I don’t know if you are inform but Xiaomi has announced about 12 models for Redmi Note 11:
Redmi Note 11E
Redmi Note 11E Pro
Redmi Note 11
Redmi Note 11S
Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G
Redmi Note 11 Pro 4G
Redmi Note 11T 5G
Redmi Note 11 Pro+
Redmi Note 11 China
Redmi Note 11 Pro China
Redmi Note 11 4G
Maybe more? Did I miss something?!?
The bad thing about redmi note 9(cause I have it) is that it keeps getting booted own its own every few months and also the phone hangs while using the apps sometimes even after all the cache and files junk is clean..
Likewise, I’m moving to another brand.
Xiaomi 12 pro is my first and last phone, the hardware is great but the software on the other hand is fucking worse.
Let’s start a “figuring out every Xiaomi rebrand” project. Where we figure which phone has been rebranded in these 3 regions (maybe more: Global, India, China
Many of these smartphones have been launched in India as well and the latest one was Redmi Note 11 Pro 4G smartphone that comes with a powerful Mediatek Helio G96 processor. And I would not say they are losing their quality because most of these devices work really well. It could be that Xiaomi is trying to counter every competitor with 2 devices each and this is why there are many Poco and Redmi devices together with same specifications.
But the latest devices launched in India from Xiaomi are doing well enough and this is why we can say that the brand has quality as well.
These are not ‘models’, 5G requires a license to activate and it substantially raises the price of the phone
Same for which radio bands it supports; activating them requires paying a fee per phone sold/shipped. the Chinese versions only paid for the frequency bands in use inside China, which would render it nearly unusable in most of the world. Some of the other editions are Indian exclusives.
>Did I miss something?!?
Yes. No sense in putting a higher-end camera module on a chip that cannot use it. While the Qualcomms generally have better *GPU* performance for the price, Qualcomm tries to enforce market segmentation via weak peripherals–like the image processor, modem, audio, and so on. So while the 695 is a pretty good chip, it cannot handle 4k images as a hardware limitation. The Mediatek chips are value-oriented, and what chip has what features tends to vary… what doesn’t is that all of them have very good image processors.
Furthermore & finally: these very low end sub-$200 US phones were almost never made by Xiaomi; they’re customized OEM phones. Xiaomi’s service centers and MIUI becomes the appeal over other manufacturers who ship variants of the same model from the same OEM.
If you want a low end Xiaomi, it has *always* been better to find a reputable retailer or authorized reseller, set your budget, and then comparing specs and features at your price point across their lineup, rather than obsessing about a model name.
Yeah that’s what im trying to say, one phone can add 5-10 additional software that needs to be taken care of, one phone…. also there’s no point of releasing note 8 2021 edition anyway, while we have note 10 which is better (at that time)
Also with Redmi Note 8 (2021), which is ONLY changing the CPU from Snapdragon 665 on 2019 version to Helio G85. And they’re making the different versions of ROMs just to support the different thing in the (almost) same model. Xiaomi, why?
Felt the quality decline from my redmi note 5 to note 9
considering the phone cases are literally $3-9 each on aliexpress, who doesn’t order 5 phone cases once they get their phone? I spent maybe 25usd on cases for my Mi 8 and Mi 11 when I got them and always had a new case to try out every 6 months. I ended up liking Spigen for both phones though.
Exactly, Mi is more to like their flagship variant and it’s relatively easy to find which one suits you, but redmi the more budget variant is ridiculously hard because there’s so many models
Custom ROM will pretty much fix everything
Try updating FIDO, IFAA and Widevine L1 on Finger Payments on Settings then restart. It fixed the Dark Mode on my apps. I don’t know why though cause I just wanted that L1 Certificate for Netflix.
And Redmi and Mi … still happy customer for several years. But, to find exactly what you want takes some effort. Very confusing indeed.
The worst part is that they’re releasing so many phones AND the top of the line models are coming out as side grades at best. There is arguably nothing pushing anyone with a Note 10 Pro, hell a Note 9 Pro towards buying an 11 Pro 5G outside of the 5G. And that’s without putting in stuff like the Poco X3/Pro, Mi 10T Lite, Poco F3, etc which are all better overall packages. But sticking strictly to the 10 Pro, the cameras are better, the chipset is mostly the same performance wise, reviews are calling it a great phone for any new consumers but existing customers have literal no reasons to upgrade. The midrange isn’t about changing phones every year, but as as a manufacturer you should be creating incentives to make it that sort of market, not dissuading your legacy consumer base against it.
There’re NO small factor phones like those by Apple. All “Chinaphones” are humongous. Still waiting for a sub 5″ phone with a decent camera.
Still happy with it, though. Just got myself a Redmi Note 11 Pro and nothing terrible has shown up yet.
I still use my Poco F1 from 3 years ago which was probably their first and last good phone
I have always thought that except for flagship phones, Xiaomi builds a model based on the cheapest offering from the CPU manufacturer of the moment.
If for example Qualcomm has 5 million units of their 7XX range free, they offer it to Xiaomi and they build a phone around it.
I think that’s the reason for the absurdly large range they have.
We just have to focus on the devices releasing in our region. Otherwise it’ll get confusing.
Also talking about quality,
Xiaomi has improved their hardware quality, but the software quality has dropped. But in the past the opposite was true
And none of those phones bring nothing new, with the same software and hardware errors.
Yeah man, i will never buy another xiaomi until they fix their software related issues, in fact they really need a major a big overhaul with miui, like seriously 4 different miui versions (12, 12.5, 12.5 EE, 13) and most bugs/issue is still there if not it’s ngetting worse… and most of xiaomi/redmi/poco users have been complaining about their ui since miui 12 came out, how did they not realize that there’s something wrong with their software/ui…
That’s why i began to ditch xiami smartphone. The dark mode on Android 10 Version of my Redmi Note 7 even breaks parts of Discords UI while it was completely fine on Android 9. Don’t have these weird issues with Android 10 on my Realme.
