Chris here and I have with me the Redmi Note 6 Pro which you may mistakenly believe to be
an upgrade over the Redmi note 5 the AI version which is from China but it's
really not it's just a case of Xiaomi adding a 19 by 9 aspect ratio screen
with a notch and now giving us an improved
front-facing selfie cam with a secondary 2 megapixel camera for your bokeh effect
and that is really the only change apart from aesthetics to the housing of it a tweak
to the design so looking out the lenses on the back of both of these devices the
same exact setup so we have that secondary 5 megapixel camera then we
have the main 12 megapixel one which I believe will be the same Samsung that's
on there now that has 1.4 micrometer size pixels it does have phase detection
but it's dual pixel face detection autofocus which tends to work really
quick I mean that's something that's used in flagship phones now when you
look at the chin of the two devices here you can see that it is a little bit
smaller on the redmi note 6 pro so this one you can see has more rounded curved
edges to to the glass which I can't say I'm too fond of I prefer the way it's on
the ribbon note 5 so along the bottom we've got a microphone and a loudspeaker
this is where the loudspeaker is there's no secondary loudspeaker and yes they
should have put type-c I mentioned that before with the cable but it seems that
Xiaomi is still using up their microUSB stock so one other change you can see
here they've moved the headphone jack now to the top which I agree with this
decision a decision I mean I like it on the top now some people may disagree
that you want to have the cables on the bottom together and you can see the
secondary mic location slightly different there as well and then we do
have IR transmitters at the top now the volume buttons and the power button
they're made out of metal they feel exactly the same there is a slight
change here too with the way they have rounded the case around so it's more
continuous so the case goes around like that and it just to me it does actually
look slightly better but marginally so when you take a look at the two devices
here we do have a big difference with the front now so they've used a
different screen this is now 19 by 9 aspect ratio we go to 20 megapixel
front-facing camera right here which is new then the secondary 2 megapixel one
which has helped with the AI features that it has on the camera too so get
your blurred background so that's the one that captures the background this
will be the main one to get all the detail of course we've got a smaller
earpiece on here the call quality so far when I've been testing it now I've
noticed that it doesn't sound quite as good to me as the larger a piece you get
on the note 5 but it's very minimal it's almost hard to distinguish but it just
sounds a little flatter to me and now I will check the weight - so it's 181
grams which is 1 gram less than the redmi note 5 I thought there would be
identical so when you look at the phone yea the bezels left and right they're
not the slimmest and the chin and the bottom is slimmer than redmi note 5 as I
pointed out but again still not the slimmest but you have to remember this
is about 170 970 us this phone here so my version is the 3 gigabytes of RAM
model and you get about 21 gigabytes free with the 32 gigabytes of storage
it's MMC files back I will show you the speed to that in just a minute but I
wanted to point out a couple of things here so Android 8.1 the security patch
level as well as from July ISM knits it's not too bad it's getting a little
dated now and if we go to system update there is nothing coming through yet so
no me UI 10 stable for this particular model just yet but I believe it'll be
coming through very soon so I'm just going to go into what's called the set
menu here and point out the details of the camera so exactly the same as that
redmi note 5 here we have a Samsung main sensor on the back the axillary is
another Samsung 5 megapixels the front main camera is again another Samsung you
can see there and the auxilary sensor is an omni vision that's that 2 megapixel
one just use for the blurred backgrounds so we do have full screen gesture mode
of course with this phone here with the recent phones we've got from the redmi
series and that is just activated through the settings and i also wanted
to point out that here is where you'll find the hide the knotch seating that a
lot of people will probably want if you don't like it like me personally so you
can disable it then it looks like a redmi note 5 but
leave it on for the purposes of this review just so you can see it all the
time now with your notifications like I've pointed out with the me 8 the me 8
SC the poco phone that you're not gonna see everything you're not gonna see your
battery percent for example if you're connected up to 4G you need to swipe
down for that basic information while I'm course I'm on wireless at the moment
so if I wasn't on wireless I went over to data now then you would actually see
4G but your notifications you're not going to see them all so it's a little
bit of a pain in that regard there that you have to keep swiping down to see
things but you do actually get used to it now we've got full screen gestures
which I'll just enable that right now so you need to just swipe from the side
that's going back you swipe up and hold that to your recent apps and once I just
get back out of this if you just swipe up then that will take you home so just
going to launch chrome here and then go up again and you see you go home moving
over to the screen now so I just wanted to point out the viewing angles first I
mean they're typical for an IPS panel no problems with that but why I have this
white image you can see not really IPS bleed but you get what I would call like
shadowing just around where the notches now currently this app has scaled to 18
by 9 not the 19 by 9 aspect ratio but the corners as well you see a little bit
of a dark edge around there you can probably see now that I've zoomed into
it you can see right there on that corner see how it's just a little darker
it's very minor but you get a bit more of it around the knotch so when it comes
to the brightness of both the ribbing note5 pro and in this model here is it
different no they're actually about the same 500 Lux that's what you're gonna
