Everything you need to know about the Xiaomi Mi3 and how it stacks up against its Indian competition.

So if you'r in the market to buy a smartphone and you have a budget of about Rs. 15,000, many might recommend you to opt for the Motorola Moto G or the Nokia Lumia 630 & more recently, the Xiaomi Mi3. You might raise an eyebrow when you look at the name Xiaomi, not only because it is new to India, but also because it is Chinese. In India, we've seen Indian based OEMS use MediaTek chipsets and other low quality stuff to make smartphones that look on the specifications sheet like a higher end smartphone. 

Well, Xiaomi is not one of them. Xiaomi smartphones, even though reasonably priced, are exceptionally built with premium materials (metal in the case of the Mi3) and use premium components like Quallcomm Snapdragon or the Nvidia Tegra chipsets, Corning Gorilla Glass, etc. If you look closely, the Mi3 uses the same components which were used in last years and this years flagships. 

For getting started, the Snapdragon 800, the heart of the Mi3 is the one of the fastest chips available. It sports 4 Krait 400 cores clocked at 2.3GHz coupled with an Adreno 330 GPU. In comparison, the Moto G and the Lumia 630 have a Snapdragon 400 which has 4 Cortex A7 cores clocked at only 1.2GHz, coupled with an Adreno 305. Well, I don't need to explain anymore, but for the rest of the specs, here you go (courtesy gsmarena.com)

The screen on the Mi3 is way sharper (at 1080p compared to 720p or WVGA) & is of better IPS quality. The battery is also larger, almost 1000 mAh larger. All of these characteristics of the Mi3 not only give it an edge above the phones of its price bracket, but also an edge above the high end smartphones where it rightfully belongs.

So are you going to buy the Mi3?

  

The Apple iPhone 6 might be Apple's first 2GHz iOS device

Apple has been known for producing anaesthetically pleasing smartphones which have an easy and intuitive user interface.....but, they disappoint the geeky people like me. Lets take the iPhone 5s. It uses a dual core cpu in a day of quad and even octa core cpus. The screen is a mere 4" diagonal when all flagships have a 5" screen. And taking about screens, the screens of those smartphones have a resolution that is twice or even four times the screen resolution of the iPhone. There are many more like the camera being just a 8MP shotter and more but with this latest leak about the iPhone 6 & more specifically the Apple A8 SoC, we think Apple has finally heard our prayers.

Leaks say that the chipset (Apple a8) is said to be made using a 20nm process, and it will still be 64-bit, as is the A7 in the iPhone 5S. The new SoC will stick with a dual-core CPU like its predecessors, though we will apparently see Apple breaking the 2 GHz barrier. This would be a first for the company's phones.

However, it's still unclear just how much the A8's CPU will go past that threshold, if at all. So it could get 2 GHz as its maximum frequency, or more than that.
This should obviously result in a performance boost for the new handset, since the iPhone 5S has a CPU clocked at 1.3 GHz.

TSMC may be involved in the production of the A8 chipset, probably alongside Samsung (Apple's traditional supplier).

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