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The Redmi phones – not Redmi Note, not Redmi K, just the base series – is the baseline for Xiaomi phones, a distillation of the most important features wrapped up in an affordable package. By their affordable nature, they move slightly behind the times, but the Redmi 9 is still a major upgrade over what came before it. For starters, the screen now has 1080p+ resolution, no more slumming it with 720p+. Also, the diagonal was adjusted to 6.53” (up from 6.22”) to make better use of the higher pixel count. Powerful chipsets have proven their ability to draw in potential buyers, so the Redmi ditches the entry-level Snapdragon in favor of a MediaTek Helio G80 . The G-series is gaming-oriented and while the Mali-G52 MC2 is hardly a beast, it still has more than twice the computing power of the old Adreno 505. The CPU has two Cortex-A75 cores, which deliver a significant boost in single-core performance (the small A55 cores got a speed boost too). Note: real world performance gains w...

The Redmi phones – not Redmi Note, not Redmi K, just the base series – is the baseline for Xiaomi phones, a distillation of the most important features wrapped up in an affordable package. By their affordable nature, they move slightly behind the times, but the Redmi 9 is still a major upgrade over what came before it. For starters, the screen now has 1080p+ resolution, no more slumming it with 720p+. Also, the diagonal was adjusted to 6.53” (up from 6.22”) to make better use of the higher pixel count. Powerful chipsets have proven their ability to draw in potential buyers, so the Redmi ditches the entry-level Snapdragon in favor of a MediaTek Helio G80 . The G-series is gaming-oriented and while the Mali-G52 MC2 is hardly a beast, it still has more than twice the computing power of the old Adreno 505. The CPU has two Cortex-A75 cores, which deliver a significant boost in single-core performance (the small A55 cores got a speed boost too). Note: real world performance gains w...