Infinix Note 10 Pro Unboxing & Detailed Review - Before you Buy! By Fisayo Fosudo

I’ve had some time to play with the Infinix Note 10 Pro, and in this video, I’m going to show you all you need to know about this interesting piece of tech coming out in Nigeria this June from Infinix. In the middle of last month or two weeks ago, May 12th of 2021. Infinix was said to have put out two kinds of the Infinix Note 10 Pro. The main Note 10 Pro and the Note 10 Pro NFC, both the same phone except one has NFC and of course, then we get the Infinix Note 10 that actually has so many physical design similarities as the Note 10 Pro except for the 90Hz display that’s missing, the lesser processor, ram and storage, alongside some other minor changes. However, in this video, we’ll be focusing on the Infinix Note 10 Pro, what it has to offer, my pros and cons and everything you should know before you buy it. If you’re new to the channel, welcome and if you’re returning, welcome back, do hit that like button guys, so more people can see the analysis we’re about to share here and as we always say without further ado, let’s get to the video.

Unboxing Right on the box of the Infinix Note 10 Pro, we see some of the highlights already, the 90Hz display, 6.95 inch Full HD Plus Display. This is the same display size on the Infinix Note 8 and Note 10 but this Note 10 Pro is better than the rest of them and we’ll see why in just a bit. Up top, we also see the RAM and Storage options that we’ve got here, as you can see mine is 8GBs of RAM and 128Gb of storage, the other parts of the box has branding and the rest of the specifications on the back of the box. Opening the box of the Infinix Note 10 Pro, we get the smartphone itself, of course with all of the highlights up top. We’ll put it to the side for now.

We of course get the customer service card here as well. There’s of course a smaller box with the Simi ejector tool at the back, opening that up, we’ve got a couple of things inside. Screen protector, x park note, and that invite card that looks like a 1 dollar bill, I’m a fan ope the packaging and of course, we get the silicone case which of course works and just like one of Transsion’s other flagships, it does fit but the power button area seems to have some alignment issues and if I’m using the power button as my fingerprint Reader then I shouldn’t be facing that problem but hey, this is just me nitpicking at a tiny feel. As far as accessories, we get alignment this time. The USB cable is appropriately thick, and the headphones which come standard with their devices.

Not the in-ear kinds here. Lastly we get the big charger, the 33w charger and trust me, I did my charging test on this one. I’ll share it with you guys later in this video, also make use of the timestamps in the description below that like button to skip to the important parts to you. Anyway, the charger has orange accents and it matches with the charging cable. The highlights Infinix chose here are 1, the processor, Helio G95, the 64MP camera, 33w charger + that huge 5,000 man battery, and 128GB storage + 8GB of RAM I tried OTG, I plugged my iPhone to this so I’ll either get to access the files on my iPhone from the Infinix or I’ll use my Infinix phone to charge my iPhone.

I mostly or only used it for charging my iPhone so this huge 5,000 mAh is not only for you but also your other phone.. If at first it doesn’t work, you’ll have to turn on OTG manually in the settings. Taking the wrap off the Infinix Note 10 Pro’s display and the wrap off the back as well, we see the interesting choice of color on the back. There are three colors to pick from in the Note 10 Pro, 7-degrees Purple which is the one we have here, I realized they call it 7 degree purple because that’s the color you get when you tilt it at 7 degrees, we have Nordic Secret which is a rainbow style mix of colors and 95-degrees Black. Interestingly, the top of the phone is blank, there’s no secondary microphone which leads me to believe it’s around the speaker slash earpiece area which we’ll get to in just a moment.

On the right side, we’ve got the power button that also serves as the fingerprint reader and of course, the volume rockers. The left side house the sim and micro SD card slot for expandable storage up to 2 terabytes. You have your headphone jack at the Bottom, the microphone, USB C port and the speaker grille. It’s a dual speaker phone. Loud sounds come from the top as well as the bottom.

As far as body design, it’s all polycarbonate here, of course to help with durability but still prevalent among midrange devices. It’s got a two tone stripe and chrome look, nice step camera bump and the Infinix branding at the bottom. Display Now when it comes to the display of the Infinix Note 10 Pro. The first thing you should know is that it’s the same size physically as the Note 8, 6.95 inches, and same size as the regular Note 10, 6.95 inches. So what makes this different.

