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It is quite clear that with the Redmi Note 10 Pro, Xiaomi wants most of the Western market that Huawei lost when the Chinese giants lost access to Google applications. Proudly written on the box of the Redmi Note 10 Pro, right under the phone’s name, is the phrase “with easy access to the Google apps you use most”. Uh, Xiaomi, Uh.
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Opposition issues aside, the Redmi Note 10 Pro is a touch confusing. It’s not a suspiciously cheap version of the Xiaomi Mi Note 10, though it does inherit the 108MP camera on the £459 handset. The main difference is Redmi (entry level) vs Mi (flagship) – although why Xiaomi kept the rest of the name the same is a mystery to me.
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It doesn’t really matter. Both phones are excellent, and the Redmi Note 10 Pro is definitely one of the best phones you can get in the increasingly competitive sub-£300 bracket.
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It’s an aggressive move into the mid-range market by Xiaomi, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G processor paired with 6GB of RAM and a 120Hz display that, interestingly, has the exact same specs as another budget favorite from Xiaomi, the Poco X3 NFC.
However, it is an improvement in many ways. First, the screen is AMOLED instead of IPS, which means infinite contrast and perfect black levels. Second, while both handsets have a quad-camera setup, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro has an incredible 108MP (f/1.9) main sensor. It’s not the first triple-digit megapixel phone, but it’s by far the cheapest.
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In the UK, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro starts at £249. If you double the storage to 128GB, you’re looking at an extra £20 (£269).
That puts it up against some very good phones, notably among the champions, Google’s £350 Pixel 4a. Alternatively, there are some 5G options such as the awkwardly named Moto G 5G Plus and Realme X50 5G, both retailing for £299.
The discount elephant in the room is Xiaomi’s own Poco X3 NFC, which retails for £199, and it’s also worth looking at the Moto G9 Plus, which started life at £260 but now retails for around £200.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro starts well in terms of design. The front is dominated by the 6.56-inch display, with a thin bezel running around it. Although the lower edge is slightly wider, it is hardly noticeable and does not appear to be a visible “beard”, as is often the case with low-cost devices. There’s no notch either: instead, a punch-hole camera sits in the middle of the screen a millimeter from the top edge.
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Flip it over and it looks like a flagship and the latest big-money handsets from Apple or Samsung. The glass back means it gives a good impression of being more expensive, with a back that curves smoothly to the side. The camera setup also looks pretty sophisticated, with the 108MP number getting its own cool silver frame, making it look a bit like a recolored Instagram logo.
Xiaomi keeps things minimal on the sides, with just a volume rocker and a combination of the power button and fingerprint reader. There’s a headphone jack at the top and a USB-C charging port at the bottom.
The phone also supports microSD expansion and dual SIM cards at the same time. This is good as some don’t let you expand the storage or have a second SIM, while others let you choose between the two.
On paper, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro really pushes the definition of the mid-range with its display. The 6.56-inch panel uses AMOLED technology (most phones in this bracket go with cheaper IPS) and has a 120Hz refresh rate, which makes for smoother operation and theoretically opens the door to 120fps gaming performance.
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The resolution is 2,400 x 1,080, which means you get around 395 pixels per inch – significantly better than you’ll get on the average laptop screen, even if it falls behind some of the 2K panels on high-end smartphones.
More importantly, it’s one of the best displays we’ve seen at any price point, let alone in the mid-range. With our colorimeter, we measured 95.4% sRGB gamut coverage, from a volume of 97.2%, and a near-perfect average Delta E of 1.04. Being an OLED panel, the contrast can’t be beat, and while 430cd/m² isn’t the brightest display out there, it’s certainly good enough for all but the brightest of sunny days.
The 120Hz refresh rate is actually disabled by default to save battery, but can be enabled in the phone’s display settings.
The increased refresh rate is nice, if somewhat subtle. Menu and app switching are noticeably smoother and it’s certainly more pleasant to use, even if it’s something you’re more likely to notice by its absence than its presence.
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However, the theoretical gift of triple-digit framerates for gaming is largely off the table here. That’s partly because the Google Play Store doesn’t have much to choose from, and partly because even if it did, the Redmi Note 10 Pro’s mid-range processor wouldn’t be the best vehicle to showcase them, or that is .
In terms of performance, this isn’t something we’ve been able to test in our usual way, unfortunately. As is often the case with pre-release phones, our usual benchmark apps – GeekBench and GFXBench – are down, so we can’t get comparable numbers.
Fortunately, the Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC has exactly the same core specs, so we can expect the performance to be almost identical. Here’s how it stacks up against other phones in and around the same price range:
As you can see, at this price point, it’s all very big – although it’s worth noting that the Google Pixel 4a, our mid-range darling, is a bit behind in multi-core performance. It’s probably not a difference you’ll notice in day-to-day use, but it’s worth noting as it costs £50 more than the Moto G 5G Plus and £100 more than the Moto G9 Plus. However, the Poco X3 NFC is the real star of the show here, selling for £200 and sometimes even cheaper in flash sales.
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The GFXBench charts, where our Poco X3 NFC representative plays the role of the Redmi Note 10 Pro, tell a similar story. The yellow lines are the ones to look at here, as the different resolutions make comparing the red lines potentially misleading. Here, the Moto G 5G is way ahead, and although it’s not included (it failed the tests again), it has similar internals to the £299 Realme X50 5G. Interestingly, all the cameras beat the Pixel 4a in 3D performance, though not by much.
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro has a large 5,020 mAh battery, which provides very good battery life – although it’s not significantly different from any of the main competitors here, and actually falls on the lower end of the spectrum:
That said, anyone who says that 17+ hours of battery life is a bad result needs to get their head examined, frankly.
Along with the high-tech display, the camera set also sets the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro apart from its competitors. A 108 MP camera is unheard of at this price and quite rare worldwide. In comparison, we’ve seen such high megapixel counts on the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, S21 Ultra and Note 20 Ultra (all £1,000+ at launch), as well as Xiaomi’s Mi Note 10 which retails for £459. However you slice it, squeezing this component into a sub-£300 handset is a win.
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Before I get into how it goes, I should add that it’s not the only part of the Redmi Note 10 Pro’s photography arsenal. The 108MP (f/1.9) main camera is supported by three other sensors: an 8MP (f/2.2) ultra-wide lens, a 5MP (f/2.4) macro camera and a 2MP (f/2.4) depth sensor.
So how does the 108MP camera perform? Absolutely brilliant. Before handing me the Redmi Note 10 Pro, mobile tech editor Nathan Spendelow took some comparison shots with the S21 Ultra from his balcony. As you can see, while the S21 Ultra has a slight edge (especially on bricks and pavement), it’s certainly not what you’d call £850 better, and there’s still plenty of detail, even at high zoom:
But do you really need to use the full 108MP resolution, when each image weighs in at 16MB+? Here’s an image with the default 4:3 12MP setting, and as you can see, the image quality is still excellent in well-lit conditions.
More importantly, compared to a 108 MP photo taken at the same time, it is
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