Introduction 

This is the Redmi 10, the latest budget phone from the Xiaomi sub-brand, and offers many desirable features at a pretty low price that you can't get everything for this kind of money. Let’s see what the Redmi 10 has to make the phone feel so good while not being as capable or snappy as mind-range handsets. It launched in August 2021, arriving a little more than a year after the Redmi 9 with its wonderful features that we’ll discuss later.

Xiaomi Redmi 10 Full Specifications: 

As we reviewed earlier at its launch, the Redmi 10 is a bit pricier than the previous model the Redmi 9 when it came out last year but at the same time, it tries to improve upon it in almost every apartment. As far as the design goes Xiamo has mixed things up a bit. The back and frame are still plastic but this time around there’s a smooth finish rather than a textured one, at least in our Pebble White model.

The camera bump is larger and fancier looking and on the Front you have a punch hole for the selfie cam instead of a notch. 

Colors & Price in Qatar

Xiaomi Redmi 10 is priced at QAR 439 and available in 3 beautiful colors:

1. Onyx Gray

2. Pebble White

3. Lake Green

6.5'' LCD screen with 1080p resolution and 90Hz refresh rate

This screen is a 6.5” IPS LCD with a 1080P resolution quite similar to last year. The aspect ratio is a little bit taller this time around and this display features a fast 90 HZ refresh rate. This means that swiping and scrolling on this screen is smoother than on the Redmi 9 but the refresh rate isn’t adaptive to save energy only dialing down to 60 HZ in video player apps. Overall this display is quite nice for an LCD.

Blacks are quite deep and any light bleed around the edges of the selfie cutout is minimal. Colors are accurate depending on the color preset you choose and brightness is decent enough for Outdoor usage. We measured around 400 nits maximum with the slider and it boosts up to 480 nits in auto mode when in bright conditions.

Buy Xiaomi Redmi Onyx Gray / Carbon Gray

Stereo speakers, headphone jack

There’s a 3.5 mm jack for plugging in headphones as well as a pair of stereo speakers. One on each end of the frames they’re a nice upgrade over last year’s single speaker and earned a score on our loudness charts. The sound is clear and Punchy though the Basse is a little bit on the flat 

Side-mounted fingerprint scanner/power button

You can wake up and unlock the Redmi 10 with a side-mounted fingerprint scanner built into the power button as we’ve to expect from Xiaomi it's fast and accurate. 

Storage Options

For storage, you have options for 64 or 128 gigs on board, and it's expandable through micro SD.  

Storage & RAM

Redmi 10 available in different storage space  4/64GB, 4/128GB, 6/128GB 

Android and UI

The user interface of the Redmi 10 is Xiaomi’s latest Mii 12.5 based on Android 11. It’s pretty much what we’ve seen from Xiaomi for the past couple of years with just a few newer tweaks behind the scenes there’s support for an app drawer and it recognizes your apps into categories. You have the option to split the notification in two so swiping from the left corner will access your notifications and swiping from the right corner, will open up your quick toggle settings.

You get features like an IR blaster which lets you use the phone as a remote control and you can FM radio support too. The Redmi 10 runs on a Mediatech Helio G88 chipset built on a 12 NM process. It has slightly higher CPU and GPU clock speeds than The Helio G80 and the Redmi 9. For some reason, most of the benchmarks were blocked from running on our unit but we were able to get Geek Bench 5 to work, and overall the performance is in line with what we saw last year, adequate for the price but nothing special. This is far from a gaming phone, day-to-day tasks run okay mostly smoothly thanks to the high refresh rate and streamlined UI but you do run into hiccups from time to time. 

Battery (5000mAh) endurance and charging (18W) test

Powering the Redmi 10 is a large 5,000 mAh battery and the phone earned an endurance rating of 127 hours in our propriety teats. This is good, but it falls behind the other mid-range and budget phones with the same battery capacity. The phone comes with an 18W charger just as you’d expect it’s not so fast to top up this big battery. With the help of this charger, we charged the phone from 0 to 26% just in half an hour.

