Redmi Note 4 review: The follow-up budget juggernaut with a Snapdragon 625 and two-day battery.
The efficiency-king budget seller.
Redmi Note 4 doubled down on the formula with the famously efficient Snapdragon 625 — its 14 nm chip delivered genuine two-day battery life. Another tens-of-millions seller that kept the Redmi Note line atop the budget charts.
01Display
64/10064/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2017.
02Camera
58/10058/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2017.
03Performance
58/100At 58/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among budget phones of 2017 — 7 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
80/100At 80/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among budget phones of 2017 — 11 points above the cohort average.
05Build
66/10066/100 puts it above the 60-point average for budget phones of 2017.
06Value
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among budget phones of 2017 — 13 points above the cohort average.
- Snapdragon 625 was famously efficient.
- Two-day battery life.
- Metal unibody.
- Fingerprint + microSD.
- Mono speaker.
- 60 Hz LCD.
- MIUI ads.
- Slow 10 W charging.
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 74-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .