Good display and design: The 6.77″ curved AMOLED screen with 120 Hz refresh rate gets praise — bright, crisp visuals, good for watching videos or browsing.

Reliable battery & acceptable charging: The battery (5700 mAh) gives long use (a full day or more depending on use), and charging speed is considered decent.

Selfie & rear cameras are “good enough” for the segment: Several reviews say camera quality (especially selfie-cam) is above average for a mid-range phone.

Overall value-for-money: Many mention that for its price range, Z10R is “balanced” — good display, performance, battery and cameras all in one.

but sometime in august/september i realized that i was doing so many things on my daily use phone that i needed a decent mid range phone. and that is when the search began. i had zeroed in on 4 different mid range phones, but i decided to settle on this one.

my main criteria for choosing a new phone was that it had to be decently powerful (able to create a presentation, in the worst of the cases), and MORE IMPORTANTLY, this new phone had to be very light weight.

this phone, the iqoo z10r fit the bill in every way, but one (wait for it).

the other phone i almost bought, but didn’t really, was the tecno pova curve. that’s a slim, light weight phone with a decent chipset (7300). it lost in the looks department.

but this phone had a lot of things going for it: a solid chipset (7400), great cameras (for a mid range phone, especially with the vivo legacy), fairly slim, and fairly light weight.

i have been using this phone as my daily driver for the past few months now, and the iqoo z10r has NOT disappointed in most departments, spare one: this phone is wide! had this phone been a little more wide… this phone would have been a square! holding the phone in a single hand is NOT easy because of how wide the phone is.

i am not a fan of the camera bump either. and the light… again, i am not a fan of it.

the front camera quality is amazing. rear cameras… i am not so sure. they are okay. my low/mid range infinix, redmi and realme phones probably take equally good, if not better pictures with their rear cameras, when compared to this phone’s rear cameras.

another big problem: i think this phone could get damaged quite easily given how thin it is. just an hour back i was getting out of my friend’s car, and my phone was in between my legs, or maybe i was sitting on it, and the phone fell on a concrete road, as i exited the vehicle. for a minute i thought: there goes my 20k. luckily i had bought a decently tough cover for the phone, so the phone survived (i hope). let’s see… we will know if this phone can actually survive a few feet falls onto heavy concrete streets.

i have played multiple games on this phone – bgmi, racing games, some low end games, etc, and they all run smoothly. my ancient redmi k50 supports smooth + extreme+, but this phone supports only smooth + extreme. doesn’t make much of a difference for me as i am a casual bgmi warrior.

overall, this is a good phone for the price, if you can overlook the fact that it is VERY WIDE!