Redmi 8 mobile details

phone we're showcasing in this

review has attracted a lot of attention

the worldwide especially among the users

who appreciate affordable phones with

features that can easily stand side by

side with the best and most expensive

phones of today at least when it comes

to hardware specifications we are of

course talking about the xiaomi redmi

note 8 pro this phone is part of

SHINee's new and very successful redmi

line which has so far sold over 100

million units at the same time it is the

successor of the note 7 family which has

seen some huge success in the past

it comes with almost unreal

specifications for a phone that costs

about 370 euros and that price the phone

comes with an exclusive 64 megapixel

camera a large battery of 4500 milli

ampere hours Gorilla Glass 5 and 6

gigabytes of RAM sounds great doesn't it

the only controversy at least as far as

xiaomi fans are concerned is that maybe

a tech 8-quart chipset is being used for

the first time in the lineup at least up

until recently which promises a very

high level of performance but many

doubted because media tech chipsets are

traditionally almost entirely focused on

the low end the low metal performance

glass that being said let's see what can

redmi note 8 pro do

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starting with the packaging other than

the phone itself we find a USBC cable

with an 18 watt charger so the phone

supports fast charging and no

compromises were made in this regard

which is great given the huge battery

capacity the phone design is quite

decent and we would characterize it as a

quite nice looking phone but given how

it uses an already established design

that Xiaomi has used on their other 2019

phones we wouldn't say that it stands

out the bezels are noticeable though

they are neither large nor smaller than

the other models offered on average in

this class at the top of the screen

there is a teardrop notch on both front

and the back we find a Corning Gorilla

Glass 5 located between the plastic

frame the screen is very good for this

class not the best but definitely far

from the worst we've seen the phone

comes with the six point 53 inch screen

and a resolution of 23 40 by 1080 pixels

the IPS screen doesn't have a very high

brightness but otherwise has a very

decent specs the screen aspect ratio is

nineteen point five to nine and the

displace density is 395 pixels per inch

combined with number of options for

adjusting your screen through software

it's certainly more than enough for a

comfortable use in terms of audio

quality we have to say that the sound is

quite modest the phone comes with only

one speaker that was nothing special in

terms of quality positioned on the

bottom of the phone now it is also worth

mentioning that the phone comes with

quipped with a 3.5 millimeter connector

as well as an FM radio next up is the

hardware which is one of the more

enigmatic parts of this bone when fans

around the world heard that Note 8 Pro

was going to use the media tech chipset

they began to question Dez decision

given how Xiaomi got us used to the fast

Snapdragon chipsets additionally Xiaomi

is recognized as someone who provides

the best hardware for the money invested

that is why many thought that a major

shift in the company's philosophy and

approach was going to happen but we are

glad to announce that these accusations

are false the note 8 Pro uses an 8 core

mediatek helio g9 TT chipset it has two

cortex 876 cores clocked at to 0.05

gigahertz and

skort X 855 cores at 2 gigahertz while

the graphics are processed by malli G 76

MP for GPU the performance is

outstanding here we must say that we

really got more than we expected the

Helio G 9 TT is roughly side-by-side

with a cure in 980 chipset now let's not

forget that we're talking about a

high-end solution sure it's a bit slower

here a bit faster there but all in all

quite fast enough to give a lot on all

occasions some users were afraid of

potential overheating but we're pleased

to say that didn't happen of course the

phone will heat up after a long time

playing especially in the upper side of

the device but even this is that a lower

level than recorded with some of the

high-end chipsets that may even emit

more heat which shows that the liquid

cooled technology is obviously doing a

good job liquid cool technology is a

cooling system that Xiaomi promises to

cool 4 to 6 degrees better than the

conventional cooling maybe the chipset

itself is cool enough but to know for

sure we would have to try a standard

cooled phone with this chipset judging

from experience we don't think that this

is just a marketing stunt there is also

an option for additional GPU

acceleration in case it's needed similar

to the GPU turbo function on huawei and

honored phones as for the rest of the

hardware redmi note 8 pro comes with 6

gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of

storage a 128 gigabyte variant is also

available costing about 20 euros more

and we would strongly recommend that you

take that phone especially since it

comes in white color that looks more

elegant to us than the darker gray

variant we got here the dual sim is a

hybrid type which means that you can

insert either a SIM card or a micro SD

memory card in one slot Xiaomi uses the

Android 9 PI operating system along with

the mi UI 10 user interface we've seen

before

our impressions of it stayed the same or

maybe even got worse as the time goes on

not everyone will like the interface but

the fact is that it comes with a huge

variety of options and interesting tools

we would say it takes some time getting

used to it but we say that for every

Xiaomi phone we tested and if you're

already a fan of these phones then they

will pose no problem to you an

interesting novelty is a dark mode which

is trending feature in the Android world

also the phone has a good

infrared port which you can use to turn

it into a remote control security

options include a fingerprint scanner

that works fine and is located a back of

the phone

4500 milliamp per battery is quite

enough for two days of normal use if

you're more of a demanding user

especially if you're playing games on

your device the note 8 pro will not last

as long but the battery life is still

quite sufficient for normal use charging

is fast takes to the 18 watt charger in

our standard battery tests the phone did

pretty well and after 10 hours of

YouTube video and screw brightness at

