Huawei P10 and P10 Plus officialy announced with Leica dual cameras


Nothing really impressive here, since we had already covered over the past few weeks most of the specifications of the two new flagship models. However an unveiling is always interesting in many aspects so… here we go with the official presentation of Huawei P10 and P10 Plus models!

Huawei P10

The Huawei P10 comes with a somewhat refreshed design, equipped with a 5.1″ 1080p IPS display, which is a notch smaller than the P9’s 5.2″ unit. The phone is powered by the same Kirin 960 chip introduced by the Mate 9 and has 4 gigabytes of RAM. It has 2.5D curved Gorilla Glass 5 at the front, and an all-metal backplate with hyper-diamond cut and sandblasted finish.

The Chinese flagship uses the same camera setup as the Mate 9 – a 12MP color and a 20MP monochrome sensors with the know-how of Leica. Both come with f/2.2 lens, but OIS is available only on the color one. It also comes with a Leica-powered selfie camera that will offer excellent portraits with bokeh effects etc. Here’s the twist: Huawei P10 moves the fingerprint scanner at the front, beneath the glass, and it’s on the new Home key, which can now be used as multi-functional tool – one tap for Back, hold for Home, swipe for task switcher.

The new flagship packs a 3200 mAh battery with Super Charge capability, it runs on Android 7.0 Nougat (along with Emotion UI 5.1) and it will be available next month in most European countries and several other markets in Greenery, Dazzling Blue, Rose Gold, Ceramic White, Graphite Black, Mystic Silver, and Prestige Gold color variants. Its price is expected to be approximately 649€.

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Huawei P10 Plus

The big brother is called Huawei P10 Plus and it packs a 5.5″ IPS screen (Quad HD resolution), offering a really similar design with its younger sibling. The “Plus” model is equipped with the powerful Kirin 960 SoC, comes with 4GB RAM/64GB ROM and 6GB RAM/128GB ROM memory/storage options and offers the same impressive imaging features.

 

Therefore it packs a dual camera (12MP RGB + 20MP monochrome sensors) with a somewhat wider aperture than the one used by Huawei P10 (f/1.8), along with laser autofocus, two-tone LED flash, and 4K video recording. It also has a front selfie camera with 8MPixels resolution and Leica support, that can offer live preview of the bokeh effects courtesy of the new Portrait Mode. that offers impressive imaging capabilities to the device.

 

Huawei P10 Plus is equipped with a bigger 3,750 mAh battery, which also supports Huawei’s Super Charge, but it is also one of the first smartphones bu Huawei to support the 4.5G technology with 4 LTE antennas (4x4MIMO for downlink speeds up to 600Mbps). There are no other differences between the two models, so everything else remains the same: stereo speakers, Gorilla Glass 5, a touch-sensitive Home key with a fingerprint sensor, Android 7 Nougat, EMUI 5.1.

The P10 Plus model will be available on the same markets as the P10 this March, in 7 different color options: Ceramic White, Dazzling Blue, Dazzling Gold, Graphite Black, Mystic Silver, Rose Gold, Greenery.

If you want to know its price, here it is: the  64GB option is priced at €699, while the 128GB model will set you back €799.

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28 Comments

  1. February 26, 2017

    Now thats a big amount of money for these phones. PASS!

    • bro-reac
      February 27, 2017

      Ever since Huawei noticed that people can pay some good dimes for their phones, they absolutely went bazark with prices.

  2. arrowthefirst
    February 26, 2017

    – very thick upper and downer bezels
    – 20mp camera – what for?
    – No unique design
    – No water resistance?
    – No wireless charge?

    so, totally no reasons to pay for this thing 2.5 of cheap flagship’s price
    however, consumers are irrational and many will buy it, unfortunately

    • balcobomber25
      February 27, 2017

      The 20mp camera is the monochrome sensor, it can be used to take incredible black and white photos, but more importantly it helps with normal photos. A monochrome sensors captures more detail than a color sensor, it captures a lot more light. More light = better pictures.

      • Joel Adames
        February 27, 2017

        I guess that is what LEICA upper hand brings in…

        • balcobomber25
          February 28, 2017

          Leica brings two things: lenses and software optimization. Most dual sensor phones have a monochrome lens that does the same thing.

