5 reasons why the durable Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G is the perfect everyday phone to own for 2025

As the new year begins, it’s the perfect moment to not only set fresh goals and resolutions but also upgrade your tech arsenal. With the right hardware, navigating 2025 can be smoother, more efficient, and hassle-free. Enter the new Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G that’s just arrived in Malaysia.

Where some phones prioritise one feature or another, the new Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G is a durable smartphone that offers the whole package at an accessible price point.

Featuring powerful performance via the new Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset, a flagship-grade 200MP HP3 camera sensor from Samsung, a host of AI-powered productivity features as well as a water-resistant tough chassis, the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G is the perfect all-rounder smartphone to tackle 2025 like a champ. Here’s five powerful ways that the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G is the perfect everyday phone to own for 2025.

Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G – The toughest Redmi Note series phone ever with IP68 dust and water resistance too

Rather than being considered an afterthought, the new Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G is built tough from the ground up to enable it to withstand the rigours and challenges of everyday misadventures.

When it comes to heart-stopping scenarios like being accidentally dropped from your pocket or nightstand or worse, getting it wet in the rain and water, the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G offers exceptional peace of mind as it is able to tackle these everyday mishaps and emerge unscathed.

What makes the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G a bona fide durable smartphone is that the entire chassis has been built with a light yet high-strength thermally conductive aluminium alloy frame that is 10% tougher than the previous generation.

This is further toughened up with six reinforcing steel plates and additional strengthening ribs across the internal chassis. The design also has a thickened motherboard too to offer significantly improved drop and bend resistance.

The phone also features a multi-tier shock absorption system across six key components. Just beneath the display, the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G has a ring of high-polymer cushioning gel as well as a large foam pad while additional gel and foam surround other core components including the motherboard, sub-board and battery to cushion and protect them from direct impacts such as hitting the floor on top of enhanced bend and pressure resistance too.

As an added measure of protection, the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G also integrates Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on the front display that has 200% better drop resistance compared to the more common Gorilla Glass 5 used in competing phones at this price point. The backplate has also been reinforced with a protective layer of Corning Gorilla Glass 7i that offers 100% improved drop and scratch resistance over Gorilla Glass 5.

Enhanced bend and drop resistance is just part of the equation though as the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G also features IP68 dust and water resistance, allowing it to survive in up to 1.5 meters of fresh water for 30 minutes, effectively proofing it from rain, accidental splashes like from a spilled cup of coffee and even temporary immersion in water. 

Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G – Now with AI-powered productivity and imaging tools 

AI has become integrated into our daily lives and to meet that need, the new Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G has been infused with a range of potent AI productivity tools. 

At launch, it is the first ever Redmi Note series phone to feature Google Gemini as its default voice assistant. Featuring a powerful grasp of natural language for conversations, a vast range of knowledge and versatility in content generation and better personalisation, Google Gemini can help with everything from planning a holiday itinerary to collaborating in an assignment with ease.

The Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G also has the full array of AI features including the innovative Circle to Search by Google that lets you simply circle items of interest onscreen to find whatever you’re looking for be it a garment you saw in a photo or even a place you want to visit.

Another key productivity feature is the addition of AI Interpreter that can offer real time face-to-face translations as well as phone/conference call translations too so that you can speak to someone else who speaks a different language with confidence.

The  Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G also features an AI Recorder that can help transcribe notes to text which is handy for lectures and meetings as well as an AI Notes feature that can help summarise, format and even translate notes too.

The AI capabilities of the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G not only enhance daily productivity as the phone can help take photography and videography to the next level with an array of AI image editing tools.

An AI Magic Removal Pro tool can help to intelligently delete unwanted items in a photo like passerby while an AI Image Expansion tool helps to reframe and fill in and expand backgrounds for captured photos especially for wide angle scenery or architectural shots.

If you’re looking to add some creative zing but have no idea how to edit a video, AI Film can help create short video clips with the AI able to recognise different subjects, apply special camera movements and even sync action to the music like a professional video editor.

Good things come to those who wait and these AI-infused  features will be added via updates from the end of January 2025 onwards.

Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G – Flagship-grade 1.5K CrystalRes AMOLED Eye-Care Display with Water Touch 2.0

The Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G features a large 6.67-inch 1.5K CrystalRes AMOLED Eye-Care display with a crisp 2,712 x 1,220 pixels resolution, offering the ability to offer up up to 3,000 nits peak brightness for use even in daylight scenarios along with an ultra smooth 120Hz refresh rate for games and silky smooth animations onscreen. Even better, it supports Dolby Vision as well as HDR10+ for you to enjoy high dynamic rate movies too.

