Huawei Mate 10 Pro (Single-SIM) 128GB Android 8.0 UK version SIM-Free Smartphone -Titanium Grey

Okay my LG G4 finally went bootloop after just over 3 years. So I needed a new phone. I'm never that much of a mug to pay more than £400 for a phone if I have to so took a look at what was going on Amazon for £250 to £400. So we had the Nokia 8 which looked great and super cheap but no notification light. Google Pixel XL MK1...great again but comes out of update support right now so no point. The LG G6 was looking solid if a little dull but I fancied a change maybe. Then the Mate 10 Pro was up. Great looking camera, half the launch price and plenty of storage. The other thing was the 4000mAh battery. If I can't change them at least I'll get a phone with a bigger battery. Oh and it has a notification light. Sold! Okay the phone took nearly a week to arrive but hey. First niggle is the charging cable is 18" too short. The phone itself is great. I made sure I left the screen protector on by peeling the removal tab off instead. Into the case it went. Power on and two updates went straight on which was a good start. I then put back my apps and installed MS Launcher as I didn't want to get involved with EMUI. MS Launcher gives me the most barebones launcher once its tweaked as I want it. I was able to remove/disable 80% of the pre-installed stuff. The only stuff I couldn't was the usual own brand contacts/mail/messaging type stuff. Not terrible I suppose. So speed it great, as is the screen. You can change the screen colour but it comes pretty settled out of the box. The camera seems great though I haven't done much yet. B&W photography does look gorgeous I have to say. I don't take selfies being a 47 year old bloke. I don't listen to music on my phone so the loss of headphone jack is not an issue nor is wireless charging. One feature I miss from the G4 is the split audio levels for ringtone and notifications. Also I have to say the notification light on the 10 pro is a bit pathetic. It's the tiniest LED. Womp Womp! Battery life is tough to call as I'm still in the honeymoon period but it will do me fine I think. It's since dropped another £15 since I ordered it so even more or a bargain! Here's hoping it lasts me three years! Edit - As of Jan 8th, all going well, super well in fact. I got the Android Pie upgrade pushed to my phone about three days ago (about the 5th update I've had since October so not bad). Very nice indeed. Was amazed when the price jumped from the £360 I paid to £699 but seems to be coming back down now.

Have had the Mate 10 Pro for a couple of months and really like it. I am a very experienced smartphone user (just adding that as a lot of reviews for phones on Amazon are often by very clueless people) and have had numerous Android phones, and I upgraded from a Samsung S7 Edge. It has a nice 6" screen, but because of the small bezels it doesn't feel large in the hands or pocket at all. The cameras (colour and B&W) are really good, I am an experienced photographer with good cameras and lenses, and normally hate phone cameras, but this is the first phone I have owned where I will use it when out and about and not have to carry a camera with me all the time. The low light pictures are frankly amazing for a phone. Battery life is excellent, I can easily go a day on a charge, and it recharges to full in less than an hour using the supplied USB-C charger. It comes with minimal extra apps installed over standard Android. I can't speak much about the UI for the homescreen as I always use Nova Launcher, but the settings menus are well laid out and have a lot of useful features. Performance of the phone is very good, and the 6GB of RAM helps a lot. Phone comes with screen protector applied in the box, and also a transparent protection case. Downsides: This is the first USB-C device I have owned, and it has no headphone jack. It does have a USB-C to headphone jack dongle which does the job. It has a pair of earphones bundles in, but while the sound quality was pretty decent, they don't stay in my ears at all, they are very poorly shaped with no rubber cover to help them stay in. It has no MicroSD slot, but with 128GB of internal storage that isn't an issue for me. Overall it is a fantastic phone that performs like a flagship model but costs less than half the price. Is a real bargain IMO.

This is a great phone. It's very fast, has a great screen, more than adequate RAM, great quality sound and a fabulous camera. It looks good too. I use this phone as my personal phone (as distinct from a work phone), and get two days and "to spare" from the battery. I was leaning towards buying the OnePlus 6 which has a more powerful processor and larger RAM, but inferior battery and camera. After looking at dozens of reviews of both phones and factoring in the 45% price reduction of the Huawei on Amazon I couldn't justify the extra €150 for the OnePlus 6. As a result I have a flagship phone which really gives flagship performance for the price of a mid-range phone. I don't have the slightest regret about my choice. In reading reviews one of the consistent criticisms of Huawei devices I found is of Huawei's proprietary skin for Android. I have not found this criticism to be justified and would go so far as to say that I find the "floating dock" to be extremely useful and unobtrusive. I'm not over the moon about their launcher but downloading the Nova Launcher - a free app, simple to set up and use - from Google Play fixes that and combined with the floating dock gives a very efficient user experience. This is of course a personal taste issue. I just want to encourage people who may be hesitating about Huawei because of the reviews of their "skin", not to be put off. The millions of faithful Huawei customers must be some indicator that it "ain't bad!". All in all this is a great phone.

