today I’m going to compare these two smartphones – Xiaomi Redmi 4 and Xiaomi Redmi 4 Pro (Prime).
Here is what is in the box:
As you can see at first looke they’re absolutely identical.
If you look closer to you will see little difference.
But let’s first start with the hardware.
technical specification:
Redmi 4 |
Redmi 4 Pro (Prime) |
Display: 5.0 inch, HD screen, 296PPI CPU: Snapdragon 430 Octa Core Max 1.4GHz System: MIUI 8 RAM + ROM: 2GB RAM + 16GB ROM Camera: 13.0MP rear camera + 5.0MP front camera Sensor: Gravity Sensor, Gyroscope, Infrared sensors SIM Card: dual SIM dual standby, Nano SIM / Micro SIM / Micro SD card Feature: GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, Beidou Bluetooth: 4.1, Bluetooth HID Network: GSM B2/B3/B5/B8 WCDMA B1/B2/B5/B8 TD-SCDMA B34/B39 CDMA2000/1X BC0 FDD-LTE B1/B3/B7 TD-LTE B38/B39/B40/B41(2555-2655MHz) |
Display: 5.0 inch, FHD screen, 441PPI CPU: Snapdragon 625 Octa Core Max 2.0GHz System: MIUI 8 RAM + ROM: 3GB RAM + 32GB ROM Camera: 13.0MP rear camera + 5.0MP front camera Sensor: Gravity Sensor, Gyroscope, Infrared sensors SIM Card: dual SIM dual standby, Nano SIM / Micro SIM / Micro SD card Feature: GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, Beidou Bluetooth: 4.2, Bluetooth HID Network: GSM B2/B3/B5/B8 WCDMA B1/B2/B5/B8 TD-SCDMA B34/B39 CDMA2000/1X BC0 FDD-LTE B1/B3/B7 TD-LTE B38/B39/B40/B41(2555-2655MHz) |
The Redmi 4 has CPU Snapdragon 430 with s 2 gigs of RAM and 16 gigs ROM.
The other one – Redmi 4 Pro has CPU snapdragon 625 with 3 gigs of RAM and 32 of internal storage.
The both phones are in nice soft golden in color.
The displays are 2.5 and there are bezel-less. They look very nice, very sophisticated, fashion and modern.
Now let’s make closer look at the physical differences.
So let’s start from the back.
On the Redmi 4 LED flash is on the right next camera. It is monochrome color dual LED.
On Redmi 4 Pro the flashlight is on the left side nect to camera and it’s dual color LED.
If you look more carefully you will see that the top and the bottom antenna dividers different.
Let’s now see the sides. There look identical as the bottom where are the microphone and the speaker.
The top the side has differents. As you can see the place of the additional microphone is switched.
Also the 3.5mm headphone’s plug is moved a bit.
So enough about design differences
Let see the performance.
The first thing that I noticed after boot on the Redmi 4 is that th fingerprint can wake up the screen when you touch it.
Also it can shoot images from the selfie camera. It’s really great feature so I thought that the Redmi 4 Pro will has it too.
But for my surprise it doesn’t has this feature. Which is strange because this phone is more expensive.
Anyway let’s run some tests on both phones.
Also you can watch my video.
And here is the results:
Also you can see my video running Antutu test here:
Antutu Redmi 4: vs Redmi 4 Pro (Prime)
You can watch whole Antutu test in Youtube here:
Geekbench 4 Redmi 4: vs Redmi 4 Pro (Pro) Pro
As you can from the tests there is big difference between both phones.
Only the boot/reboot of Mi5 Pro is much slower.
But seriously, who will reboot these beasts often?
Lets now check the cameras performance.
Check the images I made (Click on the pics for full image).
Xiaomi Redmi 4 Pro (Prime) vsRedmi 4full light
Xiaomi Redmi 4 Pro (Prime) vsRedmi 4half light
Xiaomi Redmi 4 Pro (Prime) vsRedmi 4 flash light
Xiaomi Redmi 4 Pro (Prime) vsRedmi 4 low light
Xiaomi Redmi 4 Pro (Prime) vsRedmi 4 Outside
As you can see from the samples the cameras are identical
The video quality was good enough in good light conditions and noisy in low light.
Now is the time for audio tests.
I played different types of music trough air-speaker and with headphones on both phones and they perform good (for the price).
You can buy
Xiaomi Redmi 4 2GB/16GB HERE
or
Xiaomi Redmi Pro (Prime) 3GB/32GB HERE