Xiaomi Mi Note 3

Advantages: + Screen. After two sonecs that never differed with good screens, this one is simply chic. Oleofobka, the brightness of the sun is such that black ceases to be black, but everything else is very readable and watchable.
+ Accum + percents. Separately, it makes no sense to talk about the processor, they don’t complain about it on such devices, but its energy-saving functions together with a 3.5Ah battery make it an excellent long-liver. You can play games and not to charge every 3 hours.
+ NFC. It is a pity that Xiaomi does not shove him into the Redmi series, contactless payment users would be dramatically more. And one of the reasons for choosing the older Mi. Google Pay out of the box works without any shamanism, I was surprised when I paid them for the first time.
+ IR. Trifle, but still wanted to have on hand, although such a little technology.
+ Camera. For the present, the combination of a conventional camera with a telephoto lens is a wonder even for owners of last year’s flagships, so bokeh in portrait photography is admired by those who cannot use this feature on their smartphone. Well, the quality of the pictures at the height. In the top reviews DxOmark.
+ Case. Or rather its color, the blue body is wildly beautiful. The color is not the same as on the preview, it is deep blue. There are few places in St. Petersburg where one sells one, hardly found it, but it's worth it, even considering the overpayment for rarity. Here, too, plus a complete case of pretty good quality. And still nothing backlash / creaks (glass and metal difficult to creak)
+ Memory. 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal memory is 2-3 times more than I ever had. Given the unlimited Internet and google. Photo, you can not worry about the fact that this will not be enough in the next couple of years.

Disadvantages: The disadvantages will go in the same way:
- Screen. With any other settings, except for the standard color tone and auto contrast, the color crawls to pink. The problem is known, maybe the Chinese have something wrong with their eyesight, but such problems are enough. However, I am satisfied with the default settings, so the screen is still in the black.
- IR.Difficult to manage directly any equipment. No application can yet add the Mystery fan, simply because there are no presets in the applications, and, alas, smartphones do not know how to read the signal from the remote control. Yes, and the TV of Samsung of the year 16, which is of interest, is controlled only via WiFi by the native application that was downloaded. Mi Remote is completely out of work.
- Camera. As much as possible can write in 240 to \ with - 5 years ago it and old Sonya was able. Surely this is a SoC restriction, it is strange that they did not upgrade this moment. This year, HiSilicon bypassed Snapdragon in this plan, raising the bar to 960 k \ c
- Housing. Glass back cover. One of the downsides with which I had to accept for the sake of the other advantages. A month passed with a complete case, but I was not used to it: I think that the phone would be better battered by life, but without bulky means of protection. Without a slip cover, and, I think, a good fall from a height will not end. The previous one collected all the falls with a metal frame, in this it is much thinner, and if I am relatively calm behind the screen, the lid will surely crack at the first opportunity.
- Memory. Apparently as a flagship, he lost the ability to expand the memory card, although he can still hold two SIM cards. Why cut off the opportunity to stick micro SD is a mystery.
- 3.5 jack cut, and did not add moisture protection. Well yo-mine. Although the convenience of BT-ears is much higher, and aptX is (probably for music lovers), and the microUSB-C adapter - 3.5 is included. Hiley true.
- LTE without 20 bands. However, everything seems to work, but in 4G does not accept calls, for the caller as if not on the network. I didn’t understand why, I don’t really need LTE, so I just work in 2G / 3G.

Comment: The minuses are most likely cavils. It is difficult to come to terms with some, but the choice according to different parameters sooner or later led to this model. And it is exactly what you want from a mid-end smartphone - performance, battery, camera, contactless payment. It is a pity without official deliveries in the Russian Federation, but I never applied to the service anyway, and from where I must have hands.

Advantages: Perplexed by this phone, my Samsung broke down and I took my laptop 3 as a pass for some time, so that I could buy something cool on the 845 snap. Now the truth has opened before me that a good phone should not cost like a laptop, for 18 pieces you get a full-fledged flagship, with excellent performance, autonomy, interface, screen, the camera may not be the same as in the last iPhone, but quite decent. I recommend to everyone who does not suffer with pathos and is looking for an optimal solution.

