Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro - Best Budget Smartphone Contender 2021 By Geeky Stuff

Hey guys, I have something super, super exciting today. And you already know what it is because you can see the title, the video title. But are you ready? Are you ready? Hey guys, welcome back to the channel. Today I have the Redmi Note 10 Pro. The launch was yesterday. And I can tell you price wise, we don't know the exact price in the UK yet.

But in terms of other countries, it's around $279 so I don't know how that's gonna translate to UK. Anyway this is it. I have it in my possession. I have the Note 10 Pro Onyx Grey.6 gigs of RAM and 128 Gigabytes of internal storage. Now this is powered by the Snapdragon 732G as well.

Let's just get this out of the box, and have a look. There she is. So, some more of the specifications there.108 Megapixel Quad Camera. Tele-macro lens as well.120 hertz AMOLED display. Amazing, absolutely amazing.6.67 inch display. And as I said, powered by the 732G Snapdragon chip.33W Fast Charging, 5020 mAh battery. So 33W Fast Charging.

It also supports 33W wireless charging as well. Superb. Let's put that to the side. So... Type-C connector, Type-A to Type-C.

Fantastic stuff. And here is the charging block guys. We do get a charging block, and there we go.33W max charging with this beauty. You also get this as well. I'm assuming there's a SIM ejector tool there, and a rubbery case.

Good, nice frosted sort of, rubbery case. It butts out quite a bit there. I'm expecting that's obviously going to protect the camera because the camera does butt up a little bit on there. But yeah, that's the contents you get. So here she is.

The Onyx Grey version. Let's go ahead, peel this stuff off. Here we go. And we're off. Peel this off as well.

So, there it is. Look at that beautiful little thing! This is my most favorite part. We're doing smartphone unboxings, having a look at the back of smartphones, the camera array, the back. I'm not sure what this back is. I think it's plastic.

But I do know for a fact we have Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on the front of the phone. It's going to be protecting that. Let's take a closer look at this sexy, beautiful camera housing. Look at that. So it does butt out a little bit.

But that case you get with, it will protect that if you want to, if you want to use that. Wonderful. Let's feel that in my hand. So it's 6.67 inches. That feels really nice.

I remember the MI 10T Pro that I recently reviewed. You can tell it's thicker than this. This is just perfect to hold. It's nice. Obviously the thickness is added when you introduce that as well.

But when you're holding it like that, curved back as well, it's really nice. So if you look at the side, we have volume rocker up and down. We have a power button with a fingerprint sensor. Side fingerprint sensor in there, so that's cool. On the other side, we have a SIM tray which can accept dual SIMs.

You have a Type-C connecter there, microphone, and speakers. And at the top, we have the 3.5 mm socket for your earphones or headphones. You have an IR blaster in there as well. And there's a few little holes there, like a grill. Don't know whether that has something to do with the speaker, which is also situated there at the top.

And that's a 16 MP sensor. So let's turn this on. Let's have a look at the software. Redmi. But in terms of design and build quality, I think it's really, really nice.

Feels really nice in the hand. Not sure about fingerprints. It's holding up too bad to be honest, in terms of fingerprints. But it just looks really nice, doesn't it? MIUI. Okay, here she is.

So in terms of software, MIUI 12 based on Android 11. So I'm going to quickly go ahead and set this up, and I'll be right back. So just to quickly show you here, it's dual band, so it does support 5 GHz networks as well. And I'm going to connect to the 5 GHz band we've got here. So apparently, we're now ready to rock.

Let's have a look. So this is the AMOLED 120 Hz display. And one thing I noticed when I was setting this up is you had the option to have an app drawer or the classic normal Xiaomi where we just swipe left to right and you have all your apps there. But I opted for having an app drawer, which is nice. I'm used to that with using the Pixel smartphones.

That's a nice touch. Obviously, you still get the similar sort of bloatware you do get with the MIUI and Xiaomi smartphones, but more of them sort of, hidden away now in the app drawer there. Let's go into Settings. Now one thing I want to go and have a look in, is Display. Schedule Dark Mode.

I want to have a look... Oh, okay. So I thought, I did have a little bit of an inkling, it's actually at 60 Hz at the moment so let's whack it up to 120. There we go.120 Hz. Okay, so now we are experiencing 120 Hz refresh rate, on the Note 10 Pro.

Feels really good. Okay, so let's quickly show the fingerprint sensor and how that performs. So if we look it off, tap... That's rapid. Yeah, super impressed with that.

So again, powered by the 732G Snapdragon chipset. That is quite rapid. I want to have a look now at the camera setup. So you can see that beautiful camera array there.108 MP main sensor. We have an 8 MP ultra-wide, 5 MP Tele-macro, and a 2 MP depth sensor.

So what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to quickly go away. Take a few pictures, couple of snaps, video as well. I'll be right back. So first off, I tested the 16 MP front facing camera and this was the first result. I can tell you color accuracy seems to be pretty much spot on on this photo here, and the detail is very good also.

Even zooming in, it still keeps some of that detail and crispiness there. Very impressed. I was in front of a window there as well. So Portrait mode, it did an excellent job separating me from the background. Detail looks great.

Color accuracy is very good also. I was trying to look for any little blemishes around the cutout of me, and there's nothing. That looks absolutely clean. So, super happy about that as well. Then, front facing camera 1080p at 30 frames per second.

