Alongside budget Honor 7X launch, Honor View 10 was also unveiled at the global launch event of Honor in London. You may recall that Honor V10 was unveiled in China on 28th November and Honor View 10 is the global version which will start selling in international markets of UK, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and US from 8th January. This phone will also debut in India on 8th January. It is priced 499 Euros (approximately Rs 38,000) but India price has not been revealed. This phone will be available in Navy Blue and Midnight Black colors.
The Honor View 10 is powered heavily by Artifical Intelligence and some of these features include Facial Unlock, 3D face reconstruction, image to text translation, intelligent scene and object recognition and motion detection in its camera settings.
On the specifications front, the Honor View 10 sports a 5.99-inch (2160 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ display with a 2.5D curved glass on top. It has narrow bezels and comes with aspect ratio of 18:9. This phone is powered by Huawei’s own HiSilicon Kirin 970 with four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.36GHz, four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz, and an i7 co-processor with built-in Neural Processing Unit for AI eco-system. It comes with 6GB RAM and 128GB of internal storage which is expandable up to 256GB with microSD. This phone is packed with 3750mAh battery with fast charging.
On the imaging front, this phone is mounted with two rear cameras – 16MP (RGB) + 20MP (Monochrome) equipped with f/1.8 aperture, LED flash, PDAF and 4K video recording capability. For selfies, it has 13MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture.
This phone has home button on the front and fingerprint sensor is embedded on it. It also has face unlock feature. It offers connectivity options of 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2 LE, GPS, USB Type-C and NFC. It runs on Android 8.0 Oreo with Emotion UI 8.0 on top.
Honor View 10 will give very tough competition to recently launched OnePlus 5T.