Honor, Huawei’s affordable sub-brand, has finally announced the Honor Note 10. This smartphone stands in front of other top-shelf mid-rangers like the Honor 10 and Honor View 10, and should be the successor to the Honor Note 8 that was released back in 2016.
The Honor Note 10 sports a large 6.95-inch (2220 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ AMOLED 2.5D curved glass display with 18.5:9 aspect ratio and HDR10 support along with AI image quality enhancements. It comes with equipped with two stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support.
The smartphone uses ‘THE NINE’ liquid cooling tech, which offers an 8-layer heat dissipation. The outer heat dissipation layer has PC-grade liquid cooling pipe that promises a 41-percent increase in heat dissipation and CPU temperature reduction of up to 10 degrees Celsius.
The Honor Note 10 is powered by the high-end Kirin 970 Octa-core SoC with Mali-G72 MP12 GPU, i7 co-processor, NPU and GPU Turbo. For the ultimate performance, there is a hardware button to trigger the Double Turbo Mode. This button also serves as the camera shutter button.
For photography, it comes equipped with 16MP (f/1.8, PDAF, CAF) + 24MP (f/1.8) dual rear cameras with AI Scene recognition, and a front facing 13MP (f/2.0) selfie camera with intelligent scene recognition. Power is supplied by a 5,000mAh battery with support for 5V/4.5A Super Charge fast charging.
The smartphone comes pre-loaded with EMUI 8.2 (based on Android 8.1 Oreo OS) and includes NFC, USB Type-C port, Hybrid Dual SIM slots (nano + nano microSD card slot, rear fingerprint sensor and AI Smart Assistant along with 4G LTE connectivity.
The Honor Note 10 is available in multiple RAM and storage configurations: the 6GB RAM with 64GB storage; 6GB RAM with 128GB storage and the highest 8GB RAM model with 128GB storage. All three options will go on sale starting August 1st for a price tag of CNY 2,799 (US$ 412), CNY 3,199 (US$ 471) and CNY 3,599 (US$ 530) respectively and comes in Midnight Black and Phantom Blue colours.
