Firstly, the price of this phone is under Rs 15000. There aren’t a lot of phones in this bracket in 5G. These phones have been launched on very old processors like Dimensity 700 & Dimensity 810. But this is the world’s 1st phone & it’s the 1st phone in India too which has Qualcomm Snapdragon 4th Gen 2. When 4th Gen 1 was launched, it was impressive and Gen 2 is similar. In fact, it goes 1 step forward. This phone is one of the most all round phones in Rs 15K.
This phone is available in 4GB RAM 128GB RAM, 6GB RAM 128GB RAM & even 8GB RAM 256GB RAM. This phone has flatsides that is in trend these days. All phones have 80% flatsides & cases can be used as protectors.
It looks like a triple camera setup. It’s of good quality & it has a frosted back that looks good.
It has 22.5W charging but the phone only supports 18W. The adapter is 22.5W USB Type A to Type C charging cable. It’s flat, shiny & colorful and a glass back. It has 3 colors, silver, black & blue.
Ports & Buttons
Speaker, USB Type C, Microphone, SIM card tray on the left, 3.5mm jack on the top & an IR blaster. There’s an IR blaster & a volume rocker on the right. And then there’s a power on button which basically works as a fingerprint sensor. It’s a side mounted fingerprint sensor.
There’s Gorilla Glass protection on the front & back. There’s a hybrid SIM card slot with an expansion slot & you can expand it upto 1TB.
You can use 2 SIM cards, 1 SD card & 1 SIM card. Weight of the phone is about 198 gms.
There’s a big screen a 6.79” screen FHD+, IPS LCD screen with Gorilla Glass protection And the center punch holes are quite decent.
This is a 4Nm efficient processor, Qualcomm SD 4th Gen, the AnTuTu score, it’s 4.5L which is the version 10. But this is more power efficient as it’s on 6Nm while this is on 4Nm. You get a 90Hz screen so the swipes & touches are very smooth. And if you play games on medium to high settings like COD Mobile or PUBG, you’ll be able to play at 40FPS which is quite good. And the 90Hz screen helps a lot.
There’s another reason for the good performance.
It has UFS 2.2 storage type with 128GB variants & LPDDR4X RAM type.
It has a 5000mAh battery with 18W charging. Although it has a 22.5W adapter. It has MIUI 14 which is based on Android 13.
Sensors
It has a side mounted fingerprint sensor & face unlock.
Connectivity
It has a 4th Gen 5G SoC. There are 7 bands of support in India. There’s dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling, dual band Wi-Fi,Bluetooth 5.0 & IR Blaster.
Multimedia
It has a very nice Full HD display with good viewing angles. It has a good quality IPS display. It has mono speakers but they’re loud & good quality. So it’s very good for multimedia. If you want to do streaming, you can do HD streaming because it has Widevine L1 certification, it has SAR value & IP53 certification.
IT is dust & water resistant. It has FM radio & there’s no notification light. It has an updated X61 modem so you get good 5G speeds.
Cameras
It has a 50MP camera with 2MP depth macro. It’s a secondary sensor but the primary sensor is 50MP. And there’s an 8MP sensor in the punch hole.
Camera Features
It has Portrait Mode, Time Lapse Mode, 50MP native mode. So you can take photos in 50MP resolution. There are a lot of filters as well.
Video Graphics
You can shoot 1080p at 30FPS. This is the Redmi 12 5G under 15000 Rupees.
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