Chris here back with a budget offering here from Xiaomi so normally i'm looking at their
mid-range phones mostly and some high-end stuff but what about the budget ones right
so this is the Redmi 10 from them it does have a full hd plus ips screen 90 hertz 5000
milliamp hour battery it is a plastic build but it does have gorilla glass 3 on the front of it
it has a main camera that is 50 megapixels 8 megapixel ultra wide 5 000 milliamp hour battery
and 18 watt charging so what we have here for a price of around 160 euros is it worth it or
not the Redmi 10 let's find out in this in-depth review the charger that comes with the Redmi 10 is
a 20 watt charger now it only charges at 18 watts will take about two hours i'll give you the exact
time in this review we get a quick start guide safety information warranty card a sim tray tool
and a tpu case lastly type c to type a usb cable the model i have here is the carbon grace it's a
matte finish to it this is plastic on the back of it plastic frame around it side fingerprint reader
volume up and down plastic too as well and the screen this is covered with gorilla glass so it is
a 6.5 inch phone full hd ips 90 hertz panel that's in this and i will get on to later on in detail
how the screen is and what you can expect out of this panel so you can see the chin at the bottom
there is a little bit of a bit of it right there left and right bezels and then the cutout at the
top so the phone is nine millimeters thick that's not including the camera which does protrude
almost an extra three millimeters so we do actually get a few extra things
with this phone compared to their flagships 3.5 millimeter fm radios on board we have a speaker at
the top ir transmitter secondary microphone down the bottom the other loudspeaker type c port and
microphone the sim tray tool and this one takes two nano sims and an sd card so we've got all
three of them there which is great to see it's metal reinforced and there is a little rubber
gasket around it just to help to keep out any dust or even a little bit of a splash of water
now front facing selfie camera this one's 8 megapixels it supports face unlocking which is
reasonably quick now the fingerprint reader here which is also our power button i'll tap it now and
you see it's about a second to unlock the phone so certainly not the fastest here overall the build
quality is solid feels good in hand and it does not make any creaking noises so the weight of the
phone it's 182 grams according to my scales and as mentioned the thickness is about nine millimeters
that's without the camera bump and speaking of cameras so the 50 megapixel camera is not actually
this one it's a little bit misleading that is the ultra wide it's right here the 50 megapixel one
it does allow us to shoot 50 megapixel shots or it will do the typical pixel binning here is our led
flash and then we have two 2 megapixel cameras so one is for macro other depth information and
i've mentioned this many times i would prefer them not to use these two megapixel cameras
instead give us a better ultra wide camera in this one it's eight megapixels the ultrawide right here
and really if they got rid of those two perhaps they could put then a 13 megapixel ultra wide
which would be better than this 8 megapixel one the ips panel we have here is full hd
plus resolution so that is 2400 by 1080. now we can either opt for 90 or 60 hertz 60 for saving
on the battery 90 i recommend because after all that's what you are paying for a 90 hertz screen
the color scheme can be adjusted typical miui 12.5 settings you can go through that no problem
i have found that touch response at times can be a little slow with this phone could be down to
the chipset which is that Helio G88 12 nanometer process that one and i do only have four gigabytes
of ram with this particular model there which could be affecting that a little bit now scrolling
through this scrolling rate seemed to be fine the screen when you look at it at angles you'll notice
that it shifts out it's quite an average ips panel that's in this now the maximum brightness
does top out at only 358 nits according to my light meter that is whites too as well
so it can be a little bit difficult to make out in direct sunlight if you want a better screen then
i highly recommend going for the Redmi note 10 s or the 10 pro for a better screen than this one
as mentioned it runs miui 12.5 that is based on android 11. the rom performance in general
is okay now if you go with the version that has six gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage
which is emmc spec still with this you should see things a little bit faster
than what i'm seeing here with my 4 and 64 gigabyte model that i have so
in general i think the performance for the price point is okay you cannot expect flagship speeds or
even mid-range speeds out of this this is a budget level phone so that's why the performance is not
going to be top notch now multitasking is where you sometimes see swapping between the apps that
things can bog down a little bit especially if you have something heavy running in the background
which may be like a game that would definitely show then a little bit of lag through the ui
now when you first do take it out of the box you will get quite a bit of bloat on here it
only takes about two or three minutes to go into system settings apps and then uninstall to remove
the things that you won't use but it's there and i wish manufacturers like Xiaomi wouldn't put
so much on this phone it seems to be the more lower end the phone the more they will put on
there and you can see i uninstalled almost three gigabytes of bloatware that's actually quite a
bit although gps test that is actually one of my own apps there but there's still about 20 things
adverts in some of the system apps by default so this is out of the box settings
will show up okay so when you install something you run the system cleaner app here that will come
up there was an advert and it's just the way it is and i do hope that they can one day remove this
so we get a wi-fi number one cert that's actually good to see on a phone like this however amazon
prime video only runs in standard definition because this is not a white listed device from
amazon but netflix will be in full hd camera 2 api support this is full level 3 would be better but
full should still be fine to run a gcam port if you wanted to do so now the gps works quite well
i get a good average signal strength for around 30 normally and accuracy down to one meter which
is better than the qualcomm chips because this chipset does not have a restriction it can be
as accurate as one meter which is good and the wireless for the class of chipset the Helio G88
maximum speeds that i can achieve are 200 megabits per second this is on wireless five
spec okay so it does not support wi-fi six-spec wi-fi ax no not on a phone with this kind of spec