UPDATE: As of 19/05/2019, Huawei is no longer supported by Google. No more OS updates (maybe exception for security patches). Future Huawei phones will have no acess to Play Store and Google Apps. I advise anyone to stay the hell away from Huawei for a good while. ------------------- The phone is amazing - great battery life, speed, camera, storage... But in the last few months Huawei has decided to remove support for unlocking the bootloader (which is used to install a new operative system, - a ROM - if one desires). This feature was especially good considering Project Treble, supported by this phone, which enables easier development of ROMs that can extend the phone's life by a lot when it no longer receives OS updates. All this suddenly ended in April when the webpage to request bootloader unlocking codes was deleted from Huawei's website. So the device itself is great, but as a customer I can't tolerate a company locking down a product in such a criminal way. As long as Huawei behaves like this, I'll never buy any more products from them.

This phone is stunning and it's incredible that it only costs £380 (when i brought it). Although it's not perfect, it ticks the boxes that i would want out of a smartphone. Design: This phone's design is gorgeous, its so elegant and attractive to look at. It's nice and thin and i love that it has a slight curved edges. It's a very sensitive design that heavily requires to be protected with a case, thankfully there is a case provided in the box which is very nice. Display (6 inch 1080 x 2160 amoled display HDR10 compliant): This is my very first time owning an a smartphone with an amoled display and its beautiful especially when you enable vivid mode and FHD+. I love how the colours are so bright and vibrant on this phone and when you consider that its a 6 inch screen, watching media is a joyful experience. Speaker quality (stereo speakers): The speakers are outstanding!! It's crisp, loud and clear especially when you rotate it to landscape. I highly recommend enabling "stereo+" in the settings to experience the quality of the speakers when watching media content in landscape. Huawei does provide a type C earphones which is great and they do offer some features in the settings to enhance the experience. In terms of it's quality, when using the earphone indoors is very good, however when using it outside is not so good mainly because I find that it's very quiet and when enabling the "Huawei listen sound effects" it helps a little bit but not that much. So i used a third party in ear earphones and it performed much better than the Huawei's earphones. Battery and charging (4000 mAh battery): Another reason why you should consider this phone is the battery life. It's absolutely fantastic! I can easily get above 6h of on screen time at maximum brightness and the phone will still be above 50-60% (i am a faily light user). It's a joy having a smartphone that is able to last throughout the whole day without charging it. The phone also comes with Huawei's super charging and it charges very quick! Rear Cameras (12 MP, f/1.6 & 20 MP f/1.6 laser AF 2160p@30fps, 1080p@30/60fps) and Front facing camera (8 MP, f/2.0 ,1080p@30fps ): When it comes to the camera quality, it's brilliant! I love how quick it focuses on a certain item and having a monochrome camera is a great option to have. Video is also great as well, the optical image stabilization (OIS) is CRAZY SMOOTH! I just love how the camera focuses on the subject when recoding video. The interface is complex and there are ALOT of options, features, etc, so it's going to take some time getting used to how to actually use the camera to it's best ability. The front camera is pretty good, i haven't fully tested it but from what I've seen so far, it has a potential of being a fantastic front facing camera. Software (EMUI 8.0 Android 8.0): I have to say EMUI isn't that bad at all, it's relatively easy to navigate through the software. There are things that i dislike about this UI. One of them is the knuckle gestures, I find that it's a aggressive feature to use and it requires to really use your knuckles in an aggressive manner in order for the feature to work. Also, when receiving notifications on the lock screen, i can't seem to expand the notification and the only way to expand the notification is to unlock the phone which is quite annoying. But, once you get used to EMUI, it's a pretty good UI that has room for improvements. Performance (HiSilicon Kirin 970 GPU Mali-G72 MP12): Performance is great on this phone, it quick, smooth and its fairly reliable. There are some minor issues, lags, etc, but that can all be fixed with software updates so it's not too much of a concern. Other things: The fingerprint sensor is nice and fast and you can also use the fingerprint sensor for other things like to swipe down (on the fingerprint sensor) to get to notification panel, browse photos, answer calls, stop alarms, take photo or video, etc. Face unlock is fairly reliable to use, but sometimes it takes awhile to find your face (especially if you are wearing a hat or in a dark environment), call quality is very good on this phone, using mobile data absolutely fine and the vibration it's excellent on this phone. The phone is also IP67 dust/water resistant which means it can handle water up to 1m for 30 minutes, so getting this phone wet is not a problem. This phone does NOT have a headphone jack, however Huawei does provide a type C to 3.5mm headphone converter in the box so don't lose it :D Overall, this phone is a beauty and although it's a year old, it's a smartphone that should be heavily considered especially when you look at the price of this phone. It's a beautiful, stunning smartphone that can improve greatly with software updates. The only thing that's stopping me from rating this phone a 5 star is the software. Nevertheless, the Huawei mate 10 pro is a smartphone that i highly recommend.