Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Review & Unboxing (In-Depth) By TechTablets

I've got with me your phone that probably doesn't need an intro. It's getting a lot of hype because it's the world's first to have a 108 megapixel camera in it. This is, of course, Xiaomi's me note, 10, a promising looking phone that has a build that looks very similar to me to say a Huawei P30 Pro. It's got five times: optical camera, on the rear, one of five cameras in total two times optical and ultra-wide, the main sensor, a two megapixel macro sensor and a 32 megapixel front facing camera. So that's a lot of megapixels all in one phone with an AMOLED screen, it's powered by the snapdragon 730g. So let's check it out.

So this is what you'll find in the box. We've got a 30 watt charger that will charge this massive 5260 William hour battery in just one hour and five minutes. That is really, really quick. We've got a CPU case as well, so this has a raised lip around it to protect the camera lens, and then you get a user guide and a warranty card there, as well as a sim tray tool. The amino 10 is 210 grams, and it also is 9.8 millimeters thick, so it's a heavy phone and a thick phone as well and almost 11 millimeters. If you count the camera bump, so we've got a 6.47 inch curved AMOLED screen on the note, 10 and the chin at the bottom is actually a little smaller. As you can see here, the Huawei P30 Pro, which is on the left now both of these phones look very, very similar and up the top.

We've both got the water drop notch and 32 megapixel cameras and the similarities to say a Huawei phone. They don't stop there with just the front display. It also extends out to where they have placed the Xiaomi logo right here, their name exactly where Huawei puts it where the camera is and then of course, the rear curved screen with gorilla glass, 5 front and back and even as you'll see here that the frame around the outside is painted with a matte grayish. Almost black color super similar to the Huawei. When you have a look at them, really really really similar designs, squared off top and bottom.

So, on the Xiaomi up top here we do have an IR transmitter, so you can remind the two antenna lines and our volume buttons, as well, in the exact same place as the Huawei P30 Pro and then the bottom of the phone type c port there. So this doesn't support VO out. Sadly, I wish they would do that, even if it was just display mirroring would be good, and we've got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, the two antenna lines there and a single loudspeaker. So there are no dual loudspeakers with this phone. The top bezel is very slim.

Our earpiece up, the top, is actually off centered a little more to the left, as you can see, and there's no status led on this mobile whatsoever. Now the sim tray is metal reinforced. It takes just two NATO sims. There is a rubber gasket around there to help keep out dust and water as well, but there is no official IP rating with this phone, so the build overall is excellent. This is right up there with say, flagship phones and just like my P30 Pro, it's a top quality, build that they've gone with here, all glasses.

Yes, it is very slippery, and it's a little heavy okay at the 212 grams or so face unlocking you can see, works well. The fingerprint reader they've moved it actually up here a little, but I've got no problems tapping it. I do find that it seems to be a little slow at times. So just demonstrate that again, okay, here it seems to be working all right, but I do believe they could optimize that further by soft Xiaomi's done a perfect job with the display. With this one, with the calibration you can see, the gamma is 2.2 almost 2.1, but it's pretty much spot on. This is perfect.

Now I wanted to keep it on the screen to point this out. You see with the curved edges with this AMOLED panel that it does have that problem. Okay, the colors are going to shift out you're getting the shadowing on the edges. You can see when I move it slightly, it will vary. So when you look at it that way, you can't see it now, and you're, seeing it just on the top.

Now that's going to happen with all of these curved displays, but I noticed that it's actually a little worse than my Huawei P30 Pro in that regard. Now with the settings, you get a lot of different options, as I will just show you right now here with the display, and this is pretty much standard now. Dark mode is on there. Okay, if you're into that, you want it, it's good for eye strain of course, and it also saves battery. You can schedule it, and then we've got our typical scaling modes text size reading mode.

Is there as well so very good display in this and the maximum brightness? I measured to be just over 620 nits so onto the ROM performance, some benchmarks and little tests I like to run so. The performance of this ROM I found is pretty good. Okay. It's now on me UI 11. For some reason, we don't have android 10 out of the box, which I was half expecting with the new of course mini, but no they've got android 9.

Here still so, hopefully we're going to see an update of that with recent apps. I've noticed that sometimes you will see just some animations lagging a little, so obviously, some optimization and tweaking is needed on Xiaomi's behalf, and that should be coming through with some firmware updates there task manager, closing apps, doesn't seem too aggressive. In fact to me, it seems better than mini 10. They've eased up a little, and this, of course, is to help with battery life. So that's why they close things.

