On a phone spec like MI 5 MIUI would be light. On a 2GB ram fone like Rermi Note 3 . It feels a bit heavy at times . But i would pick MIUI over samsungs Touchwiz anyday. Mainly because MIUI pinyin prediction is very accurate.

Redmi note 3 is bootloader locked la.

If the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 that Modem itself are still not enough to cover LTE in Malaysia, it should be shoot to death.

Because we are in SEA (MY) and we not using those weird unique LTE band like those in US T-Mobile/Verizon etc... or China those LTE... Also this Mi5 selling point are fully 4G compatible across the China Telco v2.0.

MIUI itself is a heavy skin OS just like TouchWiz. So they just took out certain feature based on entry/mid/flagships. But in my opinion, 2GB are minimum, 3GB are recommended, 4GB and above are ideal.

Yes, Note 5 the latest TouchWiz got some RAM aggressive management problem. Most people using it know it.

This post has been edited by NightFelix: Feb 27 2016, 04:40 PM

Xiaomi Mi5 only support 4G FDD-LTE bands 1, 3 and 7

Yea miui then sounds heavy since I'm used to aosp. But like touchwiz u can disable some apps right.

these 3 bands alr cover almost all local telco?

I also came from AOSP (Nexus, Moto, OnePlus) but I do like MIUI.
Nope. You cant disable those core feature of MIUI.

Yes.

Celcom: 3, 7
DiGi: 3, 7
Maxis: 7
Telekom: 5
U Mobile: 7

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks_in_Asia

huh... have you tried flashing a real RN3? I have been doing countless rom flash testing months ago regardless of the locked bootloader...

This post has been edited by wktang: Feb 27 2016, 11:33 PM

U can flash roms with a locked bootloader?? from my experience u have to unlock, custom recovery then flash. Or is yours prior to lock. Don't update ota though, many ended up bricking their rn3 and became locked.

oh no la, mine also locked. In fact I receive rights to unlock but I didn't do it
I just use SP flash method to flash fastboot rom with it... work flawlessly

LTE supported. so d final question is the price.

Will there sell this phone in the shop? I am in shanghai now and feel like go and look around...

If some scalpers manage to get it on 1st March but it will be more expensive then online price probably.

And also no ceramic yet for 1st batch sell.

Patient we must be to get what we want

Mi5 probably need wait April then can get.

Want it early need pay premium price which will defeat the purpose of bargain phone.

When do you think the new mi note, 5.5 or larger say existing 5.7 based on snapdragon 820 chip will be available.

I think "5.5.16" for Mi5 is possible, xiaomi likes to do that.
For Mi Note who knows, might even be next year cause unlike samsung & apple, no fixed yearly launch.

You still using miui based rom . The kernel is untouched .

http://m.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_5_scores_o...-news-16959.php

Die, will take at least 1 yr to reach Malaysia

Agree, good things come at last to Malaysia.