Xiaomi Redmi 5 review, advantages, disadvantages and specifications
Xiaomi Redmi 5 comes with an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen and 16M colors, It has a big size of 5.7 inches, 83.8 cm2 (~75.9% screen-to-body ratio) that is very suitable for playing games, watching videos, and browsing the internet, It has a resolution of 720 x 1440 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~282 ppi density) and it offers the multitouch feature.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 advantages
Xiaomi Redmi 5 has Corning Gorilla Glass (unspecified version) for screen protection, It supports MIUI 9, It provides you with Front glass, aluminum body, It has Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) and it gives you a high building quality.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 offers the latest operating system of Android 7.1.2 (Nougat), It comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 450, It supports a fast CPU, It comes with Octa-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A53, It brings Adreno 506 and it has a high-performance without any lags.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 has superb expandable memory via card slot, microSD, up to 128 GB (uses SIM 2 slot), It supports a superb internal memory of 32 GB, It has a great 3 GB RAM or it has an internal memory of 16 GB, It has 2 GB RAM that is very suitable in multitasking performance.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 comes with a superb primary camera of 12 MP (f/2.2, 1.25 μm), phase detection autofocus, and LED flash, It offers wonderful photos with high quality, It offers features such as geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, HDR, panorama and it has Full HD video recording.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 offers video of 1080p@30fps, It has a secondary camera of 5 MP, 1080p, It offers Sound Alert types such as Vibration, MP3, and WAV ringtones, It has a loudspeaker, It offers a 3.5 mm jack, It presents a premium & impressive design.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 comes with 2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2, CDMA 800 & TD-SCDMA, It has 3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100, It has 4G bands LTE, Speed is HSPA, LTE, It offers GPRS and it includes EDGE.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 was announced in December, 2017, It will be released in December 2017, The body dimensions are 151.8 x 72.8 x 7.7 mm (5.98 x 2.87 x 0.30 in), It is slim, It is lightweight to carry and it weights 157 g (5.54 oz).
Xiaomi Redmi 5 comes with superb active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic, It includes Comms WLAN such as Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, and hotspot, It has Bluetooth 4.2, A2DP, LE, It contains GPS, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS and it has Infrared port.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 comes with FM radio, It contains USB, microUSB 2.0, It supports a rich number of superb sensors such as fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, ambient light sensor, proximity, and compass, It offers messaging such as SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail and IM.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 has Browser HTML5, It has fast battery charging 5V/2A, It includes DivX/Xvid/MP4/H.265 player, It supports MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player, It offers a photo/video editor, It comes with a document viewer and it has a non-removable Li-Po 3300 mAh battery that lasts for a long time.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 offers misc colors such as Black, Gold, Light Blue, and Rose Gold, It has a flash that enables you to take wonderful photos in low light conditions, It looks pretty neat, It has a powerful and stunning battery capacity, It offers many superb connectives such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, 4G and USB.
Xiaomi Redmi 5 disadvantages
Xiaomi Redmi 5 has an average pixel density, It offers an average resolution, It does not have Java, It does not have a removable battery, It does not have an NFC feature, Is not water and dust resistant, It does not support 4G in India (Band 40), It does not have Barometer or Temperature sensor.