Hi guys Chris here back with another Xiaomi phone so this is the Redmi Note 5
the chinese version that just came out last week now it's very similar to that
Indian version which is called the Redmi Note 5 pro however this has improved
cameras so we now got an aperture of f11 is brighter than the f 2.2 on the indian
version and the pixels are larger so they're 1.4 micrometers instead of 1.2
micrometers they should capture more details and I
believe that this might actually have the Samsung Galaxy s7 dual pixel
autofocus camera in it well the sensor at least but not the
lens of course which will be great to have an X or an old flagship sensor used
in a budget mobile phone so the rest of the specs are exactly the same as the
Indian version it has that same screen on there which is two by one aspect
ratio 2160 by 1080 it's an IPS panel and we also have a four thousand milliamp
hour battery four gigabytes around 64 gigabytes of storage is the version that
I will be reviewing here so let's get this unboxed and check it out in greater
detail and you would have noticed from the title of this video that I do have a
giveaway of this if you're interested in winning one of these right here a redmi
note 5 then please click the link down in the description that will give you
more details on that giveaway so you can see this one comes factory sealed I got
this one from goldway Hong Kong and it is costly for gigabyte version with 64
gigabytes of storage and it should also be in black so pretty plain box here and
we'll have a course the Chinese charger in here now I don't know whether it's
gonna support quick charge but I will check that out so we have inside here
you can see a TPU case which is in that kind of grey transparent color they're
pretty cheap but I mean it does the job it's going to protect the camera as well
you can see because it's raised up edges around there and it even protects the
button so it better than nothing and good to have this to start out with at
least so what else do we get in the box here so we've got the cable of course
now this cable is only microUSB too which I feel is a ver
poor move on Shelby's behalf they should switch now to using type C for
everything like everyone else's and the charger of course so it's nice and small
and it is rated to 5 volts 2 amps only so you're not going to get Qualcomm
squid charge three out of this charger but I will check one of the charges I
have lying around that does support Qualcomm squid charge 3 see if the phone
will at least charge at those rates get a little instruction leaflet here as
well now this is all in Chinese so along the bottom we have a 3.5 millimeter
headphone ports the microphone micro USB 2 and then the loudspeaker so I'll give
you a sample of this loudspeaker later on in this video and on the top you'll
find an IR transmitter and a secondary microphone used for noise cancellation
and in video on the right hand side the volume up and down buttons the power on
button now they serve made out of metal and they've got a good feel to them on
the Left these sim tray and it is metal reinforced which is great because do you
remember those plastic ones that could break really easy you're not gonna have
issue with this one so the back of the phone is made out of metal we have a
fingerprint reader there and the texture of it it does feel slippery so when your
hands cold and dry this is going to be really really super slippery so I'd put
that case on it straight away and you'll notice again the difference there with
the metal here and then the painted plastic at the top that imitates metal
but I wish they were interest with a unibody metal build on this and they
could have just put a couple of antenna lines on here and here is where they
made some big changes with the camera on the rear so they swapped out the old
sensor which is the 12 megapixel one with the 1.2 micrometer sized pixels now
they're 1.4 micrometers so larger and they're dual pixel autofocus still 12
megapixels and the lens has changed it is now f 1.9 so that should give us some
improvements so that top sensor that's the 5 megapixel one that's used with
your portrait mode to get the blurred backgrounds and for the depth perception
below and in the middle there is of course the dual tone LED flash now
taking a look at the weight of it so it weighs 1.8 2 grams and it is a
roundabout or 8 millimeters thick this is without the protruding
cameras you can see their camera does protrude it a little bit there and that
now makes its 9 so the camera only sticks out about one millimeter or so so
just turning it on for the first time out of the box there's always a little
bit of battery with these phones which is good so here are the language options
of course if you want more options here you have to get the global ROM version
or wait for the European release which maybe this model here or it could in
fact just be the Indian model that first came out so obviously I'm gonna select
English there and you can see up a network but I'm gonna skip this and go
through this as fast as possible oh that's my SIM card set up so skip that
so we can set up a fingerprint which I'll do now you need to enter in a PIN
