The Redmi chú ý 9 Pro focuses on delivering a value-for-money experience. While the competition pushes the barrier with specs, and price, the Redmi chú ý 9 Pro sticks lớn its formula of bringing great performance and good-enough imaging to lớn a price point that is within the reach of most buyers. The end result is a phone that delivers what it promises but ends up coming across as a tad boring.
01Need khổng lồ know02Design03Performance04Battery05Software06Camera07Audio08Specs09Value for money10Verdict
The importance of the note series of phones in Redmi’s lineup cannot be overstated. It is the phone that put the company on the bản đồ and helped mi gain massive global momentum. The Redmi chú ý 4 sold over 10 million units over its product cycle, and last year, the Redmi note 7 Pro was India’s highest-selling phone in the Rs. 10,000 and above category. Suffice it lớn say, it is critical for the brand lớn get this sản phẩm right.
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Of course, the competition has been keeping a keen eye on Xiaomi’s rise và has mounted a strong counteroffensive. Realme is its strongest competitor yet and has built a portfolio of truly great products that match mi spec-for-spec và sometimes beat it.
With that in mind, it is all the more important for Xiaomi khổng lồ build a hàng hóa that doesn’t just meet a checklist but pushes forward. Is the Redmi chú ý 9 Pro that device? We find out in the Android Authority Redmi chú ý 9 Pro review.
A newer version of this device is now available. The Redmi lưu ý 10 ups the ante in nearly every way including performance, a significantly upgraded design, & a much-improved 120Hz AMOLED display. Read our Redmi cảnh báo 10 Pro review for full details.
About this review: I wrote this Redmi note 9 Pro đánh giá after spending a week with the phone as my primary device. Mi India supplied the device, which was running app android 10 with MIUI 11 on board.
Update, Aug 2021: The reviews was updated lớn reflect fresh software updates, competition, and value for money.
Redmi note 9 Pro (6GB + 64GB): Rs 13,999 (~$191) / £249Redmi cảnh báo 9 Pro (6GB + 128GB): Rs. 16,999 (~$232)/ £269Launched in March 2020, the Redmi lưu ý 9 Pro brings with it an updated thiết kế language as well as all-day battery life. The phone is available in a range of colors including white, grey and a particularly fetching green.
The phone is part of the Redmi cảnh báo series, Xiaomi’s most popular smartphone lineup & includes a range of improvements including a faster Snapdragon 720G chipset as well as a bigger 5,020mAh battery.
Over the last year, xiaomi mi has been championing its all-new Aura Balance thiết kế direction. The Redmi lưu ý 9 Pro is a direct extension of the design language introduced with the note 7 Pro, và then further iterated upon with the chú ý 8 Pro.
The most distinctive, và different, design element has khổng lồ be the back panel of the phone. Gone is the gradient và instead, you get a brilliantly glossy pane of Gorilla Glass 5. We have the Aurora blue variant and at the right angle, it could double up as a mirror in a pinch. Of course, this makes it a fingerprint and scuff magnet. Using the included case is almost necessary if you don’t want to lớn constantly clean up smudges. It’s a shame really since the phone somehow manages khổng lồ stand out despite the myriad iterations on similar kiến thiết principles.
Like the Redmi chú ý 8 Pro, the camera module is centrally mounted. However, instead of a vertical arrangement, all four sensors are enclosed in a raised rectangular section with the flash placed below it. The raised module stands proud on the phone, though I found it catching on the pocket of my jeans a bit.
A big change this time around is the switch to a side-mounted fingerprint reader. It is integrated into the nguồn key and I found it lớn be extremely fast at unlocking the phone. The button is intuitively placed and very easy to reach, even with a single hand. What is not-so-intuitive, however, is the unsegmented volume rocker. It is placed too far up so reaching it is nearly impossible without grasping the phone with two hands or awkwardly shuffling it around.
You will find a USB-C port along the bottom edge as well as a headphone jack. Over on the left is a combined slot for dual nano-SIM cards as well as a microSD card for memory expansion. Yes, the phone retains an IR blaster at the top.
