Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 Pro 5G Review: specs and features, camera quality test, gaming benchmark, user opinions and photos

Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 Pro 5G - affordable perfection?

Recently, fewer and fewer smartphones have appeared on the market that you would call ideal for their price segment. The perfect balance is lost somewhere in the technical characteristics, some models have obvious design flaws, and so on. Finding flaws in the hero of today's review will be very difficult.

The appearance of the new product looks more expensive than that of its predecessors. The effect is achieved due to the updated block of photo modules, thinner display frames, stylish body colors. The monoblock is made mainly of polycarbonate (there is also a glass version), but the material is of high quality, it weakly collects scratches and fingerprints. The 6.67-inch AMOLED panel has a built-in fingerprint scanner, excellent picture quality with a resolution of 2712x1220 pixels. The clear and contrasting image is also smooth thanks to the refresh rate of 120 Hz, has an impressive brightness of more than 3000 nits.

The MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Ultra processor will satisfy all the needs of both ordinary users and sophisticated gamers. The chipset together with 8 GB / 12 GB of RAM and the Mali G615 MC2 graphics core shows more than 650 thousand points in the AnTuTu test with very reasonable power consumption. As a result, all modern games function at medium graphics settings, while they are free of framerate drops due to excessive heating of the CPU. The 5110 mAh battery provides about a couple of days of active interaction with the mobile assistant without the need to search for the nearest sockets. Fast charging is brought up to 45 W. The battery gains full capacity in an hour. The size of the permanent memory has reached 128/256/512 GB, expansion with MicroSD cards is not available.

The 8-megapixel wide-angle lens and 2-megapixel portrait sensor pale in comparison to the improved 200-megapixel main module from Samsung with hybrid stabilization. The camera is not afraid even of evening photo sessions, the resulting pictures are detailed, natural in color rendering without unnecessary noise, as well as blurred objects. The stereo sound has also been improved, becoming louder and richer. NFC contactless payments, 5G network support, an IR port for controlling household appliances, a functional and optimized HyperOS shell based on Android have not disappeared from the gadget. IP68 moisture protection has been added. Thus, we have a new king of the cost category.