What's up guys I'm Ben from authentech, and i'm dang excited for this video
because i love a budget stuff this is the redmi note 9s from xiaomi for $200
now currently that's on sale but even off sale it's super cheap
thanks to gearbest for sending it and this is the galaxy s20 that I bought
for over $1000 I thought it'd be fun and interesting to compare this $200 phone
versus the thousand dollar S 20 this one has a quad camera set up the S20
only has three and yes the redmi works here in the US I popped in my
t-mobile SIM and it worked fine even on LTE but make sure you double-check your
compatibility in your area on your networks so it's $200 too good to be
true well at first I thought so but the more I've gotten to play with it there's
actually a ton of impressive features that has now let me rattle off a few
first it's the note series so it's a massively large six point six seven inch
display it's bright and vibrant slim bezels all around the front facing
camera has a hole punch cutout centered and balanced how I like it
now that display isn't quad HD or 120 Hertz refresh rate like the S20 but the
screen resolution is still good enough I'd say a full HD plus 2400 by 1080 and
that's about 400 PPI in the box iam comes with a nice simple
bumper case which I appreciate these little touches on the bottom the
three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack we don't see those nowadays USB
type-c fast 18 watt charging there's even an IR blaster on top which I
haven't seen in forever there's a massive battery inside five thousand and
20 milliamp hours and I honestly feel it I was out shooting camera tests the
other day and I felt like the battery lasted for a very long time it barely
dropped on me which I was impressed the phone feels fast and snappy enough now
it's not the latest and greatest snapdragon 865 but at some of these
specs that will achieve that cheaper price tag it also has 4 gigs of memory
and 64 gigs of storage at this $200 price tag now pay a little bit more for
6 gigs of RAM and 128 gig storage or just use that expandable microSD card
slot to expand the internal storage up to 512 gigs there's even a fingerprint
reader built into the power button on the side I like that placement
now yes this is a large phone it's got that big screen
it feels pretty hefty with that massive battery and I usually prefer the smaller
phones it's easier to control single-handed but this one still feels
well built and sturdy not cheap feeling at all let's move on to the main event
the camera system and this is where I'm most excited to experiment and compare
again for just $200 I was really thinking that the camera would take a
pretty big hit but after shooting lots of samples and side-by-side comparisons
versus my s20 I was really impressed for this price tag now it's not perfect and
it doesn't have every single camera feature some people might want but for a
$200 device versus $1000 I was very impressed
first snapping a few outdoor daytime photos colors and vibrancy look nice
even the dynamic range looks great too pretty natural looking and snapping some
pretty shots the ultra wide lens even looks pretty sharp and nice in some of
these shots I was surprised with how similar and close the redne camera was
able to stay with the s20 when I tap on the telephoto zoom button while the red
me actually doesn't have an optical telephoto lens but it just crops in on
that main sensor we can see how it's not as sharp as the s20 but it still looks
pretty good and only when we zoom way in and then the clarity differences really
show and while I really do like the zoom capabilities of the s20 it shows how
impressive it is when it's compared to other phones
another sweet feature of the red-meat that primary lens is a 48 megapixel
sensor which we can snap full res shots in the app and here's how those look
compared to the s 20s at 64 megapixel camera when zoomed all the way out they
both look super nice and then when we zoom way in on digital crop the
sharpness and clarity actually look really dang impressive on each of them
now we can see how the s20 has more pixels to produce more details but for
$200 versus a thousand I'd say well done to read me for including that 48
megapixel sensor snapping a few photos on the front-facing selfie cam and funny
how the redmi actually has 16 megapixels over the s 20s only 10 megapixel and i
can see how the redmi has some sharper details and clarity but megapixels
aren't everything and i kind of the skin tones and overall dynamic range
of the s20 now when turning on portrait mode they both do a fair job of edge
detection and blurring out the background and another funny surprising
benefit of the red-meat it has a dedicated depth sensor for portrait mode
blurring now honestly I'd say either of these photos look pretty nice and
comparable in this first low-light shot the LED lamp was set to 100% and they
both produced a really nice shot when using each cameras night mode the second
shot the lamp was set down to 10% and the s20 really shines with super
impressive long exposure shot the read me for some odd reason even in night
mode on this tripod snapped a quick shutter and produce a dark and grainy
shot this is one big area that the s20 and its software will reign however not
to be outdone I switched the read me over to Pro manual photo controls set a
low ISO with a long 30 second shutter and it produced a pretty nice very sharp
looking low noise night shot now right before we get to video I have to show
you my favorite feature of this phone and that is macro mode this quad camera
