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there's always a desire to save a little bit of money and one company that has really done a good job of it is honor with their budget smartphones they already have a presence in the West and now they're trying to hit the sub 500 dollar market with a high-end specification smartphone hey it's Josh Vergara what's going on everybody and this is the honor view 10 now for starters the on review 10 is only available in certain markets not necessarily available in the US just yet but this model in particular is used in Europe also I did something a little bit different with this review check the corner and keep your eye there just so you can see when that stuff happens for starters the view of the view 10 is really not all that bad we have this dark blue color here that shines real nicely and is a little bit understated until you give it a second glance and realize that dark blue is pretty nice it's also a very Spartan design as you don't have too many elements all around all of the buttons are over on one side and on the back you just have the honor logo with pretty much nothing else there other than the dual lens package both of those lenses stick out on their own and it provides a pretty unique look for the backing of this device the front is pretty much all screen all the time with an 18 by 9 aspect ratio and minimal bezels this 18 by 9 aspect ratio also allows for the phone to be pretty easily handled in one hand even though the screen to body ratio is quite good there is still a capacitive key on the bottom so it's not really all screen on the front but it does a good job of being as minimal as possible there is a fingerprint reader embedded within so that's where the fingerprint reader is but the capacitive key can actually be used for a number of different functions namely the ability to use it for everything that you would use soft keys for back home recent apps and you can even swipe up from the bottom of the screen to trigger a Google assistant that leaves more room for everything that you would do on that large 5.99 inch screen eighteen by nine aspect ratios are not necessarily special anymore but it is nice to see them coming in phones that are more affordable this is a full HD panel an IPS panel that comes in at a size of five point nine nine inches like we said before even though text and media all looks fine on this screen I did have to change the settings a little bit because at first because this is a full HD screen but it's a large screen some of the elements were a bit too big but it's easy to just jump into the settings and just shrink things down a little bit so it does look proper there is one thing I miss on this display and it's an always-on feature it's found on plenty of other phones even ones of the same price points and you kind of miss it when it's gone however there is face on lock which we'll get into a little bit later but it comes with it the ability to wake the device once you lift it up so when you have face unlock available you just lift up the device and it unlocks immediately once it recognizes my face pretty easy to get into the interface honor spares little expense and making sure the performance is top-notch we're now only seeing this trend start to occur more in the West but the storage and the RAM are really high you get six gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of on-board storage here it is also a dual SIM capable phone but one of those SIM slots can be used for a microSD card where honor takes it a step further is by putting in huawei's high-end chipset the Kirin 970 yes you heard that right the curé 970 that comes with a neural processing unit we're still in the early days of consumers seeing this kind of chipset so all of the benefits that the NPU is supposed to afford the performance aspect is yet to be seen fully the main place that we might see the NPU actually doing its job is in the camera when it's trying to select the proper modes for the scene other than that however the ki-rin 970 still does a great job of providing a speedy and reliable performance with this version of Android as far as connections go pretty much everything you would expect is here including NFC sand you can use the view tent for various payment platforms now speaking of connections I did use this phone which is a European model with the t-mobile network but because it doesn't really have the bands for it I wasn't able to use LTE connectivity instead I was on HSPA+ as far as battery life goes there is a 37 50 milliamp hour battery and here which is kind of impressive for a phone at this price point however the battery life is about where you would expect it to be and with that I was able to get up to 6 hours of screen on time but there's one thing that was clear it was able to get through an entire day on Wi-Fi in my case without any problems at all so we finally make it to the part that generally makes or breaks the full experience of an affordable flagship that's of course the camera now the camera has two lenses on the rear the main shooter has a 16 megapixel and a 20 megapixel monochrome sensor and together they're supposed to provide pretty sharp photos together with the potential power of the MP you making sure that you're using the right scene mode the combined camera package should be able to get some sharp and enjoyable photos and for the most part that was the case but the front-facing camera is a bit of a different story now I hesitate to say that the front-facing camera is actually all that bad in reality when you turn all of the modes off the pictures can actually come out fairly decent but it's when you turn all those modes that you realize that the Asian market routes this thing has greatly influenced the experience I'm talking of course about the beauty modes say what you will about a beauty mode about whether or not you would actually use it but it does do its job here as my freckles actually just disappeared from existence but of course in the West that's not really a priority when we want more detail and more clarity out of our photos the best I can say is that the front-facing camera is not really a bad shooter it's just it's priorities are a little bit different so it depends on what your needs are from a front facing potential beauty mode camera and if that's really what you want then the on review 10 actually does its job quite well those portrait mode and wide aperture modes are also available in the rear cameras even one year shooting video when used with some extra care the photos coming out of the phone can be pretty great sharpness is where it should be especially on the opposite end of the spectrum when compared to the front-facing camera and the colors are mostly accurate the camera does tend to overexpose a little but you just need to put a little bit of extra care with that evey slider and compensate for it there are plenty of other modes as well including HDR which is a mode and not a toggle which is kind of a personal pet peeve but there are also modes and more artsy modes if you want to get fancy what I do like about the video mode like I said is the ability to use the wide aperture mode while you're recording now technically these numbers don't really mean anything because the lens is already F 1.8 so you're going to get depth of field elements no matter what and as you've been seeing throughout this video I've been using clips to kind of break apart the review a little bit so you've already been seeing what the video quality can be like the main issue with the video is that there's no optical image stabilization so you if you have shaky hands then you're gonna get shaky video this lack of OIS is also bad for low-light shooting where the shutter has to be open for quite a while and you have to be incredibly still in order to get a well exposed shot but even if you move just a little bit then your shots might come out blurry so like with most cameras and most phones Rayleigh there is a bit of a give and take situation at this price point and finally we can talk about the software experience which happens to differ from many of the established Android iterations that are here in the West like I've been alluding to in this video there are some real Asian influences here and the software with the emui continues that trend the main thing you'll notice is there's no app drawer so you're going to have to make a bunch of folders or just put a third-party launcher on here but after that there are a number of other features that are available when you dive into the settings I already mentioned the navigation dock earlier where the one capacitive key can be used for everything that the soft keys would do and then there are also app centric abilities like putting access to some apps behind the lockscreen and then you can also have more than one instance of any application which is mainly used for social media apps speaking of social media there is a button in the gallery when you're looking at photos and video to just send it straight to snapchat when you click that button it will open up snapchat and you're able to get higher quality photos and potentially videos then the built in camera that snapchat has which we all know is pretty shoddy the face on lock setup is a little bit quick which makes me question its level of security sometimes however there is a feature here like we mentioned before that the screen will wake when you pick up the phone that allows you to have a seamless movement from prone position to getting into the interface just as long as your faces in view makes it for a pretty quick unlocking experience and so there you have it the honor view 10 honor is back and is providing a affordable flagship for the price of about four hundred and forty nine euros at least for this European version and then we'll see what the price is when it finally comes to the US overall it's a pretty good package that provides a good alternative to the one plus 5t which comes in at pretty much the same price point and provides a lot of the same features it's really that honors just putting its spin on it ends mainly the emui is the biggest change that you might notice from one to the other we'll do a comparison between the two soon but the bottom line is this honor has done a great job of bringing a high-end experience for a mid-range price and with potential improvements coming to the ki-rin 970 in the future this phone could maintain its relevance even longer than other flagship devices the rest of the phone is done well and at this point the whole package doesn't have to make this phone achieve more than just another on will mention so thank you guys so much for watching and hope you enjoyed this review of the honor view 10 now it's called the v10 in some markets and it's not available in the US yet but in Europe it does come in under $450 so that's something you can take into consideration when on or finally brings it to the United States 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