Xiaomi Redmi S2 _ Y2 Unboxing & Hands-On Review (English)

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enYes another Xiaomi phone for the channelhere and this one is yet again a notherSnapdragon 625 powered mobile fromXiaomi so they seem to have a hugesurplus of that chipset that and microUSB 2 ports because this has a gainmicro USB 2 so this is an entry-levelphone from them with not a full HDresolution so it's still that two by oneaspect ratio but this one is 1440 by 720so I don't even know what that's goingto look like stretched out at five pointnine nine inches now this mobile here isthe global version is well I've got afactory sealed box here from gearbest soit's going to cover your LTE band 20 andall the popular bands in Europe sothat's one good thing here now it's gota 16 megapixel front-facing selfie camwith an LED light 12 megapixel camera onthe rear with an auxilary 5 megapixelsensor so a little bit similar to theredmi note 5 now so that's going tocreate of course let's get the fixedwith the dual cameras there so you canget the blue background and things likethat so what does this have on offerit's also got dual SIM support micro SDcard support 3.5 mm and a headphone jackbut only at 3080 milliamp hour batteriesso that's a bit of a con man sand asslearn what looks to be like a union bodybuild so let's check this one outalright so there we have the phone thereand first impressions feels rather lightyou can see again it's just mentioningthose specs there and okay the camerabump that doesn't look as bad as the me6x was that one Purdue 2 by 2millimeters this one doesn't look to betoo bad okay so we'll just have a lookand see what else we get in here itlooks like we've got a case yes we do soit's one of those TPU style once clearcase see there so nothing flash but itis going to protect the buttons at leastcutouts for everything there and righthere you can see we just have this is touse a guide it's good to note there toothat it will take to nanoSims and you can still place yourmicroSD card in this you don't have togive up one of those cents for the SDcard so a white and gray micro USB cablehere and then the charger and EU one andthis is nothing flash so this will nothave any quick charging I will test andsee if the phone is going to support itso this is only rated to 5 volts 2 ampsand almost lifted out there is a simtool in the box - just behind the cableso when we have a look at the back itdoes feel a lot cheaper than say theirredmi note 5 or even the redmi note 4because it's backing that's made out ofplastic so it's a painted plastic and Imentioned that it be quite easy toscratch all damage and the fingerprintreader hopefully that's the samehardware that they've used in the otherreadme phones and the camera moduleyou'll notice that inside there we'veonly got a single LED flash so it's notdual tone here the top sense is 5megapixels the one below is 12megapixels and it has an F 2.2 aperturenow the buttons on the right hand sidethey have a good feeling to them but itfeels like they could actually just bepainted plastic so I don't think theyare metal so so far a much cheaper buildthan the Rema note 5 so you can seethose unusual antenna strips those linesthat they've got here so it just feelslike a little bit of a cut in theplastic where they haven't actuallypainted that that's obviously to helpboost the reception so long here 3.5million headphone jack then we got an IRtransmitter good to have this on abudget phone and then a secondarymicrophone and here's that SIM tray so 2nano Sims micro SD and the frame aroundthe outside of it it is made out ofmetal so that is good hopefully it won'tbreak then so easily like those plasticones would so down the bottom we havesome more antenna lines you can see youthere we've got a microphone loudspeakerand of course micro USB port on here nowthis should be at type C port we are in2018 I don't care if it's a hundred andfifty dollar budget phone because otherbudget phones in this price range a lotof them now are using type C and soshould show me so check the weight of itso it comes in at 172 grams a littleheavier than I thought it would beit's checkout might read me note 5 andyou see that one is a hundred andeighty-three grams okay so it is 8.3millimeters thick that's without thecamera bump there so that bump brings itup to nine point four so it's not theslimmest phone considering it's only goto three thousand and eighty minute ourbattery in here so I'll just get thatprotector off the screen that's only fortransit of course so next to my redminote 5 you can see a big difference withthe screen even with the panel off ithas a bit of a gray look to it so Idon't even know whether that's actuallygoing to be fully laminated hopefully itis but the main key difference here isthe glass so it's not 2.5 d which ispretty common now literally every singledevice will have that so it's justfinished off with a straight edge andthen has a plastic border around theoutside so it's definitely not as nicebecause we've got the 2.5 D glass ofcourse on the rim you know 5 and thatjust looks a lot better here overall thebuild quality is far superior of courseon the rim Note 5 what the mostly metalbuild to it so this is all plastic andglass and then we've got the middlearound here in fact the only metalthat's on that readme s2 is just theborder around that lens of the cameramodule that's it so it is just poweringon now for the first time so me ua9 ison here and here are all the languagesyou get so you can see we're pretty muchgot every single language that is onAndroid which is great so just gonethrough the typical setup added myGoogle account and now I can of courseadd my fingerprint here so just going todo that very quickly and it's 10 timeshere and looks to be just exactly thesame as other redmi devices thatfingerprint reader so that should workperfectly fine so here we are in the romI'll just quickly show you the stockapps we're going to have on here sothey've even got some Microsoftbloatware on there now there's been aglobal version of course we do have thePlay Store that's there that's workingperfectly fine and a lot of google appson here so a few bloatware apps andthings that obviously most of them weshould be able to uninstall some of thestuff if you don't want itso this Microsoft's crap on there thatyou probably ought to get rid of thisyeah you can uninstall most of that soat least that's a one positive debt sothat screen as I mentioned there's noway near as good as the redmi note 5sbasic like a 1080p screen almost ofcourse it's that two by one aspect ratioand it just looks so much better and youget slightly smaller bezels too on thisone the bezels are a bit larger younotice along the bottom now we've gotthe on-screen keys here which I don'tparticularly like I mean they've gotroom here to have capacitive touchbuttons here so you can have your homeback and Menu keyI would have preferred the for them todo that but of course the heavens donethat here maybe it's just cost savingand that's the reason for that so we'llcheck out the version we've got on hereI've gone straight past it just in aboutphone ok so we're running Android 8.1which is great so it's a more recentversion which is what we want and I'llcheck for any patches if they're comingout so it's me UI 9.5 stable and we'llcheck out the camera sensor informationso here's the camera information you cansee so the back main sensor is a SonyIMX 4 8 6 it also mentions nd there forsome reason and the axillary sensor thatis a Samsung and the front 16 megapixelis also a another Samsung sensor thereand you can see that the keyboard it'susing is the G board so Google'skeyboard and not charmese own keyboardhere which you often get at least withthe Chinese roms that I'm moreaccustomed to so because it is runningmui 9.5 then we do have this right herewhich is full screen display so if youdon't like the on screen navigationbuttons then simply use the full screengestures this is what i have been usingon my show me me macstew is what i'vebeen using on the redmi note 5 and eventhe 6 x I'm quite used to it now andit's very very easy to get used to soyou just swipe up that takes you homeand if you swipe up and hold that getsyou to your recent apps and then fromthe sides that's if you swipe from theside then then you go back but of courseyou don't do it from the recent appsscreen because then it won't actuallywork properly so if I load up Chrome andthen just swipe from the side there youcan see that is to go back it also worksfrom the other side tooso you can use either side so here youcan see FM radio it's hardware FM radioof course which is good to have on herejust need a plug in a headset and thisis something that not even the me 6xI've recently reviewed has so here isthe read me s twos and to to scorealmost eighty thousand that is actuallyreally quite good for a Snapdragon 625device and you can see there is evenbittering my me max - for some reasonthe Memex - has a much lower CPU scorehere and the RAM score for some reasonotherwise the GPU and the UI are prettymuch the same and if you compare that ofcourse to the snapdragon 616 me note 5this one is a lot faster here so that'sanother reason why you should probablygo for the redmi note 5 so you're justhaving a quick look now at the sensorshere so this is cpu-z we see we've gotan examiner ometer on here a gyroscopewhich is something you don't normallysee on these phones especially priced inthis category now the reason why they'vegot it here it's to aid the electronicimage stabilization as you'll see lateron for video which was really good tohave on here and we also have just acouple of other sensors on here so thetypical ones you get a gravity sensor onthere you accelerometer and of coursethe ambient light sensor treble check isnot looking good here you can see therethe seamless update support unsupportedwith a big red cross right there nowrecently a lot of you have also askedfor this information right here if Icould please add it to my video so hereyou go this is the DRM info so you cansee it's got Y divine level 3 supportthere GPS is looking good no realcomplaints here it does see a lot ofsatellites but it only seems to lock onto about 60% of them but at least theaccuracy is good hovering around 3meters it also does have a hardwarecompass on board so I've only got asingle nail speaker down the bottomthat's to be expected for this pricerange and it's the grille on the rightday out of your sample of it nowso the speaker doesn't sound too badthere's a tiny little bit of bass that'snot quite as loud as their Ruby note 5speaker however so the fingerprintreaders just like all the other readmedevices that it's always on and I don'tmind the location or but I think it'sfine and when you place your finger onthere it unlocks very quick so it onlyliterally takes about half a second ifnot a lot less than that to unlock so noissues with that fingerprint reader sochrome performance seems fine and thatas the couple of little starters it'snot SuperDuper smooth but overall goodyou see just what happened then there'sa little bit of an animation stutterhere and there that you're going to seeI don't think that's a fault of thechipset I think the ROM just needs alittle bit of optimization so let's takea closer look at this display so it isbasic like a 720p panel but of courseit's 1440 by 720p so the 2 by 1 aspectratio viewing angles well they're not sogreat you notice a lot of dimming at theside there but it's not too bad it'sstiffly usable of course and somereal-world images too it's not bad it'sstill an IPS panel the thing is it justdoesn't look as