The redmi note 11 pro plus 5g finally has its global release and then of course we have the
other mid-range phone the samsung galaxy a535g this phone here is a little more expensive but it
does have an optical image stabilized main camera 64 megapixels versus 108 without any optical image
stabilization the samsung's got a larger 5 000 milliamp hour battery but just 25 watt charging
versus 120 watt charging with the redmi so they both have 120 hertz full hd plus super amoled
screens which are great screens they're flat they both got plastic build qualities to them
and they both support dual nano sims with micro sd card support but there are other key differences
the chipset mediatex demensity 920 versus the in-house exynos 1280 from samsung so in this
comparison i'll compare them in detail a bit of a camera comparison too and i'll let you
know which one of these i think is the best based on all of those factors and the price
then what is included with these phones well with samsung we get a type c to type c cable the
paperwork anderson tray tool that's it we don't get a charger screen protector or a case included
now the charge time with the a535g is at 25 watts just over an hour and 30 minutes now with the
redmi you get this 120 watt charger we get our type c to type a cable there and they do include
a case tpu case right there which is a reasonably good one clear tpu case our typical paperwork and
the sim tray tool so that is great now what about the charge time of this 120 watt charger well
their claim is 15 minutes i've never been able to achieve that it's more like 22 minutes 21 minutes
and sometimes even about 24 really depends on the day but it's still a lot quicker than the samsung
and you get all those included extra things which i do believe samsung should be also shipping out
with their mid-range phones then our build and design of these phones so start out here with the
redmi note 11 pro plus this phone in hand is a bit heavier so we've got 204 grams versus 189 grams
with the a53 and you see the finishes on both of them quite different the style so with the samsung
it's more streamlined the plastic on the back here around the camera module and i do actually
prefer that this lighter blue color is quite nice and this one here which is actually a dark green
color but it looks more like a gray here it does feel good now both of them resist fingerprints
quite well but you do sometimes see a few smudges more here with the xiaomi and the camera module
does stick out a little bit so thickness wise with this one you're looking at about 8.5 millimeters
versus around about 8.1 9.2 here with the samsung so it is a little thinner and the size of them so
6.5 inch phone versus a 6.67 inch that is of course a little bit smaller and i do prefer
the size of the a53 just feels better so we have a fingerprint reader here on the side whereas it's
in screen with the samsung now just demonstrate that how good it is how quick it is the samsung's
not that bad at all there there we go hang on okay so that's quick i think it's actually quicker than
the xiaomi which is also very quick it's capacitive always on you simply touch it
it unlocks but you can see it's a little slower to respond there with that time when it unlocks
the frame on the phones is plastic and yes of course compared to a metal frame they don't feel
as premium when you're handling them so we have our sim trays on both down the bottom and they
both support two nano sims or one nano sim in a micro sd card we have our type c ports neither
of them support video out and they are both sadly usb 2.0 speed so slow with the transfers
microphone one here one here and the downwards firing speakers so both of them have dual speakers
but with the samsung it's in the earpiece so when you look at the top here you won't actually see it
so the samsung just has a microphone where we've got 3.5 millimeter yes very good to have
that ir transmitter if you wanted to control air conditioning tvs and things like that play jokes
on people you can do it which is good and then now loudspeaker here tuned those loudspeakers
by jbl so let's have a sample of the loudspeakers now play them side by side
and we'll hear and listen to which one is the best out of these two
now where i'm sitting it was definitely the note 11 pro plus it's just a little bit louder and the
bass sounded a bit better coming through on the a53 but they're very very similar there
and we do have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on this model so that's the reason i would pick
for audio the note 11 pro plus now voice calls on both of them are very similar there's hardly
any difference between them cameras on these are very different setups so we do have optical
image stabilization with the samsung now that's a big bonus there 64 megapixel camera two five
megapixels a 12 megapixel ultra wide and then with the redmi this looks like it is the 108 megapixel
camera right but it's not that's our 8 megapixel ultra wide the 108 megapixels
this one right here so a little bit misleading there where they've labeled that and then we
get a 2 megapixel macro camera ouch and this is nothing right there and that is our led
flash front-facing cameras we have 16 megapixels versus 32 and they both have a silver ring
around that cutout of the camera you'll see here that i don't particularly like this
it makes it stand out a lot more but when the screen is on you don't really notice it as much
then our screens they are flat amoled screens full hd plus resolution 120 hertz 6.67 versus 6.5
some people may like the slightly larger screen but if you're basing a decision on the screen
they are both excellent and really there is no difference between these amoled panels it's
almost like they're the exact same grade of panel just that one slightly bigger it's really that
now brightness on both tops out to be over 700 nits and the whites are uniformed they look good
there's no color shifting on them touch response on both is excellent gestures and everything like
that all works well so they're really to me a draw here completely they are so similar these
screens you can really not distinguish any difference between them other than the size
now both of these phones running at 120 hertz you get 120 frames per second with the ui but
of course it does vary now i have noticed that when you swipe down for toggles or notifications
you can get a bit of lag on both of these that will pop through so they're not flawless the
experience of them and it's just down to software they clearly need some optimization from samsung
from xiaomi on both of these so i am on the latest version of the software so this here is running
one ui 4.1 with android 12 and then we do have with the redmi this is running just android 11
here so it does need an update and miui 12.5 not me why 13 which is a little bit odd so that should
be coming soon for this model but if i have to rate the overall experience of the uis i do think
that one ui is still superior it also does have a little bit less bloatware which i'll get onto
now there are a lot of bloatware applications there's about 15 of them over two and a half
gigabytes worth of bloat on the redmi that's unacceptable really that's just way too much get
