Now there is a great demand for smartphones from large 5.5 inches for a reasonable price. In this segment was the first hit Meizu M1 Note, and now his successor M2 Note, which is virtually identical to the first model. Xiaomi last month unveiled its own solution in a little more expensive, the average price category: Xiaomi Redmi Note 2. The first model was very popular in the second overhaul company approached the issue and quite radical changes, which eventually turned out at Xiaomi – later in the review.
What is it?
Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 – 5.5-inch planshetofon middle segment with interesting and relevant characteristics.
How is it interesting?
Smartphone decreased both in size and weight compared with the first Redmi Note, the design is similar to that previously reported Mi4i: back cover is made of polycarbonate, practical, available in different variants of colors. Screen resolution has increased to FullHD, instead Snapdragon 400 set date and successful 64-bit chip MediaTek Helio X10. Yes, this is the same as in the flagship Meizu MX5, but is usually in the 2 GHz version. Turbo-option on the 2.2 GHz band will be set to variation in the attachment Prime, there would be 32 GB of internal memory. In our usual – 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory, a slot for MicroSD there.
What’s in the box?
Packing Xiaomi is unchanged: sturdy cardboard box yellow-mustard-colored without -or-frills: just logo Mi. Inside – a smartphone, USB-cable, power supply with adapter for our outlets, set all sorts of instructions and garantiyka.
How looks interesting?
The smartphone looks calmly and gently: a plastic bar with rounded edges. It looks much more interesting and more soundly than the first version. The entire front panel is covered with a protective glass, a type is not specified, but at the time did not use crack appeared pleasantly pleased very good oleophobic coating. Above the 5.5-inch screen placed front camera, earpiece, sensors and indicators. Beneath it – three touch-sensitive buttons. Frames can not be considered minimal, but they are quite adequate, for the smartphone middle class:
The LED is located just to the left of the front camera:
Touch buttons are standard for Xiaomi: Manager applications that are running, “Home ” and back”. They have a red backlight, which can be turned off completely, set the time off or leave it on continuously, with the active screen:
On the left side there is nothing interesting there:
On the bottom – MicroUSB and spoken Microphone, both are biased towards:
The right side – the volume rocker and power button. They are made of painted under the metal, plastic, protrude above the body enough for convenient use and practically does not stagger:
At the top – a headphone jack 3.5 mm, another microphone for noise reduction and infrared to control household appliances, which was not in the previous model:
The back cover is made of polycarbonate, in our case – matt white (judging by the live image on the network, there will be glossy, in particular – yellow). Bottom – Net external speaker, under it there is a slight bulge to the speaker is not so much off the beaten track on the table. Above – logo Mi. At the top – the camera module:
The camera lens has a frame, most likely from the same plastic “under the metal.” Under him – LED flash:
The back cover is removed quite easily, under it – the removable battery and sockets for two SIM cards and a standard Micro Memory Card. Hot swap is not supported.
The back cover – the only weak point of the construction: it is noticeable creaks under compression at the ends. The rest of the assembly to the no claims, exactly as to appearance. Smartphone looks solidly, lovely and restrained.
How did he screen?
The Xiaomi Redmi Note set IPS-screen with a diagonal of 5.5 inches and a resolution of 1920×1080, visually very decent quality, oleophobic coating quality. Air gap is not present, the viewing angles are maximal, the picture is not distorted, rejecting the horizontal slightly reduced brightness of:
The weather marred and the behavior of the sun could not be estimated, but it seems that with the stock brightness is no problem:
Supports multi-touch and 10:
There is a reading mode, in which sharply reduced the brightness of the image and leaves in green tones. Colors of the system remains the same, changing only the setting of the screen. It can be set up for themselves and choose to run continuously or only in certain applications. In practice, seemed to me more comfortable standard mode with reduced brightness in any application for reading books.
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The colorimeter showed that screen really is very sensible qualities, the maximum brightness is 411.371 cd / m 2 , the brightness of the black field 0.52 cd / m 2 and the contrast of 791: 1. With colors can not everything is perfect: there is a lack of red and an overabundance of blue, resulting image is a little cool, but there is a built-in utility, with which the image can be adjusted by itself:
The information generated by the colorimeter graphics:
Comparison with competitors:
What is the performance, memory, sound and autonomy?
The smartphone runs on a standard version on the new eight-processor MediaTek Helio X10 (MT6795 ), with the turbo version which we are already familiar in the review of Meizu MX5. In this case, the core operates at a clock frequency of 2.0 GHz, and the memory capacity of 2 GB. That’s good enough for the excellent smooth running system, applications and all heavy modern games such as Mortal Kombat X, Implosion, Modern Combat: Blackout and Fallout Shelter. Smartphone even during heavy heated moderately:
In this embodiment, set to 16 GB of internal memory, there is a slot for MicroSD. If you store photos, music and other content, and do not put a lot of weighty games, then this volume is enough. Mobile gamers should wait for version Prime 32GB or bother with Root-rights and Titanum Backup: in MIUI7 still no staff the possibility of installing applications on a memory card.
Volume external speaker is missing in most cases, on the table it is slightly suppressed. The quality is average, nothing special, but not much to complain about that. The headphones sound quite decent and the stock volume will be enough to swing the majority of gags. Power (but not quality) smartphone quite cope with hybrid DUNU DN-2000J. Of course, the sound quality does not reach the top Meizu, but the price category another.
The smartphone is equipped with all modern wireless modules: dual-band Wi-Fi (ac / a / b / g / n), Bluetooth 4.0 LE and an infrared port for controlling appliances. Not only NFC, which can not be considered essential. GPS-receiver works without problems on the street took about 20 seconds for cold start:
The capacity of the internal battery is 3060 mAh. With autonomy smartphone mediocre things: video playback FullHD smartphone runs less than 7 hours in normal operation: 20 minutes of calls, including 3G or Wi-Fi for half a day and about half the games thrown the phone in the evening. Weekday phone is able to survive, but to a greater hope not worth it.
