Xiaomi Redmi 9 (Redmi 9 Prime) review

The Xiaomi Redmi 9 aka Redmi 9 Prime will probably be Xiaomi's bestseller this season with a great mix of features and a temptingly low price. In our video review, we cover all important aspects - the build and screen quality, battery life, performance, and camera image quality.

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0:00 Intro
0:29 Design and build
1:16 6.53" IPS LCD
1:48 Speaker test
2:12 Battery Life with 5020mAh battery & Charging Speed
2:41 Mediatek Helio G80 performance
3:01 Android 10 & MIUI 11
3:34 Camera performance and samples
4:45 Low light camera performance and samples
5:09 Selfies
5:25 Video recording
5:50 Conclusion

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[reijavmanga]

I already have used it for 3 months, great phone, very fast, great battery, good speakers, camaras are ok but nothing great, but for the price it is absolutely a great buy.

[GarudaDefenseNews]

Good built quality, good display, good UI, good battery life, good fast charging, average camera. Good enough for daily driver.

[Anonymous-xynh]

The wide angle camera is performing surprisingly good in both photos and videos!! And there is a 5MP macro which could record 1080p video and not a namesake 2 MP macro sensor . NORD, are you listening?

[lutfi]

Super fast performant budget phone for daily used and gaming.. no lag, no frame drop and long batteries life.

[nighthood]

perfect budget phone for people who is very busy and dont care about photography, multimedia and games

[aryanagarwal]

Value for money is one of the highlights with regard to this money as well as its gaming abilities supported by the Mediatek chipset and the solid RAM.

[powerbricks_]

I just got mines yesterday I love this phone it is such a breeze

[deanab-seop]

That blue colour looks quite nice. Yeah I agree that the ultra wide lens does pretty good job, which is surprising!

[Kruzz]

I'm impressed with the Ultra wide lens performance.

[ankitgupta-tthu]

Great for the budget buyers and really low price. The Mediatek gaming processor is the best part in it.

[duckland]

Best phone as a second driver unit. It's a perfect match with Pixel 4a, one for outside use and Redmi 9 for content at home. I love it!

[dhruvbatra]

The MediaTek processor makes this quite a powerful phone

[ayaangoswami]

The camera performance in this phone has not been talked about as much but it is a pretty neat performance. This phone actually packs it all from a huge battery to a gaming Mediatek processor.

[sivalingamsenthooran]

I used Redmi9 for last 11 months. Solid built because I dropped it more than 40 times on concrete floor from my bed as I slept. Camera is not great but for 13MP picture is okay and I'm not photophobic.
I bought it for £80 during offer from Xiaomi UK website. This is my low cost mobile since 2003 but I'm happy with its features and durability.

[bennyefosa]

Love your videos!!! the Redmi 9 Prime seems like a great performer in terms of gaming & camera

[cubeofdoom]

I have this phone and I can recommend this phone despite the odds. And I don't know what's wrong with GSMArena battery test because I get 1 percent every 2 or so minutes with the charger in the box.

[brayancarter]

What's the music playing in the background?
It's an interesting phone though, but really on the low end. Excellent presentation as usual

[mydickisincrediblytinyandi]

It was posted 1m ago and it already has 1 dislike, haters got their notifications on lmao

[reyanshmadan]

Redmi 9 Prime is a good offering by the brand. It has used decent features and I specifically love the gaming support provided by Mediatek.

[nortexoid]

Pretty nice for a cheap phone. But if you don't have to ultra cheap out, then the 9S 6gb/128gb is hard to pass up and will certainly last longer.