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In an attempt to disrupt the entry-level smartphone market Xiaomi launched the Redmi 5A smartphone last month at an aggressive price tag of Rs. 4999. The smartphone’s specifications are almost similar to the Redmi 4A that was launched earlier this year, but this gets a dedicated dual SIM slot and also comes with a higher end 3GB RAM with 32GB storage version. How Let us find out in the review.

The Redmi 4A has a 5-inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels and a pixel density of about 296 PPI. It has 1000:1 contrast ratio a 72% (typical) / 68% (minimum) color gamut, same as the Redmi 4A. The display is bright, colors are vibrant and the sunlight legibility is good as well. The display is good for the price. The company doesn’t say if it has any type of scratch-resistant glass for protection.

There is a black border around the display, which might look weird for some, but you can get the dark grey variant that hides it. It is 140.4 mm tall, 70.1 mm wide and has a screen-to-body ratio of about 70%, similar to most phones with a 5-inch screen. It is slightly taller than the Redmi 4A, but it is thinner than that at 8.35mm.

Unlike the Redmi 4A that came with a hybrid SIM slot, this comes with dedicated dual SIM slots. There is a primary slot for nano SIM and microSD that accepts cards up to 128GB and another secondary nano SIM slot.

Coming to the image quality, daylight shots are good, HDR shots are better, macro shots are good as well, but it is not very quick to focus small objects even though it has PDAF. Low-light shots have noise as usual. Images with flash are decent and the flash is not overpowering. The front-facing camera has been improved compared to the Redmi 4A, which is good for selfies and video chats. For the price, the camera is decent.

It has the usual set of connectivity features such as Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS. It also has USB OTG support that lets you connect external drives. It has 4G connectivity and also has Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) support for Reliance Jio. Both the SIMs support 4G, but you can enable 4G only in one SIM at a time, while the other goes to 3G. You can set preferred SIM for a voice call, text and data from the SIM card manager. It also has LTE band 1 (2100MHz) for Vodafone 4G in some circles, that was absent Redmi 4A.

The performance is good without any lags. It also has a 500MHz Adreno 308 GPU. Since this is not a powerful SoC the GPU is just average, so the gaming performance is not on par with the Redmi Y1 or Redmi 4 that have an Octa-Core Snapdragon 435 SoC with Adreno 505 GPU. That said, check out some synthetic benchmark scores below.

It achieved a One Charge Rating of 12 hours and 38 minutes, slightly less than 12 hours and 53 minutes rating for the Redmi 4A since this has a smaller battery. Check out the complete set of battery life test results here.

Overall, the Redmi 5A is another value-for-money (VFM) smartphone from Xiaomi. It has all the required sensors, including an infrared sensor for remote control and also comes with dedicated dual SIM and microSD slots. The camera is decent for the price, but it could have been better and the battery life is not impressive.

Even though the phone has the same starting price of Rs. 5999 for the 2GB RAM and 16GB storage version, the company is selling first five million units for Rs. 4,999, making it the best entry-level Android smartphone you can get in the market currently. Xiaomi believes that this pricing would accelerate the adoption of smartphones in the country. The 3GB RAM with 32GB storage version costs Rs. 6,999, which is recommended if you need more storage.

Wonder who would go for the recently-launched Redmi Y1 Lite since it is same as the Redmi 5A with just a larger 5.5-inch screen at a higher price tag of Rs. 6999 for the 2GB RAM with 16GB storage version.

As our Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro review will explain, this is one of the biggest smartphone bargains around. It gets so close to the day-to-day experience of a $1000/£1000 phone you’d never guess it costs $279 / £249 (roughly AU$360).

Video stabilization is the other issue. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro can capture 4K video, but there is no stabilization above 1080p, rendering it next-to-useless in plenty of scenarios.

Those are the Redmi Note 10 Pro’s bad bits. The rest is gold - so much so that this ranks among the best Xiaomi phones, and arguably also the best cheap phones from any brand.

The Redmi Note 10 Pro has a large 120Hz OLED screen. Its Snapdragon 732G brings the goods for gaming, and the phone has some of the best speakers we"ve heard at the price.

