Xiaomi Redmi 9A Review - Is it worth it? By Redskull

What's happening everyone, my name is Alex and welcome back in today's video we're checking out one of the most affordable phones from Xiaomi called the Xiaomi Redmi 9a. Now, when you buy one of these budget friendly devices, there are always some disadvantages and the main disadvantage for this particular run has to be the two gigs of ram that comes with the device. Now there is another version that comes with three gigs of ram, and I highly recommend trying to get a version of three gigs of ram and skipping the one or two gigs of ram, because two gigs of ram is definitely not um enough. These days. Aside from that two gigs of ram, we also have the MediaTek hello g25, and if you check the an tutu benchmark score, you get a score of about 88 000. So you already know that you're looking at the phone- that's not gonna, be that fast, but this one was never intended to be fast.

This phone was mostly intended to be affordable. Aside from the two gigs of ram everything else about this phone is pretty decent. So, on the front we have a massive 6.53 inches IPS panel, that has a 720p resolution. The screen looks good. The colors are nice and vibrant.

The viewing angles are good, but the screen doesn't get super bright. So whenever you take this phone outside, it is difficult to see. So. Keep that in mind it's going to be much easier to see this phone indoors than outdoors. We also have a massive 5000 William hour battery inside this device and on one charge you can easily get between seven and ten hours of screen on time.

So the other day, I was playing a game for like four hours and I still got about eight hours of screen on time, so definitely great um screen on time on this device. Now, when I'm talking about games, don't imagine you're going to be able to play like pub g or Call of Duty on it. No, because with that two gigs of ram and that CPU that's not the fastest out there. Games like that aren't gonna. Do that great, but um for a lot of basic games that you can find in the Google Play Store.

The phone will still do great. The phone's body is made out of plastic, but these days we even get phones that are a thousand dollars that are made out of plastic. So definitely not a bad thing. Having a phone that's made out of one plastic plus it doesn't look that bad at the top. We even get a 3.5 mil audio jack, so you can plug in some headphones and at the bottom of the device. We have a micro, USB charging port.

I'm not very happy about that micro USB charging port. They should have definitely used like an USB c port. I mean how much money they actually save by using one of these ports over an USB c port, because everyone has USB c cables these days and up next to that we have the holes for the speaker. So this device only has one speaker so the one at the bottom here and the speaker gets loud, but it also sounds a bit tiny and I guess this is a quick example. So you can hear how the speaker sounds and moving back to our phone on the left-hand side.

Here we have the sim card slot and this phone can take two sim cards and a SD card. At the same time now you may have noticed that we don't have a fingerprint scanner anywhere now the phone supports face unlocking, but the face unlocking is fairly slow, and you also have to be pretty close to the phone. So I'm not sure if it's best to use, face, unlocking or just have a pin code so face unlocking works, but it's slow at times and at nighttime it's almost impossible um to use the cameras on it are also pretty decent for the price I mean, don't expect anything spectacular, but you can definitely take some pictures and the pictures don't look as bad as I was expecting before. So yes, you can still take decent pictures, some other Redmi 9a. Now for video recordings you can do 1080p at 30 frames per second but um.

We don't have image stabilization at that resolution, and this is a quick example of um, a recording that I've done with this phone on a couple of days back. This is a quick video sample, the Redmi 9a, so the maximum recording resolution for this device is 1080p, but it doesn't seem like we have any type of image stabilization at this resolution. So if you are walking, if your hands are shaky, your video will probably be shaky as well so yeah. This is how a recording from the Redmi 9a in 1080p at 30 frames per second, would look like, so the Redmi 9a is running mini 12, which is based on android 10, and that was nice to see considering the price of the device. Now, as I said earlier, this phone is not fast, and I guess it really depends on what phone you're coming from, because um opening apps on this one is not the quickest thing out there I mean you can still open most apps, I mean you can use Facebook, you can use chrome, you can use most apps that you normally use, but it takes a while to actually open those apps when you're switching between apps also takes some a bit of time.

So this is not the quickest phone out there. If you're, a power user, don't buy this phone because uh well, it's slow. If you've had a faster phone on in the past, don't buy this phone because it's slow, but if you're coming from another budget phone, this may feel faster in a way. So, yes, you can use most applications, but most applications will close once you get out of them. Basically, so multitasking is almost non-existent, and it takes a while to load apps.

So that is the main downside to having one of these budget friendly devices. The phone will be somewhat slow and even though this may not be the fastest phone out there, it only takes a few seconds to find your location and once your location is found, so your GPS location is found, the phone doesn't seem to lose it, and you can also use any navigation app like Google Maps or Waze, and that works great as well as for sensors. We don't really have too many sensors, but once again for the price that was to be expected, then of course don't expect NFC, because at this price there is no NFC included so to quickly conclude this video, if you're a power user, the Xiaomi Redmi 9a, is not gonna, be for you, but if you're, a casual user, someone that makes a couple of phone calls sends a few messages, maybe checks Facebook once or twice a day. This one will do more than okay. For that I mean the screen is big enough, so you can watch videos.

You can see the Facebook feed really nice on it. The battery life lasts forever. The speaker is loud enough. You have a 3.5 mil audio jack, so if you don't use your phone too much, this will be great. But if you're coming from a faster phone, this will feel slow.

So that simple, and you are probably better off to spend another 20 30 dollars and get something like the Xiaomi Redmi 8 or even the Xiaomi Redmi 7. I think those should be a bit faster than this one, and we'll have more ram, because the 2 gigs of ram doesn't allow for any multitasking, really all right. Guys. Um, if you do have any questions, feel free to leave a comment down below thanks for watching, and I will see you guys in the next one.

Source : Redskull