Xiaomi Mi3: All You Need To Know

Chinese handset maker 'Xiaomi' has been able to create more than required hype with its handset 'Xiaomi Mi3'. Just imagine, it went on sale on Flikart on July 22 and with the hype Flipkart created, it managed to receive around 1,00,000 registrations by July 21 itself. Only registered users were eligible to buy the handsets and due to overload of traffic, Flipkart website gave up within 40 mins after the sale started. After that Mi 3 went out of stock and as per the information on website, the next stock was supposed to arrive on July 29. Flipkart claims to sell the second batch in five seconds and the third batch of 20,000 handsets in just 2.4 seconds. Ain't these figures crazy?  

Xiaomi Mi3

Let’s find out what Xiaomi Mi3 is all about. It a mid-range phone which sports a 5.0-inch full HD display with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels and 441 ppi of pixel density. It’s a uni-body phone, the frame made up of magnesium alloy with three layers of thermal graphite and the display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 in the front. The handset supports a single sim which fits inside the slots existing in the top of frame. It runs on highly customized Android 4.4.2 KitKat OS which is powered by a 2.3GHz snapdragon processor coupled with 2GB RAM. Fuelled by a 3050 mAh Li-ion battery, the company claims a backup of 500 hrs on standby and 25 hrs on talk time from Mi3. The front camera is 2 MP and the rear camera is 13 MP with dual flash and maximum resolution of 4128 x 3096. There is no extra memory card slot but the handset already comes in 16 GB and 64 GB storage variants.

Xiaomi Mi3

Though the specs look great and the handset is available in White, Gray, Black, Yellow, Pink, Blue, Gold and Green color options but only if you manage to buy it! The starting price of Mi3 is Rs 13,999 which is very competitive.  The strategy of selling the handsets in this fashion of creating hype has driven the manufacturers and the Flipkart the top position but this trend sometimes forces the buyers to switch to other brands. Let’s see for how long this trend continues.