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It may seem that this year Xiaomi was not very active in presenting new devices. This impression is, if you compare the two main competitors, Xiaomi and Meizu. Over the past year, six have presented several new smart phones and accessories, while the number of announcements from Xiaomi, in fact, no less, but in previous years the smartphone Meizu showed less than Xiaomi. Now the struggle between the companies escalates: Meizu has increased in 2015 its sales by more than 500 percent (referring to the Chinese market), and Xiaomi, on the other hand, a little lost, so that there is a gradual rapprochement. Xiaomi before Meizu focused on foreign markets, and probably it is linked to a drop in sales in China, but thanks to this strategy we are getting more interesting and inexpensive devices. The last argument is very important. After all, the priority foreign markets for the company – India and Indonesia, where the main sales are generated by low cost segment. So on November 24 and presented the device is aimed at expanding the category of low-cost devices, the new smartphone Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 and the second generation tablet – Xiaomi Mi Pad 2. The most important thing to know about new products, is the price (yuan exchange rate – about 1 ruble 10):
- Smartphone Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 – 900 yuan (2/16 GB) and 1100 yuan (3/64 GB)
- The tablet Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 – 1000 yuan (16GB) and 1300 yuan (64GB)
Now the details, try a short and to the point.
Features Xiaomi Redmi Note 3
- Housing: metal, glass, plastic inserts
- Operating system: Android 5.1, MIUI V7
- Network: GSM / EDGE, UMTS / HSDPA, LTE, support for two SIM-cards (microSIM)
- Screen: IPS LCD, diagonal of 5.5 “, the resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, 401 ppi
- Platform: Mediatek Helio X10 (MT6795)
- processor eight core, Cortex-A53
- Graphics: PowerVR G6200 (550/700 MHz)
- Memory 2/3 GB
- Flash memory for data storage: 16/64 GB
- Card Slot: Yes, microSD
- Interfaces: Wi-Fi (ac / a / b / g / n) dual-band, Bluetooth 4.1 LE, a microUSB slot for charging / synchronization, 3.5 mm headset
- The main camera is 13 megapixels with autofocus and flash, 5 lenses f / 2.2, video recording FullHD
- The front camera of 5 MP, f / 2.0
- Navigation: GPS (support A-GPS), GLONASS, Beidou
- Extras: accelerometer, light sensor, proximity sensor, the function of fast charging 60 percent charge for half an hour (Quick Charge 2.0)
- Battery: 4000 mAh
- Dimensions: 150 x 76 x 8.7 mm
- Weight: 164 grams
The main points that once you notice – the updated design, the materials and the battery casing. On the first point – the case in the new Redmi Note 3 is almost entirely made of metal, not including inserts for antennas. Design, respectively, fitting. To what extent is the answer to Metal M1 from Meizu, but now all the Chinese manufacturers of low-end models will translate into the metal because other ways to attract attention to cheap cell phones actually exhausted. For users, this is only a plus – if earlier Solid metal housing was the prerogative of the flagship, and now low-end models are essentially the same.
On the second point – hardly changed dimensions, Xioami could pack in the same housing Redmi 2 battery capacity of 1000 mAh more. Of course, this is very good.
An important feature Redmi Note 3 compared with Redmi Note 2 – fingerprint scanner. It is located on the “back” of the device, as new smartphones Nexus line, for example, and allows the device to unlock the touch of a finger. The scanner is very neatly inscribed into the body, it does not stand out and looks harmoniously, we must pay tribute to the designers of the company.
The platform has not changed, it’s still a great Helio X10 from Mediatek. There are two versions, the configuration easier, 2/16 GB and powerful, 3/64 GB. In both cases, provided a slot for a memory card, and it’s the right decision, to which Xiaomi, and Meizu has finally come.
Support for frequencies in the range of FDD-LTE – B1 / B3 / B7.
The screen with a diagonal of 5.5 ” and a resolution of 1920×10208 pixels. There are no changes compared to Redmi Note 2. The cameras also have not undergone any technical changes. The module main camera with a resolution of 13 megapixel, f / 2.2, the lens 5, phase detection autofocus, video recording at resolutions up to 1080p. The front facing camera 5 MP, f / 2.0, also writes video to 1080p.
As Redmi Note 2 submitted, by the way, in 2015, a new smartphone running the latest, the seventh version of the original shell MIUI. Details about its possibilities will be discussed in some of the reviews Xiaomi product or in a separate article.
