Top Things Nobody Told You About Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus Review.

It is time to check out another Xiaomi phone this is their latest release the redmi 5 now I decided to skip the redmi 5 and go for the readme

five plus version which I have here because it has a better screen on it and better specs so the screen is 5.99 inches its that now popular 2017 trend which is

an 18 by9 aspect ratio screen with a resolution of 1080 by 2160 now the speak of it isso similar to the redmi note 4 that I reviewed it has

a snapdragon 6 to 5 its shame that they did not go with a Snapdragon 630 that's a bit of a mistake because they have used that chipset so many times

gonna get this one unboxed here well go through the design of it just check out out the first impressions it should have met you or me 900 years well that's based

on Android 7and then of course at the end of this video here, I will give you my first impressions of the redmi 5 plus so it should be factory sealed

it's in this super bubble wrap that tends to protect the phone really well power adapter that they included the seller and yes this does still have the factory wrap on there

so they've used a red star box now a little bit different normally see just a plain white box and if you read Chinese well there's all the bands the specs

of this I'm not too sure this is gonna have LTE band 20 I don't think it will okay well see what we get in the box it'll just be the usual

hopefully, they haven't included a quick charge style charger and not just a standard one ok so it looks like we've got an instruction manual here oh no it's actually a case

that's one of those soft rubber style ones this one is in black and that in fact looks exactly the same material that style of it just like what I had with

the note 3 so we have the phone of course in black and this looks to be an instruction manual so this is all in Chinese because this is the Chinese version

I have imported and this also shows you the layout of that some tres are either 2 nano Sims or your MicroSD card and nano-SIM the cable this is micro USB

2 which is a little disappointing I feel that this late in the year 2017 that this should be a type cable so that's another letdown there now more disappointing

news here that the charger is not a quick charge 3:1 it's the standard charger here so 5volts 2 amps they should have included one that supports Qualcomm quick charge3 and

camera bump with the bump there then that comes up to eight point nine millimeters exactly so starting with the top where we have an IR transmitter 3.5-millimeter headphone jack and

a secondary Michael on the top the camera which is 12 megapixels with an F 2.2 aperture dual-tone LED flash and a rare fingerprint reader now the housing itself does show

the fingerprints and that's showing up already and I've only just been touching it for a few minutes and you can see the edges are curved now the material at the top it

feels to me like it could be plastic or they are using a different type of alloy but you can see that there is a difference in that tone there of the

black with the top there the strip which to me I am gonna say its plastic but I'm not 100% sure it is but it could be for the antenna of

reception in there so it's not a complete whole unibody maybe by the looks of it now down the bottom we have that micro USB 2 port which has said I would

have liked them to have at least used type C I mean other budget manufacturers that are selling phones in this price range they're using type C and then of course we had

the loudspeaker and the microphone and again this strip there at the bottom on the right-side metal buttons now they do feel good they do not rattle around they're not loose

or anything like that and you can see that we do have a plastic trim that holds the Green into the rear body and the glass is 2.5 days does have

nano sim up the top of your ambient light sensor proximity sensor earpiece and then a front-facing five-megapixel camera with 2.2 aperture just like the rear camera very quick

look at the phone in the case just before I power it on so you can see the case will protect the camera it's just high enough so the lens should not

be touching when you put it down on a table and it also protects the

buttons there on the right side and gives the phone, of course, a lot more grip to it doesn't feel as slippery in this but nota bad case at all

I mean it's relatively cheap its not a premium case certainly not there and I roll the build off the phone in hand feels nice because of those curved edges and for

the price the quality is quite decent the only thing that bothers me a little bit is the top strips there I would have liked them to have maybe made that old

unibody and not show that kind of difference there with the top but other than that I think it's fine oh yeah and types you put on the bottom we should have

really had types important so the first boot took a little while approximately 25 seconds or so and the first thing you notice is okay those bezels left and right they're not

really that slim at or and I thought that was kind of the idea of the 18 by 9 aspect ratio to narrow things down so you can get longer screens slimmer

bezels on the side and yes we do lose hardware navigation keys which is another cotton there because I prefer hardware navigation keys over software but of course now with 18 by

because they look a little bit long-term a little bit big about 2.5millimeters as the size of those bezels there and you can see some color-shifting a little therewith

orthe global ROM and then flash that later on so I'll quickly go through this setup now you can see I can add a fingerprint here but look at the

the screen just for a second again it's a got quite a cool white calibration to it I'm not too sure I like the out-of-the-box calibration here and you can see right on the

edge there - I don't know if that's coming out on camera but the colors are shifting quite a bit there so I'm going to add my finger here well see how

this goes that normally on the other readme devices that I have reviewed this goes really quick and their fingerprint readers work well not like the doogee mix - that I've reviewed

a bit better here now not too bad so I'm gonna lock it place my finger on there unlock Wow okay that is fast just as fast as the redmi note 4 very

good there so no complaints with that unlock speed this is an always-fingerprint reader that it has on the rear so a few technical details here for those that like to know

this kind of information I just brought up that engineering menu so you can see that the front camera and the rear camera ROV so that Omni vision sensors they are using

