**The Pros and Cons of Redmi 1s: A Review**

After spending several weeks with the Redmi 1s, I have to say that it was a mixed bag. On one hand, there were some impressive features and capabilities that made me want to use this device as my secondary phone. However, on the other hand, there were also some significant issues and drawbacks that ultimately led me to give up on the phone.

One of the major concerns I had with the Redmi 1s was its performance. The phone's 1GB of RAM proved to be a major bottleneck when it came to multitasking. I found that often, background apps would just quit or crash without warning, especially when I was using streaming services like YouTube or listening to music in the background. This was particularly frustrating because it would happen regularly, and not just occasionally.

Another issue I experienced with the Redmi 1s was its camera app. While the camera itself was decent, the gallery app would often hang up on me, forcing me to restart the device every time. Additionally, once my auto-brightness sensor simply stopped working altogether, which was a bit annoying since it's such a basic feature.

Despite these issues, I did find that some of them were temporary and resolved themselves after a reboot or two. However, this wasn't always the case, and it often felt like the phone was just not designed to handle all the tasks I threw at it. For example, when I was doing heavy multitasking, such as listening to music in the background while browsing online, the device would frequently crash or freeze.

**The Camera: A Major Selling Point**

However, one area where the Redmi 1s really impressed me was in its camera performance. The camera itself was one of the best among budget Android phones I've used so far, and it's certainly a major selling point for this device. Whether I was taking photos indoors or outdoors, the results were always consistent and well-exposed.

**The Build Quality: A Concern**

Unfortunately, however, the build quality of the Redmi 1s left something to be desired. The phone creaked and groaned under my fingers, especially when I applied pressure on certain areas like the frame and the back cover. This was particularly annoying because it made me wonder if the device would survive a drop or a rough handling.

**Software Update: A Lifesaver**

However, after a software update, things started to improve significantly for this device. While some of the issues I experienced earlier still lingered, many others were resolved, and overall performance was much better. The camera app also worked seamlessly again, which was a relief.

**The Verdict: A Mixed Bag**

In conclusion, my experience with the Redmi 1s was mixed to say the least. While it had some impressive features and capabilities, such as its camera and Android 4.3 operating system, there were also several significant issues that made me want to give up on the phone.

Considering all these pros and cons, I would recommend the Redmi 1s to casual users who don't make a lot of voice calls or have stringent requirements for cellular connectivity. Additionally, if your highest priority is camera performance, then this device might be worth considering.

However, for me, as someone who needs a reliable phone with good multitasking capabilities and robust build quality, the Redmi 1s just didn't cut it. I would recommend other devices that offer better performance and value for money, such as the Android One device from Spice, which I have been using as my secondary device.

**Recommendation**

If you're considering purchasing the Redmi 1s, I would advise you to do some research and weigh your options carefully. While it's a great budget phone with impressive camera performance, its limitations in terms of multitasking and build quality might be a deal-breaker for some users.

Additionally, if you're willing to compromise on these aspects, then the Redmi 1s might still be worth considering. However, I would recommend exploring other options that offer better value for money and more features that matter to you.

**The Final Verdict**

In conclusion, my review of the Redmi 1s was a mixed bag. While it had some impressive features and capabilities, such as its camera and Android operating system, there were also several significant issues that made me want to give up on the phone.

Ultimately, whether or not you'll like the Redmi 1s depends on your individual needs and priorities. If you're willing to compromise on multitasking capabilities and build quality, then this device might be worth considering. However, if you need a reliable phone with good performance and robust features, then you might want to explore other options.

**The Bottom Line**

In my opinion, the Redmi 1s is a solid budget phone that offers impressive camera performance and Android operating system at an affordable price. However, its limitations in terms of multitasking and build quality are significant drawbacks that prevent it from being a top-rated device.

