Features:

  • 3G: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 - 4G: LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 38(2600), 40(2300) - Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) > (ensure to check compatibility with your carrier before purchase)
  • 6.26 inches Full Screen Display 1080 x 2280 pixels, 19:9 ratio (~403 ppi density)
  • 64GB ROM + 4GB RAM - microSD, up to 256 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) - Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Octa-core 1.8 GHz - Fingerprint (rear-mounted) - Non-removable Li-Po 4000 mAh battery
  • Rear (MAIN) Camera: 12MP + 5MP Dua Camera - Front Camera: 20MP + 2MP Dual Selfie Camera - Video: 1080p@30fps
  • Factory Unlocked cellphones are compatible with most of the GSM carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile, but are not compatible with CDMA carriers such as Verizon and Sprint.
A perfect 5 in my book

This is the first time I have purchased a 100% Chinese handset and I must say I am very impressed. The package came very nicely packed and in a timely manner, an usual forte of Amazon. The 2 pin converter for U.S. was a nice touch plus the TPU soft case was a pleasant surprise. Since Saturday after getting the handset, I fully charged the phone straight out of the box (HIGHLY RECOMMEND) and today (Monday) it is at 65% *touchwood* It has gone through all updates, app installations, couple of video chats, photos. For $200 odd, this is a very good handset. I have been caught in two minds - Huawei or Xiaomi. After paying attention to some rumors of Huawei, I decided to go for Xiaomi and boy was I surprised! Battery life is excellent; lovely display and colors; fast responding fingerprint sensor. Slight disappointment of no facial recognition but that's ok for me. It has MIUI but am happy with Google and more familiar with it. Wi-FI picks up both bands, 4G LTE is damn good. I cannot find any blemish at this point, but I'll definitely revisit if required.

Bang for the buck (annotated...)

Ok, heh . Was not expecting such good quality. Had some ideas about what it might be and everything was better than that. Great battery, oh btw, remember to keep the phone charged between say 70 and 20 percent. The life of the battery degrades faster if always charged to 100 percent. Or discharged too low...Have had some li- based batteries last me close to 10 years by just being disciplined about limiting the charge range to within 70 and 20 percent. That being said the proprietary Android based OS is wonderful. Has settings which many other phones do not have. Limiting Data per day or setting alerts if you get close to your Data budget. Even can set the phone to turn itself off and on during periods of day or night. The camera is great and high quality images... Flexible lighting requirments. At this price point you wont be dissapointed!!! The next step up for Redmi note phablets is the Note 7 and Note 8 which have great processors for would be gamers...:-) anyway you will be pleasantly surprised,. Get a case for it, and a tempered glass face. Just in case ;) The display is close to the edge..like many phablets these days...

I. Love. This. Phone.

I've been dying to write a review on this phone. I've never been this happy about a phone. Ever. First of all, my previous phone is a Huawei Honor 5x. It's a decent phone, but because I'm a heavy user of social media, various apps, etc., it began to lag terribly over time. It was time to find a new phone, and I did a LOT of research before deciding on this one. First, aesthetics: This phone is beautiful. Mine is black and it has a sleek, expensive look. I love the shape of it, and it fits well in my small hands. My old Huawei looks so clunky next to it. I like that the app widgets are small, too. The screen is large and gorgeous. The phone also comes with a silicone case. Second, overall performance: This thing is FAST. The phone is very responsive, and I don't have to wait for a page to load, or to open apps. I'm in love with how streamlined it is, and how easy it is to figure out. I was looking at my mom's new Samsung J7 Crown the other day, and I didn't like its setup at all. It made me appreciate my Xiaomi even more. The battery life is awesome. With modest use throughout the day, I've often had more than 50%, even 70% at the end of the day. I also like that on the battery indicator it shows an actual number indicating the percentage of charge left. Third, camera: I haven't used the camera much, yet, but I love it so far. I love the time-lapse and slow-motion features, and was giddy when I discovered it even has tilt-shift! I'm an amateur photographer, and I've done many tilt-shift images by editing them in Photoshop. So this was a bonus. It also has a Portrait mode. I will tell you that the Portrait mode does not create a true portrait photo. It blurs the background of your subject, and it does a very good job of it. You may see a little blurring around the edge of your subject, which would not be present in a photo done with an actual camera. It is much the same as doing it in post-production in Photoshop or another program. Still, it's pretty cool. The overall photo and video quality is beautiful and sharp. I suggest to anyone who wants to use the zoom feature...don't. As with any phone with digital zoom, you will lose the sharpness of your photo any time you use digital zoom. If at all possible, take the photo of a far-off subject without the zoom, then crop it. This phone does a nice job of getting great detail from a distance, so once the photo is cropped, it will look much sharper than if it had been taken using the zoom feature. I also discovered, accidentally, that I can use the volume button to snap a photo, which is nice. The video quality, as well, is very nice. And you can snap photos while shooting video. It shoots in 1080p, and I've read that the Note 7 Pro that is coming out will shoot in 4K, but 1080p is nothing to sneeze at. I'll still be able to produce some nice videos for Instagram, etc. This phone has a gyroscope, so you can play Pokemon Go and other similar games with it very smoothly. However, I just started playing Jurassic World Alive, which is much like Pokemon Go, and I can't use the AR function within the game. The phone is not supported at this time. It may work with Pokemon Go, though I haven't tried it yet. It may be dependent on the app itself. The sound quality on this phone is great, too. I often use my Soul Emotion Bluetooth earbuds with it, and it's loud and clear. Even without them, the volume is really good and not at all tinny. I also discovered that this phone has an IR blaster, so I'm able to control my Roku smart tv and Samsung blueray player with it. I lost my blueray remote forever ago, so I was stoked to be able to use my phone to use all the functions. It was super easy to set up. I also can cast whatever I'm doing on my phone to my tv, so I've had some fun with that. I talk to my granddaughter via Facebook Messenger video chat, and sometimes I'll cast our session to the tv. If you don't know how to do it, just go to Settings, then More, then Wireless display, turn it on, and if your tv is connected to your wifi network, it will show up below. Just click on it and in a few seconds you'll have your phone's display on your tv. You can watch Facebook videos, look at photos on your phone, etc., if you want to. It's pretty neat. I haven't tried the Face Recognition or Fingerprint features yet, so I can't speak to how well they work. Oh, another nice little feature about this phone I love is the volume control. When you click on the button, the controls pop out from the right side of the phone and there are two separate buttons. The top one is to operate the volume for videos and such. The bottom button turns off the volume for notifications and ringtones. I love this because I can immediately silence them without having to go into another menu to turn down what I need to, one by one. This is great when I'm at work and forget to turn off notifications. I can do it at a touch of a button, and turn it on just as easily. Finally, I use Straight Talk, with a T-Mobile sim card. I've had no issues with calls or texting. However, I never talk on the phone, so I can't touch on whether there are issues with dropped calls or problems receiving or making calls. I've tested it a few times, and it worked just fine. As for texting, it works perfectly, and I can easily send photos and videos. I did have to get a new sim card because my old phone used a micro sim, whereas this phone uses a nano sim. I also was able to transfer all my apps that were stored on my 32gb SD card flawlessly to this phone. I think I've covered everything. At this price point, you can't beat the features and functionality of this phone. I needed more internal storage and ram, and with 64gb of internal storage and 4gb of ram, I know I won't have to worry about the lag I experienced with my previous phone. It only had 16gb of storage and 2gb of ram. That's fine for a casual user, but for me, it wasn't enough. I'm super happy with this phone. There are more expensive phones out there that don't offer all the features packed into this one. Get. This. Phone.

