Redmi Note 10 Review with Pros & Cons (Retail Unit) By Geekyranjit

Hi there this is transit and in this video, let's do the full review of this Redmi Note 10. Uh. This is the budget. Mid-Range android phone from Xiaomi and just about five days ago, had posted its unboxing video, and I've been actually using it as my primary smartphone for the last five days, and I've been using it with my Jio and a-tel sims. So let's talk, what do I feel about it and in fact, in my unboxing video I was very optimistic about this smartphone and still, I would say it's a very good smartphone, but some of the pros that I mentioned in the unboxing video have moved to the cons and some of the cons that I was thinking are actually the pros. So let's look at it and let's divide it here, and here are the specs guys, as you can see, and the version that I have purchased, and I'm using is the higher end variant for that's for 14 000 rupees, but sadly that 12 000 rupees variant, the base variant is simply not available.

I hope it launches so anyways, let's go over it and I need a list guys, so I'll go over all the list of pros and cons made a huge list. So I'll just look at my laptop so that I don't miss any point because uh quite a few points that I want to talk about uh. So, okay, first, let's talk about the good things on this device and the first thing is regarding the screen guys- and this is the big thing uh Xiaomi says this- is an AMOLED screen. It's a 6.43-inch screen, so not very big, so nice to hold in the hand- and I have to say I am liking the AMOLED screen on this one guys what happens with the cheap budget oriented AMOLED screen. There are three things: one is color.

Accuracy is awful in some of them. That's not the case. The colors look actually accurate on this, so no weird over saturation or extra pale colors, or something like that so color reproduction is good. Second thing: what happens is that the panel is not enough bright. So outdoors, if you go uh, it's washed out, that's not the case.

In fact, if you leave it on auto brightness, this one is easily visible, even in outdoor condition, and the third thing that I noticed quite a bit is uh. When you lower the brightness to minimums, when all the lights are closed at night or something you go minimum brightness either it won't go to very low brightness or if you go to very low bright, it starts to flicker. That problem was also not on this one. So I'm really happy with the AMOLED screen on this one. I don't know how Xiaomi managed to do this, but they've put a good quality AMOLED screen on this one, the colors contrast, etc.

is very nice. I'm using this black theme looks actually pretty cool, so good job to show me uh on the type of amulet panel that they have used. It's a full HD plus, and I just hope, other manufacturers uh when they introduce AMOLED panels. They put at least this good quality. I have not worried about 120 hertz 60 hertz at this price point is a good AMOLED panel.

Let's now talk about the build quality again guys uh the front is gorilla glass, but black. This is again plastic guys this entire and even though chase's is actually plastic, but again because of that, I feel the weight is actually perfect on this one though it's having a 5000mah battery, so it's very comfortable to hold, and I've been actually using it without the case or anything, and this black plastic coating does resist the fingerprints to a certain point. So it's not that bad, I would say in fact, from a distance. Many will be full like that. This is having a glass back.

So that's regarding it and I won't complain guys if I just put slight pressure: it's not flexing or anything like that, but yeah. If you want to break any phone, you can obviously break it uh, but overall, I would say the weight distribution and in hand feel they have done actually a good job. Next, if I talk about, is the earpiece on this one. As I've told you guys, I've used it with both my ATL and Jio slims in Hyderabad, and here I'm really happy with Xiaomi, because I used to complain about this a lot earlier. Xiaomi Redmi phone, especially in the mid-range the earpiece quality, was simply not that good.

But on this one the earpiece quality is actually really, really good. In fact, I could compare it with some higher end smartphones that good the earpiece quality, so no issues while taking calls. In fact, it is pretty loud and clear and in fact I didn't have to actually keep the uh. What do you say? Earpiece volume at maximum when I was taking the calls that crystal clear and loud at force? Anyways, let's move to the next thing. This is regarding call quality and other things that many of you have asked carrier, aggregation, etc.

