Redmi's note 11 pro 5g and the note 11. two very different phones powered by different
chipsets we've got this snapdragon 695 versus the 680. we do have 5000 milliamp hour batteries
in both of these phones but one has 67 watt charging the other 33 is there a big difference
in them that's what i'm here to find out and what about the cameras so 108 megapixel main
camera on the more expensive pro 5g model and then a 50 megapixel one i do have a separate
video with a camera comparison of both of these but it will be covered a little bit
in this video so the screens we've got 90 hertz versus 120 hertz screen they're both full hd
plus resolutions and in this review i'll be covering the screen differences other differences
that come up and benchmarks and performance and which one i think you should go for over the redmi
note 11 pro 5g or the note 11. now on the left i have the 11 pro 5g and this is on the right the
note 11. just to make it a bit clear and i'll keep the boxes on those sides and throughout the video
the phones will be on either side there so looking at them both here we do have with the front glass
flat glass screens which is good there's no curvature to it i wouldn't expect that with more
affordable orientated phones 6.67 inches versus 6.43 inches and they are amoled now 120 hertz
versus 90 hertz here so slightly smaller screen means this one is a little bit more comfortable
in hand now fingerprint readers on both of them they seem to be a little bit slow but the slowest
is yeah the cheaper model you can see it takes about a second or so there to wake up it's not
that quick and you'll see with this model it's still a little slow but not too bad a little
bit quicker but the main thing is the accuracy is there with both of them and both of them tend to
be working quite well there now with the front facing cameras we've got a 13 megapixel front
facing camera here with this model right here and then we have a 16 megapixel with the note so it's
got a slightly better front facing camera at least with the megapixel count and later on i'll do a
bit of a camera comparison which i've already run with this now the backs of them we do have gorilla
glass so on the front here gorilla glass 5 gorilla glass 3 with a cheaper model and glass on the back
with the note right here so it does feel just a little bit nicer in hand a little bit more
premium you could say plastic back on the note 11. now both of these models do have plastic frames
around them so we have our sim tray there now with this particular model the note 11 it does have
a three in one slot so that means two nano sims you get the 4g with it only but the micro sd card
support is great to have because you don't have to give up on one of those sims unlike the redmi note
11 pro 5g we'll take two nano sims or a nano sim and a micro sd card which goes on the reverse side
notice there is a little gasket around it so these phones do have an ip53 rating so that's splash
protection and dust you certainly don't want to be swimming with these phones because water will
get in them now these buttons here are plastic they're capacitive always on fingerprint readers
as i demonstrated before the accuracy very good of them and then it's all plastic frames you
don't see any antenna lines and the paint job on the finish of them for the price of these phones
isn't too bad now the thickness you are looking at right here approximately 8.1 millimeters
versus here which is slightly thicker around about 8.2 now with the cameras it does bring it
up to just over 10 millimeters with this one and around about 11 here so it's a little bit thicker
there but you don't really notice too much of a difference weight wise here it is so 202 grams
versus then a much lighter approximately 180 grams with the cheaper note 11. the smaller model too so
it makes sense that it is a little bit lighter both of them have 5 000 milliamp hour batteries
within them down the bottom type c ports on both now you would notice that i've got a bit of a chip
that's come out there with the note 11 pro 5g so i do believe that this painted plastic coating
on it it's like silver underneath it and it is prone to just showing up little chips and things
so early on so there's the sim tray there microphone two loudspeakers and then the tops
of them flipping them around here you'll see that we do have two 3.5 millimeter headphone jacks now
tested them both out typical xiaomi quality that it sounds good got no real complaints with them
the secondary loudspeakers here so great at this price point especially with that note 11
to have this we've got ir transmitters and then secondary microphones now then for our cameras
the main camera is 108 megapixels on the note 11 pro 5g so the more expensive model and then we've
got 50 on this one right here both of them have eight megapixel ultra wides and then we have a 2
megapixel macro and another 2 megapixel for depth on the note 11. and they're not very good cameras
as you can imagine 2 megapixels i wish they just didn't give them to us and give us a better ultra
wide i think would be better and most people would probably be happy with that so we just
get the two megapixel with this and then that eight and then an ai badge there which um yeah i
wish they didn't do that hey very similar looking though the backs there at least the camera modules
so i'm very happy they've gone with amoled screens on both of these and they do look good so they top
out just over around 700 nits both of them they have very clear screens and they can
be made out in direct sunlight the differences between them here apart from their size is the
refresh rate of course so with this 120 hertz and then with the note 11 you get 90 hertz as the max
option there now 90 hertz for me this price point i think is fantastic really good to have there
and the touch response on both of them is good but you do notice this one's better not because
of the processor it's really because this has six gigabytes of ram this model has four i just
think that the ui which is miui 13 seems to like that ram a little bit it's quite ram heavy so
