kind of a mini review for this redmi note 10 pro and guys i've been actually using this device for the last five days so i thought why just do the unboxing i'll also give you my initial impressions what i have noticed i have made a lot of points and i'll also compare it with the regular redmi note 10 which i had reviewed a few days back because i have noticed some differences and i'll also include some of the questions that you guys have about this one so here is the smartphone obviously i'm using it with my atl as well as the jio sim and here it comes in this box and guys the variant that i have is the middle one uh it also starts with the lower end variant that comes with 64 gb of storage that's for 16 000 uh this is the middle one that comes with six gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage this is for 17 000 and then you also have one more variant that comes with 8 gigabytes of ram and 128 that's about 2000 rupees more at 19 000 i feel this is the best value or even you could go uh with the base storage variant because it has a triple slot so in the box nothing much sim ejector tool you do get a plastic case so that's actually nice and this is not totally transparent so actually it's nice and i would say use this case because it's the handset is actually pretty slippery and here if you go we get the usb cable and a fast charger i like the fact that they are burning this fast charger because this is a 33 watt faster it's usb type a to type c port that you are getting so that's what we get in the box we won't waste a lot of time and if we move to the physical uh overview guys this is having a six point six seven inch screen and uh this is having that uh super amoled screen and it's at 120 hertz so that's actually nice and in fact the screen quality is very good
i've been using it at 120 hertz and top if we go we have a headphone jack this is the vent for the secondary speaker because this one also has stereos because i'll talk about that then we have the secondary noise cancellation we also have ir blaster that's nice and here we have the volume rocker this is the power button come fingerprint scanner very responsive and you can configure it just if you want i haven't configured it just for touch if i just keep it it unlocks but if you want by default you have to actually press it to unlock but you can change that in the settings and bottom if we go we have the second speaker type c port main microphone and here you have your sim tray and it's a proper triple slot guys both my sims are there and you can also add a micro sd card so that's actually nice and if you notice this one also claims to have all ways on display but again just like this redmi note 10 again it just goes away after 10 seconds and next thing that i want to talk about is again guys i'll mix what i found good and bad about this device first thing that i liked on this device and that's a big improvement compared to the regular redmi note 10 if you have watched my review i said that this also has stereo speakers but the stereo speakers are simply not that good on the regular redmi note 10 because 80 of the volume used to come from this side and only 20 used to come from this so it never gave a good effect in fact it was slightly distracting here i would say it's a lot better still it's not perfectly balanced like 50 50 but i would say 60 of the volume comes from this one and about 40 percent comes from this and it's actuallylouder and that way it gives a pretty good stereo experience let me actually give you an idea let me just play back one of my own videos hi guys this is ranjit and some of you might realize you've noticed as you can see i blocked this right side but in so the stereo effect is definitely a lot better i would say compared to this one and guys before we proceed i just want to talk about these smartphones are available on amazon and if you're buying a lot of stuff from amazon i would suggest that you use the amazon pay icici bank credit card and this card is actually absolutely free there is no joining fees or recurring fees or anything in fact the advantage of using this card on amazon is that you actually get five percent back as reward points in fact if you talk about this specific smartphone the pricing of this variant is 17 000 as i've told you so you get that five percent as a rewards point so you get back approximately about 875. and guys you get that five percent back if you are amazon prime member if you're not an amazon prime member you then get about three percent back i've been actually using this card for almost two years so i can watch for that so i'll leave the link in the description so if you buy a lot of stuff from amazon use that card it actually saves you in the long run anyways moving back to the smartphone if we look at another thing is and this is the biggest annoying thing that i have about this smartphone and i've noticed not a lot of reviewers are talking about this one and in fact some of the other users also who have purchased the max this is the redmi note 10 pro even the max have complained to me and some of the some niche reviewers also have asked me about the proximity sensor issue and i would say the proximity sensor is really really bad on this one i think so that's the biggest con that i have about this device it's simply not calibrated well and when you take calls like this many times i would say 90 of the times it is creating issues and many times also getting cut or going to mute i know many of the new smartphones that are having this huge screen like this are having some proximity sensory issues even the redmi note 10 actually had that but this is very bad on this one this is about four or five times worse on this redmi note 10 pro so again if you take a lot of calls be aware of that because i faced that issue almost for the last five days since i'm using the on every other call so that is something that really bugs me and can be an issue if you take a lot of calls directly like this and i hope they fix it with an update but as of now that's a real issue in fact it's there even on the redmi note 10 but it's not as bad as on this redmi note 10 pro and i've even heard even the max one is having that so again check that smartphone from other reviewers have used it ask them about the proximity sensor is shown on this one anyway so moving to the next thing that i like is the screen on this one and quite a few of you have asked me about this and i have to say the amoled screen on this one is excellent guys and it's very very smooth i'm currently using it on the 120 hertz in fact i just set it to 120 hertz and i forget and it is definitely smooth guys while scrolling and stuff it is smooth and the best thing is that it does not have that variable refresh rate crap or anything like that it's locked to 120 hertz so it's very very smooth and there is a noticeable difference so in that 120 hertz what's your refresh rate works on this one has been implemented very well unlike the me 10 i which had variable and that simply did not work in fact that added a lot of stutters so here it is very very smooth like some of the higher end smartphones no issues with that also coming to another thing regarding the screen some of you have asked me and that is regarding the brightness there was a panel gets actually pretty bright guys but even at night when you keep it at very low brightness it does not flicker or do anything so that way i would say the amoled screen that they have used is very good color reproduction is also very good so very nice amoled screen that they have used on this one now moving to the battery