Redmi 9A review: Sub-$100 essentials phone with 5000 mAh and Helio G25.
Essentials done well.
Redmi 9A sold tens of millions to first-time smartphone buyers — a $99 device that does the basics, holds two days of battery, and runs MIUI for years. The category that GSMArena indexes heavily but reviewers ignore.
01Display
58/10058/100 trails the 63-point cohort average for budget phones of 2020.
02Camera
48/10048/100 is one of the weaker camera results among budget phones of 2020 — 8 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
40/10040/100 is one of the weaker performance results among budget phones of 2020 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
78/10078/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2020.
05Build
50/10050/100 is one of the weaker build results among budget phones of 2020 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
- Sub-$100 with 5000 mAh
- Big 6.53" screen for the price
- microSD + headphone jack
- Helio G25 very slow
- 720p only
- Single cam, no fingerprint sensor on some variants
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 118-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .