10 things you need to know about the Xiaomi Redmi Pro

Indeed the Mi 5 turned out not to be the bargain its spec sheet suggested

FM radio is a standar feature for Mediatek’s SoCs until now. So I think the same applies to this one.

It can still come later, just kike with the Note 3. They may be waiting on a newer version of the Snap 65x series so that it is an actual upgrade of the Note 3, also in hardware.

But for sale in india they need a Snapdragon as MediaTeks are forbidden there, so if they want to sell it there, they will.

It can still come later, just kike with the Note 3. They may be waiting on a newer version of the Snap 65x series so that it is an actual upgrade of the Note 3, also in hardware.

But for sale in india they need a Snapdragon as MediaTeks are forbidden there, so if they want to sell it there, they will.

Don’t get your panties in a bunch and your menstruation pad all soaked. Here are some facts for you:

– This Note Pro X25 4GB costs $300 as marked by Xiaomi

– When listed online, prices will be higher

– The MI5 is already available for $310 – $340 (incl. markup)

– One Mi5 is here: http://bit.ly/2aDc2gi (314 orders)

So as I said:

– The price isn’t just trivial, but also in favor of the Mi5 / SD820

– The difference in the two SoCs is vast, the 820 is far better

– The other differences you listed doesn’t make up for this

One may prefer an OLED / AMOLED display, but it doesn’t have any significant impact on day to day operation, otherwise the marked for LCD based phones wouldn’t have dominated for so long.

Build material? Are you joking? Have you even handled the Mi5? Same company, flagship grade build, beautiful finish.

To see why the Mi5 is superior, you’d have to have one like I do. Try it out if you can before hypothesizing.

My dad uses the Redmi Note 3 (SD 650 model), so going by that phone, it’s not too hard to extrapolate what the RN3 PRO will be like. No, it will not be graphene-enforced and the battery will not last till eternity. Marginal improvements of auxiliary features can never make up for a critical deficiency in an SoC, sorry.

Safe as long as you choose a reliable seller with a high reputation, and a large number of items sold (I mean the exact same item you are looking at), and you select DHL / UPS for shipping (costs around 20-25 bucks extra).

That link I posted: 314 orders, 225 feedback @ 4.6 rating, looks great. Don’t hold me at gun point later though. However, not to scare you or anything, yes, it’s completely safe.

Are you really going to continue arguing for the sake of it?

1. I own an Mi5 – zero build quality issues – it is phenomenal. So what are you talking about? Can you show some YouTube videos where reviewers point out the “build issues”? Or is this once again “up in the air” hypothesizing? More susceptible to breaking? Then one should only buy Aluminium chassis phones, that’s your argument? Sure, just Google bendgate.

2. Consumers don’t give a crap about display technologies, unless the consumer happens to be an expert in the comments section of GizChina. 😉 So going by that, the fact that the Mi5 doesn’t offer an OLED display doesn’t doesn’t really mean anything to the average consumer, who’ll probably think – if it looks good and feels good, who cares? They’ll probably not even ask to be honest.

3. Larger screen by how much? 0.35 inches? I’m guessing you can argue the other way as well? That the folks who prefer a smaller form factor will like it?

I never claimed that the 820’s performance is twice as better as the X25’s, but let’s compare the two devices here, as you also said, it’s about phones, not SoCs.

– One can buy a Mi5 right now for ~$310 (all inclusive)

– One can wait a bit and buy this RN3P-X25 for ~320 / ~330

– If the price of the RN3P-X25 is marked higher than the Mi5 by retailers, it’s a really, really shitty deal.

I will stand by this argument, and I hope prospective phone buyers won’t be stupid enough to worry about “a beautiful glass body”, “a superb display” and a “beastly cpu + gpu bar none” that they can get for cheaper than the RN3P-X25 with X% performance of this and that with an OLED display and a card slot. No way.

You don’t pay less. Quit misinforming people. The price from Xiaomi for the top end model is at CNY 1999, roughly US$ 302.

When listed, assuming a reasonable margin, the price will be around US $330.

Very shitty deal compared to the lower priced better spec’d Mi5, as I have maintained throughout.

Wrong, because for the flagship phone: X25 / 4GB etc. the listed price will be marked EVEN HIGHER, around $350-360.

I’m expecting it to start at $350 – which, for a MediaTek phone, is basically impending doom.

Fastcardtech and geekbuying have the mi5 3/32 version listed for $316 including shipping

Thanks for letting me now, but I’ve just ordered from AliExpress for almost the same price 🙂

Mediatek isn’t forbidden in India, Xiaomi is forbidden from selling MTK phones there. Several companies in India sell MTK phones.

