Xiaomi Redmi 4X 32GB

Advantages: Performance, design, finger scanner, MIUI shell, battery, iron, display.

Disadvantages: No backlight touch buttons (for me it is not critical, but after all a trifle, it would be nice)

Comment: I bought a globalku - 8300 rubles. With a cover and glass - 8700 rubles. The phone flew (to Samara) in 15 days. And now, I am the happy owner of this smartphone. First impressions: the package is packed perfectly! The box with the smartphone is sealed in film. Took out of the box: he is gorgeous! Nothing creaks, does not play, does not rattle and does not hang out! Screen ... On the Internet, many people write: 5 ", HD resolution (1280x720), the screen is" in grain ", about anything, etc. I personally liked the display. With my 100% vision and macro shooting with a SLR , I could not consider the pixels, as they say “grains.” Again, plus the HD matrix - less power consumption! The screen brightness is set to 80% and this is more than enough, even on a very sunny day! Viewing angles ... yes I am under such the corners never look at the screen)) For power consumption: I confirm the claimed 4100 mAh! More precisely, I confirmed the USB tester. The work of the battery is well balanced! where high performance is required, emergency heating is not detected! Autonomy, with my activity - 1.5 - 2.0 days! A good indicator. The MIUI branded shell, out of the box, based on Android 6.0.1, is convenient and intuitive. I didn’t find any “garbage” for myself! In the near future, the new version of MIUI 9 based on Android 7.1.1 will “arrive”. Photo: quality is worthy for a budget smartphone model Redmi 4X is! Communication keeps stably, failures for a week of operation did not happen! There are no freezes / reboots either. Everything works stably! For myself, I decided: if a smartphone, then Xiaomi! The only negative: in Russia the price is unreasonably high! If you choose a smartphone within 10,000 rubles, I highly recommend to look at this model!

Advantages: The build is great.
Speed, for this iron, going off-scale (on the weekly latest firmware).
Excellent autonomy (about 2 days in the mode of active use).
Beautiful shell MIUI, not a trace of the wretchedness of the naked android. 7th android on the latest firmware.
There is an OTG.
GPS consistently catches 25+ satellites.
The speaker is located at the end, which does not silence the sound when the phone is on the table.
With most games there will be no problems.
Pretty simple flashing procedure. Without dancing with a tambourine and unnecessary complications.

Disadvantages: Compared to its predecessors (for example, redmi 3s), the phone has lost its multicolored notification LED. Now he always blinks only white, and on charging he always lights up white. However, this may have a positive impact on energy consumption. On the same redmi 3, the flashing diode otzhiral on extra 8% battery for 12 hours.
There is a bug that is not solved on any of the firmware - the phone is awakened by touching the fingerprint sensor. Even if no prints are set. However, there are custom patches from craftsmen that solve this.
On stable firmware, the phone may be disappointing. Everything is pretty slow, a lot of stupid dumb bugs, But this is a small drawback, since you can always flash a fresh developer with 9 mi and 7 android.
Glass is certainly scratched pretty willingly. Putting the display down and carrying it in one pocket with something else is not recommended at all.
When looking at the bottom end, it may seem that the speaker is 2, but alas, the left grill is a dummy, with a conversational microphone hidden under it.
The function key icons at the bottom of the display are almost invisible. Is it a drawback? for me, no. But just in case I specify.

Comment: Definitely the best state employee for the money.
After rolling in a fresh weekly firmware, there is no price for it.
In principle, you can use a stable firmware, but most likely you will not like much.
Comparing it with my previous device (redmi 3s), I can say that I like 4x more.

Advantages: - price / performance ratio
- convenient software shell
- good call quality
- 32 gigabytes of internal memory is better than 16))

Disadvantages: - non-removable battery
- hybrid sim / microSD slot

Comment: In general, this is the second Xiaomi, bought for relatives. It is better in some respects 4a and, accordingly, more expensive. Very close to the image of an ideal smartphone, especially considering the price. In black, beautiful, no stupid gloss, obmylochnost, curved edges. Great thing!

Advantages: I use the phone only a week. In my opinion, the phone has several great advantages. Before that, I used samsung, xiaomi definitely wins by speed. Now about the merits.
1. For me, the biggest thing is the battery. 4100 mAh is true a lot, the average phone lasts for two days, while the Internet, social networks, calls and messages are actively used.
2. Very smart, maybe later will start to blunt. But while very smart, nothing hangs.
3. In my opinion the camera. I can not attribute it to the shortcomings. The photos are not bad, but you can use them for that kind of money.
4. Embedded security program. Personally, I really liked it, everything is collected in it, and phone optimization, and application optimization and debris removal, and application permissions.
5. There are no extra google applications and the rest, which is very pleased.
6. Very pleased with the external speaker, the phone is really loud.

