XIAOMI REDMI NOTE REVIEW

Xiaomi launched its budget android smartphone namely Redmi Note (dual sim) in India which is priced @ 8,999/- sold via Flipkart. It is available is Black & White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is pretty nice. It has corning glass 3 on front and a plastic back and feels good in hands. It is slim at 9.5mm and weighs 199gms. It has 5.5 inch HD IPS LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 265ppi. The viewing angles are very good and sunlight legibility of the display is quite average. It runs on MI User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES

It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 32GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a video player for playing movies respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 21.1mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n/, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy).

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is great overall. Daytime the images are very good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is just good and could have been better. It does FULL HD1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 17-18mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is great overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is just good could have been bit better. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's with 720p video recording and clarity is pretty good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 4.2.2 jelly bean out of the box with planned Android 4.4.2 Kitkat update. It has a Mediatek (MTK6592) SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-core processor at 1.7 GHZ (Cortex-A7) with 2GB RAM and Mali 450MP4 (Quad core) GPU. The performance is great which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no major lag at all. 

QUADRANT : 11250.

ANTUTU : 26750.

NENAMARK 2: 59fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a Removable Li-Ion 3200 mah battery. The battery life is very good which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 7:30H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8:30H.

TALKTIME : upto 15H(2G) / upto 13H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 500H(2G) / upto 480H(3G).

PROS

*Good build quality. 
*Great Display & viewing angle.

*Great Performance.

*Great camera and video recording.
*Pretty nice loudspeaker.
*USB OTG support.
*Aggressive Pricing.
*Removable battery

CONS
*Sold only via online by Flipkart. 

*No dedicated camera key. 
*New to Indian market.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.3/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.