Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro Review - $200 SD720G 6.67" Screen - Amazing Value! By ETA PRIME

Hey, what's going on, guys is ETA Bryan back here again today, we're going to be taking a look at the all-new Xiaomi Redmi Note 9s. Now this is using the all-new snapdragon 720 g, and I've been wanting to get my hands on this and see how it performs and seeing that this phone is coming in at $199. I figured this was a great chance. Recently on my channel, we took a look at the Redmi Note 8 pro, and this is actually a great little gaming phone. It's powered by the MediaTek hello g9 TT, and I was really impressed with this, given that it's a MediaTek CPU, but I'm really interested to see how the 720 g, in the note 9s stacks up against that other chip. So here we go it's another budget offering from Xiaomi actually their Redmi Brant.

The note 9 asks they actually offer two different variants of this one with four gigs of ram in 64, gigabytes of storage and the other containing 6 gigs of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage, but both of them do support a micros card. I went with the lower end version, which actually comes in around $198. This is globally unlocked and given the specs we have here with the note 9s, it's really hard to beat a price like this. Unless you buy something used so obviously, inside the box, you're going to receive the handset, they offer three different colors. They have the aura blue, which I have here a white and a black I chose the aura, blue and I think it looks absolutely amazing.

You're also going to receive some documentation, a silicone case. Your wall charger and a USB type-c, cable I do have to say that I love this color I mean it looks great and this definitely looks like a premium handset. So this is set up with quad cameras in the rear. We also have 18 watt quick charging right out-of-the-box over, on the right hand, side we have our volume rocker and our power button, which actually doubles as a fingerprint sensor and unlocking this with your fingerprint is super quick I mean a lot of companies have really improved that over the last few years, and it works great on the note 9s up top. We have a pinhole microphone and an IR blaster.

So we can set this up to control our TV or a set-top box over infrared over on the right hand, side we have our SIM card tray, / SD card tray. Now this is a dual SIM setup with a single SD card, and we can use up to a 512 gigabyte card in here. I have tested it on the bottom. They've left us with a 3.5, millimeter audio jack. We have a USB type-c for charging and syncing it to your PC, and we also have our speaker down here.

Aspects go. This is pretty loaded down for a $200 smartphone for the CPU. We have that new Snapdragon 720 G. This is an 8 nanometer, CPU outscore to big course at 2.3, gigahertz and 6 at 1.8. The GPU is the Arduino 618.

Two variants are available: four gigs of ram or six gigs of ram both use lpddr4 x. If you buy the four you're gonna, get 64 gigabytes of storage. If you buy the six you'll get 128 it's using UFS, 2.1 storage, so it's not the fastest in the world, but it definitely holds up for a $200 smartphone, and we also have micro, SD card support up to 512 gigabytes. The display is beautiful. On this thing we have a six point: six seven inch IPS LCD at 1080 by 2400.

It's not an AMOLED or anything like that. But for the price, it is a great screen on this device, 802 dots, 11 ABG and an AC dual-band, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5.0 and an IR blaster, a huge 5020 William hour battery with 18 watt, quick charging capability and the charger comes with is 18 watts. Now Xiaomi is claiming that you can easily get two days of battery life out of this, and if you were just using it as a phone, yes I'd say you could. But if you're watching video or gaming I'd say around 12 hours of battery life, which is outstanding for a $200 smartphone I mean it's really hard to beat something like this. We also have Android 10 with me UI 11 around front.

We have a 16 megapixel, selfie shooter and around back there's a quad camera ray. Furthermore, we have one 8 megapixel ultra-wide, a 48 megapixel camera which is used in most of the Redmi and Xiaomi phones, a 5 megapixel macro lens and a 2 megapixel depth camera. Now you can shoot video, 1080p, 30, 1080p, 60 or 4k 30. There's no 4k 60 here I really wish they would have enabled it I know the chip can handle it, but I believe you they do this because they don't want to take away from their higher-end phones. After all, this is $199.4K 30 is great for something like this. So as the user experience goes, it's been pretty great.