Over on the front, things are less different. There’s a slightly bigger 6.67-inch display with a taller 20:9 aspect ratio & camera cutout for the front-facing camera. The resolution remains Full HD+ with the panel delivering punchy colors at the default setting. However, compared khổng lồ stablemate the Poco X2 and competitor Realme 6 Pro, the phone doesn’t pack a high refresh rate panel. While the benefits of a 90Hz or even 120Hz panel on a mid-range phone are debatable, there’s no doubt that this is a missed opportunity that puts the Redmi note 9 Pro on the back foot compared to lớn its peers.
Overall, the Redmi chú ý 9 Pro is a conservative, but pleasant step forward as far as aesthetics are concerned. I do have an issue with the sheer weight of the phone though. Clocking in at 209g, the chú ý 9 Pro can get cumbersome to hold over long durations. No, the phone is not waterproof. However, it retains a P2i coating which should offer a degree of splash resistance.
The Redmi chú ý 9 Pro sees the company returning to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform. While the lưu ý 8 Pro used a Mediatek Helio G90T, this time around the phone sports a Snapdragon 720G. The chipset sports a combination of two Kryo 465 Gold cores, as well as six Kryo 465 Silver cores. In addition, there is an Adreno 618 GPU tackling graphics duties.
As is the case with almost every mid-ranger these days, day-to-day performance is more than satisfactory. MIUI is well mated to the hardware & delivers a polished, slick experience. There is no hint of lag or stutter, & we didn’t expect it either.
Performance is not an issue, but I'd steer clear of the 4GB RAM variant of the Redmi cảnh báo 9 Pro.
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Depending on the variant you opt for, RAM may or may not be an issue. I’d advise gamers khổng lồ steer clear of the base version of the phone with just 4GB of RAM. In fact, it wouldn’t be the best choice from a future-proofing point of view either, if you plan lớn hold on to the phone for a few years.
Despite being a mid-range chipset, the Snapdragon 720G is more than capable of powering through any phầm mềm or game you throw at it. I was able to thử nghiệm out PUBG with the graphics turned up khổng lồ maximum without any noticeable stutters.
Big battery, slow charging
Xiaomi pioneered the trend of slapping large 4,000mAh batteries in phones, & the lưu ý 9 Pro takes it a step forward. This time around, the phone has a 5,020mAh cell that is more than enough for a long day of heavy use & then some.
The phone delivered over 6 hours of screen-on time in our torture test, but charging the Redmi lưu ý 9 Pro takes time.
Putting the phone through Android Authority‘s very own battery thử nghiệm that runs the Speed kiểm tra G torture test on a loop, the phone delivered a respectable 6 hours và 22 minutes of battery life. Suffice it lớn say that you won’t be putting the phone through that kind of beating all day long. Unfortunately, charging speeds are limited lớn 18W & it took a good 140 minutes to top up the battery from scratch.
Part of the reason xiaomi mi manages khổng lồ keep hardware prices low is its inclusion of software services và ads in the operating system. Running MIUI 11 based on app android 10, things on the lưu ý 9 Pro are the same as they’ve always been, for better or worse.
At its best, MIUI integrates a world of functionality and tweaks right out of the box. From being able khổng lồ tweak gestures, địa chỉ cửa hàng themes, set rotating lock-screen wallpapers, to including a competent tệp tin manager & software khổng lồ quickly nói qua files amongst other users, there’s a lot of nice additions here if you are not too fussy about a stock Android-like experience.
However, the sheer amount of third-party apps tossed in remains off-putting. The number of app inclusions seems lớn be increasing with every successive release and not all of these can be removed. Showroom to that notification bar spam & it very quickly falls short of the experience you’d want from a new phone. Sure, you can dive into the settings và disable most of these apps, however, this is not something that should be expected from the majority of users.
Following the launch, the company has issued a range of updates. This includes regular security patches for February & March. The updates also bring in standard features like system performance, stability enhancements.
In May 2020, xiaomi issued out a new MIUI update with the May apk security patch & no additional features.