Disadvantages: For such money, there are probably no flaws, if only the absence of moisture protection.

Comment: All games without problems, with high FPS, draws heavy games at maximum speeds, such as PUBG, World of tanks, RealRaising 3. Avtomnost is very high, the day lives without problems with active use. Very high maintainability, with the help of a hair dryer, you can remove the back cover yourself and change the battery.

Advantages: Price found for 18000₽ in the online store. Appearance 5+ for me personally. NFC is, Gpay is working, I don’t even remember when the card from my wallet was last taken out) Autonomy, it lives a day without problems. The display with a good alefobkoy, prints of course remain, but it is easy to clean. By the way, the connection is canceled, takes where the phone refused to receive the signal. Microphones work fine, noise on 5 ++. By the way, the speaker plays well + speaking helps him, like a stereo effect.

Disadvantages: The camera takes good photos only in daylight, in the evening or indoors is very noisy. Either my hands are crooked). Very very well, a very slippery case. Without a cover, it’s not really possible to use it well) and I thought it wouldn’t be a Jack’s problem for me, but it turns out that it’s not convenient, for example, watching a movie from a flash drive and using wired headphones will not work) wireless)

Comment: I still like the phone very much, I used the iphone before, heaven and earth, as if my hands were untied) installed a bunch of applications, downloaded maps for the navigator and another 40 GB left. If you choose between this device and some other, I advise you to take note 3, you will not regret. All beaver.

Advantages: 1) Fast, energy efficient processor. Pulls all the games at the maximum. Heated a little bit just on Lineage2.
2) Due to the increased energy efficiency, energy consumption is much less - a 3500 battery lasts for 2 days.
3) Cameras are pleased with the quality!
4) Recognition of a print in a split second.

Disadvantages: 1) Slippery - use only in the case (included)
2) Stunts less than 2A are not suitable. Better to take with QC 3.0.
3) There is no memory expansion slot.

Comment: Great phone. Value for money is optimal.
I was looking for a phone with a 5.5 inch screen. It is a pity that there is no memory expansion slot. After installing all the applications left 42 GB of space. But so far enough.

Advantages: There are a lot of advantages in this device, for example, excellent autonomy (I am constantly on the phone) I have enough from morning to evening, and most often 30 percent will remain. The screen is nicer than on the redmi 3s, the speed of work is the same. All toys are played, no problems identified. The sound of the phone is loud, again comparing with 3s.

Disadvantages: Not yet revealed.

Comment: I really wanted a phone with a suitable camera, but at the same time giving 30 - 50k wooden did not burn with desire, after the dxomark test was released, I paid attention to mi note. Well, what can I say, the camera is relatively usable relative to the xyomi level, you can get a good picture in the default settings in the stock camera. The frontal way is also not bad, but more manipulations are required with it.

Advantages: Screen, camera, efficiency, design, a lot of pleasant things

Disadvantages: Not yet revealed .. honestly

Comment: After a month of use only pleasant impressions! Even pleasantly surprised! Already, on my recommendation, my friend bought the same phone. And the eldest child just took the same one! I am now a complete fan of this brand.
There were flagships Sony, iPhones, Microsoft, Lenovo, and LG ...

Advantages: Speed, appearance, autonomy

Disadvantages: It has not yet been noticed.

Comment: I was pleasantly surprised by this device from the Chinese manufacturer. Excellent performance, any application, even on a cold one, a few milliseconds are launched. On average, with a bunch of running applications, about 2.4 GB of 6 are free. Autonomy is beyond praise, perhaps because of the modern architecture. Holds a charge from 8 am to 24:00 with sufficiently active use. By night there are still about 20% of the battery. The screen, though IPS, but very good quality. Deficiencies not yet identified. Before that was the Nexus 5X. As it is not surprising, Xiaomi was at times faster than the native Google device. It is worth the global firmware MIUI 9.1 based on Android 7.1.1. I hope soon to release a new one on Android 8.