A Phone With AI?! - Honor View 10 Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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942 words · ~4 min read
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the folks at honor reached out to us to sponsor a showcase of their shiny new
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flagship the honor view 10 a phone that
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takes ai super cereal and we've got not
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one but two of them here to check out so sit back relax and enjoy
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the view not that the view
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i said there was a chance you'd enjoy it
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so as the smartphone space continues to mature something that we're seeing a lot
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more of is ai as a way of driving the
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technology forward like if you think of all the phone features that ai touches
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these days not just things like virtual assistants and translators but even
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smarter ways of processing data off of
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the image sensor for example or managing power so the view 10 uses ai for all of
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that design wise view 10 feels pretty
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modern flagshipy it's got an all-aluminum chassis that's available in
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midnight black and in blue like we have here but also red and gold and then on
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the front you'll find a six inch edge to edge display in the nice and wide or
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tall as it were eighteen by nine aspect ratio that seems to have pretty much
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taken over which i'm personally a fan of and then also a capacitive home button
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that also acts as a fingerprint reader something that i personally do prefer
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because it allows you to unlock your phone a little bit more conveniently
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when it's just lying flat on the table inside the phone you'll find six gigs of
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RAM dual sim functionality and 128 gigs
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of expandable storage um so that's all
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pretty normal stuff but what's a little less normal is the eight core chiron 970
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processor something that honor is calling a neural network processing unit
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or an npu instead of a CPU so
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the idea here is that this chip will learn and adapt over its lifetime with
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honor even going as far as to say that it will ensure smooth leg free
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operation even after 500 days of use which is pretty attractive considering
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how clunky that many phones get after just a year or so
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the npu also boasts dramatic improvements in battery performance like
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up to 21 hours of browsing from the view 10's 3750 milliamp hour battery which
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combined with fast charging over usbc should make it pretty hard to get caught
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with a dead phone onto the camera or cameras as it were the view 10 has dual
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lenses on the back one 16 megapixel RGB
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sensor and then a 20 megapixel monochrome one the aperture can open up
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as wide as 1.8 f-stops giving you a nice bokeh effect and that's even without
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using software enhancements like the built-in portrait mode and wide aperture
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mode the software can also use object
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recognition to automatically adjust camera settings according to what is
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detected in the frame so if you point the camera at one of the 13 object types
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that it recognizes you'll actually see the corresponding icon pop up and then
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the software's knowledge of what settings are best will even expand over
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time through over-the-air updates and you can also use the image
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recognition for text so with the pre-installed microsoft translator app
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you just point the camera at text that you don't understand and it'll translate
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it instantly right on top of the image
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another cool feature is what they call image super resolution so this basically
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lets you zoom super far into a picture without it getting ridiculously blurry
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because and it's all back to ai again it's trying to smooth out the pixels for
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you on the fly flipping over to the 13 megapixel selfie
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camera we can experiment with beauty mode which
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i obviously do not need at all
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but what it'll attempt to do is automatically detect your gender and
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then offer desirable image enhancements
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not everyone cares about selfies though when it comes to gaming the v10 comes
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with game suite which helps balance power savings and gaming performance and
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then also allows you to turn off notifications and navigation keys so you
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don't get interrupted when you're playing games and then on the subject of
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navigation keys the view 10 includes a few neat alternatives to increase
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productivity so you can hide your on-screen navigation buttons and
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navigate just by tapping and swiping the
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capacitive home button or you can use this nifty navigation
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dock or the nav nipple as i like to call it
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another cool productivity trick is using your knuckles to initiate split screen
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you just knock and draw a line across the screen and eerily enough it can
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actually tell if you use your finger or your knuckle
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which is pretty cool so that's it that's a quick showcase
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overview of the honor view 10 big thanks to honor for including a headphone jack
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and sponsoring this video and you guys for watching
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our community forum which you should totally join
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that was the world's most beautiful selfie
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look how beautiful i am you see that
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