      • arrowthefirst
        March 1, 2017

        I understand the point, but un case of using not 20 but 12mp in it, the results would be much greater
        So, I am sure that even as it is monochrome, it captures around the same amount of light as normal 12mp sensor let’s say of Pixel/mi5s? as pixels are small

        • balcobomber25
          March 1, 2017

          A monochrome sensor always captures more light than a normal sensor, it doesn’t matter the mp count. It’s in the way a monochrome sensor works, it captures much more detail than a color sensor because it’s only concerned with the light coming in. A color sensor has to filter that light and determine which colors belong where. When that happens they lose detail, a monochrome sensor doesn’t.

          • arrowthefirst
            March 2, 2017

            actually there are two dimensions, pixel size and color filters
            bigger pixels get more light then smaller, that is physics
            accordingly, monochrome get more light than filtered ones
            So, 20 mp monochrome sensor gets let’s say the same amount of light as 12mp filtered one while it could get even more light in case of being 12mp monochrome
            I dont know why you need 20mp and 12 is not enough
            99% of people are uploading 2-3mp pictures to social networks and even if you would watch them on 4k panel, the resolution will be 8mp

  3. February 26, 2017

    P10 Plus is just what I was looking for to replace my ZTE Nubia Z9!
    Noice!

  4. Michael Ogbonnaya
    February 26, 2017

    Now thats a big amount of money for these phones. PASS!

    • bro-reac
      February 27, 2017

      Ever since Huawei noticed that people can pay some good dimes for their phones, they absolutely went bazark with prices.

  5. arrowthefirst
    February 26, 2017

    – very thick upper and downer bezels
    – 20mp camera – what for?
    – No unique design
    – No water resistance?
    – No wireless charge?

    so, totally no reasons to pay for this thing 2.5 of cheap flagship’s price
    however, consumers are irrational and many will buy it, unfortunately

    • balcobomber25
      February 27, 2017

      The 20mp camera is the monochrome sensor, it can be used to take incredible black and white photos, but more importantly it helps with normal photos. A monochrome sensors captures more detail than a color sensor, it captures a lot more light. More light = better pictures.

    • Joel Adames
      February 28, 2017

      I guess that is what LEICA upper hand brings in…

    • balcobomber25
      February 28, 2017

      Leica brings two things: lenses and software optimization. Most dual sensor phones have a monochrome lens that does the same thing.

    • arrowthefirst
      March 2, 2017

      I understand the point, but un case of using not 20 but 12mp in it, the results would be much greater
      So, I am sure that even as it is monochrome, it captures around the same amount of light as normal 12mp sensor let’s say of Pixel/mi5s? as pixels are small

    • balcobomber25
      March 2, 2017

      A monochrome sensor always captures more light than a normal sensor, it doesn’t matter the mp count. It’s in the way a monochrome sensor works, it captures much more detail than a color sensor because it’s only concerned with the light coming in. A color sensor has to filter that light and determine which colors belong where. When that happens they lose detail, a monochrome sensor doesn’t.

    • arrowthefirst
      March 2, 2017

      actually there are two dimensions, pixel size and color filters
      bigger pixels get more light then smaller, that is physics
      accordingly, monochrome get more light than filtered ones
      So, 20 mp monochrome sensor gets let’s say the same amount of light as 12mp filtered one while it could get even more light in case of being 12mp monochrome
      I dont know why you need 20mp and 12 is not enough
      99% of people are uploading 2-3mp pictures to social networks and even if you would watch them on 4k panel, the resolution will be 8mp

  6. Cinegain
    February 27, 2017

    P10 Plus is just what I was looking for to replace my ZTE Nubia Z9!
    Noice!

  7. Simon
    February 27, 2017

    Will they provide long term updates for these phones ?

    • MitsosDaBest
      February 27, 2017

      Of course man. It’s Huawei, not Elephone… =P

    • balcobomber25
      February 27, 2017

      I get an update just about every month since launch on my Honor 8.

  8. MitsosDaBest
    February 27, 2017

    Love the Green and Blue colors!

  9. Guest
    February 27, 2017

    Will they provide long term updates for these phones ?

    • MitsosDaBest
      February 27, 2017

      Of course man. It’s Huawei, not Elephone… =P

    • balcobomber25
      February 27, 2017

      I get an update just about every month since launch on my Honor 8.

  10. MitsosDaBest
    February 27, 2017

    Love the Green and Blue colors!