2018 has been a great year for smartphones especially for budget
smartphones but it's easy to get lost among this crowd and Infinix is one of
those brands where they have made a lot of phones but they've gotten lost among
the xiaomi x' and the honors I think that's about to change right now because
here is the Infinix Note 5 a phone with gorgeous looks Android one branding and
a price tag that doesn't justify how good this is
it was Sreehari from mr. phone and this is our full review of the Infinix Note 5
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that we put out the Infinix Note 5 actually impressed me with the design a
lot and it is probably one of the first Infinix phones where I have more than
two lines to talk about the design of the phone the back looks so gorgeous I
mean it's not glass but it's only looks like one and it looked so good that we
had to confirm with the team if it was actually glass or plastic with a glass
finish and this is a plastic with glass finish but it actually looks good
quality and gives it a premium feel although even in this limited amount of
use the back has gotten some scratches but you do get a case inside so you
don't really have to worry much about that the frames are made of plastic and
it's quite sturdy the plastic does try to deceive you with the matte look but
there's no getting away although I think the quality of the plastic isn't really
anything that bothered me and I'm pretty happy with the way it felt the buttons
also feel clicky and sturdy as of now I haven't had any problems there to the
one tiny design decision I don't like at all is the fact that the frame and the
back haven't been seamlessly fused it almost feels like the back has been
sucked into the frame what this does is it leaves a very sharp edge and all
around the frame you can feel that sharp edge and it's especially noticeable when
you are trying to juggle such a large phone with one hand the weight
distribution feels on point to the glossy finish gives me a very grippy
feeling and I'm I have really not had much problems with the ergonomics the
camera module is slightly raised but I'm sure the glass on it will make sure that
there are less scratches on it the bottom has a microUSB port and while a
lot of consumers might be like we want us PC well it's not easy
to suddenly ship to another standard it's not just a simple code there are
manufacturing method and entire testing methods that go behind this so it's
difficult to change the standard but at this price I am more happy that I got a
micro USB cable with fast chatting and that is what we get here you get an 18
watt charger we talk more about that in the battery section but yes you do get a
good port and good charging there is also headphone jack and a speaker grille
on either sides of the micro USB port both of them are pretty standard
there was no distortion at higher volumes and I was pretty happy that even
at this price you're getting quality components inside a phone the note 5 has
a 5.9 9 inch display with a full HD plus resolution at 500 nits brightness I mean
how well has the pricing come down we are getting to see quality good products
and good parts at such low and affordable prices
the Infinix implements a very good LCD display and I am really happy to see
such a good quality display on a phone that costs only this much the colours
are good-looking it isn't by any means a desaturated
display the colors would look very vibrant most phones in this price range
while had good looking displace they mostly all of them had ugly color shifts
that even a general consumer would have noticed the Infinix Note 5 does not have
that so good quality display all through its also clearly visible in bright
daylight I never had to peep through or keep my hand as a shadow to see anything
on the screen so I think you get a pretty good screen here and you also
have the option to hide the knotch forever because it doesn't have an arch
and I'm very glad to see that here it just looks cleaner and more premium than
a lot of ugly notched phones this is an LCD display so there isn't any worrying
about bernal's I don't think anyone should have any complaints with this
display on the contrary this could be one of the best features of Infinix Note
5 now coming to the software the Infinix Note 5 comes with Android 1 branding
Android 1 is a program that even know cares wasn't all of their phones into
and you get clean stock Android and you get promised software updates for the
next two years so I mean Android one is a great initiative from Infinix and I'm
sure this makes it one of the best phones to buy at this price and
especially at this price it's very difficult to get the most powerful
processor and when you put colorful looking custom way in roms it just bogs
the whole performance down this is where pure stock Android thrives it is the
lightest Android it's impossible and with the Android one branding you get
the short software updates as I said earlier talking about stock Android you
have all the standard stuff there are still two or three pre-installed Infinix
apps but they look quite promising my favorite one here is the Cal Care app
here you can look up service centers you can make repair appointments or even
look up prices of spare parts there is also a feature where if you've given
your phone to repair you can scan the bill that has been given to you and
you'll get to know what the repair status is and when your phone will
finally be repaired and returns back to you so I mean a lot of good features
some of these service features that I've never seen any other brand take it there
seriously so it's really cool that you have only two or three apps and even
they are very useful the rest is pretty standard you get the same Quick Settings
panel no extra settings or anything everything is just your stock Android on
the left of the home screen you do get a seamless integration of Google now page
for you to keep updated with the world it also comes with Google ends
integration in the camera we will talk about it in the next section and the
settings also has a lot of standard tabs under this plane you also have an option
to turn on or off the notification LED lights so a lot of control good features
not too many features which may affect the performance of the phone it's just a
clean stock Android experience and I think probably the smoothest experience
that you can find in this price range now coming to performance before we go
to the camera let's go to the performance once inside the Infinix Note
Phi you get a Helio p23 chipset which is an octa-core chipset within which you
get three or four GB of RAM on 32 and 64gb of storage respectively now these
are on paper specs of this phone and I want to get that out of the way because
I'll be doing injustice to the experience this phone provides if I talk
only about the specs and judge the phone on the basis of those specs because the
experience on this has been very slow it's quite snappy and I have not
experienced lag more than once or twice it's a very clean experience and I'm
happy with how this product performs every day uses a breeze every app opens
up quite quickly I'm coming from reviewing the honor play with the kitten