There are mountains of substance here, and even the build quality gets more attention than we’d expect. The Redmi Note 10 Pro has a Gorilla Glass back, not the plastic we now see even in alarmingly expensive Android phones.

The strongest competition at the price includes the Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC from the same company, which is heavier, thicker and has an LCD screen rather than an OLED. It’s a little less fancy, but is also a great buy. Or there’s the Realme X50 5G, which you should buy instead if you want 5G.

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro was announced in March 2021, and it"s available in the UK now. You"ll also be able to buy this handset in the US, but an exact release date hasn"t yet been revealed.

It starts at $279 / £249 (around AU$360), for the Redmi Note 10 Pro with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. We are reviewing the 128GB / 6GB version, but this only costs a little more at $299 / £269 (roughly AU$390). There"s also a version which keeps the storage at 128GB but ups the RAM to 8GB, for $329 (approximately £235 / AU$425) that seems to be exclusive to the US.

For example, you get a headphone jack, like cheap phones. But the Redmi Note 10 Pro’s back is lightly curved Gorilla Glass, not the plastic many far more expensive phones use today.

The only obvious sign that the Redmi Note 10 Pro is an affordable phone is that its sides are plastic rather than metal. We’ve used the phone largely with its bundled case, and like that you can’t tell the difference anyway.

Redmi’s big design ‘sell’ here isn’t actually the glass back, though, but how techy the rear camera array looks. The main lens is given its own shiny silver surround, and the two-level contouring is there to make the camera seem even more accomplished than it is.

The rear on our Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro review sample has a pleasant satin finish that glows silver when it catches the light. And if that seems too plain you can get it in off-white and orange colors too.

Given the price, we’re big fans of the Redmi Note 10 Pro’s hardware design. However, if you intend to use it case-free the plastic side buttons are a bit of a ‘budget’ giveaway.

The Redmi Note 10 Pro uses a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, not an in-screen one, but it’s fast and reliable. There’s also an IR blaster on the top, used by the Mi Remote app to let the phone act as a universal remote.

On to a feature you won’t only need in emergencies: the speakers. The Redmi Note 10 Pro’s are excellent for a cheaper phone. They are loud, offer some bass, and there are two drivers. One sits on the bottom, the other above the screen. And Redmi gives this top one two outlets, on the top and the front. This maxes out the stereo sound field and makes sure you won’t block it when playing a game.

The Redmi Note 10 Pro will hit around 400 nits at maximum brightness indoors, but ramps the display up to 594 nits in bright conditions, according to our colorimeter. We had no issues composing photos with this screen on a bright day.

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro also has exactly the sort of chipset we’d hope for in a phone of this class. It’s the Snapdragon 732G, a mid-range processor with some optimizations for gaming, which boils down to a higher-clocked graphics section.

This is not the most powerful processor we"ve seen around the price. The Snapdragon 765G and 750G, used in 5G phones, have more GPU power. Here we get a slightly less powerful 4G-ready alternative.

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro is a great gaming phone. And while rivals with Snapdragon 750G and 765G chipsets have slightly more gaming power, there’s a solid argument that this is the best gaming phone at the price thanks to its excellent speakers and OLED screen.

We can’t overstress how impressive the Redmi Note 10 Pro’s lack of basic cuts are. For example, it has a generous 6GB of fast LPDDR4X RAM, and the 128GB of storage is fast too. There"s also a model with 8GB, and it reads at 512MB/s. This is SATA SSD-style performance, and no doubt contributes to game load speeds similar to those of a high-end mobile.

The Redmi Note 10 Pro’s macro has had actual effort put into its design. And getting the opportunity to use qualified superlatives about a $279 phone is in itself remarkable.

So why is the macro so good? Most half-decent phone macros use their ultra-wide cameras for macro shots, which makes it difficult to isolate a small part of a subject because the field of view is so wide. The Redmi Note 10 Pro’s macro lens has a more ‘zoomed in’ view than the primary camera, roughly 2x, making this a doddle.

The Redmi Note 10 Pro’s macro offered us some of the most fun we’ve had with a phone camera in 2021 so far, even if a 5MP image is unlikely to win you any photography awards.