Not only is it able to offer up a lusciously vivid colours and crisp detail while ensuring a comfortable grip with its refined dual-curved design, the CrystalRes AMOLED Eye-Care display is also easy on the eyes too, especially for extended use even in low light scenarios with 1,920Hz PWM dimming to reduce eyestrain from screen flickering. 

The display also has not one but three coveted certifications from renowned TÜV Rheinland for Low Blue Light (Hardware Solution), Circadian Friendly Certified and also Flicker Free Certification too.

Best of all, the CrystalRes AMOLED Eye-Care display on the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G is protected by the aforementioned Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 from nicks and scratches.

Beyond improved hardware, the display also uses Xiaomi’s proprietary Wet Touch 2.0 technology that enables users with wet or greasy hands, not just with water but with other liquids like oil, foam and sweat, to navigate the touchscreen with ease.

Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G – Snapdragon 7s Gen3 for flagship-level experience

With the AI revolution driving smartphones today, it’s critical that a smartphone is not only powerful for day to day use but supports AI capabilities too, features which the  Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chipset is built for.

Created with TSMC’s 4nm process, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 has an impressive 30% improvement in AI capabilities over its predecessor while supporting Google Gemini and Xiaomi’s proprietary image AI models for photography.

Naturally, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 is able to tackle day to day tasks with ease and is also able to handle intensive gaming too such as Mobile Legends Bang Bang on Ultra graphics settings at 120fps.

In order to ensure sustained high performance, the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G also integrates a 5,000mm² stainless steel vapour chamber to the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 to efficiently vent heat away, thus ensuring sustained high performance for demanding tasks.

Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G – High-density battery for all-day performance

In keeping with its emphasis as a durable everyday phone, the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G has it where it matters the most – battery life – with the highest energy density battery ever used in the Redmi Note series line-up ever.

The large 5,110mAh silicon-carbon anode battery is not just large but has exceptional energy density too, allowing for its high capacity and small size footprint in the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G’s chassis. Even better, it features a Xiaomi Surge G1 battery management chip to manage battery health to ensure that it retains at least 80% capacity even after 1,600 charge cycles over four years.

The battery also integrates an additional Xiaomi Surge P2 fast-charging chip, allowing for fast Xiaomi 120W HyperCharge fast charging, allowing for a full 100% charge in just 22 minutes which is handy when you’re in a hurry.

Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G – Powerful 200MP Ultra Clear AI Camera System

Surpassing its predecessor the Redmi Note 13 series in every way,  the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G offers next-level photography and videography performance with its sophisticated triple rear camera array that is built around a powerful 200MP main camera with a flagship-grade Samsung HP3 image sensor which is a rarity for phones in this price range, enabling it to take up to 200MP full resolution photos while Smart ISO Pro technology integrated with the HP3 image sensor itself ensures optimal image quality even in bright and low-lit light conditions.

The sheer size of the 200MP sensor also allows for up to 4x lossless zoom while retaining image quality comparable to a traditional telephoto lens setup while built-in optical image stabilisation (OIS) ensures steady, judder free shots and video.

To take full advantage of the sheer power of the 200MP Samsung HP3 image sensor, the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G uses the latest Xiaomi Imaging Engine that leverages an End-to-End (E2E) AI Remosaic algorithm and Smart-ISO technology that offers faster image processing and enhanced image quality with richer details and lusher colour rendition too.

Complementing the powerhouse 200MP main camera is an 8MP F/2.2 ultra wide angle camera as well as a 2MP macro camera while the front hosts a large 20MP selfie camera for selfies and video calls too. Night or day, the Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G is capable of quality shots  and videos too.

Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G Malaysia price and preorder details

The Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G is available for preorders in Malaysia in your choice of three colourways which are Midnight Black, Lavender Purple and Frost Blue as well as your choice of either 12GB RAM/256GB storage  for RM1,699 or 12GB RAM/512GB of storage for RM1,899.

The  Redmi Note 14 Pro Plus 5G can be purchased online at the official mi.com online store, Xiaomi’s official store on Shopee and on Lazada as well as all authorised Xiaomi stores nationwide.

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