What's happening everyone my name is Alex and welcome back to a new review
Today i have what could possibly be one of the best budget phones for 2018
This right here it's called the xiaomi redmi note 5 and you can find this phone for around $200 depending what configuration you get
Because you can get this phone with either 3, 4 or 6 Gb of ram
Now, no matter what configuration you get they all come with the Snapdragon 636, this is a mid-range Cpu
and we also get either 32 or 64 Gb of internal storage, in my case i have the version of the
64Gb of internal storage and out of that 64Gb of internal storage i only have, about 51Gb left
after the operation system. Now, the phone can
also take an SD card but that SD card cannot be used as internal storage so you can
still save music, pictures and stuff like that on the SD card but you're not gonna
be able to install apps on it. The phone comes out of the box with android 8.1. And Miui 9.5
Aside from that, we have a 4000Mah power battery and on the front of the device, we have a
5,99 inches screen, the 18:9 screen ratio and a 1080p resolution. For a budget phone the screen doesn't look bad
The colors are vibrant enough and the viewing angles are also great and the screen gets bright enough so you can
use the phone outside. However if you'd be to compare this screen with a screen from a more expensive phone from Xiaomi
Well you can definitely tell that the screen on this device is a bit..
washed-out. Now the screen sensitivity is on par with much more expensive devices so no complaints
about that, and the screen can register up to ten touches at the same time. Depending what color of the phone you get, you
may be able to see the bezels more or less so for example if you get the white version
like this one that i have in my hand right now
Well you can definitely see the bezels around the screen, however if you get the black version of this phone you can
barely see the bezels, so i do prefer the black over the white one just because the bezels don't show up as much. And just
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Just above the screen we have an LED notification light and we also have a 13MP camera with the f 2.0
So if you take pictures with plenty of light, the pictures turn out very sharp and very detailed, but dynamic range could be improved
Unfortunately if you take pictures in low-light, those pictures don't turn out that great
they become a bit blurry and grainy so, definitely not the best device to taking selfies in low-light
And we are moving on to the phone's body. So most of the back of the phone is made out of metal, however
we do have plastic at the top and at the bottom, and that's most likely covering
some antennas. On the right hand side, we have the power button and the volume keys. The buttons are nice and clicky and they're
also made out of metal. At the top, we have an IR blaster and a secondary microphone so you could technically
use this phone as a remote control for your TV. And moving to the left hand side of the device there
We have the slot for the SIM card. So this device can
take either 2 SIM cards or an SIM card and an SD card. And moving to the bottom of the device there
we have an exciting 3.5mm audio jack
And that's not something that you usually see these days, so it's kind of exciting to see that for a budget phone
Now, the sound quality from that 3.5mm
audio jack is also great so the sound it's loud, crisp and a lot of bass so no complains
about that. And moving back to the bottom of the device we also have a secondary microphone, we have a
Micro USB charging port and of course the speaker. That Micro USB charging port supports otg
the phone
also
supports
Fast charging so charging the device from 0 to 100 is done in just under 2 hours so pretty quick
As for that speaker well it's one of the loudest speakers that i've heard from any budget phone and it doesn't sound bad at all
So definitely a great speaker. And next i'll show you a quick sample so you can hear how the speaker sounds
And since we are talking about charging earlier, well inside this phone we have a 4000Mah
battery so you can go for about a day and a half on one charge and out of that you can get between 8 and
10 hours of screen on time. So no matter what you do the phone you will still be able to make it thru an entire day
And 8 to 10 hours of screen on time it's pretty decent for any phone at
any pricerange. On the back of the device you
also have a dual camera setup so one of the cameras is a 12MP sensor the F1.9
And the second camera it's a 5MP sensor the F2.0
And of course aside from that, we have the flash and the fingerprint scanner. Now, the fingerprintscanner
is among the fastest that i've seen for any budget phone so as soon as you touch, the screen comes on
Maybe it's not as fast that the fingerprint scanner that you'd find on the Oneplus 5t or something like that but the fingerprint
Scanner it's definitely quick. So, this phone can record in 4k
But you cannot use the stock camera app to record in 4k. You're gonna have to install a different camera app
Like the "Open" camera app from the google play store. If you install that app you can select
4k and then you can select the electronic image stabilization as, well and next i will show
you a quick sample that i've recorded in 4k with this device. You can
check out the image stabilization, how the microphone sounds. This is a quick video recording with the Xiaomi redmi note..
