Fun-size Mars bars are great. Take a bite and you'll get the same melty mouthful of chocolatey, nougaty goodness as the real thing - but you won't feel like a porker for polishing the whole thing off.
That's kind of the idea behind the Huawei P10 Lite.
It's a diluted version of the attention grabbing P10 , which ditches the Leica-branded dual cameras and just-gotta see-it-in-the-flesh shades of green and blue for a much more agreeable price.
One that won't leave a massive dent in your wallet. Huawei has been playing fast and loose with the recipe book, though - so much so that the P10 Lite isn't really much like the P10 at all. Aldi's Titan Bars might look just like Mars, but they just ain't the l.
It shares a name with Huawei's photo centric flagship, but the Lite is hardly a dead ringer for the P10. It's got a chunkier metal frame, with contrasting colours that only make it stand out further, even if the curved edges are a welcome touch of class.
Glass and metal are great to see in a mid-range phone, but the all- glass back is unbelievably slippy. Pop the P10 Lite down on anything other than a completely flat surface and it's all but guaranteed to slide off under its own weight.
You won't find two cameras around the back, only one, and the fingerprint sensor has been moved back here too. It's a lot easier to find than the awkwardly-placed sensor on Samsung's Galaxy S8 , but it means there's no one button navigation like you get on the P10.
Colours edge slightly into cool territory out of the box, but a quick trip into the Display settings can pull it back towards neutral. There's a lot more control here than you'll get with other mid-rangers, so you can really fine-tune things for your own tastes.
That's true of the single speaker, too. It's loud enough, without any nasty distortion when you really crank things up, and sounds clear too.
Catching up on YouTube videos won't have you reaching for a pair of headphones.
You get a 12MP snapper with phase detection autofocus and an f/2.2 lens, which is still pretty respectable for a mid range phone, but there's no optical image stabilisation and the tiny 1/1.28in sensor doesn't let in a whole lot of light.
