Huawei's Mate 10 Pro is available to pre-order in the US
American carriers may have been pressured into dropping Huawei's Mate 10 Pro from their lineup, but you can now buy one independent of a carrier if you feel it didn't get a fair shake. Pre-orders for the company's flagship smartphone are available today at Amazon , Best Buy , B&H , Newegg and Microsoft. Blue and gray variants are available to order right now, with "mocha brown" coming soon. The handset still costs a fairly stiff $800, but Huawei is sweetening the deal -- if you order before the February 18th ship date, you'll get a $150 gift card at the store in question. Given that there's no native headphone jack, you might want to use that money to get a pair of Bluetooth headphones. As before, the Porsche Design version of the Mate 10 Pro is also arriving on February 18th. It's functionally the same phone in most respects, but doubles the storage to 256GB and gives you a spruced-up all-glass shell. Every version available in the US has a...