After months of teasers and delayed launches, Xiaomi has finally launched its Mi 10 flagship phone in India today. This is the first Mi-branded premium smartphone to make its way to India in a very long time. Mi Mix 2 was the last one to land in India back in 2017 and Xiaomi has focused all its efforts to build out the Redmi brand ever since.
The smartphone features a curvaceous glass-sandwich design, which should feel snug and comfortable in the hand. You have a display curved at both edges and a punch-hole cutout on the front and a quad-camera array on the rear. There’s an in-display fingerprint sensor onboard as well.
Display
- Internals
Like any other flagship launched in 2020, Mi 10 is powered by the Snapdragon 865 chipset under the hood. You will also find up to 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.0 storage on board. The storage is not expandable due to the lack of a microSD card slot.
Internals
Software
It’s important to talk about software with the Mi 10. Obviously, Mi 10 runs Xiaomi’s own MIUI 11 skin based on Android 10 out-of-the-box. And as you may all know, MIUI is riddled with ads and bloatware to lower the prices and bring in revenue – there’s an option to disable it all and you can read about it right here.
- Cameras
Cameras
Battery
Mi 10 also comes equipped with a 4,780mAh battery pack, which is pretty decent for a premium flagship. But, the 30W wired and 30W wireless charging support is what makes this phone a lot more desirable, at least for me. You get the 30W Turbo Charge adapter in the box.
Price and Availability
Mi 10 is priced at a whopping Rs. 49,999 for the 8GB+128GB base variant while the 8GB+256GB variant is priced at Rs. 54,999 in India. If you pre-order the device, you will get a Mi Wireless Power bank worth Rs. 2,499 for free.
