XIAOMIRedmi Note 13 Pro 5G Smartphone 8+256GB, Midnight Black (UK Version + 2 Years Warranty)

Uncertain about the best phone to purchase for approximately £250 that is truly good?I'm delighted to say that, after over a month of using the Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro, I'm really pleased with my purchase 😊Battery life is almost two days with typical use (or at least one full day with heavy use).The stereo speakers are crystal clear/base and loud.Nice and bright outside, even in direct sunlightGood strong signal for both sims.Call quality is excellent on both hands-free and regular calls.Excellent camera quality—obviously not S24 ultra—but still quite good for a low-cost phone, especially when using the 200 megapixel option with the 6 X zoomUtilising the included 67w charger for rapid chargingultra-fast facial recognition and fingerprint scanningEasy to apply screen protectors as has a flat panel (comes with a pre installed protector)Very hard to find a phone with these specs that is actually fit for purpose these days but i can honestly say you won't be disappointed 🤗

Previous Xiaomi phones I have bought are brilliant, and this Redmi Pro 5G is no different. Battery performance is excellent, the app interface is as good as an iPhone, it’s fast, the camera is better than the one on some of my DSLRs, screen is crystal clear, and it looks great. The build quality is also great.I was told about these phones 3 years ago by a digital guy I worked with, they are a fraction of the cost of iPhones and just as good. My two teenage kids (16 & 19) each have the 11 & 13 models, and they love them.The only drawback is that because it is a Chinese phone the metadata is collected by them, so you need to be ok with that.

Good stuff: Headphone jack, under screen finger print reader, decent camera, decent sound quality, very fast charging, adaptive 60/120hz refresh rate.Some complaints: No SD card slot. Lots of apps to uninstall/disable; there's only a few that don't give me the option to do this (mostly Xiaomi apps, fair enough, but YouTube Music?). Battery life didn't seem great at first but now will only drop ~20% during the day if not used much. The interface (HyperOS) is reasonably customisable but one thing it does not allow is setting the Always On Display past 10 seconds, which is pretty dumb considering the name of the feature. However a single tap shows it again, and if a notification comes in it activates, so it is still handy to be able to glance over, or tap when necessary. I appreciate this restriction is to advocate battery life but it would be nice to be given the choice with a warning.One technical issue: when there is bold black text on a white background, there is what I would describe as bright white smearing under the text downwards. I compared this to a Samsung A52s a friend has and theirs also does this, so maybe a problem with the type of OLED panel. I think it was more noticeable on this phone though. However once in dark mode the issue is gone. Of course if you hit a web page/app with bold black on white, you will see the same thing.Phone can get warm at times (charging/downloading) but nothing to worry me; not like phones with the snapdragon 888 which get crazy hot. The charger provided can get quite hot.I read somewhere, and so I was expecting ads in the OS interface, but it seems these are limited to just some Xiaomi apps themselves (eg Themes app). If you don't use them, I've seen no ads.Overall I'm very happy with this after being disappointed with Samsung's offerings with a headphone jack, and Sony's 10 VI sound quality from the headphone jack. I'll likely be sticking to the Chinese for future phones.

Brilliant phone 5 star rating does everything my partner needs quick the screen is amazing head phone jack quality is pretty good considering you don't find them on phones nowadays I'm using a OnePlus and it's just as good can't complain at all

As good if not better than the 2 other major brands. Photo quality is great. Processing speed is faultless. Sound quality from the phone stereo speakers is really pretty good and through Bluetooth is amazing. All in all a fantastic phone. Highly recommended.

Bought this for the specs, was happy with my previous Note 11. But....This migrated a few apps, missed most and as there's no play store, it's useless.Contacts didn't come acrossBanking apps didn't come acrossVictron apps didn't come acrossAnd many many more.Despite the screen being much better, the crap to set this up means it's going straight back to Amazon.Looks like Samsung in future.

Lovely phone, and nice touch moving the fingerprint reader to the top of the phone under the glass cover.The documentation is poor and I nearly damaged the phone trying to insert the SIM card. On the Redmi Note 8 Pro the hole to pop out the SIM drawer is next to the drawer, but on the 13 Pro the hole is in the drawer itself, BUT there is also a hole also next to the SIM drawer and this is a MICROPHONE - be careful not to try to use this hole to insert SIM. Given such a change of use of hole you think there would be a big warning on SIM insertion! Great phone and love the extra storage.

Not the fastest, and the default OS UI is atrocious, and slow. The camera looks pretty bad, but the screen looks good and the battery life isn't the worst and it charges quickly, and I like that it has a 120Hz screen on such a cheap phone. The inclusion of a headphone jack is very nice, but it is very low quality and after a few months use it has issues (even after I have removed dirt from inside it).The fingerprint reader is pretty slow, very slow compared to my old phone which had a physical one on the power button. I think the GPU on this phone really lets it down, because browsing websites that have any interactive 3D on brings it to an absolute crawl.I'm not in any rush to buy another phone and I am going to use this until it breaks or gets too slow, but when it does that I will not be buying another from this brand.