Stefan Mileschin

It's all about letting your fingers do the walking

I've now had around 10 days to play with Huawei's latest flagship smartphone and I'm ready to record some of my first impressions.

Let me make it clear from the outset that I haven't and don't have an equivalent high end phone from the competition to compare and contrast performance. And I have no specialised knowledge about the complex world of photography, so this review is very much based on my practical experience of using it. Nor will I bother with benchmarketing because I never did. So this is a subjective review – so by the way is every other review despite claiming to be objective.

I'll come to the snaps later, but let's have a look at the basic specs of this telephone. The unit comes in four colours – they all have fancy names conjured up by some marketing “wizard”. The one I'm using describes itself as “breathing crystal”. It's sort of blue-white. You can also get the machine in orangy-red (“Amber Sunrise”), blue (“Aurora”), black (“black”) and, er, that's it. Personally, I wouldn't like to breathe crystals although it must be difficult for the marketeers to describe 65,000 "colours" when actually these are tones.

You can lock the phone by using fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, or by using a password. I'm not keen on fingerprint recognition – way back in the early 2000s Japanese publication Nikkei wrote that after ATMs were introduced with fingerprint recognition, the gangsters, the Yakuza, took to cutting off victims' fingers so they could access their bank accounts. I'm not keen on facial recognition either because I, and those who know me, don't like the look of me. The fingerprint reader is under the screen and, although I haven't tried it because I value my fingers, does apparently perform better than Huawei's previous efforts.

https://fudzilla.com/reviews/48470-h...0-pro-explored