The recommended retail price for Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 in Kenya is around 19500 shillings for the 4GB RAM version and 24,000 shillings for the 6GB RAM version. It is available in colors Shadow Black, Frost White, and Aqua Green. It has a massive 5000 mAh battery and a quad 48MP camera lens setup. This is a global phone with quite unique features.
Launch
This phone, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 was announced in 2021, March 04. This phone has a 160.5 x 74.5 x 8.3 mm dimension and weighs about 178 grams. It is also a Dual SIM smartphone that uses Nano-SIM and has a dual standby. On the front is a hole punch display wherein the selfie camera lies. Its back panel has a quad-camera module on the right-hand side. As for the fingerprint scanner, there is a side-mounted one.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 comes in the colors Shadow Black (Onyx Gray), Frost White (Pebble White), and Aqua Green (Lake Green). It makes use of the USB Type-C 2.0, 24-bit/192kHz audio, and has Infrared port support. The phone also has Bluetooth version 5.0, A2DP, LE, and GPS with A-GPS. It also supports Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot. It also has an IP53, dust, and splash protection (market/region dependent) build
Network
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 smartphone supports four network technologies. These are GSM, HSPA, and LTE. HSPA extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunication networks using the WCDMA protocols. LTE is a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA technologies.
Global System for Mobile Communications is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to describe the protocols for second-generation digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets – see Redmi Note 10 Pro smartphone as well.
Platform
A phone platform is the hardware/software environment for tablets, smartphones, and other portable devices. Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 runs on the Android 11 operating system. Android 11 is the eleventh major release and 18th version of Android, the mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. Also powering this phone is an Octa-core (2×2.2 GHz Kryo 460 Gold & 6×1.7 GHz Kryo 460 Silver), Snapdragon 678 (11 nm) chipset. This version of Android it runs is based on MIUI 12.
Under the hood, it also brings an Adreno 612 GPU. The Qualcomm Adreno 612 is a mobile graphics card for mid-range smartphones and tablets (mostly Android-based). It is included in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 SoCs and based on the Adreno 600 architecture (like the Adreno 630, which should be fully compatible with software). Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 comes with 64/128 GB of internal storage with 4/6GB of RAM.
Display
Let us also take a look at the display this phone has to offer. Everyone loves a good display on a phone for obvious reasons. Namely, the display is the one part of a phone you will ever interact with. Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 has an impressive Super AMOLED display panel that measures 6.43 inches, 99.8 cm2. This display has a decent 1080 x 2400 pixels resolution and an equally high 409 PPI density. As for the selfie camera, it is inside that hole punch on the top center. Here you will also get 450 nits (typ), 1100 nits (peak), and Corning Gorilla Glass 3.
Cameras
There are five cameras on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10. They are made up of a main 48 MP, f/1.8, 26mm (wide), 1/2.0″, 0.8µm, PDAF, 8 MP, f/2.2, 118˚ (ultrawide), 1/4.0″, 1.12µm a 2 MP, f/2.4, (macro), and a 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth). The main feature here is a LED flash, HDR and it can shoot video up to 4K@30fps with the main camera, and 1080p@30fps also with the 13 MP, f/2.5, (wide), HDR selfie camera.
Battery
Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 has a decent Li-Po 5,000 mAh, non-removable battery. It obviously is a lasting battery given its 5000 mAh capacity – see the Redmi Note 9 smartphone as well. This one supports fast charging 33W, 50% in 25 min, 100% in 74 min (advertised).
