Hey everyone Chris here so this is now my full review of the Redmi note 10S. I know there's a
lot of models out there but this one for the price point that it is currently selling for around
about 160 euros does actually offer a lot so we have a 60 hertz amoled screen with a brightness
up to 700 nits the helio g95 is powering this one my particular model here has six gigabytes of ram
at 64 gigabytes of ufs 2.2 storage 5 000 milliamp hour battery 64 megapixel main camera it has an
ultra wide and a front 13 megapixel camera for the price it's actually got a lot on offer here
so in this in-depth review i'll go over what i missed out from the unboxing video as well as
some camera samples battery life charge tone will also be covered in this video the build quality
for the price it is all plastic gorilla glass three on the front of it and it is plastic frame
all around the sides we have a sim tray which will take two nano sims and a micro sd card you don't
have to give up on one of the nano sims which is great for that micro sd card down the bottom here
we do have a type c port loudspeaker microphone 3.5 millimeter with very good audio quality
up the top they've given us again another ir transmitter and this more budget-orientated
phone secondary mic and the second speaker there too so dual speakers which is really
quite good to see on a phone at this price point i'll take that certainly and here we have our main
64 megapixel camera to two megapixels which i really wish they'd stop this trend of adding these
basically sticker cameras because that's really what they are they don't really add too much so
one for depth one for macro 8 megapixel ultra wide and the aperture on this one the main camera is
f 1.8 it does say here ultra premium i don't know why they need to put that on there they could have
just put 64 megapixel if 1.8 i think would have been a little bit better read me marking there
and then the ce that they need to put on there for the global version by laura of course the
chinese models will not have this text in that part they're about the non-recyclable battery so
fingerprint reader this it does work quite good on the side so it's capacitive always on you simply
just tap it and it unlocks and the speed is not the fastest out there but the accuracy does tend
to be quite good now i have noticed that now we're running here with miui 12.5 that the gestures
triggering them has been very very good everything has been very fast and fluid and apparently they
have one thread dedicated to the gestures now with miui 12.5 and this is why it has improved things
and i've noticed this compared to same ui 12 that it does actually seem to be a little bit better
now the general ui performance 60 hertz of course with this phone if you want the 90 hertz but in
ips screen then you get the note 10 5g that's covered in that first video that i posted and
with our notifications everything's showing up there and all up the wrong performance i think is
average occasionally i do see a few little frame dips with this one here now the haptics does feel
reasonably good on this model it is actually better than the note 10 5g i've noticed more
of a strong vibration that one is very very weak here so different haptics motor in the 10s model
now this rom does have a bit of a bug even though it's miui 12.5 it's the latest now global version
here what happens is the phone doesn't want to wake from a deep sleep i have to press the power
button various times to get it to wake up we'll see if it happens now because i've intentionally
left the phone for one hour so i press the power and the fingerprint unlocking button see how
nothing happened i am pressing that right in there we go it has finally woken up now so it does take
a while there and hopefully xiaomi can address this bug which is probably the only bug so far
that i have encountered so when you get the phone you will find there are quite a few bloatware
applications on here so just go into settings and apps and uninstall and i removed some 22 different
applications about 2.2 gigabytes worth of what i consider to be junk that they have pre-installed
into this model here so with the 64 gigabyte version here occupied when you first boot it up
is 18.4 gigabytes you don't have a lot of free space to play with but it does of course have the
micro sd card support so the security patch level is from march and i am on the latest version here
at the time of making this video there was a patch that came later on after i took the screenshot
so it doesn't look like it's the latest but i am on it and it didn't fix sadly that little
bug i pointed out so this is the battery life it's not bad at all for a 5 000 milliamp hour battery
you're looking at around about a realistically on-screen timer general standard kind of use light
use of around nine to ten hours and this result here of 13 hours is a fixed looping test with the
display calibrated to 200 nits which is not a bad score although i think a qualcomm the snapdragon
732g would probably get around a 15 hour mark or 14 hours do a little bit better i find them
to be slightly more efficient than the helio g95 we have in this particular model now just ignore
this red bar here about the battery health that's because this application doesn't detect the faster
charging so with the 33 watt supply charger in the box and using the stock cable of course you have
to use them together to get the exact result here it did take 86 minutes so that is one hour and 26