having the six i definitely see a bit of a difference there now it is very good the
screen when you look at the color reproduction and things you can tweak it of course under these
display settings when you go into it color scheme that's all typical here for me why you can go
along and tweak that to your personal preference when it comes down to your white balance you can
tweak that now i've just got it on the vivid recommended setting here at the moment i've
just left it as default as you would get it out of the box so there are excellent screens
on both of them full hd plus resolution and really the whole thing seems to run pretty good
with the gestures no issues there and to talk a little about a little bit about the ui i
definitely noticed that this model here with the four gigs like i just mentioned really that it's
a little bit slower now i've noticed quite a few bugs here with mia y13 little glitches the worst
has been sometimes the animations have been slower on both of them quite leggy at times the other
is the camera apps on both i have seen crash you can see how much slower that was to launch there
on this model so what's happened is a lot of the times i've been recording to do my
test camera comparison video that i posted earlier i'm swapping over into the video app i'm going
into the other apps and this is what caused a little bit of a glitch on both of them actually
the camera apps crashed on me which is really annoying to see so there's bugs like that
present with me ui now when you use the video mode it's something that's really odd here so the
cheaper model can shoot 1080p 40 frames per second and you can see that we're kept out at only 30
frames per second with the note 11 pro which does sell for more than 100 euros over 100 euros more
than the cheaper model that doesn't make much sense to me what doesn't make any sense either
is currently at the state of both of these with the electronic image stabilization this the time
of this review this one when you shoot looks like you've got electronic image stabilization
you haven't with the rear cameras this one the preview on the screen looks all shaky
but you do have electronic image stabilization as you can see now with my camera comparison
so i won't cover those cameras too much in detail because it's all in that camera comparison so make
sure you check that out i just wanted to also say that the front facing cameras here it's the other
way around we get electronic image stabilization with the 11 pro 5g but we don't with the note 11
and there's no 4k video option with either i think it's the downgraded isp with these different chips
that xiaomi's gone with that is the problem there so in a way we've kind of gone a step backwards
compared to the note 10 pro even though we do have miui 13 on both of these it's still
android 11 so we haven't gone over to android 12 and maybe in a way it's a good thing because
my experience so far with miui 13 with android 12 on their flagship phones has been quite buggy so
when you get both of them this is one thing that doesn't make sense either you get more bloatware
on the more expensive version pre-installed apps here both running of course miui 13 global rom
so that's what you have to remove there's quite a bit it's about two gigabytes on both of them
and around 20 applications that i would consider as bloatware that are installed so i need to tone
tone down on that differently now battery life very similar here okay not much in it at all
now what you're looking at on both of them is approximately nine to ten hours of on-screen
time with normal kind of use so screen on time there this is just my fixed benchmark of course
200 nits lets it run this benchmark looping the same thing to then 20 battery where it stops and
gives excuse me this score right here so they are excellent when it comes to batteries both of
these will outdo flagships the current xiaomi 12 flagships get around seven hours of screen on time
these are an easy eight or nine hours so they should last most people about
two days although i have noticed currently this standby drain on both is not that good
when i haven't been using them you come back and you've lost a bit of battery life there
now charge time 51 minutes to go from 12 to 100 with the note 11 now this keeps glitching out
on me because it kept restarting the charging for some reason i keep testing it over and over
what i found with the 67 watt charger and the stock cable using all the stock stuff
here it would keep charging disconnecting and then charging again it would just for a split
second disconnect the charge or stop the charging then continue on but it only takes just over 30
minutes well their claim xiaomi is sorry 42 minutes and i got with this in fact 50. so
very close charge rates but it could be the fact that it keeps disconnecting all the time
there so there's not actually much difference at all which is weird 33 watts versus 67 you
think that this will be so much faster but in reality it isn't it just starts out a bit faster
now a big difference here with our antutu scores because we are looking at the snapdragon 684
g versus the 695 5g both of them are six nanometer chips and the scores they're huge difference and
you do see it in just general use and especially gaming the performance on this model completely
kills this one here which at times feels quite a bit laggy i do believe it's got a lot to do with
just the four gigabytes of ram as i mentioned before geekbench 5 scores again reflecting the
difference in performance here's quite a large gap very large there so this is another thing
that doesn't make sense why is the cheaper model here better i don't get it i don't know what's
going on maybe just different flash chips or software differences so both have ufs 2.2 storage
you'll see when i zoom in that um hang on what on earth is going on did i mix up the benchmarks here
no i didn't so random reads and writes which are really the most important one here are slightly
faster okay on the 11 pro 5g but look at the sequential reads quite a bit of a difference