not at this price point down at the lower area downstairs it still performs well and i'm happy
for the results here that i'm getting with the wireless speeds 4g support 2 seems to be fine i'm
getting decent speeds call quality all of those things that are important even at this price point
are there which is good now we just have emmc 5.1 storage on this so you won't get amazing speeds
you can see the random reads and writes there they're still okay but it's certainly not ufs
2.1 or 2.2 or ufs3 speeds no it has a slower spec of storage but for this chipset it is not actually
going to be holding it up it will be the chipset itself as you'll see from the kind of scores we
can get shortly with antutu but first the battery life so i expected this to be actually a little
bit better but then again it is a 12 nanometer chip which tends to be a little bit more hungry
so it has a 5000 milliamp hour battery and it's ran for eight and a half hours okay
which is okay the display is calibrated and this is at 90 hertz calibrated to 200 nits
but i did expect to see a result over two hours sadly that doesn't seem to be happening standby
drain doesn't seem to be the best that i've seen out of a lower end phone certainly could
be approved upon with some firmware updates i feel and the antique score so this does confirm
what we already know that it is yes a low end device just getting over 200,000 points here
and the charge time so 130 minutes to go from 18 to 100 this is only 18 watt charging for a 5000
milliamp hour battery certainly not going to break any records here with the charge speeds and our
audio support with this one is good so fm radio on a budget device great to have 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack so yes you can use those for example and we do have dual loudspeakers on this
which you normally would not see in this category of phone so as i pointed out when we looked at
the design and the build of it speaker here and then right up here at the top call quality fine
i haven't really had any problems at all it sounds like any other phone really even sounds similar to
flagship phones quality so what i'll do now is run a youtube track here and play the volume at
100 so you can just hear how these speakers sound which are well they're average they're not amazing
okay so they do sound a little flat there's not really much bass in them and at all it's to be
expected really however the volume is very good these are loud dual speakers and moving on to
our gaming performance so the most demanding game currently on android is this title here which is
gen shin impact with a g and you do see a bit of lag and i'm gonna get frozen i am frozen right now
noticeable lag and stutter at times the good thing is that yes it's playable at least
but some people who well demand the best performance
might be a little bit disappointed that it's not constantly running at 30 frames per second
noticeable big frame dips here but the good thing is well of course at least it is playable so
i'm going to test out pubg now and see how that performs and what settings we can use
now we do get the ultra frame rate option if you put the settings on the visuals there that
is too balanced or too smooth so I'm gonna keep it on balance and the ultra frame rate
sadly is the max we are going to get here let's have a look and see how it runs
so i am down to now the final stages of this game and I have seven kills the thermals have been good
it's just getting slightly warm performance has been a constant 45 frames per second no noticeable
lag there was just someone popping some shots at me before so there's only 10 players left and well
okay he's almost got me okay managed to get that person and yeah ready for a Helio G88 there's no
complaints for me this performance is just fine if you play a lot of pubg so i did manage to get the
chicken dinner there the win of that game with the Redmi 10 not a problem and now on to our
cameras in this in-depth review so with the front facing camera you get 1080p maximum but
there is no electronic image stabilization with it which is rather disappointing
and i find often the white balance is off the quality seems to be a little bit disappointing
bit rate is 192 kilobits per second let's take a look at the rear camera and our video with
the rear camera 50 megapixels but there is no electronic image stabilization at the time of
this video i do hope with a future firmware update they can add it because footage as
you can see very very shaky it is all over the place now the focus with this 50 megapixel sensor
i find is good but the video quality is yes a big letdown here in its current state
you can also shoot 1080p with the ultra wide camera but it is the same story no
electronic image stabilization and the quality here even worse it does look very washed out
do
okay so we can't expect miracles out of a phone at this price point still it is disappointing to
see that there's no electronic image stabilization with 1080p video i hope that Xiaomi can add this
with a firmware update it would be good to see on the rear camera at least so the main camera takes
a good photo the rest of the cameras ah they're not really that amazing i mean at least we do
have an ultra wide with this particular phone here and you can take those 50 megapixel shots if you
wanted to just capture a little bit more detail if you're going to be cropping into the images
now the screen 1080p it could be a little bit brighter it is an average ips screen to me i've
seen a lot of screens over the years and colors shift down a little bit darker a little bit around
where the cutout is and at the 350 nets if you use it in direct sunlight you can still make it
out but it won't be the clearest compared to other phones out there in the next category up which is
the mid-range phones then so the dual loudspeakers are loud that is a good thing there that's
a positive the build quality even though it's plastic it's actually well made well put together
and there's no creeks when i just give it a bit of a flex flex there it does not feel like a
cheap phone now fingerprint reader that's about a second a little over a second not super quick
battery life from the G88 which is 12 nanometer process the chip
not quite as good as i thought it would be for a 5 000 milliamp hour battery the charge time is also
a little slow there at only 18 watts which used to be fast a few years ago but now of
course is considered slow we even have 120 watt charging in Xiaomi's top in phones now
so there we go that is the full story about the Redmi 10 here i do recommend you go for the Redmi
note 10 s or the note 10 if you can now i do have reviews and videos of those phones up here now
thank you so much for watching this video and i do hope to see you in the next one bye for now