Zoom shots, taken using the Redmi Note 10 Pro’s 2x preset, rely on a digital crop of the 108MP sensor instead. This sensor uses 9-in-1 pixel binning, which means the information from nine pixels on the sensor is used to make one pixel in the final image. It’s not the same as, for example, a true ultra-high resolution DSLR sensor, so zoomed images are not spectacularly detailed.

Standard view Redmi Note 10 Pro images are on the whole very pleasant, particularly given the price. The Pixel 4a handles HDR image contrast a little better, as we see some flattening of image data in brighter areas and a little haze in the mid-tones. But this only really applies to fairly tricky scenes.

It’s an effect of what has become common among cheaper phones: the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro has a Samsung HM2 sensor. And like several other high-res Samsung sensors its results aren’t quite as ‘high-end’ as they sound on paper. Still, at the price we aren"t complaining.

The Redmi Note 10 Pro also has an ultra-wide camera with an 8MP f/2.2 Sony IMX355 sensor. This was used as the selfie camera on the Pixel 3. It’s probably the least interesting picture-taking camera on the phone, and is the one we’ve used least.

Dynamic range and detail aren’t on the same level as the primary camera. And software optimizations are slightly lacking too. The Redmi team could have fixed some of the occasional blown highlights with (better) multi-exposure techniques, and you can’t use the night mode with the ultra-wide camera.

The very last camera is a low-end 2MP f/2.4 OmniVison sensor used to create depth maps for the background blurring portrait mode. It will do the job for pictures of people, but we find it messes up its mapping of more complicated objects. If the Redmi Note 10 Pro has a ‘filler’ camera, it’s this one.

How about video? The Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro can shoot at up to 4K resolution, 30 frames per second. This footage looks good but is completely unstabilized, making it more-or-less unusable if you’ll use it while walking around.

Fire up the Redmi Note 10 Pro for the first time and it will revert to its 60Hz display refresh rate, just half of its maximum. This is likely to give the best first impression of battery life, as higher refresh rates consume more power. We left it on this setting for the first few days and were more than happy with the results.

We half expected its stamina to nosedive after switching to 120Hz, but need not have worried. The Redmi Note 10 Pro still seems to routinely end up with 30-35% or more charge left by bedtime, after a day of pretty solid use.

Companies like Xiaomi tend to achieve this sort of long battery life with very tight controls over background processes. And when these are too invasive, they can become annoying, closing audio apps, and delaying notifications. We didn’t see anything like this in the Redmi Note 10 Pro though.

You want an affordable gaming phoneThe Redmi Note 10 Pro is a great phone for gaming. While slightly more powerful phones are available at a similar price, this one has a solid gaming-series processor bolstered by excellent stereo speakers, long battery life, and a great OLED screen.

You want to experience 120Hz display techWant the best screen you can get for under $300/£300? The Redmi Note 10 Pro needs to be on your list. Its 6.67-inch display is large, has a 120Hz refresh rate, good color, and the exceptional contrast only really possible with an OLED panel.

You want the high-end experience for less cashThe Redmi Note 10 Pro is one of the cheapest phones to offer an experience similar to a $1000/£1000 phone. It has a great screen, very good general performance, a strong main camera, and a glass back. It also outlasts many phones in that ultra-expensive class, with long battery life even in its 120Hz refresh rate mode.

You want to try 5GIf you want to try out 5G, the Redmi Note 10 Pro isn’t the phone to get. It does not have a 5G modem, and this is not something that can be patched in with a software update in future. This phone does not have 5G, and will never have 5G.

You’re big on zoom photographyThe Redmi Note 10 Pro does not have a dedicated zoom camera, so think twice if you were drawn in by the advanced-looking rear camera array. Its 2x digital zoom does a fairly good job, but you’ll have to spend more if you’re after an optical zoom lens.

Video capture is a top priorityYou should also think twice if you shoot a lot of video. The Redmi Note 10 Pro can shoot 4K video, but it is completely unstabilized and therefore pretty much useless in many situations. Software stabilization is only available at 1080p, a mode with less detail and more digital artifacts in the final result.

The Redmi Note 10 Pro faces some competition from other Xiaomi phones, most notably the Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC. This has similarly good battery life and a 120Hz screen, but it uses LCD, which isn"t as good as OLED. It"s slightly cheaper though.

