Redmi Note 5 review: The 2018 budget bestseller with a tall display and big battery.
A 2018 budget legend.
Redmi Note 5 (Pro) paired a tall 18:9 display, the snappy SD636 and a 4,000 mAh battery at $185 — one of the best-selling budget phones of 2018, especially in India.
01Display
58/10058/100 trails the 63-point cohort average for budget phones of 2018.
02Camera
56/10056/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2018.
03Performance
50/10050/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2018.
04Battery
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among budget phones of 2018 — 7 points above the cohort average.
05Build
64/10064/100 puts it above the 60-point average for budget phones of 2018.
06Value
74/100At 74/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among budget phones of 2018 — 9 points above the cohort average.
- Tall 18:9 display + 4,000 mAh.
- SD636 was fast for budget.
- Jack + microSD + IR.
- Metal build.
- 1080p LCD.
- 10 W charging.
- Mono speaker.
- Support ended.
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 84-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .