The Redmi 3S Prime is once again an excellent smartphone from Xiaomi and is also the best smartphone to buy under a budget of rs. 10, 000. There is also Redmi 3S which ditches the fingerprint scanner and has 16 GB of storage and 2 GB RAM priced at Rs 6, 999. which is again, great value of money. As its price, the Xiaomi 3S Prime is quite a feature packed smartphone. Yes it looks small and that is exactly I appreciate Xiaomi’s efforts in stuffing the smartphone to its limits. There is a 5-inch HD IPS LCD display which looks neat and inside there is a new Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 octa-core processor which is clocked at 1.4GHz. You also get 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storade. The storage can be expanded further using a microSD card upto 256 GB in size. The camera department comprises a 13MP f/2.0 aperture camera with PDAF and an LED flash and the front there is a 5MP unit with an f/2.0 aperture.
The rest of the features include 4G LTE support, Wifi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.1, GPS, micro USB port. The handset runs on android 6.0 Marshmallow with MIUI 7 and rounding it off is a mighty 4, 100mAh battery which is tiny bit larger than the Redmi Note 3. The only thing missing is Wifi-802.11 ac support, that shouldn’t be a big deal at this price.
The smartphone runs on an octa-core Snapdragon 430 SoC from Qualcomm, making it the first device in the country to run on this chip. It is clocked at 1.4GHz and is coupled with the new Adreno 505 GPU. It is definitely a good update from the previous versions but it isn’t a powerhouse, so to speak. Resource hogging games like Asphalt 8 and Dead Trigger 2 push the SoC to its limits and minor frame drops are noticable.
The processor can however, handle more casual games and everyday tasks with ease. Everyday usage and even multiasking was no biggie since it packs in 3-gigs of RAM which was enough to open 10-12 apps at the same time. It doesnt heat up that much wither, considering it has eight cores, the only one or two times we noticed a considerable amount of heating was when we kept the screen on full brightness and played pokemon GO for about 2-3hours straight. Another instance was when we recorded a long, Full HD video with the rear camera
In the photography departmnet Xiaomi offers at 13 MP rear camera on the Redmi 3S Prime featuring an f/2.0 aperture lens, phase detection autofocus and an LED flash. At this price point we can’t expect superior image quality of course, but the camera gets the basics right. Bright and well lit conditions offer favourable quality but as soon as you move indoors or under low light, there is visible noise and loss of details. Focusing is fairly fast, but it did seem to struggle when tried taking some pictures iindoors. Even the front 5MP camera produced average pictures and didn’t offer a very crisp output.
I’m pleasantly surprised by the device. The design is excellent, the hardware is very well balanced and even the perfomance feels great for a budget smartphone. The hero feature is definitely the massive battery, sometthing which almost every smartphone user would love and appreciate. The camera and the UI are the only let downs but you are paying less than ten grand, so even that’s acceptable. The Redmi 3S Prime is once again an excellent smartphone from Xiaomi and is also the best smartphone to buy under a budget of Rs. 10, 000.
Priced at Rs. 8, 999 it comes very close to the base variant of the Redmi Note 3, but Xiaomi has positioned the Redmi series as a device for users who don’t require a lot of power at thier disposal. There is also the Redmi 3S which ditches the fingerprint scannner and has 16 GB of storage and 2GB of RAM priced at Rs6, 999, which is again, great value for money.
THE REDMI 3S PRIME IS ONE THE BEST.