Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 unboxing and first impressions

Benchmarks just give you a standard baseline because people uses their phones differently. Like for example if it scores 6 hours on the benchmark, then I would know based on my personal experience with devices having the same score that I would get 3 hours of screen time with my usage. You on the other hand, might get 5 hours or whatever with your usage.

I understand your point, I just don’t agree with benchmarks, I think real world usage gives a better measure. For me neither of those have ever been anything close to accurate. Andi’s reviews often span multiple days and usually at least a week. His usage is mixed and covers everything the typical consumer will do with a phone. It’s a lot more realistic to take his review and adjust it accordingly based on your usage.

It is far easier to benchmark the device and go from there. Saying that phone will have enough power to run you a day and a half is too vague and leaves too many questions. Like how many minutes of calls did you do. Wifi surfing? Data usage? Text messages? And all important question of what screen times do you get on average? The previous Redmi Note 2 averages around 6-7 hours in those tests. But in reality could only do around 4 hours of average screen times. Would be interesting how the x10 with the 4000mah and 3gb ram performs.

Which he has never done in his reviews because that is too meticulous to do. That is why people use tools like PCmark and Geek Bench 3.

Most reviewers don’t do it because it takes too much time. That’s why battery benchmarks were created. Simulated tests gives you a baseline. It also makes the reviewers job easier.

The point is Andi or the guys in gizchina don’t do that battery review in detail. That is why I suggested just running a benchmark.

They don’t do battery benchmark tests either because they are often time too time consuming. That is why i suggested they just tell us about their daily usage during their reviews.

How is it 10x the work if they are already doing that work for a phone review? When they do a review they test out everything from playing music to games to camera. Only extra work is writing down how long they did each for and how long the battery lasted.

The average review takes more than a couple days, most take at least a week. Your very confused about how reviews actually work. What is 10x the work is stopping a review to run a benchmark that takes hours away from your review.

I have used them all. Battery benchmarks are long and tedious. I have also done phone reviews. A normal phone review you try to do as many tasks as possible to represent what the average user will do with that phone. While your doing your review you will regularly take notes for when you actually sit down to write the review instead of trying to go off of memory. Jotting down “watched 30 minute video” “sent 50 text messages today”, “took 50 test photos and 3 videos” etc. would take all of an extra 30 seconds. You are regularly doing all of these tasks during a review. With a review you usually have a deadline to meet to get the review published, having to stop to run a benchmark which takes hours is counter-productive to taking an extra minute to write something additional to what you are already writing.

You really have no clue what you are talking about. You still have yet to explain how it is tedious to write down something you are already doing. When you are doing a review it is tedious to have to put down the phone to run a benchmark that can take upwards of six hours, depending on your battery size. Anything that takes you away from the actual review is tedious.

Their normal way of doing things is what I already told you, you don’t seem to understand what actually happens when someone reviews a product. My way would take an extra 10 minutes total, your way would take an extra 6 hours.

How is it is anymore than 10 minutes? All they are doing is writing down the tasks they are already doing. Does it take you more than 10 minutes to write “played 30 minutes of Real Racing” or “watched a video that was 45 minutes” and then put them in a nice little list by each day. If that takes you more than 10 minutes you have bigger problems than I thought.

You’re the one with the serious problem junior if you think an extra 2 minutes to write something down is extra work but 6 hours for a benchmark is not. You have some serious issues.

You don’t seem to realize when you do a review, you already write down every single activity you do to the phone. The size of the battery has nothing to do with writing stuff down. Whether you have a 1500mAh battery or 12000mAh batter you still record everything you do with the phone so you can mention it in your review. The reality is you have a hard time grasping the simplest of concepts. Your feeble little mind can’t understand that these tasks they are already doing, the only extra step is writing something extra down, which for any sane person with motor skills above that of a 3 year old takes about an extra minute at the most.

Lol you are just funny now. If it takes you more than two minutes to write down “played X game for 30 minutes” you need to get off your keyboard and seek professional help immediately.

Okay here you go my battery usage today:

Sent 15 text messages

Took 23 pictures

Recorded a 2 minute video wishing my niece happy birthday

Browsed the internet for 53m and 27s

Browsed Bleacher Report for 6m and 13s

Used Facebook Messenger for 9m and 15s

Screen on time 1h 5m 28s

Listened to 5 songs on commute.

Current battery level 76%.

Brightness level set to 50% always.

3g and location always on

That took me less than 2 minutes to type that all out, how did I get exact numbers for time? Just about every phone will give you the exact times you used each for. Boy you must feel stupid, but that seems to be a daily occurrence for you so you must be used to it by now.

Seeing as that took me all of two minutes, doing that over a few more days plus screen shots would be a total of about 15 minutes extra work. Your battery benchmarks would at a minimum take 4 hours. I know simple math confuses you so don’t worry junior I am here to help. 4 hours is 240 minutes. 240 is more than 15. If you need any more help sport, let me know.

Not needed proving you wrong was reward enough.