Introduction
Xiaomi Inc. (Chinese: 小米科技) is a privately owned Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing, China. Xiaomi is one of China's biggest electronics company that designs, develops, and sells smartphones, mobile apps, and consumer electronics.

Products of Xiaomi, which might not be available outside China, includes:
Xiaomi Mi series phone, including Mi 3
MIUI OS
MiWiFi
MiTV
MiBox
MiCloud
MiTalk
Mi Power Bank
MiTV2
MiPad


Source of purchase for 64GB in Malaysia: www.elewholesale.com or sweet_carte


Mi 3 outlook
Front is Black no matter what variation you take


Back is color dependant


Top is the SIM slot and a mini speaker and headphone jack


Bottom part is the speaker grills and USB port


Left is empty


Right is vol up, down and power button


System Spec


It is default rootable btw, just flash the superSU zip file from MIUI forum and you are good to go, and that 480 DPI seems more than what XiaoMi official spec.

OS / overall system experience
The OS used is of course in house MIUI, and is quite smooth and not much bloats, as most apps bundled are very useful, and i do use them all, including MiCloud to do online backups, as FOC 5 GB for Mi3 owners, so why not. Memory management is also quite well done, as normally after a day usage, we still can get around 300 MB free RAM, and free ram is wasted RAM, so I am not concerned as long no stutters.

One thing that bugs a lot of user, is the camera focus, and it IS kind of weak and awaiting improvements to it.

ROM used: WCDMA Malaysia V5 + SuperSU flashed + WSM tools + MiBox which is like the XPosed frawework but for Xiaomi Mi3

Image Sample
The following image is captured on auto mode with no touchups or any scene mode used. It is as it is


Audio Quality
The SQ of the headphone out is nothing as raving as the S3 once was, not much on the clarity, but quite a pronounced vocal, flat as it might seem, I can use it to listen to some FLAC for long hours, and the Mi 3 supports USB OTG, so we can USB OTG to our desired DAC+AMp, and use USB Audio Player Pro to play the music and channel through our desired DAC + Amp

Verdict

For the price level and such hardware, once the camera issue is fixed, it will be one hell of a phone to be reckoned with. Sam, Hua, Nok, Son, and all others, better be prepared as Xiaomi takes over the world from the budget level, and you dudes, learn from this brand, man! You should do like this, *points to the brands*

xiaomi discussion group: https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3243023

This post has been edited by noobandroid: Jun 4 2014, 08:52 PM

u missed the camera.

Don't use short form when writing reviews.

I don't think Xiaomi devices will remain cheap forever. If you look at the number of devices being sold, it's more like targetting specific audience who knows about hardware specs and indirectly promote confidence into a basically unheard of Chinese brand. If they really wanted to make cheap stuffs for us, they could have mass produce like Huawei but they didn't. Once the brand recognition goes up, the selling price will follow suit. Enjoy it while it last.

i enjoyed your spec listing review. must have taken your whole day.

well bro,u can split it some section
like
-intro
-design
-software
-camera/video
-performance
-battery
-verdict
btw,is this your mi3? never see white version b4