Well unlike the Note 8, you have a 1080p Display on the Note 10 and 10 Pro. The Note 10 series devices also have a higher 387 pixel per inch display density which translates to better screen resolution overall. Compared to 258 on the Note 8. Although, it’s not OLED or anything fancy, you’ve got an IPS LCD panel on here. What also makes the display sort of stand out is the 90Hz feature that we get on the Note 10 Pro, although not on the Note 10 Infinix claims 180Hz Touching Sampling Rate alongside the 90Hz display, which they have sort of promoted together.

It’s important to note that the Note 10 Pro doesn’t have 180Hz refresh rate display, however, the touch sampling rate simply means that the screen is that much responsive, it’s a hardware improvement as well, just like the screen refresh rate. I may be wrong but I think it’s due to the sampling rate that they added the Ultra touch in the Display settings to control the Swipe Speed and Motion Speed. The setting is made for sensitivity essentially. Still on the display, watching videos on the Note 10 Pro’s 1080p display is top level for most Infinix devices out there both in the display size and the 1080p quality. Thankfully, we’ve been uploading all our videos this year in 4K, YouTube recently started supporting 4K for most mobile phones even with a 720p display and you will definitely notice the quality improvement on the streaming side of the Infinix Note 10 Pro.

Unfortunately, Your Data will also notice these improvements too. Please give this video a like if you’re finding value in it so far, and consider subscribing to the channel and hitting the bell icon beside it for more detailed review videos like this one. Okay, so I’d say the scrolling and overall usage was great display wise. Day to day uses seemed clear for me. There’s less intrusion from the hole punch and you have more screen real estate, 84.8% screen to body ration to be exact, better or slightly shorter bezel size too. Infinix is targeting this device with the speed tag line and apart from the 180Hz touch sensing rate which might not be as groundbreaking as it’s obvious to your eyes or overall experience, the processor is a looker.

We get MediaTek’s Helio G95, even on the MediaTek page, it’s dubbed alongside premium 4g gaming smartphones in the H2 or supporting hero text. I’m happy that Infinix maximized most of the features that this processor has to offer, not all. The MediaTek Helio G95 has a maximum camera support for 64MP on the back, the Note 10 Pro has it. It has a maximum support for 4K 30 fps, it has it, it has a maximum support for 10GB of RAM, Infinix stopped at 8GB RAM and gives you up to 128GB or 256 of UFS 2.2 storage. Maximum display resolution for the G95 is 2520 by 1080, the Note 10 Pro is 2460 by 1080.

So yes, you can say you get one of the best Helio G95 devices on the market. Paired with Android 11 on HiOS 7.6 as well, you should expect an up-to-standard midranger, however, aha, Fisayo you it can’t all be awesome right? Yup, we are still plagued with the bloatware or sort of unwanted software that comes pre-installed and clog the control panel slash notification centre of your device. So if you don’t remove a lot of them, you’ll get random unwanted notifications at intervals. One of the new features this has is The Sticky View feature. It is more of a software advancement where you can Double Tap the power button to minimize a screen.

It will turn into a mini screen you can control. You can either expand it by dragging down or minimize it completely by taking it to the edge. Also, with regards to sound quality, the device is loud, quite loud and the audio is clear enough, though it’s a little too thin that I’d like and I wish there was more bass to it. I used the headphones from the device to listen to music alot and Fun fact, I used it to edit parts of this video. So yes it was a huge deviation from what I normally would use, the bass wasn’t there and the audio wasn’t super crisp but it was clear enough and I found it to be clear.

Total time I wore it at a stretch was for like 12 hours. As I mentioned earlier, the G95 is a gamer’s processor, I found games to be smooth both display wise, and speed-wise. I tried to maximize the frame rate but graphics was just high and when you try to max out the graphics, you end up not maxing out on the frame rate. As usual, my regular call of duty sessions went smoothly on here. With regards to the battery life though, I did a 30 minute gaming session connected to the internet and my battery went from 93% to 84%.

A 9% loss. Infinix claims 5 mins of charge can give 2 hours of gaming, however, that’s not the case with a game like Call of Duty, which would require at least 30 minutes of charge to game for 2 hours, according to my not so technical and controlled research at least. However lighter games would definitely fare well for your battery and not battery huggers like COD. Only times I did experience some lag was because of my internet and a second time, the app crashed. Okay, so Infinix gives us 5,000 mAh and a whopping 33W fast charger, I’ll say my day to day usage was pretty fair with the device.

Except for the times when I used it for just browsing and not so well for the times when I’m using my Infinix as a power bank. That drains the battery alot. My charging speed with the charger that comes in the box went something like this: From 0% to 47% in the first 30 mins of charging. In an hour, I already got 85%. My charging started to slow at 85% like most other chargers with their battery.

