Xiaomi’s latest affordable smartphone is pretty bland specs-wise

The Redmi 14R is a brand-new affordable smartphone that Xiaomi introduced in China over the weekend. Although it’s looks pretty stylish and it’s trying to mimic the iPhone-like rectangular form-factor, Xiaomi’s latest device is pretty bland.

But let’s start with the good things. The Redmi 14R looks pretty nice for a cheap phone. It has a very large 6.88-inch LCD display with HD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh rate and 600 nits peak brightness, which might be a downside for those who don’t feel that attached to very big phones.

Moving on to the not-so-good aspects of the Redmi 14R, the phone is equipped with an underwhelming Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 processor, which is coupled with 4 / 6 / 8GB RAM and 256 GB internal storage (expandable up to 1TB via microSD card).

On the back side, the Redmi 14R features a 13-megapixel main camera paired with a 2-megapixel macro camera. There’s also a secondary 5-megapixel selfie snapper in the front. Overall, this is the exact camera configuration that you’d expect from a cheap phone. The problem is that there are cheaper phones with the same or even better camera specs.