Redmi K40 Pro Review after 6 months! Worth buying for 2022? Cheapest Snapdragon 888 smartphone! By TechUtopia

Review we have the Redmi k40 pro version. This is the cheapest smartphone in the world with snapdragon 88. We do have the Realme gt, 5g model, which I will leave obviously buying links in the description. So, yes, guys the buying links for the description you can buy it on cctv. com. I got it from there.

Uh, yes, perfect site, it's responsible, it's professional, it's reliable! So you don't have to worry about that. Let's do a quick, unboxing see what we have in the box. Okay, here we go guys. So we have an uh inside the box. We have a charging a brick with a type c, USB cable in white color.

We're gonna, see the CPU case with some manuals uh, of course, and the smartphone itself. That's it simple, like that. Did we receive anything extra here? Let me just check it out by itself. No, I don't see any extra stuff here, so it seems that you're not going to receive basically uh type c, and let me just check it out right now. Yes, we then receive a type c uh, USB audio converter.

Anyway, here's the smartphone, a smartphone, smartphone, smartphone, smartphone, blah blah blah blah. Here we go the smart, the smartphone itself, the Redmi k40 pro. Remember that I did review the Redmi k40, which comes with the snapdragon 870. This one comes with the triple eight: yes guys, the cheapest smartphone in the world, and, oh my god, the finish on the back the finish on the back of this device. It's intriguing seriously.

This is intriguing back here on the beautiful I just love, it loves it indeed. So what are the four main selling points of the Redmi k40 uh exit, we're going to exit that I can disable also that one by the way this me having on 120 hertz, so, yes, 120, hertz, AMOLED panel 6.67 inches, it has a 64 megapixel back camera, snapdragon, 888 and 33 was fast charging included. Of course, all together, I have to say that the fifth feature, or the fifth reason, the uh, the one of the top five reasons why to buy this. One is also the price, of course, if you want to go to the lowest section there regarding the price tag, this is it anyway uh. Let's go quickly.

Show you right now here that uh this is running right now. The latest version, mini version 12.5.4.0 check this out, there's no update whatsoever, beautiful I'm having here, which version I'm having here we're going to go here to the old specs, I'm having here the 8gb ram variant with 128 GB raw android 11. Beautiful check the screen. How bright this is beautiful. Viewing angles are amazing, anyway, so uh, let's check it out here, one by one, we're going to go back here by the way, if you're wondering what kind of application I'm using the wallpaper like application is loop will loop.

Remember that love this application is seriously beautiful. Let's go to this uh over here we're going to go with this one set it up and just check it out. It's amazing seriously, amazing anyway, so the weight 196 grams, it's not that heavy at all. All together, it doesn't have a 5600 image battery. That's why it's still really light for this kind of uh big display size uh.

We have an IPP, ip50, uh, 53, splash, proof feature remember. This is not a waterproof smartphone guys, I repeat: it's not waterproof smartphone thickness, also very thin device, guys 7.8 millimeter, seven point: eight millimeter, obviously uh when you include the camera, the camera bump, that is obviously thicker, but all together. Everything else here is just really thin: absolutely crazy, crazy, stuff, uh anyway guys so the fingerprints uh, of course uh itself. Here we have a power button on the right side, volume rocker on the right side. Also, we have here that uh.

Of course, we have. I think we have IR blaster with a noise cancellation, microphone and secondary speaker guys on the top. You can see myself over here, yeah, beautiful, beautiful and then on the bottom. What do we have types? USB port, uh, dual sim acceptable slot? Unfortunately con is. There is no SD card support like with 90 of the flagship right now we don't have SD card support, one speaker and one microphone check it out on the left side.

We don't have anything and, on the back here we have camera setups, which we're gonna talk later on in the video, and you're going to have a separate camera view of this device on my channel so check it out check this out beautiful anyway, let's go step by step. Ada64 here quickly, going to check some information. You can just pause this video amulet panel, so this device guys it doesn't come with the 2k screen, like example, the Xiaomi 11 and me11 ultra. That is just completely fine. We're going to go here to the display mode, and we're going to go with the refresh rate.

