Exclusive first look at honor's first A.I. smartphone - honor View10 hands-on and features

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So today, we got our first look at the newest honor View10 smartphone here in Malaysia. It already went on pre-order sale just last week and you can get it now at any official honor store, authorized dealers and Vmall.my for just RM2099. Packing high-tier specifications, it's a really afforadable flagship with a mobile A.I. Neural-Network Processing Unit (NPU) so just in case you're having second thoughts of getting it, below is the official tech-specs and hands-on impression of the smartphone. 

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Sporting a 5.99-inch FHD+ display, honor decided to put the non-clickable home button at the front. The screen-to-body aspect ratio is 18:9 and the front camera carries a 13MP sensor with an aperture of F1.7

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The back is full metal with the dual rear 20MP + 16MP camera (f/1.8, IPS, PDFA)Overall, the measurement for the model is Measures 157 x 74.98 x 6.97mm

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A closer look at the twin camera bump there. By the way, the honor View10 sports a Kirin 970 chipset with Neural-Network Processing Unit (NPU), octa-core ARM Cortex CPU, a Mali-G72 12-core GPU, 6GB of RAM and 128GB internal storage

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At the bottom, the headphone jack and speaker grill are still there, as well as the USB Type-C port that supports SuperCharge technology. The battery capacity is 3750mAh and it also runs on Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box with EMUI 8.0

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SIM card tray on the left side, expandable memory via microSD card is available

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Game Suite is a new feature for honor fans to put their games, where no one can interrupt you while in gaming mode

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There's also a new AR lens feature, selfie fans should really love this one as it allows you to play around with various mask stickers and even changing the background, "transporting" you to another place

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The A.I. translator app, you can speak, type and take a picture to translate words. Currently, it supports 21 languages including Mandarin, Italian, Korean, Bahasa Malaysia, English and many more

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Testing out the A.I. translator using picture mode

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Lastly, there's also an upcoming promotion with honor + dji. From the image above, if you purchase the View10 you will be granted two types of dji voucher - you can either use the RM60 or RM200 voucher for the dji OSMO Mobile 2 (RM588) or the SPARK Fly More Combo (RM2988) respectively. The promotion will be available in February onwards until the end of March 2018.

That's all from honor Malaysia today, stay tuned for an unboxing and hands-on video of the View10 at TechNave.com.