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A little over a month ago, Xiaomi announces its Mi Ecosystem sub-brand with the debut product being a rice cooker. Finally, not only does it brought the Mi brand some sense (mi or 米 is rice millet in English), it is also one of the many Xiaomi devices that is touching on consumer electronics space, hoping to be a Samsung one day. But not forgetting its roots, on the same day, Xiaomi also announced its Redmi 3 Pro smartphone, as if the Redmi 3 isn’t already good enough for its price.
Redmi 3 Pro doesn’t stray too far from the Redmi 3 proper, but staying true to its ‘pro’ moniker, it bumps up a few specifications to make the former even more compelling. For starters, it now has a fingerprint scanner, perhaps making the Redmi 3 Pro one of the cheapest smartphones yet, with a fingerprint reader.
It keeps the same, massive 4100mAh non-user-removable lithium-ion battery, but bumps the memory from 2GB to 3GB, and the internal storage from 16GB to 32GB. Redmi 3 Pro’s processor is a version two of the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 (MSM8939v2). Everything else is pretty much identical to the Redmi 3 (even in its size and weight), except that this pro variant lacks the diamond-shaped lattice pattern, but I’m sure no one will miss that.
If anything, Redmi 3 Pro is to Redmi 3, like the Redmi 2 Enhanced is to the regular Redmi 2. While being an entry-level device to an already cheap Xiaomi device portfolio, Redmi 3 Pro disrupts the mid-range smartphone market, yet again, by offering the same hardware as its competition, for less.
- Dimensions and weight: 139.3 x 69.6 x 8.5 mm and 144 grams
- Color options: Classic Gold, Gold, Gray, Silver
- Display: 5”, 720 x 1280 pixels, ~294ppi, ~71.1% screen-to-body ratio
- Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 (MSM8939v2)
- CPU and GPU: quad-1.5GHz Cortex-A53 & quad-1.2GHz Cortex-A53, Adreno 405
- Memory and storage: 3GB RAM, 32GGB storage, microSD up to 128GB (uses 2nd SIM)
- Card slot(s): microSD up to 128, dual SIM (micro- and nano-SIM slots)
- Cellular: GSM / CDMA (China) / HSPA / EVDO (China) / LTE
- WiFi: 80211 b/g/n, hotspot, WiFi Direct
- Other connectivity: Bluetooth 4.1 LE, A-GPS, BDS, GLONASS, FM radio, no NFC
- Sensors: Fingerprint; accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, proximity
- Main camera: 13MP, f/2.0, phase detection autofocus (PDAF), LED flash
- Video recording: 1080p at 30fps
- Front camera: 5MP, f/2.2, 1080p at 30fps
- Battery: Non-user-removable, 4100mAh lithium-ion
- Operating system: Android 5.1 with MIUI 7.0 skin
- Price: RMB899 (~RM541.88; Redmi 3 is RMB699 or around RM421.33)
- Link: http://www.mi.com/hongmi3/
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