The Huawei P10 and P10 Plus, which were unveiled during MWC 2017, have been getting rave reviews on account of their cameras and striking new design. The smartphones are quite a comprehensive update over the Huawei P9 and come with Leica branded dual cameras at the back.
The Huawei P10 comes with a 5.1-inch fullHD display, Huawei's new flagship processor - the octa-core Kirin 960, up to 6GB of RAM, Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box and a 3,200mAh battery. The Huawei P10 Plus on the other hand comes with a 5.5-inch Quad HD display and a bigger 3,750mAh battery.
The internal storage on both smartphones goes all the way up to 128GB depending on the variant. And it is the internal storage only that is the subject of a new controversy.
According to Gizmo China, a multitude of Huawei P10 users in China have noticed a rather strange fact. It turns out that different storage variants of the Huawei P10 have vastly different read and write speeds. This points towards Huawei cutting corners with the P10 and bundling the lower variants with slower and cheaper internal storage.
Using the storage benchmarking app - Androbench 5.0, members of a Huawei forum in China have discovered that some versions of the device are much faster than others. The speed difference ranges from as high as 700mbps all the way down to less than 300mbps.
The storage type used can be identified by the speeds posted. In devices recording a speed of over 700MBps, the storage used is definitely UFS 2.1, in those above 500Mbps, it is UFS 2.0 and is those devices recording a speed lower than 300Mbps, the storage used is eMMC 5.1.
It is rather disheartening to see a company like Huawei cutting corners in a flagship device that costs more than 500 dollars.
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