Redmi Note 7 Unboxing & Review (English) - YouTube

So here it is guys the new Xiaomi well it's not actually called a Xiaomi

anymore it's a readmi it's the redmi note 7 it's their new sub brand of

budget mobile phones so they have pocophone they've got black shark and now

Redmi so three sub brands for the mobile division at least that is that

they've got so what's interesting about this phone well we have a phone that has

a quite a good price point 150 us that is in China however that they're selling

it for with three gigabytes of RAM and 32 that's the start out model the base

model so the one I've got here that I picked up as a black version and this

one has four gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of storage it's got the

snapdragon 616 as the cpu and then the camera on the rear 48 megapixels the

front-facing selfie cam is 13 your full specs are right up here if you're

interested in that it has a full thousand milliamp hour battery so the

better luck should be good and it does look very promising for that price point

so let's check it out so here is our box redmi note 7 talking about now an

extended warranty on this it used to be 12 months it's now 18 months but of

course and that's in China and then you just get a little bit of a rundown right

here of the specs on the back that we are already pretty much aware of so it

looks like we have a TPU case here now I got the black version so right here we

have the sim tray tool that's to eject that out of course a couple of

instruction manual if that things does look to be in Chinese and they are and

here is that TPU case I will show you this on the phone in only a minute you

can see it's one of those cheaper kind of cases but it's great to have this at

least in the box so we know straight away yet we've got some protection for

the phone and it does of course cover the buttons on the side which is great

so there is our phone and no one's used this yet which is great I can see that

there's no air bubbles underneath that and here we have our cable and the

charger so this is a standard charger this one here this is the 10 watt

charger now there is an option in China to get the 18 watt charger which is a

lot faster of course so this one is with a maximum output of 5 volts 2m so it's

not going to be super fast or anything like that but it should do full charge

the phone in about 2 hours and 10 minutes and then here is our cable so

it's the typical xiaomi 1 so type C finally finally they have used up their

micro USB stock okay so let's check the weight like I

always do with my phone reviews so 187 grams that's not bad and eight point two

millimeters thick however that's without that big camera bump which is quite tall

you can see because that then brings it up to ten millimeters or just under so

here we have down the bottom the type-c port loudspeaker and one of these ones

will be the microphone so not jeweled firing downwards speakers I think the

front-facing earpiece does double as a loudspeaker but I'll confirm that in

this video so it's glass on the rear it has a very nice smooth edges to it and

it looks to me like a painted alloy frame that goes around the outside so so

far I mean the build quality to me looks really good so the SIM tray will take

either a micro SD card nano SIM or two nano zooms it has a rubber gasket around

here so it does not have an IP rating officially but apparently there is some

splash resistance with this phone you can see there a gasket around it and yes

it does have a metal frame too so it's not susceptible to bending up the top we

have a secondary mic the use for noise cancellation and in video a 3.5

millimeter audio jack and yes it still retains the IR transmitter so great to

have 3.5 mini headphone jack and still have the IR transmitter there as well

you can see the earpiece at the top it looks a little bit wider than normal now

we have this what you could call like a water drop or a tear drop not shown here

now this is a lot better than a big huge wide notch this camera is 13 megapixels

so it is a bit of a downgrade compared to some of the other cameras that we've

got on front-facing cameras at least there are 20 megapixels here in terms of

megapixels that is we've got an ambient light sensor right here and I can see

just inside the earpiece up here they've got other sensors so that would probably

be the proximity sensor that's in there as well then on the right side we've got

the volume and power buttons made out a middle we've got a good feel to them

they are also painted as well now this lip at the top there you can see that's

plastic so it's a plastic that meets and mates in with the rear housing that it

has on here so in the case you can see now that it doesn't actually offer

protection for the screen because the case itself does not raise up higher

than the screen so if you place it on a table it is then gonna get scratched and

the same goes for the camera unfortunately you can see the camera

bump does not get any protection at all so same story place it down on a table

and it could end up getting the lens scratch there

for a starter case that we get in the box I think it's fine it does at least

protect their buttons as I pointed out and it's better than nothing and does

give the phone a little bit of grip because right now here and winter my

hands are cold this is a glass phone and it is super slippery so out of the box

the phone does come with a rather large update that you need to install one

point eight gigabytes and that'll bring it up then to me or I version ten point

two point five so my phone has four gigabytes around the other version the

cheapest one has only three and out of the sixty four gigabytes that I've got

I've got 49 free available to me I'm of course installing apps and things at the

moment and it is running Android 9 security patch level from December and

for those of you out there that must know the sensor information well there

you go there's the two back cents as you can see using Samsung the front camera

is an omni version 13 megapixel one and because this is not the global ROM

version this is the Chinese version it's the only one that's out at the moment

you're gonna get a lot of this bloatware Chinese blow where now luckily you can

and install most of this rubbish II just simply go through either here the UI or

through the settings and go and just remove them one by one

so let's take a look now at the screen in a little bit of detail have noticed

that just like the view 20 that I reviewed that around where this water

dropped notches we're getting a little bit of uneven backlight distribution so

you see like a darkness coming in on the edges it's noticeable on the sides as

well so the bezels yeah the top and bottom bezels they're not the smallest

but I feel for the price that this phone is selling for I mean it's perfectly

suitable it's fine and the water drop or teardrop notch whatever you want to call

