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TechRadar Verdict

Xiaomi's Mi x is a bang-up phone thank you to its seriously premium pattern, a gorgeous 90Hz screen, and a nippy chipset. That said, its value for coin fails to nail information technology out of the park, with similarly priced phones similar the OnePlus 8 Pro and the Huawei P40 winning out from a camera point of view, and Realme and Oppo offer a more agreeable interface experience at a like cost.

Pros

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Premium design and cease
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Punchy and smooth 90Hz screen
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Powerful Snapdragon 865 internals

Cons

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No telephoto camera
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You lot can get more for less
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Xiaomi'due south UI is a bit clunky

Two-minute review

The Xiaomi Mi x is a great-looking phone. Shiny, curved glass around the back, a absurd metal frame at the sides, and a assuming, zingy, 90Hz screen on the front end - what's not to love? Not much, actually, at least when it comes to its design and screen. Xiaomi's come up a long way, and the Mi 10 series is its best-looking to date.

The Xiaomi Mi x isn't the newest flagship phone from the brand, not since the launch of the Xiaomi Mi xi, and even the Xiaomi Mi 10T improves upon it in a few ways. Just the Mi 10 is withal one of the better phones from the company.

That said, its interface is still occasionally questionable. For example, it still doesn't give you the option to activate an apps tray, and its virus scan feature interrupts whatever you're doing every time an app installs, so the interfaces constitute on phones from the likes of OnePlus are more polished.

The Xiaomi Mi 10'south camera is also not quite as good equally it could be, given the £799 / AU$1,699 (roughly $990) asking price. The master 108MP sensor is a solid performer - we've seen it do groovy things on the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra and the Xiaomi Mi Note 10.

That beingness said, it tin can't quite stack upwards to the 50MP main camera on the Huawei P40 Pro, and more to the point, the phone misses out on the telephoto camera the Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro packs, falling backside phones like the OnePlus 8 Pro in terms of versatility.

What you do get with the Xiaomi Mi x, withal, is flagship power, a flagship screen, and seriously proficient audio from the stereo speakers, non to mention decent battery life, wireless charging, and 30W fast charging too, as well as 5G.

Subsequently down the line, if you can discover the Xiaomi Mi 10 at the correct cost, then it's a great phone in a bubble. That said, when set aside other similarly priced devices, its photographic camera and UI hold it dorsum from excellence.

Xiaomi Mi 10 toll and release appointment

Out now in the UK and Commonwealth of australia
Costs £799 / AU$1,699

The Xiaomi Mi 10 is bachelor right now in the UK and Australia for £799 / AU$1,699 (roughly $1,000). It was announced in Prc in February alongside the Mi 10 Pro, a similar phone with a superior photographic camera system.

Both phones have seen a staggered global launch and can be bought directly through Xiaomi's online store, also as tertiary-political party channels like Amazon.

Blueprint

Peachy fit and terminate
Metal frame and loftier-gloss glass back
Bachelor in Coral Light-green, Twilight Grey, and Peach Gold

In that location's no dubiety about it, the Xiaomi Mi 10 is a not bad-looking phone. The front is all-screen Gorilla Drinking glass 5, curving elegantly into the metal frame, which rounds off beautifully to the curved glass back.

The Mi x's four rear cameras jut out from the otherwise uninterrupted dorsum panel, and in-hand and to the eye, in that location'due south admittedly nothing incorrect with the Xiaomi Mi ten'south design, until you get your grubby fingerprints all over information technology - it holds onto them for dear life.

At 208g, information technology isn't quite iPhone xi Pro Max beefy (226g), merely it'due south nonetheless at the upper end of the smartphone weight spectrum.

Buttons are all on the right-side - power and book rocker; at the base of operations there's a USB-C port and at the acme, an IR blaster.

The stereo speakers bookend the phone at the top and bottom, and the only warning nosotros'd impart to potential buyers aside from the fingerprint-loving finish, is that the Mi 10 is big. If you lot're after a pocket-sized phone, wait elsewhere.

Display

Large half-dozen.67-inch display
AMOLED screen with punch-pigsty photographic camera
1080 x 2340 resolution, 90Hz refresh charge per unit

The Xiaomi Mi 10's Super AMOLED screen packs a 1080 x 2340 resolution and measures half-dozen.67 inches, making it a like spec on paper to the Motorola Edge's screen, albeit with a less dramatic curve. The specs interpret to 386 pixel-per-inch clarity, which is better than an iPhone 11, merely worse than an iPhone 11 Pro.

Existence a Super AMOLED display, color pop and depth are arable, whether gaming, watching, or just aimlessly swiping through the UI. Information technology has a max manual brightness of most 500 nits - lower than the Samsung Galaxy S20, or OnePlus 8 Pro, but gets much brighter in auto mode, so is still easy to view indoors and out in all but the brightest weather.

The Xiaomi Mi 10 screen'southward HDR10+ accreditation means HDR movies look excellent, especially in darker environments, and viewing angles are smashing, especially for an OLED panel.

