Over the past few years, Huawei has solidified its position as a very competitive brand when it comes to mid-range and low budget phones. With a continuous stream of affordable and feature phones, the brand Huawei is now firmly associated with a good value for money. Recently, Huawei has also tried its hand on catering to the higher-end segment of the market. Huawei P10 Lite is the latest step in that direction.
Let me just get this out of the way, Huawei P10 Lite is a very stylish phone. With minimal branding on the front and the smooth glossy pattern at the back, it looks much more premium than what its asking price is. In addition to a great design, the neon blue color on the model that I received looks very eye-catching in real life. No matter which color you will choose, this phone will definitely stand from the crowd. The build quality of this device is also pretty solid all around. The non-removable back ensures that there is no flex or creaks no matter how you hold the device. The volume rockers and the power button, both which are placed on the right side of the device, are tactile and provide great feedback when pressed.
Huawei P10 Lite is equipped with a 12 MP primary camera with f/2.2 aperture. It doesn’t feature something as extravagant as Honor 6X’s dual cameras, but it does its job perfectly. The pictures were taken with it come out to be sharp in details, good in color balance and have very little noise. All in all, it does an excellent job as a quick point and shoot camera.
Its front camera is an 8MP one with f/2.0 aperture. Just like its sibling at the back of the device, it does the job splendidly. The good quality pictures, coupled with a wide range of customization and enhancement options provided post capture, produce some very worthy material for normal social media usage. To put simply, both the cameras on Huawei P10 lite are excellent and almost all users will be satisfied by its performance in the photography department.
P10 Lite is powering the MIUI 5.1 and Android Nougat with HiSilicon Kirin 658 chipset, which includes an eight-core processor whose four processor cores are running at 2.36 GHz other four cores at 1.7 GHz. It is a very powerful mid-range processor. Along with Mali-T830MP2 GPU, it provides a very smooth and consistent performance all around. There is no lag or performance issue whatsoever even in the most resource hungry applications. The 4 GB RAM ensures a seamless multitasking experience regardless of a number of concurrent applications opened in the background.
Device Type | Smart phone |
Model | Huawei P10 Lite |
Announced | 01 February, 2017 |
Released | 31 March, 2017 |
Status | Available |
Price | 26,499 PKR |
Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones. | Bar |
Dimensions | 146.5 x 72 x 7.2 mm (5.77 x 2.83 x 0.28 in) |
Weight | 146 g (5.15 oz) |
Protection |
To be confirmed - Emotion 5.1 UI |
Colors | Pearl White, Midnight Black, Platinum Gold, Sapphire Blue |
2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 |
3G Network | HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 |
4G Network | LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800) |
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages. | Nano SIM |
Dual SIM | Yes |
Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor) | LTPS IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen |
Size | 5.2 inches (~70.7% screen-to-body ratio) |
Resolution | 1080 x 1920 pixels (~424 ppi pixel density) |
Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others. | 16M colors |
Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality. | ~424 ppi pixel density |
Touch Screen | Yes |
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind. | To be confirmed - Emotion 5.1 UI |
Features |
- XviD/MP4/H.264/WMV player - MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV/Flac player - Document viewer - Photo/video editor |
Primary Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality. | 12 MP, f/2.2, autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash |
Video | 1080p@60fps |
Camera Features | Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, HDR |
Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration) | dual-LED (dual tone) flash |
Secondary | 8 MP, autofocus, f/2.0, 1080p |
Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device. | Android 7.0 (Nougat) |
Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming. | HiSilicon Kirin 658 |
CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone. | Octa-core (4x2.1 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4x1.7 GHz Cortex-A53) |
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion. | Mali-T830MP2 |
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices. | 4 GB RAM |
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored. | 32 GB |
Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras. | microSD, up to 256 GB |
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device. | Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, proximity, compass |
Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices. | 4.1, A2DP, EDR, LE |
Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world. | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, WiFi Direct, hotspot |
GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky. | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS |
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches. | |
USB Ports | microUSB 2.0 |
Card Reader | |
Headphone Jack | |
Microphone Jack |
GPRS GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications (GSM), Generally, GPRS is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection. | |
EDGE EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) is a wireless network technology generally considered the next step in the 2G network offers data transfer rates up to four times faster than ordinary GSM networks, Generally, EDGE is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection. |
Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium. | Li-Poly (Lithium Polymer) |
Capacity Battery Capacity is a measure (typically in Amp-hr) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions. | 3000 mAh battery |
Placement | Non-removable |