And I tested this with geography and intel here in Hyderabad and with my Jio sim. I am getting carrier regulation that is 4g plus, but with my 810 sim, I'm not getting that 4g plus signal, but again guys. I won't blame this handset, even my Samsung flagship. That's the z fold: 2 is not getting 4g plus with ATL in Hyderabad. They are doing something weird, but carrier aggregation is there on Jio.

I got that anyways uh. The network reception was also very good on this smartphone now. Another thing that I really liked on this smartphone is this: has Wi-Fi uh? What do you say? Five gigahertz band and I have to say I'm connected to my 5g router- the speeds that I'm getting is actually perfect and even the Wi-Fi range is actually pretty good on this one. Let's actually run a speed test now uh. This is connected on my five gigahertz band.

Let's do it I'm on that 300 megabit, uh, Jio, fiber connection gets generally about 280. Let's see how it does and again, as you can see so very good performance in terms of Wi-Fi. The range was also very good, so they have done actually a perfect job in terms of Wi-Fi, I'm impressed uh speeds are consistent even on the five gigahertz span. Uh. Lets, and I'll just cut this, and let's move to the next thing that I like is uh the white wine l1 support is there on this uh.

I was watching you uh, what they say: Netflix and stuff. If you go to app settings, sorry not accounts. If you go to app settings here, if I go uh to the playback specifications, as you can see, white one l1 support is there. That means it can play it in full, HD and everything. So that's actually a nice thing, because I've noticed some handsets in this mid-range price.

Actually don't have wide one l1 support. They fall back to l3. That means you can't play HD contents. It's restricted to just standard definition content. So that's actually a nice thing on this one uh next thing is regarding the fingerprint scanner.

It's a side mounted one and excellent guys, no issues with the fingerprint scanner very, very responsive. Some of you were asking like yeah. They should have because it's an amulet screen in display fingerprint scanner over here, uh, but again guys if they had done that the cost would have increased. So again, the fingerprint scanner quality is very good, so I don't have any complaints. In fact, I didn't even enable the face, unlocking because this works, as you can see so well.

Next thing is regarding the general performance, it's having this new snapdragon 678 soc and I would say this is a good soc and handles most of the stuff that you throw on it. Fine, I would say uh again no issues with the processor. I even did some gaming with this one Call of Duty I played, and it played ha actually fine. In fact, it was playing at the high graphics setting. So the processor is good, guys and general UI mini 12 is good, but sometimes I don't know.

Sometimes it's a memory leak issue or something sometimes I noticed some cutters here when I was using Twitter and stuff right now, it's very good morning I was noticing, but I just rebooted it once, and now it's very smooth. So it looks like there is some memory, corruption or something in the background uh first three days it was fine. This morning I had to actually reboot and now again it's fine. So again those typical mini UI bugs, but overall I think so. If you reboot this device every couple of days, then it won't be an issue.

I hope they fix this. Now, it's very smooth guys earlier I was getting some micro cutters at times anyways moving to uh. The next thing is regarding the mini 12 on this one, and this is neither a pro neither a con guys- and many of you have asked about this one- the ad situation on this one again guys watch my unboxing video that I had posted and there I disabled some things and after that, I'm not getting those full page ads or anything in the last five days. I did not get that. Yes, with the gets' app that the irritating thing I was getting some stuff in the notification, but you can easily disable it.

For example like here, if you go in the settings, let's assume it's the get stab you go to the most setting and just disable this, and that way I disabled the get sap setting, but no full page ads or anything that I have seen, but guys don't be stupid, don't log in with the Xiaomi account. I haven't done that. Nor do I use the Xiaomi's built-in apps, like that's, music, app, etc. So I'm not doing that, I'm not using the account or using the. What do you tell me: music, app and everything, and I'm not getting any ads? So again we have common sense, guys, don't use the Xiaomi apps, I would say just for the privacy reason, I'm not using it.

I'm not getting ads get sap. Yes, you will get that annoying notification sometime over here, but you can disable it. So I feel now uh. This one is improved version of me UI because last year, if I have to compare with the Redmi Note 9 and the uh knight nine pro what I had used that was getting too many ads. Guys so looks like Xiaomi has cleaned up the UI a little and in fact the UI now is very close to what we are getting in the Poco and the smartphones.