Overall, I would give the Redmi 1s 3 out of 5 stars, reflecting its mixed bag of features and capabilities. While it's worth considering for casual users or those who prioritize camera performance, more serious phone enthusiasts might want to look elsewhere.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is Ranjit then in this video we'll be doing the review for the xiaomi redmi 1s which is a very affordable Android phone by Xiaomi and this is review is going to be very different and I have actually made a pros and cons list of this device and actually let me talk about how I use my phones actually have 2 SIM cards one is a high-end Android phone that I use and the second reason that I use on other devices and I actually wanted to use the xiaomi redmi as my secondary device and in fact i tested this device in two phases when i got it and it came with me uy 36 and I used it for around 15 odd days and I was not very happy with its performance because it had a lot of software bugs and later on for about at the end of September I also got the another me update that was me 41 FM correct and thereafter I used it for about 6 or days so completely I used it for about 20 or days before producing this review and I'll start with the pros and cons have already made for other videos on this red b-1s so if you are interested in the gaming performance or the camera performance you can check out those videos links for those videos will be in the YouTube show notes and first let me talk about the pros and then I'll come back with the cons of this device the first pro with this device is the 720p HD display that's a 4.7 inch display and it's a 720p HD display and the screen quality is actually pretty decent in my opinion yes the screen is a little bit on the warmer side but overall the screen quality is actually pretty good and considering the price point of this device in India as it sold for just around 6000 rupees that's just us $100 the screen quality I would say is a big plus point on this device second biggest advantage of this device was the 8 megapixel a BSI sensor that we have on this rear facing camera it's 8 megapixel shooter with LED flash and I have to say the image quality of this device while the rear facing camera is just amazing and you should check out the dedicated video that I made regarding the camera performance in which I showed you a lot of sample shots that I took with this device and I was amazed with the performance so if camera is the highest ready and you don't want to spend a lot then this redmi 1s probably has one of the best what you say camera performance under budget Android devices next if we talk about the looks even in the looks department this redmi 1s is a fairly decent looking phone now if we talk about the specs of this device the specs on paper are just amazing it's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset that's a 1.6 quad-core processor comes with the audrina 3:05 GPU and the rom on it is 1 gigs also it has all the important sensors for example it has the proximity sensor the auto brightness sensor so in fact for the price the specs that you are getting are actually amazing for the product now also one more thing that I really liked about this product was the audio output via the headphone jack I tested it with this Grado headphones that AHA and I was actually pretty impressed with audio quality so if you listen to a lot of music you'll be pretty happy I was amazed at some quality that I could get from this redmi 1s considering the budget oriented price of this device so these are the plus points of this device now coming to the some of the cons that I faced with this device are actual cellular call quality on this device was not that good and if have to reate it I would rate it 5 out of 10 I would say many times almost 70% of the time the call quality was very muddy and most of the times I had to said to the other party can you please repeat that and it was getting really annoyed so I was not happy with the call quality that I was getting on this redmi 1s now if we talk about the weight though it's a 4.7 inch screen the weight of the phone it's actually a little bit on the heavier side it weighs around 158 grams yes you can get used to word but certainly it's a little bit on the heavier side another thing that I faced with this device was the heating issue this device tends to heat up quite a bit compared to many other Android phones yes the heating has been improved after the latest update it is heating up a little bit less but certainly still it heats up a little bit in my opinion so if you are worried about the heating issues then you might not this device also when it comes to the battery the back cover can be opened easily and you can access the battery it's a removal battery it's a 2015 milliampere battery and these are the two SIM slots again do note that the first sensor large is 3G enabled and the second SIM slot is just two G enabled and you can also add a micro SD card over here coming to the battery life I did all my testing with just a single cell and I was not very happy with the battery life on Wi-Fi yes it could last over one day but only on 3G connection the battery life was not that good compared to many other Android phones that were running on the Snapdragon 400 chipset so in terms of battery life I was not very happy with it with - since I doubt that you will be able to reach end of the day without topping it up so that was regarding the battery life now the biggest con that I had with this phone also in the call quality also sometimes the proximity sensor simply stops working so when I was just taking out the phone from the call the screen used to not line up and I had to hit the power button multiple times for the screen to come up so the error actually lot of bugs on this phone and before the earlier software update it was simply unusable there hence I just gave up on the phone after 2 weeks of testing now some of the issues are solved but still there are quite a bit of issues for example once my auto brightness sensor simply stopped working most of these issues are temporary because if you just reboot the device they start working but it's kind of annoying also in the camera the camera works but sometimes the gallery app actually hangs up so there are a lot of issues with the me you why and I think so it is due to 1 GB of RAM also when I was doing some heavy multitasking for example I generally like to listen music in the background and I user online using streaming data of what you say application like Yunnan radio and and I use a browser to browse and many times the background app was just getting booted out and it was just quitting and that happened a lot on this redmi one is that generally does not