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Review on Xiaomi Redmi Note smartphone 5 3/32 GB Global, black by Boyan Marinov ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

I expected mediocre quality, but the product was pleasantly surprised.

there are European, Chinese and Indian variations on the market. Indian is not at all a fact that it will work. Chinese - identical to European in appearance (but cheaper), but there is no b20 frequency. whether it matters to you or not depends on your mobile operator. Also, can you flash (ate) then a Chinese phone is a big question. to distinguish a Chinese from a European, dial the number "*#06#" without quotes. if 2 lines appear (2 imei) - this is a European. if 3 lines (2 have and something else) - Chinese. also, a European should have a box without hieroglyphs at all and a European charge. more: there are firmware options "Global VERSION" and "Global ROM". the first is normal, the second is not a fact that it will be ated even after dancing with TWRP. take the option "Global VERSION", although it is more expensive. I took the 4/64 option, the memory is just behind the eyes, everything flies. everything would be fine, but the device is painfully healthy and the rear camera is junk.

Pros
  • + performance and stability. the phone crashed with an error only once in many hours of operation. due to the large screen it is very convenient to work (e-mail, reading Word and Excel doents), + good stable connection (voice, 3/4g, wifi, BT). + good shooting on the rear camera indoors and in complete darkness (this is really cool - it highlights and quickly focuses). + stabilized video shooting, slow motion video, + instant search for GPS satellites, sometimes even works indoors. + very fast fingerprint scanner. + relatively capacious battery, keeps about 8 hours of active use warm, + excellent loud sound in both speakers. little things: + the seek thermal pro thermal imager clung without problems (the previous xiaomi devices were mercilessly buggy). + excellent silicone bumper included,
Cons
  • - There are many gray phones on the market, see "comment". -very big, you can't just carry it in your pocket. It is inconvenient to use with one hand, the case with the ring partly solves. - excessive screen resolution. extra pixels actively eat battery power. If you look at the statistics of battery consumption, you will see that it is the screen that eats more than others. -I do not like the work of the auto-brightness control - in the room it darkens excessively. - the rear camera on the street shoots badly. cartoony, the hair "soaps" (relative to the old redmi3pro), the "portrait" mode (blurring the background) is bull software nonsense, redmi5plus does it better. the dynamic range is sad. in general, the camera is so-so, alas. but indoors, due to aperture 1 / 1.9, it shoots better than others. I really counted on the quality of the camera for daytime shooting of my children on the street and shooting on trips, and the pictures turned out to be frankly bad, much worse than a three-year-old inexpensive phone. -removed the "flashlight" mode in the photography mode of the rear camera, -did not like the slightly convex screen - the risk of breaking. - I didn’t like the viewing angles - on the old redmi3pro they were larger, but then you turn a little and the screen darkens, but of course there is no color distortion and inversion. - at the edges of the screen, the sensor does not work immediately (this is important, for example, for the touch istant and gestures). - the phone is very thin, but I would like the battery to be a little more powerful. personally, I would prefer a phone 2mm thicker, but with a 6A / h battery. - disadvantages of native software: MI applications constantly show alerts and / or ads, you have to turn them off one by one. also, the google play loader is often buggy - it writes "waiting for download" and nothing happens, then it works again. archiving photos in MI-cloud takes place in an incomprehensible order to me, downloads almost nothing. I connected a Google account - here it does the same thing normally and gives more space.