Despite the display rendering good alkaline battery AAA/AM4 colours

 It has a standard LCD display with 1280 x 720-pixel resolution panel. Despite the display rendering good alkaline battery AAA/AM4 colours with appreciable contrasts and wide viewing angles, the 720p resolution on a large 5.The Redmi Y1 is backed by a 3080mAh battery, which when put under considerable stress can deliver a day’s power. This is one baby with a plastic unibody that seems like a hastily-built smartphone. Under cautious usage, you may be able to stretch it to a day and a half.Also read: Xiaomi Redmi 4A reviewThe Redmi Y1 is built around the Snapdragon 435 platform.Also read: Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 reviewManufacturers such as OPPO and Vivo have been ruling the selfie smartphone segment for a considerable amount of time. The build quality isn’t as great, the display could have been a full HD panel and the rear camera could see some improvements.

The Redmi Y1’s USP is its front camera and we have to say that it is one of the best budget smartphones that you can rely on for taking good selfies. The screen is protected by a 2. However, we had to tu off MIUI Optimisations in order to smoothen up things (maybe the stable build will iron out the issue). Note that our one-day battery life was determined by casual texting, video calls, browsing and taking selfies (of course). Xiaomi has come up with a new series meant to cater to selfie lovers who don’t have the moolah for getting a full-fledged camera phone, such as Google Pixel 2. The Y1 sports a build that could have been passed for a smartphone manufactured a few years ago.As for the rear camera, the 13MP unit is simply average at its best.

 With the Y series, the focus of the company goes after tweaking front camera and keeping other areas average.5-inch seems to give it an incomplete feel. These selfie centric smartphones are one of the most preferred models in the offline retail category from semi-urban and rural areas, followed by feature phones with big power reservoirs. Of course, users can slot in a micro SD card of up to 128GB to store additional data. If you keep the mobile data ‘ON’ all day and make a lot of calls as well as stream live TV shows, then you could be expecting on an average a battery life of a day, which is on par with a conventional midrange smartphone and not a feature phone-trampling battery life of three to four days.4-inch display has a pixel resolution of 240 x 320 pixels, which may sound funny but works well on this tiny display.