It is an entry-level mobile phone. I found it for 117€ (4GB/64GB) which was the best price for the 10C at that time. After 9 months of daily use, I am still very satisfied and its responsiveness (loading apps, opening multiple apps at once, internet browsing) still seems excellent to me. Overall, the issue is what we want to use it for. For social media, news, internet browsing, watching videos, listening to music, it is flawless. Initially, I had doubts about the size of 6.71". The difference from 5.4" is about 3cm with a slightly larger width but it is not as unwieldy as I thought. In general, it doesn't make sense to rate it in comparison to the ideal capabilities of a mobile phone but based on whether it meets the user's needs. In this sense, it gets 5 stars. If someone wants demanding use, obviously they will look for something else. However, this deserves 5 stars for the everyday user who does internet browsing, viber, facebook, messenger, twitter (X), sends and receives emails, uses e-banking, opens some TXT, PDF, DOC, XLS files when needed, even Webex or Zoom. Of course, it also takes photos or videos, but at a (sufficient) amateur level. Personally, I had the Redmi 6A before, so the 10C seems extremely high quality to me, everything opens very quickly, without delays or crashes (I have done all the upgrades). You can have 5-6 apps open simultaneously and the phone doesn't struggle at all. Since I could do my work with 2GB/16GB and a moderate 2019 camera, now the 4GB/64GB and 2022 specifications are more than enough. The charging is somewhat slow, but I usually charge it every night so it doesn't bother me. However, the battery lasts a day and a half even with heavy use. I miss the ability to record calls that I occasionally needed (e.g. not to write down instructions given by a technician). However, the "Record" function no longer appears during calls and if we activate the "Recorder" beforehand, the app automatically stops when the call starts. I read that from 2022, due to legal framework changes, in several countries modifications were made to mobile phone functions so that calls cannot be recorded. I tried two independent recording apps, but although they showed that they were recording, when I pressed "Play" I found that they did not record anything at all, the file was empty. From the default function of the phone, I didn't like the automatic display of all kinds of news, recipes, information, etc., with simultaneous image changes on the lock screen. So I stopped the news feed, but I also completely removed the wallpaper carousel (from "Settings" - "About the ...." - click on "Storage" - click on "Apps and data" and from there you uninstall it). In fact, if you don't remove it, as soon as you try to put your own image on the lock screen, the wallpaper carousel is activated again! So I completely removed it and relaxed. I should add that its speaker is loud and the sound is good with some slight distortion in music only when it is at maximum volume. Overall, for a simple user, the mobile phone is ideal and at a very good price.
PS
There have been some changes in the latest version of MIUI Global 14.0.4 and I struggled to find online how to enable the lock or pin feature where an application locks in the background and does not close when we close the other open applications:
- Open the "Security" application.
- Click on the gear icon in the top right corner that opens the settings.
- Click on "Speed up".
- Click on "App Lock".
- Press the switch of the application we want to not close to turn it blue.