After announcing the name of their new Eco System and launching a rice cooker, Xiaomi have also announced the ‘high’ version of the Redmi 3 with fingerprint scanner.
Priced at 899 Yuan in China (which is roughly $138), the Xiaomi Redmi 3 is still a 5-inch 720p phone with all metal body, but has received a few choice upgrades.
As seen in the launch image above (and previous TENAA leaks) the new ‘high’ version of the Xiaomi Redmi 3 now has a touch fingerprint scanner on the rear of the body similar to the one on the Redmi Note 3.
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The new Redmi 3 also gets a boost in memory to 3GB RAM + 32GB storage, while retaining the ability to use SD cards of up to 128GB.
Continuing inside, the new phone has dual SIM support, a 4100mAh battery, and an 8 core Snapdragon 616 chipset with Adreno 405GPU. Cameras on the phone are 13 mega-pixel rear and 5 mega-pixel front, and that metal body can be chosen in either Gold, Fashion Dark Grey, White, or Classic Gold.
So far the phone is only available in China, but keep posted on reseller sites as it’s likely to be a hit elsewhere too.
I think will be much more, 164$ was the first one, resellers are so damn greedy!
No, it will be the same as ordinary Redmi 3 when it first hit, because it would influence the sales of Redmi Note 3’s 😉 resellers have a bunch of those for 200-230$. I expect ordinary Redmi 3 to be now 130$, this new one 170$
Resellers aren’t greedy they are business that have to make money to operate, they are not a charity that can afford to give the phones away. Xiaomi doesn’t give discounts to second hand sellers like some brands do, so any reseller is paying retail prices for the phones.
It`s a shame they all keep marketing those phones with their China prices and then BOOM gearbest is cheapest with 20% on top of that price and you have to wait for months for them to actually deliver. That’s one of the main reasons people prefer to get a headset from their local carrier, although it might be more expensive, but you can actually inspect the phone in your hands and don`t have to wait for extended pre-sales periods.
This is a wonderful (and my next) phone. A 5″ Redmi 3 High, with a huge battery and a fingerprint reader, from a reliable company, for ~170$
The only downside is 720p, but that helps save some battery so… Xiaomi, thank you.
A phone without a fingerprint reader is not a good buy in 2016., so it’s good they have upgraded it. Xiaomi Redmi 3 ‘High’ is the bestbuy phone to beat.