Redmi Note 5


Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 is a smartphone developed by Xiaomi Inc. It is a part of Xiaomi's budget Redmi Note smartphone line. Redmi Note 5 was announced on 14 February 2018 in Delhi, India, alongside the local release of the Redmi Note 5 Pro.
On 1 March, Xiaomi announced Chinese release of Redmi Note 5 with only 13 MP front camera instead of 20 MP.

Specifications

Hardware

The Redmi Note 5 runs on Snapdragon 625 processor. It is a 64 bit architecture based chipset that has 8x Qualcomm® A53 CPUs with a clock speed up to 2.0 GHz that supports Qualcomm® Adreno™ 506 GPU. This chipset is able to render FHD+ display screen.
It comes with 5.99" full HD+ display, that has an 18:9 aspect ratio, the screen on the Redmi Note 5 has a screen-to-body ratio of 77%. The screen on the device comes with multi-touch support and uses a 2.5 curved glass screen for ultra clarity. The Redmi Note 5 has a ppt rating of 403 and a maximum resolution of 1080x2160, the LCD IPS screen allows for smooth & accurate scrolling.
The main dual-camera setup at the rear of the Redmi Note 5 is located, unlike its predecessors, at the top-left corner on a protruding camera bump that resembles the one present on the iPhone X. It is composed by a 12 MP image sensor plus a 5 MP depth sensor used in portrait mode to have bokeh effect in pictures. The 13 megapixel front facing camera features a front flash light rated for 4500K color temperatures as claimed by the company.
Redmi Note 5 comes with 3GB or 4GB RAM and 32GB or 64GB expandable storage memory.

Software

Redmi Note 5 runs on MIUI 10 based on Android Oreo 8.1.0.
Redmi Note 5 Pro and Redmi Note 5 runs on MIUI 10.3.1 stable based on Android Pie 9.0

Reception

Redmi Note 5 received mostly positive reviews. TechRadar called it the best budget smartphone in the market and rated it 4/5. However lack of NFC and USB type C port, as well as the camera bump and inclusion of advertisements in the UI has been criticised.

Colors

Redmi Note 5 is available in 5 colors:
  1. Lake Blue
  2. Rose Gold
  3. Gold
  4. Black
  5. Red
The most popular of the color being Lake Blue, which was an instant hit among the users. Red is the next best; it was introduced at a later date.

Sales

On 22 February 2018, in the first sale of the phone, the Indian division of Xiaomi claimed to had sold more than 300,000 Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro units in less than three minutes and called it the biggest sale in the Indian history of smartphones.