ISSUE 64 • ANDROID ADVISOR 77ROUND-UPof 10 hours, 36 minutes. That’s a very good score in
this test, and in the real world it’s not going to stumble
getting you through dusk till dawn. Xiaomi claims
this is a two-day battery, but in reality that’s going to
depend on how much you use your phone.
None of the Redmi 6 models support wireless
charging, but the Mi A2 Lite is supplied with a fast
(not Quick Charge-fast) 10-watt adaptor in the box
while the Mi A2 has Quick Charge support.
Xiaomi has fitted the Redmi 6 with a MediaTek
Helio P22, and the Redmi 6 with a MediaTek A22.
This Mi A2 Lite or 6 Pro comes with a mid-range
Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, clocked at 2GHz and
integrated with 650MHz Adreno 506 graphics.
There’s 4GB of RAM, too, but 3GB of memory in the
6 and just 2GB in the 6A. (In fact, the Redmi 6A’s
core hardware really isn’t anything to get excited
about with a meagre 16GB of storage. This phone’s
64GB looks colossal by comparison.)
So we probably don’t need to tell you that it
outclasses the 6 and 6A in our benchmarks. The
others got a lot closer in GFXBench, with the Redmi
6 actually taking the lead by a few frames, but that’s
only because the Mi A2 Lite has a higher-resolution
screen and therefore more pixels to push. We’d
much rather play games and watch movies on its
larger, Full-HD+ screen.
The benchmarks also reveal higher performance
scores than those achieved by the Honor 9 Lite, which
is really the main competition. Whereas the Honor
scored 3,668 points in Geekbench 4, for example, the
Xiaomi phone stomped all over that with 4,294.