Xiaomi RedMi Note 3Pro 3GB 32GB - comments?

[sallainen]

Fever is on, I need a new smartphone and I am considering on buying Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro, anyone has it? Comments or any feedback would be nice to have.

Where to buy in Thailand (what is the price tag) or should I order it from China price there around 200USD?

I suppose it supports all the networks in Thailand and Europe as well, am I correct?

What about the default software, is it full of Chinese bloatware?

Thank you again for your valuable info?

Cheers

J

ps. feel free to recommend other brand

[dddave]

I recently purchased the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 (2/16gb) I purchased it through Everbuying.com for $125 and it arrived in 2 weeks, standard free shipping. Had to pay duty about B260. Prices for the same device in Thailand were double. No Chinese apps loaded and all Google apps available and working. Some bloatware. Only noticeable quirk was that the phone "location" was locked to China. Wifi & 4G both function well but my particular model can only have one data connection though it has 2 SIMs. Other more expensive models can have 2 data SIMs, including the Note-3. Mine takes SD memory cards but I believe the Note-3 does not.

I really like the phone so far. nice build quality, beautiful display and runs very smoothly. I've never used more than 50% of battery in a day..but I'm not a gamer or heavy video user.

Mine runs on Android 5.1 and it immediately updated to the MIUI 7 skin Xiaomi pre installs. The only really noticeable change from stock Android is no app drawer...just flip through the pages.

One major annoyance so far with Miu is with the pre-installed music player. Not anything wrong with it really but you can't get rid of it or even disable it should you want to use a different player such as Googles, which I happen to like. The Xioami player is always on the notifications screen...there is no way to turn it off. Because of that, Google player will not open. I have researched all over the net but there seems to be no work-around so far on Miui-7. There was one on Miui 6. Not a deal breaker but still an annoyance.

Xiaomi gives 5GB of free cloud storage on sign-up.

The quality Xiaomi put into what is essentially a low end phone is really amazing. I'm kind of a phone junky and this is by far, the best under $200 phone ever.

Edited February 29, 2016 by dddave

[nev]

I recently purchased the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 (2/16gb) I purchased it through Everbuying.com for $125 and it arrived in 2 weeks, standard free shipping. Had to pay duty about B260. Prices for the same device in Thailand were double. No Chinese apps loaded and all Google apps available and working. Some bloatware. Only noticeable quirk was that the phone "location" was locked to China. Wifi & 4G both function well but my particular model can only have one data connection though it has 2 SIMs. Other more expensive models can have 2 data SIMs, including the Note-3. Mine takes SD memory cards but I believe the Note-3 does not.

I really like the phone so far. nice build quality, beautiful display and runs very smoothly. I've never used more than 50% of battery in a day..but I'm not a gamer or heavy video user.

Mine runs on Android 5.1 and it immediately updated to the MIUI 7 skin Xiaomi pre installs. The only really noticeable change from stock Android is no app drawer...just flip through the pages.

One major annoyance so far with Miu is with the pre-installed music player. Not anything wrong with it really but you can't get rid of it or even disable it should you want to use a different player such as Googles, which I happen to like. The Xioami player is always on the notifications screen...there is no way to turn it off. Because of that, Google player will not open. I have researched all over the net but there seems to be no work-around so far on Miui-7. There was one on Miui 6. Not a deal breaker but still an annoyance.

Xiaomi gives 5GB of free cloud storage on sign-up.

The quality Xiaomi put into what is essentially a low end phone is really amazing. I'm kind of a phone junky and this is by far, the best under $200 phone ever.

Agree the Chinese phones are real value for money, I have a ulefone be pro and for what I paid under $160 it was a bargain, I have another Chinese smartfone I bought on a win a Homton HT7 it was only $60 and also for the money about 2000 baht you could not go wrong with it.