50% we are left with exactly half of the

battery's capacity which is rather

impressive next up are the cameras which

have attracted a lot of attention

globally first of all it comes with a

new 64 megapixel sensor which is very

impressive and is designed for high-end

phones the biggest surprise was that it

actually debuts in such an affordable

phone it is a sensor manufactured by

Samsung but there seems to be a deeper

story around it as we came across

information that in fact Samsung and

Xiaomi have jointly developed this

camera sensor for mobile phones so it

debuted at first and a fairly affordable

Xiaomi phone the other thing that caused

a lot of reaction is Google camera or

rather the support for it we

specifically think of the G cam software

which on the note aids predecessor the

note 7 has proven to be a much better

solution for taking photos it turns out

that only Google algorithms and software

completely unlock the potential of their

sensor at least when it comes to Xiaomi

it was initially announced that the G

cam does not support the note 8 pro and

many were disappointed with it

moreover information and comparisons

have emerged where old note 7 performs

better than the note 8 in the realm of

photography regardless of the sensors

and the rest just because note 7 had a

regular G cam support we have a good and

a bad news definitely the G cam for note

8 Pro is under development and can be

downloaded from the Sargent forum the

bad news is that the application is

definitely in the early stages of

development for now it does not show

well the resolution is limited to 1920 x

1440 it often crashes and a lot of

options are either missing or now

working we believe that the problems

will be resolved in the future but

things are as they are now that we've

explained the whole story let's see how

the phone fares with video recording

basically a lot of it depends on what

you expect from the hype sixty four

megapixel sensor if you're expecting

some miraculous quality you will be

disappointed on the other hand if you're

expecting a fair and decent shot that's

exactly what you're gonna get

shooting is possible in various modes

including four and one pixel binning

that effectively produces 16 megapixel

photography which is the default

shooting mode it is possible to shoot in

64 megapixel mode but to be honest just

like we see some advantages of shooting

in 48 megapixels versus 12 megapixel

four in one pixel binning photography

the same applies here things are even a

bit more drastic here as sixty-four

megapixel photos will eat your internal

storage with tens of megabytes each the

large 64 megapixel sensor with 0.8

micrometer pixel has an aperture of f11

as well as a phase detection autofocus

the main camera system has three other

sensors one of the 8 megapixel sensors

is an ultra wide camera and it captures

wide shots though there is a clear

disparity between the huge resolution

sensor in such a small sensor which also

needs to show a wider frame so the

pictures captured have noticeably less

details well so it doesn't use any

special technology or photo assistance

there are also two more two megapixel

sensors one of them is used to measure

depth while the other is a macro camera

similar to what we saw an honor 20 pro

phone though we must point out the

results were noticeably more modest on

this phone at least from our experience

so since the rest of the cameras do not

offer anything special it is clearly up

to the main sensor to handle all the

high hopes we have in terms of

photography to be honest whether it's

because of the software or something

else only the photos and decent lights

seem to show a huge number of details

but nowhere near noticeable or even

significant improvement over what befell

already seen from Xiaomi we can say that

well-known 48 megapixel Sony IMX 586

sensor is a matching competitor in this

price range it was particularly

interesting fact that photos taken

during daylight with very good lighting

are very good while the quality rapidly

declines with ever slightly less light

the sharpness of the photo is pronounced

while the color on them seems somewhat

unrealistic depending on whether or not

AI is used some colors can be very

emphasized most noticeably green objects

are especially pronounced in sixty four

megapixel mode for clearly

understandable reasons since light like

this can provide extremely detailed

shots when it comes to night shooting

the results we have achieved were a bit

disappointing maybe not so much because

of the usability of the photos

themselves but rather because of this

phone with didn't see any real benefit

from the night mode option while we may

have spoiled us with as overexposed

photos but others have also offered very

useful nighttime modes not only in the

high-end categories like Samsung for

instance Motorola has done it on its

mid-range phones which is a clear no

date Pro competition device in terms of

portrait photos we have to praise Xiaomi

the blurring level may be a bit

aggressive but we really liked it

especially because of the good algorithm

the separate what's in the foreground

from the background a 20 megapixel

selfie camera with an aperture of f28 Oh

is very good finally there is video

recording the phone supports 4k video

recording but also 1080p at 60fps the

colors are a bit oversaturated but the

video quality is decent

there is definitely pronounced lack of

stabilization in 4k but for some basic

recording needs the redmi note 8 pro is

quite fine redmi note 8 pro is certainly

not a phone without flaws but hey even

the best ones have them it is equally

safe to say that it represents an

outstanding value for money the phone

boasts a very high level of performance

and is very nicely rounded product and

even though there are various small

details here and there that the sword

the picture of a perfect phone they're

fine for a phone at this price maybe the

camera sounded too bombastic and the

announcements were too good to be true

but there's no denying that with a great

battery great screen very good build and

let's be a realistic solid camera for

this category redmi note 8 pro is one of

the most desirable devices in its class

it is quite certain that anyone who is

considering buying a $300 phone should

absolutely shortlist it since it is

among the devices that we compete for

the next mainstream champion this is why

we decided to give node a pro our value

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