The Xiaomi Red Rice is the first Mediatek powered Android phone from Xiaomi. Here is a quick hands on with the phone to show it responsiveness and how well it can handle gaming.
The Red Rice is quite a big deal here in China. Not only is it the first Xiaomi phone to feature a quad-core 1.5Ghz MT6589T processor, but it is also the largest Xiaomi to date and the cheapest! Costing just 799 Yuan ($130) Xiaomi are expected to ship 100,000s of Red Rice over the coming months.
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Xiaomi Red Rice Hands on Video
The above video shows and newly bought Xiaomi Red Rice and how it handles app switching, opening and loading apps along with gaming performance. It comes as no surprise that the MT6589T chipset handles everything in its stride and the Xiaomi Red Rice would be easily up to the job of handling daily smartphone duties with the odd bit of gaming thrown in.
I hope they make a WCDMA version, would buy it instantly then 🙂
Just to add: the MIUI running on MTK devices is still in early stages, you’ll probably see alot of improvement in performance in the upcoming weeks 🙂
What does the lack of WCDMA mean for international users?
If we are using a 3G network, does this render it useless here?
Thanks in advance for any answers 🙂
3G supposedly only works in China Mobile (2100MHz TD-SCDMA), but the rest of the phone should work normally in many countries.
you are mistaken, only China Telecom is using TD-SCDMA AFAIR, the biggest operator China Mobile and 2nd biggest China Unicom are just regular GSM+WCDMA operators, I have Unicom (chose at beginning because of better data packages, 5RMB=30MB, 10RMB=100MB, 20RMB=150RMB, 30RMB=300MB), GF company Telecom, most of the colleagues Mobile