At the electronics fair CES in Las Vegas, there is finally also the opportunity to get the new Redmi smartphones recently introduced by Xiaomi outside China. So here is a report on the Redmi 5 Plus, which is being put on the market at a pretty attractive price and is moving towards the middle class in terms of hardware.
Redmi 5 Plus
The phone is equipped with a 5.99-inch display, which is still in the hand thanks to the use of an 18: 9 format. At the Plus model, you also get FullHD resolution, which was missing in the smaller 5-series device. From other smartphones, Xiaomi also tries to break through the rounded corners of the screen.
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Inside the device work a cheaper Snapdragon SoC from Qualcomm with eight cores. The user also has the choice between models with 3 or 4 gigabytes of RAM and 32 and 64 gigabytes of flash memory. The main camera comes with the 12-megapixel sensor, are, therefore, facing the front a 5-megapixel optics, which is supported by an LED flash. Xiaomi has also equipped the smartphone with a 4,000 mAh battery, which allows a useful life of about two days.
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The Redmi devices are currently being delivered with an operating system based on Android 7 whose interface MIUI 9 differs quite a bit from the standard Android. However, there is a lot of movement in this area and the owner of such a device has a choice of a very wide range of ROMs. Currently, there is the Redmi 5 Plus only in the Chinese version, which at least does not get any LTE connections in European networks. However, one can expect that Xiaomi will also produce a Europe version. At a price of fewer than 200 euros, the device should then find a number of interested parties.