Redmi 6 review: A facial-unlock budget phone with dual rear cameras at $130.
Dual cameras and face unlock for $130.
Redmi 6 packed a dual rear camera and AI face unlock into a $130 phone, with a compact light body. The Helio P22 was modest, but the feature-per-dollar made it another huge-volume seller for Xiaomi.
01Display
58/10058/100 trails the 63-point cohort average for budget phones of 2018.
02Camera
54/10054/100 trails the 56-point cohort average for budget phones of 2018.
03Performance
48/10048/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2018.
04Battery
64/10064/100 is one of the weaker battery results among budget phones of 2018 — 7 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
58/10058/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2018.
06Value
72/100At 72/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among budget phones of 2018 — 7 points above the cohort average.
- Dual rear camera + AI face unlock at $130.
- Light 146 g compact body.
- microSD + jack + IR blaster.
- Fingerprint sensor.
- Helio P22 entry-tier.
- HD+ resolution.
- Plastic build.
- Mono speaker.
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? .