As we all know that the Chinese giants are trying to take care of Indian smartphone market. As the second step of that they have launched the Redme 1s in Indian market at a low price of 5999/. The
phone achieved record selling. But the users are not happy by the phone.
The first main thing is the battery. The phone is powered by a 2000mAh battery which is very poor.
On the test we noticed that by taking some pictures with the device the battery drained 10%. By using
cellular network the battery is wiping very quickly.
The phone is heavy (159 g) while compared to its competitors, and the three touch sensitive
buttons on the bottoms are not powered by a back light. Which is very difficult find in night.
The phone got 1GB of RAM but the MIUI and other required apps uses 700MB of RAM, the user
only get approx. 200MB of RAM which is very bad. The continues use of the phone for just 10 mins.
The display is 720p resolution and it got ~312 ppi but the screen details are not very good as the
moto devices (which has lower display specs). And in our drop test from 2ft. the results was shocking.
The phones protection glass get cracked like a spider web, but the display and touch is still working.
This is because the lack of Gorilla Glass (other budget smartphone manufactures provides it).
The phone comes with a custom launcher which is the MIUI, which is like the ios interface. But this
launcher consumes half the portion of the RAM(>500MB) and like the ios this launcher does not have a home screen and it has little bit of customisations.
The other bad thing we noticed on the test is that while recording the video, some annoying sounds
(like air blowing sound) are there. This is done by the secondary mike. We don’t noticed this problem
on other phones which also have the secondary mike.
The external speakers are loud but poor audio clarity. The headphone clarity is ok but not very
good. And there is no earphone provided on the box.