Xiaomi continues to bombard the market
with great yet affordable smartphones as it officially launched the
much-anticipated Redmi 6 series in the Philippines! The company has finally raised
the curtain on its budget friendly devices, the Redmi 6A and the Redmi 6,
today, July 18.
As previously reported, the company's Redmi 6A
sports a 5.45-inch (1440 × 720 pixels) HD+ 18:9 2.5D curved glass display and a
pixel density of 295ppi. The smartphone boasts a polycarbonate back panel with a brushed metal
surface.
For its optics, the device touts a 13MP rear camera
and a 5MP selfie shooter. Both cameras are equipped with AI (artificial
intelligence) Portrait mode. However, Xiaomi ditched the
fingerprint sensor for Redmi 6A.
Despite this, the device is the first smartphone to
carry the MediaTek Helio A22 12nm quad-core SoC paired with 2GB/3GB RAM and
16/32GB internal storage that is expandable to up to 256GB via microSD. It has
a 3,000mAh battery.
The Redmi 6A also offers several connectivity
options, including 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth 4.2, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n (only 2.4GHz),
GPS/ A-GPS, and Micro-USB.
If you're looking for a much better device under
this lineup, the Redmi 6 offers a dual camera setup as well as a rear-mounted
fingerprint sensor. Just like it sibling, it adopted
a polycarbonate back panel with a brushed metal surface and retained the
5.45-inch HD+ (720x1440 pixels) display with an 18:9 aspect ratio and a 80.7 percent
screen-to-body ratio.
In terms of its camera, the Redmi 6 has dual rear
cameras composed of 12MP and 5MP with AI fetaures. Its front-facing camera
comes with 5MP, also enabled with AI to produce bokeh portrait shots. Under the hood, the device carries the octa-core
12nm MediaTek Helio P22 SoC (clocked at 2GHz), combined with 3GB RAM with 32GB
ROM or a 4GB RAM with 64GB ROM expandable up to 256GB via microSD.
Powering the device is the 3,000mAh battery inside.
For connectivity, users can enjoy 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.2, WiFi, GPS/A-GPS, a 3.5
mm headphone jack, and micro USB. The two smartphones runs on the
latest Android 8.1 Oreo with MIUI 9 and boasts a face unlock security feature.
Xiaomi decided to equip the devices with processors
from Mediatek as huge improvements of the processor company have been showing
recently. The Xiaomi Redmi 6A with 2GB RAM/16GB ROM is priced at PHP 5,290,
while the 2GB RAM/32GB ROM variant is priced at PHP 5,990 only. On the other hand, the Redmi 6
with 3GB RAM/32GB ROM is priced at PHP 7,490, while the 4GB RAM/64GB ROM
variant is priced at PHP 8,990.