get the color accuracy of the screen well the Blues may be a little bit off
more on the Ruby note 5 probe II do have show me zapped in there to correct the
white balance to your own personal preference there and the colors as well
but overall this is a decent IPS panel here with that resolution of 1080 by 20
to 80 now I did of course test out the GPS and it's working fine it doesn't
lock on to all the satellites or will take a lot longer to get them but the
accuracy is always around about 3 meters so no complaints with that there
whatsoever now the internal storage speeds even though it is only
two gigabytes the speeds of this are good its MMC 5.1 spec so at fast there's
no holdups with the storage no bottlenecks and the antutu score came
out to be pretty much exactly the same as the redmi note 5 as expected even
though that model has four gigabytes of ram they both have the Snapdragon 6-3
six and 4G speeds well perfectly fine here no issues I found the reception's
fine I'm getting the same signal strength as other mobile phones the same
speeds as well with the same SIM card so that is all good
it does have LTE band 20 by the way same goes for the wireless so he's testing
out the wireless 5g just to try and gauge the maximum speeds so right here
was the closest to the router and the speeds turned out to be very good and
then I did end up going right over to the other side of the apartment where
the speeds do drop off and that is expected but it still maintains a
reasonable fast a hundred and fifty or so megabits per second so good
Wireless range and speeds just to point out to because I know a lot of people
asked us can you run Joule 4G the setting is right there under your SIM
cards yes you can and as expected Widevine support so this is for your
Netflix for example in Full HD no not going to be happening here it's just
going to be standard definition because it's only security level three same goes
for a treble support that well it is going to support treble being Android
eight and over we don't have access to partition a and B so a better life and
charge times now this is just an estimate here but you are looking at
just like the redmi note 5 more or less exactly the same identical around nine
to ten hours of screen on time if you're mostly on wireless now this is the test
that i do here it's rather demanding I just leave the screen on the whole time
it's configured to about 200 Lux as well and this is fine this is good better
I've really good better oh so it's gonna be two days maybe in three days for some
people charge time so on the stock charger it's gonna take you two hours
and six minutes to fully charge that's what the 5 volt 2 amp one and then if
you use a quick charge one Qualcomm quick charge to respec that then lowers
down to approximately 1 hour and 55 minutes so you're only shaving off about
10 May be 15 minutes and going for the faster
charger so it's not even really worth it if you don't happen to have one so we do
have this why not Chazz I have pointed out many times here and it houses within
it the status LED in white only and it is very very hard to make out perhaps
it's a fault with my unit but it's not very bright which is a very minor
complaint from me all right so I have tested out the 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack and it is typical Xiaomi here and nothing to report on that the quality is
really good there's no interference is no static it's excellent sound output
from there 3.5 millimeter headphone jacks if in radio yes it does work of
course you just need to plug in it hits it now voice calls out of that tiny
little earpiece at the top don't sound quite as good as the more traditional
wider one I think this has a slightly larger speaker in there and they have
compensated compromise should I say with the notch there a little so it doesn't
sound quite as good loudspeaker in the bottom it does sound okay it's not the
best you'll hear and it's only one speaker but I'll give you sample of it
now actually no it does sound quite decent when you factor in the price of
this phone it's better than most of this sub $200 phones they're tiny a little
bit of distortion at 100% volume however okay I'm going to test out the face
unlock you know this is not ideal conditions because I got a tripod a
camera a microphone all in the way but let's just give it a go and it should be
able get my face now set it to the Indian region to get the face unlocking
gear because I didn't see that option without that so here we go I'm probably
completely where you are to see that's not that's way too hard for it to get my
face like this but it's it added successfully how is that even possible
okay well it unlock now just looking at me oh that is that's crazy I think it's
unsecured super unsecure how did it read my face properly from that distance I
mean look at that image see that right there okay so not very secure I would
say face unlucky you probably hold a photo of yourself and no unlock screen
and yes I will demonstrate the fingerprint reader it is always
and always works it is really quick this thing only takes about under a second or
so so really quick no problems it's typical show me with their fingerprint
readers they just always work well so the phone performance is good I mean you
probably can't tell the difference I could hand someone the four gigabyte
version of this and in the three gigabyte one tell the difference tell me
which one is the four gigabyte and really you can't see it now there is one
thing too that has just come through I don't even know how but these apps just
showed out they weren't there when I first started to record this now been
using the phone for a day and they just showed up I mean what got this share
chat thing Daley hunt and then Amazon and you see browser and phone P what the
hell is that that's a bit dodgy they just suddenly installed themselves on
the phone I can't say I've had this happen before now this was a sealed box
so this is the ROM unless I somehow okayed that without even knowing it to
install that bloatware not good to see but of course we are going to be able to
remove this I hope that I can get rid of most of that rubbish there see that's
gonna go now but just not good to see this so this is pub G on the low
settings is what it recommends and I think that was just a bot there it is
