Xiaomi Mi-3 Review

Xiaomi Mi-3 is an impressive Android cellphone, which features a great 2.36 gigahertz Quad-Core processing unit, a pretty big 5" touch-screen, and 2 cameras, a 13 mega-pixels back camera and a 2 mega-pixels front camera.

Xiaomi made this cellphoneavailable only in color black. This cellphone is much lighter than what one would expect from a device of this size. The Xiaomi Mi-3 has an amazing design, with a thickness of just 0.32 inches. Although this phone just has 5.67 inches long and 2.9 inches wide, it's able to fit a a 5 inches display.

This cellphone has a incredible 5 inches display with a 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) resolution, giving this phone a perfect graphic quality. Its display uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

Xiaomi decided to design this device using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 8974-AB chip, holding a high-tech Quad-Core processor speeding at 2360 MHz with a big 2 GB RAM. Graphic intensive apps and games often eats lots of CPU time, so it uses an extra Adreno 330 GPU clocking at 450 MHz to help the processor with those tasks. An interesting aspect of this phone is its big 16 GB internal memory and while it doesn't have a slot for external memory cards, it should be enough to store hundreds of games and apps, but it might not be enough if you are fan of the heaviest games available nowadays.

This cellphone features two cameras, a 13 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 2 megapixels front camera. This cellphone also films Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 fps. In addition, the camera includes a lot of valuable features: auto-focus, flash, digital image stabilization, face detection shooting, HDR mode, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

This phone has wi-fi connection (which can be shared with other devices acting as a wireless modem), HSPA+ 4G connection type, which is not as fast as LTE-A or LTE networks and the fastest 3G data connection, over HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone works with a SIM card to use GSM services.

This phone packs a 3050 mAh great Li-Ion non-removable battery, enough to provide the Xiaomi Mi-3 with a great battery life. An issue to take into consideration is that this phone's battery is non-replaceable so you can't throw it away and buy a new one when it starts to get older, although with such a great capacity you will probably discard this phone before that becomes an issue.

This phone also includes some nice characteristics like NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your cellphone close to another NFC device or tag), Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Navigation, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This phone costs around $ 269, a rather high price for comparing with similar cellphones. It doesn't matter whether you need a cellphone to majorly use social networks and internet browsing, you love taking photographs, will use it to play games or are looking for a work phone, you will probably be very satisfied with this phone.