Xiaomi Mi Note 10 Review - 108 Megapixel Madness. By Mrwhosetheboss

Depending, on which country you're from there's a good chance, you've never even considered buying a Xiaomi phone, but we've gone right here. Semi notes, 10 and it's different. It's phone with the four starters and absolutely ludicrous spec sheets, but also a price tag that hits a little lower than you might have expected. The box itself is pretty standard fare from the company. You've got black cardboard and holographic text, and the first thing you'll see inside is the phone below it. You'll see an insert which contains a sim ejector tool and a case which is pretty similar to the standard CPU cases you see on every phone, just with a darker tint, there's a USB cable and a 30 watt, fast charger, which is pretty impressive.

When you read the spec sheet of this phone, there are three things that stick out: it's got a mammoth battery, a good 20% larger than most mainstream phones, but even more impressive. A Pent camera set up on the back, and probably the craziest part, is that one of those cameras has a 108 megapixel resolution, and so with these record-breaking specifications, do you actually get a record-breaking camera short answer? Yes, this is ludicrously good, but I'll get to it. I've spent about a week with the Men 10, and before I even started testing the camera. A few things became very clear. It feels good it's a heavy phone encased in gorilla, plus 5 and curved in a way, that's very reminiscent to the Huawei P30 Pro released earlier this year.

Both phones have almost identical button placement, even a similar chamfer at the top, and if this was not enough, the displays are identically. Sized 6.47 inch AMOLED panels with even the exact same water-drop notch. None of this is a complaint for the Xiaomi I mean the Huawei P30 Pro released at a thousand euros so coming in a 550. It's more of a compliment. Plus Xiaomi has a headphone jack.

It's also a perfect display. As far as 1080p panels go, it's probably my favorite display on a Xiaomi phone. One thing that does really stick out as odd to me is that if you look at this camera setup, it protrudes too pretty much halfway down the phone so farther with my usual grip using either hand I'd be touching one of the cameras and completely blocking another one. Also, the sheer protrusion of this module means significant table wobble. So it's already clear from the spec sheet that this thing is a massive jump, but even generally, whilst I've been using the phone, it feels like a turning point familiar if you've ever used a Sharma phone but new.

At the same time, for example, like other handsets from the company, you've got two main options for unlocking an in display fingerprint scanner and face unlock with the front camera and neither of the fastest I've tried, but they work well enough. There's me why, as usual, the software skin, although in this case we've got their brand new me UI, 11 and I- think it's a big improvement visually. It's far, cleaner Xiaomi has removed a lot of the noise extra UI elements that weren't needed, and the result is a spotless, polished experience. I. Definitely have felt in a pass with Xiaomi phones that there's a risk of it looking a little cluttered, but that hasn't actually been the case here.

There's a proper dark mode to save even more battery, and some really neat features like being able to play a standard video as your wallpaper and improvements to the built-in productivity tools plus a nice looking ambient display to let you know the time and battery percentage without doing anything. It also feels new, because this is a curved display, something that Xiaomi has generally shied away from. Apart on that mimics alpha phone, that's something for another video and, of course, the biggest break from past devices. Is this newfound emphasis on camera and don't get me wrong? Some of the shammies past phones this year, they've had perfect camera systems, but from the spec sheet alone of the Minor 10, it kind of feels that you're getting a camera with some extra phone. On top of that, for starters, there are five cameras: there's a main 108 megapixel wide-angle, a 2 x optical zoom camera.

But what's fascinating here is that above this there's another zoom camera. This time, at five times, you'll see why, in a minute, there's also an ultra-wide and finally, a dedicated macro camera at the bottom for close-ups and the large main sensor, combined with a wide aperture means straight-up stunning, looking both just taking standard photos in the daytime. They always look consistently cinematic. If you compare to the Galaxy Note 10.1, a chiral depth-of-field, the images look a world apart, for example, this might look like a portrait mode shot. It's not standard main camera and I haven't even got to the detail.

Yet it's phenomenal there's, no other way to put it side by side with again the Samsung Galaxy Note, M plus Samsung, is completely blown out of the water even from a distance. Sham mi can capture the texture of objects. If you ever wanted to print images out in large sizes, or you wanted the comfort of being able to crop into a photo later, whilst keeping it sharp. This new phone completely kills it, although you could say that things like dynamic range are actually more important for most people, who'll just be using these photos for social media posts where they're going to be heavily compressed anyways this one's up to you. What I can say, though, is that the power of this sensor even extends to your video quality.

