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| Xiaomi Redmi 10 | Unboxing |
Some of my favourite budget smartphones of the year including
the Redmi note 10 pro absolutely fantastic able but now it's back again with
the Redmi 10 one of the most budget friendly efforts of the year so far 179
euros so probably about 170-ish quid here in the uk and as usual a tiny bit of
hardware for that budget price so let's whip the Redmi 10 on out of the box
taking a full on to the hardware and the software and for more on the latest
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so first up what is actually in the box besides of course
that Redmi 10 well you get a big old beefy power adapter you probably won't be
able to guess what this is obligatory quick start guide and yes xiaomi has
continued its trend of bundling a condom case with its budget phones and that's
your lot so now the star attraction the Redmi 10. and I gotta say it may be made
of plastic but that is one attractive rear end so the choice of plastic for
that back end pretty standard for budget smartphones around this sort of price
point it is a glossy finish here on the xiaomi Redmi 10 and yes it does seem to
pick up a greasy prints and scuffs and dust rather easily got choice the three
colors of the Redmi 10 great white or this rather stunning blue model it's a
kind of a gradient style finish more blue down towards the bottom and then sort
of clearer up top you've got this lovely rainbow reflection uh shining off the surface
as well when it catches the light very jolly indeed and then if you flip the Redmi
10 over you've got a gorilla glass 3 display it's actually got a pre-installed
screen protector on as well so it's doubly protected from scratches and scuffs
not the skinniest bezels around but again pretty standard for this budget price
point you've got that centrally positioned selfie cam and then the engine is
constructed of course from plastic once again 181 grams the xiaomi Redmi 10 is
reasonably lightweight as well gotta say I do like the design of it despite the
fact you got that smudgy plastic around back looks very smart indeed just gotta
give it the occasional buffing up and while the Redmi 10 doesn't have an
official ip rating for splash resistance or anything like that unlike some
rivals like Motorola smartphones at this price point
it seems absolutely fine just getting a little bit moist as
long as you dried off fairly quick and if we poke open the Redmi 10s sim tray
you'll see that not only do you have space for two sims at the same time you've
also got a separate slot for your micro SD memory cards to expand that storage
okay so it's time to get this more for all set up and check out the rest of the
hardware and that software so Redmi 10 setup good to go and as usual it's your
standard android 11. uh with a good bit of xiaomi's own miui 12 launcher
slathered lovingly on top and if you're reading uh this article chances are
you've got a vague idea at the very least of what miui is all about but
essentially you've got a vaguely stock android feel these days like the google
discover feed present and correct apps tray by default you can drag down that
notifications bar or the usual google apps and widgets and all of that good
stuff but also lots of miui 12 bonus bits including for instance the control
panel completely shamelessly nicked off of iOS but fast access to all of your
main toggles and everything else you need you've got face recognition support
to back up this edge mounted fingerprint sensor and it's reasonably nippy and
seems to recognize me in even fairly dodgy lighting conditions that edge
mounted fingerprint sensor also works an absolute charm as you can see they're
nice and nippy and responsive again even uh with fairly dry chapped fingers as
mine are at the moment from sanitizing about a thousand times a day got lots of
nifty gesture controls as well for the fast load naps and the like one of my
personal me ui favorite features is the video toolbox which allows you to for
instance uh stream a YouTube video with the screen hibernate and so you can
just listen to an audio book or a podcast that's on there but dun dun dun miui
isn't all that in a bag of cheesy chips because
there's plenty of annoying little irritations such as the sheer amount
of crap where you get shoved on every single xiaomi smartphone block puzzle game
be gone jules blast soggy right off tile fun the just piss off all right and on
and on it goes tick tock and all this other the touchwood
I’ve been playing with Redmi 10 for a few hours now and I’ve
noticed any sort of little quirky bugs or irksome behavior however while you do
have nfc I believe in some regions with the Redmi 10 I don't appear to have it on
this model uh right here I’m certainly not seeing it in any of the settings or
the toggles no wars on the storage front though because you've got 128 gigs I
believe you can pick it up in a 64 gig flavor as well and of course that is
expandable via microSD now the 6.5 inch ips display seems pretty solid for this
sort of price point it is a budget panel of course that is fairly obvious but
at least it's a full hd plus panel so the resolution pretty sharp keeps those
visuals nice and crisp some fine detail in there when you're browsing your
photos and everything colors are pretty punchy as usual despite the fact it's
an ips and not an amoled and you can play around with the color scheme as well
to sort of tone down the visuals if you like and change the color temperature
the viewing angles admit they aren't fantastic the image clarity starts to
break up once you tilt the screen away from your face or watching something
side by side with another fellow human being might be a bit tricky but on that
top brightness certainly uh when you're using the Redmi 10 outdoors the clarity
stays strong however while on top brightness that screen is absolutely great
for outdoors use
i have found that the
Redmi 10's auto brightness functionality not exactly fantastic I’ve been using
the Redmi 10 as my full-time ford for three days now and several times already I’ve
had to manually tweak the brightness because either it's been a little bit too
dim while I’ve been outdoors I couldn't quite see what I was doing otherwise
it's been too bright in the evenings and really burning my retinas and that is
a problem I’ve had with several other budget xiaomi smartphones as well so it's
not a massive shocker and while it's stuck at 60 hertz refresh by default you
can bump it up to 90 hertz if you like and according to xiaomi it is a variable
refresh so it can dip down to 45 hertz when the display is not really doing
much to conserve battery power let's shift onto the audio
it's a stereo speaker
setup here on the xiaomi Redmi 10 and both of those speakers are actually mounted
