XIAOMI REDMI 3S / 3S PRIME REVIEW



Xiaomi launched its budget android smartphone namely Redmi 3S and 3S Prime in India which is priced at 6,999 for Redmi 3S variant and 8,999 for Redmi 3S Prime variant sold via mi.com and Flipkart. It is available is Silver, Gold & Grey shades. The online links are given below so check them out to keep track of current price & availability or to pick one of them.

SPECS OVERVIEW

5 inch 720p IPS Display
8.5mm Slim & weighs 144gms
16/32GB Storage with MicroSD
13MP Rear & 5MP Front Cameras
Snapdragon 430 (Octa-Core CPU)
Adreno 505 GPU with 2/3GB RAM
Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow
Fingerprint & Gyroscope sensor
USB OTG, IR Blaster
4100 mah Battery with fast charging

Lets Dive Into The Review!

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is pretty good. It has Scratch resistant glass on front and metallic unibody and feels very good in hands. It is slim at 8.5mm and weighs 144gms. It has 5 inch HD IPS LCD display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 294ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is very good. It runs on MI 8.0 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 16GB/32GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 200GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a video player for playing movies respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 21.1mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, GPS & GLONASS, USB OTG and Bluetooth 4.1 LE (Low Energy) come standard but also has IR Blaster. It also has Fingerprint scanner (Only On Redmi 3S Prime) & Gyroscope sensor support which is great.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP (F/2.2 Aperture) rear camera with phase detection autofocus and Dual Led (dual tone) flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is great overall. Daytime the images are very good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is just good and could have been better. It does Full HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 17-18mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is great overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is just good could have been bit better. It also has a 5MP (F/2.2 Aperture) front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is quite very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 6.0.1 Marshmallow out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937) SOC (System On Chip) running an Octa-Core processor clocked at 1.4 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) with 2GB (16GB storage variant) / 3GB (32GB storage variant) RAM and Adreno 505 (450MHZ Single-Core) GPU. The performance is Excellent overall which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all. 
QUADRANT : 22950.
ANTUTU : 40450.
NENAMARK 2: 60fps.
The performance on 2GB RAM variant is very good which runs things pretty well and there is slight lag at intensive multitasking and heavy usage.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Ion 4100 mah battery with fast charging support. The battery life is Excellent which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 12H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 12H.
TALKTIME : upto 25H(2G) / upto 22H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 550H(2G) / upto 520H(3G).

PROS
*Very good build quality. 
*Very good Display & viewing angle.
*Excellent Performance.
*Quite Excellent overall camera and video recording for the price.
*4G, IR Blaster & USB OTG support.
*Fingerprint scanner (Only On Redmi 3S Prime) & Gyroscope sensor support.
*Good loudspeaker.
*Excellent battery life.
*Great pricing.

CONS
*Non-Removable battery.
*Hybrid Sim slot.
*Loudspeaker volume could have been better.
*No dedicated camera key. 

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.3/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

To Know The Current Price And To Buy This Phone Now! Click The Links Below.
FLIPKART : http://fkrt.it/9jnJ9TuuuN (Redmi 3S)
FLIPKART : http://fkrt.it/EMCmb!NNNN (Redmi 3S Prime)

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