This doesn't seem SAFE - Redmi Note 11 Pro + 5G
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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1,621 words · ~8 min read
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- It is fricking going. Nine, 10. Especially when you're almost dead.
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This thing fricking goes, 11.
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What caught my eye about the Redmi Note 11 Pro Plus 5G,
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is not the Dimensity 920 Octa-Core SOC,
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or the Mali-G68 GPU, the six to eight gigs of RAM,
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or the 128 to 256 gigs of expandable,
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although that did catch my eye a little bit, storage. But, this. I mean, it's right there.
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Right, front and center. 120 Watt Xiaomi HyperCharge.
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What the actual living (beep) A 120 Watt charging? Look at the size of this power brick.
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- [David] Whoa! - Apple's all like, we don't need to send a power brick,
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Xiaomi's like, we're gonna sell you a power brick. And oh, by the way, there might be a phone in the box.
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Look at this thing. 15 minutes, they claim,
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to charge the 4,500 milliamp hour battery.
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- [David] Woo! - It's got a 108 megapixel main shooter,
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along with an eight megapixel wide, as well as a two megapixel macro camera.
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That 108 megapixel camera can operate, in a more reasonable 9:1 pixel mode.
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So that's basically combining nine pixels into one,
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and using pixel binning to improve the performance, of a, whatever that is, divided by nine.
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What's a 108 divided by nine? Help me! 90, 99.
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12, 12. So it'd be a 12 megapixel shot. It's got a flat Gorilla Glass 5 front,
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with a Gorilla Glass 5 back. They actually sent over a cup of different colors.
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We've got their black and their gre-- Oh, wow.
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That green looks way better in person,
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than it does on the box. That looks like crap on the box and it looks like the
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(beep) in person. Jono, one small challenge.
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We're gonna need a travel adapter. Xiaomi did not send us,
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a North America version of this charger.
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Wow. That is, uh, not the best thing I've ever seen.
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Do we have another one? (laughs) Okay, while Jono's finding that, let's go ahead and boot this puppy up.
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Got USB-C for charging on the bottom, as well as data transfer.
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We've got our SIM slot here, which should also include a micro SD slot.
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I hate how budget phones, are the ones that get more features these days.
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It's also got a headphone jack. How ridiculous is that? Right?
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It's even IP 53 splash resistance. So it's not like they went and were like, oh yeah,
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the expandable storage and headphone jack. We can't have any water resistance.
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It still has reasonable water resistance, even though it's not rated for submersion.
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Yeah. Look at that. SIM one. SIM two can also be a micro SD.
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It's almost like there's a whole like, system for this, that everyone else just ignores.
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Along the left we've got a whole lot of nothing, which I actually like,
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'cause it means you'll never accidentally mash a button, on the left side while you're pressing on the right.
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I already mentioned the headphone jack. Is that an IR emitter too? Oh, that looks like stereo speakers.
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Volume rocker as well as lock button. And this is gonna be a huge relief to some of you out there.
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It's not my personal favorite, but they've got a completely flat front glass.
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120 Hertz O-LED. Up to 360 Hertz touch sampling,
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that's excellent for gaming. Really well positioned speakers for gaming as well.
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So you could see they, they come right, they rise right above where your fingers would rest,
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if you were gaming on it.
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I'm really liking the speaker, so far. A little label on here. Sound by JBL.
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That partnership might be kind of paying off for them.
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All right. I've had enough of that. It sounds awesome though.
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(upbeat music) These speakers sound great.
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I am really surprised.
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HDR works immediately. It's rated for 700 nits typical, 1200 nits peak.
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Looks very HDR-ey. And one of the things I noticed also right out of the gate,
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is that it doesn't seem to be in a vivid ugly display mode,
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out of the box. I'm gonna double check that. Oh, it is vivid.
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Oh, so saturated does it all the time, and vivid does it only sometimes.
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Interesting. Yeah, it really wasn't that bad or noticeable.
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Sometimes you fire up a new phone, you're just like, oh wow.
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And you just have to change it immediately. Yeah. It's really not that bad.
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It's just a cooler color temperature.
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Huh. That's still pretty weak.
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You know what? If we start a fire, at least we've got it on camera.
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What could go wrong? - [David] What's, uh, three two-letter words, that mean small?
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- Okay, hit me. - [David] Is it in? - Is it in. Okay.
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Okay. (David laughing) It could be that this receptacle is just really loose.
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(David laughing) - [David] No! - Are you guys ready?
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The time is now 16:03 and it's at 38%.
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Quick charge. - [David] Whoa.
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- Charging rapidly. It's at 41% now. - [David] Wow.
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- [Jono] What. - Hasn't even been a minute yet. It's not warm to the touch yet.
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If it was me personally, I wouldn't use a super fast charging speed like this.
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Okay, it's been three minutes, and we've made it from, what did we start at? 38?
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- [David] Yeah. - To 51. - [David] Wow. - [Jono] Wow. (laughs)
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- I can't say this would be my preference, but if you're the kind of person,
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who just cannot manage your battery,
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I could see this working for you. And another thing to consider,
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is that part of managing your battery's health,
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is not charging it too fast. But another big part of managing your battery's health,
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is not letting it discharge too low or charge too high.
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So if you were able to stay in like a 20% to 80% range,
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all the time, by just quickly juicing it for a little bit,
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and juicing it for a little bit, juicing it for a little bit, you might actually be able to offset any disadvantage,
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of quick charging like this. Yeah, this could be a great phone, for people who travel a lot, like I've been, I've done it.
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I've been sitting in an airport going like, oh, I just made it to my gate.
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There's no power on this flight. I have like 10 minutes. And if I could juice up my phone by 50, 60, 70%,
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in that 10 minutes, it'd be unbelievable. Frankly, it's not as fast as advertised. Right?
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They said 15 minutes for a full charge, but something you've gotta keep in mind,
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is that it'll charge faster at the beginning, so it's probably already tapering off, even.
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Why don't we take a few camera shots, with our second phone here. Oh, this one's battery is dead.
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Okay. I'm actually kind of more curious about that. - [David] Yep. Switch them out.
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- Let's do it. The time is now 16:09. Okay.
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While we play around with the camera on this one then,
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let's let this one charge and let's see how far it gets. Immediately I can tell you that the color performance,
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of this camera is not amazing. I would describe this smoothing anti-shake as not amazing,
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but definitely functional.
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It works better as an anti-shake than as smoothing,
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'cause when you're moving around, it kind of doesn't really know what to do.
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But it's pretty on rails as far as anti-shake goes. I mean, that's what happens,
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when you're not using the highest performance SOC, but that's gonna be reflected in the pricing,
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and it does have other redeeming features, that's for sure. For a six gig, 128 gig expandable with headphone jack phone,
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especially with the speaker sounding this good, and like 120 Hertz display, that's damn reasonable.
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All right, the time is now 16:12. And this is, oh, it's only at 1%.
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Oh, I wonder if it took a little while, to figure out its shizz.
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Does it actually have to be powered on to use hyper charge?
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Okay. It's going-- Whoa. Holy crap.
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Hold on. Boost. - [David] Oh yeah, baby. Let's go.
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- Okay. Now it's going. Since we booted up, we went from two to five,
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like it just-- Seven. It is fricking going.
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Nine, 10. Especially when you're almost dead.
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This thing fricking goes. 11.
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Confirmed. It's really fricking fast.
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16. Thanks for wat-- 17.
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19. Bye.