number that's just telling me that I need to remember my password obviously
got it yes ok now alright has come up with the Chinese keyboard so just
kidding have to get rid of that for a second my super secure pin number that
no one's gonna guess done and now to add a fingerprint so this should not take
long at all just need to touch that a few times and the fingerprint readers on
most of these readme phones in fact all of them I've since really the readme no
three Pro have been really good and super quick so test that in just a
second ok so first impressions of the screen it
doesn't look bad you can see that when you move it yeah okay the colors shift
out a little bit well it's not really so much color shifting it's just dimming
isn't it so it's not like a Super AMOLED panel but not bad this IPS screen so far
just taking a look at the brightness seems to also be right up there when you
turn it on to full brightness that in effect overpowers my current camera
settings now just to point out as well that we do have curved 2.5 D glass so
out of the box we have almost 52 gigabytes free you can of course expand
upon that with a micro SD card now when you first set up the phone something
that I skipped there is it asks you if you want the full screen gestures or you
want to use the on-screen buttons that we are all familiar with I think going
forward now is probably best for me to start to use the full screen gestures to
get used to that since these screens now are not using any more capacitive
buttons located just down the bottom here so these gestures they're pretty
straightforward they're listed right here
so you can see that when you slide from the left it's going to go back when you
swipe up and start bets to open your recents and then if you just swipe
straight up that takes you then to the home screen so it's pretty much straight
forward and it won't take too long to learn that just to also point out that
my version is running me you a nine point five stable I've checked for
updates and at the time of this video there are no updates yet Android version
8.1 which is really good and the security patch level is from the 1st of
February so the photo course has a face unlocking and I've just done that added
my face it literally only takes about ten seconds so let's see how this
unlocks it'll wake it first of course and then boom really quick and the
fingerprint unlocking well that is just as fast in fact even faster that's
really quick it's it only takes a matter of not even a second that's under a
second and it's unlocked you don't have to wake it first
the fingerprint reader is always on notice to answer few those questions
that people have so triple check here does it support Tribble it says yes it
does but this kind of some bad news here because it's a only system partition off
if it was a and B then it would be more seamless now what project Tribble is is
just easier fast updates on the Android operating systems there it's part of
Android 8 if it's enabled and quick charge support doesn't seem to work
now I've tested with my meter it's only 5 volts 2 amps it's charging at so it's
not supporting Qualcomm quick charge 3 even though the chipset supports it
Xiaomi does not have that enabled and then I'll camera information so you can
see the sensors on there the axillary one is a 5 megapixels Samsung sensor the
main one is the s5 k21 7 or 2 l7 sorry now if that was the 2-hour one that
would be the Samsung Galaxy s7 sensor but it's not it turns out the sensor
does support that dual pixel phase diode autofocus so it should be reasonably
good but I'll give you some samples of that one later on and the front-facing
camera the 13 megapixel one is from Omni vision so we do have double tap to wake
onboard and network pretty well and you can see face
unlocking took a while to recognize me there but not too bad and we do have a
coarsely quick shortcut as well for the camera but you've got to enable that so
when you have that enabled you double tap on the volume button it will
automatically launch the camera straight away so I pointed out in the start we've
got a loud speaker on the bottom so just the single loud speaker there is no
secondary one in the earpiece show me saving that for there mid-range and
high-end premium devices but I'll give you a sample of the speaker it actually
sounds alright not too bad at all
so there's only really one thing it could be a little bit louder than what
it is that would be nice if she army could boost up the volume a little bit
now on to the antutu score so this right here is my shall meet me max - and that
has a Snapdragon six to five these six three six that's on of course that redmi
note 5 replaces that chipset and you can see why look at this huge step up in
terms of performance that is a massive gain there now hopefully it's not going
to come at the price of battery life because the Snapdragon 625 is really
efficient I get super battery life out of my shell me me max - and hopefully
the better life on this one is going to be just as good as the Snapdragon six to
five moving over now to have a look at the camera so we've got that new sensor
on there and you see that launching application is pretty much almost
instant well it takes a few seconds to load in there shutter rate as well and