5. I'm currently recording with the open camera app, and i'm recording in 4k at
30Fps and the image stabilization is also on so you cannot choose the 4k recordings if you are
Using the stock camera app. So this is how a recording from this device looks like
The camera app is very quick at taking pictures and at focusing and it's
also packed with feature so you have features like auto HDR
and a manual mode, which is great for a budget device
We also have a portrait mode available and i have to say the portrait mode pictures that you're gonna take with
This device even though the points kind of cheap they look absolutely stunning and on pattern with all the pictures that you take
From much more expensive device. The edge detection is great for about 95% of the pictures that you're gonna take with
this phone
and even though the bokeh effect is a bit exaggerated for some of the shots i still believe that the most
portrait mode pictures that you're gonna take with this phone, looks absolutely great.
So really no complaints
about
The portrait mode from this device.
The thing goes for the pictures that you're gonna take with the main 12 MP
camera on the back of this phone
So most of the pictures that, you'll take that camera are very detail and very sharp
And the colors are also very accurate
But the dynamic range isn't always the best so i wish that would be improved on in a future software update but
Overall for the phone that's around
$200 and probably cheaper in the upcoming months i think the pictures that you're going to take with it during the day look
Absolutely stunning as well
Unfortunately i cannot say the same about the pictures that you're gonna take in low light
So the phone kind of struggles with the pictures taking in low-light. Now, it depends how
Much light you have whatever you're taking pictures it depends if your subject
Is moving it depends if your hands are moving and so on
But overall the picture quality
For low-light isn't that great so most of the pictures turn out kind of blurry and a bit out of focus so yeah the low-light picture
performance isn't the best out there.
And we are moving on to performance. So the Snapdragon 636 is definitely a nice Upgrade from the snapdragon 625
that we used to have for most budget phones from xiaomi so you can
Definitely feel the added performance and speed and the antutu benchmark and the geekbench only
confirm that. As i mentioned earlier the phone comes pre-installed with android
8.1. And on top of that, we have MEUI
9.5. Like most Xiaomi devices the software optimization
Is great so the phone feels very very speedy at all times so it doesn't matter if you're just switching between
Screens or if you're opening apps or if you're closing apps or if your multitasking. The phone always feels very speedy
Aside from the great software optimization, MEUI is also packed with features, so first of all we have access to a
Theme store and from there you can
Customize the phone, however you wish you have features like the double tap to wake up the screen
and of course you can also customize the navigation buttons at the bottom of the screen
Opening Apps is done very quickly and on par with other more expensive
Devices like the xiaomi Mi 6x and i've actually done a comparison video in between those two devices
so if you, wanna check
That out i'm gonna leave a link in the video description or the top right corner of this video
Aside, from that pretty much any app that i tried on this device did perform very well except for the facebook app
That one seems to lag a bit here and there but
Well that app kind of lags on my samsung galaxy S9 plus as well
Multitasking, world's greatest ruin of course it'll depend what version of the phone you have if you, have the one that
Has 3 or 4 Gb of RAM you can
Keep more or less apps running in the background
If you're planning to use the split screen function from android, that on works great as
well because the Snapdragon
636 is powerful enough so you can keep to apps running at the same time
And lastly the gaming performance, so the gaming performance
Is very similar to what you'd get from the snapdragon 660
For example you can play PUBG at the medium settings and there is almost no lag now
Whenever the phone gets hot, you will definitely start noticing a bit of lag but, overall the phone does perform very
Well and other lighter games from the, google play store of course will
Play much better
Even when the phone gets hot
And we are moving on to the gps unit inside this one so it only takes the phone a
Couple of seconds to find your location it doesn't matter if you're outside or inside it finds your location just as quick
And of course I tried the apps like google maps and they do seem to work without any issues
As for sensors, well the phone is packed with sensors just like any other flagship device out there
And that includes a gyroscope as
Well so you could technically use this phone as a vr headset
Moving on to connectivity so the phone supports 4G connectivity and we also have dualband wi-fi but
As we've seen in the past for budget phones from xiaomi there is no NFC
Here in canada i was able to use the phone on 2G
3G and 4G, but definitely check the band's before buying
This device and make sure that the device matches your carrier
As for the speeds over the 4G network and the dual band wi-fi
they're
Pretty good and better than a lot of budget phones that i've tried in the past
And it's time to conclude this video
So for around $200 the Xiaomi redmi note 5 is gonna be hard to beat
We get great cameras, we get great performance and we also get great battery life
So you can't really find anything better for around 200$. Of course i wish the screen
Would have been a bit more vibrant, and i wish the cameras would have done better in low
Light but you can't really have it all for 200$
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