Redmi Note 8 Review & Unboxing (In-Depth Full Review) By TechTablets

Three or four weeks ago, I reviewed this, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 pro happen to like it. It is a very good phone, but we've got the cheaper version. That's been in the studio for a week now. This is the Redmi Note 8 that I've been testing and using it has the snapdragon 665, so not using media check. Now there was a lot of media tech hate in the review of the ribbon. Note 8 pro a lot of people, just don't want to touch media tech and I can completely understand why, when you look at their previous gen chips, they were never really that good compared to their Qualcomm counterparts.

Now there are still some things that remain like the efficiency of the chips. You notice that Qualcomm is going to be better now. Is there a huge difference between both of these phones? I will do some comparisons- just small ones in this particular video here, but it is, after all, my review of the ribbing Note 8. So let's check this one out in depth in detail and see if it's a worthy phone and is it worth the money to go for the pro or should you actually get the Qualcomm mobile instead, so every Note 8 here this is a lone unit that was provided to me from trading change in comm, and we've got a CPU case in the box, which is good. That manufacturers are pretty much always now, including cases straight out of the box for their phones.

They do realize that they're covered with glasses slippery, so we've got decent protection there. So we have an 18 watt charger. It will fully charge the phone in 1 hour and 52 minutes, type-c, cable and instruction leaflets intel. Let's first take a look at the build of the phone, so we have apparently Gorilla Glass 5 front and back, and I like this effect, we head, you can see that a wave effect on the glass, and it does have 2.5 D edges, so it doesn't feel sharp in hand or anything like that. Rip me branding, and I love the way that it shifts from this purple at the bottom into a blueish, almost green look.

There is quite unique now the cameras here, we've got four of them, so we have an ultra wine, which is 8 megapixels at the very top below that is the 48 megapixel sensor. It doesn't have any optical image stabilization, and then we have 2 2 megapixel sensors. So one is just for macro shots, so very low resolution, and then we have the other one just for depth information for your portrait photos. There is a dual tone: LED flash, and you can see the rare capacitive always-on fingerprint reader. So this phone is eight point six millimeters thick with the camera bulge.

It has been ten point four millimeters, so we've got an IR transmitter there on the top and the secondary mic and then along the bottom here singled out speaker. So the no just loudspeakers here type C port and what looks like jewel, microphones, I, believe, is just one microphone, but it's got two holes there and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. So the bezels are not the slimmest they've. Taken the advantage of their chin size here to put the actual ring me branding in here, with a blue accent around it and on the side there I do actually like this. Look, it's a little different from what you typically see, and so many phones.

Now they just all look like clones of each other, so they're separated out and makes it look just a little different. What a drop notch that houses, our 13 megapixel camera than f 2.0 aperture, just above it's an earpiece. Now this earpiece outputs, normal kind of quality and I, don't have any complaints with call quality with this phone. It sounds fine to me top left side of the phone you'll find our sim tray, so its metal reinforced. It does have a guest get around it, and this is perfect.

We've got a micro SD card slot there, but it will also take at the same time to NATO SIM so no more having to give up one of those SIM cards. You can run both and the micro SD all. At the same time now the phone does have a status LED. That's in the top left or the top bezel, and you'll see that when I plug it in it'll come on just a tiny little light there, and it goes off once you have fully charged and one hour and 51 minutes approximately then, then just leaves our buttons which, on the right hand, side they're very easy to access, and they don't rattle. Overall, the build quality is good.

It's a solid, well put-together phone. Now this is to be expected, of course, because they really note a pro is a more expensive phone, but to me, it has a superior screen on it, and it's not just the brightness. It's also the color reproduction that you get with it so maximum brightness. On the Ruby note, 8 Pro is 490 Lux approximately versus the about 360 we're getting on the Redmi Note 8. So there's a much duller screen and when you take a look at their overall build quality.

I, like the way they've done things here with the Rummy Note 8 Pro, having the cameras in I think just looks a little better, but not only that it's got the curved rear glass as well, which in hand just makes the phone feel a little better to hold the screen. Gamer on the note, eight comes out to be around about 1.8 here, — almost -. Ideally it should be 2.2, but most mobile phones will not have this spot on, especially out of the box calibration. So this is not actually a bad screen. Don't get me wrong for an IPS panel in this category of phone? It's quite good, because I'm not seeing the shadowing issues on the corners around the water-drop notch that you used to see, and especially the first phones from Xiaomi to have IPS panels with that water-drop notch.