Camera

108MP, f/1.seven primary sensor
13MP, f/2.iv ultra-wide camera
2MP macro and depth sensors
No telephoto option

The Xiaomi Mi Note 10 introduced Samsung's 108MP camera sensor to the world and boy did information technology print when it dropped. The huge-resolution sensor has since been reprised on the Motorola Edge Plus and Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, as well every bit the Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro - and information technology'south also leading the accuse on the Mi 10.

What's interesting about the Mi 10'southward implementation of the 108MP camera sensor is that this is the first fourth dimension we're seeing it with no telephoto secondary camera.

Instead, Xiaomi'due south banking on the big pixel numbers making digital zoom a viable alternative. Is it? In bright conditions, for the well-nigh part, aye, every bit yous can see in the 2x zoom picture in the camera samples further downwardly.

In low low-cal, notwithstanding, zooming is out of the question.

The Mi ten'due south shooting modes are comprehensive: photo, video, portrait, night mode, pro mode - all the usual suspects are accounted for. At that place's as well a 108MP photo way that delivers full-res images that look fantastically detailed in well-lit scenes.

Automatic way on the Xiaomi Mi 10 is great. The phone packs optical image stabilization, so shots wait at to the lowest degree sharpish across most lighting weather, and capturing at 25MP past default, using 4-in-1 pixel combining (or pixel binning), particular is plentiful. That resolution translates to 4344 x 5792 photos by default, with each file size clocking in at around 7-10MB.

Compared to other cameras on the scene, the Mi ten falls behind the P40-series when it comes to tonal and color dash. The iPhone eleven manages to pull out better dynamic range, and the Pixel 4 clearly betters Xiaomi's flagship when it comes to white balance, but we are nit-picking slightly for these comparisons.

About people who buy the Xiaomi Mi 10 volition love the photographic camera. The huge sensor size delivers stacks of depth for a smartphone, and dynamic range is at least decent. Night mode, however, it's noticeably behind the same Apple, Google, and Huawei phones.

The 13MP f/2.4 ultra-broad camera'south operation is mediocre, with no autofocus resulting in middling utility. In all simply the all-time lighting conditions, it's also very soft, and compounding this fact is the odd decision to not make it attainable in nighttime mode.

Luckily, you can shoot pro style images with information technology, and so tin grab up to thirty-second long shutter speed shots, giving it some versatility in low-lite if you know what you're doing.

The macro camera, which clocks in at 2MP is, honestly, a bit of a joke, as you can get college-affect macro shots from the master camera across more than lighting conditions, so we're merely going to skip over information technology.

Equally for the 20MP selfie camera, along with the 108MP principal camera, this is a highlight, delivering decent performance across photograph and video in all but the darkest lighting conditions.

Photographic camera samples

A shot at 1x zoom. (Image credit: TechRadar )

Specs and performance

Snapdragon 865 power
Available in multiple configurations
Upward to 256GB of storage

The Xiaomi Mi 10 has a Snapdragon 865 chipset only is bachelor in a couple of flavors, with 128GB or 256GB of storage. That said, in the Uk and Australia, it's aircraft in its highest spec version as standard - 256GB of storage with 8GB of RAM for £799 and AU$ane,699.

The upshot is a great phone for gaming, with acme-tier flagship power, a gorgeous screen, and plenty of space for fifty-fifty the nearly monstrously massive titles.

Benchmarks are nothing short of stellar, with the phone achieving a Geekbench 5 multi-core score of over three,300, and this is reflected in 24-hour interval-to-day apply and gaming functioning.

Xiaomi's MIUI 11 interface is hit and miss. On the plus, information technology'due south stable and looks clean, which is a good kickoff. The experience falls backside when it comes to UI versatility - y'all can't activate an apps tray for case. Additionally, when apps install in the background, the UI pulls you out of whatever yous're doing, taking you to a virus scanning screen. This results in a jarring user experience.

App support is excellent, though, and information technology does have some advantages when set bated phones from Huawei, given Xiaomi has access to the full gamut of Google services.

Connections on the Mi 10 are flagship across the lath, with NFC and 5G. There's no microSD card slot inside, but with 256GB of storage, there probably won't be a demand to bump up the phone's capacity in your time with information technology.

The under-display fingerprint scanner is fine; it doesn't work likewise as some of the competition, but confront unlock is quick to fire and does the job.

Bombardment life

4,780mAh battery
Wireless and reverse wireless charging
Fast 30W wired charging

The Xiaomi Mi 10's large battery clocks in at 4,780mAh, which is very generous from a capacity betoken of view. Even with the screen refresh rate set to 90Hz, you'll still get a full day out of it. The Mi 10 seamlessly switches between 60Hz and 90Hz depending on the app you lot're using to ensure the mode doesn't sap too much juice.

After ninety minutes of Full Hard disk video played back at max brightness, the Mi 10 bombardment dropped by about 10%, and from flat, information technology charges up in around 70 minutes with 30W fast charging. The phone also supports wireless charging at upwardly to 30W, which is incredibly impressive, and it offers 5W contrary wireless charging too.

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Beginning reviewed: June 2020

Basil Kronfli is the Head of content at Make Dearest and freelance technology journalist. He is an experienced writer and producer and skilled in video production, digital marketing and brand evolution.