A Mid-Range Performance Phone
Design
- Nice design (although it's largely recycled
from the Redmi Note 4) - with a polished
and minimalist feel - and good build
quality
- Good, fast fingerprint sensor
Performance
- Good speed/performance, based on the
same hardware as the Redmi Note 4 - feels
snappy to use - apps don’t take much time
to load and games run just fine with
minimal stutters
Software
- The MIUI interface over Android is
snappy, minimalistic and packed with nifty
features - the MIUI 9 brings in a bunch of
optimisations including the newer F2FS file
storage format, real-time defragmentation
and dynamic resource allocation, among
other things - the nifty ‘Quick Ball’ offers
another way to navigate the phone while
‘Dual Instance’ allows two accounts of the
same app to run on the phone
Display
- One of the major improvements over its
predecessor is the modern bright, tall, 5.99-
inch Full HD+ 18:9 display, with minimal
bezels - bringing the Redmi Note series on
par with the current display trend
- Apart from the form factor of the display, it
is otherwise pretty good too - in terms of
brightness levels, sunlight legibility,
customizable color modes, and a nifty
reading mode (that puts a monochrome tint
over the display much like an e-ink panel)