It's not really that bad, but you do notice the difference between the provision and that is course understandable. Now, ROM performance is something that I'm not happy at all with, because it's just not well optimized. You see a lot of full screens, gesture leg and stutters when you multitask. Sometimes, for example, you bring up Play store and you just see that things can be a little choppy at times now, where I've noticed it. The most is when the phone hasn't been used for, say one hour: it's in a deep sleep, you wake it up, you unlock it, and then you go to swipe up to home to apps, and you can even see then some animations.

It's just not there. It should be much, much more fluid than what it is. Furthermore, it's not the chipsets fault. Clearly it is the ROM now notifications they should be showing at the top here, but they are not. We've got that same issue yet again, that is back I think it was fixed with some beta ROMs.

So if I go to it, install, for example, asphalt, 9 here, ok you'll, see, then that it's going to show up the top. There's all my notifications there back again now just swipe up here. Ok that wasn't too bad game with the animations alright. So, let's run through a couple of things, so when you first get the phone you're going to have a little of bloatware, and that's not that great, but most of it you can actually remove, so I've got, of course, the 128 gigabyte version. Here you get 110 gigabytes free and of course you can use micros, so that is great, dear I'm, on the latest, firmware by the way at the time of this video, so no Wide vine level one suit, unfortunately, so that translates into Netflix Amazon, Prime, video and other streaming services all stuck in stand definition.

Hopefully a firmware update will fix this now. This is perfect. Camera API to support is level 3. The maximum, so Google camera ports will be working. I think the reports out this for this one already and here we've got GPS, so it works just like any other Qualcomm phone you're going to get accuracy around three to four meters and no real issues to report.

It was very quick to get lock. Internal storage is not the fastest, as you can see, but it's not going to bottleneck the system here, install random reads and writes they're, actually pretty good for this price range of phones here is our an tutu scores. So now this is the entry to version 8 now Google Play Store is only serving us. This version here, so schools are a little different and off and wireless okay. Why is performance? Isn't amazing, but the game for what it is, this phone for its price? It's its actually, ok! You can go to the other side of the apartment here, the studio, and I'm still getting over the 100 meters per second I like to see.

Oh, that's, just gaming Call of Duty won another round that shouldn't be in here code. Most importantly, battery life, very good, ok screen is always going to be your biggest hardware. Consumer, of course, screen of time. It's a little hard to make out there, but eight hours so very good. You can probably squeeze this out to nine.

This was over the space of just one day of quite heavy use. You can see. I was gaming, a lot Call of Duty I'm kind of addicted to the game, and that is why I wouldn't call this your normal kind of use, it's very heavy, but you can see there is a bit of a wake lock issue, so it keeps waking up here. This was during the night, so I lift it. When I went to sleep to see how much I would lose in terms of better life and there's a bit of standby drain issue, I lost, it was 8% overnight and most phones would be about half of that or maybe 5%.

So there's something going on within the ROM. That's causing it to not go into a deep sleep now audio, something that is actually quite good here on this shell me, the 3.5 millimeter output I've got really no complaints with. It sounds great to me no twelve limbs, and we do have just a single loudspeaker. You kind of expect that for what this phone is the price of it, so here's a sample now out that loudspeaker just put some audio and a little of voice and some music, and it does sound good to me. It's lacking a little as expected, but your ringtones do come through very loud for receiving calls.

Quality sounds good, as mention with the earpiece that no problems. If it was qc4 spec, then it would be one hour we get a 3.52 type, C adapter, so for gaming performance. This is Call of Duty. Now set it on to the max frame rate, which should be I, believe 60 frames per second or 45. I.

Think it's 60 here on high now very high does get a little more stutters and lag, so I wouldn't recommend it as high is going to run. Actually fine I've been able to win complete rounds here with Battle Royale, but let's take a look at the performance, so the performance overall is good. You're able to get kills run around just fine. You will see the occasional little frame dip now and then that it does trigger some lag on the high settings, because the graphics after I mean look at it very visually demanding so just moving around there. It's a little choppy, and especially when you zoom in but overall I, think the high setting is probably the setting to go for.

If you want the good visuals, but of course, if you want the improved frame rate, then lower things down, let's take a look now at a more demanding game, and that is shadow gun legends which can really choke on some mobiles. So shadow gun legends I've noticed that it's running on high 60 frames per second reasonably well, but you will see some noticeable just frame dips and stutter like right. Now. You can probably see it all these enemies here, shooting at me, it's a little choppy, so I would lower the sitting down on this game to medium and for those asking about pub G that pub G is gonna, run fine on this, but just keep it on lower settings. Don't force it onto the high settings so real gaming performance for the type of mobile and the phone.

