I got one at RM15 but you won't be able to buy it. 

It's not that hard to find an iem which may well sound better than Piston2 if you look around for bargain. But for lazy people, probably Piston2 is as good as it gets for RM50 I suppose.

10K pb not in the report list. Bukan not tested.

Plus, the Xiaomi Powerbank that was tested by CCTV wasn't purchased through the official Xiaomi channels. So the tested ones could be fake product.

If you puncture Li-Ion batteries they can explode or at least start burning, so the casing should be strong so that can't happen. I'm fairly confident the Xiaomi casing is more than strong enough. Might want to buy a casing for the PB though... not to protect the PB but to protect other things in the bag. Worried it will scratch up everything.

don't trust rumors!

No, I mean I keep it in the camera bag together with my DSLR and lenses... I'm worried THEY get scratched.

It has more bass, not much better bass. In fact, it has too much, 50% of the time. Drown everything else out, unless you mod it. The clarity also improved with the mod.

I dont want to end up repeating the same thing over and over again. Fanboys are the most annoying bunch. For RM50, its definitely not over paying, like I mentioned earlier, but this is definitely not in the same league if you can spent 3-4 times the money. Its not the price. I wont even buy for RM20 if I had the chance to listen to it. To me, its not the price, but the sound. I dont pay a lot for most of my stuffs that I bought at bargain price from warehouse sales or online sales. If you are comparing to the overpriced branded junk that you bought at full retail price, then the Piston2 is like an angel falling from sky.

On top of that, I dont like EQ at all. It may not sound natural out of box, I accept it as it is instead of tweaking the EQ to play the sound that you want to hear.

I like my cheapo RM15 BA the best. I think BA really excel at vocals, clarity without all those annoying fake bass. I think Piston2 is trying to create a listening environment, much like when using LME49720 opamp. It gets a wide soundstage, with good instrument separation which offers a live-like experience, but if you are aiming for just enjoying pure music, then it really lacks the refinement.

I dont mind paying 3-4 times the price of Piston2 for that. Piston2 didnt deliver my expectation.

I think it sounded much better on my Note2 and Nexus10 than it does with Mi3, which adds to the disappointment perhaps. Im using the phone with the worse headphone out.

Actually if you really like Samsung S-function, then I guess you get S4.

Mi3 is rather plain, boring looking Android that designed to be minimal but perform like a beast.

Other things you probably misses are custom rom, better audio quality, amoled screen, sd card slot, exchanging battery, and some other things that I may well missed out.

If Samsung stock IEM sounds good to you then anything will do...

Its true...   

hello guys..
just broke my s2 so i need new phone.

a few question please.
-what will i miss from samsung if i buy this phone? from samsung s2 to mi3

planning to get used s4, some of s4 features, air gesture, the waving etc looks cool
but someone pointed mi3 to me in the recommendation thread.

-does mi3 availability like mainstream brand?
i need it by this week if possible.

use mainly, instagram, whatsapp, 9gag, and navigation.

thank you very much

Mi3 off & on come with some hiccup here & there, require quite some patient & need to work around for solution.. if you looking for problem free phone then this is not your choice, add note : if you like taking photo then stay with Samsung, Mi3 is weak in this department.

I'm still very happy to go to Mi3 from S3.

My AMOLED powered Galaxy Nexus had awful battery life as soon as the display was on. And usually, despite low brightness settings, something like 40-50% of the battery consumption came from the screen. I do miss that screen though, the black levels are just wow. The Galaxy Nexus screen displaying black is blacker than the Mi3 screen... when turned off. When on it's grey.

I personally really don't like the Samsung customizations. Big fan of stock Android, though MIUI is really good. My favorite Android after stock. I also think Samsung has no taste... their UI is ugly. The fonts they offer are not nice. etc.

The Mi3 audio output is... shall we say less than stellar. Apart from that though I love the phone.

One thing I noticed with the Mi3 though is font sizes. I have set it to small, but sometimes huge lettering appears, like when it lets me pick between mobile phone calls and internet phone calls (VoIP). Have they forgotten to change that setting...? It lacks a bit in consistency...

@jolokia: Why would you say the Mi3 is weak in the photo taking department? The camera is fine, it's used in many high end phones from last year. The UI is a bit simplistic, but there are other apps to fix that, and apart from the Mi2 and LG G2 it's the only phone I'm aware off that takes raw photos. Being able to circumvent less than stellar and way too aggressive noise reduction algorithms and too aggressive JPEG compression is great, also being able to adjust the white balance etc. afterwards and to recover highlights and shadows that would usually be lost. It's great.

guys,
is the mi3 stable enough if just wanna use stock rom and no root?