Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T | Unboxing & Full Tour | First budget 5G phone of 2021 By Tech Spurt

So here we are just a few days into 2021 and already Xiaomi has spanked out its first new smartphones of the year. I mean seriously guys feel free to take a break at some point any point, but regardless this marvelous little right here is Xiaomi's fresh new Redmi Note, 9t, a 5g ready budget, smartphone, busting, typically strong specs for an affordable, asking price, just 229 euros, in fact, so around 200 quid with early bird discounts on offer. If you are proper keen, so is the Redmi Note 90 strong competition for the likes of the Realme 7, 5g and, of course, Xiaomi's on me, 10t light! Well, I'm going to whip it on out of the box. Now take you on a full on tour of the hardware and the software and for more than the latest greatest tech. Please do put subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers gotta love the usual sick Huawei burn with easy access to the Google apps. You use most okay.

So, let's see what you actually get in the box along with the phone, you get a big old, beefy user, guys in like every language ever but of 2 pin charge and plug action hold on to your pants, because it's a type-c, USB cable and remember what your mother told you always wrap it up to stay safe. It's all offender condom case. I of course will be ignoring mother's advice, as I'm actually reviewing the Redmi Note 90 just to test out exactly how rugged it is, and hopefully you shouldn't have any problems on that front uh, because you do get a pre-installed screen protector on the Redmi Note.19 you've also got gorilla glass 5 caught an underneath that for double the protection and then around back. It is just plastic sadly, but hopefully should at least stop it from you know shattering into bits if you have to drop the bloody thing, and this right here is the daybreak purple version, so nice colorful hue, but you can also grab the Redmi Note 90 in nightfall black. If you want something a bit more boring and as you can hopefully make out there, the back of the phone is actually subtly textured as well.

It does feel quite rough uh when you're rubbing your fingers across it. That's just to help grip. Of course, at least it's not super smooth. It's not just going to slip straight out of your hands, especially when you've been munching on a bit of a Donner and chips. That plastic back certainly feels pretty sturdy.

You know, there's no obvious flex or anything. It all feels well sort of constructed and everything, and I like the way that that camera lens doesn't jut too far out of that ascend either. So, if you lay the Redmi Note 9t down on a desk or some other flat surface you're busy like tapping out a message or something like that, it doesn't shake about all over the place. Yeah pretty standard, uh budget, smartphone design to be fair. You've got your sim tray over here on the left edge on the right edge.

You've got your indented power button, which doubles as a fingerprint sensor just below the volume up top. It looks like you've got a bit of IR blaster action and then down below you've got your type-c USB charger and a headphone jack hazard and like most budget smartphones, of course, there's no water resistance, but you do have a splash resistant finish according to Xiaomi. So if you do have to spill a beverage on it, uh no need to panic. Anyway. It looks like we've got some juice in the tank, so we'll get the Redmi Note, 90 all set up, and we'll tow the rest of it and when you do come to slap a sim card in it's also worth noting.

In fact, you've got dual sim support here on the Redmi Note 90, and not only that, but both sim cards can have 5g supported on them simultaneously, and you'll also know that there's a separate micros memory card slot as well, so you can actually have two sims in there and a micros memory card all at the same time, lovely stuff all right thanks to the magic and wonders of video editing, we've tinkled forwards in time. The Redmi Note 90, is all set up and ready for action. Now. Sadly, the Redmi Note 90 does not come with the latest freshest android 11 on there, it's still android 10. , hopefully, should be getting updated.

Soon, though, but at least you do get the very latest mini 12 launchers from Xiaomi, I have done a dedicated video on the UI 12. If you want to know a bit more about it, all you need to know really, though, is that it's a bit fresher and cleaner than previous versions of me UI. I, like the way they've tidied up the settings menu and made that a bit easier on the eye plus. Finally, thank the baby. Jesus you've got dedicated abstract on here, so all mini, 12 smartphones will have the option to bury away your stuff.

You know as I've slathered all over the desktops like it's a bloody iPhone or something, and speaking of your apps, you suddenly do get a lot of pre-installed crap wear on here. So if you dive into tools, as you can see, got tons of compasses, I remember the last time I've used a compass on a smartphone. I haven't done any navigation, since I was in the boy scouts. You've got the remote app to use that IR blaster. If you actually still use an Io blaster, you got the recorder screen recorder, all of that good stuff.

