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After pushing powerful components and cutting prices, manufacturers have started focusing on premium aesthetics and build unique, which appeal even more lớn customers. We"ve sầu seen a lot of metal being being used by companies rather than plastic, such as with the recently released Honor 5 X (Review) & Le Eco Le 1s (Review). In terms of specifications, 3GB of RAM is not something to boast about anymore, và Coolpad has proven lớn everyone with the Coolpad cảnh báo 3 (Review) that even fingerprint sensors are not restricted khổng lồ premium phones.
In light of all this, the Redmi 2 series feels a bit dated, and so Xiaomày is right on time with the new Redmày Note 3. We had a first look at the device bachồng in December, although that was the original version running on a MediaTek processor. The one launched in India sports a more potent Qualcomm chip which should make it more competitive sầu. Just lượt thích the Xiaomày Redmi 2 Prime, the Redmi Note 3 will also be made in India.
The two biggest competitors for the Redmi cảnh báo 3 that immediately spring to lớn mind are the Lenovo Vibe K4 lưu ý và LeEco"s Le 1s. Can Xiaomi"s latest offering become the undisputed winner in the sub-Rs.15,000 segment? Let"s find out.
Look and feelThe moment you take it out of the box, the Redmi lưu ý 3 looks and feels incredibly premium, especially in gold. The full-metal body gets a smooth matte finish that doesn"t attract fingerprints. It"s easy to keep clean too, as dust and grime come off with a simple wipe.
In the front, we have the 5.5-inch full-HD IPS display with very narrow side bezels. There"s a glossy rlặng running along the edge of the front facia, which is elevated above the rest of the display lớn protect it from scratches when the phone is placed face-down. It"s a nice design touch but it"s also a bit of an annoyance on the ear when you"re making calls. The display has a scratch resistant layer, although Xiaomi hasn"t explicitly stated this anywhere.
There"s a 5-megapixel camera on the top along with a notification LED for alerts. Mercifully, the capacitive buttons at the bottom are backlit. The volume rocker và power button are quite ergonomically placed on the right, while the left side houses the hybrid Dual-SIM tray. In addition to lớn the headphones socket on the top, we also have sầu an infrared (IR) emitter. The phone uses a standard Micro-USB connector for charging và data transfers.
Around the baông chồng, we have sầu a 16-megapx camera, a dual-tone dual-LED flash, the fingerprint sensor, và a speaker grille at the bottom. The Redmày chú ý 3 ships with a 10W charger, data cable, SIM ejector tool, & instruction leaflets. The chất lượng of the accessories seems good, and they should last.
We feel that Xiaongươi has done a terrific job with the kiến thiết and aesthetics of the Redmi cảnh báo 3. The finish of the phone is excellent & the display is crisp and vibrant. The IPS panel has very good colour reproduction và features Xiaomi"s Sunlight Display hardware feature which indeed makes it decently legible even under direct sunlight.
We also like how comfortable the phone feels in the hvà. It"s a bit tricky lớn use one-handed, but is fairly slyên ổn at 8.7milimet with good weight distribution.
SpecificationsThe Xiaongươi Redngươi Note 3 might be a budget smartphone but there"s certainly nothing low-over about the hardware it packs. This is the first phone to lớn roll out with Qualcomm"s SnapLong 650 SoC, which is a pretty big khuyến mãi given its near-flagship cấp độ performance in some benchmarks. It"s a hexa-core SoC, much lượt thích the Snapdragon 808 found in the Moto lớn X Style, but instead of the Cortex-A57 cores, we have sầu two of ARM"s more powerful Cortex-A72 cores running at 1.8GHz. The other four cores are Cortex-A53s which chug along at 1.4GHz. This SoC still uses the 28nm fabrication process but the GPU is a newer Adreno 510, which is one notch lower than what"s present in the flagship Snaprồng 8trăng tròn chip.
In benchmarks, we witnessed some pretty impressive sầu numbers especially considering the price of the device. We got an average of 74,303 in AnTuTu, which is higher than what we got from many high-kết thúc phones based on the Snapdragon 810. GPU performance is equally impressive, and we recorded 31fps in the T-Rex kiểm tra in GFXbench, which once again is competitive sầu to scores posted by Snapdragon 810 devices.
