Xiaomi is all set to take on Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 series that was unveiled earlier this week. The company has officially taken the wraps off its new Mi 10 flagship series at an event in China today. Both the Mi 10 and Mi 10 Pro arrive with an AMOLED display with a punch-hole display, Snapdragon 865 chipset with 5G support, 108MP quad-cameras, and huge battery packs.
Let’s start off by talking about the design. One look at the Mi 10 is enough to tell you that it looks very much like the Mi Note 10 (also known as Mi CC9 Pro in China) — both on the front and back. You get a dual-curved display on the front (now with a punch-hole selfie camera) and a glass back with quad-rear cameras.
It supports 8K video recording at 24fps, OIS+EIS for super stabilized videos, RAW photo capture, and a ton of other features. There’s a 20MP selfie camera with 120fps slo-mo video recording support sitting in the punch-hole on the front.
Xiaomi hasn’t made a whole lot of changes in the Pro variant of the Mi 10. The design is exactly the same, along with the display and internal hardware. But, Xiaomi has slightly adjusted the display here to offer better colors. It added that the Just Noticeable Color Difference (JNCD) is less than 0.55 and 1200 nits of peak brightness for the Pro variant.
This camera system also enables the company to offer 10x hybrid optical zoom and 50x digital zoom on the Mi 10 Pro. You get an AI Pixel camera with an improved color palette and other features including Super Night mode, smooth zooming in videos, movie mode, and more. Mi 10 Pro offers you one of the most versatile cameras, the same as the new Galaxy 20 lineup.
Mi 10 is priced starting at 3999 yuan (around Rs. 41,000) for the 8GB+128GB base variant. You will have to shell out 4299 yuan (around Rs. 44,000) for the 8GB+256GB variant and 4699 yuan (around Rs. 48,000) for the 12GB+256GB variant. It will go on sale starting from February 18 but pre-orders are now live.
Mi 10 will be available in 3 attractive colors (translated from Chinese to English) namely Titanium Silver Black, Ice Blue, and Peach Gold. The Mi 10 Pro, on the other hand, will come in two color variants namely Pear White and Starry Blue.
