build - Does samsung has the best built for smartphones? Back then? Now? In the early smartphone era, Nokia is the undisputed built quality king, followed by HTC with their metal/polycarbonate unibody; there after, whole smartphone industry eventually regressed to learn/imitate Apple. We see the evolution from removable battery plastic phone to metal built and ultimately to the glass (or plastic) sandwich phones we see in the market nowadays. I will give Xiaomi a special credit here for trying with novelties like ceramic body or slider phone in this glass-sandwich era, sadly they didn't maintain the efforts afterwards.

display quality - agreed. they're the pioneer and main player in making AMOLED display, gotta give them credit for that

functionality - almost every brands have their own unique functionality advantages, it depends on what exactly you're looking for, certainly can't say samsung win it all here

spen - agreed. no other manufacturers tried to compete in this league, leaving samsung the undisputed (sole) winner here

ultrasonic fp scanner - it's qualcomn's tech and nothing to shout about; still less reliable than conventional capacitive reader and at times still performing worse than optical one found on most other phones

punch hole technology - IIRC, SHARP is the one that pioneered this (nonsense) notch stuff; and I seriously hated it because of that (and apple) we need to settle for notch/punchhole on phones until a new solution to implement selfie cam under display came out (recently xiaomi claimed their tech is almost there and ready for the market soon, let's wait and see if it's true)

weight control - ???

9 in 1 pixel binning - yeah, they're the pioneer of this tech with their 108MP sensors, but sony still the undisputed king of mobile photography

3 years OS upgrades - +1 for them for making it clear upfront they will push for 3 years of OS upgrades; though competitor brands also typically having 2 years of OS upgrades and some additional security updates afterwards; and let's not forget about the platinum standard of the industry - APPLE; alternatively Android One phones easily came with 3 years of updates too IINM.

DEX - agreed, IIRC they're the first one whom pushed for this and kudos to them to continue improvising on it every year after

Samsung Pay - they done it after Apple launched their Apple Pay...

TWS earbuds - airpods, anyone?

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 14 2020, 12:54 AM

I'm betting even Malaysia set also won't have 3 pins plug.

Xiaomi is just so lazy to purposely add-on additional 3 pins SKU for their 33W charger.

He purchased his out of FOMO, manatau kena game by Xiaomi, denied his order cancellation even though not yet shipped out.
This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 14 2020, 08:46 PM

More like they explicitly acknowledging people won’t be paying for the full RRP cause the phone is marketed with the early bird prices.

People are unwilling to pay for the full RRP anymore after been teased with the early bird pricing.

K20 Pro was a flagship device, just like Poco F2 Pro.

This one is on a "midrange" midrange chipset.

1. Disable “recommendations” in each of those apps.

2. Don’t use stock apps

I never saw any single ads anymore on my Poco F2

Lefuq, 3k+ units sold?

chipset, AMOLED and better cameras.

Those 3 are parts that China didn't made themselves, that's why those parts always cost a premium.

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 17 2020, 12:53 PM

Yeah, the Huaxin vs Samsung AMOLED part.

But I take it they're still at their infancy, and the price is still not competitive enough to obsolete LCD.

Consider an upgrade/sidegrade already. Mate10 vanilla is due for upgrades for a long time already.
https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone...5&idPhone2=8877

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 18 2020, 06:32 PM

Sounds like a side grade.

I will say it’s kind of redundant to have 2 similar specs mid range phone.

Relax, my shipment to Sarawak (from WM or China) averagely took extra 1 week nowadays. I think the courier have problems to arrange for the cargo into Sarawak.

Not exactly unprecedented.

India’s MiA3 has 6GB RAM variant while all other countries capped at 4GB.

Basically they acknowledged India’s market is different and competitive, deswai they always try to tweak additionally for India’s market.

I think this time round, they try to tweak it to directly compete with Samseng’s M51, which made a big hoohah (but still costing the Samseng Tax as always).

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 23 2020, 10:58 PM

This, I will classify SD720 to be same gen as those SD73X, they probably gonna obsolete in terms of performance about the same time.

Don’t say phone, even my generic phone accessories like bag/phone stand from ugreen also yet delivered now, same also bought on 9th9

The international/cross state cargo is simply working real slow nowadays.

That’s a EEA (european economic area) ROM, but not xiaomi.eu ROM.

Basically, Xiaomi’s phones nowadays came with different regional variants of ROM depending on their markets, like Russia, India, Europe and etc.

Xiaomi.eu is a 3rd party tweak on official xiaomi ROM for China, something not under the partake of Xiaomi themselves.

I don’t own a X3 but the older F2Pro, but I guess the mileage is bout the same since both are under Poco branding.
1. If you mean the front facing camera, the setting without filter is the “clear”.

2. Just off “recommendation” in each App’s settings.

3. Tweak the settings in Poco launcher, mine actually behave closely similar (the navigation) to my AndroidOne MiA3 after tweaking all the settings.

AMOLED is inherently better at contrast and sunlight legibility.

Another notable perks is lower power consumption when displaying majorly dark background. Each pixels can effectively be powered off when displaying totally black background, unlike LCD tech which still require some backlight even displaying black background. Always on display is a tech mainly found on phone with OLED display because of this issue.

Also, it generally have lower minimum brightness, which is helpful when using your phone in pitch black room (but note that i said generally, it subjected to model by model basis).

The issue with AMOLED is it can subject to burn in or degradation of colour accuracy as it aged. Therefore the industry is investing in micro-LED next, a non-organic alternative to it which should mitigate the aging issue of OLED.

This post has been edited by msacras: Oct 4 2020, 09:58 PM

How many VVIPs out there using caina phones like us peasants here...

But for old people (less tech savvy), better setup the phone for them and install alternative apps for them before passing to them.

Else they may just use the stock apps as it is.