The Xiaomày Redmi Note 3 will come in two variants. What we have today is the one with 3GB of RAM & 32GB of onboard storage, but you can opt for the other Mã Sản Phẩm with 2GB of RAM và 16GB storage if your budget is tight. Officially, storage can be expanded by up lớn 32GB by using a microSD card instead of a second SIM in the hybrid slot, though unofficially you can put cards of bigger storage capacity as well.
Thanks to the Qualcomilimet chip, the phone features Category 7 LTE for Band 3, 5, 40 and 41 along with VoLTE support. You also get dual-bvà Wi-Fi b/g/n/ac, Bluetooh 4.1, USB OTG, FM radio, Miracast, GLONASS, and BeiDou. NFC is one feature that"s missing.
SoftwareThe phone ships with an Android Lollipop fork called MIUI 7, which is has been reworked from the ground up. Compared khổng lồ earlier versions of MIUI, version 7 is certainly more likable và better polished. It"s still a single-layered interface, but it does let users customise the look và feel with transition effects & themes. The Theme Store tiện ích has a pretty good selection of không lấy phí themes, and we particularly liked the Marshmallow one.
The lochồng screen gets a feature called Wallpaper Carousel, which displays random wallpapers from a user-selected collection which is updated daily. The notification shade has separate tabs for incoming alerts and toggle switches, khổng lồ avoid clutter. There"s also a lite mode for those looking for a simplified interface, and a child mode that lets you restrict which apps your children have access to lớn when you let them play with your phone. The Settings app is where you"ll find the most interesting changes.
Reading mode, which is essentially a bluelight filter, can be toggled from the notification shade. The strength of the filter can be adjusted in the Display sub-thực đơn. The fingerprint sensor can recognise up lớn five sầu fingerprints. Xiaomi Vice President Hugo Barra stated during the phone"s launch that it"s possible to lớn record your lip pattern too, though it failed to unloông xã the phone when we tried it.
Signing up for a Mi account gives you 5GB of cloud storage for backing up your contacts, messages, photos, etc. You also have sầu the option khổng lồ password protect specific apps khổng lồ keep nosy people out of your private chats, for example. You can hide files with fingerprint authentication using the Explorer phầm mềm.
Xiaongươi has incorporated a one-handed mode, which you can enter or exit by simply swiping right from the capacitive sầu Home button. You can even choose the kích thước to lớn which you want the display to lớn shrink. The phone comes with a preloaded tiện ích called Mi Mover which lets you move apps & data to or from any other Android device. MIUI 7 supports up to lớn 13 indic languages. Apart from the standard Google keyboard và SwiftKey, our demo unit also had a keyboard called Fleksy, which turned out khổng lồ be much better than we had expected.
In terms of preloaded apps, you get basic productivity tools along with some additional ones such as Mi Remote. This lets you mix up the IR emitter for various infrared-capable devices, including DSLR cameras. The Mi Store phầm mềm is a marketplace for all Xiaomày products sold in India. The Security app lets you monitor data usage và run basic maintenance tasks. You also get Facebook, WPS Office, và the usual Google apps.
PerformanceXiaongươi Redmi Note 3"s hardware & software come together nicely lớn deliver a very pleasing Android experience. The interface is fluid with barely any noticeable stutter when multitasking. Điện thoại tư vấn quality is good & the phone had no trouble latching on to multiple carriers" LTE networks in Mumbai.
Our Đánh Giá unit was fairly stable apart from a few reboots which occurred when the phone got warm when running benchmark tests with it plugged in. Speaking of heat, the metal body toàn thân does get warm during continuous video playbachồng and when recording videos, but it doesn"t get too uncomfortable.
One niggling issue we did encounter was the long time it took to get both SIMs working. This wasn"t a problem if there was only a single SIM in the phone, but when we inserted a second one, it would take a really long time for the phone lớn detect it. We were stuông chồng with a "No Service" message for more than 10 minutes on one such occasion. Rebooting the phone didn"t help. This could be a pain if you swap SIMs often, but otherwise it"s not that big a giảm giá. We"re happy khổng lồ report that the fingerprint sensor works well & is quite fast at unlocking the phone.