this kind of light with my studio lights on everything is very good no complaints
with that so we've got our different modes here you just swipe up or down to
get to them so this is the portrait mode of course that will use the dual sensors
now that has the blurred background of course we don't have that with the
front-facing camera because you really need two sensors for that unless you're
clever like Google with the pixel - they can do that without meeting the two
cameras so square that's just a square photo obviously panorama that's pretty
self-explanatory as well manual mode doesn't give us a lot of settings here
so only white balance and ISO controls that's kind of disappointing ISO all the
way up to 3200 I'll seem phones that can go higher than that but that's not bad
overall for this kind of category of phone and if I go into the photo sorry
the video mode here just wanted to show you that there's a slight disappointment
here that okay we still don't have the setting that I would love them to have
now an X 1080p 60 frames per second gone still not here they never included it
they're never actually going to put it in their phones are they show me I don't
know why they don't do this the other thing is Full HD
with 4k the chipset supports that the sensor supports it why isn't it here
it's on the readme five-plus I don't know why they need to obviously add this
update the app hopefully that will be coming in the future so shooting video
here now 1080p with the electronic image stabilization enabled we don't have 4k
so if you want 4k you're going to have to use open camp now the focus is really
good probably perhaps one of the best I have seen on a readme phone the redmi
series from xiaomi it is really quite good because often you see problems with
focus breathing issues or it just doesn't lock on but this one is pretty
solid thanks to the dual pixel that it's using now what else is really quite
impressive and has impressed me so far it's check out the stabilization of this
now I'm holding this handheld and I'm walking towards cat right here and you
can see how smooth that is this is really quite good so hopefully Charlie
can enable 4k video with the stock app even if it means of course they're going
to have to disable the electronic image stabilization I hope they do that now if
I was being a little bit picky about the camera quality here I'd have to say that
sometimes with the stock app the autofocus does not work as quick as it
should now here it seems to be working good but in Oakland cam it just seems to
be even bitter and the audio bitrate so it's only 94 to 96 kilobits per second
I feel if shall we were to just increase that slightly we could have even better
audio quality but overall really no complaints from me this is a budget
mobile phone and it shoots fantastic 1080p footage now moving over to
low-light just checking to see if it's going to drop any frames and it's doing
well it's keeping up the 30 frames per second which is good now this is really
really low light at the moment I mean the Sun is just going down and is barely
any light coming in here so that's why it looks all grainy and pixilated so
this is now shooting with open cam and this is in 4k now so you notice that
massive difference but the details captured of course going from 1080p to
4k the other thing you i've noticed that the dual pixel autofocus works really
well here watch this see that blocking on looks really roll off i put my hand
up again and do that test see it locks onto my hand almost instantaneously as
quick as my samsung galaxy s7 or SAT with whether its dual pixel autofocus so
if you want the 4k you want the faster bit of focus then i do recommend using
something like open camera a third-party camera application this is now a quick
sample from the front-facing camera so it's 13 megapixels now or not the 20 you
have on the indian version of this mobile and the quality to me so far
testing it seems reasonably quite good actually you know considering this as a
budget fine I don't find the quality to be bad at all
all right so it's looking like a very decent budget mobile phone here with
that 2x1 aspect ratio screen the latest Snapdragon 6-3 six is a massive step up
from the Snapdragon 625 that was in the redmi 5 plus that i reviewed a similar
mobile phone that's got the same screen on it but of course this there is a
different camera setup so the cameras I can't comment on whether they have
improved significantly over the Indian version which is the redmi note 5 sorry
the readme 5 pro I can't comment in it because they don't have that mobile
phone but the camera quality for the price of this and the category of mobile
phone this is looking really good especially in daylight now we'll have
more low-light samples more camera samples coming up in my full and final
review I'll test out the battery life as well more benchmarks and gaming that's
all going to be coming up so I hope to catch you back in the full review in
about a week's time now do remember that you can win one of these if you want to
go into the draw then please click the link down in the description of this
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