Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Battery Duration and Camera Review

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Battery Duration and Camera Review

Battery Life

• 4,000mAh battery
• Lasts well beyond each day of moderate use

Boasting a 4,000mAh battery pack, which is seemingly a Xiaomi standard, we had high hopes for the Redmi Note 7 - especially with its power-sipping chipset in tow.

And thankfully, we weren't disappointed. Likely partially thanks to the aggressive app closures made by MIUI (Xiaomi’s particular flavor of Android) we found that standby times especially for this device are very strong, with the Redmi Note 7 dropping only a couple of percentage points across the course of an evening .

In general usage, after a 13 hour day, with 2 hours of commuting, taking note of music on Bluetooth headphones, video, emails, messaging and calls, by the top we had a mean of 67-70% left within the tank. By the estimation of most, this is often an honest showing.

This is protected by the quality TechRadar battery test (playing a full resolution video on max brightness over Wi-Fi for 90 minutes), which saw the Redmi Note 7 finish with 85% left within the tank - a loss of 15%.

This isn’t quite as impressive because the prodigious Moto G7 Power, however it smokes most of the competition, and positively at this price point.

With light usage, and with the impressive standby times, this device could certainly function a ‘2-day’ smartphone. for many however, it'll be a handset which may be pushed all day without worrying of running out, an achievement in itself.

Camera

• 48MP and 5MP rear lenses
• Results are solid for the cash

No matter what other specifications the camera may possess, from a marketing point of view just one thing matters - 48 megapixels. that's quite even the likes of the mighty Nokia Lumia 1020 had - but what does that mean in practice?

Before going to that, the ½ inch main sensor on the rear comes with an aperture of f/1.8 and is flanked by a 5MP f/2.4 depth sensor for portrait shots. The selfie snapper features a mere 13MP to call its own, no special gimmicks and an aperture of f/2.2.

The camera app itself which Xiaomi has built is fairly average, which is to mention it's basically an immediate just like Apple’s iPhone offering, which seems to possess unofficially become the quality which the industry has adopted.

With a stress on letting the ‘AI’ choose various scene modes, it's also possible to quick toggle Auto HDR more and to swipe between various options, like Portrait and Panorama. The operation of the app is quick, and taking photos may be a fuss-free affair.

The quality of said photos may be a very interesting matter indeed. While the marketing material talks an excellent game round the 48MP lens, actually the sensor doesn’t generally fill use of these pixels for detail capture.

It is only possible to require ‘true’ 48MP images in Pro mode, and that they are uniformly disappointing, looking muddy and overblown. Instead, in ‘normal’ mode, the camera combines information from groups of 4 pixels, meaning that the resulting images produced are 12MP overall.

And these images are a mile aside from the 48MP shots. Boasting usually nice detail and tasteful editing of the highlights, they're generally pleasing for the worth point.

A typical issue of Xiaomi phones however seems to be saturation of 1 color at the expense of others. Here greens tend to become nuclear in 'nature' mode, while other shades are relatively muted, leaving the pictures feeling unbalanced.

This is something which may be solved with a software update, therefore the situation may change in future.

Low light, because it is for many budget devices, remains something of a challenge despite Xiaomi’s claims to the contrary. Compared to the likes of the Redmi Note 6 Pro however, it's improved, mostly thanks to the addition of an evening Mode.

This does the standard , combining a series of long exposures appropriated a couple of seconds to enhance resolution and increase the brightness of photos taken in very dark conditions. The results are mostly quite good, if not remarkable, though this is often more to try to to with the absence of optical image stabilization than anything .

As a side note, this device comes with the potential to feature a Google Camera APK, meaning that those within the know can dramatically increase the standard of images crazy little or no investment in time - though there are security drawbacks to the present process which should be kept in mind.

In all, and positively for the worth point, the Redmi Note 7 features a camera that, while almost deserve the hype, is certainly capable and perfectly suitable for many .