Okay, so I'm shooting 1080p 30 frames per second on the front facing camera of the Redmi 10 Pro. I've got about a foot away from my chest. It's quite cropped in. That is arm's length, and I'm quite a long man. So I've got long arms.

If you've got long arms, you can get a nice sort of, angle of you like that. We'll walk through a little bit darker, into here. Let me know what you think. Quality looks decent on here. It's looking very good for a budget device.

I'm right near a window now, so it's gonna be quite well exposed. Okay, so I enabled the 108 MP sensor here on the Cat. Cat wasn't very interested at all. But you can see it has an excellent, excellent sensor. Detailed, even when zooming right in there as well.

Keeping lots and lots of detail. Obviously, it's gonna be a large picture as well. Color accuracy is spot on. Perfect. So then I got my son Colby to pose, eventually.108 MP again. I'd say his face was a little on the pale side.

So in terms of color accuracy, his face doesn't look that pale but I suppose it's not far off. In terms of clarity and detail, it's really, really good. He then posed for a Portrait mode on the rear of the camera, obviously. Again, a little bit on the pale side for the face. Nothing, nothing to worry about there really.

But again, the actual process of separating the background from the subject was done brilliantly well as well. And again, great, great quality. I then jumped on to 1080p 60 frames per second, and tested video capabilities. So this is 1080p 60 frames per second on the Redmi 10 Pro. We have Colby playing with a bit of Lego here.

Wow that wasn't really nice, was it? Son: He's a bad guy. Father: Is he? What's his name? Son: You don't know his name? He's Thanos. Father: Well let's go outside. Okay, so we're outside now and it's super sunny. Let's point it straight at the sun, why not? See how it handles that.

Okay, down again. There we go. Focused, nice. I'll go for a little walk down here. Testing stabilization.

Lovely blue skies. It looks extra blue on here as well. As always, let me know what you guys think. Audio quality as well is important. What's the microphone like on here? So I was very happy with the video performance.

Stabilization seemed pretty good as well. The microphone held up as well. Sometimes you have to increase the volume of the video on some devices, but this held up pretty well. Audio quality is good. So, happy about that.

So I went to test the ultra wide. This is just a standard shot looking out from the back of my garden. Image quality is great. The clouds, the blue sky, the green grass, and this is the ultra wide. Splendid.

'Splendid', I'm using the word 'splendid' again. Zoom in. Very impressed with the camera guys, on this, on this budget device. Really, really impressed. I then tried the Macro.

It has got Super Macro mode as well. That's sort of, the moss on the floor. But then I got a pretty decent one of the knot in our fence. Zooming in as well, the quality and the detail is really really good. It holds up really well.

And then a thought I'd point it directly at the sunlight, taking photos. Test some of the, you know, the dynamic range. That sun is super, super bright. I think it handles it quite well there though. You can still actually make up the clouds, the sky.

And also the buildings at the foreground as well, you can just see there. But that is the camera test. Overall, absolutely impressed. Really, really impressed. So I downloaded device info, just to double check some of these specifications.

It's 2400 x 1080p resolution. You can see there right at the top. The 732G, the Adreno 618 as well, which you can see in bold there. Android 11,120 Hz. HDR 10, HDR10 support as well.

So this is going to take me on to video. YouTube. A few settings so, we're at 1440p at 60 frames per second. HDR Mode as well. It supports HDR content.

I'm going to keep it at that. Press Play. Here we go. Super AMOLED display, 120 Hz refresh rate on the Redmi Note 10 Pro. Looks absolutely gorgeous, doesn't it? Obviously the content of the video helps.

I can't believe you're getting 120 Hz, AMOLED display on a budget Redmi smartphone. That's quite incredible. Okay, so now I want to test these speakers. Okay, so we have dual speakers. One at the bottom there, and also one at the top.

Let's have a listen. Half volume. There's also Hi-res audio certification. And remember, you can still plug in your headphones and earphones if you wish. Turn this up.

Wow. Wow, I'm really impressed. Pulled that off really well. Quite like that, the grill at the top. You don't normally see that because it's normally all coming out of the receiver there at the top.

But you've got a nice little grill there at the top, and obviously, another grill there at the bottom. Yeah, I really like that guys. There's a nice amount of bass in there as well. Doesn't sound too thin. Sounds nice and thick, and really, really good.

So this is the Redmi Note 10 Pro, an unboxing. Sort of an in-depth look into certain areas of this device. Redmi devices are budget smartphone devices. This is quite truly excellent. Obviously I need to put my full review, do some gaming tests.

If I come across any problems, obviously I will let you know. But first impressions are absolutely incredible. This is 6 gigs of RAM, 128 gigabytes of Internal Storage. It's got the Snapdragon 732G, the Adreno 618 GPU as well. UFS 2.2 storage, and DDR4x RAM.5,020 milliamp battery, 33 Watt fast charging. It's got a super fast fingerprint sensor as well.120 Hz AMOLED display. It's incredible, incredible.

Gorilla Glass 5. Yes, there is plastic there on the back. But, I'll take that. I'll take that here, not having a glass back. I do like glass backs, and like a nice matte finish sometimes as well.

This is a glossy sort of, plastic finish on the back which is a fingerprint magnet so some people might not like that. So pop any questions down below if you do have any. I'll answer them as best as best as I can. Please give the video a thumbs up, Subscribe, and I'll see you very soon. Bye bye.

Source : Geeky Stuff