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Traditionally, there is a “productive” and “balanced” operating modes. You can choose in the settings, the top curtain or when running benchmarks:
The smartphone uses a 64-bit MediaTek Helio X10 ( MT6795 ) 8 cores ARM Cortex-A53, which operate at a frequency of 2.0 GHz and a graphics accelerator PowerVR G6200 550 MHz and 2 GB of RAM LPDDR3 933MGts . Configurations enough to absolutely any problems and games and benchmarks in the smartphone itself shows a very impressive, especially considering its price category. In AnTuTu smartphone dials 45325 parrots, detailed test results. Interestingly, GFXBench flatly refused to cooperate may affect crude firmware :
How convenient interface?
Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 – the first-born of the company on a new version of the shell MIUI7, which is based on the operating system Android 5.0.2 Lollipop. Currently doing a full review of the new shell and do any conclusions would be unfair: it is still on the beta stage (in this case, the build number 5.8.27) and should wait for at least the first stable build. All logic and design elements and tools moved from MIUI6, it can be found in particular in the review Xiaomi Mi4. The focus has gone on optimization. Xiaomi argues that the shell has become faster. When compared with the last stable build for MIUI6 MiPad radical difference, difficult to compare, given that MiPad no brakes. At all. Subjectively, some applications and flipping desktops Redmi Note 2 a little faster, a little. Some elements of the application interface and slight changes to the design, use a new font.
As usual, there is only desktops with applications and widgets, a separate menu for application no. You can change the order of desktops, scrolling animations and wallpapers:
The top shutter is divided into two sections: Quick setup and management of music notice. She received cosmetic changes and the ability to enable or disable notifications for different applications directly from it (the button with a crossed circle):
In addition to the standard features in conversation, there is also the possibility of recording. It has not all smartphones on Android:
The settings menu is organized familiar list:
Manager running applications allows you to completely clear the RAM or secure the necessary swipe down icons. Unlocks as:
There is a simple interface mode a la babushkofon require a restart. By the way, is a function of “parental control” with the ability to block certain applications and features:
As it turned out, some of our readers to listen to the radio. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 is the FM-radio, he can work without a headset connected, you can make recordings from the air:
The music player is familiar since the 6th version of the shell. It is possible to switch tracks on the active screen is locked
Preset five different themes:
And a set of familiar applications: weather, calculator, voice recorder, compass, notes, explorer, application for viewing office documents :
Because of useful things there is still a one-handed operation, which is activated by a central slide touch button in the right direction, you can select 3.5, 4, 4.5 inches. The new version of the shell in this mode, the screenshot is stored only reduced desktop. How it looks on the screen as a whole can be found in the review Xiaomi Mi Note. The overall impression of MIUI7 remains positive: easy and fast shell has become more mature and fast, but not without nuances that are likely to be corrected in the next firmware. It was a couple of freezes, glitches cameras and even on the little things, so we are waiting for an update.
How are things with the camera?
In the main chamber of the smartphone uses a module from Samsung with a resolution of 13 megapixels , Iris F / 2,2 and phase autofocus, promise to speed AF 0.1, the frontal camera – OmniVision 5 megapixels. supports HDR, video FullHD 30 f / sec and slow motion 120 fps with a resolution HD. The camera interface has not changed much: have a quick access to the features HDR, flash, swipe, you can go to the shooting modes and filters. Other settings are caused by long-pressing the menu:
Additional options for video:
The weather was cloudy and a good level of illumination called difficult. Despite this, the camera focuses really fast, HDR-images are also obtained briskly. I’ve had a lousy photographer, but in my opinion, the main camera does a pretty decent shots. FullHD-video does not stand out from the competition, and 120 K / s is not pleased (it is possible that in the correct firmware update). The examples below:
Standard mode:
HDR:
Video in FullHD:
Slow Motion:
The bottom line
Fans of smartphones with large screens is definitely worth a closer look at Xiaomi Redmi Note 2. In its price category (as it costs 6000 USD) it is the most interesting option at the moment in terms of price / quality. It features a nice 5.5-inch FullHD-screen TV, a powerful, modern filling, a nice shell (with the prospect of bringing to mind), very good main camera and a pretty practical design. In terms of the disadvantages is to provide a squeaky body and yet slightly buggy firmware.
5 reasons to buy Xiaomi Redmi Note 2:
- Good screen
- High performance;
- have all the modern wireless interfaces and slot MicroSD;
- good camera;
- shell MIUI (with reservations).
2 reasons not to buy Xiaomi Redmi Note 2:
- creaky body;
- buggy firmware.
| Specifications Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 | |
|---|---|
| Display | IPS, 5.5-inch, 1920 x1080 , 401 ppi, without air gap |
| Corpus | size 152x76x8.3 mm Weight: 160 g |
| processor | 64-bit MediaTek Helio X10 ( MT6795 ) , 8hARM Cortex-A53, 2.0 GHz, graphics PowerVR G6200 with a frequency of 550 MHz |
| RAM | 2 GB, LPDDR3, 933 MHz |
| Flash memory | 16 GB, MicroSD, USB OTG |
| Camera | 13 MP, phase detection autofocus, F / 2.2, LED flash, front camera 5 MP |
| Wireless Technologies | Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n / ac (dual-band 2.4 and 5 GHz) , Bluetooth 4.0 LE, IR |
| GPS | GPS, Glonass |
| Battery | 3060 mAh removable |
| Operating System | Android 5.0.2 + MIUI7 |
| Sim-card | 2hMicroSIM |
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