Xiaomi Redmi Y1 review, advantages, disadvantages and specifications

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 comes with a superb primary camera of 13 MP, f/2.2, phase detection autofocus, and LED flash, It offers features such as geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama, It takes amazing photos with high quality and it has Full HD video recording.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 advantages

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 comes with a video of 1080p@30fps, It has a superb secondary camera of 16 MP, f/2.0, 1080p, It takes wonderful selfies, It has a flash that enables you to take amazing photos in low light conditions.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 presents an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, with 16M colors, It has a big size of 5.5 inches, 106.7 cm2 (~91.6% screen-to-body ratio) which is very useful for playing games, watching videos, and browsing the Internet.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 contains a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels, a 16:9 ratio (~236 ppi density), It presents a multitouch feature, It has Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for screen protection, It supports MIUI 9.0, It offers a premium & impressive design.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 comes with the latest operating system of Android 7.0 (Nougat), It includes Qualcomm MSM8940 Snapdragon 435, It has Octa-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A53, It offers Adreno 505 and it comes with a superb performance without any lags.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 offers superb expandable memory via Card slot, microSD, and up to 256 GB (dedicated slot), It has a wonderful internal memory of 64 GB, It has 4 GB RAM or it offers a superb internal memory of 32 GB, It has a great 3 GB RAM that is very suitable in multitasking performance.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 offers 2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2, It has 3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100, It supports 4G bands LTE, Speed is HSPA, LTE, It offers GPRS and it has EDGE.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 was announced in November 2017, It will be released in November 2017, The body dimensions are 153 x 76.2 x 7.7 mm (6.02 x 3.00 x 0.30 in), It is slim, It is lightweight to carry, The weight is 153 g (5.40 oz) and it has Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by).

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 gives you Sound Alert types such as Vibration, MP3, and WAV ringtones, It has a loudspeaker, It contains a 3.5 mm jack, It supports superb active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic, It comes with Comms WLAN such as Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, and hotspot.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 offers Bluetooth 4.2, A2DP, and LE, It includes GPS, with A-GPS, GLONASS, and BDS, It provides you with an Infrared port, It has FM radio, It supports USB, and microUSB 2.0, It presents a rich number of superb sensors such as fingerprint (rear-mounted), ambient light sensor, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 includes messaging such as SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, and IM, It offers Browser HTML5, It gives you XviD/MP4/H.264 player, It presents MP3/WAV/eAAC+/Flac player, It has a photo/video editor, It has a document viewer and a high build quality.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 supports a non-removable Li-Ion 3080 mAh battery that lasts for a long time, Stand-by is up to 240 h (3G), Talk time is up to 32 h (3G), Music play is up to 75 h, It comes with misc colours such as Gold, Dark Grey, Silver & Rose Gold.

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 comes with lots of RAM and large memory, It supports 4G in India (Band 40), It has a powerful & stunning battery capacity, It has a larger focal aperture of f/2.0 for the selfie camera, It offers many superb connectives such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, 4G, and USB and it looks pretty neat. 

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 disadvantages

Xiaomi Redmi Y1 includes an average resolution, It has an average pixel density, It does not have NFC feature, It does not have Java, It does not have a removable battery, It does not have Barometer or Temperature sensor, It does not have fast battery charging, It does not contain water and dust resistant.