Xiaomi quietly released the affordable Redmi A7 Pro – it’s currently available in Italy and Indonesia. This phone is very similar to the Redmi A5 and Poco C71, except (as far as we can tell) it runs full-fat Android 16 / HyperOS 3 instead of the lighter Go Edition like the other two models.
The A7 Pro is powered by the same Unisoc T7250 chipset, a rather old 12nm part. The more worrying spec is the 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM – that’s not a lot for full Android and apps (Go Edition apps are lighter). For storage, you can have either 64GB or 128GB of UFS 2.2. The good news is that there’s a microSD slot for extra storage on the cheap.
Xiaomi Redmi A7 Pro
And that’s not all – there is a 3.5mm headphone jack and a side-mounted (capacitive) fingerprint reader. We know that some of you insist on these features, even though most high-end and even mid-range devices omit them.
The Xiaomi Redmi A7 Pro is a cheap phone – in Italy, it costs €130 for a 4/64GB unit and €150 for the 128GB upgrade, while in Indonesia it is IDR 1,650,000 and 1,800,000, respectively. As the “cherry on top”, Xiaomi offers two free months of Spotify Premium. Okay, that’s not much, but it’s more than we expected on a phone this cheap.
The phone has a massive 6.9” LCD – it has only 720 x 1,600px resolution, which is a downer. It reaches 800 nits in High Brightness Mode and offers DC dimming. There is no official water resistance rating, but the touchscreen can be used with wet fingers.
The battery is fairly large too with 6,000mAh capacity. According to official stats, that’s enough for nearly 2 and a half days of regular use. On a single charge, it should play video for 35 hours straight or music for up to 77 hours. The battery is rated for 1,000 charge cycles and supports regular 15W charging. By the way, the Redmi A5 and Poco C71 have relatively small 5,200mAh batteries.
The A7 Pro is available in Black, Mist Blue, Palm Green and (in Indonesia) Sunset Orange. It measures 171.6 x 79.5 x 8.15mm and weighs 208g.
The T7250 chipset only has a 4G modem, but at least supports dual standby. There’s also Wi-Fi 5 (ac) and Bluetooth 5.2. Positioning is handled by GPS (L1), GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou (B1C). There is no NFC.
Redmi A7 Pro in Black, Mist Blue, Palm Green and Sunset Orange
We haven’t mentioned the cameras yet because there isn’t much to say – somehow, they are even less impressive than the Redmi A5 / Poco C71 cameras. There is just the 13MP main camera (1/3.06” sensor, f/2.2 lens) on the back with 1080p at 30fps video recording and the 8MP (f/2.0) selfie camera on the front, also with 1080p at 30fps video recording.
PS. There is no sign of the non-Pro Redmi A7 yet.
Source 1 (in Italian) | Source 2 (in Indonesian)
Xiaomi Redmi A7 Pro
| 64GB 4GB RAM | $ 137.17 |
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| 128GB 4GB RAM | $ 142.99 |
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