Infinix Note 50 Pro+ review
Android 15 and XOS 15
The Note 50 Pro+ runs Android 15 with Infinix's XOS (also v15) layered on top. The company isn't particularly generous with its software support promises, but it has committed to 2 OS upgrades and 3 years of security updates, which is probably enough for most potential owners.
The fundamentals of the UI aren't too different from competing Android overlays, so there won't be any major adjustments needed.
XOS 15 on the Infinix Note 50 Pro+
That said, there's an extra twist to the Large folder implementation that we don't remember seeing before - you can have it in a 1x3 icon form factor in addition to the usual 3x3. We asked around, and at least one person at the office found that useful.
More XOS 15
The Note 50 Pro+ is packed with AI features and just listing them would take a while. It's nice then that there's an Infinix AI menu item in settings where they're all neatly organized. Each feature is detailed, and there are tutorials for most of them right there.
There's an in-house system-wide assistant called Folax, now closely integrated with DeepSeek R1. You can easily switch that to Google Gemini (or alternate between the two if you're into that).
AI stuff
There's text recognition and extraction, audio recording and call summary and translation, wallpaper generation, document assistance (summary, translation, generation) - pretty much everything you can think of. There's also Circle to search, of course.
More AI stuff
The phone allows you to flip a toggle, download the AI model for most of these things and have the processing done on-device. If you're worried about your data going back and forth to the cloud, maybe that's your toggle.
Yet more AI stuff
With all those AI capabilities on board, you'd think that there would be a bunch of image editing functionality as well, but there's little beyond basic AI object erasing - no reflection removal, or sky enhancement, or anything else.
There's also a quick menu for controlling the Active Halo lighting. You can use it for notifications, charging progress, self timer indication, among other things. The heart rate and blood oxygen level sensor inside the halo, meanwhile, can be used for keeping track on your vitals.
Weirdly enough, there was no IR remote app, despite there being a functional IR emitter - we had to download a third-party app to make any use of it.
Halo lighting settings • HR check
Performance and benchmarks
The Note 50 Pro+ has the Dimensity 8350 at its core, the midrange Mediatek chip being fairly popular in one incarnation or another (the D8300 and D8300 Ultra are pretty much the same). It's made on a 4nm process, the CPU features 4 Cortex-A715 cores (1 at 3.35GHz, the others at 3.2GHz) and 4 Cortex-A510s, and the GPU is Mali G615-MC6. There's only one memory configuration - 12GB or RAM (LPDDR5X) and 256GB of storage (UFS 4.0).
In benchmarks, the Note 50 Pro+ showed solid results - towards the upper end of its class. It outperform competing Galaxies, often by a lot, Motorola Edge 50s are left trailing, the Realme 14 Pro+ isn't keeping up either. The Oppo Reno13 and Reno13 Pro are about on par, and so too is the Xiaomi 14T.
GeekBench 6
- Multi-core
- Single-core
Poco X7 Pro
Poco X6 Pro
Xiaomi 14T
Oppo Reno13
Oppo Reno13 Pro
Infinix Note 50 Pro+
Galaxy A56
AnTuTu 10
Poco X7 Pro
Realme P3 Ultra
Poco X6 Pro
Oppo Reno13
Infinix Note 50 Pro+
Oppo Reno13 Pro
Xiaomi 14T
3DMark
- Wild Life Extreme (2160p)
- Solar Bay (1440p)
Poco X7 Pro
Realme P3 Ultra
Xiaomi 14T
Oppo Reno13 Pro
Infinix Note 50 Pro+
Oppo Reno13
vivo v50
Under prolonged load, the Note 50 Pro+ returned about average numbers. The GPU stability according to the 3DMark Wild Life Extreme stress test was 78%, which is a little better than other models with the same chipset. The CPU Throttling test's graph shows a relatively gradual decline from the initial result and eventually settles around 2/3 of peak performance.
CPU Throttling test • 3DMark Wildlife Extreme stress test
Reader comments
- Anonymous
- 19 hours ago
- 3n5
i remember in our country some shops sold infinix note 30 vip with 50w wireless charging dock with built-in fan as a special deal.
- Boss
- 09 Apr 2025
- D02
Infinix note 50 pro plus launched in India