Huawei Nova 10 Pro Review

The BEST Selfie Camera Ever?

  Huawei Nova 10 Pro

 

             This is the Huawei Nova 10 Pro. The latest premium mid-range that Huawei has released into Western markets. Huawei phones are still without Google Services. So does the Nova 10 Pro have the features to make up for that and be worth getting outside of China?

            The Huawei Nova 10 Pro is an upper mid-ranger that brings some neat features, a high-res OLED display superfast charging, and dual selfie cameras. The phone's design is quite snazzy. The plastic back panel has a sandblasted texture finish, which shimmers in the light. The Nova logo was interesting and the two-step camera was. The bump with its golden accents looks quite nice. Both the back and the front of the phone curve into a razor-thin frame, which is also made of plastic.

          The Nova 10 Pro doesn't have any official Ingress Protection too bad considering. Its premium prize, the display here is a curved 6.78 inch OLED with a fast 120hz refresh rate and its resolution is higher than most other phones at 1200p resulting in a sharp pixel density of 429 PPI. The picture is crisp and contrasty, the support for10-bit color depth here and hdr10, and the color accuracy is great depending on the color mode. You choose in settings plus, the 120-hertz refresh rate makes, your swiping and scrolling feel extra smooth and it will dial down to 60 hertz. When you're not interacting with it to save energy the brightness isn't outstanding but it's solid. We measured a maximum of 560 nits with the manual brightness slider and this boosts to 780 nits in auto mode. When in bright conditions, the fingerprint reader of the Nova 10 Pro sits under the display. It's really fast and quite reliable for audio.

 There's a pair of stereo speakers with the top, one has both the top Grille and acting as the earpiece. They earned a good Mark in our loudness test and the audio quality is good too, with nice highs and some bass feels you can get 128 or 256 gigs of storage on board the phone but that's not expandable.

          Let's talk about the interface of Huawei's emui 12 based on Android 11. It's a heavily customized interface. There's no support for Google services here instead by default emui 12 relies on proprietary Huawei apps for all of the phone's functions rather than the Google Play Store. You'll need to use Huawei's app gallery. Which often has pop-up ads. The gallery has expanded over the years but it still doesn't have some popular apps and games. If the app isn't available Huawei's pedal search engine. Will show you a list of places where you can download it from right inside the app gallery. However, even if you side oad the apps you might want. If they require Google services to run. You're still out of luck here. The chipset of the Huawei Nova 10 Pro is a Snapdragon 778g. It's a4G version of the chip because Huawei cannot use 5G for now benchmarks performance is quite solid both in CPU and GPU tests.

          The problem is, this isn't a cheap phone, and for the same money. You can find competitors with more powerful hardware when it comes to sustained performance. We observe heavy thermal throttling in our prolonged CPU stress test.

          We didn't run into any problems in real-world tasks through the Nova 10 pro has a 4 500 milliamp-hour battery and the battery life is decent but nothing spectacular. The phone was able to score an endurance rating of 89 hours in our proprietary tests. Where it does shine though is with charging speed, thanks to the bundled 100-watt Huawei supercharger with it. We were able to charge the phone from 0 to 99 in half an hour with a special turbo mode switched on. We could charge to full in 26 minutes.            

          Now we have the cameras. Let's start with the selfie cams for a change. There's a 60-megapixel Ultra wide Cam and an 8-megapixel portrait camera both with autofocus photos from the ultra-wide selfie cam come out at 13 megapixels and there are two fields of view to choose from the widest view is quite wide enough for a group of people to fit in the shot. The quality is impressive with detailed sharp well exposed and colorful subjects great dynamic range and spot-on Focus. This slightly narrower view is just a further crop and the overall quality remains just as great.

        The other camera shoots 8-megapixel portrait selfies with natural bokeh , thanks to its 52-millimeter equivalent lens. If there's plenty of light, the results are great. Your face is rendered well with nice detail and sharpness colors are great contrast is alright and dynamic range is wide and the bokeh looks good too.

     The zoom level here seems to be a bit too much though and getting your face in the right framing means you have to hold the phone pretty far away 4K videos from the ultra-wide selfie camera shot at either field of view are good. The subjects are well exposed and with enough detail noise is low. The colors are accurate and the contrast is good. The dynamic range could be better though while. There is always one on Eis . The results still aren't that stable. The 4K selfie portrait videos are detailed sharp and with good colors. The dynamic range and contrast are just average and we run into the same framing issues as with the Stills.

