Redmi Note 14 Pro has been released in India, an upgrade to the Note 13 Pro, which had previously launched in January of this year. Let’s check out if this is a good upgrade compared to the Note 13 Pro.
Design and Speakers
The Note 14 Pro features a square camera layout with a triple camera setup on the back accompanied by the flash. The phone also has IP68 for dust and water resistance with a depth of 2 meters. The phone also features a dual-tone design on the camera section, with a light section and a dark section of the color, and it features a vegan leather finish. The phone also comes in 3 colors: Ivy Green, Phantom Purple, and Titan Black. The phone also comes with dual stereo speakers, one on the front and one on the bottom of the smartphone, for a good audio experience.
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Display
The Redmi Note 14 Pro features a stunning 6.67inch display with 1.5k resolution and 120hz of refresh rate with a curved display and a peak brightness of 3000 nits with Dolby Vision and HDR10+ certification for the display and has an in-display fingerprint scanner for the first time on Redmi Note series which is a good addition when you compare the in-display sensor to the side-mounted fingerprint sensor
the phone also has support for 1920hz PWM dimming so that your eyes stay good even though you are checking the smartphone in dark light which is good and the phone also has an instantaneous touch sampling rate of 2560hz which is good for gamers and the smartphone features Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 for the protection for the display which is a good thing on the smartphone.
Performance
The Redmi Note 14 Pro features the Dimensity 7300 ultra chipset which is the global debut for the chipset and it’s a minor upgrade in the performance section for the Note 14 Pro here because it doesn’t have that much uplift compared to its predecessor really in the performance section for the phone but the predecessor had used a 4nm node from Samsung which wasn’t that good honestly but this has a TSMC node which should help the performance and efficiency and to cool the chipset the brand has opted to go for a 13780mm’2 graphite sheet for cooling the smartphone’s CPU.
When you look at the competition too it’s not that good you are getting better chipsets at the same price bracket like 7 Gen 3 and if you spent around say 1-2k extra 7+ Gen 3 which is going to destroy the 7300.
Cameras
The Note 14 Pro’s main camera is an LYT 600, which has a 50 MP resolution, but the Redmi Note 13 Pro, which was the predecessor of the 14 Pro, had a better sensor than the Note 14 Pro, which is the Samsung HP3, and the HP3 has a larger sensor than the LYT 600 thanks to the 200 MP resolution, which is a downgrade for the smartphone with OIS, and the phone has an 8 MP ultrawide camera and a 2 MP macro camera, which is bad, honestly, and the phone also has AI portrait and bokeh for the good portrait pictures, and the phone has a selfie camera of 20 MP for the good selfies.
Battery
The Note 14 Pro packs a 5500mAh silicon carbon high-density battery, and the phone has 45W of hypercharge, which is a downgrade once again because the 13 Pro had a 67W charger that could top off the phone in 45 minutes, which was good, honestly, but now it’s a 45W adapter, which might take 1 hour.
Software
The Note 14 Pro comes with HyperOS 2, which is based on Android 14 out of the box, and the phone has support for 3 major OS updates and 4 years of security updates, so the phone will get to Android 17 at maximum, and after that, don’t expect any major OS updates from the smartphone.
Pricing
The Note 14 Pro comes in 2 variants: the 8+128GB and the 8+256GB variants, and the 8+128GB variant is priced at ₹24,999 and ₹26,999 for the 8+256GB variant, and the phone also comes with a ₹1000 instant bank discount on ICICI credit cards and HDFC credit cards, which makes the 8+128GB for ₹23,999 and ₹25,999 for the 8+256GB variant.
Verdict
Honestly, if you are looking to upgrade from the Note 13 Pro, there is no need; to be honest, it’s a downgrade in the battery and cameras section, and the performance isn’t a good generational uplift when you see over the prior generation, so skip it, and the price-performance mark isn’t there this time again, which is kind of disappointing when the previous note series at least had the good performance for the smartphones, but now they aren’t that good too.
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