Xiaomi Redmi Go vs ZTE Blade A622

Xiaomi’s Redmi Go was launched this year in January, while the ZTE Blade A622 was made available to the public just earlier this month.

Given the popularity they’ve garnered among smartphone lovers, it would be interesting to see how the two phones stack up against each other on the basis of their appearance, design, hardware, and performance.

Appearance & Design

Housed in a sturdy, yet appealing aluminum alloy and plastic body, the Redmi Go features a 5.0 inches HD+ display with a screen resolution of 1280×720 pixels at a pixel density of 294 PPI.

The phone sports an eye-catching 2.5D curved glass screen that offers a contrast ratio of 1000:1.

There’s Corning Gorilla Glass 3 on top that provides extra protection of the screen.

The phone houses an 8.0MP camera with single LED and AF camera on the back. Up front, there’s an 8.0MP camera for selfies and video chatting.

The Redmi Go has dimensions of 70.09 mm x 140.4 mm x 8.4 mm and it weighs in at 157g with the battery. It comes in two color versions including black and blue.

The ZTE Blade A622 smartphone features a slightly larger 5.2-inches HD screen with 1280×720 pixels resolution and pixel density of 282 PPI (pixels per inch).

Moreover, it has a 2.5D curved glass screen with a screen-to-body ratio of 71.65 percent, offering 16 million display colors.

On the photography front, the Blade A622 smartphone features a 13.0MP with Single-LED and AF and a 5.0MP rear-mounted camera for self-portraits.

The phone’s dimensions are 71 mm x 147 mm x 8.5 mm and it weighs in at just 160g even with the battery. The phone comes in a black color version.

Hardware & Performance

The Redmi Go is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 MSM8917 processor and it packs Qualcomm’s highly competent Adreno 308, 500 MHz GPU, under the hood.

The phone ships with 1GB of RAM and offers two storage options include 8GB and 16GB, and both support expansion up to 128GB.

Furthermore, the Redmi Go draws its juices from a 3,000 mAh Lithium-Polymer battery. This non-removable cell delivers up to 200 hours of standby time.

The phone runs the Go Edition based on Android 8.1 Oreo OS. There are three card slots including microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC.

Aside from a fingerprint sensor, the Redmi Go smartphone features a proximity sensor, accelerometer, compass, and ambient light.

The ZTE Blade A622 packs a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 MSM8917 processor along with a competent Adreno 308, 500 MHz graphics processing unit for an immersive experience.

The phone ships with 3GB of RAM and offers 32GB of onboard storage option that can be expanded up to 128GB. The Blade A622 is backed by a built-in 5000 mAh Lithium-Polymer battery.

The phone features microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC card slots. On top of that, there are numerous useful sensors like the proximity sensor, accelerometer, fingerprint, and ambient light.

Price

The Xiaomi Redmi Go will set you back about 80 EUR, which roughly converts to about $91. The ZTE Blade A622 smartphone retails for about $19.58.

You can check out a point-by-point comparison between the two phones below:

Product Name

Xiaomi Redmi Go

ZTE Blade A622
Product Image
Price
Our Rating

7.8

7.9
Brand

Xiaomi

ZTE
Category

Mobiles

Mobiles

General

Model

Xiaomi Redmi Go ZTE Blade A622
Released

Jan, 2019 Jan, 2019
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

70.1 x 140.4 x 8.4 mm 71 x 147 x 8.5 mm
Weight

137 Grams (With Battery) 160 g
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 IPS
Size

5 in (inches) 5.2 in (inches)
Resolution

720 x 1280 pixels 720 x 1280 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.

16 Millions Colors 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.

294 ppi (pixels per inch) 282 ppi (pixels per inch)
Touch Screen

Yes Yes Multi Touch Support
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.

Corning Gorilla Glass 3 2.5D curved glass screen
Features

Capacitive
Multi-touch
Scratch resistant Capacitive
Multi-touch

Hardware

CPU The main chipset of the device.

ARM Cortex-A53, 1400 MHz, Cores: 4 ARM Cortex-A53, 1400 MHz, Cores: 4
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.

Qualcomm Adreno 308, 500 MHz Qualcomm Adreno 308, 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.

1 GB, 667 MHz 3 GB, 800 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.

8 GB 32 GB
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, microSDHC, microSDXC microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC
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.

Proximity
Light
Accelerometer
Compass Proximity
Light
Accelerometer
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 Go Edition Android 7.1 Nougat
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.

7.99 MP (megapixels) 12.98 MP (megapixels)
Image

3264 x 2448 pixels 4160 x 3120 pixels
Video

1920 x 1080 pixels 1920 x 1080 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 LED
Front Camera

7.99 MP (megapixels) 4.92 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

Nano-SIM, Nano-SIM / microSD Nano-SIM, Nano-SIM / microSD

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.

b, g, n, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Display b, g, n, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct
USB

2.0, Micro USB 2.0, Micro USB
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.

GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS
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 5000 mAh, Li-Polymer
Placement

Yes

Media

Video Playback

Yes
Video Out

Yes
FM Radio

Yes
Ring Tones

Yes
Loudspeaker

Yes
Handsfree

Yes

Data

4G LTE 4G LTE bands

Yes Yes
Speed

LTE 800 MHz LTE 850 MHz LTE 900 MHz LTE 1700/2100 MHz LTE 1800 MHz LTE 1900 MHz LTE 2100 MHz LTE 2600 MHz LTE-TDD 1900 MHz (B39) LTE-TDD 2300 MHz (B40) LTE-TDD 2500 MHz (B41) LTE-TDD 2600 MHz (B38) LTE 700 MHz (B28) LTE 900 MHz LTE 1800 MHz LTE 2100 MHz LTE 2600 MHz LTE-TDD 2300 MHz (B40) LTE-TDD 2500 MHz (B41) LTE-TDD 2600 MHz (B38)