Huawei P10 Lite review: Travel light

Telephony

The EMUI dialer shares a common interface with the contacts app. There are no groundbreaking features here, but there isn't anything missing either.

Smart dialing • Contacts • Editing a contact

The dual-SIM settings menu lets you rename cards, disable them from software, and select which one does calls or data by default. The interface leads us to believe that while 4G may be limited to just one card, both get 3G connectivity in addition to 2G, which the specs don't indicate.

The interface is not ideal in that dual SIM settings are in one menu, while the mobile networks are in a different one. You may need to do a little bit of back-and-forth to set things up precisely to your liking - say, to limit the primary card to 3G. 'Primary' as in the default card that gets 4G connectivity - you choose that in dual SIM settings. Then in the mobile networks section you get to pick the preferred network type, but only for this primary card - the other one makes do with the rest of the available radios.

Loudspeaker

Just like the P10 and P9, the P10 Lite has a pretty powerful loudspeaker at its disposal. As expected, the dedicated bottom-mounted speaker turned out to be the quite powerful and produced a Very Good score in our loudspeaker test. It has a clean and rich sound output, and we give Huawei credit where it's due.

Speakerphone test	Voice, dB	Pink noise/ Music, dB	Ringing phone, dB	Overall score
Sony Xperia X Compact	64.1	65.1	69.5	Below Average
Xiaomi Redmi 4 Prime	63.1	67.3	71.3	Average
Oppo F3	63.1	68.7	70.4	Average
Sony Xperia XA1	61.7	69.7	71.8	Average
Huawei P8lite	66.5	66.6	75.7	Good
Huawei P9	72.1	66.6	75.6	Good
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 (S625)	67.3	70.3	81.5	Very Good
Huawei P9 lite	66.0	71.5	83.2	Very Good
Huawei P10 Lite	68.5	72.5	80.1	Very Good
Huawei P10	67.7	70.0	83.6	Very Good
Huawei nova	69.2	71.9	80.6	Very Good
Huawei Mate 9	83.1	74.5	85.0	Excellent

Pre-installed apps

Huawei offers a pretty rich default app package. The Health app is great. It tracks steps and calculates calories burnt, but can also supposedly count the number of floors you've climbed.

Health

A neat Compass app is available as well. It has level function and AR mode with live coordinates.

Compass • Level • AR mode

You also have a ton of basic tools preloaded, including a proper file manager, calendar app, notes, weather, sound recorder, and flashlight.

File manager • Clock • Calculator • Recorder • Torch