XIAOMI MI3 REVIEW

Xiaomi launched its flagship android smartphone namely MI3 in India which is priced @ 13,999/- sold via Flipkart. It is available is Black, White & Grey shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is pretty nice. It has corning glass 3 on front and a plastic back and feels good in hands. It is slim at 8.1mm and weighs 145gms. It has 5 inch FULL HD IPS LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1280 with 441 ppi. The viewing angles are pretty good and sunlight legibility of the display is quite good. It runs on MI User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS

It has 16GB of internal storage which is not further expandable. 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. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) and also has NFC.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good 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 HD1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 17-18mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good 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 2 front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is pretty fine could have been better.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 kitkat out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) processor running a quad core 2.3 GHZ (Cortex-A15) with 2GB RAM and Adreno 330 (550MHZ Single core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.

QUADRANT : 8550.

ANTUTU : 34350.

NENAMARK 2: 60fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a Non - removable Li-Ion 3050 mah battery. The battery life is Excellent which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 8:15H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 9:30H.

TALKTIME : upto 18H(2G) / upto 15H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 420H(2G) / upto 400H(3G).

PROS

*Good build quality. 
*Very Good Display.

*Excellent Performance.

*Very good camera and video recording.
*NFC & USB OTG support.
*Good battery life 
*Aggressive Pricing.

CONS
*Display is bit reflective hampering sunlight legibility. 
*Non-Removable Battery.
*No microSD slot.
*Sold only via online by Flipkart. 

*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.