Known for its aggressive pricing, the company has positioned Mi 3 as a budget smartphone that offers high-end hardware specifications, selling it at Rs 13,999.
We played with Mi 3 during the Xiaomi launch event and here's what we think of the phone.
1. Solid Build & Understand Design:
Xiaomi Mi 3 looks and feels like a premium smartphone. It features an aluminum-magnesium alloy frame coated with 3 layers of thermal graphite enclosed with a back panel made of good quality plastic and a full-HD display.
The phone is 8.1mm thick but not too heavy at 145gram. Despite its large size, the phone is easy to carry around. It reminded us of the Nokia N9 and the Nokia Lumia 800 with its rounded edges.
The power and volume keys are placed at the right edge while the left edge is barren. The speaker grill and micro-USB port are at the bottom edge while the 3.5mm headset jack sits at the top, along with a sim card tray.
The front features three capacitive keys for navigation, just below the display, and a 2MP front-facing camera above it. The 13MP rear camera and dual-LED flash are placed at the back, towards the top left. The phone will be available in metallic grey colour.
The phone is 8.1mm thick but not too heavy at 145gram. Despite its large size, the phone is easy to carry around. It reminded us of the Nokia N9 and the Nokia Lumia 800 with its rounded edges.
The power and volume keys are placed at the right edge while the left edge is barren. The speaker grill and micro-USB port are at the bottom edge while the 3.5mm headset jack sits at the top, along with a sim card tray.
The front features three capacitive keys for navigation, just below the display, and a 2MP front-facing camera above it. The 13MP rear camera and dual-LED flash are placed at the back, towards the top left. The phone will be available in metallic grey colour.
2. Bright & Vivid Display:
Xiaomi Mi 3 sports a 5-inch full-HD (1080p, 441ppi, 16:9) IPS LCD display manufactured by either Sharp or LG. In our brief time with the phone, we were impressed with the display's brightness and colour rendering.
Text and pictures appeared crisp and sharp and the viewing angles were pretty good.
Touch sensitivity was also great and the company claims that you can even operate the phone when you hands are wet. We weren't able to use the phone under sunlight.
Text and pictures appeared crisp and sharp and the viewing angles were pretty good.
Touch sensitivity was also great and the company claims that you can even operate the phone when you hands are wet. We weren't able to use the phone under sunlight.
3. Powerful Hardware:
Xiaomi Mi 3 is powered by a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB RAM. It runs by Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Xiaomi's proprietary MiUi skin on top. It packs 16GB internal storage, but does not support storage expansion via microSD card.
Connectivity suite of the smartphone consists of 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0 and NFC. It has a 3,050mAh battery, and Xiaomi claims that the smartphone can deliver talk time of up to 21 hours on 3G networks.
In our brief hands-on, we did not experience any lag or stutter while launching and switching between apps, and navigating through the UI. We'll have a detailed performance analysis after putting the Mi 3 through its paces.
Connectivity suite of the smartphone consists of 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0 and NFC. It has a 3,050mAh battery, and Xiaomi claims that the smartphone can deliver talk time of up to 21 hours on 3G networks.
In our brief hands-on, we did not experience any lag or stutter while launching and switching between apps, and navigating through the UI. We'll have a detailed performance analysis after putting the Mi 3 through its paces.
4. Android 4.4 with MIUI Twist:
Xiaomi Mi 3 runs MiUi 5, an operating system based on Android 4.4 KitKat. MiUi offers themes, built-in apps and widgets, and advanced settings options enhancing the plain vanilla Android experience. The demo unit had an MiUi India theme that featured custom icons, wallpapers and settings. The basic MiUi theme looks good with its colourful icon set, beautiful wallpapers and tweaked settings menus.
Unlike stock Android, the phone doesn't include a separate app launcher. App icons and widgets are spread across the home screens. The unified home screen-app launcher style may come across as user-friendly to people who've not used an Android phone before. But it may take some time to get used to if your last phone was an Android smartphone.
Xiaomi VP Hugo Barra also reassured that the Mi 3 will get timely software updates. Barra was previously Vice President and product spokesperson at Google's Android division.
Unlike stock Android, the phone doesn't include a separate app launcher. App icons and widgets are spread across the home screens. The unified home screen-app launcher style may come across as user-friendly to people who've not used an Android phone before. But it may take some time to get used to if your last phone was an Android smartphone.
Xiaomi VP Hugo Barra also reassured that the Mi 3 will get timely software updates. Barra was previously Vice President and product spokesperson at Google's Android division.
5. 13 Mega Pixel with Dual-LED Flash:
Xiaomi Mi 3 sports a 13MP rear camera accompanied by a Philips dual-LED flash. According to Xiaomi, the Mi 3's 5-piece lens includes an infrared filter, that delivers more accurate colours in photos. It has an ƒ/2.2 aperture to capture more light, and 28mm wide-angle lens to cover more.
We tried clicking some pictures at the launch event and found them to be pretty decent. The front camera also did a good job and its 30mm wide angle lens lets you capture more people.
We'll need to spend more time with the phone to asses the capability of its camera.
We tried clicking some pictures at the launch event and found them to be pretty decent. The front camera also did a good job and its 30mm wide angle lens lets you capture more people.
We'll need to spend more time with the phone to asses the capability of its camera.
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