perfectly playable you can get kills good framerate on these settings so we
don't unfortunately have the high frame rate mode with this yet hopefully
developers will add that yeah I'm definitely playing against bods right
here you will notice that the notch of course is blocking some things right
there now if you do run it with the hide the notch mode then it won't actually
show this because it's going to be running in an 18 by 9 aspect but you can
also just flip it around too if you need to get close to that suffer from the
front-facing camera so you can probably hear a little bit of wind noise now you
don't get any image stabilization with the front-facing camera on 1080p even
though it has enabled it clearly doesn't seem to work because it shakes around a
little bit if I start to walk now I have noticed that when you are in direct
sunlight that the changes and the exposure seems to be a lot
better than previous generations of xiaomi Mobile's that were really over
exposing my face but remember in the other videos if you've seen them that my
face would be completely white really really white so that's not too bad the
audio quality as well I feel is it's okay it's not too bad it has been in the
past really quite washed out with some of the phones so this is the stock app
and you can shoot up to 1080p with the StarCAVE you get 4k with open camera
we'll give you a sample of that shortly but I wanted to focus first on the 1080p
footage and you can see that the electronic image stabilization enabled
this is working and it's doing a reasonably good job now one thing that's
missing and don't know why it's not in the settings is the focus so the focus
normally would be attempt to focus or me continue autofocus now you can see that
it is working pretty good but I have noticed that times though that you can't
actually focus now that's quite rare because the sensor has that dual pixel
phase detection autofocus you can see now like okay there we go it seems to be
working no there we go this is the problem I've been having
that have noticed this just doesn't want to work the focus which should not be
happening here and if they had that setting we could at least set tap to
focus but let's take a look now at 4k footage you can see that this quality is
quite good the audio for the time being is good and when I say for the time
being because what happened with the rebbe note 5 is some of the patches the
over there updates ended up actually killing the audio
quality adding noise cancellation to it so hopefully that is not going to happen
here because at the moment it's quite good focus as well is working pretty
much perfect there as you'd expect with dual pixel face detection autofocus and
a quick sample now what the selfie front facing camera that 20 megapixel one is
like in low-light so I'm going to step out away from the light even more I've
got a few lights on the outside here we can see it starts to get a little bit
grainy and choppy the main thing is it is not dropping any frames per second
which is good and the rear camera so you can see massive difference now look at
all that grain artifacts everywhere this is low light very hard for this camera
of course any camera from a mobile phone and these kind of conditions
yes the focus kind of goes all over the place once we don't have good life
okay so yes you guessed it if you read me note five a Iona the Chinese model
should you upgrade definitely not this is not an upgrade this is just a
refreshed model really I don't even know why it is called third read me six pro
this should be called something like the readme five knotch fission or something
so we have a fantastic performance from it from the snapdragon 636 great better
life you're gonna get about ten hours of screen on time continual use otherwise
two days maybe even three almost depending on how heavy you use the phone
so the notch does have some compromises as I showed so you need to swipe down to
see all your notifications and things the screen is no better really then the
room in note fives it does have a better white balance however out of the box but
they have the same brightness rate camera is exactly the same I can't tell
any difference whatsoever they using the same exact sensor so there's no
difference there you go ao modes on the front cameras AI on the rear the front
selfie yes as better so if you are looking to buy one of these phones and
you don't have one of them you don't have the redmi note 5 then by all means
go for the redmi note 6 pro for the bitter selfie camps if that's what you
want and you don't mind the knotch so overall it is a fantastic phone it
offers so much for the hundred and seventy price there really isn't much I
found that I don't like about it apart from the step down slight step down and
cool quality that is so the smaller earpiece you do notice it I notice it
from what I've made calls on this one and moving over that doesn't sound quite
as good now I'm being very picky with that the other thing is the status LED
which is located right up in here you can hardly even see it when it's on its
very dull for some reason I don't know why there is and the note speaker is
okay now the other thing I did notice with the camera that sometimes the focus
isn't quite as good as it should be considering it as dual pixel face
detection autofocus it should work something a little bit better but that's
only with the stock app it seemed to work much better with open camera you
also get 4k electronic image stabilization and good audio quality
my biggest complaint would have to be the bloatware that's self installed
itself on there for some reason I don't remember
okaying this I don't remember going into me store or anything like that it just
suddenly appeared I had about four or five
applications without any OTA update over their updates nothing it just came
through so not good to see that hopefully show me and not changing their
tune and auto installing bloatware putting more adverts and things like
that on the run that's not a good move but besides that I mean for the price
you can't go wrong with a phone like this it all depends if you like they're
not sure or not this one is still fantastic so please do check my review
of the redmi note 5 thank you so much for watching
and I do hope to see you back in the channel soon bye for now