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665 octa-core processor and a 4,000mAh cell
for two-day battery life. The 6.3in 19.5:9 Full-HD
display uses a Dot Drop (waterdrop) notch to house
a 13Mp selfie camera, but the real star is the 48Mp
camera at the rear – one of four lens that make up
the Note 8T’s primary camera. Aside from this 48Mp
lens, which is able to use pixel-binning to combine
four pixels into one and create much better quality
12Mp images, the Note 8T has 8Mp ultra-wide,
2Mp Macro and 2Mp depth sensors.
Design
Our first impression of Redmi Note 8T out of the
box was that it is somewhat bulky, heavy at 199g and
rather chunky for today’s standards at 8.6mm thick.
That’s not to say it is inelegant, with its rounded
sides and curved glass at the rear allowing it to fit
right in with more premium models.
This is Gorilla Glass 5, which is commendable
in a budget phone, and should help protect it from
accidental damage. That’s a very good thing, since
the materials used here can make the Note 8T
rather slippery in the hand.
The quad-lens camera protrudes from the phone’s
body, located on the back just above a fingerprint
sensor that is – in more expensive models –
nowadays often built right into the screen.
While none of Xiaomi’s line-up is fully waterproof,
in the Redmi Note 8T it has applied a splash-resistant
coating. Another intriguing new feature in this model
is the self-cleaning speaker and AUX input, able to
expel dust and debris through vibration.