Camera specs

Now let’s talk about the cameras, this year there’s a new main camera with a 50-megapixel quad bear sensor, and along with that, you can get an 8-megapixel Ultra-wide cam, a 2-megapixel main cam, and a depth sensor.

Daylight photo quality

Although it may sound more impressive on paper, the new main cam’s performance is underwhelming during the day. You get a very good amount of detail, especially considering the price bracket but the colors are far from reality and there’s a poor contrast in dynamic range. The portraits aren’t great and the edge detection is rough unless we consider that there’s a lot of light like outside in the sun, the images come out generally soft.

8-megapixel shots from the Ultra-wide camera are nice for the budget and the colors are more saturated and lively than the main cams and the distortion correction does a nice job. There’s a good contrast and the corner softness is not too bad.

2-megapixel shots from the average camera are just average. The sharpness is nice but the colors aren’t too lively and the amount of detail is limited by the resolution. There’s no autofocus here either to help with the shooting process.

Low-light photo quality

In low light, the main camera takes okay photos which is an improvement from last year’s models. Colors are saturated and you end up with preserved detail and shadows but still, the images are soft with clipped highlights and the contrast leaves more to be desired. You do get night-mode support here unlike the Redmi 9 which provides a significant improvement in sharpness, fine detail, dynamic range, and overall picture quality and doesn’t take that long to process either there’s no night mode on the Ultra-wide cam but its lowlight photos are still above the average for the class.

There’s a good contrast, Punchy colors, and a good amount of detail. The exposure will be on the right side and the sharpness could be better but overall these will be very usable.

Selfies

Selfies are taken with the 8-megapixel front-facing camera and they are pretty good, we’d say better than the last year. There’s plenty of fine detail, vibrant colors, and a sufficiently wide dynamic range and the phone does a good job of exposing the subject’s face even in backlit situations. 

Video quality

Video can be captured in up to 1080P resolution at 30 FPS and there’s no electronic stabilization available. The main camera’s footage is uninspiring. There’s not a lot of detail and there is a noticeable oversharpening even though videos from the Ultra-wide camera have a darker exposure. We’d say they look a bit better while you do get the same level of sharpness. There’s more contrast and the colors are vivid but not over the top.

FAQs:

What version of Android is Redmi 10? 

How to install custom ROM on Redmi 10?

Download the Xiaomi.eu ROM zip file.
Extract the ROM zip to a new folder.
Power off your device.
Boot your device into fast boot mode (Hold volume down + power buttons).
Connect to PC via USB cable.
Run one of the installation scripts (according to your PC operating system): ...
Done!

Does Redmi 10 support an SD card?

The Redmi 10 features a 2+1 microSD slot, which means you can expand the storage of the device with 512 GB of internal storage.

Is Fast Boot good or bad? 

It has both advantages and disadvantages as its main disadvantage is that it can cause some compatibility and stability issues with some devices and software. However, fast boost skips some BIOS checks and tests and may detect some hardware changes or updates such as new drives, cards, etc.
 

Is Xiaomi a global brand?

Xiaomi products are present in more than 100 countries and regions around the World and in August 2021, it was considered in the Fortune Global 500 list for the sixth year in a row.

Conclusion

So, this was the Xiaomi Redmi 10. You get a sleek-looking design and a large high refresh rate LCD screen. There are stereo speakers and battery life is good too and the cameras do a decent job at night for a budget phone. Now there are a few shortcomings that you’d expect at this price like the Mediocre chipset, slow charging, and overall camera experience but probably the biggest downside is the availability.

For now, you can get the Redmi 10 in certain markets. Overall if you’re in one of these markets and you’re shopping for a Budget phone, the Redmi 10 is worth looking into. Just remember to compare other decent phones at this price. Many of which also come from Xiaomi.

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