>. like why would you take a one year old phone to be named alongside with the note 10 series lineup
exactly, literally not even 1 minor difference, they even use the same rom
Yeah and the update release date is also different per region, firstly china, global, europe, india, and indonesia always got last. And the timespan per region is wayyyy too long.
Global note 10 for example got miui 13 android 12 update months ago, india & indonesia hasn’t receive any update and people are complaining about it…
Yeah redmi note 8 lineup was the last time they did it right, the only thing they did was just renaming note 8 to note 8t to some country and that’s it… then note 9 series came out and we have the global note 9 series, and china note 9 4g and such which has a different model but same name, and it went downhill like ridiculously confusing since then
that redmi note 10 lite is such a dumb decision.. like why would you take a one year old phone to be named alongside with the note 10 series lineup, doesn’t make any sense
Yeah realme ui is actually good right now, same thing with vivo with their funtouch os they did improve so many things from the ugly looking ui to a better more like stock android. It’s sad seing the current state of miui
i remember when people were saying xiaomi’s naming with rebrands is confusing in 2017 look at it now lol its so got so much worse
I’m still using my Mi9 without any issues. At times poor signal but only that.
My mom experienced the same thing with her Mi9T and a lot of people with the model seems to have experienced the same thing. I used redmi note 5 pro for 4 years, have no problem until very recently (broken battery, original battery is not available so phone is pretty much dead for now). I think for the most part they have good quality products but sometimes slips bad batch.
I think you can get thoes things on local market ? Unless it’s mi 11 ultra ?
Software optimization specifically
> and boom we have 5-10 additional firmware that needs to be taken care of, from the exact same phone with a different name.
The worst part is that the different firmwares have different optimizations.
You sometimes get different camera quality or smoother/laggier performance depending on which region of the firmware you go with.
BRUH MOMENT
redmi 9/9 prime redmi 9a/9i redmi note 9, redmi note 9s redmi note 9 pro/pro max redmi note 10 lite (i consider it as 9s relaunch for no good reason) poco c3/c31
Different bands. 4G versus 5G support. “Do we still have a supply of pre-shortage chips for these specs?” Etc.
Even worse, good luck trying to find phone cases for them if you didn’t quickly buy one from China at launch.
I think that Realme is on a good way to raise its marketshare at the expense of Xiaomi. They’re getting better with every new phone and Realme UI is really good
Redmi 9c, Redmi 9T, Redmi Note 9T
Xiaomi or redmi itself has a bunch of branches in their firmware (MIUI), let’s say redmi note 11 pro with MIUI 13 there’s a lot of firmware region (global, china, india, indonesia, europe, etc) and now poco made a rebranded version of note 11 pro which is poco x4 pro, and boom we have 5-10 additional firmware that needs to be taken care of, from the exact same phone with a different name.
Poco uses the same exact miui, the only difference are just some little stuff like the about phone or bootlogo, launcher, basically anything xiaomi/redmi word related has been replaced with poco.
Back then there’s no sub brand it’s just xiaomi, and the whole lineup was just like redmi 4a, redmi 4/x/prime, note 4/4x/4 mtk, and that’s for the whole region, no china exclusive or such, and the firmware was just global and china, and we have a good software support.
Isn’t ironic that xiaomi started as a custom rom company, and miui is known for one of the best android skin back then, but right now their software/ui is filled with bugs when they started doing this rebranded stuff and since miui 12 came out for sure, and there’s again this whole thing that they removed some features due to “stability issues”, in fact they publicly apologize for the mess in miui 12, promised the fix with miui 12.5 and they failed to deliver it, same thing with 12.5 EE, and again with miui 13, mi community is filled with bug reports right now.
The business model is simple.
*”We need to have a phone with a name that appears like competitor product.”*
*Which competitor*, you ask?
The answer is “*All of them*”
Pro, pro+ series apple
S , A series samsung
T series one plus
..
4 regions, each region getting (at least) 3 devices (classic, Pro, Pro+ 5G), as was planned from the beginning. Each has different hardware (western versions have Qualcomm). With a chip shortage, it would be pretty much impossible to get the same specs for a device that will sell a million pieces during a week
Exactly, they release one model with 7 different names and even worse is that each of them get different MIUI and SW support.
It’s started getting confusing when they made a sub brand (redmi & poco), and boom we got a bunch of rebranded stuff between those two
Oh, you must be new in here 😁 Xiaomi did this for last 3 or 4 years now. So many models, like new phone released every week. It’s such a mess and their SW is getting worse and worse unfortunately
Could be different network bands
When I bought Mi11i and a few months lather they launched Mi11T, same phone with better camera at the exact same prize, I realized I got scammed.
Seems like this will be my latest Xiaomi phone; apart from bloatware I removed with ADB, I don’t really like how lockscreen works, I can’t even have a decent T9 layout for password lock. Sometimes I think to flash ROMs like pixelexperience to compensate MIUI failures.
Let’s NOT talk about the Redmi Note 9 (merlin). I’m writing this from it.
There’s literally more than 20 models of redmi note 11 across all region, not to mention the software is also different (china, global, indonesia, india, etc), that’s the reason why we have a really bad software support
I’m okay with this but what actually infuriates is that these phones would go out of stock in next 6 or 8 months, it’s like company is forcing you to buy the latest model
Wat. Why release so many variants?
hahahahahaha, damn! hahahahaha, xiaomi’s on fire with this one!