If you dive into more apps, or you've, got even more crap we're on there, so Amazon shopping, good old, eBay and then stuff like Facebook, blog and thankfully the majority of this stuff. You can just remove it. If you don't want it, just get rid of that ship tic TOC, I still don't understand, I'm too old, not gonna lie just too old for dancing shenanigans and, of course, you've got the usual selection of the best games that nobody's ever heard of including a bit of tile fun because nothing screams fun louder than a bunch of tiles. I got the film block puzzle. I might be getting a visit from Tetris lawyers any day now, but anyway, once you've dealt with all that crap.

The good news is that the Redmi Note 90 boasts all the features that you would kind of expect to find packed on there. So, first, as we dive into connections, you'll see, we've got NFC support on there, which can be used for your contactless payments. Apparently I will be testing this because sometimes it's a bit ropey in the UK. Sometimes it's not always supported. You got your dual-band Wi-Fi and everything we dive into about phone as well.

You'll see that I've got a 128 gigabyte model here you can actually pick up the Redmi Note 90 and a 64 gigabyte model as well. If you get that 64 gig model, then it's UFS 2.1, whereas the 128 gig model has UFS 2.2 storage, just a bit of geeky ship there. For my fellow nerds and as mentioned before, it is an edge mounted fingerprint sensor built into that power button and so far touch wood seems nice and reliable. Just a quick tap of your digit and, as you can see, you're basically straight into your desktops. No worries and you've also got face recognition, uh and built into me, UI 12 as well to back up that fingerprint sensor.

Let's just get that all registered, keep your face inside the f rim and, let's just see, if that's actually any good, so I'll use a finger. I haven't registered, and it's now scanned for the face and as you can see, it's recognized it. So we can now get straight in or if you can't be honest with all that pesky swiping well, there is an option to just uh unlock straight into your desktop. So, as you see face is recognized boom. Now about now for the display, again, it's very similar to a lot of other Xiaomi and other budget smartphones in general.

It's a 6.53 inch IPS panel, where the full HD plus resolutions are pretty much. What you'd expect at this price point. I certainly have no qualms this early on. The full HD plus resolution means that the detail levels are strong, so video looks nice and crisp as do photos. Colors look perfectly natural.

You can give them a bit of a boost in the display settings, not that it makes a huge amount of difference, and you've got full wide. Vine l1 support on the Redmi Note 90, as well as that means stream, HD quality stuff on the likes of Netflix no worries and, as usual, you've got dinky little a selfie orifice stuck away in the corner there, which includes a tiny little when you go full screen. But it's nothing to get your panties in a twist about. If you dive one into the display settings, you can choose between light and dark mode. As usual, you also have a reason mode as well, which you can schedule and that just acts like a blue light filter just making everything warm and easy on the eye.

So it doesn't kin your eyes when you're browsing stupid stuff until 2am, like you shouldn't, be unless we're talking about browsing. My fantastic YouTube videos, of course, in which case knock yourself out and quite a lot of budget smartphones, actually offer a dual stereo speaker setup as well, and the Redmi Note 90 is no different. Let's actually check out uh video and see how it sounds by two alternative options: the gtr2e and the g2s to it, to oh god and yeah. As far as those audio chops are concerned, the Redmi Note 90 certainly does not surprise either that top speaker is rather tinny and noticeably weaker than the bottom mounted speaker. But you know it's nice to have that stereo setup.

All the same and on top volume you know pretty punchy. Audio it'll, certainly uh easily be heard over a fair bit of background clamor and obviously, if you're listening to music you're going to want to get involved with that headphone jack or a bit of Bluetooth. Now the Redmi Note 9t is powered by mediated density 800u chipset, it's a 5g, ready, chipset, it's the same one that you'll find packed inside the realm 75g. That's why the geek bench scores are very similar here on the note9t and so far touchier. The performance seems as reliable as you'd expect.

Here on the Redmi Note 9t, you tap an app and up it pops and no messing around or anything job done. As mentioned before, you got full 5g support as well on the Redmi Note 9, making it one of the most affordable smartphones that support 5g right now, alongside the likes of the Xiaomi mi 10t lite, and that realm 75g as well. It is just sub 6 5g, of course, like all budget smartphones, you don't get that millimeter wave. Super Lizzy, 5g you'll have to up your budget for a bit of that. If you want a bit here in the UK, we've only got the sub 6 anyway, uh god knows when the millimeter wave is going to arrive so no biggie at all.

