Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 – 10″ Portrait review, 3D printed VESA mount

Raspberry Pi has just announced the “Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 – 10″ Portrait”, and we’ve received an early review sample for testing. The new 10.1-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is a multi-touch portrait panel for Raspberry Pi designed for interactive projects such as tablets, entertainment systems, and information dashboards.

The new 10.1-inch model follows the original 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 launched in 2024 and the 5-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Displays 2 introduced in 2025. I reviewed the 7-inch model with the Raspberry Pi AI camera and a Pi 4, and I just gave away the 5-inch variant. In this short review, I’ll show how to mount a Raspberry Pi 5 to the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 – 10″ Portrait, install it on a VESA mount, and test features such as 10-pin capacitive touch and display orientation. But let’s start with the specifications first.

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 – 10″ Portrait specifications

• Display diagonal – 10.1-inch
• Active area – 135.4 mm × 216.6 mm
• Viewing angle – 85 degrees
• Display format – 24-bit RGB
• Resolution – 1200 × 1920 pixels
• Display type – True multi-touch capacitive touch panel supporting ten-finger touch
• In-plane switching thin-film transistor (IPS TFT) liquid-crystal display; Normally black; Transmissive
• Touch response time – Up to 35 ms
• Surface treatment – Anti-glare
• Color configuration – RGB stripe
• Backlight brightness – 400 cd/m2
• Dimensions – 247.3 x 161.8 mm
• Operating temperature −20°C to +70°C
• Production lifetime – To remain in production until at least January 2030

One important point is that the 10-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is only compatible with Raspberry Pi 5 and Raspberry Pi Compute Modules connected to a carrier board with an MIPI connector.

Unboxing

I received the display in a retail package reading “Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2” and  “10” Portrait” with basic specifications and installation instructions on the bottom side.

The display ships with a power cable, an FPC cable, and eight M2.5 screws.

Raspberry Pi 5 installation on the 10.1-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2

I was also given a Raspberry Pi 5 4GB for the review. The installation is pretty straightforward, since only two connections are required to connect the display to the Raspberry Pi: a power cable for the GPIO header and a ribbon cable for the DSI port.

The only potential mistake is inserting the cables in the wrong way. Once done, we can secure the Raspberry Pi 5 with four of the M2.5 screws, connect the FPC cable to one of the MIPI connectors, and the power cable to the 40-pin GPIO header.

Insert a microSD card with Raspberry Pi OS, connect a 5V/5.1A USB power adapter, and Raspberry Pi OS will boot in portrait mode with everything working out of the box, including ten-finger touch and the on-screen keyboard. More on that below.

3D printed VESA mount for the Raspberry Pi Touch 2 – 10″ Portrait

I usually use a wooden stand to test displays, but the 10.1-inch is a bit too big. I’m sure there will eventually be an enclosure for this model, like we’ve seen with the $10 Waveshare PI5-CASE-TD2 for the 7-inch model.

Since at the time of the review, no enclosure was provided/announced, I designed a VESA mount adapter for the 10.1-inch Raspberry Pi Touch 2 in Blender, and printed it with PLA filament (rainbow style, hence the colorful design).

I didn’t think everything through during the design, so I had to use a power drill to enlarge four of the holes to mount the display to the adapter. But I eventually got something working, and the old VESA stand I use can also rotate, which will be great to test landscape/portrait orientation.

Landscape mode after mount.

The STL file can be found on GitHub, but I don’t recommend it unless you have a few 35mm M2.5 screws lying around…

Multi-touch, portrait/landscape mode, and on-screen keyboard

I also tested the advertised features, including 10-point capacitive touch using the WBBMTT website.

All ten points were detected, and tracking works smoothly when moving the fingers on the screen.

Raspberry Pi OS supports four orientation modes: Normal (default, in portrait mode), Left, Inverted, and Right. I tested Normal and Left (Landscape), and it worked well after I updated Raspberry Pi OS. Before the update, I had some issues when switching the orientation, as the display rotated but not the touchscreen, so I could not confirm the change.

Another important option is the touchscreen mode, for which there are two options:

• Mouse Emulation – Simulate a mouse: one tap converts to left click, long tap to right-click, and double tap to double-click. It’s better for app not made for touch screens.
• Multitouch – Multitouch support, similar to using a tablet

In previous touchscreen reviews, I had to change that manually by editing config files, but it’s now available right in the Control Centre.

While browsing the web in multitouch mode, you can scroll a web page, pinch and zoom, etc… like you would on a tablet. In Mouse Emulation mode, trying to scroll a web page will select the text instead.

If you select a text field, the soft keyboard will show up automatically. No need to install a keyboard manually like in the past.

You can watch a short demo showcasing the features covered above.

I’d like to thank Raspberry Pi for sending the “Touch 2 – 10″ Portrait” for review. The new display can be purchased from your favorite reseller for $80 plus potential shipping and taxes.

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.

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