happen with any other Android phone starter and with 1gb of RAM so definitely I feel that the me UI that is running on this device it's a little bit heavy on RAM because I didn't have this issue with the me3 and I was really impressed with them III and the thing with me 3 is that it has 2 gigs of RAM whereas this redmi 1s has just one gig of ram so i feel that to me you i do it's very functional and it offers a ton of functionality with just 1 gb of ram it's a little bit less also some of you have asked me about third-party launchers yes you can run the Google launcher on this and everything actually works but again if you do that then the available memory is actually very less after installing the Google launcher I just had 150 MB of memory left for the apps so I would not go bonkers with third-party launchers because if you do that then the availability is actually very less to the device and I think so that is one more reason many of the apps sometimes just get booted out on this device before the earlier software update in fact if you watch my gaming review with this device as parents 7 was just quitting up in the middle but after the latest software update yes I can run as fast Evan but again multitasking is still a hit or a miss on this device the biggest corner half that this device is I smartphone is first a phone for me and the cellular call quality and some of the issues that I was having with the what do you say device when making calls is simply no what do you say no go for me and that is the reason that I am simply not using this device as my secondary device because when I was using it many times in the cause I had issues with this device so considering all the pros and cons with this device I would say this is a Loki device if you are a very casual kind of a user who does not make a lot of voice calls and cellular connectivity is not a big concern for you then this device might be a great for you also if your highest priority is camera then certainly the camera on this redmi 1s is one of the best among budget Android phones but considering the overall aspects of this phone another thing that I wanted to talk about is the build quality the one 1/2 does make a lot of creaking noise I heard that the new batch of redmi 1s the build quality has been improved but certainly with the one that I have it makes a lot of creaking noise so it doesn't give you that assuring feeling in my opinion so coming to me I have decided not to use this redmi 1s as my secondary device because simply speaking the cellular call quality is simply not good in my opinion and also some of the other bugs like the proximity sensor and the light sensor that randomly stops working is a no-go for me so that's my review for this redmi 1s I know that many other reviews have praised this device but this is my Frank opinion after using this device for about twenty odd days and during that time about four ten days I use this Android one device this is from spice and in fact I was actually a lot more impressed with this Android one device yes the camera on this Android one device is not that great but as of now instead of this redmi 1s I am using my Android one device as my secondary device I hope that you found this review helpful if you found it helpful I'll appreciate if you can click the like button and if you did not like this review hit that dislike button and also share your opinions in the youtube comment section thank you for watching this video this is Ron gee and I hope to see you in my next video youhi there this is Ranjit then in this video we'll be doing the review for the xiaomi redmi 1s which is a very affordable Android phone by Xiaomi and this is review is going to be very different and I have actually made a pros and cons list of this device and actually let me talk about how I use my phones actually have 2 SIM cards one is a high-end Android phone that I use and the second reason that I use on other devices and I actually wanted to use the xiaomi redmi as my secondary device and in fact i tested this device in two phases when i got it and it came with me uy 36 and I used it for around 15 odd days and I was not very happy with its performance because it had a lot of software bugs and later on for about at the end of September I also got the another me update that was me 41 FM correct and thereafter I used it for about 6 or days so completely I used it for about 20 or days before producing this review and I'll start with the pros and cons have already made for other videos on this red b-1s so if you are interested in the gaming performance or the camera performance you can check out those videos links for those videos will be in the YouTube show notes and first let me talk about the pros and then I'll come back with the cons of this device the first pro with this device is the 720p HD display that's a 4.7 inch display and it's a 720p HD display and the screen quality is actually pretty decent in my opinion yes the screen is a little bit on the warmer side but overall the screen quality is actually pretty good and considering the price point of this device in India as it sold for just around 6000 rupees that's just us $100 the screen quality I would say is a big plus point on this device second biggest advantage of this device was the 8 megapixel a BSI sensor that we have on this rear facing camera it's 8 megapixel shooter with LED flash and I have to say the image quality of this device while the rear facing camera is just amazing and you should check out the dedicated video that I made regarding the camera performance in which I showed you a lot of sample shots that I took with this device and I was amazed with the performance so if camera is the highest ready and you don't want to spend a lot then this redmi 1s probably has one of the best what you say camera performance under budget Android devices next if we talk about the looks even in the looks department this redmi 1s is a fairly decent looking phone now if we talk about the specs of this device the specs on paper are just amazing it's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset that's a 1.6 quad-core processor comes with the audrina 3:05 GPU and the rom on it is 1 gigs also it has all the important sensors for example it has the proximity sensor the auto brightness sensor so in fact for the price the specs that you are getting are actually amazing for the product now also one more thing that I really liked about this product was the audio output via the headphone jack I tested it with this Grado headphones that AHA and I was actually pretty impressed with audio quality so if you listen to a lot of music you'll be pretty happy I was amazed at some quality that I could get from this redmi 1s considering the budget