£75 “Note 10” – Not what you expect…

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When I was offered the opportunity to look at a £75 “Note 10”, I knew it would be interesting. Either, it’s terrible and I get to rail on it, or it surpasses my expectations and I have a great story to tell, but this.. This is not what I expected. Let me explain, but first, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

Don’t get me wrong, this is terrible. It exceeds my expectations in just how awful it is, but it also surprised me by how not terrible some aspects are. This also isn’t a Samsung clone, I have no idea why it’s called a “Note” since it doesn’t come with a stylus, or even a notes app pre-installed… 

It’s definitely a phablet though, with a 7.2” display that features a 960×480 resolution, yes, 480p, and can I just take a second to laugh at their spec list labelling this as a qHD screen? What does the Q mean there? Quarter? It’s also impressively dim, making viewing it outside less than ideal.

It uses a MediaTek 6737 core, which uses the now ancient Arm A53 core design – seriously the A53 design was launched in 2012, and can use DDR2 or DDR3 RAM. It’s a quad core, with 2GB of RAM, and has 16GB of onboard storage although happily you can add an sd card for up to 64GB of extra space. 

Having that little power available means it doesn’t run a full copy of Android, instead opting for the lightweight Android Go that uses less RAM, storage and can’t run as many apps. It does make it a little snappier, but not by much. It’s still pretty sluggish to do some tasks, scrolling around can be smooth or juddery, and while watching content like youtube or plex ran pretty well, scrolling through reddit is a choppy mess.

Much to my surprise, the 480p screen didn’t actually bother me as much as I thought it would, including while watching youtube videos. It’s crisp enough that you can still make everything out, and if you hold it at a good enough distance you don’t notice after a while. What you do notice is the terrible bottom firing speaker. This alone would make me hate the phone. It’s tinny, compressed and at high enough volumes almost painful to the ears. It doesn’t even make use of the earpiece speaker to balance the sound out. You do get a headphone jack though, so there’s that.

Cameras, as you might expect, are tragic. The front facing “5MP camera” couldn’t take a clear picture for the life of it, and the rear camera set has TWO FAKE CAMERAS. Seriously. They went to enough effort to put fake camera lenses in too, so it’s not just a case of the mold is used for a phone that does use 3. Hilarious. 

Anyway, picture quality from the rear is barely passable as a picture. Here’s my Oneplus 7T Pro for comparison with a few shots. I know, it’s easy to compare a £700 phone against a £70 one and laugh at the cheap one, but here’s a £120 Moto G7 and it’s worlds better. It’s still bad, but nowhere near as bad as the “Note 10”. 

Battery life is tragic. While you get a reasonable amount of screen on time from a full charge from the surprisingly removable 3600mah quoted cell, it’s standby time is about 5 minutes. Well in reality, if you leave it for a day, it’ll have turned itself off thanks to it draining the battery completely. To charge it, you have to use the always anemic micro b port which when plugged into a PC apparently still drains the battery with the screen on… Amazing. 

My experience with this phone has been mostly me being shocked. Sometimes it’s at just how bad stuff like the cameras are, but sometimes it’s how reasonable of an experience watching youtube videos, with headphones, is with it. It’s not a good phone by any stretch, but in certain aspects, it’s not as bad as I thought.

But, is it worth buying one? Honestly, unless you want something to play with for a few days, maybe a device to keep connected to an old set of speakers as a music player, or maybe a device to hand to your kids to watch paw patrol or whatever is cool these days without worrying about your £1000 iPhone getting smashed, you probably shouldn’t. Even spending a little more on something like that Moto G7 I mentioned is much, much better overall. Do you need to spend £700 on a flagship like me? Obviously not. But £70? That might be a little too cheap.