Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro review

mi 10t pro is a flagship-grade phone

made of premium materials

it's covered in gorilla glass 5 on the

front and the back

and the rounded frame is made from

aluminum the back is slightly curved and

feels comfortable

and secure in the hand our mi10t pro is in

the cosmic black finish

which seems more like a shade of grey

it's super glossy almost

mirror-like

and fingerprints and smudges are quite

visible here

on the front is a tall 6.67-inch display

with a 1080p resolution

unlike the other mi10t models, this one is

an LCD

not an old and while last year's mi 9t

pro kept its selfie cam hidden with a

pop-up mechanism

this year's model houses it within a

visible punch hole

as is the case with LCDs there is some

noticeable backlight blade around the

punch hole

if there is something white on the screen

but even with these arguable downsides

this display is pretty awesome it's the

first on a Xiaomi device with a super

fast 144hz refresh rate

so swiping the interface or scrolling

content looks smoother than ever before

the refresh rate is adaptive to the

content on the screen and can go as low as

30 hertz to match it

Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro review

it's successful at syncing this

up and is one of the best

implementations we've seen

this LCD is one of the best out

there it has great contrast

and though blacks aren't as deep as

an OLED could produce they're still

quite dark

max brightness is great too up to 500

nits with a slider

and it can reach 630 nits maximum in

auto mode when in bright conditions

colors aren't too accurate to certain

color spaces but can be made to be

acceptable if you tweak them in settings

finally, we have to mention the memo

feature something also found on modern

TVs

it has additional motion smoothness to

lower fps content

by inserting extra frames as far as

audio goes you get a pair of stereo

speakers

Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro review

one sits at the bottom and the earpiece

acts as the second speaker

it's well balanced the top speaker is

just as loud as the bottom one

and vocals sound clear bass is lacking

though

and loudness isn't too impressive

there is no 3.5-millimeter jack on the

mi10t pro

but there is an adapter included in the

box with it you can plug traditional

headphones into the USB-c

port and like the other mi10t models

storage isn't expandable here

but you do get 128 or 256 gigs of us

3.1 storage onboard

for unlocking the phone there is aside

mounted fingerprint reader rather than

an under-display

one it doubles as the power button and

is extremely fast and responsive

and if you're tired of accidental

touches causing misreads and locking the

fingerprint scanner

you can make it so you need to actually

press down the button to use it

another thing that deserves some praise

here is my mi10t pro's haptic feedback

system

it's very precise and strong if it needs

to be and you have full control over it

with a slider in settings

the mi 10t pro runs the latest Xiaomi

interface

mini 12 over android 10. it's a bit

different from the previous minutes

you can opt to split the notification

shade into two parts

swiping from the upper left corner will

show you all of your notifications

while swiping on the opposite side will

open the control center with your

options and toggles

you can choose to keep all of your apps

on the home screen or within an app

drawer

the drawer itself will automatically

organize your apps into categories

and there's a new feature called clear

the speaker which plays the sound at the

the maximum level for 30 seconds

you can use this if you find the speaker

jammed with dust or water

at the heart of the mi, 10t pro is a

flagship-grade Snapdragon 865 chipset

performance is excellent and you get 5g

connectivity too

while it might not be as chart-topping

as the newer snapdragon 865 plus

the 865 still holds its own and you

wouldn't be disappointed here

whether you're performing some everyday

tasks or something intensive like gaming

mi 10t pro has a sizable 5 000

milliamp-hour battery

and along with that, it seems the

the adaptive refresh rate does a nice job to

help save energy

overall the mi10t pro scored an

excellent 118-hour endurance rating in

our battery life tests

charging is quite fast too the phone

comes bundled with a 33-watt power

delivery charger

and with it, we were able to go from a

dead battery to 61 percent in half an

hour

the Xiaomi mi 10 t pro has three cameras

on the back

a 108-megapixel quad Bayer main cam with

or

a 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle cam and

a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus for

taking macro shots

the main camera bins pixels 4 and 1 but

for some reason, the photos come out at

25 megapixels

not 27. regardless in good light these

are great

with quite a lot of fine detail natural

looking colors

good sharpness and wide dynamic range

you can take photos in the native 108

megapixel resolution

but these aren't impressive there's

noticeably more noise

and not much improvement in detail

zooming is done digitally

there is a loss of detail and sharpness

here since the photos are cropped and

then upscaled

you miss the advanced

telephoto cameras you'd find on the

other mi 10 models

portraits are taken with the main cam

but come out in 12 megapixels

detail is good and the edge detection

does an okay job

however, from time to time, you'll notice

some fine detail blurred out around the

subject

the ultrawide camera's 13 megapixel

photos are okay

but we're not too impressed colors are

nice-looking

and the distortion correction works well

but these are a bit soft and lacking in

detail

especially in grass and foliage dynamic

the range is rather narrow as well

as far as the macro cam goes these

results are a pleasant surprise

the autofocus helps a lot and the amount

of detail and sharpness is impressive

for a five megapixel sensor in low light

shots from the main cam are nice

sharpness is decent

contrast is good and noise is minimal

plus the dynamic range is quite wide

highlights are rarely clipped here

turning on night mode improves the

quality quite a bit

it brings out more detail from the

shadows and any clipped areas around

light sources are gone

subjects look sharper while colors and

contrast remain about the same

nighttime shots from the ultra-wide

The camera looks soft and noisy

with low detail and blown out light

sources and there's no night mode

support to help things out

selfies from the 20-megapixel front

facing cam look sharp

with plenty of detail even in

challenging lighting conditions

we like the natural skin tones too

the Xiaomi mi 10 t can shoot videos in

up to 8k

at 30fps 8k video is impressive

with punchy colors low noise great

contrast and

wide dynamic range the trick is finding

a way to play it back in this resolution

4k video from the main cam is similar in

quality with some small differences

colors are even punchier and contrast is

higher and sharpness and detail are

slightly less impressive here

of course, you can zoom in 4k and the

result is decent

but what impressed us is two

times zoomed video and 8k resolution

the amount of detail is amazing it's day

and night compared to the 4k video the

the ultra-wide camera can capture 4k video

too

though its less impressive colors are

still punchy and there's plenty of

contrast

but these are generally softer and

dynamic range is narrower

there's electronic stabilization

available for video taken in 4k

or 1080p resolution it does a decent job

of smoothing things out

at the price of a slightly more narrow

field of view

you can also use the steady video mode

which captures in 1080p

and offers a smooth gimbal-like effect

so that's the Xiaomi mi 10t pro for

around 600 euros you get a premium glass

design

a great LCD screen with a super-fast

refresh rate

a flagship chipset stereo speakers

excellent battery life with fast

charging

and an awesome main camera it has all

the makings of a great phone

or even a flagship killer now some

people would prefer an OLED display

and you miss out on having a telephoto

camera and you don't have the headphone

jack

under-display fingerprint reader or

notchless screen of last year's model

but in pretty much every other way the

mi 10t pro is a clear upgrade

by offering top-shelf hardware for a

mid-range price