Xiaomi Mi A3 Review – Extremely Good Budget Smartphone
A budget two mid range smartphone start from around 195 days to the me a3, just under 200 pound, the 64 gigabyte version. So, for me it is a budget device and an extremely good budget device. Snapdragon 665 Adreno 610, 4 gigs of ram and 64 gigabytes of storage, 6.0 8 inch AMOLED display, which is beautiful, and it has guerrilla glass 5 on the front and the back of the device and a solid metal frame. It feels so silky. It feels really really good in the hand it feels like you’re holding a premium device. It really does solid and smooth. The display is excellent and it’s got excellent, viewing angles as well, no washed out colors or anything like that. It has the built in fingerprint reader, which is very, very easy to find and it’s lower down on the screen. I’Ve seen some phones with a little bit higher up they’re important with this is it’s a little bit slow and then I’d like, but the face ID or the face unlock is quicker, so I’ve been using them both together. How about two updates on this device since I’ve, been using over the last week, security updates, so that’s good to know. Xiaomi are pretty good like that anyway, it’s running on their Android 1 software and I haven’t experienced any bugs or any sort of lag or anything. So that’s another great plus as well and it’s, also powered by these 665 Snapdragon processor and the audrina 610 playing asphalt 9 on high quality settings with a breeze as well looking good well so pacifying colors.
If you remember the unboxing video that I did last week, you remember that I found out, I had a 720p display and all honesty you cannot tell the difference at all, because the brilliant AMOLED display was excellent. So I tell her back about the 720p but was initially quite shocked, so the me a 3 as a 4030 milliamp battery, so it’s gon na go a little bit in depth. I suppose so that first day got 5 hours and 42 minutes. That was, the usage took vows on whatsapp and I’m 41 on maps as well: Liberty, YouTube and crime so the first day, and that left me with 1 left that has a 535 in the afternoon. I still like to get my phone put on charge. Second day was, worse, is 5 hours and 16 and usage a couple of hours on whatsapp, again maps as well, similar sort of usage really that than the day before 2 left. But this is a 751 in the evening and then out of nowhere I got 8 hours and 52 minutes screen on time last full charge 16 hours ago. If you look at the usage, two hours maps, two hours, whatsapp 51 minutes for Chrome, 50 minutes or 55 minutes for Facebook yeah now you can see the graph all the way down there, wasn’t charged at all in the day. I’Ve no idea where that came from and then the day after that came crashing back down to 5 hours and 32 minutes, and I don’t understand, which is the odd.
So one day was this extremely weird spike of over eight hours screen on time, and then it went back to normal. So ever all I’ve said in the a3 has an average battery life. So the me a3 has a triple camera set up: AI technology, 48 megapixel ultra wide angled lens and a 32 megapixel front facing ki selfie camera, so photography, the rear camera ultra wide angle lens also has a two time: optical zoom, so on the rear, then this Is a standard shot but the the standard lens, then the ultra wide angle lens fits a lot of area there, but it’s also got optical zoom as well, and that works tremendously. Well, you can use these in portrait mode and video mode as well in portrait mode. The bokeh effect, the edge detection, is very, very good. You can’t really fault it, especially in great lighting conditions, lighting environment I’ve, seen lower light is not as good but it’s, not bad. I can’t really fault this phone’s camera performance, especially for the price bracket around 200 pounds, a video it can shoot into 4k as well and 1080p. So here is some 4k 4k. We go those loose on dewlap cool. It has image stabilization on as well, which I think works really well in all video settings 1080p as well, so this is 1080p at 60 frames per second, oh, it looks smoother Music, you go, sir. This is excellent. Quality civilization is great as well beautiful.
