Overview Xiaomi Redmi 6 - a new hit among budget smartphones

Table of contents

• Specifications
• Packaging and appearance
• Display and Audio
• Performance
• autonomy
• Camera
• Software
• results

In the segment of budget smartphones are now loaded into the main company's third tier. Releasing device, on which you can earn a couple of cents, the big brands is not very much and want. However, Xiaomi is not lazy to rake up under him, and this part of the mobile market. Fresh Redmi 6 is quite capable to become the new hit among cost-conscious buyers.

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Specifications

Main surprise - Redmi 6 is based on processor powered by MediaTek. Unexpected move from the company Xiaomi, which is almost all of its smartphones of recent years is using solutions from Qualcomm.

Helio P22 was introduced just a few months ago, so that devices on this platform released so far very little. The chip contains eight cores ARM Cortex-A53 with a maximum operating frequency of 2.0 GHz, manufactured in accordance with the 12-nm process. One feature of Helio P22 has enhanced support for artificial intelligence (AI), which allows for facial recognition, bokeh effect, and other cool features.

The structure of the chipset includes a graphics accelerator IMG PowerVR GE8320 with a frequency of 650 MHz, the modules Dual-SIM, LTE, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 and GPS / GLONASS. Helio P22 platform allows up to 6 GB random access memory LPDDR4X-1600, however Redmi 6 is completed only 3 or 4 GB. Amount of internal memory of the smartphone, visited in the version of 32 GB, but there is also a model with 64 GB.

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Packaging and appearance

Redmi box 6 is made in the same style as the packaging of other smartphones in this series. On the bright red cover of the manufacturer's logo and the name of the device. Below is a label with brief specification and barcodes.

It includes only the phone, charger and cable. The manufacturer decided to save on everything, so users will have to re-buy a protective cover not only but also the film on the screen.

Without additional protection do not really work, because the body is completely plastic. This circumstance has both positive side and negative. On the one hand, the case turned out pretty easy and pleasant to the touch, and on the other - metal, of course, much better resists damage and deformation.

The main part of the front surface covers screen. He is protected by a completely flat glass, for which it will be convenient to glue protective film. The thickness of the side frames is 3 mm, the top and bottom larger distance - approximately 1 cm.

On the back side of the unit has dual camera, located in the upper left corner. In the center we see a fingerprint scanner, which work not caused by us absolutely no complaints. It provides almost one hundred percent recognition and very fast unlock the smartphone.

On the left side Redmi 6 are just two of the tray for SIM cards, one of which is combined with a memory card, another separate. This design we have not seen before in any smartphone. Its dignity should evaluate those users who often have to change one of simok.

The power button and volume rocker are traditionally located on the right side. The keys sit tight, do not stagger, and not rattle. The bottom face comprises microUSB connector for charging and data exchange, as well as conversational microphone. Above is the opening for the headphone jack.

In general, the design and assembly of Redmi 6 leaves a good impression. It will appeal to all fans of compact devices, which have not come to terms with gigantomania recent years. In this case, the smartphone screen is quite "adult" size, perfect for work on the Web and viewing video.

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Display and Audio

Redmi 6 Smartphone fitted 5.45-inch display with a resolution of 1440 × 720 pixels. It has an oleophobic coating that provides a comfortable finger sliding and protects your screen from fingerprints.

image quality, though not staggering, but it looks pretty good for its price range. The colors are vibrant, contrast is good, pixelization visible only at very close range. There are advanced settings of color balance, and a special reading mode that can be activated manually or by schedule.

The smartphone is able to automatically adjust screen brightness depending on the ambient light. However, it seemed to us that the adjustment range is slightly shifted to the lower boundary. Read complete darkness is very comfortable, but the brightness of the sun is sorely lacking, so the screen can hardly see anything.

The external speaker is unable to impress us with no sound quality or high volume. It is located on the back side, so when the smartphone is on the table, his work becomes even worse. But the headphones unit produces sound with good volume margin and quite pleasing to the ear characteristics.

