Xiaomi's phones aren't officially sold in the UK, but while the brand may not be well known to us
Brits it's bigger than Apple and Samsung in China - and tomorrow (1 June) the Redmi Note 3 will go on open sale in India. Redmi is the company's budget smartphone line-up, and the Note 3 sits at the top of the series as an all-metal Android phablet with a fantastic design and decent performance. We review the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3. Also see: Best phones 2015/2016.
PRICE AND AVAILABILITY
it's not possible to buy Xiaomi phones directly from the company in the UK, although you can buy them from third-party unofficial channels. Our review sample came from GearBest, and is the gold model with 16GB of storage and 2GB of RAM. with free worldwide shipping, although you should note that on shipping it to the UK you may have to pay import duty (paying more to ship from the EU warehouse may be preferable), and other pitfalls may be involved - read our advice on buying grey-market tech.
GearBest also sells the more advanced variant of the Redmi Note 3, which has 32GB of storage and 3GB of RAM. See all budget smartphone reviews.
Both Redmi Note 3s are available in gold, silver and dark grey.
HARDWARE AND PERFORMANCE
For a budget smartphone the Note 3 has some very decent hardware, and even the 2GB of RAM version turned in very good performance in our benchmarks. Everything seems fast on this phone, which will be partly down to the software, and partly the hardware.
Xiaomi has specified a 2GHz MediaTek MT6795 Helio X10 64-bit octa-core processor, PowerVR Rogue G6200 GPU and 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM. There's also 16GB of internal storage (but no support for microSD so you might prefer the 32GB option), and a huge-capacity 4000mAh non-removable battery that is charged over Micro-USB.
The Xiaomi supports Performance and Balanced operation modes; we ran it in Performance mode for the sake of our benchmarks, although Balanced will provide longer runtime. Even so, we got a good two days use out of the Note 3 in Performance mode.
CONNECTIVITY
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 will work on all UK networks, but for 4G it isn't compatible with 800MHz/Band 20. This means customers using O2's network, or those that use its network such as giffgaff, won't be able to use 4G data
CAMERAS
Like just about every other budget Chinese phone we've seen the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 is fitted with a 13Mp, f/2.2 rear camera and 5Mp, f/2.0 front camera. There's a two-tone flash on the back, plus a selection of modes and real-time filters.
As you'd expect at this price point detail is a little soft at full-size, and we found colours to be very warm, but the overall result is quite acceptable and certainly better than what we saw from the Mi 4C - you don't get the same odd banding effect here.
finally I recommend you to buy it of gearbest because it is not expensive.
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