Now, as for the battery, well, the Redmi Note 9t has a 5 000, William cell stuffed inside pretty standard for most budget smartphones. I'd expect a full day of intensive use out of that no problem whatsoever, though it is beaten by some rivals, likes the Poco m3 have a 6 000 William cell stuffed in there. Of course, the motor g9 power and you've got 18 watt charging using that bundled adapter as well. So hopefully it shouldn't take too long to power back up. Let's finish up with the squint of that triple lens rear camera tech slap there on the back of the Redmi Note 9t, and what you get is a 48 megapixel primary lens, backed by a 2 megapixel depth sensor and a completely pointless 2 megapixel macro lens.

Now, even though it's a 48 megapixel primary sensor on the note90 you'll find that when you tap that shutter button in the photo mode, you're actually taking a 12 megapixel photo using four in one pixel binning just to help brighten up the shot, make it look all a nice and stuff. But if you want that full 48 meg resolution you can just dive in tomorrow, go to 40 8 megapixels. As long as the conditions are nice and clean you're, not trying to shoot against light or shoot in low light conditions, or anything like that, you should find the results are hopefully okay back in that standard photo mode, though you've got the usual HDR smarts. That's deactivated by default, for some reason, so is to turn that, on into auto mode, you've also got an AI camera mode, which just helps to try and define your subjects and then tweak the camera settings on your behalf to get a nicer looking shot. I usually leave that off to be honest, because sometimes it boosts the colors makes them look a little unnatural.

You do, of course, have all the usual filter, jump and all of that good stuff as well that two megapixel depth sensor comes into play once you switch to the portrait mode uh, so that just helps to again define your subject and just give everything. Nice both style background blur behind them to help them stand out. Oh yeah, and when you first start using the camera app as well, don't forget to immediately switch off that annoying watermark feature. Otherwise, all of your photos will be tainted with one of these annoying little things. Thankfully, that's nice and easy just tap these little three line icons up in the top corner.

That brings up all the various settings. You've got likes the timers. The aspect ratios all that good stuff. If you jump into settings from there, you can then turn off that stupid watermark and in those camera senses where you'll find the macro mode as well, but just don't do it. You've got plenty of other camera modes you can play around with in that more section, uh, the most intriguing of which is, of course, the night mode.

This usually works out pretty well for your low-light shots on these Xiaomi smartphones. It just takes a lot of different shots to different apertures and then melds them all together for a brighter cleaner result. It's not quite infallible. Unfortunately, as you can see, we've got some over saturation in the background and everything here, but it tends to work quite well for cityscapes and the like, where you've got a mostly dark scene with lighter elements and for anyone who knows their way around all the general camera terms and everything as well. You can have a fiddle around with, like the ISO levels, the white balance and everything by diving into the pro modes.

As for your home movies, we'll jump into that video mode and as you can see there shoots at full HD 30 fps by default, you can bump that up to 60 frames per second, or you can chuck up the resolution to 4k, but again with that 30 fps and then last up around front. You've got a 13 megapixel, selfie cam, which should be perfectly perfunctory for all of your Instagrammer needs. As usual in my selfies, I just look like a sad badger, so I'm going to delete that now you got all the usual portrait mode jump as well. If, again you want to get that blurry background action on the go and if you swap to video, I believe it's up to full HD yep 1080p at 30fps. You can shoot a bit of vlogging action and that right there in a nutshell, is the Redmi Note 9t and, as you can see there, the killer feature is, of course, that 5g support which you'll struggle to find on many other smartphones at this sort, 200 pound price point the most obvious alternative being Xiaomi's other 5g smartphone, the 10t lite.

Besides that, it looks like pretty much business as usual as far as Xiaomi budget smartphones go, you got a 5 000 William battery, the full HD display around 6.5 inches stereo, speaker setup, which is always nice to see, and that me UI, 12 UI as well. I've to love that. So let me know what you think down in the comments below, hopefully bringing you a full review, and also I'm going to do a couple of side-by-side comparisons. If I manage to find the time as well with some other budget, 5g smartphones- and please do put subscribe during that notifications about and have yourselves a lovely rest of the week, cheers everyone loves you, foreign.

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