setup has a dedicated macro lens and even though the sensor is a tad smaller
at five megapixel it produces some insane shots and let me show you now in
case you don't know macro photography is basically extreme a close-up photos
usually of teeny tiny objects it's almost like having a microscope built
into your phone not your wife but I'm kind of addicted
to playing with this lens maybe it's because very few phones have
it so far but getting this camera lens right up next to almost any object
reveals details that almost no human eye can even see it's amazing and super fun
to play with now even though there's a macro mode in the camera my little trick
is to go into the pro camera mode set the lens to macro then manually set the
focus to just one click off of auto basically setting the closest focus
point possible and we can not only take macro photos here but macro video as
well at 1080p HD which is super fun for social media posts just look at this one
example these are centimeters and it's a little gross but that is my human hair
look at how massively thick it makes it look it's really incredible jumping over
to some video cam since starting with the front-facing
camera I'm liking the colors and dynamic range on the s20 better plus its
stabilization is much better as well the s20 is recording here at 4k the read me
front camera maxes out at 1080p I think video is one of those areas it's much
harder to sort of hide or fake a top-tier camera and this is where the
valley of differences greatly widens now I got to remind myself often for a
200-dollar device compared to $1,000 it's not horrible and it could do you
just fine it's important to set healthy expectations of quality to price ratio
and this is audio on the samsung galaxy s 20 audio test one two three four how
does the audio sound and compare so another point goes to the S 24 sounding
better here and oddly the redmi is recording audio only in the right
channel and not sure why it's easy for me to configure it to dual mono and
editing but I want to make sure I include this detail for you switching to
the rear camera starting with the ultra wide video again redmi Max is out here
at 1080p the s20 can shoot 4k 30 in this one we can really spot the sharpness
differences plus the colors are a little wonky on the red meat its contrast and
dynamic range actually aren't horrible as I'm very strongly lit by the bright
Sun but its tone mapping or saturation has turned up a bit too high for my
taste on the primary lens we can finally turn on the red meas 4k video making it
look much sharper and better in comparison to the s20 even the colors
and vibrancy look nice and punchy now I'd still take my S 20 if I had to
choose just one but the red me is looking pretty dang nice going for a
quick jogging stabilization that as 20 clearly wins in this one as I don't
believe the redmi has any optical image stabilization just keep this in mind
when I tested the autofocus speed I was really impressed with the redmi as it
competed very well against the s20 even beating it and speed sometimes very nice
and another fun and impressive feat of the red mia can shoot in slow-motion at
120 or 240 FPS at 720p now here's how it looks when compared to the s 20s and
1080p and definitely not as sharp or crispy
though it could still work for possible fun moments here and there the red meat
can also shoot up to 960 fps which is just awesome now it's only in short
bursts like the s20 and I think the red Me's doing some frame blending but it's
still a fun feature and I appreciate they included it and last camera test is
low-light video and again I'd vote the s20 the clear winner here but the red me
does an okay job of bright exposure maintaining a bit of clarity and I'd
give it a passable grade so is the red me camera better than as twenty by no
means of course not I wasn't even dreaming that would be but
I was hoping that it'd be competitive in some areas and I really think it was to
think that we could buy five of these phones for the same price of just one
s20 is kind of insane to think about and I want to make it clear the red me phone
is far from perfect at this price point you'll be making some compromises but
for some people it might be the perfect budget phone that they're looking for
one major glitch I had the other day I picked up the phone press the power
button and nothing was coming up on the display and I could feel the haptic
motor recognizing my thumbprint but it's like the display panel was bugged out
after toggling the power button over and over and nothing happening while I held
down the button for about 10 seconds and then I think it did a hard reboot then
we were back to normal I was a little scary but thankfully it hasn't happened
since and I also got in MIUI OS update which said increased system stability
and since it's a brand new device maybe they had to iron out some of these bugs
who knows and the second issue I had was when using the camera I was snapping a
few sample shots at 48 megapixels and the camera app froze on me now I forced
close the app reopened it and it was fine after that
now funny enough my s20 actually had a very similar issue in it first release
so take that for what it's worth is the macro camera mode super awesome and fun
I'll absolutely be holding onto this camera for any future b-roll shots that
I need them certainly close-up angle now the pricing of the redmi still at $200
but it's always fluctuating I'll give you guys my coupon discounts and links
down in the description thank you so much for watching and until I
next time let's live authentic