Redmi Note 9 Review

The new Redmi Note 9 arrived in the market in july with a hole-punch diplay design and quad camera setup. The phone is available for sale again in India . Here is the best  review on Redmi Note 9.

HIGHLIGHTS

. Available in four colour options

. Powered by Media Tel Helio G85

. Has a 5,020mAh battery with a 22.5W charger.

. Provided with Quad- Camera setup

Redmi Note 9 Design

The design of the Redmi Note 9 is almost similar to the Redmi Note 9 series except that it does not of a side – mounted fingerprint scanner. The phone has a traditional rear  which is mounted one below the rear camera module. The Redmi Note 9 has a glossy finish and comes three colour variations Pebble Grey, Arctic White, and Aqua Green. The bezels of the phone are thick . The display of the phone is fairly large. It has an IR emitter on the top of the phone. The thickness of the phone is 8.9 mm and the weight is 199g which makes the phone little heavy. It is claimed by the company that they have used P2i nano – coating with rubber seals on the ports on the phone. The phone also has  a 22.5W charger.

Redmi Note 9 price and Specifications

The Redmi Note 9 in terms of price offers you  three different variants which include 4GB RAM with 64GB storage at Rs 11,999, 4GB RAM with 128GB storage at Rs 13,499 and 6GB RAM with 128GB storage at Rs. 14,999. The new Redmi Note 9 has Media Tek Helio The phone has octa-core processor and two Cortex- A75 cores clocked at 2GHz, and six Cortex- A55 cores clocked at 1.8GHz.It has an ARM Mail- G52 GPU clocked at 1 GHz . The display of the is 6.53- inch and has a full -D+ resolution of  1080X2340 pixels. For the protection of the phone there Corning Gorilla Glass 5.  The phone has expandable storage and dedicated microSD card slot. The phone can support two Nano- SIM slots,dual 4G and VoLTE.You get Bluetooth 5, Wi-Fi 802.11 n, and four satellite navigationsystems. The phone has a battery capacity of 5,020mAh. The phone has a capacity of 9W reverse charging through USB Type – C port.

Redmi Note 9 Software and Usages

Regarding the softaware , The phone does not have much to introduce.It runs on MUI 11 on Android 10. The phone has adds on the lockscreen. The phone also comes with preinstalled apps. We get a n old three- button  navigation  which you can change if you want the swipe options. Some of the other important features in this device are Game Turbo, Hands- free mode to receive calls and costomised touch response for each game.

Redmi Note 9 Performance and Battery Life

Talking about the performance of the phone it is quite good. It has the Media Tek Hello G85 to handle the tasks convinietly. The phone has 6GB of RAM. The display of the phone is also very good. The angles of the phone are good enough and has acceptable brightness. There is also an option provided if  in case you want to tweak the colour output. The phone has face detection which is fast and easy to use. You can switch from one app to the other very quickly. There is no problem in running games in this phone but it does get warm after almost 20 minutes and there will be battery drop of atleast 10%.The battery life of the phone is however good as it can manage  a day without needing to charge. The phone comes with a 22.5W charger. The phone is capped at 18W at present but will be updated soon as claimed by the company. The phone takes more than 2 hours to get fully charged.

Redmi Note 9 Camera

The Redmi Note 9 provides you with a quad- camera setup which will include a 48- megapixel of primary camera, an 8- megapixel ultra – wide – angle camera .The phone also has  a 2- megapixel depth sensor. It has 13- megapixel of front camera as well.What is different in its camera setup this time that the phone offers you a Pro mode for the photos and videos that you take so that you can manually control the different parameters.The Document mode of the phone will crop your photos to convert them into Black and White it is an alternative to apps like camscannerci.The phone uses Artificial Intelligence(AI) to detect the content of the scenes and etup camera according to it.Photos  taken in the day light are better in quality than the photos taken during night.Further more you get Pro Colour option for adding contrast. The video recording capacity of the  Redmi Note 9 is 1080p.

Verdict

The Redmi Note 9 is a pricey phone as compared to its predecessor  Redmi  Note 8.The phone provides you  with Fully HD + display,  Media Tek Helio G85 SoC, and 4GB of RAM. The phone also comes with 5,020mAh battery which gives the phone a good battery life. It has a powerful proessor and a decent camera but it cannot capture good pictures at night.The rival phones of Redmi Note9 are Realme 6, Poco M2 Pro and Redmi Note 9 Pro.You may find the phone slightly heavy as compared to the other phones. The phone has bloated UI and the spammy notifications which can disappoint you.