It is time to check out another Xiaomi phone this is their latest release the
redmi 5 now I decided to skip the redmi 5 and go for the readme five plus
version which I have here because it has a better screen on it and better specs
so the screen is 5.99 inches it's that now popular 2017 trend which is an 18 by
9 aspect ratio screen with a resolution of 1080 by 2160 now the speak of it is
so similar to the redmi note 4 that I reviewed it has a snapdragon 6 to 5 it's
a shame that they did not go with a Snapdragon 630 that's a bit of a mistake
because they have used that chipset so many times now but it is very efficient
especially when it is paired up with a 4000 and milliamp hour battery it has a
full unibody housing fingerprint reader on the rear so I'm gonna get this one
unboxed here we'll go through the design of it just check out out the first
impressions it should have meet you or I 900 years well that's based on Android 7
and then of course at the end of this video here I will give you my first
impressions of the redmi 5 plus so it should be factory sealed it's in this
super bubble wrap that tends to protect the phone really well
EU power adapter that they included the seller and yes this does still have the
factory wrap on there so they've used a red star box now a little bit different
we normally see just a plain white box and if you read Chinese well there's all
the band's the specs of this I'm not too sure this is gonna have LTE band 20 I
don't think it will okay we'll see what we get in the box it'll just be the
usual hopefully they haven't included a quick charge style charger and not just
a standard one ok so it looks like we've got an instruction manual here oh no
it's actually a case that's one of those soft rubber style ones this one is in
black and that in fact looks exactly the same material that style of it just like
what I had with the note 3 so we have the phone of course in black and this
looks to be an instruction manual so this
is all in Chinese because this is the Chinese version I have imported and this
also shows you the layout of that some tres are either 2 nano Sims or your
microSD card and nano SIM the cable this is micro USB 2 which is a little
disappointing I feel that this late in the year 2017 that this should be a type
C cable so that's a another letdown there now more disappointing news here
that the charger is not a quick charge 3:1 it's the standard charger here so 5
volts 2 amps they should have included one that supports Qualcomm quick charge
3 and that would be rated then 2 12 volts and lastly a SIM tray tool so it
weighs in at 181 grams the redmi 5 plus is 8.1 millimeters thick
that's without the camera bump with the bump there then that comes up to eight
point nine millimeters exactly so starting with the top where we have an
IR transmitter 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and a secondary Michael on the top
the camera which is 12 megapixels with an F 2.2 aperture dual tone LED flash
and a rare fingerprint reader now the housing itself does show the
fingerprints and that's showing up already and I've only just been touching
it for a few minutes and you can see the edges are curved now the material at the
top it feels to me like it could be plastic or they are using a different
type of alloy but you can see that there is a difference in that tone there of
the black with the top there the strip which to me I am gonna say it's plastic
but I'm not 100% sure it is but it could be for the antenna of reception in there
so it's not a complete whole unibody maybe by the looks of it now down the
bottom we have that micro USB 2 port which has said I would have liked them
to have at least used type C I mean other budget manufacturers that are
selling phones in this price range they're using type C and then of course
we had the loudspeaker and the microphone and again this strip there at
the bottom on the right side metal buttons now they do feel good they do
not rattle around they're not loose or anything like that and you can see that
we do have a plastic trim that holds the Green into the rear body and the glass
it is 2.5 days does have curved edges the symmetry is metal reinforced it does
have this outer plastic surround and you can see there we can fit either 2 nano
Sims or a micro SD card and nano sim up the top of your ambient light sensor
proximity sensor earpiece and then a front facing five megapixel camera with
F 2.2 aperture just like the rear camera very quick look at the phone in the case
just before I power it on so you can see the case will protect the camera it's
just high enough so the lens should not be touching when you put it down on a
table and it also protects the buttons there on the right side and gives the
phone of course a lot more grip to it it doesn't feel as slippery in this but not
a bad case at all I mean it's relatively cheap it's not a premium case certainly
not there and I roll the build off the phone in hand feels nice because of
those curved edges and for the price the quality is quite decent the only thing
that bothers me a little bit is the top strips there I would have liked them to
have maybe made that old unibody and not show that kind of difference there with
the top but other than that I think it's fine oh yeah and types you put on the
bottom we should have really had a types important so the first boot took a
little while approximately 25 seconds or so and first thing you notice is okay
those bezels left and right they're not really that slim at or and I thought
that was kind of the idea of the 18 by 9 aspect ratio to narrow things down so
you can get longer screens slimmer bezels on the side and yes we do lose
Hardware navigation keys which is another cotton there because I prefer
Hardware navigation keys over software but of course now with 18 by 9 screens
everyone seems to use the software keys with that to gain and make use of that
extra screen real estate we've got there so the bezels it's actually just measure
these because they look a little bit long-term a little bit big about 2.5
millimeters as the size of those bezels there and you can see some color
shifting a little there with the screen on an angle there
IPS but that's to be expected so Asian languages only or English
because this is the Chinese version you have to wait for the global release or
the global ROM and then flash that later on so I'll quickly go through this set
up now you can see I can add a fingerprint here but look at the screen
just for a second again it's a got quite a cool white calibration to it I'm not
too sure I like the out-of-the-box calibration here and you can see right
on the edge there - I don't know if that's coming out on camera but the
colors are shifting quite a bit there so I'm going to add my finger here we'll
see how this goes that normally on the other readme devices that I have
reviewed this goes really quick and their fingerprint readers work well not
like the doogee mix - that I've reviewed recently they had quite a bad
fingerprint reader it took me quite a few attempts to get out to works ok
setup is complete there now and that screen looks a little bit better here