minutes to go from six percent to 100 now it sat at 99 for about nine minutes and i don't know
why that was but hey i'll just give you the final result so it could actually be a little bit faster
than this i don't know why it was stuck at 99 just had a little bit of trouble there detecting things
so widevine security level one that is present so that's great to see and camera two api support is
level three so look later on for gcam ports if you wanted to improve on the camera quality uh
with this one right here now the wireless speeds you can expect out of this it maxes out about 180
megabits per second and right now where i am away from the router it's got to go through a very
solid wall about 100 it sometimes dips down below 100 even though my signal strength here is almost
maximum i found the wireless speed to be well expected really for the price tag of this phone
and gps i wanted to do a live gps test for you right here which i don't normally do i normally
take a screenshot so this one accuracy gets down to one meter currently i'm indoors obviously here
filming and it's two meters which is pretty good there we go even one meter of accuracy and the
signal strength the average here which is really the most important i have found to be normally
in the green 30s there and it will see quite a few satellites so the gps performance forget about the
old mediatek gps which was absolutely terrible it's a lot better now and getting accuracies
that are better than the qualcomm chips and as i posted in the first video which is the unboxing
of this one the n22 score so this antutu score for the helio g95 is pretty much what i expected
and these are the ufs 2.2 internal storage speeds so there's been a 64 gigabyte model these speeds
will be lower than the 128 gigabyte version so with this 6.4 inch amoled screen we do have a very
good peak brightness this one peaks at for me with my measurements at 700 nits so it is very bright
you can make it out in daylight and the touch response is excellent now this panel also does
have dc dimming now having dc dimming in a phone at this price is very very good considering that
even some of the samsung flagships do not have dc dimming and they're costing three four five even
times more than this phone here without dc dimming seems crazy so the whites are uniform there are
no dimmer pixels around where the cutout is for our front 13 megapixel camera around the edges
either there's a very good screen it is yes only the 60 hertz now if you want a 120hz panel
and a panel that is just as good even better in fact then i would go for the redmi 10 pro that
has a really nice flagship grade screen in it but this one is still excellent for the price point
so your typical options in here you get you've got your color scheme which you can adjust
everything so you change the saturation the white balance color temperature
great having all of these options and this the anti-flicker mode i will turn that off the dc
dimming and you will probably notice now when i turn it off that the screen did change a little
bit there so regular and if i turn down the brightness which at the moment is about 200 nits
you see now the banding coming through and if i flick it on that banding
will stop so that is why it's so great to have this option on a phone at this price point is
amazing really i think this phone has very good audio fill the price point of it so we've got fm
radio 3.5 millimeter out support with good quality nice and clean there's no static there's no
annoying hiss or white noise or anything like that and then this dual speakers so i
have noticed that the top speaker is a good 30 quieter than the bottom loudspeaker that has a
lot more noise coming out of it and overall for dual loudspeakers i think they're okay they're
not the best out there they've got a little hint of bass but here's a sample of them at 100
onto a gaming performance now to test out how does that helio g95 handle popular titles here
like pubg so this pubg is loading up right now and it does let me set this smooth and extreme frame
rate option so check on the performance frame rate is looking very good it's nice and smooth
and you can swipe here from the left to bring up their game turbo and you can see the frame rate
is a constant 60 frames per second which is what we want here so that means it's supporting the
maximum refresh rate and it does feel very very smooth well someone's shooting at me already
that is clearly a bot because they're just doing burst shots and i should be dead by now anyway
okay so really good performance looking down the scope here that is still a very very smooth
60 frames per second continuously with pump g here and a demanding title which is gen chin impact is
playable now i have it set to the lowest possible settings and 60 frames per second but as i swipe
here you'll see that really it only does about 34s the maximum i've really seen so it's a little
choppy and leggy at times casting spells you will see a few frame dips additional frame dudes
there with that so at least the game is playable it's just you're not going to be able to get you
know the best absolute performance i recommend a flagship phone for this game so what i'll do
now is play for one hour a bit of jenshin impact some pubg and we'll see just how warm the phone is
going to get okay so looking at our temperatures we are getting up to 46 degrees after one hour of
gaming here on the front and on the rear there is a hot patch just around where the camera module is
