Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro - Worth the Upgrade? | The Tech Chap By The Tech Chap

Hey guys Anton the tech chap went over the past few weeks. I've been testing out the new Redmi Note 9 pro from Xiaomi. They were kind enough to send it over, and also I put a sponsor. This video, although, as always all my opinions or a hundred semi owned now I'll hold my hands up and say that I'm guilty of covering too much super expensive. Super high-end tech on this channel I mean with more and more phones costing over a grand I know that most of you guys- and you know most of my friends simply don't want to spend that kind of money on a phone, which is why I'm actually really excited about this guy. The note 9 pro, which costs just 269 pounds here in the UK so once I, give you guys my experiences and impressions of the phone.

Just keep that price in mind throughout and I. Think at the end. I'm sure you'll agree with me that this is stunning value for money. Alright, so let's get the specs out of the way first, and what really stands out is that huge, five thousand and twenty William hour battery the quad lens camera setup and the fact that we get Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 720 G processor, which is kind of an upper mid-range chip. But I'll come back to this in a second design.

Why is this really doesn't feel like your ordinary budget? Slash, affordable phone? We get this huge six point: six seven-inch screen with a center hole, punch cutout for the selfie camera and, despite a slightly thicker, chin and bottom, an almost edge to edge screen. We also get Gorilla Glass 5 on the front and back and with this fancy interstellar great model I have here we get this fascinating sort of smokey reflective quality to it. I actually really like it, plus it's not too bad at picking up smudges or fingerprints, although it is very slippery, so I would recommend a case or the. Fortunately, we get one bundle in the box. You'll also be pleased to see that we get a three and a half mil headphone jack on the bottom.

Beside the USB-C port and the speaker grille, although unfortunately we don't get stereo speakers here now, you may be wondering where the fingerprint really is, but it's actually built into the power button. So with just a single press, you can actually turn it on and login, which is pretty handy, although you also have the option of using face unlock with a selfie camera, if you prefer so far so good then, but what's it actually like to use? Well, we get Android 10 with Xiaomi's me away.11 software on top and the first thing I usually do with new phone is turn on dark mode which you'll find in the display settings. Then I switch the Android Nav buttons to gestures, although right now with an online, doesn't actually support this. But the good news is there is an update on its way, which will add gestures, so I think the UI software has come a long way in the last few years it's much cleaner and lighter than in the past left of the home screen. We get the Google, News, Feed, plus there are loads of customization options.

My only criticism really is there still loads of pre-installed apps aka below where, although it only takes a couple of minutes to hide them in a folder or just uninstall them. What I would suggest, though, is while it's generally pretty quick to use. The animations are quite long so to make everything feel a little. Snappier jump into the about phone settings tap me UI eight times and then in the developer, options, scroll down and reduce animation times to 0.5. This makes everything feel just a little.

Nippy her, although to be fair I, do this with pretty much every Android phone, so the Newton line pro packs in six gigs of ram, which is plenty and also combined with that Snapdragon 720 G chip, it's actually surprisingly, capable firing up some Call of Duty, mobile or Mouse fault 9, and it played flawlessly. Of course, we do any have a 60 Hertz screen rather than 90 or 120, but it really goes to show you don't need to spend a ton of money on a flagship phone to play games. Well. Speaking of the screen, though, we get watch, yummy cool, dead, dot display and while it does use an LCD panel rather than OLED quite honestly, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference. It looks great whether you're watching videos or gaming.

Now what about that camera? Well, this is definitely one of the highlights, and here are the specs of the quad lens setup, including a 64 megapixel, F 1.9 main lens. It does miss out on a telephoto lens, although for me the ultra-wide is more important. So here's a few shots I've taken with the new 9 pro over the last couple of weeks and, first, yes, you can turn off that watermark, that's on by default, but keeping that 269 pounds right in mind. The quality is impressive, so, in addition to the ultra-wide and the main lens, we do have the option to zoom in by two times, although it's digital rather than optical. Also by default, the main lens uses a technology called pixel binning to combine 4 pixels into one.

So we get 16 megapixel photos, but there is a mode to shoot in the full 64 megapixel resolution. If you prefer to get the highest level of detail, the note 9 pro also does a decent job in low-light. This is generally where cheaper phones really struggle, but the good news is, we do get a dedicated night mode which longer exposure. So here's a couple of before-and-afters, and you can see well sometimes it goes a little overboard on the colors generally, it works quite well of reducing blown out, highlights and browning up super dark scenes. Of course, it won't quite compete with flagships that cost four times as much but again for the money.

I. Think it's more than good enough for most of us and then finally, around the front we gay 16, megapixel F, 2.5 selfie camera, but with decent lighting I think it takes a good selfie. It's just a shame about the face, so I'm shooting this at 1080p with the rear camera, and you can see the quality is pretty good actually, and also it is nice and stable, there's not a lot of Judaism walking in a fairly brisk pace. So it's doing a good job of stabilizing the video. Now what you can't do is shoot in 4k actually, which is not something that this sort of budget phones often offer.

So it's nice that we do get that option, but you can see it struggles with the stabilization, so I think I recommend sticking with 1080p at 30fps. As for front-facing video. Well, if I just have a little walk around my living room and change the lighting, hopefully you can get idea with the quality it maxes out at 1080p, 30, there's, no 60fps or even 4k, unfortunately, but I. Think for most people, dainty piece that he's absolutely fine, especially if you're you know sending these videos to other people, then you want to keep the file sizes down, but quality looks pretty good, even though I'm very backlit there, my face is still quite well lit but yeah. What do you think not too bad to them? Okay, so here's a question: if I were to ask you what the three most important features of a phone are: I bet: they'd include price camera and battery life I, but it's those three and with a whopping, five thousand and twenty million power cells, combined with an efficient mid-range processor and full HD plus screen I've, been getting close to two full days of use from the no 9 pro.

It's so good to the point where I really don't think about it. So I can just watch movies and play games all day. Well, I wish I could, I do need to work at some point and also the 30 watt fast charger will top you up to 40% or nearly a day's use in just half an hour. So with all that said, the no.9 pro is easy to recommend I mean it misses out on a couple of higher-end features like there's no 5g support, and also you know, it'll be nice if we had a high refresh rate screen, although of course that would also reduce battery life, but for the money. I think this is one of the best value phones.

You can buy right now, oh and even better. It's actually on sale until the 28th of June, which knocks 20 pounds off the price. I put all the details and length in the description below. Well, what do you reckon? Would you be tempted by the known line? Pro? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below and if you did enjoy, the video click like a little subscribe button and ding that notification bell all those YouTuber clich?s that we know and love, and I catch you next time right here on the tech, jack.

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