So close to perfection: Huawei Mate 10 Pro with 50 hours battery life

[NoXion]

They were mostly right if you look at sales. Of course the death will never happen, if just for serious work, but for home users it's a pretty niche market.

That's alright, just means that us PC users are the elite once again.

 

[editor]

Here's the review:

Huawei will tell you the Mate 10 is all about onboard artificial intelligence and everything that AI can bring to the smartphone experience.

And AI is all well and good. What makes the Mate 10 Pro a great buy today is its excellence in the core smartphone experience. Things like getting to the end of the day on a single charge, no matter what you're doing. And taking excellent photos even in challenging night-time conditions.

AI future-proofing is all well and good, but there are more important reasons to buy the Mate 10 Pro today.

That's not as exciting and futuristic as NPUs and AI, but it's far more meaningful to most people who'll use this phone. So get the Mate 10 Pro if you want a beautiful phone with extra-long battery life and one of the best creative cameras — and if you can deal with software that's occasionally a little unconventional-looking.

Software weirdness being the main negative in a Huawei phone review is nothing new, but EMUI's quirks are far from the Achilles' heel that they used to be. The Mate 10 Pro is one of the best phones of the 2017, and a worthy alternative to that Note 8 or Pixel 2 XL you might've been thinking about.

Huawei Mate 10 Pro review: Best Android flagship for battery life

 

[cybershot]

What's Huawei's track record like for keeping their devices up to date software wise?

Otherwise I really don't see the point in why Android handset makers are interesting in 'futureproofing' a handset other than using it as a marketing gimmick for those less knowledgeable on Android's fragmented update cycles.

Yes, I know it's meant to be improving with Project Treble, but has anyone actually committed to keeping the devices updated longer than the current crappy system.

Surely it's better to just ram as much as the best current tech in them, such as the 2 day battery as they have done. Shame about the reports of the crappy UI.

 

[editor]

What's Huawei's track record like for keeping their devices up to date software wise?

Otherwise I really don't see the point in why Android handset makers are interesting in 'futureproofing' a handset other than using it as a marketing gimmick for those less knowledgeable on Android's fragmented update cycles.

Yes, I know it's meant to be improving with Project Treble, but has anyone actually committed to keeping the devices updated longer than the current crappy system.

Surely it's better to just ram as much as the best current tech in them, such as the 2 day battery as they have done. Shame about the reports of the crappy UI.

It's not hard to set up a phone to get rid of all, if not almost all, of a manufacturer's dabblings.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Nova Launcher FTW

 

[editor]

Nova Launcher FTW

I've just switched to Action Launcher for a bit. It's very good indeed and worth a look.

 

[Slo-mo]

Actually, even 3.5" floppy disks are still being used today: Think the floppy disk is dead? Think again! Here’s why it still stands between us and a nuclear apocalypse

This is the kind of thing that gets overlooked by faddish cloud worship and always assuming that internet access and wireless networking will be available.

Yes, in a similar vein one of my most used smartphone features is the FM radio. Of course it's much more limited content wise than online alternatives but it doesn't use a drop of data and barely touches the battery and pretty much never drops out on the local stations, even on a fast moving bus.

Personally I could live without micro SD card expansion if a phone had at least 64 gig internal like this one seems to have, but I can certainly see why others find it useful.

 

[NoXion]

Yes, in a similar vein one of my most used smartphone features is the FM radio. Of course it's much more limited content wise than online alternatives but it doesn't use a drop of data and barely touches the battery and pretty much never drops out on the local stations, even on a fast moving bus.

Personally I could live without micro SD card expansion if a phone had at least 64 gig internal like this one seems to have, but I can certainly see why others find it useful.

Too many people seem to have this idea that technology is better simply because it is new.

 

[Chz]

As far as I'm concerned, every desktop PC should be the size of a Mac Mini

It would have to be a metal chassis for mine, or it would melt.
I've no doubt that all the technology in my desktop could fit inside a Mac Mini case. How long before it spontaneously combusted is up in the air though. Most of the space in my case is for airflow. Just the CPU and GPU alone will suck down just shy of 300W flat out, never mind whatever else is in there. Doing video encoding or whatnot, the total system power draw (not including screen) hovers around 400W. And I should point out that my system is far from bleeding edge.

Granted that's an edge use case, but it does happen or I wouldn't be able to measure it. Just because you don't need all that power... Average power use is much more modest, but without the ability to stretch to that power budget there are things I simply couldn't do.