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Honor’s latest premium handset is slick and powerful, but the OnePlus 6 pips it.
IF YOU’RE KEEPING count, the Honor 10 is Honor’s sixth device launch in as many months, and thanks to the View 10 (Shopper 363) it’s not even the first highend model of the bunch.
It’s not a particularly challenging game of spot-the-difference, however. The Honor 10 is slimmer and lighter than the more expensive View 10, partly thanks to its smaller 5.84in display, which also fills more of the phone’s front. It also has an iPhone X-style camera notch at the front; you can add a black bar to fill out the top of the screen if you don’t like the look, which is exactly what we did.
The Honor 10 shares the View 10’s front-mounted fingerprint sensor, but here it sits flush with the glass – and, in an unpleasant surprise, is slower at unlocking. Honor’s claim that it will work with wet fingers also appears to be only partially true: it didn’t work until we dried most of the moisture from our fingers.
On the plus side, the Honor 10 has a 3.5mm headphone jack and a USB Type-C port for fast charging. There’s also NFC, dual 4G SIM slots and 128GB of built-in storage, but there’s no microSD storage expansion and no IP-rated dust- and water-resistance.
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