A basic comparison based on the few basic key aspects is as follows -
Design and display Honor 4X is lighter than the
Redmi Note with physical.dimensions of 151.9 x 77.3 mm compared to RedMi Note with154 x 78.7 x 9.5mm. Both the devices are available in basic colors of black and white respectively. Honor 4X is thinner at just 8.7 mm.
Both the phones sport a 5.5 inch full HD IPS LCD display. Both of them have a 1280x720 resolution, but have no screen protection of any sort. Honor 4X has slimmer bezel rings.
Hardware Honor 4X is powered by a robust Snapdragon 410 processor while the RedMi Note is powered by Snapdragon 400. Being quadcore processors, both sound to be equivalent. Clock speed of the devices is 1.2 GHz and 1.5 GHz for Honor 4X and RedMi Note respectively. Honor 4X scores over RedMi Note as it uses a 64 Bit processor.
They have similar specifications in terms of RAm at 2 GB and internal memory at 8 GB. Expandable memory options are available on both the devices, but while Honor 4X supports only upto 32 GB and Note supports memory expansion upto 64 GB.
CameraEven in the camera department, the devices stay similar. Both feature a 13 MP rear and a 5 MP front camera. However in terms of performance, Honor 4X captures images with bright colors and details. RedMi Note lags behind. Images do not look sharp on it.
Battery and other featuresHonor 4X has a 3000 mAh battery. The battery backup is upto 72 hours as claimed by the manufacturer. It also has power saving mode. RedMi Note carries a little bigger battery at 3100 mAh. The company claims that the battery has a backup time of 38 hours.
SoftwareBoth of them are run on the outdated Android Kitkat 4.4.4. Honor has customisation with EMUI 3.0 while RedMi Note has MIUI 6.0 on top of the stock Android.
PricePricewise,
Honor 4X is a bit costly at Rs.10499, around Rs.500 higher than the price tag of Rs.9999 for RedMi Note. With such a minor price difference, it would be difficult to decide the best among them. Both the devices are almost similar and have unique features in their own right. With better processor and good design, Honor 4X has slight edge over
Xiaomi RedMi Note.