This is crazy; see, I triple-tap here twice, and all the files are copied here on my laptop. Right, this copy in your phone and paste in your laptop is a known feature by now. Apple started it, and others got inspired. However, these features you usually get on phones above 30,000, but today we have them. So this is the Infinix Note 40 Pro 5G, and there’s also the Pro Plus. We’ll get to the differences and everything in the article. But this has ecosystem features, and the best part is the pricing. Like all of this under 20,000 rupees with bank offers and everything. And at that price, you’re getting pretty interesting features, like the wireless mag charge and hashtag inspiration. Now, I have a few questions.
Should phones take inspiration from other phones? If they do, at what cost? Because of this, brands will have to keep the price competitive. Infinix can’t go head-to-head with Apple. So, some cutbacks somewhere will happen. But will those matter to us, the users? But let’s find that out. You get this green box. I don’t remember the last time I saw a phone box all green in color. Inside, you get the phone, paperwork, a USB-A to USB-C cable, a SIM ejector tool, and a charger. These are pretty standard. But Infinix is giving some extra goodies, like these stickers and this cool Mac charge case. We’ll get to this in a moment. Also, there is a curved tempered glass and an installation kit. I want to try this out. I mean, you need the hands of a surgeon to apply tempered glass, but overall, this was like a very wholesome unboxing, plus one for Infinix after a long time. The very first thing that I noticed about this phone was its design. You get a vegan leather back with this olive color. I don’t remember which brand started this trend of vegan leather, but I quite like it. It makes the phone grippy in the hands, has no fingerprints, and doesn’t break when you drop it. The only thing is that vegan leather is prone to scratches if you keep it with keys and all, so don’t mix your pockets. Other than that, you get a polycarbonate frame, and it weighs around this much, which is also normal.
But what is not normal is this. This lights up when you’re charging the phone or when you receive a notification. It has RGB on it, you can customize the color, and it’s a cool to have feature. Now, I would say the three standout features of this phone start with watching videos. It is a 6.78-inch 120Hz AMOLED display. See, I’ll play this Costa Rica video; the colors, brightness, and all are pretty good. This is an HDR video. Plus, since this is a curved screen, you get this infinite effect, like the video bends at the side, and you feel as if the display is larger. Also, Infinix says it has 1300 nits of peak brightness. So, we used it outdoors under direct sunlight. See, the icons and all are pretty visible. It has Dolby Atmos. Plus, see here; you get speaker grills here on the top, and oh, these are tuned by JBL. Damn, these are loud. For the price, I would say the speakers are above average. All in all, watching videos and movies on this phone is pretty nice. The second standout feature of this phone is this. It charges magnetically. Now there is a twist here. See, the phone in itself doesn’t have magnetic charging. See, it will not stay. But the case has magnets. Infinix is calling it MagCharge. So, in simple words, the phone has wireless charging, and the case has magnets. If you connect both of them, it becomes magnetic wireless charging. And they also have other charging accessories like this Mac pad, this Mac Power, which is a wireless power bank, and Infinix is calling this Mac Kit, which will be available on Fibcard for Rs. 4,999. Also, I read that this will be available for free for people who pre-order the phone. And if you think this is enough wireless charging, that’s not it. There’s also reverse wireless charging here. So you can charge your TWS watch and any other phone. So getting wireless plus reverse wireless charging at this price is something new.
Also, see here in the settings: Infinix has bypass charging. Let me see if I can demonstrate this. Now, I’ll connect this phone to charge it. Now, I’ll run the 3DMark benchmark, first without bypass charging, and now you can see what the temperature is. Now, I’ll use bypass charging. And see here, the phone was cooler when bypass charging was activated. So in simple words, bypass charging means that when you’re playing games while the phone is charging, the power goes directly to the phone and not the battery. This way, the battery doesn’t heat up, your phone stays cool, and no frame drops. I’ll get to the gaming and performance in just a moment, but if you put so much charging mechanism in a phone, how does it deal with it? So we asked Infinix, what about heat? What about the battery management? So they have a dedicated Cheetah X1 chip, which is responsible for the dedicated power management of the smartphone. Other than this, the Infinix Note 40 Pro has two variants. There is one 5000mAh battery variant, which has 45W charging, and there is the Note 40 Pro Plus, which has a 4600mAh battery at 100W charging. From our experience, they should easily last you one day in normal use. And let me show you something cool. See, if I connect the charger, a notification shows up like this. Now, where have we seen this before? Hmm, which brings me to the software. It comes with Android 14 out of the box, and Infinix is promising 2 plus 3 years of Android updates. Here are a few interesting things on the software side of things. Like you see here, there are no hot apps or hot games, which is nice; other brands should take note. Also, Infinix has implemented quite a few AI features; let me show you the ones that I like.
First, you get chat GPT in the new Follex assistant. So if I say something like this, Hi Follex, how many calories are in a samosa? On average, a single samosa may contain around 100 to 300 calories. What if I add sauce? Adding sauce to a samosa can increase the calorie content, depending on the type and amount of sauce used. Eating a samosa with the sauce has quite a lot of calories. So I can ask it follow-up questions. The only catch here is that it is powered by GPT 3.5 and not the latest GPT phone. Second, see, I can connect the phone with my laptop and three-finger tap here; it copies on the phone and control V, and I can paste it on the laptop. Third, there is this AI sky replacement, so in the camera, you have this option, and see here, before clicking the picture, I can replace the sky with anything I want. Generally, most phones do this after the photo is taken. Here, the Note 40 Pro is doing it while the photo is being taken. I mean, that’s nice. Which brings me to the cameras, and things are interesting here. So, you get a 108-megapixel main camera with OIS, and the rest of the cameras are a depth camera and a macro camera. And during the daytime, the pictures are fine. like the skin tone colors and all, they are okay. We even clicked the pictures in portrait mode; it did a decent job. Also, one thing that we noticed is that by default in portrait mode, the beauty mode is on, so you will have to turn it off once. And you also get a 32-megapixel main selfie shooter. Even the selfies from it are okay; HDR and all are just about fine. While the main camera takes decent photos, two important things are worth noting over here. Number one, there is no ultra-wide-angle camera. This is a macro camera and a depth camera, I believe. And number two is that the video maxes out at 2K at 30 FPS. Even in selfie video, you can do a maximum 2K at 30 fps, and I believe this is because of the processor, so overall the camera is average for the price.
Now that the phone is running on Dimensity 720, as you can see here, if I open a 4K video on YouTube, it is sometimes stuck at 480p, but if I send a 4K video here, it will not open. Other than that, you get 8GB of LPDDR 4X RAM and 250GB of UFS 2.2 storage. While these are fine for normal day-to-day stuff like taking calls, watching videos, or even playing casual games, if you play games like BGMI, you will have to lower the setting. Which brings me to the burning question: Should phones take inspiration from other phones? Well, see, as long as it enhances the experience, why not? Take the Infinix Note 40 Pro for instance. Mac charge, AI in assistant, that halo light, clipboard sync, and all of that—these are good features, and the really good thing is that these ecosystem features are not limited to one laptop. You can use it with any Windows laptop, which is what Android stands for. Now I’m not sure about the exact pricing and offers of the phone, but the Infinix Note 40 Pro will launch under 20,000 with bank offers and everything. Like, what is the one most important thing that you look for in a smartphone?