oriented price of this device so these are the plus points of this device now coming to the some of the cons that I faced with this device are actual cellular call quality on this device was not that good and if have to reate it I would rate it 5 out of 10 I would say many times almost 70% of the time the call quality was very muddy and most of the times I had to said to the other party can you please repeat that and it was getting really annoyed so I was not happy with the call quality that I was getting on this redmi 1s now if we talk about the weight though it's a 4.7 inch screen the weight of the phone it's actually a little bit on the heavier side it weighs around 158 grams yes you can get used to word but certainly it's a little bit on the heavier side another thing that I faced with this device was the heating issue this device tends to heat up quite a bit compared to many other Android phones yes the heating has been improved after the latest update it is heating up a little bit less but certainly still it heats up a little bit in my opinion so if you are worried about the heating issues then you might not this device also when it comes to the battery the back cover can be opened easily and you can access the battery it's a removal battery it's a 2015 milliampere battery and these are the two SIM slots again do note that the first sensor large is 3G enabled and the second SIM slot is just two G enabled and you can also add a micro SD card over here coming to the battery life I did all my testing with just a single cell and I was not very happy with the battery life on Wi-Fi yes it could last over one day but only on 3G connection the battery life was not that good compared to many other Android phones that were running on the Snapdragon 400 chipset so in terms of battery life I was not very happy with it with - since I doubt that you will be able to reach end of the day without topping it up so that was regarding the battery life now the biggest con that I had with this phone also in the call quality also sometimes the proximity sensor simply stops working so when I was just taking out the phone from the call the screen used to not line up and I had to hit the power button multiple times for the screen to come up so the error actually lot of bugs on this phone and before the earlier software update it was simply unusable there hence I just gave up on the phone after 2 weeks of testing now some of the issues are solved but still there are quite a bit of issues for example once my auto brightness sensor simply stopped working most of these issues are temporary because if you just reboot the device they start working but it's kind of annoying also in the camera the camera works but sometimes the gallery app actually hangs up so there are a lot of issues with the me you why and I think so it is due to 1 GB of RAM also when I was doing some heavy multitasking for example I generally like to listen music in the background and I user online using streaming data of what you say application like Yunnan radio and and I use a browser to browse and many times the background app was just getting booted out and it was just quitting and that happened a lot on this redmi one is that generally does not happen with any other Android phone starter and with 1gb of RAM so definitely I feel that the me UI that is running on this device it's a little bit heavy on RAM because I didn't have this issue with the me3 and I was really impressed with them III and the thing with me 3 is that it has 2 gigs of RAM whereas this redmi 1s has just one gig of ram so i feel that to me you i do it's very functional and it offers a ton of functionality with just 1 gb of ram it's a little bit less also some of you have asked me about third-party launchers yes you can run the Google launcher on this and everything actually works but again if you do that then the available memory is actually very less after installing the Google launcher I just had 150 MB of memory left for the apps so I would not go bonkers with third-party launchers because if you do that then the availability is actually very less to the device and I think so that is one more reason many of the apps sometimes just get booted out on this device before the earlier software update in fact if you watch my gaming review with this device as parents 7 was just quitting up in the middle but after the latest software update yes I can run as fast Evan but again multitasking is still a hit or a miss on this device the biggest corner half that this device is I smartphone is first a phone for me and the cellular call quality and some of the issues that I was having with the what do you say device when making calls is simply no what do you say no go for me and that is the reason that I am simply not using this device as my secondary device because when I was using it many times in the cause I had issues with this device so considering all the pros and cons with this device I would say this is a Loki device if you are a very casual kind of a user who does not make a lot of voice calls and cellular connectivity is not a big concern for you then this device might be a great for you also if your highest priority is camera then certainly the camera on this redmi 1s is one of the best among budget Android phones but considering the overall aspects of this phone another thing that I wanted to talk about is the build quality the one 1/2 does make a lot of creaking noise I heard that the new batch of redmi 1s the build quality has been improved but certainly with the one that I have it makes a lot of creaking noise so it doesn't give you that assuring feeling in my opinion so coming to me I have decided not to use this redmi 1s as my secondary device because simply speaking the cellular call quality is simply not good in my opinion and also some of the other bugs like the proximity sensor and the light sensor that randomly stops working is a no-go for me so that's my review for this redmi 1s I know that many other reviews have praised this device but this is my Frank opinion after using this device for about twenty odd days and during that time about four ten days I use this Android one device this is from spice and in fact I was actually a lot more impressed with this Android one device yes the camera on this Android one device is not that great but as of now instead of this redmi 1s I am using my Android one device as my secondary device I hope that you found this review helpful if you found it helpful I'll appreciate if you can click the like button and if you did not like this review hit that dislike button and also share your opinions in the youtube comment section thank you for watching this video this is Ron gee and I hope to see you in my next video you\n"