ISSUE 64 • ANDROID ADVISOR 75ROUND-UPare on screen (or not, if you opt for full-screen
gestures within MIUI 9). But it’s smaller than you see
on the Redmi 6 and 6A, and the side- and top bezels
are pleasingly slim.
Overall, it looks and feels great in the hand – not
like a flagship, but also nothing like a budget phone.Performance
We’ve already touched on the increased battery
capacity, but numbers on a spec sheet don’t mean
much when you also consider the fact this phone
has a larger, higher-resolution screen and a faster
Qualcomm processor than the 6 and 6A, which are
both fitted with MediaTek chips.
We ran Geekbench 4’s battery test, in which it
bested the Redmi 6 by a full two hours with a resultGeekbench 4