Infinix Note 50 Pro+ review

6.78-inch OLED with plenty of pixels

The Note 50 Pro+ features a 6.78-inch display with a 1080x2436px resolution in a somewhat unusual 20.3:9 aspect ratio (pixel density works out to 393ppi). It's an OLED panel with a maximum refresh rate of 144Hz and 2,304Hz PWM dimming. It's a 10-bit panel for up to a billion colors too.

In our brightness testing, the Note 50 Pro+ was good for a little over 1,000nits in adaptive brightness mode - certainly bright enough, but still a bit behind the curve, even for its class. The manual brightness result was similarly into 'adequate' category without being remarkable.

Mind you, there's 'High Brightness Mode' that's sort of a conditional adaptive brightness - if it's especially bright around you, the phone will boost its display, but otherwise it won't be doing auto adjustments.

Refresh rate

The Note 50 Pro+ supports a 144Hz maximum refresh rate - you get bragging rights over your 120Hz-only friends. Whether in High (up to 144Hz) or Auto-Switch mode (up to 120Hz), the phone will drop to 60Hz if you don't touch it for a while - standard behavior. The Standard mode, in turn, is a constant 60Hz. We observed no other refresh rate values - no 90Hz and no going below 60Hz.

When it comes to gaming, essentially all of the titles we usually try were capped at 60Hz/60fps. Infinix says that in PUBG in particular the phone would maintain 120fps, but maybe we're in the wrong locale for that, who knows - in our experience it was 60Hz/30fps max.

Streaming and HDR

The Note 50 Pro+ reports support for HDR10 and HDR10+ and while it seemingly can decode HDR streams on YouTube, it doesn't actually display them in HDR - we got no local brightness boost. We also didn't get HDR in Netflix, though the Widevine L1 compliance does allow FullHD playback.

There was also no Ultra HDR behavior for photos in the in-house gallery, Google Photos, or in Chrome for shots captured on phones that do support the Android standard for metadata-enhanced images.

Infinix Note 50 Pro+ battery life

The Note 50 Pro+ is powered by a 5,200mAh battery with a silicon-carbon anode - so it's using the latest type of battery with an... adequate capacity. It certainly didn't prove particularly efficient, though it's probably doing alright for its hardware.

What disappointed was the below average call time - the 18h result may be an indication to steer clear of the Note 50 Pro+ if you're big on voice calls. The rest of the numbers are also lower than what we got out of the Dimensity 8350-packing Oppo Reno13 and Reno 13 Pro, but quite consistent with the Xiaomi 14T's performance (Dimensity 8300 Ultra).

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Charging speed

The Note 50 Pro+ is rated for 100W wired charging and our review unit arrived with an adapter capable of delivering that. Mind you, the phone has two charging speed options in its settings - Smart Charge and Low-Temp Charge - while the fastest one, Hyper, can be activated from the lockscreen when you plug in the adapter.

That Hyper mode got us to 98% in 30 minutes, with another minute needed to reach 100% (though, as usual, it took a few more minutes for the phone to actually stop drawing significant power from the adapter). The regular Smart mode was a little slower (86% at the half-hour checkpoint, 37 minutes to 100%).

Since we also have the Infinix Note 50 Pro for review (non-plus, and non-5G), and that one arrived in a bundle with a 20W MagCharge pad, we also gave the wireless charging a go. For the magnets of the puck to align precisely with the phone's induction coil, you'd need to be using the case that's included with the handset (or another compatible one). It's not a requirement for maxing out the speed, it's just a lot easier and more reliable that way.

The MagCharge case is included • The puck is optional (a 20W one may be part of a package deal)

Technically, the Note 50 Pro+ is rated for up to 50W of wireless charging, but Infinix only seems to have 20W and 30W MagCharge pads in its portfolio, not to mention we couldn't really find product pagesfor them on the company's global site. Perhaps that will change as the phones go more widely available, and maybe a 50W option will appear at some point.

The Note 50 Pro+ supports reverse charging too, both wired and wireless. There's also a bypass charging toggle, which will make the phone skip the battery charging circuitry and only draw enough power for its current tasks - could come in handy in extended gaming sessions where the extra heat of the charging process could be detrimental to performance. There aren't any other options like you'd find on other phones - for example, for limiting the charge to 80% or similar.

Speaker test

The Note 50 Pro+ has a stereo speaker arrangement with one bottom firing unit and another one up top that directs sounds up through an opening in the frame and forward for earpiece duty. Each speaker plays its own track plus the opposite channel's track at a lower volume, and the phone adjusts the channels depending on its orientation. The bottom speaker is a bit more powerful than the top one.

Bottom speaker • Top speaker • Earpiece

The phone earned a 'Good' rating for loudness in our testing, on par with the previous model, and roughly what you'd expect from the class. Quality is decent but nothing special and the low end is particularly lacking.

Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.