There is one issue that I'll get to in a second, but, as you can see, the side mounted fingerprint scanner here. It works. Fine opens up fast enough. You can also use your code or face unlock, but I wouldn't trust face unlock with something like this. It's just not built for it.

The major issue I've been running into is a stutter in my Google News. Feed. Now I haven't seen this on a lot of others, even mid-range phones, but something here with the software just isn't right. As you can see, it's very jittery. It takes a while to load, and I know the 720 G isn't top the line, but I don't think we should be dealing with these issues here.

I'm going to grab my daily driver. This is a Pixel 4 XL. It does have the snapdragon 855, which is a much more powerful CPU, but, as you can see, this is how the Google newsfeed feels over here now, even though we have that 720 G I believe this could be fixed down the road with a software update, but as UI goes, this is the only issue that I personally run into and when I first mooted this up about 2 days ago, I had to go through to update, so I am fully updated. They also add some bloat in most of the time. They'll have these apps pre-installed Netflix is something that I would install anyway, but everything else here I can delete, and they also add some games.

So there is some bloat in this. It's not pure Android. It's running me UI 11, so the first thing I wanted to get out of the way was the camera. Now this is using the stock camera app. You can't install G cam if you want we're using the 48 megapixel sensor here, and I have plenty of life.

While these aren't top-of-the-line pictures, and it really can't compete with flagships like the iPhone 11 Pro or the Samsung Galaxy s, 20 I think this definitely holds its own in the camera department. For being such a cheap phone now remember. We have plenty of light with these pictures here, but I also wanted to test low-light performance. There is a night mode here and for me, it doesn't work out as well, so we're just going to dim the lights, take the same pictures and see how they came out now we're working with low light, we're using the same exact, 48, megapixel camera I've turned all the lights out. I just have a small gap in the window for a little of light to come in and overall they didn't turn out that bad I'm actually pretty surprised at how good these look compared to the ones with the studio lights on.

But then again he definitely noticed some more grain here without those lights on overall I think the still shooter on this camera is actually really great. When you have good light and real quick here's, some video shot at 4k 30, keep in mind that there is no image stabilization when you're, shooting 4k 30 I also wanted to test the same thing in low-light as you'll notice. The autofocus takes a little longer, just like many cameras do with a low-light, but overall, it's really not that bad I'm actually really impressed with the camera set up on this $200 phone, like I mentioned. If you want to check out more camera tests, I will leave a link to tablets comm in the description moving over to some performance benchmarks. Now, I really wanted to compare this to the Redmi Note 8 Pro, which has the media tech, g9, TT I'm.

Actually a big fan of it performance is great with that, but recently MediaTek has been accused yet again of cheating in benchmarks, specifically with the media tech, g9 TT. Now. I do believe that this is happening in certain benchmarks, and we'll take a look at that in just a second, but first up we have Geek bench 5. The note 9s did beat out the note 8 pro in single and multi-core. Now this is just a strict CPU test here for single.

On the note 9s, we got a 548 for multi 16 11, when we compare that to the note 8 Pro with a single of 489 and a multi of 1563. Now this might not seem like much, but with the way they set up scoring in Geek bench 5. It's actually a pretty significant gain over the note, a pro moving over to a GPU test. We have 3dmark sling, shot extreme on the note 9s for OpenGL 3.1. We scored a 2526 and for Vulcan we scored a 2334.

Furthermore, we are ahead of the note 8 pro in OpenGL, but for Vulcan the note 8 Pro, with that g9 TT did beat us out by a little and finally, we have an 2:2. As you can see, the note 9s scored at 265 thousand, while the note 8 Pro scored a 286,000, taking a look at the individual scores here, the CPU on the 9s was much faster than they no 8 Pro, but that GPU did beat us out, and I think that was in the Vulcan test here. But what's a little odd is that the note 8 Pro beats us out in OpenGL, even though we just tested this in 3d mark and got a better score with 3d mark for OpenGL 3.1? Now the claim is that MediaTek is upping the GPU and the CPU clocks when it detects a benchmark running and in the past I know. This has been done in an tutu with a couple different manufacturers, but I can't say for sure. If this is happening or not either way the note 8 Pro did beat out the note 9s in an tutu, so as for video playback or video streaming from YouTube or Netflix, it works really well here.

This is YouTube we're sitting at 1080p. As you can see everything loads up really quickly. I am on my five gigahertz Network at the house, but we're at 1080p 60fps everything loads up fast. We can buffer through the video pretty quickly. Now one thing I did notice about Netflix is we only have Wide vine one, so we're only going to be able to view HD content.

We can't do 1440 or 4k, but either way. The screen still looks great, with video playing at 1080p and Netflix Hulu HBO Amazon Prime Video work perfectly on this device. I'm really impressed with the gaming performance of the CPU. Here, the Snapdragon 720 G handles pretty much anything from the Google Play Store perfectly fine. Here we have Call of Duty mobile we're set at medium settings with the frame rate too high I, don't think we're quite getting 60 here either way, it's still fully playable on this device.

Next up we have Real Racing, 3, I, also tested asphalt, 9 and grid Autosport I have a set grid to medium settings, but we were getting continuous 30fps without one and that's pretty hard to run next up. We have pub G, mobile and performance with. This is really great in the graphic settings I'm set to HD and the highest frame rate and, as you can see here, it's performing great on this little device and finally, because I know somebody's going to ask about it. Here we have for at night medium settings.100% resolution scaling, 30fps I, have noticed a few dips here and there, but overall you could play fortnight on this. Just fine now one of my favorite parts about getting these devices and one of the main reasons I wanted to pick.

This up was for emulation. I really wanted to test out that new Snapdragon 720 G I will have a full emulation test. Video coming up soon so definitely keep an eye on the channel, but I wanted to test a few out here. First up we have the dolphin emulator running Soulcalibur — I'm, using the Open GL back in and performance here is really great. Now I do notice some stutters here and there and that all comes down to the shader cache.

It needs to be cached, so I have to play through a little, but in my next video it will retest this game after playing through a couple levels and getting that shader cache ready to go by the way the control arm using here is the pitta key: seven: zero, zero, seven, it's a Bluetooth controller and the phone fits right in here. Here we have the Dream cast version of Marvel vs. Cap com — running with the red ream emulator, and on that 1920 I am upscale to hear performance with Dream cast on the 720 G in this phone here is great and finally, and least for this video like I mention I'll, have a full video coming up so keep an eye on the channel. This is the pass emulator running Taken 6 at 3x resolution, and we're at full speed. I've had perfect luck with PSP on this device, also overall I'm, really enjoying the time that I've spent with the note 9s.

So far, it's got a great looking screen decent power with that 720 G and the cameras are pretty good for a $200. Smartphone I did run into that stuttering with the Google newsfeed and hopefully that can be fixed in software. I mean I'm, pretty sure it can. I know this. Chip has enough power to run through that pretty easily, but in the end, I really do think.

This is an all-around, solid smartphone, especially given the price of $199. Now I have the 4 gigabyte model here with 64 gigabytes of internal storage. You can also opt for the 6 gigabyte model, with 128 gigabytes of internal storage for around 240, and I'm. Gonna. Tell you right now that in benchmarks and gaming the 6 gigabyte model is not gonna.

Outperform the 4 gigabyte model you're, not gonna, get any better benchmarks out of that thing, but if you're the type of person who runs a ton of apps on their phone and never likes to close them in the background, then the 6 gigabyte model might be for you, but I opted for the cheaper version, and I'm really enjoying this little device. So I will have a full emulation. Video coming up we're going to test out some more game cube, we'll go with some Dream cast, some more PSP, ps1, n64 and so on and so on. If there's anything else, you want to see running on the Redmi Note 9s or if you have any questions. So let me know in the comments below, but like always thanks for watching.

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