Xiaomi Redmi Y1 Review

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 Review, Pros and Cons

With selfie camera phones trending nowadays, Redmi has floored its first range of selfie camera phones, which is the Redmi Y series. Here in this article, we talk about the newly launched, Xiaomi Redmi Y1. You will get to know all the pros, cons and the attractive features of this phone. So let us dive into the article to enlighten ourselves for Redmi Y1.

A little introduction to Xiaomi Redmi Y1

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 will be the first phone by Xiaomi, whose features are focused around the selfie. The phone is said to offer the perfect selfie with its 16MP front camera accompanied by a LED flash light to help you click those perfect selfies even in the dark or in dim light. As Xiaomi floors its MIUI 9, Xiaomi Redmi Y1 comes with the popular chipset of Qualcomm Snapdragon 435. The display measurement of Xiaomi Redmi Y1 is said to be a 5.5 inch HD display which comes with the protection sheath of corning gorilla glass. Xiaomi Redmi Y1 comes in variants, regarding storage. For RAM, you get to choose between a 3GB and a 4GB variant. As far as on-board storage is concerned, you get 32GB or 64GB. Wait there my friend, because you can always extend the board for on-board as it is extensible. You can use a memory card, of capacity up to 128GB.

Talking about the battery backup, you get a pretty generous battery backup of 3080 mAh, facilitating you a whole day’s power. It has all those features that a smartphone should have. As far the built of the phone is concerned, we observed a negligible use of metal and a predominant use of plastic which makes it easy to carry and stylish too. Xiaomi has already stirred up the Indian markets with its value for money products. This launch of Xiaomi Redmi Y1 will establish an unmovable stone in the name of Xiaomi in the ever-changing Indian market. Xiaomi Redmi Y1 will be up for sale on Amazon India. You can also find it on the Indian MI website and all the offline Xiaomi stores in the country.

While experts give Xiaomi Redmi Y1, an eight out of ten, let us have a look at the analysis on Xiaomi Redmi Y1’s features and discover the product.

Testing the:

  1. Design

Redmi Y series may be newly launched, but the built of the phone carries a familiarity with the already prevailing Redmi family. Xiaomi Redmi Y1 is said to the worldwide version of Redmi Note 5A and Redmi Note 5A Prime, which were released in China during September,2017. So here, we observed that Xiaomi did not think or work much for the design and built of Xiaomi Redmi Y1, which comes out as a disappointment.

  1. Performance Output

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 amazed us with its Snapdragon 435 chipset giving 1.4 GHz along with 8-cores and Adreno 505 GPU behind the veil. Application were operated smoothly with the optimum amount of speed and quick response. However, while playing games the Xiaomi Redmi Y1 did report a minimal lag of few percentages. The phone also lagged after hours of heavy usage, which implies that Redmi will have to work over its OS for a better user experience.

  1. Camera

Xiaomi Redmi Y1’s picture quality made us do a few compromises. The picture quality of the clicks by the front camera even in the daylight did not satisfy us. While the pictures clicked in dark or dim light contained a lot of noise. The rear 13MP camera did give a decent output, and its game got a little upped while we used it in the HDR mode. All in all, we came up with Xiaomi Redmi Y1 not being a low light camera and if you are clicking your pictures in the daylight you have to handle a little bit of noise.

Summing up

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 can be called a decent smartphone but we do not suggest this phone for heavy users or for multi-tasking. But considering you love selfies and do not use your phone for a broad spectrum use, then yes you should place your order for this phone. You can always expand your storage capacity, as Xiaomi Redmi Y1 comes with a dedicated SD card slot. Therefore, you can always have that extra space for your endless happy selfies.

And Xiaomi is well known to be economical with feature loaded phones placing no conditions on the hardware, so no space for second thoughts for a light user. You can get the 3GB+32GB ROM variant at an attractive pricing of 8,999 INR, on the other the 4GB+64GB variant can be bought for 10,990 INR.

Let us have a quick look at the features of this phone:

  • 4G voLTE
  • 16MP front camera with flash
  • Infrared Blaster
  • MIUI 9
  • USB OTG
  • Separate Micro SD Card slot
  • Fingerprint Lock
  • Casting

Pros:

  1. You get Android Nougat with MIUI 9.
  2. All the phone sensors
  3. Selfie phone
  4. Dedicated SD card slot

Cons:

  1. Nothing new with the design
  2. 720p Display
  3. No rapid charging

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