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Performance

Usually performance testing budget smartphone does not bring surprises. In the case of 6 Redmi completely different sensations. This though state employees, but in the open processor that performance is poorly studied. Therefore, we carefully drove to the Redmi 6 all the standard tests. The results you can see in the screenshots.

The synthetic tests baby Redmi 6 MediaTek Helio P22 displays approximately the same results as Redmi 5 Plus with Snapdragon 625. This means smartphone perfectly show itself and any custom tasks. All applications run quickly, lags and freezes are virtually absent.

Many users believe that Qualcomm chipsets provide the best navigation, but Helio P22 breaks this myth. Connecting to satellites even indoors there is only a couple of seconds, the smartphone confidently holds the signal while driving, and always shows the exact location.

The situation with the games is not as rosy. All unpretentious puzzles and puzzles work, but need to reduce the graphics settings for modern three-dimensional games. Still to play World of Tanks, Mortal Combat and PUBG still possible even on models with 3 GB of RAM.

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autonomy

The smartphone installed battery on 3000 mAh, which by modern standards, not so much. However, in combination with a modest economical processor and screen resolution Redmi 6 shows a good level of survivability.

To assess the autonomy of the device, we usually use the PC Mark Battery test. This program simulates the performance of typical user tasks (surfing, Watching videos, working with documents) as long as the battery level drops from 100 to 20%. All this time, the smartphone screen remains active.

Redmi 6 in the test lasted a little over 10 hours. This means that a full charge you with a reserve should be enough for a full day of normal use. For a budget device is a normal result.

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Camera

As the main chamber 6 Redmi uses two sensors. Resolving one is 12 Mn (Sony IMX 486) and the second, which is used to assess the depth of the stage at a portrait shooting, - 5 Mn.

We want to immediately reassure background blur in the "Portrait" here actually works. Although software algorithms sometimes make mistakes, especially in complex scenes, yet in most cases receive pictures with the correct blurred background.

In general, the image quality was a major surprise when testing Redmi 6. In good light, it does not yield much more expensive devices. In the photos we see the correct color, correct exposure and a wide dynamic range mode is activated HDR. Images are quite contrasting and clear, even in the smallest details.

Even more surprisingly caused the evening photo shoot. In low lighting conditions cost devices typically give an amount of noise in the images that it is difficult to dismantle either. but camera Redmi 6 manages and evening shows good results. Not a masterpiece, of course, but it is much better than other state employees.

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Software

The operating system used in the Redmi 6 Android 8.1, dressed in a proprietary shell MIUI 9.6. Functions of this system, we wrote more than once, so we focus only on some of the details.

GearBest store sent us an international version of the smartphone, which already has a Google service and support of all relevant languages, including Russian. The user can only enter their credentials, go to the Google Play Store and install the necessary software. However, in some stores also found the Chinese version, after the purchase of which the user will have to reflash the device. Look for the words to describe Global Version, it is localized to purchase the device.

A nice feature of the latest version of MIUI is a management support gestures. By enabling this feature in the settings, you can hide the bottom navigation bar to expand the number of screen real estate. Such interaction with the smartphone you get used to very quickly, it's really convenient.

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results

Redmi 6 - one of the best budget smartphone from those currently available on the market. It has a pleasant appearance, good build quality and excellent ergonomics. Performance even slightly higher than the level that we usually see in public sector. But the main advantage - camera for taking such pictures, which the envy of any device in the category of up to $ 200.

The only drawback is the poor sound of an external speaker. All other parameters Redmi 6 showed himself either good or excellent.

At the time of this writing, the price of the smartphone is Redmi 6 9978 rubles for the version with 3 GB of RAM and 32GB ROM, or 11 345 rubles for the version with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of ROM.

The author expresses his gratitude to the company GearBest for providing the test device.