Redmi Note 7 review: The 2019 budget bestseller with a 48 MP camera.
The budget phone that sold by the tens of millions.
The Redmi Note 7 made the 48 MP camera mainstream at a rock-bottom price and became a global bestseller. It is now a legacy budget device.
01Display
64/10064/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2019.
02Camera
64/100At 64/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among budget phones of 2019 — 8 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
52/10052/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2019.
04Battery
78/10078/100 puts it above the 74-point average for budget phones of 2019.
05Build
70/100At 70/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among budget phones of 2019 — 10 points above the cohort average.
06Value
86/100At 86/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among budget phones of 2019 — 21 points above the cohort average.
- A 48 MP camera at a ~$170 price was unheard of.
- Large 4,000 mAh battery.
- Gorilla Glass 5 front and glass back.
- Headphone jack and microSD.
- Snapdragon 660 is entry-level by today’s standards.
- Mono speaker; no wireless charging.
- No 5G; software ended at Android 10.
- Discontinued.
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 103-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .