I have been using Xioami product since their first sale in India and during this 4+ years I have had bad moments with them as well. When my Redmi Note 3 was stolen I was not sure if I should go for XIaomi or Motorola. Though Motorola products are great I wasn’t confident with it. Hence, again I purchased a Xiaomi product.
Phone:
A1 has been great since last 10 months and value for money as I got it for around 12, 500 rupees during one of the sale on Flipkart. Since the phone runs on stock android, the updates are quite frequent and before any other device.
Photos:
Google Photos provides unlimited backup of the photos and at the same time acts as the gallery. However, if needed additional galleries can be installed from the app store.
The photo quality is great and one can also get the newly popular bookeh effect due to dual camera at the back.
Looks:
Easily looks like 20, 000+ phone