      There's no stabilization for this camera. now onto the rear cameras, there's a 50-megapixel main Cam an 8-megapixel Ultra-wide camera with autofocus and a 2-megapixel Dev sensor photos from the main cam come out in 12.5 megapixels and they are excellent. There is plenty of detail and we like the natural-looking rendition of fine details like foliage besides that there's low noise good contrast balanced dynamic range and Punchy colors. The 50-megapixel sensor of the main camera has the potential for two times lossless Zoom. These are very good slightly softer than the regular photos but the rest is a match portraits are good. The subject is detailed and well-exposed and the colors look realistic. The separation is adequate though it may miss in more complicated scenes 8-megapixel photos from the ultra-wide camera are decent. There's a good amount of detail for such a camera but the colors are a bit washed out and the contrast in the HDR effect is a bit over the top with some heavy sharpening in many of the sample photos. We took inexplicably soft SF out of focus since this camera has autofocus. It can take macro close-up photos. They're likable with nicely rendered detail low noise good dynamic range and Lively colors in low-light photos.

        The main cam already has plenty of image stacking and processing going on even without night mode. The results are great with plenty of detail adequate sharpness and bread exposure colors are nicely saturated noise is low and the dynamic range is wide-clipped. Highlights are quite rare. There is a night mode. You can talk a lot but you get more or less the same results and these take more time to shoot sometimes. They even come out softer than the auto mode. There is no night mode for the ultra-wide camera and you can tell even though. The photos are likable with OK colors and resolved detail. The dynamic range could have used the Boost that the net mode brings 4K video from the main cam is decent.

       There's enough detail with a likable rendition colors pop and there's adequate contrast. The dynamic range is on the narrow side though with some clipped highlights and the footage is overall a little soft maybe because of the always-on stabilization the 4K videos from the ultra-wide camera are all right but nothing too exciting. They have a mediocre amount of detail and acceptable dynamic range. The colors are a bit washed out looking the low-light video from the main camera is excellent. There is plenty of detail good sharpness nice exposure and saturated colors. There's low noise across the board and both contrast and dynamic range are praiseworthy too. So that's the Huawei Nova 10 Pro.

       There's a lot to like here, the snazzy design, the Blazing fast charging, the high 

Full phone specifications

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE

BODY	Dimensions	164.2 x 74.5 x 7.9 mm (6.46 x 2.93 x 0.31 in)
	Weight	191 g (6.74 oz)
	SIM	Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

DISPLAY	Type	OLED, 1B colors, HDR10, 120Hz
	Size	6.78 inches, 111.4 cm2 (~91.1% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	1200 x 2652 pixels (~429 ppi density)

PLATFORM	OS	HarmonyOS 2.0
	Chipset	Qualcomm SM7325 Snapdragon 778G 4G (6 nm)
	CPU	Octa-core (4x2.4 GHz Kryo 670 & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 670)
	GPU	Adreno 642L

MEMORY	Card slot	No
	Internal	128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 8GB RAM

MAIN CAMERA	Triple	50 MP, f/1.8, 27mm (wide), PDAF 8 MP, f/2.2, 112˚ (ultrawide), AF 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth)
	Features	LED flash, panorama, HDR
	Video	4K, 1080p, 720p@960fps, gyro-EIS

SELFIE CAMERA	Dual	8 MP, f/2.2, 52mm (portrait), AF 60 MP, f/2.4, 17mm, 100˚ (ultrawide), AF
	Features	HDR
	Video	4K@30fps, 1080p@30fps, gyro-EIS

SOUND	Loudspeaker	Yes, with stereo speakers
	3.5mm jack	No

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/a/6, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
	Bluetooth	5.2, A2DP, LE
	Positioning	GPS (L1+L5), GLONASS (L1), BDS (B1I+B1c+B2a), GALILEO (E1+E5a), QZSS (L1+L5), NavIC (L5)
	NFC	Yes
	Radio	No
	USB	USB Type-C 2.0, USB On-The-Go

FEATURES	Sensors	Fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, compass
		Virtual proximity sensing

BATTERY	Type	Li-Po 4500 mAh, non-removable
	Charging	100W wired, 20-80% in 10 min (advertised) Reverse wired

MISC	Colors	Black, Silver, Green, Violet
	Models	GLA-AL00

TESTS	Performance	AnTuTu: 528847 (v9) GeekBench: 2794 (v5.1) GFXBench: 23fps (ES 3.1 onscreen)
	Display	Contrast ratio: Infinite (nominal)
	Camera	Photo / Video
	Loudspeaker	-27.7 LUFS (Good)
	Battery life	Endurance rating 89h.