While it’s a brand that the mainstream Android audience might not be too familiar with, Infinix has had a long history of releasing budget-friendly smartphones that pack some pretty impressive features at reasonably affordable prices. With that said, the brand’s latest entry into the gaming handset segment is finally here, and it’s not too shabby to be honest.
To be more specific, the Infinix GT 10 Pro comes with all the proper ingredients for a proper gaming-oriented Android device, and it even borrows some design cues from competing handsets like the Nothing Phone series. It’s essentially another way of saying that the GT 10 Pro features a transparent LED-oriented design, but is that all there is to it? Let’s check it out.
External Design and Screen
Up front, the Infinix GT 10 Pro features a large 6.67-inch AMOLED display with 1080 x 2400 pixel resolution, and 20:9 aspect ratio. It’s not exactly a unique display setup, and it’s something that we’ve seen on a ton of other smartphones before, although it does feature a couple more tricks including a 360Hz touch sampling rate, and can run at either 120, 90, or 60Hz refresh rates. There’s also a built-in fingerprint scanner, and it gets decently bright at 900 nits of peak brightness.
With that being said however, one of the main highlights of the Infinix GT 10 Pro is its design. While Nothing isn’t the first company to offer transparent hardware shells (remember all those Gameboy Colour special editions), it’s nevertheless revived a design trend of sorts, with other OEMs following suit. This is the case with the Infinix GT 10 Pro, which comes with a see-through panel on the rear.
Additionally, the handset features customisable mini-LED lights, although unlike the Nothing Phone’s notification-centric Glyph Interface, this seems to be geared more towards gamers, thanks to the RGB setup that Infinix has packed into it.
Internal Hardware
Inside, the Infinix GT 10 Pro comes powered by MediaTek’s Dimensity 8050 chipset, one of the company’s higher-end and better-performing SoCs. It’s used in a lot of upper-midrange Android phones, and it only makes sense that Infinix has gone with a chipset of this caliber, managing to balance the phone’s price without compromising too much on performance and reliability.
The Dimensity 8050 is powered by up to 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage, and it comes with added support for optional micro SD storage expansion for cards with a maximum of 1TB of storage, as well as a 3.5mm headphone jack. Features like these are definitely a rarity these days, and it’s nice to see them be included on the Infinix GT 10 Pro. There’s also a 5,000 mAh battery inside, which comes with support for 45W charging speeds, which should be more than enough for most users looking for quick-charging functionality.
The phone also ships with Android 13 onboard, although this comes layered with Infinix’s XOS 13, which comes with a bunch of pre-installed third-party apps and software features.
Camera Hardware
The Infinix GT 10 Pro features a triple camera array on the rear panel, which consists of 108MP main camera with an f/1.75 aperture and 1/1.67” sensor, which is accompanied by a couple of 2MP sensors. Meanwhile, the front of the phone houses a 32MP camera for selfies and video calls. Video recording quality maxes out at 2K/30fps or 1080p/60fps, so there’s no 4K action going on here, unfortunately.
The phone will come priced at around $250, which makes it reasonably more affordable than most gaming phones out there. Of course, there are some considerations to be had with the hardware, especially given the modest chipset and RAM configuration, but all in all this should be a nice treat for Android users looking for wallet-friendly hardware.