and a lot faster sequential reads on the cheaper model which is why i say hang on that doesn't
really make any sense it's just the way it is now with our gps both of them work about the same okay
and you got that typical qualcomm cap of three meters accuracy if this was a mediatek powered
version from xiaomi for the note series then it would be about one meter of accuracy because
they don't have that cap both of them do support widevine level one cert which is good so netflix
is in full hd which is good but amazon prime video both of these devices aren't white listed
yet i don't know if they ever will be so you only get standard definition was amazon prime video
moving over to our audio now so they both do support 3.5 millimeter headphones and this is
great because normally most phones are dropping that but at least with the redmi series with
these more affordable phones from xiaomi we have this 3.5 mil support and yay it's good it sounds
actually very good from both of them and really as mentioned before when we looked at the design
i've got no complaints it's typical xiaomi 3.5 millimeter quality there so we do have
dual out speakers on both and especially at the price point of the note 11 this is great to have
before we get onto that 100 volume sample from both of them we can test and hear which one is
the best just wanted to show you scrolling here in youtube that it seems definitely so
much faster and smoother on the more expensive model as you'd expect compared to this which is
it's pretty good the scrolling here as you can see but i've just noticed that sometimes
the images will take a little bit longer to load in so what i'll do is go into one of my videos now
one of these camera comparisons and we'll listen to that speaker give you a sample at 100 volume
now they are both very similar i think the volume is more or less the same but you can hear on the
11 pro 5g just a little bit more bass coming through with that tune that i just played so i
would have to get the win there to the more expensive note 11 pro 5g model now with our
gaming performance this one's pretty obvious right so at the bottom here this is the note 11 pro 5g
now in pubg it allows us to have the ultra frame rate option whereas the slower
680 only the high frame rate option and that's both using the balanced with the graphics or
smooth with our graphics here so just test out first the note 11 5g and this is good like
playability wise like this is smooth okay in fact both of them are smooth you can get your kills and
there's no real lag looking down iron sights there but you do notice especially with that frame rate
different that this one feels a lot smoother and better than the note 11 which i'll now go over to
so the note 11 here still good but when you look around okay definitely i don't feel that that
doesn't look as smooth all right and down the iron sights here it's not going to lag out or anything
so both of the phones it's the main thing can play a game like pubg here you can get your kills
and no issue however if you do intend to game a lot and you're considering both of these models
i would go for the note 11 pro 5g because it has more ram and the slightly
more potent chipset from qualcomm which is that 690 versus the slower 680 okay so if you're on
a budget clearly you go for the note 11 and if you don't game a lot you just need a simple phone
that only has 4g if you need the 5g speeds then clearly of course the note 11 pro 5g is the phone
to go for so battery life on both of them is very similar there there's not much of a difference and
then the charge time is a bit of a surprise i don't know whether my unit's a bit faulty and
playing up because it keeps disconnecting and then charging again for a split second so that probably
affected those charging times we'd only got around about 50 minutes this is around this one being
about the same kind of time so that was a little bit odd there other differences that are odd to
me are the storage speeds we've got slightly better storage speeds at least sequentials
in the cheaper model kind of doesn't really make sense so both have 3.5 million headphone jacks ir
blasters too that is good to see and the quality out of that 3.5 millimeter on both of them is good
now where both of these phones have a bit of a problem is miui 13. now it just runs on android
11 so it's not android 12 yet we'll be waiting for that update they're a little bit buggy both of
them especially the camera app on the note 11 pro 5g i did notice that it crashed quite a few times
when i did the camera comparison and i thought at one point i'd have to give up because every time
i tried to swap to the ultra wide or then back to the main camera it would lock up and crash on me
freeze up on me and that just was not good at all so really strange things are happening with this
why no 4k video didn't the last model have it so that's odd and then why not 1080p 60 frames per
second with a more expensive model and then the lack of electronic image stabilization on one of
these versus the other really confusing so one of them has it with the front-facing video the other
doesn't have it with the rare video xiaomi does need to get their act together and just improve
the software and hopefully give us electronic image stabilization on all of the cameras
so front and back and they do think that judging from the camera comparison they've done there's
not that much of a difference between 108 megapixels and 50 but if you do take a lot of
low light photos and portraits i would probably go for the 108 megapixel one you get the 16 megapixel
photos by default and you got a little bit more resolution and detail there to play around with
so there we go that is the difference well the key difference is you now know between
redmi's note 11 and then the note 11 pro 5g with the faster 695 chipset but really they should have
gone with a 700 series one i believe in this but in a way they're kind of like downgrades compared
to the previous models aren't they a bit thanks a lot for watching and i'll see you in the next one