Xiaomi is a private company which deals in designing and selling of tablets, Smartphone, and consumer electronic items. The brand is associated majorly with tablets and Smartphones. The literal meaning of Xiaomi translates to millet technology. It is a Chinese company which has its headquarters in Beijing. The company has also won the recognition of being the World’s fourth largest manufacturer of Smartphone. With the entry of the same in the smartphone market the company has taken the market by storm and the competition to a new height.
The brand ventured its foot in the Smartphone manufacturing in the year 2011. Within few years of launching its smartphones, the brand gained immense popularity and market share giving a tough fight to brands like Samsung and Apple. It was in the year 2014 when Xiaomi hit the Indian market and instantly caught fancy of people. The phone offered by the company are affordable yet equipped with the latest technology that gives Xiaomi an edge over others especially in low and mid-segment. The brand witnessed a par excellence performance by MI series followed by the much talked about Redmi series. It created a niche for itself in short span of time. The company knows how to combine the quality with the price and make it reach to the boundaries of a middle-class buyer.
Now, the brand is all set to come up with its latest phone in the Redmi Note series with Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X which is expected to launch by 5th June 2017. This phone has already created a buzz in the market and has become the most coveted phones of the year. Off late Xiaomi has been launching some of the finest handsets which have doubled the expectations of people. The company has added some more devices in its kitty that has made it a brand on the mind of every smartphone buyer and hence before going for any particular cell phone the buyers also think it important to check the devices from this brand at least once.
The features and specifications of the device are as below:
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Display and Screen
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X is a stylish phone with a sleek body. It sports a 5.5-inch huge display with high resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels with 401 PPI. It device has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with 16M colours. The dimensions of the device consist of 151 x 76 x 8.5 mm i.e. 5.94 x 2.99 x 0.33 inch. It weighs around 165 grams, which makes it slightly heavier than the other phone. It responds quite well to Multi-touch which is also a plus point of the device.
Itis available in three colours which are classic black, gold, gray and pink.
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Software
The Redmi Note 4X runs on the latest Android version 6 Marshmallow. It is supported by Qualcomm MSM8953 Snapdragon 625 chipset along with Octa-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53 processor and Adreno 506 GPU.
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Camera
The camera is one of the essential features which people look for while buying a smartphone. A decent camera eliminates the need for an SLR or DSLR camera. This device possesses one of the finest cameras with amazing settings that can help the user to get the best images in almost all the situations.
The Redmi Note 4X does not disappoint on the camera front. It is equipped with a 13 MP rear camera with features such as phase detection autofocus and dual LED flash along with Panorama, touch focus, HDR, and geo-tagging. These features are much helpful to the users in daily life.
The device offers a 5 MP front camera for amazing selfies along with video recording facility at 1080p@30 fps and 720p@ 120 fps.
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Battery and Storage
Battery and storage are other aspects which people consider while buying, after the camera. The smartphones need a powerful battery backup to sustain for long hours due to excessive usage through apps. Also, the storage and RAM needs to be powerful in order to offer great efficiency for performance and capacity for storing all the apps and HD images.
The Redmi Note 4X offers two different variants for its users. One variant offers 32 GB with 3GB RAM while the other variant offers 64GB with 4 GB RAM capacity. One can pick the model as per the preference and storage requirement. One can check the model as per his requirement.
The efficiency of the battery is one of the main attractions of the phone. One can have long talk time as well as standby time with this device.
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Connectivity options
This device has various connectivity options such as Wi-Fi, hotspot, Bluetooth, and FM Radio along with Micro USB. This can help the user to get the access to the internet as well as other areas where connectivity is required.
Other sensors on the phone consist of fingerprint rear-mounted sensor, proximity sensor along with accelerometer and compass sensors. It supports HTML browser.
Redmi Note 4X is a phone with dual SIM, Micro and Nano slot for convenience. Hence it is known as a hybrid device as one can either use a microSD card or a SIM card in the slot.
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Price
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X price in India is estimated approximately Rs9750 which makes the positioning of the device in the lower segment. Since there are many devices in the segment, the Redmi Note 4X is expected to face little competition, but the device is one of the safest bets at the given price.
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Verdict
The price of Xiaomi Redmi Note 4x is one of the most promising phones of 2017. With a huge display, camera, configuration and battery backup, the device has all that which one needs in a decent budget smartphone. Though it offers average internal memory, yet the other features are good enough to overcome the demerit. The smartphone definitely seems like value for money.