Just about every review of the Mi5 points out build quality issues…

And you’re confusing phones this is the Redmi Pro. The RN3P is a completely different phone.

That’s you and your decision, not me.

I care a lot about the SoC and have major reservations about paying big money for MediaTek phones (never will), so?

He is payed to write that… So on your personal opinion, he wrote you are wrong, as someone ask him. And he’ll get his new MTK phone, and a sandwich.

With a $5 coupon and a bunch of food stamps for the family to go along with, ha ha. Amazing how much he defends MediaTek phones and will persuade anyone to “know better”.

So you buy a phone just for the SoC? Hypothetical scenario. You have $300 to spend on a phone and must decide between one of these two:

A. Helio X25, 4GB RAM, 128GB Rom, Sony IMX 260 (same as used in S7) with f/1.7 aperture, hifi audio chip, 4000mAh.

B. SD615, 3GB RAM, 16GB Rom, Sony IMX 220 with f/2.2 aperture, 3000mAh.

By your logic you would choose the worse overall phone (B) just because it has a Qualcomm SoC. Even though that particular SoC is one of the worst ones Qualcomm ever made. Me and most reasonable people look at the entire package of the phone, not just the SoC.

Don’t know whether he’s paid or not, but certainly is opinionated and engages as such, unnecessarily.

I mean, here I am, having spoken to another user who pointed me to a phone I was looking at for a while, on AliExpress, and I happily place an order at a superb price. So it’s a done deal, but no, let’s prove people wrong and engage in banter.

So here he is, commenting on my buying decision, on what he’d base his decision on, and the slight jab with what “most reasonable” people would do – which is go for a MediaTek device, masqueraded more politely as “look at the overall phone instead of the SoC”. Well, I choose not to, so fuck off and mind your own business maybe? Yes, I thought so.

Could very well be paid like you said, but I’ll still leave some benefit of doubt. Trolls like these are rarely taken seriously by any company, much less one that works at the scale of Xiaomi, MediaTek whatever.

Yeah, resorting to calling someone a fanboy because they disagree with you or have different priorities while making a purchase, butting into conversations where your opinion wasn’t even needed in the first place (it was me and realjjj) but you felt compelled to, and generally being a dick to anyone that you have the slightest disagreement with.

I didn’t even want to argue with you any further, and if you look up, I tried to not even have a conversation with you when I said your decision is yours and not mine.

So why the fuck are you arguing and still carrying the conversation on? Why do you care a rat’s ass how people make their purchasing decisions, as irrational as they seem to you.

Unless of course, as Bojan pointed out, you’re paid to do this? I’m off this conversation. I’m not even sure why I chose to engage with a third grade troll like you on my first few comments at GizChina, some of which involved making a happy purchase where things should have ended.

Fucking useless jerk.

Swearing and name calling and you call someone else a “third grade troll”. I use the fanboy comment when it applies. Saying you would choose a worse phone just because it has a certain SoC, when every other component is worse is full fanboy.

It’s okay to be a fanboy where all fanboys of something, I am a fanboy of Xiaomi, you are a fanboy of Qualcomm. Much easier to just admit it.

Most reasonable people would go for the best value for the money. A fanboy such as yourself buys phones based only on the SoC, reasonable people buy phones based on the entire package.

“Trolls like these” Considering I have been given free phones to both test out and keep by several companies, I don’t fit your definition of a troll. But it is fun getting you all riled up, you Qualcomm fanboys are so easy to mess with.

“He has disagreements with pretty much everyone, on almost everything (except MaxPower and Yasir, for obvious reasons).”

What are those obvious reasons, if I may ask?

Here’s really just doing this for fun. You guys are easy to troll, you know?

Are you really an adult? Quit trolling me and get a life, seriously.

“I have no allegiance to a SoC company. I currently use two Qualcomm phones”

This proves only that, despise the fact you work for MTK, you secretly know deep inside yourself that MTK suck ballz and QC is the way to go ! xD

I bet you had a Meizu Pro 5 !

BTW this thread should be renamed “10 things you need to know about balco”

Wow, the honest admittance does reflect so nicely on you, you know. Somehow balco trolling others who have tried not to converse with him is ok, and going by the sound of what you just posted, you too enjoy it when it’s him attacking and making others miserable, right? Easy to troll? why, because they have a different opinion than yours, or different priorities which doesn’t match yours?

Classy. On with the name calling now, but I’m out.

You avoided the real question though – why are you trying to be all “noble” while essentially doing the same thing with me?