Featured Review: Xiaomi Hongmi Redmi Note LTE

When looking for a phone, what’s one of the first things many people think about? Price of course, and it’s price that rules the roost in the vast majority of phone purchases today. Once only a richer mans game, smartphones have increasingly been brought down in price and up in quality, bringing up that bottom line to something that was once considered only the highest end. Now we’re at the point where, at least on paper, specs of high-end all the way day to entry-level phones appear to be generally the same, sporting quad or octo-core processors, 13 megapixel cameras and huge batteries and screens. But are these specs actually similar, or just appear similar, and how is the overall user experience when compared to that of a more expensive phone? That’s what we’re going to find out in this review.

Specs :
5.5-inch 720p IPS LCD
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 1.6GHz (MSM 8928)
Adreno 305 GPU
2 GB of RAM
8GB Internal Storage
MicroSD Card support
3100mAh Battery
Android 4.4.2 MIUI 5
13 megapixel rear-facing camera
5.0 megapixel front-facing camera
Looking at that spec sheet you’d expect to find most of these components in a much higher end phone. The size of the battery, the amount of RAM and even the megapixel count of both front and back cameras are basically on par with phones costing two to three times as much. The display, processor, GPU and internal storage space is where Xiaomi cut costs to make this phone feel cheap, but honestly it doesn’t really feel like it when you’re using the device.

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