Xiaomi Redmi 6A vs Vivo NEX

Xiaomi made its long-awaited Redmi 6A on June 13th, 2018. The Chinese tech giant, Vivo also launched its equally-anticipated NEX smartphone on June 14th this year. Here’s a brief comparison between the two recently launched smartphones on the basis of their design, hardware, and price.

Appearance & Design

The eye-catching Redmi 6A smartphone is housed in a metal body which is further augmented with an equally appealing 5.45-inches IPS HD+ (720 x 1440 pixels) display. Weighing in at just 145 grams with battery, the phone has dimensions of 71.5 mm x 147.5 mm x 8.3 mm.

The phone houses a 13-megapixel rear-mounted camera with dual-LED Flash and AF. Up front, there’s a 5-megapixel camera for selfies and face-to-face video chatting. You can choose between 3 color options including gold, rose-gold, and gray.

The Vivo NEX sports an aluminum alloy and polycarbonate body design, coupled with a borderless design. The phone features a 6.59 inches Super AMOLED FHD+ (1080 x 2316 pixels) display.

The device sports a 12-megapixel + 5-megapixel dual camera with dual-LED and AF setup on the back. There’s an 8-megapixel front shooter for selfie addicts. The Vivo NEX weighs in at 199 grams and its dimensions are 77.0 mm x 162.0 mm x 8.0 mm. The phone is currently up for grabs in red and blue color versions.

Hardware & Performance

The Redmi 6A is powered by a MediaTek Helio A22, 64-bit processor and it offers 2GB of LPDDR4 RAM along with 16GB of expandable onboard memory (up to 256GB). The hybrid dual-SIM smartphone comes with dual standby.

The handset boasts a broad range of card slots including microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC. The Redmi 6A also has a slew of highly advantageous sensors such as a proximity sensor, accelerometer, ambient light, and compass.

The Vivo NEX smartphone packs a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 710, 64-Bit Processor along with an equally robust Qualcomm Adreno 616 GPU, under the hood. The phone comes with 6GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 128GB of non-expandable onboard storage.

On the downside, the NEX smartphone doesn’t feature any card slots. The device, however, is crammed with all sorts of sensors including a front-mounted fingerprint sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity, compass, and light.

Price

The base model of the Xiaomi Redmi 6A would normally set you back about CNY 599, which converts to about $94. The Vivo NEX smartphone carries a price tag of about $693. You can check out a more detailed comparison between the two smartphones below.

Product Name

Xiaomi Redmi 6A

Vivo NEX
Product Image
Price
Our Rating

8.0

6.9
Brand

Xiaomi

Vivo
Category

Mobiles

Mobiles

General

Model

Xiaomi Redmi 6A Vivo NEX
Released

June,2018 June, 2018
Status

Available Available

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.

Bar Bar
Dimensions

147.5 x 71.5 x 8.3 mm 77 x 162 x 7.98 mm
Weight

145 grams Grams (with Battery)
Waterproof

No No

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)

IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen
Size

5.45 inches 6.59 in (inches)
Resolution

720 x 1440 pixels 1080 x 2316 pixels
Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others.

16M 16M Colors
Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality.

295 ppi (pixels per inch) 388 ppi (pixels per inch)
Touch Screen

Yes Yes Multi Touch Support
Features

Capacitive
Multi-touch

Hardware

CPU The main chipset of the device.

Quad-core 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53 2x 2.2 GHz Kryo 360, 6x 1.7 GHz Kryo 360, Cores: 8
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.

PowerVR GE8320 Qualcomm Adreno 616, 500 MHz
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.

2 GB, 3 GB 6 GB, 1866 MHz
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.

16 GB, 32 GB 128GB
Memory Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.

microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot)
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.

Accelerometer, proximity, compass Proximity
Light
Accelerometer
Compass
Gyroscope
Fingerprint

Software

Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.

Android 8.1 (Oreo), planned upgrade to Android 9.0 (Pie) + MIUI 9.0 Funtouch 4.0 OS (Android 8.1 Oreo)
User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.

Yes Yes with Modified Android

Camera

Rear Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.

13 MP 12.19 MP (megapixels)
Image

1080p 4032 x 3024 pixels
Video

1080p@30fps 3840 x 2160 pixels
Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration)

LED flash, HDR, panorama Yes with Dual-LED Flash
Front Camera

5 MP 7.99 MP (megapixels)

Network

SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.

Nano SIM Nano SIM
Dual SIM

Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

Connectivity

Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot a, b, g, n, n 5GHz, ac, Dual band, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct
USB

microUSB 2.0 2.0, USB Type-C
GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.

Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

No No
Wireless Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.

No No
Headphone Jack

Yes Yes

Battery

Capacity Battery Capacity

3000 mAh, Li-Polymer 4000 mAh, Li-Polymer
Placement

Non-removable

Media

Video Playback

Yes
Video Out

Yes
FM Radio

Yes
Ring Tones

Yes
Loudspeaker

Yes
Handsfree

Yes

Data

4G LTE 4G LTE bands

LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 38(2600), 40(2300) - Global LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) Yes
Speed

HSPA 21.1/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (2CA) Cat7 300/150 Mbps LTE 850 MHz LTE 900 MHz LTE 1700/2100 MHz LTE 1800 MHz LTE 1900 MHz LTE 2100 MHz LTE-TDD 1900 MHz (B39) LTE-TDD 2300 MHz (B40) LTE-TDD 2500 MHz (B41) LTE-TDD 2600 MHz (B38)