Xiaomi entered Pakistan a few months ago. It is known for its excellent smartphones at affordable prices. The brand is extremely successful in India and China and now aiming to be a big success in Pakistan. Xiaomi Redmi 4X is a budget smartphone from the Chinese manufacturer.
Xiaomi Mi Note 3 feels very premium in hand. It has a metal back unlike the plastic back of the Redmi 4A. The fingerprint sensor is embedded in the home screen. The phone has excellent curved edges which feel premium at the first look. The phone also has the Corning Gorilla Glass protection which makes it scratch resistant.
Power buttons and volume rocker are located on the right side of the phone and both of them are easily accessible with one hand. A micro USB port and stereo speakers are located at the bottom of the device. The left side has a tray which has a dual sim slot. The phone can be used easily with one hand.
The Xiaomi Mi Note 3 has a Dual 12 MP (27mm, f/1.8, OIS 4-axis & 52mm, f/2.6) camera with phase detection autofocus,2X optical zoom and dual LED flash. The front camera is a 5 MP, f/2.0 unit. Both cameras can record 1080p videos at 30fps. The camera is same as featured in Xiaomi Mi 6. It launches quickly and takes photos in a blink of an eye. The main camera takes excellent photos in daytime and low light conditions. The camera comes with typical Xiaomi UI and supports tap to focus. You can also adjust exposure after tapping an object. The color accuracy of the camera is excellent. The front camera performs mostly like the main camera. It also takes excellent selfies in daylight but struggles in low light conditions.
The Xiaomi Mi Note 3 comes with a Snapdragon 660 chipset with Octa-core (4×2.2 GHz Kryo 260 & 4×1.8 GHz Kryo 260) CPU and Adreno 512 GPU. It comes with 64/128GB internal storage and 6 gigs of RAM. The performance is excellent in everyday use and the phone does not lag even on heavy multitasking.
Gameplay is excellent in even the most demanding game. You do not feel any lag while playing any kind of game.
| Device Type | smart phone |
| Model | Xiaomi Mi Note 3 |
| Announced | 11 September, 2017 |
| Released | 12 September, 2017 |
| Status | Available |
| Price | 45,000 PKR |
| Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones. | Bar |
| Dimensions | 152.6 x 74 x 7.6 mm |
| Weight | 163 g |
| Colors |
Blue, Black |
| 2G Network |
GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2 |
| 3G Network |
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 |
| 4G Network | LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) |
| SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages. | Micro SIM |
| Dual SIM | yes |
| Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor) | IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen |
| Size | 5.5 inches |
| Resolution | 1080 x 1920 pixels |
| Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others. | 16M colors |
| Touch Screen | capacitive touchscreen |
| Features |
- XviD/MP4/H.265 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/Flac player - Photo/video editor - Document viewer |
| Primary Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality. | Dual 12 MP (27mm, f/1.8, OIS 4-axis & 52mm, f/2.6), 2x optical zoom, phase detection autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash |
| Video | 2160p@30fps, 720p@120fps |
| Camera Features |
1.12 µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, HDR |
| Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration) | dual-LED (dual tone) flash |
| Secondary | 16 MP |
| Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device. | Android 7.0 (Nougat) |
| User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface. | MIUI 9 |
| Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming. | Qualcomm MSM8956 Plus Snapdragon 660 |
| CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone. | Octa-core (4x2.2 GHz Kryo 260 & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 260) |
| GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion. | Adreno 512 |
| RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices. | 6 GB |
| Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored. | 64/128 GB |
| Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras. | No |
| Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device. |
Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass |
| Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices. | 5.0, A2DP, LE |
| Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world. | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot |
| GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky. | yes |
| NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches. | |
| USB Ports | Type-C 1.0 reversible connector |
| Card Reader | |
| Headphone Jack | |
| Microphone Jack |
| GPRS GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications (GSM), Generally, GPRS is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection. | |
| EDGE EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) is a wireless network technology generally considered the next step in the 2G network offers data transfer rates up to four times faster than ordinary GSM networks, Generally, EDGE is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection. |
| Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium. | Li-Ion (Lithium Ion) |
| Capacity Battery Capacity is a measure (typically in Amp-hr) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions. | 3500 mAh battery |
| Placement | Non-removable Li-Po |