That was 60 frames per second. A lot smoother looks brilliant on the display, when you’re recording video for switch to the front facing video. This is 1080p Music, Music, Music Applause. I can’t fault the me a freeze front facing video camera either and sound quality’s, pretty good. As well, this is a difficult one for me. Where do we place the me? A three budget or mid range I’d like to hear your thoughts below 64 gigabyte version is 195 on Vanguard. It’S got a snapdragon 665, which last year the 660 was sort of in the mid range sort of smartphone, but I’m gon na put this at the high end of the budget scale under 200 pounds. It is an excellent smartphone with a really really good camera average battery life. The display is brilliant, although it’s only 720, he build quality is amazing, front and rear Gorilla Glass. Five performance is great as well. Android one stock, Android it’s got three point: five more socket for headphones IR, blaster type C charging you’d, be fool not to take a look at this closer. I think I’ve covered everything I need to cover in this review. Guys there’s not been one problem at all. If I could improve anything, it’d, probably be the battery life that’s, it guys the review of the me a three links are in the description below.
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This is a fantastic phone, it's basically Xiaomi's version of the Pixel 3a. Even the way Xiaomi cheekily names the colours (More than white-Xiaomi / Clearly white-Pixel). I paid £185 (new) on eBay for the 128 GB version, even now it's hard to think of a phone to replace it, just operates so light and fluid on Android 10. The Pixel 3a is now dropping in price, because a 4a is due soon. Even with current prices of £279 for the Pixel 3a, that's still nearly £100 more than a Mi A3 which has double the storage (expandable as well).
Since Android 10 update, I get 2/3 days battery life with moderate to high usage, 4 pushing 5 days low to moderate. Perhaps the dark mode helps here along with other optimization tweaks under the hood.
When trying gaming u should consider games like pubg or gta sa or nba 2k20 those really need some high performance!
i gave a like for your united jersey
You're a Manchester United fan? Nice to meet you mate✌🏾
Cute baby girl
It's have plastic frame not metal 🙄 ( but seems like metal ) 😂
In hand feels really good
I have to disagree with you on the Battery life
I'm getting 8+ hrs of SOT on my Mi A3
Tbf using Maps & Turning on Location eats up a lot of battery power
Plastic frame
You have big hands😂😂💪🏼
720p display is perfectly fine, fingerprint scanner is so so, but I will take some advice and maybe tap my finger faster, just wish we could turn off the animation,
Cameras are fantatsic and service with T-Mobile has been great👍
Oh and I got this on OfferUp for $100 ☺️
Does Netflix run in HD or SD?
honest review bro…
My white 4/64 just arrived. Can't wait to use it. I am expecting great battery life and SOT as I intend to enable dark mode as much as I can for Android and apps I use. Thanks for the video.
Will soon reach 100million
lol. To me this is like a maxed spec device XD.
Worst low network mobile I've ever use 👎
Good reviews. Thanks. Except for the manure shirts! ;P Great work.
Very over exposed when in ultra wide
Is the note 7 better or is this phone better?
Thanks for ur great review. Will definitely buy it coming week to replace my redmii note 7
Sir how 720p display can capture the 4k video? What happens to the pixels! Plz tell …….
hi bro thx for this video
I have a question for you before buying Do you see any red line or any other color at the top of the screen in a free white background like the settings … because many users see it
Thank you for the review
Just ordered a White color model. Gonna join the party 🎉😁
Surprised at the weak battery performance given Xiaomi's reputation on other devices! Cheers
It has only 720p display, but it looks like 1080p for me because of the amoled disp. and the sharpness of the icons
Fingerprint scanner IS fast. It's just the animation making it slow. Try tapping Fingerprint scanner quickly.
Don't know about your unit but people with mid/slightly high usage were getting constantly 8:30–9:00 hours of SOT.
I'll say it lands in budget smartphone category. Good video.👍🏻👍🏻
Finally i decided to buy Mi A3.
Thank you for the awesome review!
I was thinking of buying this phone to compare it to my Nokia 8.1 but that display made me scared.
Is the proximity sensor shitty in calls, like in Mi A2? In my (and many other users) your screen opens during a call, start pressing buttons with your cheek. Annoying, but got used to closing the screen while getting it to my ear.