Xiaomi Mi Note 10 First Impressions: 108MP?! By Pocketnow

I always get excited about a new Xiaomi phone, and this one in particular, has a couple of tricks up its sleeve that I really want to test out, namely- and you see it in the title- a 108 megapixel camera- that's just insane, but before we get a little too excited over that one detail. Let's remember that this particular phone, the Xiaomi Minor 10, has a lot of going for it. So this is Pocket and I'm Joshua Verger. What's going on everybody here is your first look at the Xiaomi me Note, 10 I've already used it a little over the last couple of days and I have some thoughts to give you in this initial look as far as the unboxing experience is concerned, one thing I always liked about Xiaomi phones is that they come with a case inside the box. This is something that you're going to end up needing because the phone is so glossy and so pretty, but it slips around the hand a bit too much part of the reason is that there are curves on the front and the back. That's right.

This AMOLED display at full HD resolution does have curves on the sides, so you get a little more of that full screen experience. However, there is a bit of a notch at the top and if you look a little closely, that little camera sensor on the front is actually kind of large. That's a 32 megapixel camera underneath, but then, of course, when it comes to the design you're. Looking at the five cameras on the back, yes, five, it took me a second to realize that at the very bottom here there is a fifth camera and even then it's just funny seeing how there's one camera separated from the entire unit. Above it, the phone itself, aside from all the different cameras, looks pretty standard as far as a Xiaomi phone is concerned and its really fingerprint prone, so you're going to end up wiping this thing off a lot again.

That's one of the reasons why, having a little case like this is good, it's both for grip and also to hide some of those blemishes. Another thing to note is that on the bottom you still get a headphone jack and that USB-C port does fast charging for the 50 to 60 mill amp hour battery. That is a huge battery and the fast charging on this one can actually get that from 0 to 100 in just over one hour. That's insane again now it doesn't have the snapdragon 855 plus, but it still has a gaming forward chip in the 730 G more on that, in a little that 128 gigabytes of storage is fixed, you don't get a micros card slot on here, which might be a little of a bummer because of everything that this camera can do. But 120 is still plenty, so, hopefully I'm not going to fill it up too quickly with 4k resolution videos and with all of those 108 megapixel shots.

So how exactly is this achieved? Well, you still have a sensor that is about as small as it can be for a smartphone, but there are a hundred and eight megapixels in there that are being pixel bins in groups of four, so you ultimately get 27 megapixel shots. That's if you're, using the main mode before you even scroll over to the 108 megapixel mode, where you use every single pixel for not the photos. So there are going to be obvious comparisons between the main cameras and to that particular mode, and the main takeaway is that when you zoom into the 108 megapixel shots, obviously there's a lot more detail. There's more information in there just for the sheer amount of info that was gathered as you took that shot in broad daylight shots. The 108 megapixel photos are fantastic in low-light shots you probably will want to go to the main modes, but of course, there's also the night mode, that's available.

If you need that extra low-light oomph we're going to get a little deeper into the 108 megapixels shots in the full review. But you can head over to my channel to take a look at all the footage that I captured with this particular phone. Any real-world camera test kind of a vlog style type thing that day out in LA, so you can see even more from this particular device. Once you get past that main sensor, though, there's a lot to have fun with here, you have a 2 x, optical zoom, that is there also a 5 x, hybrid zoom and an ultra-wide camera that you know I'm already going to be a fan of that final lens at the bottom is actually a macro lens according to show me, the reason why there's a dedicated sensor for the macro lens is so that they can tune the low-light shots a little better. After all, when you're back close to a subject, you might be casting a shadow over it, so good low-light shots from the macro lens are key.

Ultimately, all of these lenses come together to give you what might be considered the Swiss Army knife of phones as far as phone cameras are concerned, of course, and the phone might also be good for video capture as well, because Xiaomi put in a little of extra effort to make the video modes fun as well more on that at my video at YouTube. com, slash, Josh or Verger you're going to want to check those out. So obviously, this phone is all about the cameras, and it's going to be something that we test as we move on with the full review. However, I wanted to give a special mention to the Snapdragon 730 Jean here. This is one of the few phones that is sporting, that, and honestly I'm, seeing some good dividends on here.

Even if it's not the 855 plus I mean think about it. This way you have that particular processor, which is not going to be the most powerful, but then you have one of the biggest batteries in a smartphone right now that should mean that battery life on this phone is pretty incredible. As far as performance is concerned, gaming is still at a top. Clip. I still really enjoy all the games that I've put on here, like Mario, Kart or I, only really had some speed issues or performance issues when moving among all the different lenses and taking a lot of photos back to back in the camera app after all, there's a lot of processing that has to be done to achieve those 108 megapixel photos.

So that's one thing to keep in mind is that the phone does need a little of time to process everything, especially in the camera, but as far as gaming is concerned, you're still going to have a pretty good time on this, even if the 730 G is not the most powerful, but I will go ahead and call it on this one. The Minor 10 as it will be called globally, was just announced earlier today, and I've been using it for only a few days, adding it at this point, but I'm really enjoying it so far. Xiaomi phones always have something fun to them and in this case it's a phone that is a solid everyday device that happens to have way more cameras than maybe you need, but you're definitely going to have fun with and with an industry-first 180 megapixel sensor. Well, that is definitely something to get excited about, so stay tuned to pocket now, and also to my channel at YouTube. com, slash Joshua Verger for more about this particular device.

Look forward to the full reviews, and again I do have a real world camera test coming out pretty soon. I'm working on it right now they can look forward to over on my channel drop some likes on these videos. Get into the discussions down in the comment sections down below and let's talk about this particular device. Are you excited about this me? No 10 and let us know what you think about a 108 megapixel camera from there again, don't forget to subscribe to these channels and hit that Bell for notifications and from there I'm going to call it on this one, and we will see you in our next video.

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