good as the 2160 by1440p display on say the redmi note 5 orthe me 6x so the front-facing camera iswhere shall we stick things up a bithere with this model especially for theprice range of this the entry-levelcategory that this is n it's got afront-facing LED flash 16 megapixelsensor with an F 2.2 aperture and it'squickly show you that flash this you canturn that on many more off or automaticand you also have a portrait mode aswell which of course is just usingsoftware to stitch it in a blurredbackground so looking very quickly atthe app here for the camera so it's theme away nine point five apps of God'svideo mode and a quickly going into thesettings because there are a couple ofinteresting things in here so we don'thave 4k with the stock app exactly likethe Ruby note 5 it just goes up to fullHD only image stabilization which is areally quite good it's using EAS andit's using that gyro and there to makesure that's a little bit better but whatI'll just show you is if you use opencamera so I'll just get out of that goback home this one allows you at leastto record in 4k and I'll give you somesamples there of that very shortly sothis you can see if you go into thesettings here now and into videosettings and all you need to do is setthe resolution then to 4k and make sureyou enable this right here videostabilization that is going to you thenuse the gyro to help take the shakes andtremors out of the image so this is asample now from the front-facing cameraand I can see like the Remi note 5 andthe music 6 that it is over exposing abit there seems to be something recentthat's been happening on me away 9.5 andthey seem to have tweaked up thatexposure just a little bit too much sothis is using the stock cameraapplication 1080p is the maximum that itwill let you shoot in and we'll have alook here at the focus at mr. bird pooface and it seems okay I have seen alittle bit of focus hunting which is atypical Xiaomi problem but take a lookat the stabilization it's start doingquite a good job and a lot of budgetmobile phones while entry-level ones atthis price point will not actually havethis kind of stabilization so this isnow a 4k sample using an application youcan find in google play called opencameraand you see if you hold it nice andstill and don't move like I'm doing nowwith the electronic image stabilizationenabled you get a very steady shot andthis is fantastic considering that thisis about a hundred and fifty US dollarfine with this level of video qualityyou're able to achieve and I'll justwalk a kid and you can see just how wellthis works with that gyro that it's gotand the electronic image stabilizationbut a wind noise here of course it'sactually quite windyokay so there we goit's a very stay all kind of releasesand it's boring there's nothing amazingto this but you have to think about theprice point of this phones it's about150 US what does it bring to the tableactually quite a lot when you thinkabout it so we've got micro SD cardsupport which literally all phones inthat price range will have but you canrun to nano Sims and the micro SD cardsyou don't have to give up one of thosesims which is great I wish we had thaton the Redmi Note 5 even so the batterycapacity is not super amazing it's 380million hours but that should at leastgive us about 6 to 7 hours of screen ontime of course I'm gonna have to test itout but it will be a 2 day I mobilephone I've had plenty of experience withthe Snapdragon 65 after all this is showme what like 9th 8th 10th mobile phonewhat the chipset they must have so muchstock of it that's why they're using itso much but ok back onto what it offersdual cameras on the rear is nothing newfor a lot of media tech $150 phones butthis actually takes proper dual cameraphotos with the blue background itstitches it in way better than thoseones that often they fake it a lot ofthem have faked your cameras so it's areal dual camera on there on the Briothat does work and the front-facingcamera a lot better than you normallyget i gained on $150 mobile phone youget the depth effects you get thefront-facing selfie flash there and ihave noticed that the focus isn'tperhaps that brilliant on the rearcamera there's a bit of focus hunting attimes but you get electronic imagestabilization on video which is reallygood to have and it does a good job andyou also get 4k video on $150 phone oh Iknow yes again another lot of phoneshave that so this phone is a bit cheapfeeling compared to the likes of theredmi note 5 when you feel this one inhand it's got the metal it's a lot moresolid feeling has a 2.5 D class it justfeels a lot better in hand and this ofcourse for me the biggest con would haveto be the display it's 720p basicallyokay to buy one aspect ratio so it's1440 by 720 and you do notice that thatwhen you get this out of the box thescreen looks fine you probably seen frommy images it's okay but it's just a hugestep down from a 1080p panel that justseems to be a lot more sharper brighterbetter viewing angles so that really isis the big one there for me so overall Ifeel that if the price drops evenfurther and you're on a really strictbudget then yes probably a phone to pickup because you're getting a lot morethan say those mediatek phones that Ihave been mentioning so thanks a lot forwatching this unboxing here and hands-onwith the readme s2 please check out myreview of this one the redmi note 5 andi highly recommend going for this mob ofcourse over this one here so my reviewof that is up here and also check out mylatest videos and if you like chummyphones please do subscribe to thechannel because I will be featuring alot more of their phones the me max 3when that comes out and the me 7 onethat's finally available will definitelybe on the channel try and get them asfast as possible thank you so much forwatching this video\n"