on the edge of the device is the audio quality actually any good
it's okay for a
budget phone to be perfectly honest uh this top speaker definitely doesn't
output at the same sort of level of performance as the bottom speaker it's
quite tinny uh and uh quite quiet by comparison top volume you know it should
be absolutely fine in a fairly noisy environment clarity is not fantastic but
you know it's good enough the main thing is that you've actually got a
headphone jack here on the side of the Redmi 10 so you can jack in when you
want to listen to some music you've got Bluetooth five support as well now
performance and running the Redmi 10 is the MediaTek helio g88 chipset uh
backed by either four or six gigs of rams it's pretty much the only smartphone
around right now that's actually using the g88 and it's most definitely a basic
chipset that's for damn sure but so far touchwood everyday life seems to be
absolutely fine despite the miui launcher being slathered on top of android
that said the geek bench scores are certainly quite low compared
with a lot of rivals like for instance the nokia g50 and
fellow xiaomi handsets like the Redmi note 10s but of course for this sort of price you can't expect the
moon on a stick and if you just want to do a bit of web browsing messaging media
streaming should do the job and now because I’m always curious as to how these
smartphones perform with a good bit of gaming action I’m gonna get my ass
handed to me by a bunch of 12 year old’s on call of duty and unsurprisingly
those graphic settings are rather limited here on the Redmi 10 as you can see
they're the highest you can bump the graphics quality is medium and then high
for the frame rate and yeah the good news is that despite the fact that you are
quite limited on the performance front this six giga ram model absolutely blazed
through call of duty mobile no worries the frame rate stayed pretty consistent
even
when I bumped up to that mighty medium graphics detail
setting throughout the match that I played I certainly didn't notice any you
know serious jitters or stumbles that would have impacted the gameplay and
given me even less of a chance than i already have with my booze adult reactions
and knackered old arthritic hands the screen is nice and responsive as well so
no issues on that front so yeah certainly if you want to do just a bit of light
gaming on call of duty pubg etc. no worries oh and the fun didn't even begin to
heat up uh after 10 minutes of gaming either so Norway is there that's not
really a surprise as the MediaTek helio g88 is supposed to be pretty energy
efficient and energy efficient this smartphone certainly is as well it's got a
5 000 milliamp capacity batteries it's pretty spacious to begin with but even
then I was still impressed with what i saw some days I was finishing with
around 40 to 50 battery life still remaining and that's with a good bit of media stream and plenty of
messaging bit of camera player all that good stuff even with a lot of skyping
and some really heavy usage I still found i had at least 25 to 30 by the time I
staggered to bed so even the most demanding of users should be more than
satisfied by the xiaomi Redmi 10 while just more casual users should be able to
get two full days of use between charges although the uh fast charging is only
18 watts so not particularly fast at all you will have to basically plug it in
for a couple of hours to get close to
full bear in mind also that MediaTek helio g88 chipset does not have a built-in
5g modem so no 5g support here on the Redmi 10 if you want that you'll have to
look at some of xiaomi's other smartphones they generally have 5g in the name
to kind of give you a bit of a helping hand otherwise there's likes the nokia
g50 which just launched as well now last up for this xiaomi Redmi 10 unboxing
let's have a look at the camera tech and we've got here is a
quad lens setup and this is spearheaded by a 50 megapixel primary camera sensor
the xiaomi camera ui will look very familiar if you've used a xiaomi smartphone
in recent times you can quickly and easily jump between that 50 meg primary
sensor and the 8 megapixel ultrawide angle shooter like so and yeah you've got
xiaomi's usual ai shenanigans on here as well but i tend to leave that switched
off as i find that the results tend to be a bit artificial with that turned on
as i mentioned before I’ve been using the xiaomi Redmi 10 for a few days now
and i'm definitely impressed by the camera it's a solid budget shooter capturing
respectable amounts of detail in every shot and the center is definitely
perturbed by stronger lights you will find the occasional saturated pick when
you're shooting outdoors and in more ambient light there is blown with some
very mobile subjects but otherwise my test photos all came out well and it's
exactly what i would expect from a budget smartphone the Redmi 10s night mode
doesn't really do much at all you get a slight boost in brightness but no
greater clarity as for the ultra-wide angle shooter well that's fine for
getting a different view of the action and it even works reasonably well in
lower light the final two lenses here on the xiaomi Redmi 10 don't get too excited
because it's a two megapixel depth sensor and a two megapixel macro lens rc if
you want to you can uh dive in and get a
really up close personal shot with uh with whatever and you've got all of the
usual uh bonus bits on here of course portrait mode which can add a bokeh style
background effect which you can tweak there's a pro mode where you can piddle
about with the various camera settings you can also shoot at the maximum 50
megapixel resolution
if you like there is also a dedicated 50 megapixel mode here
in the more section under the usual night mode slow motion time lapse all of
that good stuff and if you do want to shoot a bit of video with your
disembodied mannequin head well the Redmi 10 is rather limited as you can see
there tops off at full hd at 30 frames per second there's no 60 fps option
there's certainly no 4k it's the one of the limitations unfortunately of that helio
g88 and last up if you want to take selfies well and it's absolutely fine again as long as
you're not trying to shoot against a bright sky or do anything uh remarkably
silly like then you'll get respectable
enough results and there you have it my pretties that in a nutshell is the xiaomi
Redmi 10 budget smartphone as I say should be hit in Europe imminently for
around 179 euros so it doesn't seem to bring anything particularly new or fresh
to the budget smartphone mix
but it’s a solid
enough all-rounder decent enough camera tech respectable performance strong
battery life a good enough display you got the headphone jack the expandable
storage uh no 5g is one of the only complaints so what do you guys recommend to
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