You sometimes have to reload apps. So when you go into for example, gallery I've noticed this is when you can sometimes just see loading apps up and swapping in between where you will notice those noticeable just little lags there that do pop up. But overall the performance is, I think, for what the chipset is acceptable. It is good, just load up twitter here and show you twitter scrolling, of course, that needs to start loading in all of those images and swipe up there. That animation was very smooth there, but it's not consistent.

So out of the box, you get 112 gigabytes free, I'm on the latest version of mini 11 here, and you do have some settings here for the ambient display. I wanted to show you in case people were asking about this race to wake. Is there as well, of course, and you get a lot of this bloatware on first use you can see. This is all I had on there a lot of crap that they have installed here, Xiaomi in fact over one gigabyte worth of bloatware and crap. So we don't need this, and we certainly do not need this right here.

That is advertising in the system, apps that they have, so they're still at it Xiaomi. I don't know why they're doing this, and I know people will defend them in the comments and say no, that's, because that's the only area where the software team makes any profit and to me that's just rubbish. Okay, other manufacturers don't put ads in their apps their system. Apps, okay, not good! You can see it right here, it's in the app it's in the middle of it, no, not good, but this is good. This is great wide vine level, one cert out of the box.

Sorry Amazon, prime video and Netflix in full HD, and we've also got camera two API level.3 support again very good. So you look in the future for one of those Google camera ports just to get perhaps better night shots and here's our accuracy of GPS. So around 4 meters just like flagships, it isn't a dual frequency: GPS, one. Now that's just reserved for the snapdragon 855, 855 plus flagships out there. They have that not with snapdragon 730 g, so wireless speeds, maximum speeds you're going to look at around 326 megabits per second over the other side of the studio.

I'm still getting good range and reception signal strength as well with 4g, I find is perfectly fine, good, no issues, and these are the speeds here from orange, which is my carrier, and I'm getting this kind of speeds with my P30 Pro. So that's all good. So the storage here, the 128 gigabytes, is relatively fast. I mean this is not ufs3 speeds, but we've got good random rights and reads here. So that's not going to bottleneck at all this phone, and here is the an tutu score.

This is now version 8 remember, so the scores have gone up a little. You can clearly see here that, yes, it's no strap snapdragon 855 plus. I think Xiaomi made an error for the price that this sells here in Europe, 549 euros. It should have an 855 plus in it because look at the competitors out there like Realme selling their phones for a hundred and fifty euros less with the 855 plus. So for loudspeakers, we've just got that single downwards firing speaker that I showed you in the beginning of this review and the sound output from it.

Isn't the loudest I've heard from a single speaker, but it is decent, the sound from it, because it's got some bass to it as well, and you hear your ringtones it's very loud for that voice. Calls sound good, active noise cancellation. Bluetooth's range is also very good.3.5 millimeter, headphone jack output is also great, no real complaints at all with it, perhaps not the best I've heard from Xiaomi, but it's typical Xiaomi. It is very, very good and great, of course, have the 3.5 minute headphone jack on this, so here's a sample of that loudspeaker at 100 volume so for gaming performance. I find that this is Call of Duty that it is actually really quite good, because this is the snapdragon 730 and the g means optimize d for gaming, and they've done a good job, because this game is running fluid and smooth on the high settings.

As you can see, you'll occasionally see just a few little stutters, but overall performance is good. The same for PUBG shadow gun legends as well, all those games out there on the play store they're all going to be playable in the highest settings, but some titles like shadow gun legends. I think you just need to lower it down a little, perhaps just run it on medium now. Battery life you'd expect because of the super large capacity battery that it'd be perfect. Okay, so I'm seeing around about 11 to 12 lost per hour.

With my current use, I haven't been able to make it through a full day without plugging it in because I'm checking out photo samples and video samples which we'll take a look at now. So I just wanted to quickly before I show you, the samples show you the stock camera app here, so we've got a different lens. We can swap over so this one's the macro that was the ultra-wide. This can be a little slow at times and then the 108 megapixel sensor, which by default, is taking 27 megapixel photos. I've noticed that the shutter rate and the shutter lag we're getting is a little bad.

So when you go into the 108 megapixel mode and take a photo which I'll just do now quickly, you'll see that I can't select it yet because it's still processing will take about five seconds, and you do see noticeable viewfinder lag a lot more than other phones. So I do question whether the snapdragon 730 was a good choice. Uh because of such a high megapixel count and the faster image processing unit that we have on the snapdragon 855 plus, I think, would have been a little more ideal there. So portrait modes are 12, megapixel shots and a night shot and pro mode here to show you what settings we've got you can choose which lens you want to use ISO shadow rate, your focus and the white balance, and then you've got also this the 108 megapixel mode as well, that you can use with the pro mode. So overall, they are really quite a wide variety of cameras.

