Huawei got into a little bit of a pickle with their P10 and P10 Plus flagships earlier this year when it was discovered that the company wasn’t using the same storage format across all their devices. So, when they launched the new Mate 10, people began wondering if they’d do the same thing again.
Well, according to them, this will not be the case.
With Huawei’s P10 and P10 Plus, users could be getting any combination of LPDDR3 or LPDDR4 RAM chips, and eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, or UFS 2.1 storage. This obviously was a big problem for users who found out because the performance of these chips vary greatly. At first, Huawei didn’t comment, but eventually they removed the original UFS2.1 claim from the Mate 9’s product page.
Needless to say, users were very unhappy because each smartphone purchase for them felt like they were rolling a dice and hoping that it would come out big. When you’re dropping quality money on a high-end flagship, you don’t really want to get a worse performing smartphone than the next guy who buys the exact same device.
This time, though, Huawei’s senior director of product marketing Tom Chen says that UFS 2.1 storage is standard across both the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro. They also added that RAM will be LPDDR4 across both handset variants too. For what it’s worth, it’s good news though the company really shouldn’t have made the blunder on the P10 in the first place.
