28 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 46
REVIEW
It also says AI helps you get better selfies with
the 13Mp front camera. In reality, this is not AI at all
but post-processing software. Honor’s insistence of
having the awful beauty mode on by default is also
annoying, but at least you can turn it off. Selfies still
look fairly washed out to us, even though there are
some fun AR masks in the native camera app.Performance
In its razor thin body, Honor has packed a whopping
3,750mAh battery with fast-charge the company
claims can get you to 50 percent from dead in half an
hour. In our testing, it proved good on that promise.
It’s also great to see the octa-core Kirin 970
processor carried over, as it is Huawei’s latest chip and
a powerful alternative to the Qualcomm Snapdragon
835 in most other high-end Android phones this year.
The pure processing power and speed of this chip
is a better sell for Honor than the half-baked, half-
functional ‘AI’ capabilities.Unlocking the device
The View 10 has what the company describes as ‘fast
and secure facial recognition’, but its only functionality
is to reveal lock screen notifications when you look at
the screen. The phone still falls back on its fingerprint
sensor for secure app activity like banking, and it’s odd
that the facial recognition is reserved for notifications
only and not even unlocking the screen.
The phone is dual SIM active (the best kind) and has
a headphone jack, mercifully, though no headphones
in the box. If you didn’t like the omission of the jack on