and this particular one that I have that could change maybe, later on, they use other sensors I was half-expecting Samsung or Sony so a little disappointed there but I mean they don't

actually, make too bad a sensors either so Ill test them out later on this video as well and there are also details there with the LCD panel so if you want to

check that out the fingerprint reader sensor on the rear is good X and were using hyneks 4 gigabytes of RAM and a Hynix e MMCso my readme 5 plus here

is running Android a 7.1.2 and it is the security patch level from October but there is a firmware update that's just come out and it's me a 9.0 stable I think

the newest version is 9.1 so I'll probably have an update for that and you also get approximately 53half gigabytes of free available storage on this model, of course, you can

expand upon that with a microSD card and this is the latest over-the-air update I have its 1.4 gigabytes so quite a large download optimizer system performance and fixes bugs so Ill get

this downloaded and installed straight away so this is probably the reason why the phone screen looks a little bit off its using that optimized contrast according to the available light it

would adjust automatically and I'm not really fond of this in me o a9 but of course, I going to set this now just to the standard now when I have

to sit to the standard to me the screen now looks a lot better but we still are getting a little bit of that color-shifting there but that's not really too

much of an issue because I tend to look at my screen straight on anyway now because I have the Chinese version you're going to get a lot of this on here

so be aware if you are going to be importing one that does not have a global ROM expect a lot of bloatware now most of the scrap on here you can

uninstall it which is at least something you can get rid of a good 95% of it at least so just the one loudspeaker on the bottom it does not use the

earpiece as a secondary loudspeaker which I feel maybe they should have done that but maybe they saving that for the premium mobiles but let's have a listen now to that bottom speaker

I find it sounds ok it doesn't really have that much bass at all and the volume well it could be a little bit louder toso so far in my initial

hands-on here testing with the little time I've had with that the UI seems fast it seems

smooth touch accuracy is also quite good and I haven't noticed any problems or hiccups or seen any UI stutters aSnapdragon 65 with 4 gigabytes of RAM and running me uo9

I feel is smooth enough and fast enough for most people quick look at the camera so it's now and using that updated me UI 9 camera app which has just a

few little tweaks to itso this is the manual camera mode and we've only got a white balance in ISOthats it no shutter controls nothing else on here no exposure which

is a little bit of shame here so this is definitely not going to be I feel camera powerhouse naught to be really expected as a budget mobile phone -

in this kind of price group now we've got all your standard modes there in settings that are all pretty self-explanatory and when we have a look here under the settings of the

the camera you'll see here that the video recording quality does go all the way up to 4k which is great and we can also select the focus mode to be continual auto

focus or tap if it does have that very common focus breathing issue that a lot of the Xiaomi phones tend to have but anyway let's have a look at some samples

taken on the redmi v plus so ill start out with shooting a video here this isn't 4k the maximum sitting you get which is good to see in a budget mobile

phone and the focus is set to the continual autofocus which is the default mode but I have noticed there's quite a bit of that focused breathing you can see just then

now this is something that very common with Xiaomi they can't seem to solve this problem they always have this focus breathing issue or most of their mid-range and budget mobile phones just

are not good to see a bit of an average day here so not perfect conditions winter has finally arrived here in Tanya lets check out the focus okay seems to work

alright but I would stick to the tap to focus because that pulsing in and out is really kind of ruining the video isn't it so let's have a look at the

the front-facing camera now this is a sample of the front-facing camera so its 5 megapixels if 2.2 aperture I think it is or if 2.0 and the quality of it looks

reasonably good not bad for this type of mobile phone you can not change any of this seating so settings completely disabled not even there or present on this current firmware when trying

to change the resolution anything like that so you don't have those options idea the camera to me on the front looks quite good so there we go that's the unboxing and my

first impressions of the mobile well it seem okay it just leaves a little bit to be desired really I feel that they could have done a few different things here they

could have added types he put on the bottom they could have put a front-facing loudspeaker as well would have been good and maybe use the Snapdragon 630 but apart from

seems good better life I know it's gonna be really good because the Snapdragon 65 with four thousand milliamp-hour battery should be great I mean were looking hopefully about 10

hours screen on time if not a lot more than that because I remember I got close to 14 I think it was continuous screen on time whether it means Note 4

so the build is good the camera on the rear is a little disappointing the video quality because of the focus problem it seems to I had that focus breathing issue which

is very common on the Xiaomi mobile phones it seems they can never get that right and fix that for once fingerprint reader unlocks super quick and fast look at the Jill

sermon got the four gigabytes of ram now price point at the moment this is selling for around about 230 u.s.

at the time of this video here which means its more expensive than the redmi note4 which I feel it should probably go for unless of course, you must have

an 18 by9 aspect ratio screen something it looks a little bit more modern but we still have as you can see bezels left and right there our present and it is

a shame to that we kind of lose this real estate at the bottom here so no more hardware navigation keys its all just software there so what do you guys think

about the redmi v plus here let us know down in the comments and I do have to see you back in the channel soon with more up-and-coming if you haven't

Top Things Nobody Told You About Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus Review.