It is DSLR like in a way that I've never seen on a smartphone before I wouldn't say it's as consistent. If you start switching lenses or move over to the front camera as the iPhone 11 Pro is, but it has moments of sheer excellence for which this might just be. The number one camera system on a phone right now add to this vlog mode. Something which I went in assuming would be a gimmick, but actually it speeds up the process of making genuinely high quality short shareable content with none of the hassle of editing. So why do they add to zoom cameras well having five times optical zoom? Is amazing, it's enough zoom to be able to see details that most people's eyes can't, but if there was only a five times zoom, it creates a little of an issue.

Portrait mode in my opinion, always looks better when taken on a phone, telephoto camera, but if you've only got a 5x lens, then you be zooming in far too much to be able to do this also just generally, when you're zooming in for a photo, if you've just got a 5 x, lens you'll find the quality of your shot. Will slowly deteriorate as you zoom in until you hit five times, and then it will jump again as your phone switches lenses, the Minor 10 evens this out. It improves on these two things. You get high-grade portrait mode shots, even if they are a bit beautified and a much more uniform quality throughout the zoom range. You can go all the way to 50 times zoom, but because the actual resolution of this telephoto camera isn't that high I wouldn't recommend going past 10 times.

Also, if you factor in the full array of cameras on this phone, you've got quite possibly the most flexible system ever you can capture everything from sweeping landscapes, with the ultra-wide to distant objects, with a telephoto to ones that are literally right in front of you. Using the macro- and even this is pretty good. I wasn't expecting much I've seen a lot of low grade macro cameras on phones before, but the note tends does its job and finally, even at night incredible, it doesn't brighten an image as much as safe hallways' flagship, but in a way this makes it more natural and the detail captured is actually greater plus it's not just that. You can take great photos, but also that you can do this for a long period of time. This sizable battery combined with 30 what fast charging reminds me of how I felt about the Huawei Mate 30 Pro all, but forgetting that battery was ever an issue on phones.

So far, then the Men 10 seems like a bit of a home run and it kind of is. But there are some caveats: this last year, we've seen a whole breed of cut-price smartphones that try to do everything. The absolute best specifications pretty much all the primary features, but the Men 10 isn't really one of those phones. Xiaomi have built something that's a little more specialized, but the downside of that is that there are some gaps of, for example, audio-wise. It's a single bottom firing speaker, good quality, considering, but still not close to the experience.

Dual speaker, the vibration motor and the haptics are noticeably average, and even the performance is not the best you can get for the money. It's powered by six gigs of ram and the Snapdragon 730 G chip. And to put it simply, if you put that side-by-side with the current flagship, 855 plus chips, it's just over half as powerful. That's not amazing for 550 euros, and it's the biggest weakness of the phone. It's not slow, but it does hang every now and again and there's a significant processing time after taking photos not to mention the phone has to reload when you zoom into them, although this in part will be because of just how high the resolution is, you can play games and in fact that's exactly what the chip is geared towards, but still it's an upper mid-range chip, and it performs like an upper mid-range chip.

You'll get smooth frame rates on most hop games right now, but you'll just have to dial down a few settings. It also got pretty hot in my testing. The final emissions are pretty standard for a phone at this price. You've got no official IP rating you've got no wireless charging and no micro SD card slot, but with 128 gigs. It's just about enough that I think most people won't need one so to bring this all together.

It's pretty rare to see a phone at this price actually being the best at anything, but I can genuinely say that this camera in some scenarios, is the kingpin not even close to the top, literally at the top of the entire smartphone pyramid. The phone is also chunky, but I. Take that any day for endurance like this. It's just not the most well-rounded phone with noticeable sacrifices in performance and audio, but for a user who's a little less about the media consumption and a little more about the camera. I can wholeheartedly recommend the note 10.

In fact, you might already know that for the last six months, I've been looking for a phone to switch to from a galaxy s, 25 G and the mean at 10 is maybe the closest I've come. The only thing. Stopping me was the mid-range chipset anyways. Thanks for watching, and I will catch you in the next one.

Source : Mrwhosetheboss