My recent Redmi Note 7 Pro Purchase
I have purchased Redmi Note 7 Pro on the 5th of January 2020. It was Neptune Blue in color.
What motivated me to purchase this smartphone were those positive reviews by people online and because of those reviews-sharing websites which gave an impressive rating to this phone.
My first thought
about buying Redmi Note 7 Pro was its Camera, Processor capacity, and some other features, about which the phone was blithely endorsed all over the internet. Many websites exaggerated at length
about this phone, saying it is one of the most const-effective smartphones
every brought into the Indian market.
These positive reviews finally tantalized me
to purchase the phone, and so, I dropped an order on Flipkart, which later had it delivered to me 6 days after I had placed an order for the phone.
Firsthand experience of Redmi Note 7 Pro on arrival
When the phone was home-delivered by the Flipkart delivery agent, my joy knew no bounds. I just
wanted to open the tiny box encasing the phone from my gaze. After unboxing,
the first thing I did was to check if I received an original product or a fake
one, considering you can’t trust anything these days.
Glad it was a brand-new,
original product from Xiaomi.
I wish I had videographed the unboxing of Redmi Note 7 Pro, but overwhelming excitement made me
oblivious to this. Anyway, after taking the phone out of the box, I tried to
switch it on, but it didn’t even blink!
I thought maybe
I pressed the wrong power-up button, but it was the right one.
The phone
didn’t start and then I realized it was the exhausted battery causing the phone
not to start up. And this experience was in contrast to the one I saw on those
videos in which the guys unboxing the phone started it up without first
charging the device.
Well, in my case the thing was different.
So, I first
charged up the phone for a while and when I saw that it was in around 20%
charging condition, I switched it on.
This time
it flicked into action!
Unlike a smartphone
pro, I did not go through the specifications and narrative of all bloatware
that the phone encased with it. Rather I jumped into “version” section of the
phone to see its default feature and if the phone needed an update. Understandably
being a new phone, it required immediate updates. So, I updated all the apps preinstalled,
install new apps, and updated its OS to the latest version.
UI EXPERIENCE
UI
experience of Redmi Note 7 Pro was good for me. It was beaming up in radiance
that pleased to the eyesight.
However,
it did not present an immersive viewing experience on firsthand. I thought that
since the phone equipped with FHD+ feature, the impressive resolution would
have given its overall appearance a much better and prettified visual, but it
was not that I imagined in the first place. Well, it was not bad either.
Talking about
unnecessary apps preinstalled in Redmi Note 7 Pro, I uninstalled few of them and
kept those I thought would be useful for me later.
CAMERA PERFORMANCE
I was
utterly disappointed with the camera performance of Redmi Note 7 Pro.
Talking about
its primary camera that featured Pro mode function, it was great to see the
kind of photo output that the phone generated after clicking some shots. The pictorial
details of the nearby objects clicked through the camera of Redmi Note 7 Pro
was great. However, the front-facing camera that we know is used for selfie purposes
seemed to me totally dud!
I hated my
selfies are taken by Redmi Note 7 Pro.
The selfies,
even if shot in the indoor ambiance or outdoor, were not photogenic. Worse, for the
first time, I felt that “AI” is dumb not to be so intuitive as to analyzing my face
and background to take a shot worth viewing. Not impressed with the AI-mode of
the camera at all.
To some
extent I tend to believe that the selfie camera performance of my REDMI NOTE 4
is better than Redmi Note 7 Pro. However, the main camera that is of 48MP gives you
the output that is quite presentable.
BATTERY PERFORMANCE
Not very
good!
As far as I
can remember, after using it for 10 minutes, the battery percentage drained
from an initial 90% to 75%. And I was not playing any game or watching any video at
that time. Just was surfing the web for some important information, checking my
Gmail, Facebook, and Instagram. Yes, I also updated a few apps.
Please correct
me if the battery drainage was the result of that multitasking on the phone. However,
I personally feel that the battery performance of Redmi Note 7 Pro is not good.
Is Redmi Note 7 Pro recommendable?
Yes, if
you are looking for a smartphone that can justify your mid-range budgetary requirement,
you can go for it.
One more
thing, try to buy 6GB (RAM)+120GB (ROM) segment, as Redmi Note 7 Pro under 4GB
RAM and 64 GB ROM will not allow you to enjoy the spatial beauty of the phone. However,
if you are okay with 64 GB ROM and don’t want to increase the budget more than
10k, you can go for Redmi Note 7 Pro under this segment. And this is what I have
purchased (glad I made this decision).
Another important
thing to note is that the phone does not come with a dedicated slim slot. Hence,
either you insert one 4G SIM and choose another slot for a memory card, or
occupy both the slots with two 4G SIMS. The choice is yours. And believe me,
this is the feature that dampens the spirit of buying Redmi Note 7 Pro.
It’s like Catch-22
dilemma – you wish to choose “6GB (RAM)+120GB (ROM)” but can’t
afford Rs 15K that it costs, and don’t wish to choose “4GB RAM + 64 GB ROM”
variant because of its spatial restrictions.
Wrapping it up
Now I am
concluding this brief review about Redmi Note 7 Pro with the statement that I did
not check CPU performance of the phone, considering I am not a gamer. I seldom
played a game on any smartphone ever. Considering the power of its CPU feature,
playing heavy-data sensitive games won’t be a problem, as far as I can guess.
Redmi Note 7 Pro: At a Glance
Display
6.30-inch
(1080x2340)
Processor
Qualcomm
Snapdragon 675
Front
Camera
13MP
Rear
Camera
48MP + 5MP
RAM
4GB
Storage
64GB
Battery
Capacity
4000mAh
OS
Android
Pie
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