I think so this they might have done because a lot of reviewers like me, complained about it and a lot of public pressure also, but I feel it was because of the Indian government that had banned the browser and the community app. I think so. Xiaomi took note of that, and they have toned down that so not full page ads that I'm seeing, so that's actually a nice thing, but some notifications uh that you'll see. But again I feel that is bearable, anyways uh. Moving to next thing is I, like the uh charging, speed, 33 watts, so superfast at recharge and also the battery life is perfect on this smartphone uh again because of the weight it doesn't feel like you're having a 5000mah battery, but the battery life has been actually perfect on this smartphone easily.

Over a day, I couldn't kill it within a day. Guys here are some of the battery stats. This is an after about one and a half days of usage, then also about eight plus hours of screen on time so easily. I would say it'll last for about one to one and a half days and if you're sort of a casual user almost about two days worth of battery life, so battery life is not an issue on the smartphone uh again gaming. As I've told you Call of Duty, I have played a little.

It was fine at high graphics setting again guys, I'm not a hardcore gamer. If you want to know about gaming check out some other YouTube channels that play new gaming continuously, I played Call of Duty a couple of games continuously about two or three games. If I recall for 20-25 minutes- and it played fine- yes, it got slightly warm. But again that is to be expected. It didn't get hot.

That is another thing that I've noticed with regular usage. The phone never got hot. Now, let's also talk about the camera on this one again, we have that quad camera on this one uh, but I would say that 48 megapixel is the main camera on this one, and I have to say, the camera performance is good outdoors. It does a good job, as you can see, with the samples and indoors it does a decent job, but guys got to be careful and be realistic about the camera performance and indoor lighting conditions. Yes, if you're not careful in indoor lighting conditions, while taking the snap, is there a shade, you will see that blurriness.

But again that is to be expected. This is not a flagship smartphone that cost 70 or 80 000. Let's be realistic for the price point I would say: uh the camera performance is good and if I compare it with some of the other smartphones that I have recently reviewed around the 12 000 price fund definitely uh. The camera performance is slightly better and the camera is slightly better optimized, but again guys don't expect miracles with the camera in indoor lighting conditions. That's my frank opinion.

Now, let's move to the cons on this smartphone and again guys this is an AMOLED screen, and they advertise this always on but notice what will happen after 10 seconds? They say this is always on I've enabled all the assault. If I just leave it, I think you have to just leave it. This always on just disappears after 10 seconds. So I don't know what stupidity is this uh? If you have an amulet scheme, and you're saying that it's an always on? Why not? I love it to be always on uh, let's just it's a stupid setting, always on yeah, always on display. Okay, as you can see, you have switched it on always on is on, but again this just displays for 10 seconds.

You can't disable it. You don't have anything. I don't know. I know the battery life is good, I'm getting about one and a half days worth of battery life. Why can't I enable always on, like always on it's just for 10 seconds, so this is annoying.

I hope they fix this with the OT update, give people an option of having a truly always on. If they want. Yes, it will take a hit on the battery life, but why not just provide it second thing that I was praising uh when I got the phone was the stereo speakers? Yes, this one has stereo speakers here and here, but I have to say the stereo speaker calibration is one of the worst that I've seen. Why do we like stereo speakers is because you get that stereo effect from here and here and to get that the volume level should be actually balanced, uh, but that's not the case with this one, I would say the volume level? Eighty percent of the volume comes from this, but only twenty percent of the volume comes from this side. Let me demonstrate uh that uh this is uh yeah copyright, free, I'm gonna, maximize it as you can see, and I'm gonna it's coming from both the sides.

Now I'm going to block this hardly any difference in the volume. If you notice there's, hardly any volume is coming from this, but if I block this see how low the volume is from this side, let me show you again if I block this so very imbalanced, stereo speakers guys, I'm happy, don't get me wrong, I'm very happy that Xiaomi is providing stereo speakers on this one, but the implementation is done. Very bad.80 volume comes from this, only 20 percent, so you simply don't get that stereo effect at all on this one. So I hope they improve this in future ones. It's a namesake, I would say stereo speakers to be frank.

