Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Redmi Note 7 Could Be Smartphone Value Champion”.
What do you got today? Willie do show me they announced a hundred and fifty dollar redmi note 7, with a 48 megapixel camera. Okay. So recently we did a video about some upcoming Samsung devices targeting this part of the market. This sub $ 200 price point. They were calling their series Galaxy M, but setting right in their crosshairs the redmi brand from xiaomi.
So i think it’s probably not a coincidence that we end up hearing about this shortly after that news came out now. This looks equally compelling to go up against those Galaxy em products and it kind of fits the narrative of what we’ve been talking about regarding this innovation and unusual specifications and features popping up in devices that are nowhere near flagship level. For example, a 48 megapixel camera on a hundred and fifty dollar phone, and we talked about it before where these smartphone manufacturers are willing to experiment with different types of features. They can take bigger risks at that end of the market.
Now, there’s something interesting about this 48 megapixel sensor, because I know a lot of people watching this or sitting there. Thinking. Look, it’s not all about pixels all right. You can have a camera with tons of megapixels and have a terrible image come out of it, but the way that this sensor is going to be implemented into the camera from what I understand is that it will be capable of taking super-high resolution 48.
Megapixel pictures in good lighting conditions, but then you can actually pair the pixels together. So you get a bigger pixel for shooting in low-light, so you get greater sensitivity and it’ll just knock back. The megapixel count a little bit for a low-light style mode. So there’s the rest of the specs now keep in mind.
150 dollars is the starting price. There will be some different versions, just like there was for the Galaxy M stuff, em, 10 M 20, and so on the note 7 here it says a 6.3 inch display with a 1080 P screen, snapdragon 616, so mid-range snapdragon, nothing wrong with that at 150 bucks. The selfie camera will be 13 megapixels of 4,000 milliamp hour battery will be in there. That’S one of the best things happening at this end of the marketplace where everyone’s clamoring, at the top end on the thousand-dollar phones for batteries like this for four thousand milliamp hours.
It turns out the better selection of big battery. Phones is actually at the bottom of the marketplace. It seems insane, it seems surprising. It seems unusual.
It seems weird you pair a 4000 milliamp hour battery with a Snapdragon 660. Then you’ve got a phone, that’s gon na last for a very long time. Now, if you remember in the Samsung announcement, it was sort of more of a rumor. We didn’t find out in the article that we were citing or any that we could find at the time what the processor was going to be in that Samsung device.
So it’s tough to stack them up head-to-head at this point. We know what a snapdragon 616. We know it’s a great choice, but we don’t know what Samsung is going to use in their devices to compete directly with this one also Xiaomi, we know, has operated really well in this marketplace. This low-end mid to low ed marketplace. 150 $ 200 price point.
So we know they can deliver value at that price point, whereas Samsung is a bit more untested in this space, at least with their new brand. The Galaxy M. Ok! So here we go the starting price. Around 150 bucks will be a three gigabyte model with 32 gigs of storage that goes up to 200 for 6 gigs by 64. Gigs of storage. I want to mention it has a headphone jack. It has a headphone jack.
It’S sticking around. I think I have phone jacks actually important, especially at this end of the market, place. If you think about like a hundred and fifty dollar phone, you have a lot of Bluetooth headphones that are 150 bucks or a hundred bucks or 50 bucks right. The ratio there.
The difference between the cost of the device itself and the headphones are gon na pair with it. I mean it seems kind of crazy that if your headphones cost as much as your phone so having a headphone jack for the target audience that’s going to be in the market for this phone, I think, is a big deal. It has to be. There now does say here at the bottom: this device will actually be available in China first, but or it makes its way to India and the other regions that Xiaomi would normally sell the red meat brand.
So we’re gon na have to keep an eye out for it. Maybe we’ll get our hands on it, but it’s exciting stuff. Well, we continue to be amazed at what’s happening at this end of the market and what it’s doing the kind of disruption it’s applying to. The entire market to the brands like Samsung and Apple we’ve, seen Samsung’s play we’re waiting to see what Apple is going to do about this.
But it’s obvious: there’s a giant market at this price point and it’s becoming increasingly important, especially for the low-end. I mean you have like the honor of u-20, the huawei Nova for the view 20 is in the mix. So it’s a little pricier but you’re right.
The view 20 with the pinhole display you’re seeing a lot of experimentation at this end, and that’s why it’s important for us to talk about it to give it some coverage, even though it might not necessarily be on the radar for some of our viewers. North American viewers, and so on, it’s actually become the place where we’re seeing the most interesting stuff happen in the smartphone space so $ 150. Redmi. Note: 7. 6.3.
1080P screen 3 gigabytes of RAM 4,000 milliamp battery. Do you think this is a worthy competitor? Don’T forget to 48 megapixel camera? Oh, yes, I I don’t know it’s really hard to criticize any device at this price point like a hundred and fifty dollars not too long ago, would get you nothing or get you some kind of long contract and you’d be paying something off over a period of Time, I’m still so amazed at what they’re able to deliver at these price points in general. I would find it hard to imagine that this could be a bad buy with that spec list. I think we’re seeing some great competition happen here.
I think this is going to be something worth checking out and evaluating just like the galaxy M stuff, and maybe we can ask people in the comments now, if you were forced to choose between this upcoming redmi note 7 or the rumored galaxy M devices we covered In the previous episode, which one would you pick and why .