life on this one the battery life i would say generally in mid-range smartphones it's average if i compare it to many other smart maybe it's just because of the screen size it's a big screen 6.67 and i'm using it at 120 hertz guys so i i would say battery life anywhere i'm getting about five and a half to about six hours of sot on this one that lasts me for a typical working day but if i compare it with the redmi note 10 which i used prior to this one this was definitely giving me approximately about one and a half to about two hours extra screen on time compared to this one so maybe yes it will increase if you drop down from that 120 hertz but this is what i'm getting so it's good but not super excellent that's what i've noticed but the good thing is that the charger is that 33 watt fast charger so it charges very quickly so i'm sort of neutral but i was expecting slightly better battery life considering redmi phones give fabulous battery life anyways moving to the next thing is regarding the processor on this one this one has the snapdragon 732 g and in fact i ran some benchmarks to give you an idea and this is the benchmarks that we got actually very good scores and this is the galaxy a 52 this has the snapdragon 720 g and if you notice both in the single core as well as in the multi-core this definitely gets actually better scores in fact this is slightly overclocked processor it's almost the same in terms of internal but slightly overclocked so as you can see yes this gets slightly better scores but one thing i've noticed is that this smartphone does tend to get slightly warm i would say with extended continuous usage of 15-20 minutes it's not like it's getting very hot or something but this back portion here definitely feels a little bit warm it's not something to worry a lot but that is what i have noticed because i was also testing this one this one does not get that hot um warm hot is not the right word for so yeah in summer yes you will feel a little bit here it is getting a little bit warm but again guys i don't see it's a big worry but if you're sort of a very heavy gamer then you might have to see i played call of duty on this one and i i'm not a heavy continuous gamer guy i played it for about just about two games continuously yes this area back actually got a little bit warm to touch pretty warm to touch so if you are a gamer who does gaming continuously for 45 minutes wanna check other reviews and see uh how are the thermals on this one but in terms of gameplay i had no issues and i was playing call of duty at the high graphic settings now next thing is regarding the earpiece the actual earpiece guys i'm not talking about the proximity sensor the earpiece quality again on this one is very very good no issues with that earlier redmi phones i used to have a problem in that area but here no issues with the earpiece and i tested this one here in hyderabad again still both my sims are there in this one and i'm using it with a10 as well as jio guys and no issues regarding that so as you can see no issues uh with a10 year in hyderabad and even the network reception was good it's just the proximity sensor that is bugging me hopefully they fix it with the update because as of now it's irritating very very irritating i would say next thing if i move is regarding the camera i feel that's a big highlight of the smartphone the big difference between the pro max and this pro is just the main camera sensor guys uh that one has 108 megapixel uh this one has a 64 megapixel but i would say i would say save that 3000 rupees because the price gap is 3000 rupees on them the 64 megapixel sensor is actually really really good on this one and as you can see some of the sample shots that i've taken and even samples that i've taken in very low lighting in evening these are very done lighting conditions the snaps actually came out to be really good on this one so camera i would say certainly is a big plus point and if you can get the base variant that is for 16 000 i think so this might be the best camera as of now yes don't expect it to compete with flagships guys some people try to do that it is stupid but for what it is the camera i would say the camera performance is really good and hopefully with software updates they'll improve it further also moving to the fingerprint scanner as i've told you no issues with the fingerprint scanner it does very well and some of you have even asked me about the back guys the back is glass guys but i don't think so it's gorilla glass because xiaomi uh does not say anything though the front facing is actually gorilla glass 5 but there is a film that is pre attached moving to the next thing is regarding the build quality the overall build quality in hand feel i like of this phone it's certainly a large phone i would say but if you are okay with that size it's good uh the only nitpicking i would say is that this actual frame is made up of plastic guys but should we complain about that at this price point spam okay true color actually memory management i was talking truecaller works sometimes if you keep it on memory i just opened it before shooting but again it boots out so memory management is okay okay so i was talking about the build quality again the frame is actually guys plastic it's not metallic frame but my question to you is should we complain it at this price point at about 17 000. because if you notice the new one plus nine that cost 50 000 its frame is also actually fiber plastic so when phones costing that are not giving a metallic frame should we complain that is something you have to ponder about but yeah the frame is not metallic aluminium or something it's a plastic frame but build quality again if i press and all those things there's no creaking noise or anything that i have no test moving to the next thing is the vibration motor is also very good on this that is the haptic feedback that we got is actually good on this one certainly uh much better that i've seen from other smartphones at this price point so that is actually a nice thing on this one and lastly guys overall this is the new miui 12 that we are getting on this one and this is a lot more improved compared to what miui that we got with the redmi note 9 pro series this one is a lot better guys here i'm not seeing full page ads or anything like that so that's actually because but here you do get some notification for example i got the service and feedback notification over here and also there is thing called gets app this constantly sends you notification but you can go in the settings and actually disable the notifications for this one so here if you go to the notifications i when it is on by default i just switched it off and i'm not getting uh stuff so yes apart from those minor notifications that i got and you can certainly disable it as i've showed you i did not get any full page ads or anything on this one but guys again i would stress i don't use me music or any of the me a schedule app in fact i don't even log in with the xiaomi account if you don't do that then i feel it's fine in the f past five days it's been performing very well in fact i like the screen quality as i've told you that 120 hertz really does make a difference the only concern that i have with the smartphone and if you that is specifically for people who take a lot of calls is that proximity sensor issue so again check on that if xiaomi should solve it with the ot update it's great but if they don't then yes as of now that is a certain issue but overall from a hardware point of view guys at the 17 000 price point this is the best smartphone that you can buy .
