I think its hardware issue. Its cheap IPS LCD I think.

I want to repeat again. If this is RM2k phone, I think many will go and RMA their phone.

Will you RMA your RM889 phone with this banding issue?

Thats i really dont know ya, i not technical person...      

Some of the Review made by few Review indeed mentioned that Mi3 are using either Sharp or LG Display Panel.

Well, the thing is you will get the same thing back. Personally I won't bother unless someone has discrete answer, yes, changing the screen will fix it, like the case with note 2 banding. My note 2 banding is quite bad, just like those pictures in XDA, and after the replacement, it is still there but a lot less pronounce. Personally, I won't RMA until someone tried it first or when the warranty almost expired. Who want to have his new phone taken apart, for something that be less than perfect out of the manufacturing lines.

LG and Sharp? You sure boh such good company? How come the display look so yellow and banding'ish?

Then probably Mi3 buying lowest grade Sharp/LG panel. LOL 

I think Xiaomi even listed both on description for Mi3 IIRC.

Actually, IPS also have few grades. Now all those IPS LCD are e-ips compared to those s-ips which we bought whenever Dell has sale for 1.4k

Then you also have H-IPS. Depends on how savvy you were.

My friend is in China now. Wonder can buy Mi3 back to Malaysia?

Do they have retail shops in China?

My friend is in China now. Wonder can buy Mi3 back to Malaysia?

Do they have retail shops in China?

well, one penny spent is one portion of quality (pardon my direct translation from a chinese saying haha)

i came from 8510 > samsung flip phone > SGS2 > Mi3 and using auto brightness, cool temp and standard saturation. the display looks fine and amazing to me

If I'm not mistaken the ones sold for the China market have different radio bands so they might not be compatible with certain local telcos.

If I'm not mistaken the ones sold for the China market have different radio bands so they might not be compatible with certain local telcos.

can, but it won't work

unless it runs on WCDMA

I have been using Mi 3 since march, as far as I can say Mi 3 screen can shows colour in a much saturated way. The icons are sharp and the colour is rich.

As I compared to Sony Xperia phones, the screens are cool light so the icon also appear white ish and glaring. So in the end I love my Mi 3 screen better. My Laptop is cool light so many that's why I feel much comfortable looking at Mi 3.

Well this is one of the frequent FAQ...
I really do hope TS put those frequent FAQ up on 1st page...
The problem is most ppl have this problem, maybe is LCD manufacturing issue... or maybe our fussy user compare only hahah, normal user will not notice that much...

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
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Sunspider-Chrome
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Peacekeeper-MIUI
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Peacekeeper-Chrome
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RAM-MIUI
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RAM-Chrome
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So anyone has experience both browser on your Mi3? The test shown Stock browser is better. How about your self experience?

Finally applied the tempered glass SP, you guys should really try it, it is worth for money and real HD experience.

i tried the mi flip case also... looks very fit and stunning!
in fact it doesnt look like a cheap china phone after all...still looks as stunning as your note 3 and iphone 5s.
important thing is, i pay rm889!!!!!!!!!