As always. Haha. Still I do hope we can get this hot Note 3. Xiaomi try to catch up Samsung's Note line. 2 more series to go.

unibody + finger reader   

Lol.. It is a Meizu phone with Xiaomi branding..

Just a minor upgrades here and there.
Soc remains the same with 1GB of RAM added for high spec variant.

Just to make it a better offering than Meizu Metal haha

Should just call it Redmi Note 2 Pro as rumored earlier.

Yeah, Xiaomi didn't optimize it properly it seems.
The video playback and web browsing endurance test is way below MX5.
Sad to see, was expecting more from that ample battery capacity.

Don't mind abput AP set though.. this gonna be my first xiomi device.. worse case i just get RN2

Why are you say so? Could it be that developed countries had created an advantage in design and manufacturing that worried the low-cost producers in Asia?

"For Antoine, the thinking was sparked by comments like those he heard in conversation with David Ku, the chief financial officer of Mediatek, a leading designer of chipsets for smartphones and other products, based in Taiwan. It was the spring of 2012, and Antoine, newly free from the responsibilities of managing the multibillion-dollar investment firm he founded and built, had been traveling through Asia, discussing with senior business executives and political leaders the challenges they saw to the competitive advantage they had held for the past many years in the global marketplace. Ku, who has experience in the global financial industry in addition to his career in high-tech manufacturing, was showing Antoine around the Mediatek facility in Hsinchu City, when Antoine asked him about the global market. “You know,” Ku said, “We are facing much stronger American competition again.” Antoine asked him to elaborate. What kind of competition? From whom? Ku, who earned his MBA from the University of Illinois and understands the American market, immediately mentioned Qualcomm, the tech giant based in San Diego, as a particular threat. “Their R&D is so advanced, so far ahead of ours,” Ku explained. Antoine saw that Ku was genuinely concerned about the situation. “They can easily squeeze us,” said Ku and then changed the subject. Antoine, who coined the term “emerging markets” in 1981 when he was at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector-oriented affiliate of the World Bank, and had spent much of his career focused on Asia, had not heard an Asian businessperson complain about being squeezed by American competitors for at least two decades. Was Mediatek an anomaly? Or was this an early signal of an important trend? Could it be that developed countries had created an advantage in design and manufacturing that worried the low-cost producers in Asia?"

SoS/Referrence:
The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation
by Fred Bakker; Antoine van Agtmael
Published by PublicAffairs, 2016

Feel sad for Taiwanese manufacturer indeed.