Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T
SCORE
PRICE 128GB, £208 (£249 inc VAT)
from mi.com/uk
As Harold Macmillan almost said, you’ve never had it so cheap. He was, of course, referring to 5G handsets, with the 64GB version of the Redmi Note 9T costing a mere £229 and its 128GB sibling £249. That undercuts the Moto G 5G Plus (see issue 312, p68) by £50 and the 5G variant of the Realme 7 (pcpro.link/318real) by £30.
It’s no coincidence that this is the first phone we’ve reviewed to include one of MediaTek’s 5G-integrated “Dimensity”) is built using a 7nm fabrication process and includes four cores that run at a speedy 2.4GHz – and it’s fast. Results of 596 and 1,729 in Geekbench 5 aren’t going to trouble the Samsung Galaxy S21 (see p68), but those scores are faster than the 552 and 1,591 of the Google Pixel 4a (see issue 313, p60) and a match for the more expensive Moto G 5G Plus.