now not too bad so I'm gonna lock it place my finger on there unlock Wow okay
that is fast just as fast as the redmi note 4 very good there so no complaints
with that unlock speed this is an always-on
fingerprint reader that it has on the rear so a few technical details here for
those that like to know this kind of information I just brought up that
engineering menu so you can see that the front camera and the rear camera ROV so
that's Omni vision sensors they are using and this particular one that I
have that could change maybe later on they use other sensors I was
half-expecting Samsung or Sony so a little disappointing there but I mean
they don't actually make too bad a sensors either so I'll test them out
later on this video as well and there's also details there with the LCD panel so
if you want to check that out the fingerprint reader sensor on the rear is
good X and we're using hynek's 4 gigabytes of RAM and a Hynix e MMC
so my readme 5 plus here is running Android a 7.1.2 and it is the security
patch level from October but there is a firmware update that's just come out and
it's me a 9.0 stable I think the newest version is 9.1 so I'll probably have an
update for that and you also get approximately 53
half gigabytes of free available storage on this model of course you can expand
upon that with a microSD card and this is the latest over-the-air update I have
it's 1.4 gigabytes so quite a large download optimizer system performance
and fixes bugs so I'll get this downloaded and installed straight away
so this is probably the reason why the phone screen looks a little bit off it's
using that optimized contrast according to the available light it would adjust
it automatically and I'm not really fond of this in me o a9 but of course I'm
going to set this now just to the standard now when I have to sit to the
standard to me the screen now looks a lot better but we still are getting a
little bit of that color shifting there but that's not really too much of an
issue because I tend to look at my screen straight on anyway now because I
have the Chinese version you're going to get a lot of this on here so be aware if
you are going to be importing one that does not have a global ROM expect a lot
of bloatware now most of the scrap on here you can uninstall it which is at
least something you can get rid of a good 95% of it at least so just the one
loudspeaker on the bottom it does not use the earpiece as a secondary
loudspeaker which I feel maybe they should have done that but maybe they're
saving that for the premium mobiles but let's have a listen now to that bottom
speaker I find it sounds ok it doesn't really have that much bass at all and
the volume well it could be a little bit louder to
so so far in my initial hands-on here testing with the little time I've had
with that the UI seems fast it seems smooth touch accuracy is also quite good
and I haven't noticed any problems or hiccups or seen any UI stutters a
Snapdragon 65 with 4 gigabytes of RAM and running me uo9 I feel is smooth
enough and fast enough for most people quick look at the camera so it's now and
using that updated me UI 9 camera app which has just a few little tweaks to it
so this is the manual camera mode and we've only got white balance in ISO
that's it no shutter controls nothing else on here no exposure which is a
little bit of a shame here so this is definitely not going to be I feel a
camera powerhouse naught to be really expected as a budget mobile phone - in
this kind of price group now we've got all your standard modes there in
settings that is all pretty self-explanatory and when we have a look
here under the settings of the camera you'll see here that the video recording
quality does go all the way up to 4k which is great and we can also select
the focus mode to be continual auto focus or tap if it does have that very
common focus breathing issue that a lot of the Xiaomi phones tend to have but
anyway let's have a look at some samples taken on the redmi v plus so i'll start
out with shooting a video here this isn't 4k the maximum sitting you get
which is good to see in a budget mobile phone and the focus is set to the
continual autofocus which is the default mode but i have noticed there's quite a
bit of that focus breathing you can see just then now this is something that's
very common with xiaomi they can't seem to solve this problem they always have
this focus breathing issue or most of their mid-range and budget mobile phones
just are not good to see a bit of an average day here so not perfect
conditions winter has finally arrived here in dinya let's check out the focus
okay seems to work alright but I would stick to the tap to focus because that
pulsing in and out is really kind of ruining the video isn't it so let's have
a look at the front-facing camera now now this is a sample of the front-facing
camera so it's 5 megapixels if 2.2 aperture I think it is or if 2.0 and the
quality of it looks reasonably good not bad for this type of mobile phone you
cannot change any of this seating so settings completely disabled not even
there or present on this current firmware when trying to change the
resolution anything like that so you don't have those options idea the camera
to me on the front looks quite good
so there we go that's the unboxing and my first impressions of the mobile well
it seems okay it just leaves a little bit to be desired really I feel that
they could have done a few different things here they could have added a
types he put on the bottom they could have put a front-facing loudspeaker as
well would have been good and maybe use the Snapdragon 630 but apart from that
it really is a rid me Note 4 just with a two by one aspect ratio screen so I mean
there's various positives here too with it I mean the performance seems good
better life I know is gonna be really good because the Snapdragon 65 with a
four thousand milliamp hour battery should be great I mean we're looking at
hopefully about 10 hours screen on time if not a lot more than that because I
remember I got close to 14 I think it was continuous screen on time whether it
mean Note 4 so the build is good the camera on the rear is a little
disappointing the video quality because of the focus problem it seems to I had
that focus breathing issue which is very common on the Xiaomi mobile phones it
seems they can never get that right and fix that for once fingerprint reader
unlocks super quick and fast look at the Jill sermon got the four gigabytes of
RAM now price point at the moment this is selling for around about 230 u.s. at
the time of this video here which means it's more expensive than the redmi note
4 which I feel it should probably go for unless of course you must have an 18 by
9 aspect ratio screen something it looks a little bit more modern but we still
has as you can see bezels left and right there
our present and it is a shame to that we kind of lose this real estate at the
bottom here so no more hardware navigation keys it's all just software
there so what do you guys think about the redmi v plus here let us know down
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