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The Cool Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X Android Smartphone - REVIEWED!
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May 30, 2025
Xiaomi is well known outside of the United States for making great gear - it's the fifth biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world! - but did you know that it also makes excellent Android smartphones you can use in the USA too? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ has a close look at the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X and finds quite a lot to like about it, from the MIUI interface to the IR support, fingerprint scanner on the back to it's startlingly inexpensive price tag. If you're in the market for an Android phone - or need one for a family member - and aren't obsessed with the big three brand names, it's definitely worth a close look. Don't forget to use coupon code: "GBMBP" for an additional 8% off! Learn more: http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_621141.html?lkid=10986843
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does I only have another hit on its
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hands with this Android phone let's find
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out Dave Taylor here and this time I
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want to talk about cell phones more
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specifically I want to talk about
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Android phones from third-party
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companies not the big players like LG or
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Samsung or even Google but the other
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companies that make Android phones
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specifically this one is from a company
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called Iommi now I got to say people
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around the world love this company and
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I've got another device from lomi and
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they've been really great and this one
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this is the zero me redmi note 4 X
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phablet I'm never going to use that word
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again in this review can't stand it
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cell phone Android cell phone and it's
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fantastic and particularly for the price
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it's really a pretty sweet phone but let
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me tell you what's going on here so we
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got a 5.5 inch screen three gigabytes of
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RAM 32 gig of storage it's running
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Snapdragon 625 which is an octa-core 2
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gigahertz so it quite speedy it's
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running Android 6.0 marshmallow so it's
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not on new guy yet but that's because
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not every phone is actually on Android 7
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yet so one assumes it will come out but
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what's really interesting about this is
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IO me actually runs its own UI on top of
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Android so here's a screen shot but you
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can see this is what they call their me
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UI mi UI and it's just a layer on top of
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Android that actually makes it nicer
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comes with themes and color schemes and
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it just makes the whole system it just a
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little more elegant not that I have any
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issues with Android but I really like
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what they're doing here now the downside
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on that is that you can't quite track
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Android as updates happen so they'll
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have to update the me UI to again I
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assume zoom is busy working on that
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right now as we watch this video so
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worth it for sure it has a 13 megapixel
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rear camera
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and a very nice five megapixel front
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camera here's an example of the rear
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camera photo and I'm going to zoom way
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in and you'll see it does a really nice
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subtle elegant job and there's nice
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gradiation in the color there is nothing
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at all problematic about the way this
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thing works with camera and with photos
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so that's good running the latest
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Bluetooth 4.2 Bluetooth 5 is coming just
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starting to see some Bluetooth 5.0
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devices but not yet any Bluetooth 5.0
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phones coming soon what it will gain us
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presumably is more range in lower power
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until then oh so one of the other cool
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things about this is because this is an
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international edition of the phone it
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supports dual sim so you can actually
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have two different phone lines coming in
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that's particularly useful for people
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that have a business phone and a
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personal phone wouldn't be nicer to just
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have both of them hooked up into this
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single device yes it would trust me on
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that
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the battery it's a 41 milliamp power and
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it actually runs anywhere from one to
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two days on a charge depending on how
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aggressive you are it's about two and a
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half hours to actually get it fully
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charged from dead so if you pop it up
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for thirty minutes every so often during
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the day you're probably good to go for a
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good long time and late into your crazy
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party evening very nice
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now I said international support this
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has two gig or hum sorry 2g GSM and 3G
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and 4G support you'll probably want to
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double check on the site to make sure it
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supports your country and your carrier
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but for the most part you drop in a sim
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and you're good to go now one of the
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other things I really like about this
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note 4x is it's a fully metal design a
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lot of these less expensive Android
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phones tend to be plastic II and this
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one definitely is not it has a very nice
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feel to it and the back you can see it's
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just slightly beveled so the sort of in
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hand experience is very nice now what's
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interesting is on the side it has volume
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up/down and power but on the back it
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also has a fingerprint scanner so I
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compare this to like the LG G 6 where
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the fingerprints
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is also the wakeup button so it's kind
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of funny I pick up this phone and push
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the button on the back nothing happens
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so it's a little bit interesting that
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there's sort of this transitional
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technology but it's very subtle so when
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your phone is locked you just touch the
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back and it's unlocked nice and easy
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very elegant implementation of the
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fingerprint now what else can I tell you
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about it built-in FM radio like the vast
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majority of Android phones Apple
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tap-tap-tap are you paying attention why
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can't we have an FM chip or circuit in
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our iPhones in fact my suspicion is it's
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there
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Apple's just never implemented it I like
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being able to listen to FM radio
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occasionally you know just nice to have
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that built in now what's more cool is
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that this also has a built-in infrared
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device so it actually comes with a
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little remote control app and you can
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use this to control your television or
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control your stereo kind of a neat bonus
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feature not something you would expect
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to find in an Android phone but this one
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has it and no special hardware needed
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anywhere else in your entertainment
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system very nice so let's see there's
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not much else I can tell you about it
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other than perhaps the most important
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thing which is the price but before I
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get there do me a huge favor and move
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your little finger and tap that little
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button and subscribe to my channel thank
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you now how much would you pay for this
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high-powered 5.5 inch fully functional
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Android phone with a nice feel and a
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very nice camera well probably a lot
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more than they're asking this phone you
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can pick up for a hundred and fifty 399
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unlocked ready for you to drop whatever
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SIM you want into it a hundred and fifty
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399 where you want to check it out is
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that gearbest.com and they're running
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promos all the time so if that's not the
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price they have right now wait a couple
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of days and go back their prices sort of
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vary a little bit but 153 bucks even
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hack 159 bucks the pretty phenomenal
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phone and in fact when I'm done with
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this review I'm giving this to my
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teenage son because he wants an Android
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phone and this is a really nice
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alternative and this is really kind of
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the cost of insurance
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for something like a Samsung Galaxy s8
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and you know what this stands up with
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the galaxy as being just as elegant just
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as nice and just as functional so since
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Dave Taylor this is the zo me redmi note
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4 X Android smartphone and I say check
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it out at gearbest.com
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and I'll catch you in my next video
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