📱Review: Is the Redmi K20 Pro priced fairly?

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This is a summary of various Reviews from different publishers with my thoughts added. You can check out the Redmi K20 Pro and how it fares against its competition using each link.

Design

• The Redmi K20 Pro's design is radically different this time compared from what Xiaomi is known for — Redmi K20 Pro has a glass back with one of the most evocative gradient patterns you’ll come across on any phone today — it’s both premium to feel, and stunning to look at
• With the selfie camera is now a ‘popup’ one — The front looks modern and sharp too, with a ‘full screen’ notch-less display
• Decent under-display fingerprint sensor — reasonably quick and reliable
• Face unlock mechanism is a little clunky — it takes a while to unlock the phone using face unlock as you have to first wake the screen and swipe up for the camera module to engage

Redmi K20 Pro's 'flame gradient' in blue color

Display

• Gorgeous & immersive, 6.39-inch Super AMOLED display — its vibrant colours and excellent contrast levels easily makes it one of the best panels you’ll find in this price segment — sunlight readability is great as well

The bezel-less display of Redmi K20 Pro

Software

• MIUI continues to one of the better, more cohesive custom Android UIs around, especially with its recent improvements— and it’s also feature-packed: like gesture navigation, anti-flicker mode, reading mode, second space, dual apps, themes, etc
• The K20 Pro also adds the POCO Launcher on top of MIUI — which brings the Dark Mode and App drawer to the K20 Pro
• The new Game Turbo mode is the Xaiomi's new feature that prioritises bandwidth and disables notifications when you’re in a game
• There are few bugs that show up time to time — push notifications are not delivered sometimes, and the DND mode also doesn’t work as expected sometimes, hopefully, it will be sorted via software updates
• The major drawback with MIUI in recent times is the ads — less intrusive, but those are still there — and while these can be disabled, it’s a difficult process for most of the people

Home page of the Redmi K20 Pro looks clean

Performance

• Snapdragon 855 chipset at the core enables top-notch flagship performance — the Redmi K20 Pro is a performance powerhouse — at the time of writing this, it gets the highest Antutu scores of any Android phone
• Games like Asphalt 9, PUBG and Fortnite run as smooth as on any other flagship priced double Redmi K20 Pro's price

Redmi K20 Pro PUBG Gameplay

Camera

• Very good triple rear camera setup — Redmi K20 Pro has a 48MP primary camera, an 8MP telephoto Camera & a 13MP wide-angle camera
• Images captured from Redmi K20 Pro look crisp, vibrant, and details are captured well — image quality is great in all sorts of lighting conditions
• The 8MP telephoto Camera & a 13MP wide-angle camera also takes generally good photos
• The dedicated night mode in the Redmi K20 Pro does the usual multi-frame processing, and produces pretty good results — it captures more light and makes the scene sharper
• A decent 20MP pop-up selfie camera, with a good portrait mode
• Overall, the Redmi K20 Pro's cameras match up well to more expensive phones like the OnePlus 7 and Asus 6Z, it has the best cameras for this price bracket

Redmi K20 Pro Image Samples (please keep in mind these are compressed)

Audio

• Still rocks the 3.5mm jack, that a lot of other flagships tend to skip
• The single downward-firing speaker is loud and crisp enough to make up for two speakers — even at the full volume, you won’t hear any crackling or sound distortion

Battery

• Battery life is very good with a 4000mAH battery — you will easily get 1.5 days of use
• Supports fast charging — however, the charger provided by Xiaomi is 18W and the Redmi K20 Pro supports up to 27 W, nonetheless still very fast at charging

Verdict

• Xiaomi continues to provide excellent value to its users, Redmi K20 Pro is an excellent-value successor to the super successful Poco F1 — this is the cheapest phone rocking the flagship Snapdragon 855, with all the latest features of 2019 — full screen, popup selfie camera, an in-display fingerprint sensor — having said that, people who want cleaner software experience should still want to spend a little more and go for the OnePlus 7 or Asus 6Z