It is it's to be expected, it's not the best, but you can still play all those new demanding games out there and that's the main thing now onto the face: unlocking and fingerprint reader, so look at it tap, and you can see it was a little slow. Just then do it one more time there we go okay, so it normally takes about a second, it's not as fast as the Remi Note, 8, Pro I've noticed right. There same goes for the fingerprint reader, so I will tap it now. You can see that was a good second. Ok, a little faster, then one more time.

Alright, it's not too bad. It's just not the fastest I have seen from Xiaomi a brief look now at our camera. Apps. It's pretty straightforward, show me here. If you want the macro sensor, then you tap this right here and if you want that ultra-wide, you tap this little button there.

So that brings out the ultra-wide and if you want to time digital, that's straightforward.48 megapixel mode and night-shot mode, so I'm gonna quickly compare here. They really note 8 Pro to their note 8, because I know a lot of people. Going to ask this: now: that's just a low-light comparison, daylight they're, pretty much the same, really not a huge difference. I'd have to say that I think daylight. Photos are actually better on the note 8 pro but low-light.

You can see they're trading blows here for selfie shots in lower light conditions. The Rummy note 8 pro is going to get the win, but you can see here. We know 8 Pro, with the rear. Camera does have a lot of noise in this photo. So though kind of trading blows in low light, both of them have terrible night, shot, photography, I think I, don't think they're that good compared to other brands out there, but hey find yourself a working google camp or if you want improved, low-light photography.

So here are some samples now shot on the note, 8, video stills and a few more low-light samples. So this is a sample with the rear camera here, so we get 4k 30 frames per second maximum. No 4k 60 and unfortunately we do not have any electronic image stabilization with 4k only with 1080p and 720p footage, which is unfortunate, I'm, seeing a lot of us with Shoji phones. They just don't seem to want to enable it I mean it is enabled in the settings. The other thing — the audio quality, it's okay, but the nitrate could certainly be a little better and possibly maybe better microphones, because their competitors, like real me, are definitely pushing forward with better audio quality than this.

So the focus that's working. Okay, now a front-facing video. It's just 1080p maximum here at again, no electronic image stabilization, which hopefully, with a firmware update Xiaomi, will add alright go, so you saw from the camera performance there when I did that little short comparison just for the low-light, because that's where things get a little more tricky, they kind of trade blows. There's a lot more noise I noticed in some README note 8 pro shots, but then, when you hate take a look at the Remi Note 8, it wasn't quite as good or as detailed with selfies, at least in low-light notes, so they are kind of similar. We've got 48 megapixels 64, 64, more megapixels doesn't actually always mean it's better in my experience, but the phones I've used now with the IMF 5 8 6, which is the 48 megapixel sensor I find it's actually bitter, what's normally better when it has optical image, stabilization enabled with it as well, but this phone doesn't have it neither these do here.

So we get the typical Xiaomi problems and there is no Wide vine level search one to Netflix and standard definition with the Redmi Note 8. Also, with this one too. Let's focus more on the of course, no date. After all, it's the review of this phone that I'm talking about so the better life I. Think it's pretty good, but the wrong performance is definitely a little stuttering and laggy.

Now this is probably the worst I've seen EU wait in running and some time, and it's not the chipset, that's to blame. It's just showed me, so there'll be some firmware updates, I'm sure in the works coming. That will probably correct this. Now. The electronic image stabilization missing on the front facing camera missing in 4k, it's there for 1080p, but why can they not enable that I don't know the audio quality is a little scratchy in video, and we're not seeing notifications, at least in the current state is phone with the icons at the top.

Sometimes they show other times they don't, as I showed you through the settings of the ROM that it is enabled, but it's just the performance, that's really leading it down the optimization that show-me needs to figure out. I rule, it's got a nice screen, but if we're talking about comparing both of these the extra you have to pay for the rim, you know a pro I believe is well worth it, because the performance is just day and night. Here. This one is so much smoother. It's current software state.

That is the firmware. That's on there is just running so much better. You also have a more potent chipset and for the Indians out there ranting on about overheating issues, but for them to get warm gaming. This one gets a little warmer, but, as I pointed out with my mini videos on the room, you know eight pro so check the channel for that too, as well, that it's really not actually an issue. So for me, it's a no-brainer if you've got the cash get the pro version over just the normal note 8, because it is far superior in almost every single way there and wait for the Google camera ports to improve that terrible low-light photography their night mode that you get them both of these is quite poor really when you pair it to other manufacturers.

Even in this segment real me, they are doing low-light photography a lot better they're also doing video audio much better. So there's good competition going on Shame needs to step up their game in terms of software, correct their bugs and prove their performance. Thank you. So much for watching this review. Remember I! Do have a review of this one so check it out in the channel and if you are new here, and you like this detailed lengthy review, then subscribe to the channel and able, and I'll see you back in the channel with the next video.

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