charging standard with this that it uses isn't really a
standard that any other manufacturers are using so it's like one plus I with
their phones that what we have here is hawawa
supercharged so this kind of caught me out and because I went for a trip with
GPS and I had my phone plugged in and what I was using of course was just
quick charge three so it wasn't using the quick charge three rates it was only
at 5 volts charging at 2 amps and it just wasn't enough to actually keep
ahead with the screen on very bright with GPS running at the same time I
ended up losing battery percent so that's something you need to bear in
mind that if you're gonna use it in your car and things like that you will have
to buy the Huawei car charger equivalent the call quality is really good I do
like the cameras here in low-light they are a definite step up over the Xiaomi
me max but of course this is double the price of that one there so it does come
recommended from me the only cons really that I have found now in ten days are
simply what I mentioned there the fact that it does not have a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack I just leave the adapter on my head
so it's not really too much of a problem for me because the better life is great
anyway so it's not like I need to charge and listen to music at the same time I
could resort to my Bluetooth headset but I don't really use that and the main
thing is just that the UI you will see a little bit of Chinese in there so wait
for an international version of the ROM the one that hopefully does not have
that Chinese and if they're going to be releasing that