I've been looking forward to reviewing this one.
This is the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus. It's an awesome little smartphone that's quite powerful, but it's also budget
But like with my other phone reviews
What is it like speed wise and, can it play any emulated games?
Stick around to find out, it's TechWizTime
Hey guys, Jonathan here with TechWizTime, where I create technology tutorial and review videos
In this video I'm gonna be looking at the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus
Now full disclosure, Gearbest did send this phone out to me, no money is exchanged hands and thoughts and opinions are definitely my own
So with that said and out of the way. I just wanted to say that with Xiaomi I haven't reviewed any of their products before, but
I've always been excited to try them out because they just seem to be one of those brands that are up and coming and, you know
Have a lot of potential, so
I wasn't really disappointed at all when I was testing this out, and you'll see why soon
So inside this phone is the Snapdragon 625 processor, now that's an 8 core, 2 gigahertz processor
And it's got the Adreno 506 GPU inside
This particular model comes with 32 gigabytes of on-board storage and 3 gigabytes of RAM
Bluetooth comes in at version 4.1. And it's only 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi here not the 5 gigahertz
Now it comes with Android 7.1.2. And unfortunately it doesn't come with USB C, it's only the micro USB
Out of the box this device isn't rooted, so you'll need to look elsewhere
A and the battery life is of 4,000 milliamp hours, so not too bad
The screen is a 5.9 9 inch IPS display
That comes in at 2160 by 1080 so not too bad there
This one does have the headphone jack up the top, but like I said, it's only got the microUSB down the bottom
And it also has the two SIM card slots or one SIM card and the one micro SD card slot
Really good if you're looking to expand that 32 gigabytes of storage
But when talking about the camera quality, let's have a look at the front-facing camera and the rear facing camera. The front is 5 megapixels in the rear is 12 megapixels, so
We'll take a little selfie
And apparently I'm a 42 or 43 year old male
Must be looking a bit older after I've had my first child
Okay so we'll grab to Totoro and that's the rear-facing camera what it looks like
So with all those specs on that out of the way let's have a look at some benchmarks and the first one up is A1sd Bench
This tests the storage capability, how fast it reads and writes
in the internal storage and also the external MicroSD Card
So for the internal read speed. We're looking at 231 megabytes per second and for the internal write speed
We're looking at 145 megabytes per second, so
Not too bad, the write speeds a little bit on the low side, but
Considering this as a budget phone, it's not too bad
Next up is the MicroSD card read and write speeds and the read speed we're looking at 74 megabytes per second
And the write speed we're looking at 42 megabytes per second so again the write speed is a little bit on the low side, but
This is a budget phone
Lastly we've got the RAM speed, this is how fast the device can access the RAM?
We're looking at 5335 megabytes per second
So for the inbuilt three gigabytes of RAM
That's not too bad
Next up we've got AnTuTu
And we're looking at an overall score of 62209
A 3d score of 12347
A UX score of 23995
A CPU score of 20441
And a RAM score of 5426
Next up we've got Geekbench to test out the CPU and we're getting a single core score of 853
And we're getting a multi-core score of 4160
Next up to test the GPU capabilities we've got 3DMark
And in the Slingshot test we're getting 834
In slingshot extreme we're getting 459
In Ice Storm we're getting 13351
And lastly in Ice Storm Extreme
We're getting 6813
Next up we've got the popular streaming apps, which is either Netflix or YouTube
YouTube works out of the box it comes in at 1080p resolution
However Netflix doesn't, so, if Netflix is something that you're looking for on your phone, this probably isn't the phone for you
Okay, so with all those benchmarks out of the way, let's have a look at the next step, which is
Emulation or gaming
Normal gaming like Android gaming and so forth is gonna work fine on this phone, but
When it comes to emulation you need a quite a powerful phone to pull it off, so
That's why I do those tests here
So the first one up we're looking at PPSSPP, which is the Playstation Portable emulator
And the first game up is Power Stone
Now for this one-on-one brawler we're looking at 35 to 45 frames per second, so
Not too bad, you'll still be able to play it just not on the full framerate
And the next one is the notorious God of War
And this one we're only seeing about 15 to 20 frames per second here, so
It's not going to be the best for playing such a power-hungry game like God of War
Alright so after that we've got Raycast, which is the Dreamcast emulator for Android
And the first game we're looking at here is Sonic Adventure 2
And surprisingly we're getting about 40 to 50 frames per second here, which is really really good on Sonic Adventure 2
Especially considering that the max here is about 50 frames per second since it's a PAL game
After that we've got Shemue and we're getting around 25 to 30 frames per second here
Definitely playable for when you're on the go
And lastly for the Dreamcast emulator, we've got Soul Calibur
Now this fighter is coming in at 45 to 55 frames per second
So, definitely capable, just it's got a lot of graphical glitches, so, that's the emulator itself, it's nothing to do with the phone
Okay and lastly we'll have a look at FPS I which is the PlayStation 1 emulator for Android
And the first game off the ranks here is Final Fantasy 7, a fan favorite, so
We're getting about 60 frames per second here, which is fantastic, so
You'll be able to play this on the go
So after Final Fantasy 7 we've got Metal Gear Solid and this one's coming in at 60 frames per second, which is fantastic
And lastly off the ranks to test whether this is capable of PlayStation emulation
We always test out Tekken 3
So, Tekken 3 is coming in here at 60 frames per second, so there's no issues here with Playstation emulation
So a couple of things to note with the Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus is I really really like this phone. I like its display. I like the feel of it. I like the MIUI front rnd that they've put on this
It feels really responsive and they've done a really good job with it
One other thing to know here as well as there's a Chinese smartphone, so, it is for the Chinese market and unfortunately a lot of it is still in Chinese.
It doesn't come with Google Play Store however, if you go to their marketplace and simply type in Google Play Store, then it will come up and you will be able to install it like I have here
So one of the only down sites that I see that this phone is that it is using microUSB
Instead of USB C, and for me, that's it's not really a killer, but I do prefer the USB see devices now rather than the micro USB
But for it's price and it's gaming capabilities and all it's tests that it's done.
I've got to say this is a pretty decent smartphone if you're looking in that price range
Which if I haven't mentioned is a 200 dollar mark
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