The Redngươi lưu ý 3 is great for multimedia, especially thanks khổng lồ its crisp display. The phone can handle 4K video clip playback. The speaker is fairly loud for alerts & truyền thông although we missed the stereo effect. The music player is functional & you can switch between different audio profiles phối for different types of earphones. You can quickly mô tả truyền thông files with other Xiaongươi devices using Mi Drop. We didn"t have sầu issues with audio unique with our own earphones. In the 32GB version, you get about 26.2GB of accessible storage space. On average, you have sầu about 1GB of free RAM available if you only have a single tiện ích running.
CameraThe rear camera has a 16-megapixel sensor & a wide f/2.0 aperture. Both landscapes và macro shots captured in daylight have good detail. Colour reproduction is good too. However, objects in focus laông xã a bit of definition and aren"t very sharp, but this is only visible once you zoom in. Images look good on the phone"s display though, và as long as you don"t need to lớn crop the picture at full size, you should be good.
The camera also struggles a bit with sharpness và depth under artificial lighting. Low-light images are not too shabby, as there"s barely any visible noise in the dark areas. The dual-tone flash is decent for nearby objects but don"t expect too much from it. 1080p video recording is good but very shaky due to lack of any software stabilisation. Also, 720p đoạn phim chất lượng is not great so we recommover shooting in full-HD all the time. The front camera captures good selfies in daylight thanks lớn the same wide f/2.0 aperture.
The camera app is simple to use và has plenty of shooting modes. We liked the handy HDR toggle switch next to the shutter button, which makes life a lot simpler. You swipe down or left for filters, và the other way for shooting modes, depending on whether you"re holding the phone in landscape or portrait. The Panorama mode does an okay job of stitching photos together. The Manual mode lets you play with trắng balance và ISO settings but there aren"t any options for aperture or shutter tốc độ.
The focusing speed is good, even in low light. You can capture an image with the secondary shutter button placed in the centre of the focus ring. Burst mode also works well. Other modes includes Gradient, which helps level out shots even if you tilt the phone; Fish eye, which adds a fun effect; & Beautify which lets you smoothen out skin blemishes.
Battery lifeThe non-removable 4050mAh battery managed to get us through 12 hours and 21 minutes of continuous video clip playback, which is quite good. During actual usage, we easily managed khổng lồ go more than a day, and this was without resorting to lớn the battery saving modes. The phone supports Qualcomm"s Quiông xã Charge feature, và we managed lớn charge the Redmày lưu ý 3 up to 20 percent in half an hour. We wouldn"t Hotline this super quick but it"s better than nothing.
VerdictThe Xiaomày Redmày Note 3 is priced at Rs. 9,999 for 2GB of RAM & 16GB of storage, and Rs.11,999 for 3GB of RAM và 32GB of storage, which is very aggressive when you consider the overall package. Xiaongươi has also partnered with Hungama lớn offer a không tính tiền two-month subscription khổng lồ its streaming service.
It"s hard khổng lồ find fault with the Redmày lưu ý 3 as it ticks all the right boxes, and in some ways, rivals phones that cost a lot more. The metal body toàn thân & fingerprint sensor are welcome additions lớn the Redngươi series, & make the cảnh báo 3 feel relevant in năm 2016. You also get a great display, very good battery life, & a powerful SoC. The camera isn"t too bad, although we could have done with sharper stills & better unique HD videos. MIUI 7 is improved compared khổng lồ previous versions, & is quite likable. We do wish storage expansion beyond 32GB was officially supported, & it woudn"t have sầu hurt lớn throw in NFC just khổng lồ complete the package.
A few kinks aside, we believe sầu that the Xiaongươi Redmi cảnh báo 3 is easily one of the best smartphones available for under Rs.15,000 today, and has the potential to get better with future software updates. If you are confused between this, the Lenovo Vibe K4 Note (Review) và the Le 1s (Review), we can confidently give the Xiaomi Redmi chú ý 3 our vote.