Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra UNBOXING and DETAILED REVIEW - The ULTIMATE Smartphone! By TechNick

Design comparisons display 120 watt charging, speed tests, software speakers, 120 frames per second gaming benchmarks and finally cameras. This is my unboxing, an immensely detailed review of the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra, the Chinese price is at the top. Unfortunately, this will not be coming to the global market, but it sits at around 800 us dollars when converting from the current exchange rate. You get a silicon case in the box as well as a 6, ampere, cable, an USB type c 2 headphone jacks and a massive 120 watt charging block, and it comes in the box. No doubt after I test out this phone in a little of a drop test over there. Let's go ahead and peel off the cover of this beast.

This is the transparent edition of the phone and I must say it looks absolutely incredible. Of course, there are some stickers underneath the gorilla glass 6 back over there, but you can actually see some indentation underneath the glass, which means that you can actually see parts of the phone. Apart from the stickers, I must say that the back looks absolutely incredible, like I said earlier, but I just can't get enough of it, and it doesn't look half bad with the case on either we have a single power button and a non-split volume rocker. On the side. We have a dual sim tray at the bottom of the phone, with no support for micro SD.

We have an USB a type c port which is limited to 2.0 speeds, and we have dual stereo speakers, though no Dolby Atmos, here, chrome, glass, 5 at the front and 6 at the back with no IP rating. It is a little heavier than quite a few phones on the market, but its camera bump might be a bit big, the actual module, but it doesn't actually protrude as much as the other flagships around or even so as its little brother, the k30 ultra. So it looks absolutely stunning at the back. But what about the front? Will we get treated to a 19.5 by 9 aspect? Ratio? 6.67-inch LED display a billion colors. This time round, we have full HD plus at 386, PPI 120, nits peak brightness, and it looks absolutely incredible, and the main selling points is that incredible 120 hertz display, of course the brightness is quite high up there, a little less than its little brother k30 ultra, but it still looks just as bright as the flagship contenders on the right hand, side.

The biggest talking point here, though, is the 120 hertz, which is up from the mi 10 pro 90, and let's do a little of a test here to show you guys how many more frames you can actually see per second and, as you can see, on the right hand, side. The 120 is pretty much double a lot of ghosting going on in slow motion over here, but you can definitely see a difference. This kind of gives you an idea of the actual feel of the phone, but we don't have a 90 hertz option on the phone, which is a bit of a bummer. If you want to save some battery life over there, comparing it to the black shock, you can actually see a bit of an improvement, but I must say in reality, I don't really feel much of a difference between 90 and 120. So I would have actually liked the option, comparing the 120 hertz display to the other 120 hertz panels out there, including the k30 ultra, all the way on the left Xiaomi's budget phone, which is less than 300 us dollars, almost cost a third of the price of the mi 10 ultra.

It doesn't look quite as good as the 10 ultra, but the mi10 ultra looks pretty much on par, if not better than the other flagship phones around. We have a couple different color schemes and different brightness settings that we have in the actual settings of the phone in order to tune our display up, and we also have an anti-flicker mode, though it reverts to 60 hertz. If you'd like to use this, you can also hide that little punch hole notch at the top there, and we have dark mode as well, which looks absolutely superb. The blacks are nice and deep on this incredible led panel. Of course, we also have an always on display over here, and the always on display looks phenomenal in simple mode, and we have some extravagant modes as well.