Still they didn't include the 90 hertz. They have only two modes: 60 hertz and 120 hertz or, let's just say, 60, fps and 120 fps modes for you color scheme. Like always, I put here at white balance. Sorry, for that I mean I put it at cool balance. I put it in cool balance.

This is what I love about this color schemes, and it's very nice to have it full screen mode. Of course, you can disable enable it for specific applications quickly. I'm going to just go here through the settings and can just pause it and see it myself. The mew 12.5 guys everything which you see-saw with other Xiaomi devices. Uh.

You see it also with this one, nothing special here, you don't get something which other devices don't have so fingerprint unlock we're gonna. Does it like this pattern? Let's just enable the pattern. Okay, here we go. I set it up with the fingerprint sensor, uh, so guys how, in the heck you get uh snapdragon 888 for this price tag. Of course, the red Xiaomi slash, Redmi they've done some cuts with this device, and we don't have always on display.

Basically, we don't have a fingerprint sensor on the display. We have a just physical, classical side, fingerprint sensor. So that's why again, it works just flawlessly here. It's super superfast. Some prefer this kind of fingerprint sensors, but still some obviously users.

Global viewers obviously still prefer to have on their devices in display fingerprint sensor again. This one just works. Fine we do have also, let's just say, show you face ID the face. I'd also works just flawlessly, I'm using the tab two time to wake up the screen to tap wake up the screen. Also, we can do the race to wake up beautiful, flawless, flawless seriously flawless anyway, let's go now and start doing some YouTube screen tests.

Let's talk about the screen man here we go beautiful display, so the Redmi k40, which is very interesting again with this YouTube. Somehow the brightness drops on HDR videos. Let me just find another video here, and maybe you can even notice myself check it out. Did you notice that you probably noticed it check this out guys? You probably noticed what I mean by this, and this is, I noticed with- I mean all Xiaomi devices, man, which is kind of very weird, let's enable some other video. Let's go to another video here.

Okay, this one is fine, this one, it seems it's fine, and it's not a HDR video, just the standard 1080p video here and the brightness that it didn't lower down. Very weird. Okay, let's go with another HDR. I think that okay, this is one, is better, so with some videos with some videos, which is again very weird. I don't even know how to even describe this bug or sound like this check this out, I think HDR.

Let me just see yeah yeah man, even with that, with this HDR check this out guys, you probably can see the difference anyway. Let me enable some: is this HDR video? Let's check this out? No, it's not a standard video we're going to go here, 1080p and enabled it yeah man a big difference here. So this one is also having a perfect brightness here. Somehow the HDR videos over the YouTube have some problems with the mu. I don't know if I'm the only guy who isn't uh reporting this kind of problems, but you can notice difference in the brightness for sure check out how bright this display is so guys.

This is a beautiful display. It's a 6.67-inch Samsung AMOLED panel 209 aspect ratios, full HD plus resolution, so not 2k, full HD, 386, PPI, screen density uh. We have, of course, the hole punch in the middle, very tiny one. It's not that intrusive, but again the mix for the new Xiaomi device. Meme x4 comes with the under display camera, which is again crazy, stuff man, crazy technology.

It is two times more expensive than the Redmi k40 pro we have accordingly, glass 5 protection. Peak brightness is 1300 nits 1300 nits guys, while the maximum brightness HBM is 900 refresh rate is we have 60 and 120 hertz uh 20, hertz's, HDR, 10 plus certified panel, and of course we have DCI p3 with a touch sampling rate at 360, hertz, awesome man, awesome, awesome, awesome and with the touch sensitivity and working with this device, it's really flawless. I do feel that some applications do lag with animation, and they should fix this. We're going to open some, a few applications here right now we're going to do that in the speed test, but I noticed that some application, not all of them example the standard application like Facebook, Instagram YouTube are running flawlessly while some example farm here was a saga. Somehow it's not that optimized for snapdragon 888 and obviously that's not the problem of the device- that's probably the more problem of the application itself, uh anyway.

Uh! Let's continue here. You probably let me just see here for you. Let's check this out. Yeah, mentor sensitivity and hectic vibration is spot on with the Redmi k40 pro beautiful. Regarding the lowest brightness is the lowest brightness 50 100 we're going to go to another.

