SpecEagle review · Xiaomi

Redmi Note 4 review: The follow-up budget juggernaut with a Snapdragon 625 and two-day battery.

Item: Redmi Note 4
Rating: 54
Author: SpecEagle Editorial

SpecEagle Editorial·Jan 2017·$180

Overall

54/100

Class rank

#2 of 6

Tier

Budget

Buy?

Look elsewhere

The verdict, up front

The efficiency-king budget seller.

Redmi Note 4 doubled down on the formula with the famously efficient Snapdragon 625 — its 14 nm chip delivered genuine two-day battery life. Another tens-of-millions seller that kept the Redmi Note line atop the budget charts.

01Display

64/100

At 64/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among budget phones of 2017 — 7 points above the cohort average.

TypeIPS LCD, 60 Hz

Size5.5 inches

Resolution1,920 × 1,080 px (FHD)

02Camera

58/100

At 58/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among budget phones of 2017 — 7 points above the cohort average.

Main13 MP, f/2.0, PDAF

Selfie5 MP

03Performance

58/100

At 58/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among budget phones of 2017 — 14 points above the cohort average.

ChipsetSnapdragon 625 (14 nm)

RAM2 / 3 / 4 GB

Storage16 / 32 / 64 GB · microSD

04Battery

80/100

At 80/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among budget phones of 2017 — 7 points above the cohort average.

Capacity4,100 mAh

Wired10 W

05Build

66/100

66/100 puts it above the 60-point average for budget phones of 2017.

06Value

78/100

78/100 puts it above the 74-point average for budget phones of 2017.

What works

Snapdragon 625 was famously efficient.
Two-day battery life.
Metal unibody.
Fingerprint + microSD.

What doesn't

Mono speaker.
60 Hz LCD.
MIUI ads.
Slow 10 W charging.

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 6-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .