We continue to study the representatives of the Chinese gadzhetostroeniya and now we have to test is very popular and very successful model from the company Xiaomi – Redmi Note 2 Prime.
Redmi – a line of low-cost smartphones by Xiaomi, which was originally aimed at the Indian market, but that has not stopped she win the recognition of consumers around the world. We have to acquaint you with the youngest unit Redmi 2, which surprised us with its speed and the best camera in its price segment.
Now we have reached and older Redmi – Note 2. To us to test got not a simple version of the device, and revision index Prime, it has doubled the increased volume of storage – 32 GB and slightly overclocked processor.
To begin acquaintance with Prime Redmi Note 2 with a study of its appearance. The smartphone has a 5.5-inch Full HD-screen made of IPS technology and has good pixel density of 401 dpi. The display has good viewing angles and covered with protective glass with oleophobic coating. Characteristics such as contrast, brightness and color, are consistent with the unit price segment. In other words: the display Redmi Note 2 is not the brightest and most colorful in the market, but also far from the worst! Yes, of course, I would like to see more juicy and bright picture, but let’s be realistic and do not forget about the price of a smartphone. In fairness it should be noted that in MIUI has advanced display settings that can brighten up the situation somewhat. You can significantly adjust the color temperature and slightly tighten the contrast.
Under the screen are touch buttons, they are represented by a standard set: Back, Home and Menu button launches the application. The buttons are painted in red and are backlit.
It’s nice that engineers Xiaomi wisely spend the useful area of the front of the smartphone. Of the features I would like to note the presence of an infrared port to control home appliances. Previously, such decisions are found mainly in flagship smartphones.
The rest of the controls traditionally for the latest models Xiaomi focused on the right side of the device. In connection with the collapsible design cover housing unit creaks markedly near the volume control buttons, but the presence of the backlash can be seen only in a special way by taking the phone in hand.
And that is not always observed creaking. Prime-version Redmi Note 2 has a slot for memory expansion, it is under the hood. Besides him, there can be found and 2 slots for SIM cards. The device works perfectly with Russian networks fourth generation. LTE was got even in Moscow the Tele 2.
It is worth noting that, even though such a simple layout of the slots, hot-swappable flash card or SIM card design of the device does not provide for that battery on 3000 mAh have to extract.
By the way, it is enough for one day of work. But the rich, full day with 3 hours of operation of the screen. Charging standard phone 2-2.5 hours. However, if you play in a resource-intensive 3D-game, it packs a powerful hardware smartphone devastate 3-4 hours of play.
Well, once we started talking about the prostate, it is necessary to praise the guys from Xiaomi! They are crammed into a very powerful budget smartphone iron, which recently went flagships from HTC, for example. It is a system on a chip Hellio X10, this solution is well-proven in HTC E9 with 2K-screen TV. So, in Redmi Note 2 is the same processor as in the HTC, but Xiaomi has a screen with half the resolution that allows the phone to feel much more confident in the field of modern video games.
Plus to all our version of the index is still Prime overclocked processor with a GPU. As a result, Prime Redmi Note 2 can be named budget gaming solution. Judge for yourself, you have access to all modern graphic beauty, the big screen and 32 GB of internal storage which can be expanded easily via microSD. Perhaps the only weak point is the device memory. 2 GB by today’s standards is not enough.
Yes, and MIUI, as we thought, it consumes more wasteful: we have often noticed how the phone reboots or another application or page in a browser. But such behavior is observed only at a heavy use smartphone with lots of open programs and pages.
If you look at performance through the prism of synthetic tests, the device does not look middling budget. In AnTuTu unit receives more than 52 thousand points, and the test Geekbench smartphone runs with a score of 880 and 4,400 balls in singl- and multicore respectively.
The rest of the smartphone works just reactively! All very fast and smoothly. In the daily work of the unit leaves only positive impressions.
As we have said many times, the speed of the device depends on the optimization of the firmware. Therefore I propose to talk about it in detail. Out of the box Redmi Note2 not worked for the latest MIUI 6 with incomplete Russification. But for us it was easy to put custom firmware MIUI 7, which is based on a native developer assembly of Xiaomi and differs from it only in the presence of the Russian language. This nuance you need to consider before making a purchasing decision from any phone Xiaomi. For almost all units of the company are not in the original Russian version, or else Russified part, by the Chinese shops, and most of all, great and powerful you have to sew his own.
Describe in this video all the chips and dignity MIUI we are unlikely to succeed, and the format of this review do not enable us to do that. Let’s just say that this system is replete with a variety of useful and not so gadgets that are designed to facilitate and make user interaction with a smartphone easier and more convenient.
Redmi Note 2 is equipped with two cameras. The main 13 megapixel front and 5 megapixels. In good lighting conditions, the camera works well! The images are sharp and with the correct white balance. But in the dark to get a clear picture is difficult and non-lubricated. SELF-camera also does not stand out too much, and stars, as they say, the sky is not enough. In principle, both the camera and justify themselves in the niche of medium-budget devices do not stand out.
By the way, about the price. Should Prime-version Redmi Note 2 in the same GearBest even without Christmas skidochek very humane $ 170. For these – let’s say – funny money you get from the nearly full PHABLET flagship iron able to fully satisfy all the multimedia and entertainment needs of the user. However, it was not without a spoon of tar. Most likely, you will need to flash your smartphone, well, of course, if you want to have a fully Russified device. And if you do not stop it, then do not miss the opportunity to snatch Redmi Note 2 with a fat Christmas discount GearBest.
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