Here, pretty much everything is covered, including that two megapixel macro here are some samples, some video samples and then my final thoughts of this phone at the end of this video do so. This is our rear camera. Now, once you are shooting you cannot just swap over to the ultra-wide the two times or the five times. You need to select the one you're going to use and then stick with it. So we've got electronic image stabilization with optical the quality I find to be not as sharp as it could be.

It's a little soft, so hopefully Xiaomi can optimize this and the audio 96 kilobytes per second. I hope they can improve upon that, and this is now the ultra-wide lens you can shoot video on, and it does have a course electronic image stabilization you can see working does a good job. Now it looks a little washed out this camera. It is definitely lacking details with this lens and that normally happens with a lot of the ultra wide. When you shoot video we'll take a look now at the two times and five times with video, so this is the two times, and you can see the quality, not quite as good as I feel that it could be considering.

This is meant to be 4k. The electronic image stabilization, however, is good with this one, and at five times here you can see that it's not wonderful quality at all, quite poor. Now this is a five megapixel sensor and I don't actually know if this is just digital zoom from the main sensor, because it almost looks like it doesn't it. I mean this quality is very poor, so I don't see myself using this one for video, so in typical Xiaomi fashion. Here the front facing camera is just 1080p, but that's not the issue.

The issue here is: there's no electronic image stabilization with the front-facing camera. So if you wanted to shoot vlogs you're going to need a gimbals, this is now the super stabilization mode, 1080p and you'll notice that the exposure here is really off we're getting a bit of wind noise as well, but it will slowly adjust to the council building and the clock on the top you'll be able to see it now, the time at least so. If I run up these stairs, you see that it's a lot more steady than your typical electronic image stabilization. It does have a very aggressive crop as a result, all right guys. So let me know in the comments what you think of the photos.

Okay, I think it does take a very good photo, but there's clearly some optimization still needed in some areas, uh, especially with video. Okay, when you're using the ultra steady mode. The exposure is terrible. It's overexposing in some places and I just don't think it's got correct- optimization there, definitely not and really the audio quality in video 96 kilobytes per second, that's getting old, very old, come on Xiaomi updated your competitors out. There are now using 320 kilobytes per second audio.

That sounds much better higher quality microphones as well, so they really need to improve that. The video quality itself stabilization is excellent. It's good, but it's not really that sharp. They need to improve the sharpness. Perhaps it's cropped that much and that's why we're not? You know getting a native 4k out of it.

I find the five times camera to be very disappointing. It upscales to eight megapixels, but we're also getting very poor video quality from it. The ultra-wide video quality as well is a little disappointing. We cannot swap between cameras, like other manufacturers, let us like Huawei or um Samsung speaking of Huawei. This phone does look just so similar to the P30 Pro, and I know manufacturers are all copying each other, but when you take a look at the button location, exactly the same camera location, exactly the same, the Xiaomi text on the back is exactly where Huawei's text is the port location antenna lines exactly the same, even the buttons it's its just almost like a shameless clone there of it.

But okay, we'll just ignore that. Shall we everyone's copying everyone, but the price too in Europe? 549 euros is steep for me, considering it doesn't have an 855 plus they should have put that in there, and you've got the Realme x2 pro you've got the OnePlus 17 itself. It's cheaper, and they've got 90, hertz screens, okay, so there's a lot of options out there. I feel that Xiaomi is going to have to drop the price down, especially in Europe. If they want this to sell.

Well, it's got a perfect build to it. A very nice screen. The gamma is perfect spot on 2.2. Now the stuttering that I see commonly in Xiaomi's mini 10, especially with full screen gestures, is better it's improved, but I can't go as far to say, sadly that it's perfect no now, and then I see some animations that just look a little laggy to me now. I know that you can go in developer settings.

You can reduce the animation times to make it faster, but I always review out of the box we're talking average Joe's out of the box. Okay, your mother, for example, is not going to go into android developer options, not at all there, so it is a very good phone. The battery life looks okay, not quite as good as I expected, but I'll give you some updates on that later on, I'm losing about 11 to 12 percent, I'm standby battery drain. So when I wasn't using it walking around- and I just had it on in my pocket- it seemed to lose more than expected there. So I think optimization is clearly needed.

This is a new phone and Xiaomi are well known now, at least for me to push out, I feel rushed software hardware is definitely there. I love the build of this. The build quality is perfect. Very versatile cameras just give us some optimization there Xiaomi, and this could be a real winner when you lower that price down it's just overpriced in Europe. So thank you so much for watching this review here.

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