The first Xiaomi Redmi Note was originally launched back in 2014, offering the usual VFM package in a larger screen. Sales were not great, as the market was full from new Notes that tried to take a piece of the pie that Samsung’s Galaxy Note hype had offered.  Redmi Note 3 was a step to the correct direction, as it offered a medium category processor – a Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 – and a metal body, which made the model noticeable by the crowd.  Next year Xiaomi charged the field with an upgrade and won the battle. Redmi Note 4 became an instant sensation in the low-end category breaking record by record in China, India and elsewhere. In a difficult time for Xiaomi, where Oppo and Vivo conquered the Chinese market with offline stores and premium middle category handsets, Redmi Note 4 singlehandedly saved the company.

The device followed on the successful Note 3 example with two chipsets. A Mediatek for China on August 2016 and a Qualcomm for India mainly on January 2017. A month later a new version was launched. The Redmi Note 4X dropped a bit the material quality and updated the camera and battery experience. People just loved it. 4X had European band support, sneaking in with online sales in Xiaomi fans as a solid VFM smartphone. Then Xiaomi started to enter foreign markets officially. For example in Greece, Xiaomi entered the country in September 2017 with two main products, Redmi 4A and Redmi Note 4X. In under six months it climbed fifth in smartphone sales in the country, with more products becoming available to the market.

It is not easy to be a standard in a product category. To start with, the product becomes the target of all marketing and new product launch attacks. All companies either large ones like Samsung, Huawei, BBK or smaller ones, with a good brand name like Meizu, Moto, Asus, Nokia or a not so much known brand, like Oukitel, Doogee, etc, want a percentage of the marked dominated by Redmi Note 4. And they do their best to succeed in that, offering great prices, software or hardware, some of them making almost no money at all for a product sale. Xiaomi has to defend by keeping the software as refreshed as possible and by creating a worthy replacement. A single issue in the replacement of a great headset can be disastrous hurting the brand’s fame and income. With this in mind Xiaomi launched Redmi 5 Plus. There are rumors for a Redmi Note 5 with double cameras and Snapdragon 660 but until they become a solid product 5 Plus is considered by most the 2018 Redmi Note model. With this in mind we are reviewing the full view 5.99-inch displayhaving the 2017 18:9 trend.

There is nothing extra here. As with most of the companies, selling a mobile in this price range offers very low profits and most tend to sell extras than offering them for free. The mobile arrived with an Asian charger and Banggood offered a European adaptor for free inside the postal box.

The front panel is dominated by an impressive 6-inch screen. The 5.99-inch, to be exact, display is an IPS LCD product, out from the company’s own display line. Xiaomi has a lot of experience in these kind of displays and the results are as good they can get for this price range. Being full view with 18:9 ratio, it is like holding a bright bar in your hands. The ratio and the bezel-less design were the hype of 2017 after Mi Mix launched in Q4 2016, and it took some time for Xiaomi to produce a cheaper model. At least the result is worthy of our wait.

The back panel is made from the same material as the frame. Well not all of it as it keeps the Redmi Note 4 design with the top and bottom part made from plastic. This is another anachronism along with the microUSB – maybe the company didn’t wasn’t to alter its manufacturing line a lot. Who knows… In the top of the metal part you will see the camera, exactly below it the two-tone LED flash and just around there, a fingerprint scanner. In order to keep it slim, the camera lens is protruding from the body. The Mi logo is located on the lower part. The back panel is made with the same exceptional material assembly found in the front one. Its texture is good to hold on plus there is no fingerprint oil kept on ever after a daylong use.

The whole feeling is of a phone that has a much, much, higher price. Excellent assembly, texture, feel of weight and appearance! It is one of the best made and beautiful smartphones I’ve had in my hands this year – in this price range of course.