It took another 35 minutes to get to 100%. If you want to see the charging speed broken down in 10 minute increments, follow me on Twitter, I’ll display my handle right here When it comes to the Fingerprint reader’s speed, it’s no doubt fast neither is it slow, it works really well when it does and just like mentioned earlier in the video. It’s right on the power button which anyone who uses their phone will definitely tap on multiple times. Face Unlock also works and is comparably fast as well. Camera So with the Note 10 Pro which is what we’re focusing on with this video, we’ve got a single 16MP front facing camera, and for low light shots, we’ve also got a front facing flash to follow.

This is unlike the Infinix Note 8 which has a dual front facing camera set up, a second camera for depth. But this doesn’t mean the Note 10 Pro doesn’t deliver as we’ll soon see. On the back camera side of things, we’ve got all the bells and whistles for this phone’s camera situation. We’ve mostly got a similar situation as well for the back camera on the Note 8 and Note 10 Pro too. Let’s break it down.

The Note 10 Pro has a 64MP wide main camera same as the Note 8, it’s also got an 8MP ultra wide lens, which the Note 8 doesn’t have so that’s an advantage. The rest of the quad camera set up are pretty similar.2 megapixel on each lens, one depth and one monochrome. A main differentiator that the Note 10 Pro has from the rest of the pack is 4K shooting. The Note 10 Pro can shoot 4K, the Note 10 and Note 8 max out at 1440p. Now, let’s look at the shots: For the most part, regular selfies were sharp but not always especially indoors or with little light.

In comparison with the portrait mode, we see that they both do thrive and portrait mode does blur the background quite well. Going outdoor to take photos of objects and landscapes. I noticed that the color representation of a regular shot and 64MP shot were not too different. The difference comes in the video forms thought, 1080p video is fair and clear, however when you compare the colors it has with that of the 4K counterpart, it’s just better in 4K. This is something we’ve come to sort of expect from a lot of midrange devices.

One thing to note is that both the front’s 16MP camera and the back’s 64MP capable sensor can shoot 4K, however not in all modes though. You see both the front and back camera have electronic stabilization with a crop and an asterisk, and they both have portrait bokeh mode. Those modes will only work in 1080p and not 4K. I tried the portrait bokeh mode on the front camera and it looked a little blown out with difficult but not unusable blurs around my head and edges of my portrait. It’s important to note that unlike higher end phones or other brands where you can seamlessly zoom from one camera to the other, on here, you can only zoom within the camera you’ve selected or use the other 2MP cameras as pairs with the main camera.

Now what do I mean? In the Ultrawide camera department, you can only zoom from the lowest at 0.6x up to 0.9x, while on the main lens, you can zoom from 1x to 10x You can also see this in the shots you’ll be taking as well. This is a wide angle shot that only ends at 0.9x and this is a normal shot that ends at 10x, in 1080p. Same goes for the 4K version, you also end at 10x as well. You definitely notice more sharpness and color difference too. Moving on to the night mode, and starting with the selfies, of course the camera can’t see in the dark.

I even tried night mode and it was just passable. The only mode I found that worked best was with the front facing flash. Thankfully this has that. Night mode however, shines on the back camera. Here’s where you get that brighter and sharper image with that night mode compared to a normal mode.

The Infinix Note 10 Pro has some little things that makes it stand out, 90Hz display, a 180Hz touch sampling refresh rate. However, the bloatware, the fact that this variant is a huge fingerprint magnet and the not so satisfying haptic feedback are things that, if I’m to nit pick won’t make me consider it. With regards to other devices in this price range. It’s got some competition from the likes of Samsung and Xiaomi, even some of the older Infinix devices like the Zero 8 which I’ve reviewed in detail and you can watch with the link below, and this Note 8. However, I’d love to know your thoughts about the device itself and if you of course have any question for me.

Do drop it in the comments section below. What are your thoughts about the Infinix Note 10 Pro? Let me know. Priced at 115,000 for this my 8GB RAM and 128GB model it’s definitely a looker, the Note 10 with 128GB of storage and 6GB RAM is 91,600 and with 4GB it’s 83,000. That’s pretty much it guys, thank you so much for watching, do hit that like button if you found this video useful and hit that subscribe button and the bell icon beside it so you’ll be the first to know what I post. See you in the next one.

Source : Fisayo Fosudo