About the price. The junior model with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of built in China will be worth at the start of sales of 900 million yuan, the eldest (3/64 GB) – 1 100 yuan. Translated into Russian rubles, these values must be multiplied by ten (plus or minus). We get about 9000 and 11 000 rubles for the device, if you live in China and can not afford to follow the wave of selling on the official site to grab a smartphone at the stated price. For all others who are planning to take the smartphone online store website, the price will be about 13 000-14 000 for younger (2/16 GB) version and 15 000-16 000 for seniors, plus time for delivery. Xiaomi official sales in Russia is not, and judging by the available information to me, as soon as they are expected. The company tried to go to our market, but found it unsuitable for its sales model, focusing on India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Brazil as a starting point of conquering international markets.
I personally, at the first available information, the smartphone very much. This is an adequate response to the release of Meizu M1 Metal, while even a little cheaper (which, unfortunately, at the start of sales offset by the complexity of your purchase and Xiaomi), also in a metal case and a plus in a high capacity battery. The smartphone certainly deserves attention.
The second novelty of the company is not so clear – the tablet Mi Pad 2. The fact that the first version of the tablet has been purely experimental product, with its undeniable advantages, but also with the obvious disadvantages. One of the most striking – a strange version of MIUI, have modified it a tablet and a high resolution, but in the end she remained for Mi Pad raw and unfinished.
Features Xiaomi Mi Pad 2
- Housing: metal, glass
- Operating system: Android 5.1, MIUI V7 (optional Windows 10 version 64 GB)
- The network: does not support
- Screen: IPS LCD, diagonal of 7.9 “, the resolution of 2048×1536 pixels, 326 ppi
- Platform: Intel Atom X5-Z8500
- Processor: Quad, 2.24 GHz
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
- RAM: 2GB
- Flash memory storage: 16/64 GB
- Card Slot: Yes, microSD up to 128 GB
- Interfaces: Wi-Fi (ac / a / b / g / n) dual-band, Bluetooth 4.1 LE, connector USB type-C for charging / synchronization, 3.5 mm headset
- The main camera: 8 MP with autofocus and flash, f / 2.0
- The front camera of 5 MP, f /2.0
- Navigation: No
- Optional: accelerometer, light sensor, fast charging function
- Battery: 6190 mAh
- Dimensions: 200 x 132.6 x 7 mm
- Weight: 322 grams
The differences between the previous and the new tablet Xiaomi much when talking about design, and there is little, if the “hardware.” By the way, the first Mi Pad was introduced more than a year ago, in March 2014, the deadline for modern electronics, oddly enough, decent. New Mi Pad 2 made in the case of the metal (dark gray and golden colors), which immediately puts it a notch above the previous model. My main gripe with the Mi Pad plastic housing is concerned: the device is banal slip out of hands, quickly gets dirty and covered with a layer of fatty streaks, it is inconvenient and impractical. Accordingly, the new model will not be these problems, and looks into the tablet body of metal is more interesting than the plastic version, agree.
Because of the new, in addition to design, Mi Pad2 platform – Intel Atom X5-Z8500 quad-core frequency of 2.24 GHz and a graphics Intel HD Graphics. Almost all other parameters are identical to the novelty plate-year-old old, the amount of RAM, diagonal and resolution of the display to cameras and support interfaces. Slightly reduce battery capacity (6190 against 6700 in the old model), and appeared connector USB type-C with support for fast charging instead of the usual microUSB.
Along with the transition to Intel’s platform for the company added Mi Pad 2 64 GB version based on operating system Windows 10. it will cost exactly as much, how much is 64 GB version of the Mi Pad 2-based Android – 1300 yuan. The junior version of the tablet will cost 1000 yuan. The ruble is about 13 000 and 10 000 for the 64 and 16 GB, respectively.
On the one hand, the new Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 looks interesting – metal, normal design, high-quality high-resolution display, a slim body, a relatively small weight. On the other – the tablet is not a highlight, while it is not a very very reasonable against the background of the Chinese counterparts cost 500-600 yuan, or 5000 – 6000 rubles. I think that the market is not cheap to sell the tablet devices are now capable of not only highlights the company Apple, everything else you need to try very hard. For example, Samsung adds a stylus and invest in advertising and Lenovo Makes plates capacious battery and a convenient stand (line of Yoga). Nothing at Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 is not only the low official cost. And it seems to me, is a problem because the tablet for video, you can find cheaper and more suitable for what Mi Pad 2 is unclear. The first Mi Pad bribed record levels of operating time and excellent performance, but whether it will be important for Mi Pad 2?
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