Guys again, as I've told you, this is the UI 12, guys so still not totally optimized. I even if you see my unboxing video, I was getting some flicker over here uh. So again, some bugs are there now, I'm not getting it. But yes, there are some bugs with this one, so be careful with that uh out of the box. Yes, it's uh running on me UI 12.

, but again as it's me, why be a little careful when you get updated? Just don't rush and uh get install the updates, because many times with their updates, they add bugs so just be careful it eventually. Yes, they will solve it. But yes, there are some bugs that I have no test on this one anyways moving to the next thing is regarding the ram management- and I would say here it's slightly better than some older uh Xiaomi phones. But again the ram management is very peculiar on the smartphone uh, it's much better than the older phones, for example. Right now this twitter, this YouTube etc.

are in memory, even my uh, Gmail, etc. is in memory uh. These are the apps that I had opened recently. They are on memory, but some apps. It simply does not like to keep in memory and that one of them is this true caller, as you can see, just boot it out so true color simply did not work properly on this smartphone, and I that way I got a lot of spam calls.

So I don't know, I think so what they are doing is they know some popular apps uh, those they are keeping it in memory, but uh some of the obscure apps they're, simply putting it out of the memory and true caller is one of them. So again memory management is so yes, it has improved a little, but still I would say so, so on this one anyways uh next thing is regarding the bug that I noticed in Wi-Fi this. I noticed twice guys uh. It was working fine throughout the day and night. You just leave your phone oops, I'm getting.

Let me cancel this spam. True color work because we just actually uh invoked it, but most of the time it does not work anyways. So I was talking about Wi-Fi bug. Yeah, Wi-Fi works perfectly fine on 5 and 2.4 gigahertz, most of the time, but twice I noticed that night. I just leave the phone like this.

It's left morning when I switched on the phone, it was saying for my internet, no internet connection on Wi-Fi, but my uh. What I'd say? Internet connection was working perfectly fine. I checked with some other devices, tablets, etc. So there is some bug I had to toggle this Wi-Fi switch on and off three four times, and then it actually connected to my internet. So again, these are some of the small bugs that I have, but Wi-Fi performance once it's connected properly, is actually perfect on the smartphone.

And lastly, let's talk about the flash sales and the honest pricing and all that crap. If I go over here again, if you look at it right now again, I'm looking at this is, I purchased it from Amazon uh. There is also supposed to be the 12 000 rupees based variant, but again they are still advertising this higher end, 14 000 variant, so I don't know when they will introduce this 12 000 variant and if they even introduce it, how much quantity uh they will release, because I feel uh. That is the pure value from any uh device, and this one has that triple slot. So again, storage is not an issue, but I just hope they bring it on sale properly.

Because, again, it's the flash sale model and getting these devices is difficult and Xiaomi is not releasing all the models if they can do that. That will be great, but I have noticed that there is a little of black marketing also going on these Xiaomi phones. I think so that should actually stop, and I have even seen that happening with me: authorized stores uh. When people go over there, they have to be a little extra and these shopkeepers, the authorized stores also uh, tell users to buy some accessories if they want to buy it. I hope this should actually stop.

Overall, I would say it's a good uh smartphone and in fact it exceeded what expectations I had, but again it's not without its uh. What is a flaw that I have mentioned? But overall, I would say uh. This is a good value, smartphone uh! If you can get that 12 000 rupees variant at 14 000, yes, it becomes slightly dicey, but still overall, the performance of the phone was actually perfect. So I can suggest this one anyways. It's not perfect because of some Xiaomi.

The stuff that Xiaomi does like flash sales, uh, stupidity, uh and me UI. Yes, though, it has improved quite a bit, but still there are some issues with mini anyways guys. That's it for now for this review, if you guys are still not subscribed to the YouTube channel, hit that subscribe button and guys, if you're buying it from Amazon, use my link, it does help the channel. I have to buy a lot of devices anyways guys, that's it for now, thanks for watching this is transit and I hope to see you in my next video take care guys.

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