To Xiaomi’s credit, the company has been quick lớn roll out security patches. Early in July 2020, the company initiated the rollout of MIUI 11.0.8.0.OJWINXM with the June security patch. No other features were added in. Later in September 2020, the company rolled out the all-new MIUI 12 update with September security patches. While it is still based on android 10, it brings with it a whole host of features lượt thích a spruced-up control center, better controls for privacy protection, new animations, và much more.
Xiaomi has been plugging away with software updates khổng lồ the Redmi note 9 Pro, và as of June 2021, the phone has received MIUI 12.0.5 with the May android security patch. The update also adds in the mi Cloud app.
The core camera set-up remains consistent between the Redmi lưu ý 8 Pro & the all-new Redmi cảnh báo 9 Pro. The quad-camera thiết đặt includes an 8MP ultrawide sensor, a 2 MP depth sensor as well as a rather questionable 5MP macro sensor. The primary shooter this time around, however, is a 48MP Samsung GM2 sensor. This is in contrast to the 64MP camera in the previous model. Interestingly enough, xiaomi has introduced an even higher tier called the Redmi cảnh báo 9 Pro Max that sports the 64MP sensor as well as faster charging speeds.
The cameras on the Redmi cảnh báo 9 Pro are, for lack of better words, okay. The good news is that xiaomi mi has opted for very natural-looking màu sắc science here. More often than not, the màu sắc temperature & white balance are spot-on which is very good to lớn see. The dynamic range isn’t too bad either with some, but not all details retained in the shadows. However, there is a certain softness khổng lồ images captured with the lưu ý 9 Pro. I don’t mind the lack of oversharpening at all, but surface-level detail is missing in a lot of images.
On that note, despite pixel-binning images down khổng lồ 12MP, there is a lot of grain và noticeable noise when pixel-peeping, no matter the lighting conditions. In most cases, it isn’t really bothersome, but it becomes readily apparent when cropping into the frame.
If you like shooting ultra-wide images, or in portrait mode, the Redmi lưu ý 9 Pro does a good enough job. Dynamic range is a bit limited when shooting with the wide-angle sensor and white balance can be ever-so-slightly off. However, the mode works well to capture a wide frame without much effort. Meanwhile, xiaomi has done a particularly good job at optimizing the portrait mode & the phone does a fantastic job at edge-detection, creating a natural-looking blur.
There’s a 5-megapixel macro camera tossed into the mix, và it does the job. I’m not a big fan of a dedicated macro lens và would rather have a telephoto shooter instead. Still, if you want to lớn get up close & personal with your subjects, you have the option.
Night mode is, however, where the Redmi chú ý 9 Pro really flounders. Using the primary camera, images are horribly grainy with digital artifacts and splotches creating a nearly unusable shot. Things improve by a small degree when using the night mode functionality. Still, the image is far from praiseworthy & competitor Realme’s hardware blows away the note 9 Pro in this regard. Elsewhere, the camera does a reasonable job of capturing selfies from the 16MP front-facing camera. Hit the liên kết to see some high-resolution Redmi cảnh báo 9 Pro camera samples.
Xiaomi has made improvements khổng lồ the đoạn clip mode as well. The camera captures crisp footage all the way up to 4K, 30FPS though the exposure levels are consistently just a bit too high. Software additions have been made to appeal to nội dung creators, and include a cinematic 21:9 crop mode as well as built-in filters. In a cool-to-have-but-totally-overkill feature, the video clip camera lets you shoot straight-from-the-sensor log clip footage, which should make it much easier to color grade in software lượt thích Premiere Pro or Resolve :thinking_face:
As is the case with mid-range hardware, a headphone jack is part of the package. Audio đầu ra from the Redmi lưu ý 9 Pro sounds good enough without any noticeable hiss. I plugged in a pair of 1More Triple Driver earphones & the audio output đầu ra went loud enough and offered a decent amount of dynamic range. Not the most resolving output, but it should suffice in a pinch if you just want khổng lồ listen khổng lồ some tunes on the go. Speaker đầu ra is loud but lacking in bass. Dual stereo speakers would have definitely elevated the experience.
If you are planning lớn use bluetooth headphones with the note 9 Pro, the phone can output over AptX, AptxHD, & LDAC so you are guaranteed to get high-quality audio as long as your headphones tư vấn the necessary codec.