it I think is a good substitute instead of having a big wide not unlike all

other Xiaomi phones since I think it was menu I seven or eight or something we've

got this option here so under the contrast and colors under display you

can adjust the white balance and you can just put it on to standard which looks a

little bit more correct that's the best white balance there so if you want them

more correct white balance that's the one to have it on but of course out of

the box it's on the automatic contrast so our maximum brightness is good it's

575 lux which is very good I feel for the price now when have a look at the

gamma it is off it's about 1.8 and it should be 2.2 real-world images they do

come out good on the screen and again factoring in the price I mean the blacks

on this IPS they're not the deepest but they are recently dude so that is really

the only complaint I have is just that edge bleating about darkness we're

getting around the edges around the teardrop notch that is really ad overall

I feel again factoring on that price that this is not

a bad IPS screen it's even better than the one that I've seen in the honor of

u-20 and if you're wondering where is the status LED well here it is right

down here in the chin in a very unusual location I put it here obviously they

didn't have room to put it up the top so I wanted to talk now about the general

performance show you a couple of benchmarks so I have noticed that at

times you will get just the minor slightest tiniest little bit of a full

stream screen gesture lag coming in but overall it seems to be pretty good when

you go through multitasking so we'll bring up here the antutu score and a lot

of you like to see that so here's the ante to score almost 140,000 not a bad

score for this chipset so maximum turbo's 2.2 gigahertz eight cores it is

really quite good paired up with the four gigabytes of RAM on my particular

model here now DRM info whoops I just accidentally closed them and I'll just

bring that up for you now so DRM info of course it's wide fine level security

three level so that means no net flux and full HD we need security level one

for that Chinese manufacturers they're not going through that process to get

the cert for that and it's happening on a lot of tablets and a lot of the tick

that I review it's only huai whether it seems to bother to get level one so bear

that in mind with a budget device is it a deal break and not having Netflix in

full HD I don't know I don't watch Netflix on my mobile phone normally so

the storage internal storage should just bring up a couple of benchmarks to of

that here we go so it does have a MMC 5.1 specs storage now I expected this

we're not going to get you FS 2.1 not at the price point of this and those speeds