Let's see what do we have regarding the wallpapers? Let's go with this one right now select set it up awesome anyway, beautiful viewing angles again spot on this, an AMOLED panel. So you don't have the uh. You don't have to worry about uh those things beautiful, color calibration guys. Of course, you can check by yourself the display uh effect, the display viewing effect the picture effect. Whatever you want.

Maybe some of you would love to have warmer side of the picture or the video of course itself. When I'm saying picture, I'm saying just the visual effect of the display itself, or you want to have a cool effect like I do- I mean let's go now continue with the sound speaker test. Let's see here how the sound speakers sound with this one. Let's go with the drums and days here and this you ask me always which song I'm using I'm using this: let it go a cappella voices only so let's put the speakers maximum okay, that is loud- that is loud, well beautiful, very rich, beautiful stereo, sound speakers here, double speakers for you for this price tag, I'm giving in nine score guys nine score for the Redmi k40 pro uh. Remember that I'm gonna also test the mic quality for you right now, but let's go now and see what do we get regarding the volume output through the type c? Let's check it out here we go, I'm not as disappointed at all whatsoever.

Wow strong, sound quality, sound everything is clear. They are deep past everything. Is there guys? Nothing is missing right now, what a great sound chip inside this flagship budget beast! Okay, I just recorded something with the mic. The default native mic recorder was recorded. Let's play it back one two one two: this is the mic check quality with the Redmi k40.

My mouth is 14 centimeters away, my window is open, so you could hear some noise noises in the background one two one do this: is the mic check quality right now? My mouth is just few centimeters away: Redmi k40 pro: let's go not bad, but I think the noise cancellation should work better guys. They should release a future update, and this Xiaomi does do this. It do they do this, but somehow I don't know how to explain this. Some Xiaomi device is even cheaper than this price tag have a better nice cancellation. So obviously this is probably software uh lack of the software polishing regarding the, of course, updates and optimization of the noise cancellation microphone the secondary microphone on top anyway.

For now, I'm satisfied the obvious side of the Redmi k40 pro is a pass. Okay. So, let's begin now with the performance mode guys regarding the specs, wise, the hardware and the speed of the Redmi k40 pro. I repeat: this is the updated version here: the updated OTA and 8gb VAM. Let's go quickly.

Firstly, we're going to show you some an tutu scores, I'm using here the eight version and two I'll show you right now: the nine version of an tutu. So it's around 100 000 points more uh, so yeah. This is the score for the snapdragon 888, the 8gb van variant. This is the geek bench. Five can see myself here we go.

This is the highest score that I got with the renegade 40 pro, while it was when the cool temperature below 40 degrees- and this is right now- the GFX bench- you can see myself hit the t Rex off, screen 278 fps and then quickly we're going to go here through the ada64, and I think I showed you this let's go and then move to uh other apps' device information. We're going to go here through the sensors. Let's check this out, so this is snapdragon 888 uh built on five nanometers. Two technology clocked at 2.8, of course, I didn't know 660 as a GPU. It has lbddr5 and UFS 3.1 storage, we're going to talk about the battery later on camera screen system, soc and general, make sure to uh. Of course, uh pause this video uh, yes, the Netflix HD quality is fully unlocked.

L1 wide one is unlocked here. Regarding the of course Guam you can use it with this device. We're going to go ahead through the CPU, z and sol. It can basically s or stock a load. Call like this.

You can check myself the specs here. You can download yourself this application and check the specs by yourself check this out. Seven hundred and twenty g flops, the snapdragon 88, the eight plus probably have almost one nineteen hundred, maybe we'll see 1900 yeah. Nineteen hundred we will see uh when they release the snapdragon 888 plus now we're going to move quickly to a speed test here. I'm going to open here reopen some applications.

Here you can see myself. We are going through these applications. I open them already. So we are just testing here. The ram management and reopening these apps guys check this out this smoothness here for 440 dollars the fastest smartphone in the world for sure, especially in the gaming world, especially in the game goal, you will not find anything better than the Redmi k40 pro awesome pass for me.

