Opinions from the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro

Bought it almost 18 months ago (back in July 2021). Good first impresions with size, colours, screen and general responsible time. MIUI is meh in general, but could be easily made to your own, desirable shape, since unlocking and rooting is generally simple here and there are LOTS of possibilities from that point.

First main feature of this phone, which is screen, should be protected with some sort of foil, despite having gorilla glass. Just for the sake of it. After year and a half in dirty, dusty and sometimes wet environment of my building site work, it still looks really sharp and colorful with no visible signs of wear. 120Hz still works well, maximum brightness gives visibility even in summer sun.

Second most known feature is pack of cameras. 108MP mode works well and produce nice photos, although it cannot be matched with more expensive phones like iPhone, Huawei, Pixel. Night photos are only OK (there are lots of room for improvment), camera can record only in 1080p 60 FPS without mods, but if you dig deeper, you could unlock 4K 60 FPS that looks really good and gives zero graphical/decoding bugs. Timelapse mode are nice addition, but 720p is a downsize these days.

General usage gave me no lags from system itself for the whole time. I've got some low response time from launcher apps as well as few downloaded apps freezes, but nothing too serious. Gotta be careful though, because some 3rd party apps somehow triggers MIUI to restart in random moments. Also got camera errors few times, but restarting device manages to get rid of it. 8 GB of ram is really plenty and I did not managed to slow phone because of application usage. CPU itself also works nice, however, I play games really rarely and spend most of my time with phone surfing on internet, so top grade CPU ain't for me.

Be careful though with falling - without proper case it breaks easily, as well as got loose NFC paths inside phone. Battery still holds 30% after whole day with BT on.