We do have 55 watt charging. I don't have the block with me here, but that is the fastest wireless charging I have ever seen on a smartphone, but the most exciting thing is the 120 watt wired charging literally breaking records over here and Xiaomi have advertised 41 in five minutes and 100 percent in 23 minutes. Well, let's put it to the test. After five minutes we got 26, not 41, but let's see if we can peek out at the same 23 minutes to get 100 48 in 10 minutes, and it is pretty hot guys we're sitting at about 50 to 53 degrees in Celsius over here after the 64 mark in 15 minutes, which is absolutely insane I've, given some reference to the fastest charging phones that I've tested on my channel at the bottom, the room x2 pro, which did it in 27 minutes and the Lenovo legion, with 90 watt charging in 35 minutes 80 after 20 minutes over here still sitting at about 53 degrees in Celsius and after 23 minutes when they said that it would clock out at 100 we're sitting on 88. So those were probably very perfect test conditions in the labs over at Xiaomi, but over here in my little studio at home, things aren't getting quite as fast, but 100 in 31 minutes, nonetheless is still ridiculously quick, but at less than half the wattage 50 watts.

The Realme x2 pro with a slightly smaller battery. Did it in 27 minutes? So you tell me: does the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra actually need 120 watts of charging? Is it just going to wreck the battery over time once you do charge up your phone to full low and jumping into the actual device? We have these incredible wallpapers, but before we get to those, let's focus on the fingerprint scanner, it's a bit slower than that of the OnePlus 8 pro or other flagships around, and the Facebook recognition has quite a big animation as well. You're going to have to go ahead and disable animations, but knowing me UI software, you're, probably gonna still have those animations when unlocking your phone. Nonetheless, the actual software itself is absolutely amazing using it has been better than any other experience. I've had with previous mini devices.

Mini 12 is a serious breath of fresh air when using it, and we have a couple of different features that we can use. We have this awesome thing called floating window, but it doesn't seem to work with system apps, which kind of sucks. When you finally find an app that it works in, though you can get to use it, and it works pretty decently, but when you do decide to close it, and you pop into something that enables your text at the bottom, your keyboard, it's almost impossible to close this thing once you finally get it right, you're, probably not going to want to use it again. I really hope that this improves in future software updates. Of course, we do have Google services over here.

Thanks to Xiaomi, you can actually get it from the Xiaomi play store their version of the play store anyway, but we have these incredible super wallpapers. Let me show you guys all three over here, and they look absolutely phenomenal, so it pretty much has three phases: the regular home screen going into your lock screen going back into your home screen, and then you can also swipe left to right as well, and it shows this neat little animation as you go side to side on your home screen really looks great, but I'm pretty sure it chomps a ton of battery life and when you remove an app, gives this little exploding effect and wrecking the other apps around it until they get back to normal. These are the little things that truly put a smile on my face and the haptics are pretty darn great. If you ask me compared to the best haptic phones around, we don't have Dolby or DTS stereo sounding speakers. Here, though, we do have the shame presets, if you'd like to fiddle around with them, and we have some different visual effects when you are playing music on your device.

Those speakers sound great though I don't think quite as good as the predecessor me 10 pro. We do have game space over here game turbo, that is in order to tweak your games and the first game that we're going to test out here is bullet force. Let's see if we can actually hit 120 fps and yes, we can, we're hitting around 110-120, though so it's fluctuating a bit next game that we have here is dead trigger 2 once again, no frames per second cap, we're hitting ultra-high graphics and 120 fps. No problem on the 10 ultra real racing 3 does support high refresh rate phones, but it doesn't seem to work on the mi 10 ultra. At least these speakers still sound, absolutely incredible.

Nevertheless, let's test out performance other than gaming on the smartphone we're going to be running, an tutu version, 8. Bear in mind. We do still have the vanilla, snapdragon 865 powered chipsets within the me10 ultra, not the upgraded snapdragon 865, plus I'm going to speed through an tutu here and get the results. The battery dropped by four percent, which is slightly improved from the average snapdragon 865 smartphones. The battery degrees in Celsius is slightly hotter, adding 8.4 over there and the CPU added 9 degrees in Celsius as compared to the adding of 3.5 degrees Celsius. On the average snapdragon 865 powered phone, the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra scored a whopping 643 653 points, which is four percent better than the average snapdragon 865 plus powered smartphone, as well as an improvement by 7.6 percent to that of the Xiaomi mi 10 pro its little brother, which scored under 600 000 points. We can speed through our next benchmark here, which is indeed geek bench version 5.2 and get to the results. When it comes to CPU, single core and multi-core scores.

