Redmi A5 review: Sub-$80 entry phone with 120Hz and 5200 mAh.
Xiaomi at the very bottom.
Redmi A5 anchors Xiaomi's 2025 entry tier — 120Hz, a 32 MP camera, stereo speakers and a 5200 mAh battery at $75 — the kind of feature-packed budget device that keeps Redmi the global volume leader.
01Display
66/10066/100 trails the 69-point cohort average for budget phones of 2025.
02Camera
46/10046/100 is one of the weaker camera results among budget phones of 2025 — 13 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
42/10042/100 is one of the weaker performance results among budget phones of 2025 — 13 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
80/10080/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2025.
05Build
56/10056/100 is one of the weaker build results among budget phones of 2025 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
- 120Hz + 32 MP + stereo at $75
- Big 5200 mAh battery
- microSD + 3.5 mm jack
- Unisoc T7250 slow
- 720p only
- 0.08 MP filler cam
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 146-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .