Huawei Mate 10 PD – My Perfect Everyday Smartphone

I‘m using a Huawei Mate 9 since pretty much 1 year now. It’s been a reliable everyday companion, a stylish and high quality smartphone I immediately felt in love with. This summer, Huawei overtook a couple of competitors in matter of sales figures.* Not very surprising news to me, because I’m super happy with my smartphone. But now the Huawei Mate 10 PD has been presented.

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Insight into the everyday life of an entrepreneur

As an entrepreneur I spend a lot of time in cars, planes, at airports, train stations, meetings or events. The majority of my work, however, takes place at the notebook and of course on the smartphone. In my industry, a lot is about the perfect image, always ready,  delivered at the highest possible quality level.

The Huawei Mate 10 – My Review

October 16th, Huawei presented the new flagship smartphone in its premium segment, the Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design. On the 1st of December I received my new device to test it for a few days. Here are a few reasons why the Huawei Mate 10 is my perfect everyday smartphone.

01. The battery power

Whilst others already have to grab their power bank, I am usually at over 60% battery capacity. Thanks to the excellent battery performance – the 4000 mAh battery allows a useful life of up to two days – I don’t have to constantly carry a power bank.

02. The New Leica Dual Camera

A big part of my work is photographing and filming. So, what I need, is the best camera. The new Huawei Mate 10 is equipped with an outstanding Leica dual camera. The camera with the largest aperture of a smartphone (f / 1.6) has a 12 MP RGB and a 20 MP monochrome sensor, an optical image stabilizer (OIS) and AI-based functions.

By integrating this artificial intelligence, the camera recognizes object or environment in real time and selects the appropriate settings.

03. The design

Technology innovator Huawei is continuing its prestigious partnership with Porsche Design and proving its sensitivity to the successor’s look. The Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design combines performance with elegance: the most exclusive device of the Mate 10 series combines the creative ideas of Porsche Design with the engineering of Huawei. The unique design of the front and back is embraced by an elegant yet robust 3D glass that comes in a luxurious and exclusive diamond black.

04. Efficiency

The built-in Kirin 970 processor is lightning fast and perfectly reliable. Multitasking or changing the application happens within milliseconds – and all this without annoying error messages.

05. Integrated AI 

Artificial Intelligence is not our opponent, but an efficient player who always makes our everyday life easier. While driving, I can control or generate appointments, send messages or start other functions with voice recognition.

My personal favourite application at the moment is the intelligent translation function. I travel a lot for work and it is incredibly convenient that thanks to the artificial intelligence in the device, text recognition also works offline: simply hold the camera over the document or the menu card – and the translation in the desired language will appear on the display.

The Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design processes information faster than ever, “thinks along” and gets to know the habits of its users in a smart way. It is no longer just a smartphone, it is now an intelligent machine.

Prices

Huawei Mate 10 Pro

CHF 789.- @ Digitec

Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design

CHF 1499.- @ Digitec