What can I tell you that this device, as the other snapdragon 88, will overheat guys? Unfortunately, it will overheat, and it will screen dim. It will dim the screen uh, not that uh, let's just say extreme, as the Xiaomi 11 at the beginning. There's those few smartphones that begin with the snapdragon 81088, but it will deem with the heavy use. What I would suggest you lower the screen. Brightness screen brightness, yes, lower the screen, brightness and, of course, try to disable Bluetooth and GPS.

If you don't need it and of course, the most important thing I would call like that is play it in a cool cooler, moon, a cooler, let's continue next, okay. So, regarding the battery life of the Redmi k40 pro uh. Remember guys that this device has a 33 was fast charging technology 4520 image battery. So I said there that yes uh in one side, you do sacrifice uh the battery size but another size uh. In other side, you do get a thinner smartphone, it's under eight millimeter thick, which is crazy.

Man, seven point eight for a flagship device that I'm just going to eat; 188, it's amazing dimensions so to fully charge. It takes around 60 minutes good around the for the gaming side, the screen on time in just four and a half to five hours. Of course everyday use. You should get around eight hours of screen on time. This is completely normal guys.

I can't say that this is the best result in the world. I can't say that this is average or poor or something like this. This is good result for this battery size and for this chip. So it's a pass. Okay, the camera wise before showing the sample.

So on the back, we have triple camera setup, 64, megapixel, Sony, mix, 686 sensors, error, of course, ultra-wide macro lens 8 megapixels. Regarding the video itself, I will just show right now what you can get 8k up to 8k, 30fps, again guys for a 440 dollar smartphone. This is very rare, plus it can record 4k 60 fps this snapdragon 888, the very earlier to find a smartphone that can support 4k, 60 fps, it's impossible. Other chips, doing chipsets, do not support this option, and we have the macro lens of 5 megapixels. So, yes, all together.

This is a complete decent camera setup for this price tag. Regarding the front selfie camera we have a 12 20, megapixel, Samsung, s5, k3 t2 sensor with the aperture of f 2.45 uh. Of course uh. This is a CMOS type with the pixel size of 0.80 micrometer anyway. So, let's check this out here, portrait mode more.

We do have the night mode. We have time-lapse. Furthermore, we have dual video mode load exposure. This is a really great uh feature for night pictures like guys check this out seriously. It's a must-have on any smartphone.

Anyway. Let's now show you the camera samples with the front and back cameras, 4k 60fps mode, handheld footage walking, very smooth, very smooth sample, guys Redmi k40 with snapdragon 88. Welcome back your ninja Muhammad. So this is right now full camera review of the Redmi k40 pro after that. So three enemy contract is oh.

Thank you, nice, using a game pad. My suggestions are the suggestions obviously buy yourself a flight due to game pad apex school. If you are in the opinion world, you can buy yourself a data probe too. If you are in the budget world, for example, game set. T4 pro cars are flying should be sit down, legendary, okay, so for the end ninjas my impressions, should you buy the Redmi k40 pro? Of course big? Yes, big! Yes, if you are into the power, if you need power for the budget price, why I call it budget, of course 440 dollars for some of you, you can't say it's budget, but it's a budget flagship.

It doesn't cost 800 900 as other flagship devices which are costing two tons more than the Redmi k40. Pro great speakers great display great speed, guys great fluidity, great cameras, also, all together you get here good, decent power speeds. Of course, I would ask for more power there. I would say like that, and the difference between enemy k40 pro plus, is that it has a 108 megapixel camera for 70 dollars more. So if you care for 108 megapixel pay 70 dollars, one, that's it uh console would say like that it does heat up overheats, there's no SD card support, there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. Unfortunately, for some of you, maybe there is no in-display fingerprint sensor if I say that as a call.

But if I repeat, this is a budget flagship, guys budget flagship, the designer itself is unique, and I love design of the Redmi key 40 pro, and it does look a bit different from the Redmi k14, the snapdragon 870, which cost around 100 less, and I will leave the buying links in description. So yes go with this device, guys, I repeat: uh this is the cheapest snapdragon 888. So don't expect to have the same features, the same fluidity, the same performance as with 1 000 dollar worth smartphone. Like me, 11 ultra or Xiaomi mix 4. Again for the price tag.

This is completely acceptable and buy it right now. Thank you for watching my salami. You.

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