Not dramatically bigger than a standard phone, the M10 has an extremely solid construction using magnesium and titanium alloy. It is waterproofed to IP68/IP69K standards and includes three rear cameras and a 10000mAh battery.
These are all useful things, and it also comes with a 3.5mm audio jack and can recharge from completely flat in around two hours.
With such a competitive price point, you might wonder what the catch might be. Well, it comes with 6GB of RAM, which is plenty, but only 128GB of storage. A MicroSD card can be used to add more storage, but using one reduces the SIM tray allocation to a single SIM.
The other limitation of this device is the SoC Phonemax put in it, the now rather aged MediaTek Helio G85 that was first introduced in 2020.
Compared to the more powerful G99 and Dimensity chips, the performance of the G88 won’t attract those who need local processing or dynamic graphics.
Other brands are offering more power for even less money, and the M10 could easily be swamped by the tsunami of rugged phones now flooding the market.