The display is the main selling point and the main difference from Note 4. It is 5.99-inch in size and supports Full HD+ (2160 x 1080) resolution with 403 ppi. The 18:9 support and the brightness of 450 nits transforms the smartphone in a long bright bar. The viewing angles are good for a TFT display. Colors are bright but you need to uncover the protective film a bit to admire them properly. NTSC color gamut is at 84%. Multi touch works properly.  On top of the panel there’s a 2.D Gorilla Glass for protection. Outside in the midday sun the display is bright enough for anyone to read without shading it. In the night there is a software add-on called Night Light that filters blue light and dims it enough to make night reading enjoyable. In general, Xiaomi produced an excellent TFT panel for this category and price.

As far as hardware is concerned, Xiaomi disappoints with a two year old model. Probably stocked after Redmi Note 4 / Mi 5X / Mi A1 success, Snapdragon 625 finds its way in Redmi 5 Plus. There are 8 Cortex A-53 cores that run up to 2.0GHz. This is an old chipset with amazing energy consumption and two years later it comes with an ever cheaper price too. I wanted to see this phone packing a Snapdragon 635 SoC, but cost in this category and profit margins voted over the trusty 625. Graphics are handled by an Adreno 506 GPU that has no issue to handle any game as we have seen during the last year. Benchmark results are at the same level with other 625 SoC equipped smartphones, a bit better than my Oreo running Xiaomi Mi A1. The chipset is not modern but it’s as good as it gets for the price-range. As for the battery consumption? Well… we will talk about it later!

GPS is almost instant. Snapdragon 625 and the battery are exceptional for navigation usage. The smartphone supports GPS / A-GPS, GLONASS and Beidou. There is no NFC support. The rest of the sensors are the same as in Redmi Note 4.

Redmi 5 Plus is one of the first Xiaomi devices that comes with MIUI 9 pre-installed. MIUI Global 9.2 Stable is listed as the exact version over Android 7.1.2 Nougat. We can see the Nougat updates in the UI like split screen functionality, and also countless characteristics of the most popular Android skin. The sum of them offers an excellent user experience as we have seen earlier in the

My Mi A1 runs Oreo since the beginning of January. Using Redmi 5 Plus is as fast and I did not find any speed issues in applications or navigation either. Xiaomi really surpassed itself with the 9th version of her custom Android skin.

Let’s not get carried away however. Snapdragon 626 is still a medium category chipset. I tried split screen with youtube and browsing and while everything worked ok, the heat in the back panel was noticeable. I did another test with more than 40 tabs open in Chrome. Heat again. Mi Mix 2 with its flagship chipset Snapdragon 835 has no heat and i tried both split screen and multi-tabs in Chrome. So Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus is fast, can handle multitasking easily, can play games and do whatever you want, but don’t expect flagship behaviour. I am very happy with I have seen considering the category and pricing. For daily usage this is an excellent smartphone.

The device packs a 4000 mA battery. Combined with Snapdragon 625 and the typical customisation by Xiaomi reached an astonishing 13-14 hours of screen time. Redmi Note 4X has a similar SOT – a bit longer – with a 5.5-inch screen!

If you are commuting, traveling or working outside and you need a large battery phone that is not chubby, stop looking for it. Go buy Redmi 5 Plus now!

In the back of the Redmi 5 Plus there’s a 12 MP shooter of a local chinese brand that tries to raise the standards of Redmi Note 4. It has an f/2.2 aperture and PDAF (phase detection autofocus).

In good lighting conditions the result is good with clear colors, good saturation and a bit of noise in the corners. All details are visible. In bad light conditions noise is everywhere and details are lost in the background. That is typical for the price range and the brand. I was hoping for a miracle that never came. The device is a bit better than the Redmi Note 4 but just a bit.

I am complaining because I wanted Redmi 5 Plus to excel in the Camera department. It clearly does not. This is not a camera phone. This is a VFM phone that has to be as good as possible in all of its parts. If you are looking for a camera phone then Mi Note 3 is the winner but comes at a much higher cost. If you are looking for a smartphone that can take “ok” pictures and videos with a reasonable budget, Redmi 5 Plus can do the job.

Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus is the improvement of Redmi Note 4. It kept the same chipset and upgraded a bit the camera part. If you already have Note 4 don’t go for the replacement. If you want a VFM, 6 inch, full-view 18:9 display smartphone, with an excellent battery duration, go for it. MIUI 9 is great. The design and material assembly and overall quality are top for the category and raise the standards once again.