are fine it's not going to be bottlenecking

and the system here at all with that and also to test out the wireless so he can

see this is actually LTE speeds here in Spain not bad at all 35 download the

signal strength perception all seems to be fine there and here was my wireless

speed test too so that's perfect no problems with that GPS as well it's

working good if we get almost all of the satellites locked on to first lock took

about 30 seconds and then around town everything has no problem

tracking me accuracy will hover around the four meters that you can see here

and if I open something like Twitter here I think I've already got that open

in the background so how is the performance of that loading that in just

get it to refresh and then scrolling it's quite good as you can see it does

take a little while in the beginning because it has so many images and things

to load up so it's gonna be a little bit slower there it's just that the full

screen just your legs sometimes that I am sing just between swapping over to

different applications and then going back home you will now and then said so

it's almost completely gone just not hundreds in all right so what about the

loudspeakers so I've tested out before I come in on the loudspeaker the 3.5

millimeter headphone jack and it sounds good this is typical Jeremy to me it

sounds perfectly fine there's no real issue there whether it allowed us is

okay now there is no second allowed speaker in the earpiece here

unfortunately and I thought that might have been the case because it was so

wide but definitely not it's only firing out from the bottom but I will give you

a sample of it but just to add that the loudness I feel should be a little bit

louder on the bottom loudspeaker it's not a deal-breaker or anything like that

it's still loud but it just could be a little bit louder anyway here's that

sample

I just demonstrated face unlocking I have the lift to wake enabled so you

just lift the phone up and then look at it it unlocks it is very quick as you

can see I do that one more time for you so lift it up looks at me unlocks now

the thinker print reader on the rear of course there is always on and when you

touch it it unlocks instantly and about well under half a second it's very quick

so I do that you know touch it now and you can see that's how quick it is

now bomb very quick so no problems with the face unlocking all the fingerprint

reader now for gaming performance I'm going to test out pop G here with the

high frame rates inning and then HD is our graphics let's see how it performs

so you can see pump G is running fine there's another couple of players here

so I'm probably gonna actually just die already okay it doesn't seem to be bad

at all to me in the high setting you're not really getting much lag if any

actually that seems to be pretty good okay tiny little bit then when scrolling

around this title here is shadow gun legends and it is running on high

settings and visually it looks stunning this one you get a little tiny bit of

slowdown here and there but overall the performance is good and I'm not really

noticing any major frame dips so it's not like I'm playable like it was on the

alder cube X tablet that I looked at which had a very old mediatek chip and

it couldn't handle this game with a snapdragon 616 handling this one just

fine just before I show you some camera

samples this is the camera app so typical Xiaomi camera app me why 10 a

few little tweaks and things in here AI mode your filters HDR's off by

default video mode portrait mode using the dual

cameras it'll stitch together an image I'll give you samples of that shortly

and with video here I just wanted to point out that if go into the settings

that we do have this right here which is electronic image stabilization you can

see our video quality the maximum setting is 1080p 60 frames per second

I'm gonna shoot it in 30 because actually looks a little bit better so no

4k 4k is missing for some reason but anyway here are those samples

so here's a video sample there's a front facing camera and we get 1080p max here

there's a no electronic image stabilization so it's gonna be a little

bit shaky the crop on it is actually quite good which is fine I find the

audio quality as well yeah it's alright it's not the best but I've definitely

heard a lot worse than this overall front-facing video quality I think it's

good it's not bad so this video is being shot at 1080p 30 frames per second

there is no 4k option you have to use a third-party app at the moment or even

camera for that now there is a bit of wind noise that gets picked up here it's

a little bit windy at the moment and you can see the electronic image

stabilization in 1080p here is working fine like I'm walking forward and it's

taking my legs out of it and there is a bit of a problem at times I find with

the focus it does tend to hunt a little bit now and then depending on the

conditions it's not as good to focus as the redmi note 2 5 whether it's dual

pixel face detection autofocus you notice that yeah it works but sometimes

isn't gonna work there the focus comes into play now but with their redmi note

5 there would not be a problem there whether it's dual pixel autofocus and we

do have at least 4k with electronic image stabilization

thanks to that application I mentioned open camera and you can see it's working

quite well as long as you've got a steady here my hand is not the speediest

this is now sample of video in low-light now the sun went down about an half an

hour an hour ago so there's still a little bit of light around you can see a

lot of grain starts to creep into the image and they focus then does start to

struggle quite a bit and I found that the low-light photography as you sing

from my samples is not wonderful and it's kind of what you expect in this

category and the price of course of this phone we're not wonderful at low-light

alright so to quickly recap here we have an excellent build quality so I've got a

middle frame around the outside that is painted glass on the rear we do have

Gorilla Glass 5 I think is on the front screen too which is good and it's gonna

be a little bit more scratch resistant a little bit more resistant to drops too

so the water drop notch does look okay I'm fine with it I thought it would

bother me but it's not really that bad at all in fact I think it

better than the punch hole in the screen of those two mobiles that I reviewed

that had to hold their I think this is better so we have a very good build yes

for the price definitely it's excellent type C port finally no more micro USB

ports finally the view start of his stock Xiaomi I was getting really sick

of micro USB ports but that's good so the voice quality I have made some voice

calls on this very good face unlocking very fast as I demonstrated you just

look at it and it unlocks it's really quick in fact I'll do it now and it

unlocks it's really good fingerprint reader as well do that I'll just touch

it now but really quick no complaints with that whatsoever so it does have a

large 4000 milliamp hour battery on here and my estimate is about 9 to 10 hours

of screen on time with the IPS panel that this has on here

our charging time is going to be just over about 2 hours if you're using the

10 watt charger it does support the faster 18 watt charges so that time will

then drop down to just under about an hour and 50 minutes but I will have

exact figures are with battery life in an up-and-coming video maybe like after

three or four days of using this phone at least to get those kind of figures

there so the camera quality yes we've got 48 million pixel sensor on the rear

and yeah I mean the the photo quality I think is good it's not amazing but for

the price it certainly does take a good photo the portrait mode stitching as

well seems to be good front facing camera okay

bed to see no 4k support yet with video so hopefully they're going to add that

later on now the ROM performance very smooth for the most part if you're got a

real keen eye you can see tiny little micro stutters here and there now and

then just with the full screen just as it seems to happen there's something's

been happening for a long time with Xiaomi and it is almost completely gone

I'm still seeing a tiny little bit of it there's no LTE band 20 for those that

need this but the Chinese version as well a lot of Chinese bloatware and it

comes to probably the biggest negative for me and this is me being very picky

but when you do look at the screen especially at the top at certain angles

you will see that darkness that comes in there it's not a PS bleed but it's just

a it seems to be from the manufacturing process to create that little notch at

the top that we are getting like this dimming this darkening of the pixels

we're not getting a evenly distributed backlight the whites they're especially

noticeable as I pointed out when I showed you some of the screen at the top

that's just not a super high quality IPS panel that is in there's the bright

is good around 570 lux which is very good you can see it in daylight that is

fine I feel again the charmese done it for the price of around about a hundred

in this one cost about 200 us this four gigabytes of RAM and 64 bytes of storage

for the price you are getting a fantastic phone I can see that already

and they've done it again they've set the price for the quality of what you're

getting the price point here really really good phone so fast I will have

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