Honor View 10 review: A flagship-killer with Kirin 970 NPU and dual cameras at $500.
A real flagship-killer with NPU AI.
View 10 packed the Kirin 970 with its NPU, dual cameras and a big battery into a $500 phone — the essence of Honor's flagship-killer pitch. It was widely recommended as a value flagship and one of Honor's most successful phones globally.
01Display
68/10068/100 is one of the weaker display results among flagship phones of 2017 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
68/10068/100 trails the 72-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2017.
03Performance
70/10070/100 trails the 72-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2017.
04Battery
76/100At 76/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among flagship phones of 2017 — 7 points above the cohort average.
05Build
68/10068/100 is one of the weaker build results among flagship phones of 2017 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
06Value
76/100At 76/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among flagship phones of 2017 — 13 points above the cohort average.
- Kirin 970 with NPU — same as the Mate 10.
- Dual RGB+mono Leica-style camera.
- SuperCharge 22.5 W.
- microSD + jack.
- LCD, not OLED.
- EMUI heavy.
- Mono speaker.
- No water resistance.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 121-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .