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Redmi 10 Prime First Impressions: Ready for Prime Time?
Redmi 10 Prime price in India
The Redmi 10 Prime starts at Rs. 12,499 in India for the base variant which has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. There is a higher variant as well, with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, priced at Rs. 14,499. The Redmi 10 Prime is offered in Bifrost Blue, Astral White, and Phantom Black. It will go on sale starting September 7.
The Redmi 10 Prime looks unmistakably like a current-gen Xiaomi phone as it adopts the ‘Evol’ design language popularised by the Redmi Note 10 series. It has a big 6.5-inch display, a plastic frame, and a polycarbonate back. Let’s talk about the display first – you get a full-HD+ panel with a 90Hz refresh rate. There is Corning Gorilla Glass 3 on top for protection. Power the smartphone on and you’ll notice that the display has a thick chin and a hole at the top for the 8-megapixel selfie camera. I found the display to have decent viewing angles and it was bright enough indoors.
The side-mounted fingerprint scanner is easy to reach
Side-mounted fingerprint scanners are now quite common on budget smartphones, and the Redmi 10 Prime has it too. It’s located on the right side and is easy to reach. You’ll find the volume buttons just above it, and these might require a bit of a stretch to reach. On the left side of the frame is the SIM tray which has provisions for two Nano-SIMs and a microSD card.
Xiaomi has curved the frame along the sides which makes this phone comfortable to hold. The top and bottom of the frame are flat, and reminded me of the Redmi 9 Power (Review). You get dual speakers on the Redmi 10 Prime, one of which is at the top along with an IR emitter and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The bottom has the other speaker, primary microphone, and USB Type-C port.
The Redmi 10 Prime has a quad camera module at the back, which protrudes slightly. This phone has four cameras, with the primary having a 50-megapixel sensor with an f/1.8 aperture. There’s also an 8-megapixel wide-angle camera, a 2-megapixel macro camera, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor.
I had the Bifrost Blue colour variant of the Redmi 10 Prime which looks nice but also picked up fingerprints rather easily. I had to wipe the back quite often to preserve its glossy finish. At 192g, you’ll definitely notice the weight of this smartphone.
The quad-camera setup on the Redmi 10 Prime
Xiaomi has gone with a 6,000mAh battery for the Redmi 10 Prime. It is capable of 18W fast charging and you get a 22.5W charger in the box. The Redmi 10 Prime is also capable of 9W reverse charging.
Coming to hardware, you get the MediaTek Helio G88 SoC which is a new processor in this price segment. The phone is available in two variants: 4GB of RAM with 64GB of storage, and 6GB of RAM with 128GB of storage. Xiaomi has implemented a feature that it calls Extendable RAM on the Redmi 10 Prime, which uses a small part of the storage as additional RAM – 1GB on the base variant and 2GB on the higher one.
On the software front, the Redmi 10 Prime runs MIUI 12.5 on top of Android 11. My unit had the July Android security patch. The Redmi 10 Prime comes with a number of preinstalled apps including Amazon, Netflix, Mi Pay, GetApps, and a couple of Google apps. Xiaomi says that some of its preinstalled apps can now be uninstalled, and I’ll check this out during the full review.
The Redmi 10 Prime seems like an upgrade on all fronts over its predecessor, the Redmi 9 Prime. However, the competition has also geared up in recent times. The Redmi 10 Prime is a little more expensive than its predecessor and might attract a different audience. Xiaomi’s pricing puts the Redmi 10 Prime closer to the Realme Narzo 30 (Review) which costs Rs.1000 more but offers better hardware. Is the Redmi 10 Prime better than the Narzo 30? Can the Redmi 10 Prime carve out a spot for itself in the sub-Rs. 15,000 segment? Stay tuned to Gadgets 360 for the full review to find out.
“At Xbox, we believe that with better tools, creators can make even more extraordinary games,” Haiyan Zhang, GM, Xbox Gaming AI, said in a blog post. “This partnership will bring together: Inworld’s expertise in working with generative AI models for character development, Microsoft’s cutting-edge cloud-based AI solutions including Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft Research’s technical insights into the future of play, and Team Xbox’s strengths in revolutionizing accessible and responsible creator tools for all developers.”
The aforementioned AI design copilot is a toolset that will help game designers turn prompts into scripts and dialogue trees. In contrast, the character runtime will enable dynamically generated plot beats and quests. We’ve already seen heavy AI integration in games by way of procedural generation — a more recent example being the 1000+ planets in Starfield. Not to mention, enemy AI has been around for way longer.
Inworld made headlines in August when it launched a modded story mode for Grand Theft Auto V, Sentient Streets, in which players had to investigate the rise of a bizarre AI-worshipping cult — a segment loaded with characters that spoke in AI-generated dialogue, on the fly. The mod was later taken down by publisher Take-Two, leaving a permanent strike on the creator Bloc’s YouTube channel. As per The Verge, Inworld’s AI technology can also be used for narration in top-down RPGs to warn players about any events awaiting off-screen and respond to questions like we’ve seen in the past year with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Microsoft has also been heavily banking on artificial intelligence, having made a $10 billion (about Rs. 83,254 crore) investment in OpenAI. The company has also integrated AI tools into its popular suite of services and also added an AI copilot to Windows.
Despite being a Microsoft-affiliated AI toolset, it would be interesting to see whether titles using them will be allowed to thrive on other platforms. In July, Valve claimed that it would be cracking down on games that included AI-generated assets if the developer didn’t own the copyright to the piece of art. For the uninitiated, when you insert a prompt to create something in AI, the software simply repurposes existing assets found online and mushes them together — basically stealing from other artists and writers without appropriate commercial licenses. Infringing them would lead to the game not being distributed on Steam, forcing the developers to seek proper licenses for the asset by reaching out to the AI companies involved. It’s unclear how Microsoft’s partnership will play out — as long as AI content is being used as a catalyst to innovate and create something new, it should be fine.
In a post on X shared by BSNL’s Andhra Pradesh (@bsnl_ap_circle) unit, the company confirmed that BSNL users can upgrade their older 2G or 3G SIMs to a 4G SIM for free. Not only will the upgrade be free, but a promotional image shared with the post suggests that users who opt for the upgrade will also receive 4GB of free data that will be valid for three months. It is speculated that BSNL is aiming to boost its upcoming 4G services with this offer. The announcement was first spotted by Telecom Talk.
To access the free data offer and the free upgrade, BSNL users are requested to get in touch with executives at BSNL’s Customer Service Centre, franchisee or retailer stores, or contact one of their Direct Selling Agents (DSA). The promo image also adds in a finer print that the offer is available with certain terms and conditions, but hasn’t detailed any, so far.
Reliance’s Jio recently launched the 4G-supported Bharat B1 feature phone in India. The handset is priced at Rs. 1,299 in India. Alongside 4G connectivity, the phone comes with JioCinema and JioSaavn applications pre-installed.
The Jio Bharat B1 is equipped with the JioPay application, which is said to allow users to make UPI payments. Aiming to increase accessibility, the phone supports 23 languages overall, including multiple regional languages.
Realme, via Weibo, announced the arrival of the Realme GT 5 Pro in China. The display of the handset is confirmed to offer 3000 nits peak brightness. It has also been teased to offer heat dissipation with a surface area of around 10,000mm2. It is confirmed to ship with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. The post doesn’t specify the exact launch date of the smartphone, however, given the release of the teasers, the launch could be just around the corner.
The Realme GT 5 Pro has been in the news a lot lately. It is expected to feature a 6.78-inch (1,264×2,780 pixels) AMOLED display and is tipped to come in 8GB, 12GB, and 16GB RAM options along with 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB inbuilt storage options.
For optics, the Realme GT 5 Pro is said to have a triple rear camera unit comprising two 50-megapixel sensors and an 8-megapixel shooter at the rear. The camera setup might include a Sony LYTIA LYT808 sensor, an OmniVision OV08D10 secondary sensor, and a Sony IMX890 telephoto sensor. For selfies, there could be a 32-megapixel sensor at the front. It is said to carry a 5,400mAh battery with support for 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging.
The Realme GT 5 Pro is expected to come with upgrades over Realme GT 5. The latter was launched in China in August with a price tag of CNY 2,999 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
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