about six or seven applications with the a53 now internal storage speeds there is a big difference
look at this when you look at the sequential reads and writes they are much better on the note 11 pro
plus big difference there random reads and writes not too much of a difference
in real world use of both of these do you see a difference not really it's only app load times
and installation that you notice that it's faster on this model here just like the antutu score so
a little bit quicker here but really there's not much of a difference between them however
as i pointed out before the ui and general kind of multitasking things does feel faster on the
redmi and we do have nfc on both and you can use your banking applications and it does pass the
safety net which is good and here with widevine level one cert for drm so netflix
is in full hd on both of these models we have a security level one good again and limited
support here with the samsung unfortunately with camera two api we get level three the
maximum support with the redmi note 11 pro plus so that is good but not so great there with the
samsung now gps on both does work very well but you get a better accuracy with the mediatek 920
the density 920 does not have a limitation on that accuracy it gets down to one meter this is three
meters here but both of them get good average strength and both of them they work just fine
gaming now there's a huge difference when it comes to a title which is very popular pub g
here and this is because we are capped with the samsung so the a53 you can only run it
at the high frame rate option which is capped at 30 frames per second that's just unacceptable
that's not good at all so you see here i've managed to get one kill but when you look around
it feels a little choppy 30 frames per second that's not great i know a lot of console gamers
are used to that 30 frames per second but here with the note 11 pro plus you go into the graphics
option and you get the extreme option so ultra is i believe 45 extreme is 60 that's definitely 60
and in the game it's just so smooth massive difference there day and night now with the
game space game turbo sorry you can swipe that bring that up and see that yes confirm that it's
60 frames per second i've noticed that it will run at 60 frames per second most of the time
but a couple of times i have checked it and seen it dip down to 52 but it's very fluid
and just so much better than gaming at a terrible 30 here with the samsung what a disappointment so
the developers of pubg they do need to add support for the a53 so we can run this game at at least
45 or 60. 60 would of course be ideal camera comparison now between the samsung galaxy a53 5g
and the redmi note 11 pro plus so with the 16 megapixel camera on the xiaomi here
you just get 1080p video 1080p 30 with electronic image stabilization you get 1080p 30 with the
samsung with electronic image stabilization but also 4k but 4k 30 but without any stabilization
so i've set both of them here to 1080p now audio bit rate on both is 256 kilobits per second
i'm swapping over the audio sources so which one here sounds the best to you the microphones let me
know in the comments and the stabilization which here looks the best just jog along
and we'll take a look at the clouds in the background to see if it's able to actually
capture that one which one looks the best there when it comes to the clouds that are just up here
rear main cameras so both of these the 64 megapixel then the 108 don't have any electronic
image stabilization but with the samsung at least the a53s main camera does have optical image
stabilization so as you can see the result is that the footage well not perfect is a lot steadier
than what i have with the note 11 pro plus shaking around all over the place ultra wide video now
so this is 1080p the samsung can actually do 4k with the ultra wide but it does not have
any electronic image stabilization it shakes around so i've set them both here to 1080p
as i move ahead you can see the electronic image stabilization is working well and now i'll jog
it looks to me like the xiaomi here is the steadiest the redmi note 11 pro plus
when it comes to the electronic stabilization however
the image i think looks a bit a little bit sharper and more detailed with the a535g
so
battery life on both of these phones because they do support 120 hertz and they have very similar
screens very screen similar screen brightnesses and the performance of both of them with antutu
is so similar i found the battery life is about the same so they're around seven hours
of on-screen time of course that's going to vary on your brightness your use case if you're gaming
then it's going to be of course a lot less than that now the charge time huge difference there
so 120 watts versus just the clear winner is the xiaomi it only takes about 23 minutes to fully
charge that battery which is 4 500 milliamp hours the other thing too with the performance even
though the antutu scores are so similar i do see a clear advantage in just general ui performance
with the redmi it feels a bit better it has less lags but it still does sometimes show the
occasional animation lags and stutters especially when you multi-task you go from a demanding app
back into say twitter or whatsapp or something that's not so demanding it will sometimes
show some clear lags on both of them this one can lag quite a bit too now our main
cameras there's a big difference there 108 megapixels versus having a 64 but with the
optical image stabilization does result in 4k being more stable if you're going to shoot a
lot of 4k video you also get 4k video with the front camera with the samsung and that's good
to have but it doesn't have electronic image stabilization which is disappointing there
now if you use 1080p you do get it with the front-facing cameras and with the rear cameras
and with 4k as i showed you there's no electronic image stabilization on both but you have that
optical as i just mentioned so the build plastic on both of them the screens i would rate as a draw
they are so similar it's just one slightly larger that set so i wouldn't base my decision on that
voice call quality is good on both of these no problems but the audio winner slightly louder jbl
tuned speakers with the redmi note 11 pro plus and you get of course a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
you also get in the box a case a pre-applied screen protector the cable and the charger with
samsung just gives you a type-c to type-c cable that's it no case no pre-applied screen protector
and no fm radio it's got this has fm radio 2 and that ir transmitter so you get so much more
for less too with the xiaomi so the xiaomi's a little bit cheaper so it's the one to get
i think i would get this but i do prefer the one ui and i think the main camera definitely
better and the ultra ultrawide better on this but overall i have to pick the redmi note 11 pro plus
as the winner here so do you agree with my findings there is that the phone you would
choose or are you more loyal to say the samsung let me know in the comments why you would not pick
what i picked or if you agreed with what i said yes the note pro 11 plus is the model to go for