Disadvantages: Perhaps the shortcomings are not so much, again for such a price you can close your eyes to them.
1. Screen (my subjective opinion). It is not as bright and not as saturated colors as the Samsung. I hope to get used to it.
2. Slippery (everything is decided by buying a case).
3. Safety glass (although this does not apply to the phone). The sensor with protective glass works much worse.

Comment: In general, the phone is happy. Given the price is a very good model. The phone was bought for 8600 without shipping the global version. It was difficult to deal with all the tinctures of the system, it seems to me that I have not set everything up yet.The presence of an IR port and a fingerprint scanner are more likely a plus than a minus, they have not been used yet. Taking into account the price of the phone I put a very 5.

Advantages: 1. Capacious battery and good battery life. 2 days working in music mode via Bluetooth non-stop, calls, browser, instant messengers.
2. The speaker on the bottom. Ring tone does not sound in the tabletop, but where you want.
3. 3 gig of RAM. On the brakes a single hint.
4. Tolerable photo quality.
5. 4G reception is stable throughout Moscow.
6. Not heated, unlike its predecessors.
7. Lightning fingerprint scanner.
8. Infrared. Useful if you want to control the air conditioner or TV.
9. In black color looks solid and expensive.
10. Price. Products of competitors are more expensive with similar performance characteristics.

Disadvantages: 1. Non-removable battery.
2. Hybrid SIM card slot. But many devices suffer from this now, so we’ll assume that this is not a bug, but a feature.
3. Slippery body. I almost killed him a couple of times on concrete.
4. During a call, the speaker volume is not adjustable. Most likely a cant firmware.

Comment: This phone does not carry on itself add 150% to the cost of emblems. It is designed for people who do not chase the brand and status.
Full-HD with this screen diagonal is an obvious overkill. Image quality does not suffer, and power consumption is reduced.
Complaining about the camera in the phone, no matter what class it belongs to, is stupid. Photographs, conveys the essence, the text in the pictures is well read. You need a perfect photo quality, so buy a DSLR and a pair of lenses for it!
The Chinese have learned to make a quality product. The mantra "is not an iPhone, and therefore sucks" is easily refuted by the facts: 7 out of 10 phones that are being repaired to me - just an Iphone with covered memory, processors, charge controllers, etc. Phones of other brands in 90% of cases simply require the replacement of a broken sensor or matrix.

Advantages: 4G

Disadvantages: -

Comment: I will only talk about 4g and the battery. Today I took my daughter from a camp near Istra of the Moscow Region. From the house to the camp about 100 km. I launched the yandex-navigator, the back-up time of the screen is about 6 hours. Arriving home, looked at the information about the battery - 52% remained - this is very cool. The device is almost not heated. As for LTE, I'm just pleasantly surprised. Arriving at the camp, I decided to compare the mobile Internet on redmi4x and Samsung galaxy S8 +. Redmi steadily showed 4g (and all the way there and back), speedtest showed the result of 18 MB / s at the reception and 8 - sending. Samsunga showed E (Edge), and the speedtest did not find the server at all. I think it's in the Exynos modem. Snapdragon clearly wins. I’ve been looking for information for a long time whether there is a B20 range in redmi4x (everywhere differently, although the latest specifications clearly indicate that the global version has it (the box is in English without hieroglyphs). Now I’m sure the globalki is OK. Take the version from 3 GB of memory - there will be no special problems. In general, smart is really bombing (price / quality). To use as a navigator in a car (you can set different programs) - must have.

Advantages: Just delighted. Fast fingerprint scanner, powerful battery, optimal display size, loud clear sound, huge memory, bright display.

Disadvantages: Prior to that, Asus-Zenfon4 was almost 3 years old and now a little sad without a weather report on the screen saver (perhaps, I simply did not find the necessary widget). The navigation program OsmAnd does not write a track with the display off, the impression that it just stops immediately. I try to record with a tracker and then import this track - quite cumbersome and inconvenient.

Comment: I bought a global version, 3 / 32GB, black color. I do not need the second SIM card, added a 64GB memory card. I ordered a case, as the smartphone is thin, heavy and slippery. Applications put everything in my head, the memory does not end there. Checked battery life. The most voracious is the OsMand navigation program.Energy consumption of 12% per hour with the display on (the above wrote that with the display off the track is not written). Normal operation (messages, Internet, reading a book) is about 2% per hour (display on when reading a book) 3%. Brightness in the automatic adjustment mode allows you to safely view the cards in bright sunshine. The fingerprint scanner allows you to use it to enter the payment application - Sberbank and VTB online, very convenient.

