Speculations ‘Bout The Huawei P10

Leaked specs, changed design, and more spills on the new Huawei P10

Huawei is said to have been working on P10, the much awaited successor to it’s P9 flagship for a while now.

The Huawei P9 turned a lot of heads and landed in many hands this year.

A few days ago some photos were spotted floating on the internet, that teased us with the supposed P10, and, one can safely say that it certainly comes with distinct changes.

Huawei, a Chinese brand that not many had really heard of in the International waters, has made quite a name for itself in the smartphone world in the last couple of years. It has done so by offering devices with premium build quality and some great specs, for rock-bottom prices compared to it’s many competitors.
All this has enabled Huawei devices to garner serious consideration with lesser post-purchase dissonance.

The company usually announces it’s incoming P-series flagship smartphones in April every year, and the Mate-series in the last quarter of the year. With the last Mate launch out of the way, all eyes are now on the P10 launch.

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Some images recently appeared on Weibo, showing what they claim are an engineering sample of the Huawei P10 in a Rose Gold colour.

While it seems to have features similar to P9, there seem to be some changes.

One significant change would be the fingerprint sensor. The Huawei P9 has its fingerprint sensor mounted on to the back, however the alleged leaks show that the P10 might have a front-mounted fingerprint sensor just below the screen, where the usual home button is on most phones.

What might also be interesting is that it is speculated that this ‘home button’ for the P10 might not function as a physical home button, but mimic a capacitative home button (like on the iPhones 7). Huawei did put a fingerprint sensor on the front in their special edition Mate 9 Porsche Design model, perhaps to test the waters out for the P10.

The leaked photos also show that the Huawei P10 might also have a dual curved display, a design that looks quite similar to the Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design unit, and Samsung’s Galaxy S7 edge.

Will the P10 come in two variants; one of them a regular flat screen while the other boosting a dual-curved screen? Tough to say, at this time.

Leaked renders do present a flat solid metal unibody design with a dual camera setup on the rear and as with the P9, the camera sensors and flash seem to be positioned at the top within the antenna band. Details about the camera are not too clear yet, however we have our ear to the ground and will keep you posted.

The Huawei P10 is rumoured to have a 5.5 inch quad HD display, with the Huawei Kirin 960 SoC processor, 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB/256 GB of storage. On the software side, the handset will be running Android 7.0 Nougat (maybe even 7.1) with the Huawei-personalised interface EMUI v5.0 running on top.

Given the Huawei brand, we can also expect lower priced variants of the device, with lesser RAM and storage to be released over time.

Going by the release schedule Huawei resorted to in 2016, we can expect the device to be out sometime in April 2017.

We will keep you posted on the specs as we gather them, do read our articles on all the other smartphones to be launched in 2017. It promises to be a busy year.

Originally published at Chip-Monks.