everyday this question is being asked.

You should ask yourself or perhaps provide us how you use your phone, that would give us some insights on whether it is worthy of an upgrade.

that said, XiaoMi Mi3 is probably the most overhyped/best price/hot selling/able-to-deliver/worth-every-ringgit-spent/most talked phone of the year 2013/2014.

Actually I use my phone mainly for facebook + email + whatsapp and calling.....at time some light gaming ( 2-3 hours a month )

what attract me is the battery size + CHEAP!.


Will wait until stock is back to order

i believe note 2/3 battery > xiaomi mi3

let me post my own findings. Using two most popular benchmarking tool, Sunspider and Peacekeeper, below is the result:

Test environment:
Factory load of MI3 with OTA (MIUI-JXDMYBD14.0)
Latest Chrome browser from Playstore
Stock MIUI browser
Both data and cache cleared prior test

Sunspider Javascript benchmark
(lower is better)

MIUI Stock browser (V1.0) - 728.8ms
Chrome (v35.0.1916.138) - 754.1ms


Peacekeeper
(higher is better)

MIUI Stock browser (V1.0) - 1182
Chrome (v35.0.1916.138) - 986

RAM usage (5 tabs opened with Google.com.my page)
(lower is better)

MIUI Stock browser (V1.0) - 113Mb
Chrome (v35.0.1916.138) - 98Mb


The test concludes, MIUI stock browser is performing a slight better on both tools, but Chrome utilized a little less RAM than MIUI stock browser.
For some reason, Peacekeeper detect MIUI stock browser as Safari 4.0(are they using the same engine?)
Pls see below below screen capture.

Sunspider-MIUI

Sunspider-Chrome

Peacekeeper-MIUI

Peacekeeper-Chrome

RAM-MIUI

RAM-Chrome


This post has been edited by movanns: Jun 2 2014, 09:04 PM

Ive just made my own oleophobic screen protector by applying rainx on my tempered glass screen protector. Lulz so much win

This post has been edited by Bigbonez: Jun 2 2014, 08:31 PM

AMOLED performs better in term of battery consumption, MI3 display does drain a lot of battery just to let you know.

photo la... without photo how to say "so much win"

I am testing to lock my mi3 clock to max 1ghz to 1.2ghz. So far last nite full charge 12am till now got 72% left. And I do sum light web browse, few calls here n there nite will try sum light Defense gaming to see how it goes. I am expecting to get 2 days compared to previous if lucky maybe 3 days if less use.

ok got it.

quote for TS to put in 1st page. suntzulee this!

This post has been edited by sinoffire: Jun 2 2014, 08:42 PM

If you want to save more battery, get app that could turn off & on data/wifi periodically. This way the data connection will not be up all the time.

i updated it this morning..yeah, charging to full become slow now...however when i updated the incremental zip file which is 114mb, my whatsapp notification delay again...damn

i just updated the full rom again which is 481mb, whatsapp no more delay but i still monitoring it...

No other phone to take a photo bro. Not as good as the one that come as standard bt better than none.

3 charges not too bad.

i know it wont give 10k worth of power. but im getting about 2 charges max.
maybe i need to be in a more controlled environment. stop replying whatsapp while charging?

when do you stop charging your PB? how long after all 4 blocks is lighted up?

Nope. Amoled performs only better when viewing dark screen. When u view on white, it drains battery life hell.

At least there's a way for you to reduce the battery consumption by using black background. LCD black or white still eats up same quantity of battery.

Black background only work for OLED

today send my mi3 to service centre due to the touch screen faulty. luckily they have stock can replace without waiting stock come from china.

the service centre quite difficult to locate as the amcorp trade centre divide into few blocks.

when i was there, saw few mi3 owner in and out to claim for warranty also.

p/s: to those who want to claim for warranty, please bring along the mi warranty card and transaction detail. withou them they not able to process.

thanks to @baowen giving guide how to test the touch screen.

This post has been edited by stardex83: Jun 2 2014, 09:06 PM

AMOLED is just with added a semiconductor film on OLED to make to activate the pixel faster. It still uses less battery compared to LCD.

do they check for your ic for owner verification?