The 10 ultra was placed right at the bottom worse than the average snapdragon 865 score when it comes to GPU using an OpenCL API. The mi 10 ultra was right in between that of the 865 plus and the average 865. When it comes to Vulcan API GPU, rendering it was placed right at the bottom, below the average 865 score and below the average snapdragon 865 plus score 2. Probably the biggest improvement in the mi 10 ultra is in the camera department. We have the same 20 megapixel selfie snapper though so that hasn't really changed much, but I must say these selfies look absolutely amazing.

Besides for the portrait effects, which kind of give a lot of edge detection around my hair, this is technique. Recording a 1080p 30fps video on the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra. It is completely capped at 1080p and 30fps. Let me know what you think of the audio and video quality when using the selfie camera on the mi 10 ultra. The main sensor is now 48 megapixels instead of 108, but the camera sensor is actually larger, allowing more lights to come into the lens.

The telephoto lens is 12 megapixels with two times optical periscope lens 48, megapixels ultra-wide at 20, and we have up to 8k video ultra-wide shots. Look pretty good with the widest field of view. I've ever seen at 128 degrees. This is 108 megapixel shot. Yes, it is indeed you can actually choose a 108 megapixel mode which actually uses reverse pixel binning using upscaling and the actual bin shot looks great.

Coming down from 48 megapixels, the two times optical zoom, looks great moving on to periscope five times. Zoom with optical looks great on periscope ten times, digital zoom with the periscope looks pretty great 50 times. Hybrid zoom doesn't look the best 120 times hybrid zoom, once again pretty much the results you were seeing on the s20 ultra now we're going to skip ahead to some more zoom shots. I think that the sweet spot over here is the 30x zoom with hybrid. It looks really, really detailed, even when using pixel binning on the periscope lens and going all the way to 120x with decent lighting.

You can still see quite a bit of detail. This is probably my favorite scene over here. There's a building fine in the distance over there with a holiday in logo over there. So let's have a look at some text going all the way into 120 x zoom. It is still clearly visible a bit grainy, but a lot better than anything I've seen previously when it comes to portrait modes.

It looks pretty great on me as well as when you take a portrait, shot of an object, and we don't have a macro sensor, but it utilizes the ultrawide pretty. Well, we have eight cat 24 fps this time it is not using upscaled. This is actual raw 8k footage at 24 frames per second, which is great. We also have a 4k at 60fps, a lot more stabilized. As you can see, it looks really, really good, probably the best video quality I've ever seen in a smartphone, just shy of that of the iPhone 11 Pro max 1080p at 60fps.

This is still the main camera very stable once more, very smooth in daylight, though I'm sure it's a bit different during the evening 4k 30fps ultra-wide 4k is capped at 30 when using the ultrawide mode, but at least you can still shoot at 4k. Ultrawide.1080P, though, is not capped at 30. You can go all the way up to 60fps. It looks even better than 4k when viewing on a 1080p device, and it is super buttery smooth. We also have a steady video on over here with the main sensor, and we have a steady video pro on when using the ultra-wide sensor.

The Xiaomi mi 10 ultra is one absolutely memorable device. I say memorable because this is indeed Xiaomi's 10th year anniversary edition device, and it is no doubt their flagship device. It looks absolutely breathtaking from the back and going into the phone with that super wallpaper over there, things get even better and even brighter, and even quicker with a super smooth, 120 hertz refresh rate panel. Of course, there are competitors out there, even within the Xiaomi company itself, at a third of the price you can get the k30 ultra, which is still pretty darn good and the rest of the competition is more expensive, but they do have some extra added features, though the Xiaomi now seems to finally be edging the gap between it and them with the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra. If you ask me at this very moment, this is my pick for 2020.

Source : TechNick