Don’t forget that there are the aforementioned rumors of an upcoming Redmi Note 5 that will pack a Snapdragon 635 chipset and it will be 70-80$ more expensive. Mi 5X and Mi A1 are mature now and have a middle class quality and double cameras in the back in about the same price the rumored Note 5 might have. Meizu 6 Note is another smartphone worth of your attention with better camera and sound but it’s not bezel-less or full-view / 18:9.

Redmi 5 Plus is already selling fast in India and China. My opinion is that it will do the same in the rest of the markets continuing the best-selling tradition of the series.

Xiaomi has quietly become a force to be reckoned with in every price bracket, and the Redmi 10 sees the company offering a solid mid-range phone at an impressively budget price.

Sadly, though, its 90Hz screen uses LCD technology, making it feel more than a little hamstrung compared to phones that are using more modern OLED technology. Still, for the price, it’s hard to argue.

On the front, it’s all business – and almost all-screen. There are bezels here, and perhaps they’re more noticeable with the LCD screen (onto that shortly), but it forgoes the notch in favour of a “hole-punch” selfie camera.

The phone charges via USB-C at the bottom, and there’s a volume rocker on the right-hand side above a sleep/wake button that also summons the Google Assistant. The button also incorporates a fingerprint sensor, though the Redmi 10 can also be unlocked with a passcode or pattern if you prefer.

The LCD display on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 5G is 6.5in, meaning it’s pretty mighty. That canvas gives users plenty of room to play around in apps, but it does lack the vibrancy of an OLED panel.

While I appreciate the decision was made to hit the required price bracket, the Full HD+ 1080×2400 display caps out at 90Hz whereas many of its stablemates hit 120Hz. In truth, it’s nice to be over 60Hz – as seen on the

More noticeable, though, is the LCD panel’s lack of contrast. Photos rarely pop, and I constantly found myself wanting a little more vibrancy – even the icons on the home screen just feel very dull.

The Redmi 10 comes packing the MediaTek Helio G88, and aside from the display quality, it’s the biggest indicator of compromises made to reach such a low price point.

On the rear, it’s a little no-thrills and a bit too functional for my taste. Images are clear, but lacking in vibrancy, not helped when viewing them back on the basic LCD screen. Contrast is minimal across the board, something which, when paired with the screen, make all images appear washed out.

Shots offer plenty of detail in the foreground, but as you’ll see from the image of toys on the shelf, a bokeh effect means backgrounds aren’t as sharp. Night mode performance is nothing to write home about either, with the Redmi 10 capturing the moment but not offering a huge lot to work with when viewed back.

The Redmi 10 has a large 5000mAh battery that’ll easily last a day and a half. Less active social media scrollers or gamers will likely hit two days before needing to plug it in.

A fast-charger included, too, with 18W fast-charging as standard and a 22.5W charger. That, by today’s standards, is not very fast at all. In our usual 30-minute test from dead, the Redmi 10 only reached 29% charge.

The Xiaomi Redmi 10 runs MIUI 12.5, Xiaomi’s own particular flavour of Android, over the top of Android 11 – not the current Android 12. An update is likely at some point.

The Xiaomi Redmi 10 is available globally, and at £179 for the 64GB. There’s also a 128GB that retails at around £199 (although a microSD slot means you’re not stuck with either).

Understandably for the price, there’s no 5G and performance is limited, charging is slow and there’s no waterproofing. Still, this is one of the best options at under £200 right now if you don’t need a phone to be all singing and all dancing.

Xiaomi is continuing to surprise folks at every turn as the company has released modest or superb devices on a regular basis, with little to no issues. The latest example of this comes via the Xiaomi Redmi 5A, which launched in China back in October before launching in India back in early December.

Today, the company announced that the Redmi 5A was sold to more than 1 million customers in India in just one month. These are pretty impressive numbers from a small-ish company who is looking to leave its mark on the world, one device at a time.

What may help Xiaomi continue to dominate certain markets are its prices for the array of devices being offered. For example, the base model Xiaomi Redmi 5A with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage is priced at INR4,999, which converts to about $79. These prices are cheaper than just about any other major contender on the market, and it seems Xioami has found its niche.