which is near the chipset and that is 43 degrees so 46 max after one hour of gaming
isn't too bad moving over to our cameras now so this is the front facing camera here which
you can shoot at 1080p maximum 30 frames per second it has electronic image stabilization which
is good to see now the crop is quite close so this is my hand now fully extended out so it is pretty
close here and as i walk ahead you can see the stabilization is doing a good job and overall i
do like this quality i don't think it's bad at all considering the price of the phone and i wouldn't
expect to have 4k that we should have with the flagships which we don't actually have with the
flagships with xiaomi so overall good front-facing camera quality i'll swap over to the rear cameras
now this is a video sample here now 4k 30 frames per second and you see as i walk ahead
that yes it does shake around and that is because it doesn't look to have any electronic image
stabilization with 4k only 1080p only 1080p 30 as well that supports it now the focus has been good
i haven't really noticed too much of a problem at all with the 64 megapixel sensor
and i do hope they can add the electronic image stabilization with this but it might
not happen they probably want you to get the note 10 pro instead if you want the 4k with
the electronic image stabilization so a bit of wind noise coming through it's not that windy
here but i have noticed that these microphones are a little bit susceptible to that and i can
apply a little bit of digital zoom so let's look down the coast here uh where i often sometimes
film there's that little tower right there in the background and if i pull right back
i can't swap over to the ultra wide so you can't do that on the go unfortunately
this is a video now with the ultrawide camera electronic image stabilization looks pretty good
to me a little bit of wind noise coming through on those microphones and i just walk ahead to
test how steady this 1080p footage is so no 4k with the ultra wide just 1080p footage with this
so i found out in the first unboxing video i did post of this phone with the 5g version so the note
10 5g is an inferior phone and i would definitely get the 10s over this one right here so this
model has a lot going for it i know the market is flooded and they're flooding the market with their
own model xiaomi almost competing with themselves however it's got a lot going for it with the
screen the 700 nets amoled okay yes it's only 60 hertz we have the helio g95 which can play pubg
at 60 frames per second a solid 60 frames per second so if you game a lot and you game a lot
of pub g this phone the performance is quite good now we'll get up to the 46 degrees that i showed
you that was after one hour which probably some of you are thinking thinking how can 46 be good well
considering i'm seeing a lot of phones getting up to 50 degrees celsius, 46 after one hour wasn't too
bad yes it has a complete plastic whole build we've got the gorilla glass 3 in the front we
have fm radio dual nano sim micro sd card support 64 megapixel main camera does take an okay photo
i mean the portraits will were fine there if you want to see a little bit more on the photos i did
a comparison with this one here too the note 10 5g now i would like to see from xiaomi the bug fix
of course with the sleep problem this it really does not want to wake up it's like you're trying
to wake someone up in their bed that's taking too many sleeping pills or something you're there like
shaking them come on it's the phone's the same you're gonna press that power button about three
or four times before it then finally wants to wake up that's when you leave it for like 30 minutes or
one hour it goes into a deep sleep and it just really has a lot of trouble to wake up there
so that's one bug the other i think is not a bug i just think that they're probably never
going to add it is 4k okay 4k video doesn't have any electronic image stabilization so it is a
terrible shaky mess but good to see electronic image stabilization with the front 1080p
and then the rear 1080p but no 1080p 60 with stabilization it's a shaky mess again there too
so all up for the price of about 160 euro euros you can't really complain on
what is on offer here it's got a good build quality this screen and everything else so
good value for money definitely you cannot deny that but if you i can spend a little more
i do recommend going for the redmi note 10 pro so the note 10 pro has a much better main camera it
is the 108 megapixel hem 2 which takes excellent photos and much better low-light low-light and
this one is very disappointing 4k electronic image stabilized video if you take a lot of
4k video then that's the one to go for and it also does have a much better screen and slightly better
build quality the screen on the note 10 pro is 120 hertz it's an amoled as well and it can even go
over a thousand nits it's very very bright and this one does pick up towards getting up to about
say 900 and in the room here under these studio conditions i was measuring around 700 net so it's
a very bright but only 60 hertz AMOLED in this so thank you so much for watching my review here
of the redmi note 10 s do check out the first video i posted which is the unboxing of this
where i covered the charger the build quality dimensions and weight and a bit of a comparison
to the 10 the note 10 5g which is also powered by mediatek but this one has the dimensity 700.