The display looks absolutely stunning for the price. It delivers punchy colours, deep blacks, and a solid dynamic range, resulting in an immersive viewing experience and marks a major upgrade from the 720p panel on the Note 50x. The slim bezels around the screen help achieve an impressive 89.8 percent screen-to-body ratio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Another notable upgrade is the addition of stereo speakers with JBL branding. Unlike the Note 50x, the speaker quality here is actually quite good. I genuinely enjoyed listening to music and watching videos using the built-in speakers.
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Infinix Note 50s comes with a 64MP Sony IMX682 primary shooter, a 2MP secondary shooter and a 13MP front-facing shooter. While there’s a lot to like about this camera setup, the first and foremost thing is that both the front and back camera are capable of recording 4k videos at 30fps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Second, the 64MP main sensor is actually a very capable shooter for the price. In daylight, the images captured with the Note 50s looks sharp and the colours look very close to natural tone but for human subjects the colour tone could be on the softer side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Even in low light or artificial lighting conditions, the primary shooter can hold its own, especialy condidering the price point. Just like other Infinix smartphones I have reviewed in the past, the Note 50s also struggles with colourful objects in low light scenario say a billboard or a night lamp but there is still some improvements compared to its predecessors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The output from the selfie camera is slightly better than I expected, it can capture close to natural skin tone and ample details in good lighting conditions but the sensor can struggle a little under low lighting conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Overall, I woud say Note 50s is pobably one of the most improved camera phones from Infinix and while it may not be winning awards for its photography skills, the phone is still going to give tough competition to many other devices in this segment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Software and battery:<\/h2>\n
The Note 50s is powered by XOS 15 based on Android 15 and Infinix has promised 2 years of OS updates and 3 years of security patches with this device.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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I have already shared my detailed thoughts on XOS 15 during the Note 50x Review but just to reiterate things in brief. The XOS15 is ad-free and contains no bloatware and limited first party apps. The UI contains a lot of AI features like Circle to Search, AIGC portrait mode, AI generated wallpapers and Folax voice assistant but most of these features currently lack nuance and aren’t really something that most users woul get to using everyday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The truly useful features that XOS comes with are Dynamic Bar (works just like Dynamic Island on iPhones), Smart Panel (similar to OnePlus and Oppo) and Social assistant (Infinix’s original feature that comes in handy during WhatsApp calls). Another thing that I really like about XOS 15 is the ability to customise the colours on not just the home screen but also on the notification panel and home screen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Moving on to battery, the Note 50s packs a 5,500mAh setup with support for 45W fast charging (adapter supplied inside the box). It took about an hour and 20 minutes to take the phone from 0 – 100 and the battery easily lasted more than a day in light to moderate usage of clicking some pictures, around an hour of gaming and streaming a few videos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Performance:<\/h2>\n
The Note 50s is powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Ultimate processor and as I said in my Note 50x review there is nothing \u2018Ultimate\u2019 about this processor it is the same as the Dimensity 7300 seen on the likes of CMF Phone 1 (Review), iQOO Z10x (Review), Oppo F29 Pro and Lava Agni 3 (Review). And this author continues to feel enraged at MediaTek for trying to pull off this scam on users by adding Ultimate, Pro or Energy suffixes as a way of selling the exact same chipset.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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In case you have been living under a rock, this a very stable chipset with no history of heating issues or lagging and offering very fluid performance with even the ability of light gaming but it isn’t strictly designed for gamers as the benchmarks clearly indicate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Talking about the benchmarks, let’s quickly take a look at all the numbers:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\n- AnTuTu: 6,47,390 (higher than the Note 50x, slightly lower than F29 Pro and Agni 3)<\/li>\n
- Geekbench 6: 1046 (single-core), 3045 (multi-core) [Both scores are higher than Note 50x and F29 Pro but lower than Agni 3]<\/li>\n
- 3DMark Wild Life Stress Test: Best loop score \u2013 872; Lowest \u2013 868; Stability \u2013 99.5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Verdict:<\/h2>\n
The sub- \u20b9<\/span>20,000 price bracket is packed with good options at the moment. Some excel in performance, others in battery capacity, cameras, and so on. So where does the Infinix Note 50s fit in? Well, I believe the Note 50s is currently the best all-rounder phone you can buy in this segment. It brings a great design, a slim and premium-looking body, a tried-and-tested processor, a clean, ad-free software experience, decent cameras, a bright AMOLED display, fast LPDDR5x RAM, and reliable battery life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Considering the fact that this phone effectively sells for under \u20b9<\/span>15,000, I honestly don\u2019t think there\u2019s a better alternative right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infinix got off to a slow start in the new year, with the first phone launch not taking place until March. However, the Chinese smartphone maker has made huge strides in the smartphone market with its latest offering, the Note 50s. The new Infinix phone not only resolves some issues with the previous model, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[544,22488,14438,13599,188,183,185,186,34887,34809,35710,35711,187,15996,184,650,14898,19678,189,150,182,190,19677],"class_list":["post-392301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-5g-phone","tag-5g-phone-under-20000","tag-best-phone","tag-best-phone-under-20000","tag-blockchain-tech","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-crypto-technology","tag-cryptocurrency-technology","tag-infinix-note-50s","tag-infinix-note-50s-5g","tag-infinix-note-50s-price","tag-infinix-note-50s-review","tag-metaverse-technology","tag-mobile-under-20000","tag-nft-technology","tag-phone","tag-phone-under-20000","tag-phones-under-20000","tag-soul-bound-token","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-token-technology","tag-under-20000-best-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392303,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392301\/revisions\/392303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}