970 I use the 1 + 5 t with the Snapdragon 835 as my secondary phone and
using the Infinix Note 5 I never felt like I was using a slow phone and that's
the biggest compliment I can give this for
the analyst code for the people who want to know for the Infinix notes I was
around any 1000 although I'm not a big believer of scores now talking about
gaming it's good obviously not meant to play very heavy games but even they are
playable at lower settings I mean I'm not a big gamer so I enjoyed my time
with it and honestly speaking if you are a heavy heavy gamer then this probably
is not the device but if you are anything lower than that then this
shouldn't create a problem for you and should be perfectly enough for playing
light games or even medium games on it finally coming to the cameras the
Infinix Note 5 has a single camera on the back and the front the back has a 12
megapixel camera with a 16 megapixel camera at the front now the pictures
look quite good they'd come out with good colors in broad daylight and
details are also not bad looking at some daylight close-up pictures I
deliberately chose difficult colors for the camera and the Infinix did not
disappoint yes there isn't much detail but it still was able to separate the
petal borders even in this vibrant red color let me put it out that this is not
comparable to a me a2 or even a Nokia 6.1 Plus when it comes to cameras but so
the price crazy good I think here are more pictures and I'm sure that
you can see how good it looks here is an on HDR shot and here is an
HDR shot so here also it has done a very good job although the one thing I
noticed is the inconsistency so some shots would go bizarre on exposure and
then the next ones would be perfect so this is something you need to keep in
mind it's mostly a good camera and even the portrait mode doesn't look bad there
are inconsistencies but overall the image looks good moving towards self is
the performance is a mixed of that the dynamic range is completely off when the
subject actually doesn't look that bad so if you're not against bright sunlight
it should look good plus the subjects are very well focused there is slide
over sharpening but I mean selfies don't look bad and when you look at that price
they look even better here is a video clip this is probably one of the worst
parts of the camera it's not that good a lot of focus on doing a lot of exposure
problems that are going on the sound is also not very good and as you can see
this is the video quality please let me know what you think I'll obviously put
it on the see what I think but let me know what
you think of the audio quality and the video quality and how well it is able to
stabilize that video so basically this is not the best part of that phone but
yes you do get the option to shoot video you also are capped at 1080p at 30fps
from the Infinix Note 5 but yeah video is not that good pictures actually not
bad when you get it right coming to the camera application it's
not from Google and it's still the Infinix app but I think it's good
because you get a whole lot of features the whole UI is quite intuitive and well
design on top you have targets for HDR flash and even by 9 aspect ratio option
and the filters settings lets you play with grids a leveler which actually
tells you the correct orientation you also have google lens integrated
into the camera which is so cool yesterday i had to scan a QR code and
for that for any other phone i would have to download a QR scanner or look
for a scanned of inside it for this phone I opened up the camera I fired
google lens and here I was reading the QR scanner this is one of the cool
features that is very undermined right now but I think it's gonna be big and
I'm really glad the Infinix Note 5 has that well integrated very seamlessly
integrated in the camera app even and you can turn that off so a lot of
features and a lot of control you also have a lot of modes like this bouquet
mode beauty mode panorama and a pro mode so the pro mode lets you manually change
exposure shutter speed ISO white balance focus and also the metering so spot
metering Center evade or matrix so you can change all of these things and if
you are someone who knows how to handle a manual camera then you have that
option too basically coming to the camera I did not expect the camera to be
so good it's still not comparable to phones that are priced a little higher
but it's still in this price range a very good camera and let us know if you
want to see a camera comparison of this and now the battery isn't great it's
awesome that's how good it is I mean the battery life on this is crazy good you
get a 4500 mAh battery inside and the phone isn't that sick too you can see
it's not really that thick a phone and you know what the screen on time is go
around this was 7 freaking arse on a phone on an Android phone and and I'm
speaking at this high tone because I want you people to
how good the battery life on this is and how well it has embraced me even the
standby time on this during the seven hours of screen on time was three days
so I usually charge this phone only once in two days and I get very good screen
on times it also comes with an 18 watt charger which is a fast charger by the
way so at 10,000 rupees there is probably no other phone that gives you a
faster they tell me if I'm wrong in the comments but I think this is the only
phone that gives you a fast charger at this price so the charging speeds were
also not bad I actually got from 0 to 56% in around 1 R so it's for a 4500 mAh
battery that's a really good speed so you get fast charging you get a very
long battery life so I think at this price with that great beautiful 18 by 9
aspect ratio display this is one of the best multimedia devices also that again
buy at this price now coming finally to the conclusion should you really buy the
Infinix Note 5 well to answer that let's look at who's the biggest competitor I
think the biggest competitors are the redmi note 5 and the redmi by 2 now
looking at other phones maybe the redmi Y 2 has a better camera
maybe the redmi note 5 is completely built out of metal but coming to all the
other things this has one of the best battery life so you can't beat that
battery life even going to a higher price it has a good camera you get
Android 1 software inside this phone you get a gorgeous 18 by 9 aspect ratio full
HD + display it's a great package even coming to the chipset the helio p23 is
actually quite powerful even more powerful in most cases compared to the
snapdragon 625 and not when it comes to the GPU the GP of the 625 is more
powerful than the mali d 71 but the Helio P 23 is much more powerful at this
price so I think it's a very good value for money package at this price and if I
personally had to recommend a phone to anyone at this price I think I would
recommend that the Infinix Note 5 so with that we come to an end of this full
review let us know if there are any feedbacks any comparisons that you want
to see of this phone in the comment section below I guess that's it for this
one thank you so much for watching this is Sreehari with the Infinix Note 5
and I'll catch you in the next one
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