Top 7 things to know about the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3

The mid-range smartphone market is getting heated up like never, a few months ago, Lenovo came up with the K4 Note, and next in line is the Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 3, the device was already released in China back in December and finally it got launched in India yesterday. It’s intriguing to see Xiaomi coming up with a successor within few months of launching the Redmi Note 2, so in this post, we are going to share the top 7 things to know about the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3.

So, here are the top 7 things which you must know about the new Xiaomi Redmi Note 3-

1.Display

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 boasts a 5.5-inch FHD display, offering a resolution of (1080×1920 p), coming to the screen quality, the colors reproduction is quite good, texts look sharp and crisp, although the viewing angles are not that great.

2.Hardware

Under the hood, the device packs a new Snapdragon 650 hexacore processor clocked at 1.4 GHz which is getting bundled with 2/3 GB of RAM, so day-to-day multitasking won’t be an issue.

3.Gaming

For gaming the device packs a powerful Adreno 510 GPU, making the device capable enough to handle games like Asphalt 8, WWE Immortals, Dead Trigger 2, etc. It’s good to see Xiaomi pushing up its budget devices with such high-end specs.

4.Fingerprint Sensor

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 houses a fingerprint sensor, which has been placed below the rear camera, the good thing about the fingerprint sensor is that even though it’s a budget device, the fingerprint sensor is quite accurate and fast, upon placing the finger, it unlocks the device within 1-2 seconds.

5.Battery Life

The device packs a mammoth 4050 mAh non-removable battery when it comes to usage, the device will easily last for 2 days for an average user and if you are a heavy user then also you’ll give get more than one day of usage.

6.Camera

Coming to the camera department, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 is getting armed with a 16 MP rear facing camera supported by a Dual-tone LED flash, and the front gets a 5 MP camera, when it comes to quality, both the rear and front camera takes good quality pictures, but pictures in low-light tend out to be bit noisy.

7.No confirmation on Marshmallow update

Out of the box, the device runs on Android v5.1.1(Lollipop) and on top, it runs the custom MIUI 7, however, Xiaomi has not given any confirmation whether the device will be getting the latest Android v6.0(Marshmallow), which is a kind of a setback.

specification:

General
Device name	Redmi Note 3
Company	Xiaomi
Release Date	November 2015
Sim	Dual-sim
Sim-Type	Micro
Weight	164 g
Dimension	(5.91×2.99×0.34)inches
Colors available in	Gold,Silver,Dark Grey
Display
Screen Size	5.5 inch
Display Type	IPS LCD
Resolution	1080×1920 pixels
Pixel density	~ 403 ppi
O.S & Hardware
O.S	Android v5.1.1(Lollipop)
Custom UI	MIUI 7
Processor	Hexa-core (1.4 GHz Quad-Core 1.8 GHz Dual-core)
Chipset	Qualcomm Snapdragon 650
GPU	Adreno 510
RAM	2/3 GB
Internal memory	16/32 GB
micro-SD slot	Yes
Expandable memory	up to 128 GB
Sensors
Proximity	Yes
Accelerometer	Yes
Gyroscope	Yes
Compass	Yes
Fingerprint	Yes
Camera
Primary Camera	16 MP
Resolution	4608×3456 pixels
Secondary Camera	5 MP
Video	HD recording at 1080p @30fps
Features	dual-LED flash,panorama,touch-focus, face/smile detection,Geo-tagging
Connectivity
Wi-Fi	Yes
Bluetooth	v 4.1
EDGE	Yes
3G	Yes
4G	Yes
GPS	Yes
IR	Yes
USB OTG	Yes
USB	micro-USB,v 2.0
Multimedia
Audio Jack	Yes,3.5 mm stereo audio jack
Loud Speaker	Yes
Battery
Capacity	4050 mAh (Li-Po)
Removable	No
Talk Time	NA
Store & Price
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