Advantages: 1) Flies! If you think which version to take 3GB of RAM or 2GB, stop thinking and take 3GB. I responsibly declare that
2) There are cool gadgets such as infrared. With the help of a special program that is already on the phone by default, the phone can be used as a remote control for a TV or air conditioner. (oh, these are Chinese, all that is missing is a TV antenna).
3) Customizable buttons on the bottom panel.
4) I liked the indicator of new messages on the bottom panel.
5) The battery is just ahhh .... with active use, calls, sms, social networks, included Wi-Fi, 4g, gps and some toys, 2 days holds. That is, if you at least do not play, and it is possible to disconnect something, and all 3 will last. !!! Awesome!
I supplement after several months of use:
6) there are themes in the settings. Funny bonus.
7) still not heated, keeps charging and does not tupit
8) then forgot to add what is translated everything that I met on the phone ... sort of. I do not remember a single hieroglyph

Disadvantages: After samsung galaxy s2 is too big (for the month it was almost used, but still, no matter how cool - a shovel). To solve this problem (at least partially) there is in the settings such stray as "one-handed use" - programmatically reduces the size of the screen with hot keys. Slippery (case saves the situation). The camera is like a camera ... not an iPhone, of course. Apparently 3847238 billion pixels do not solve anything.
The buttons on the bottom panel are not highlighted, it infuriates a little, but you can also get used to it.
I supplement after several months of use:
1) The cover solved the problem with a slippery case. But formally a flaw.
2) several times at the moment when you just pick up the phone during an incoming call, it seems that the distance sensor on the front panel did not work, and therefore I accidentally turned off the microphone during a call.
Here we have to adapt. When the interlocutor a couple of times you inquiringly “alekat” just know that you probably turned off the microphone.

Comment: The design, what's inside, what's outside, is lapped from the iPhone (form, icons, menus, principles for the location of all sorts of panels, in general, a lot of muffled trifles).
Take on 3GB of RAM! I don’t regret about buying on the Mitinsky market for 8700 + 400 delivery. It would not be a pity, and 10 -10.5 thousand for such a phone.
I supplement after several months of use:
All the same cool as in the first months of use.

Advantages: The battery, the design, the camera for its price range, an excellent imprint, and, above all, the price!

Disadvantages: Vibro as on the old cheap phones, for me it is not really a disadvantage, because they are no longer there.

Comment: I bought it for 8400 (global version), to be honest, I can not even compare it with other phones, if you take more rocking brands like Sony or Samsung, it is at the level of 18 thousand.
The fingerprint works better than on the 7th iPhone, 10 out of 10! The cameras for this money are excellent, the aluminum cover is also pleased, the speaker is clean and loud.
I write a review with one hand, I wipe the tears with another hand.

Advantages: 1. Really holds the battery for a long time. Depending on the firmware, you can customize the power consumption of the programs. different power saving modes (really works). on average, with fairly active use (internet with a 2GB download for about 2 hours, 7 hours of using the screen, a social network for 1 hour, a game for 2 hours, SMS and calls for about 40 minutes), it has been living for 2 days and 8 hours and writing 23% charge. This is very cool considering its performance.
2. Design.There was a galaxy a3 2016 - xiaomi 4x a little more, but in general almost the same. Yes, the campaign on the iPhone, but I do not care. The black color is very beautiful. The prints on the back cover I do not care) this is a phone, not a necklace!
3. Speed ​​and power. Flies and the menu and programs. In addition to asphalt 8, I do not play anything, but even in this game at Max settings nothing slows down and does not even get warm. The internet is just awesome. All pages load times faster than galaxy a3.
4. Fingerprint scanner is fast like a bullet from Chuck Norris!

Disadvantages: 1. it is purely subjective, screen. I find it harder to get used to it after amolid, the colors are different. There are lights, but this does not affect anything, because we are not looking at the screen at an angle.
2. Vibrating alert - it is more audible than it is felt. As in a cheap phone call.

Comment: In general, I am very pleased with everything! It is pleasant to hold the device in hands, a convenient form. Personally, I do not slip in my hands. Perfect battery and power saving settings (even on and off on schedule). To whom as, and the processor suffices, operative memory allows not to reload open tabs in the browser (on other phones it enraged). programs fly. In addition to the "mi" badge on the back cover (and that is barely visible) there are no inscriptions on the case and this is good. The camera is quite normal. For this money, it's a sin to complain, but it is enough for it, for everything else there is a SLR. Now about the firmware: externally, the location and use of icons is similar to an iPhone. In the firmware, you can configure everything !!!! this is done quite simply. But this miui (meui) will need a little getting used to. Took over 8 thousand re. Sooo adequate price for a quite powerful smartphone, with a long battery, fast menu and internet.

P.S. I chose for a long time among the xiaomi models, they all seem to me the same. This smartphone met expectations at 100