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?