The Xiaomi Redmi Note has been one of the most talked about budget octacore phablets of the month, but we mustn’t forget that the Huawei Honor 3X is the original 5.5-inch with 8-core chip at alow price.
It’s Huawei’s Honor 3C which has been gaining most of the news due to it’s low price and ease of availability in China, but Huawei also offer the Honor 3X smartphone with a larger display and similar specifications to the newly launched Xiaomi Redmi Note.
Both the Redmi Note and Huawei Honor 3X have octacore MT6592 processors, and 5.5-inch displays. The Redmi Note costs from just 799 Yuan to 999 Yuan, where as the 3X has just the one 998 Yuan version, so which is the better buy?
Huawei Honor 3X Vs Xiaomi Redmi Note
[komper pid=170,171 compareform=no]At one time Xiaomi would have been miles ahead for price and specification, but rivals are catching up and the Huawei Honor 3X is a prime example. Comparing the Huawei Honor 3X to the top of the range Redmi Note shows us that times have changed and things aren’t going to be so easy for Xiaomi as they used to be.
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From a design point of view, the Huawei Honor 3X is more stylish, thinner, less bulky and lighter than the Redmi Note, but the Note makes up for that with a slightly lager battery. Both phones have the same camera specifications, processor, same amount of RAM, and both run custom versions of Android. The Redmi has just 8GB of internal memory where as the Honor 3X has 16GB, but they both have SD card expansion as an option!
Choosing between these two phones is a tricky one, and it really only comes down to which phone you prefer the look of. For me I prefer the design of the slightly thinner Huawei, that said the Redmi does have a larger battery and will likely have a better selection of accessories!
I’m quite happy I don’t need to make this decision as it really is a tough one but how about you? If you were in the market for one for these budget, octacore phones which would you choose?
Considering the construction quality, Honor 3X.
is it possible to put android 4.4 on huawei ? as i assume xiaomi’s MIUI version of 4.4 will be supported on redmi note?
how well does mtk6592 perform with kitkat?
Currently not possible, because MediaTek is a scumbag company 😛
Huawei honor 3x has price of 350~ USD in most of the web shops…
I hope that wont be the case of redmi
International price is always much higher, don’t expect Redmi Note below $300 in the first weeks.
What? The price of Honor 3X is 1698 if you buy from Huawei Vmall and around 1900 if you buy in a Chinese shop. The memory of the Huawei 3X is 8GB not 16GB. The last picture is of Honor 3C not 3X.
Same amount of RAM? Not the 1GB version…
Honor 3X supports both TD-SCDMA and WCDMA in the same device and on BOTH sim slots (but not at the same time). Hongmi 2 only supports TD-SCDMA on one slot (and GSM on the other slot) at launch
Many faults here, come on!
Points good.
Price is dropping
where?
Honor 3X WCDMA for 998 yuan?
I guess you are wrong. It is still 1698 yuan on the official webshop VMALL
International price is way above $300
But I can see after a week of use, that it really worth the price. Well-built phablet from Huawei with tons of small innovative features and very few bugs.
The price dropped for the new TD-SCDMA-only 1.4 GHz version only…
Neither for me
The greatest aspect of the Redmi is his ridiculous price, come on! As mfmx has said (first comment) the price of Honor 3X is, at least, enough to buy 2 smartphones Redmi Note.
I think that the Redmi Note will be an exit, like the moto g, but in a phablet,(remender the comparations between the moto g and the first xiaomi redmi ) if finaly Xiaomi gets to expand their market, nobody could stop them (Better like this, I think)
I think that this is not very fair, I love this web and I dont want to believe that yours opinions could be manipulated by the money that a company can offer but… Now I dont know what to think…
All the compared facts are wrong… And no doubt the international price of the Redmi Note WCDMA 2GB (if there will be any) will be over 1600 Yuan.
The international price of the Redmi Note will be over 256 dollards? Their last smartphone Low-Middle Range international version (Xiaomi Red Rice) had the same starting price… And has keep his price… And if you know about Xiaomi you will know that they don’t use to increase their prices.
I think mfmx is confusing Official launches with Unofficial grey market resellers….
People that can buy at the official launch don’t read gizchina.com…
If 3X is priced 998 yuans I would definitely buy it! checked this morning and price is around 1600 yuans. The 3C is still around 1000 yuans!
There is a special sale offer going on for 3x, and thats how the price is 998. I see the offer is advertised via weibo: http://weibo.com/3206603957/ABT2vzkQS
Thank you for the link, but it seems to be TD-SCDAM version only, too bad.
rofl at 267ppi
whats the sense in giving those things MT6592 chipset and than not go with the best resolution?
price!
could as well go with MT6582 then which is even cheaper
I can’t see any single pixel when I view my 3X from 30cm. Nonsense to do much higher resolutions for this physical size.
IMHO, if I were to make a choice between the Redmi and the Honor 3X, I would choose the Honor 3X without thinking twice. I think I can deal with losing 200mAh of battery life than losing a whole 8GB of internal memory.
That is if both of them are been offered at relatively the same price point wrt the 2GB versions.
3X is only 8GB, there are no 16GB version launched yet (yes I have one and you can also see the specifications at vmall)
998 Yuan version of Honor 3X has 1.4GHz MT6592 octa-core processor not 1.7GHz.
Even 998 Yuan version of Honor 3X has a slower processor, I’m definitely going to get this. Because 3X build quality and style is better than Hongmi Note. I also think there won’t be a huge difference between 1.4GHz & 1.7GHz MT6592 octa-core processor.