Nearly unparalleled value for your money. Simply superb quality.

The Redmi Note 6 Pro is an excellent mid-range smartphone, the design is modestly elegant and combined with the MiUi 10 experience, I think it works almost flawlessly 95% of the time. Granted, everything has its pros and cons it is almost impossible to go wrong at this price point for what you get. Xiaomi has certainly won me over, even though I came from using the Samsung Galaxy Note series phones. This one just seems reasonable and you get more value for your money, compared to similar phones that want to mark up the price ridiculously. If you are on the fence wondering if this is a good option for you, I'd say it is for what you pay. Xiaomi just needs to focus on expanding into the US Market better and give more support for US cell bands. But other than that, this phone is superb. I will definitely consider purchasing more phones like this one from them in the future. I am increasingly surprised by what Xiaomi can produce. No major problems here, keep it up.

Great quality!

OK. So I haven't owned the most advanced phones thus far. But I have zero complaints about this amazing phone and am very very happy with it! I sold cell phones for over 18 years and the quality of this phone is top notch!

THIS IS A BANG FOR YOUR BUCK!

Great phone for the price. Alot of people here are neagative and I had alot of second thoughts of buying this phone, I just said F it and I did and I love it and can't complain. My carrier is T-MOBILE it has LTE as well

Impressive!

The phone was much higher quality than I expected! Very clear resolution, good camera, and sharp design. The phone settings are also very comprehensive and customizible-- I was surprised at how many settings I could change to make the phone fit my preferences. The battery life is also really impressive-- I've been using the phone a ton for the past two days and have only used about 50% of the battery. Granted, I've only had the phone for a couple days. I'm sure that some problems will reveal themselves in the future, but at this point I have no complaints.

The best phone at this price point.. Period.

For this price point, it is an amazing deal. Xiaomi really has done it again. Really fast midrange processor , paired with MIUI provides a almost iPhone level of smoothness. Battery life is amazing, with a monster 4000 mAh battery, this phone easily lasts for two days of charge. SOT (Screen on time) is about 7-8 hours of normal usage before the battery drains, meaning I could use this phone for hours and hours. Amazingly, T-Mobile LTE works perfectly on this device, and as well as 3G. Call quality is great, tons of memory, and a great screen makes this phone an amazing deal. There is even an option to "disable" the notch if you really wanted. For gaming performance, this phone is an absolute beast. PUBG Mobile, a very graphics intensive game runs smoothly at medium settings with no frame drops. This phone's chip is well cooled, and it won't fry your hand when playing intensive games. The snapdragon chip in here absolutely destroys other MediaTek equipped devices, and stomps on the older SD625. Good ROM support and a unlocked bootloader makes it very easy to ROOT and Mod to your liking if that is your thing. All in all, unbeatable value for a phone of this price. Is actually better that most phones twice, or even three times its price.

Excellent $200 phone. Save money don't buy overpriced phones just for showing off.

Works great on T-Mobile. Full LTE support. Runs smoothly. Excellent image quality. 440ppi I think. Full day battery and charges very quickly. Charges from 10% battery to about 75 to 80% in about 2 hours as long as you use charger with over 2 .1 amps. Screen does great job of being scratch free. $200 unlocked an excellent buy. No need to spend more than that just to talk, text, run social media apps, and for binge watching Netflix and YouTube.

Great Phone for the Money!

As one coming from the Huawei Honor 6x, I do miss the Ultra Power Saving mode, but I'm pleased with the phone/screen size, memory space and quality of the camera. It comes with the international prong charger and came with this little adapter, but the standard US Charger works just fine from what I've tested thus far. It'll immediately have a system update, which I recommend allowing before downloading everything you want.

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