so honor is sponsoring an early look
actually i don't know if by the time this comes out it's going to be early at
all but uh that's not really the point the point is
we are checking out the honor 10 and i absolutely love doing stuff for honor
because i get to make this joke over and
over and over again
are you ready to do the shoot for honor
hey which video are you editing right now
is it the one for honor no
hey tyler did that product arrive yet for honor
so the highlight features of this thing include an octocore processor a 19x9
aspect ratio screen with notch and an
npu or neural processing unit
and it's very
shiny does it look as good on camera as it
does in person dang so we'll start with the obligatory
unboxing you get a sim removal tool you get a bunch of documentation you get
oh that's actually kind of a nice touch they include
a case so that at least while you wait for your
like you know nicer one or whatever you're not going to get that stupid
first scratch on the phone that you're you're otherwise likely to it actually
includes a screen protector as well so those kinds of things are always a nice
touch they've got a supercharged power supply right here with oops
well uh i'm sure you'll get one that's compatible with your region and a usb
type-c cable with an adorable purple inset
of course it's no big secret but i think unboxings are boring so
let's have a look at the phone itself i've actually got a couple of them i've
got that sick purple and blue iridescent
they call it aurora gradient or something like that finish and then i've
got a more plain blue one that quite frankly uh you should be able to tell by
now but i think this one looks so much better looking at the physical
layout of the phone there are a couple of things that i think some folks are
going to find polarizing like it's really the age of phablets these days
but this is a comfortably one-handable phone
like you can actually type
at least if you got swiftkey on anyway that comes pre-loaded which is nice with
one hand on it but i don't know if everyone is going to like the duplicated
home button so you've got a software one as well as a built-in one in hardware
and that's actually where the fingerprint sensor is so it bucks the trend in terms of fingerprint sensor it
bucks the trend in terms of headphone jack which for me anyway is a really
nice inclusion and then it sticks with the trend for the display notch i'm
happy to see a more handleable option though and personally i'm a really big
fan of glass backs because even though actually this one i think i've already
got some fingerprints on even though they do tend to get fingerprinted up
pretty easily what's nice about the glass
is that at least they're easy to clean then they're perfect another choice they
made that's going to be controversial no matter how you slice it is their use of
an ips display so right now the main two
choices are OLED or lcd ips
and they've both got pros and cons with OLED having perfect blacks and the
ability to you know show the time even when the screen is off for example with
ips having the advantage of basically no
chance of running into burning issues so
it's a good ips they're boasting 96 coverage of ntsc and
it looks after i turned off the vivid profile that was loaded by default
subjectively really freaking good
but everyone's going to have their own feelings on a decision like this
now this is something really interesting that i picked up on the way that they've
implemented the notch is not like pure notch or pure knot notch so you can see
that the display stretches up into the notch area when you're vertical but
check this out it actually does a little trickery thing so you watch that change
to curved and then it cuts the notch out
when you put video in landscape mode which personally i think is a really
nice touch another thing that you can actually do while i'm on the subject of
cool little uh software tricks is you can turn the
notch off entirely
and there are actually some nice touches as well wireless charging isn't
supported but it does support four and a half amp five volt fast charging and
their facial recognition it is shockingly fast so i've got it open here
it's looking for my face bam that's really impressive and this
one's cool there's a feature on here called smart rotate
that lets the screen rotation follow the direction of your face can your phone do
this
and it stays in portrait mode cool right anyway the big feature on the
phone is really on the rear shooter so it's a dual rear shooter it's got a 16
megapixel f 1.8 color sensor and then a
24 megapixel black and white and the whole thing is powered by their neural
processing unit or npu so using their
npu they can actually recognize the subject of a photo and then adjust the
way that it looks in order to make it more pleasing
let's go try it out on a few things shall we
all right so let's do some test shots with the ai camera first let's do with
no ai hi james
i'm trying to do you a service here by taking a good picture of you not easy
now let's turn on ai photography and it has identified that this is a person
and it looks like it went and applied a background blur effect
so that's an interesting thing for it to do on its own let's try some food
that is not very photogenic food but i'm sure it tastes good look at that
it identified food thought it was person for a second there all right a car
should be a pretty easy one
yep wow that did not take long the instant i turned on ai it was like yup
that's a car let's find some nature
dang nature you pretty yep i get a little flower icon
so i want to talk about what an npu actually does while we have a look at
the shots from the ai versus non-ai photo comparison here subjectively i
like a more natural look to my photos so i would probably have it off in many
cases but the underlying technology here is
really the big story to me we've been at the point for a while now where a phone
CPU can be expected to do all of the normal stuff that you'd want from it
really well you know run the ui smoothly
bring up your apps list open apps whatever the case may be without
a ton of perceptible leg so what an npu
does is it is a specialized processor it actually gets dedicated silicon that is
designed for convoluted neural networks so this doesn't mean that all of a
sudden you can just turn on ai mode and run around in the world with you know
pointing your phone's camera at things and it's just gonna start to
have a broad understanding of the world but what it does mean is that a neural
network model one that would have to be trained by a very powerful computer
probably in a data center somewhere can be more easily understood using this
kind of client-side neural networking technology so the powerful server trains
the model creates a simplified version of it that
honor will push to your phone with an update and then your npu does what's
called inferencing in order to feed that model
some new piece of data like you're pointing your phone at a cat
and then infer what it's supposed to be
from the model that it has downloaded so at this point the npu is being used
primarily to monitor usage patterns and then optimize the processor's use of
power so that you'll get as much battery life as possible out of the phone
and to recognize photography subjects with the camera and then adjust the
camera's settings accordingly so
calling it ai is a little bit optimistic
it's not like it's got like jarvis built into your phone or anything like that so
right now it has the ability to uh recognize an animal or a pet but new
models that honor could push via updates could give it the capability of being
able to tell the difference between a cat and a dog and a a a possum that
one's unlikely but like a possum for example meaning that it can in fact get
smarter over time even if the actual training doesn't take place on the
device itself so that's pretty much my rundown of the honor 10. you guys can
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