Redmi 3S evaluation: 699 yuan with fingerprint identification+long battery life.

IT 168 Evaluation On June 14, the first day after the release of Charm Blue 3S, Xiaomi also released Redmi 3S mobile phone directly through official website. In my opinion, it is quite external, but it is also reasonable. Because it is not an iterative product, it is more inclined to supplement the hardware functions of the previous generation. Redmi 3S cancelled the pattern design on the back of Redmi 3, and adopted Snapdragon 430, the latest SOC positioning midrange in Qualcomm, as the processor, and added the fingerprint recognition function. If you compare the high-end versions of the two mobile phones, they are exactly the same except for the different processors. Whether it is industrial design, memory size or camera quality, it is the same. This leaves us with a question: What is the significance of Xiaomi's launching Redmi 3S mobile phone?

First of all, this problem needs to be viewed from two angles. Subjectively speaking, the competition in the mobile phone industry is fierce, especially in the thousand yuan mobile phone market. Almost every month, manufacturers launch products below 1,000 yuan. In order to maintain the brand's popularity, especially for Xiaomi, which is characterized by high cost performance and new domestic products, it is necessary to innovate and refine the product line according to the needs of users in order to gain continuous attention and let consumers get a sense of participation.

Objectively speaking, Meizu's latest Charm Blue 3 mobile phone not only adopts a metal body design and a 2.5D glass design, but also is equipped with a fingerprint recognition function to support the whole Netcom. But the price is only 699 yuan, which is the same as Redmi 3 mobile phone, except that Redmi 3 standard edition does not support fingerprint identification. This has shaken Xiaomi's title as the king of cost performance in consumers' mouths. So Xiaomi urgently needs to launch a new product to compete with it, so Redmi 3S was born.

Although Redmi's 3S upgrade points are a little less and nostalgic, the highlight on the mobile phone is still very bright, that is, long battery life. First of all, Xiaomi put a battery with a capacity of 4 100mAh in this mobile phone with a circumference of only 139.3x69.6x8.5mm, and the body weight is also controlled at 144g, which is really not easy. You should know that most mobile phones with 5.5-inch screens on the market will be equipped with a battery capacity of more than 4000mAh. In addition, the smaller screen of Redmi 3S means more power saving, and with MIUI 8, great efforts have been made in power saving optimization. According to the official, it is no problem for Redmi 3S to last for 2 or 3 days under normal use.

Let's intuitively compare the hardware specifications of Redmi 3 and Redmi 3S through the parameter table.

Comparison of 3s parameters between Redmi No.3 and Redmi.

Mobile phone model

Redmi 3

Redmi 3S

screen size

5 inches

5 inches

resolution ratio

1280x720

1280x720

processor

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 16

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430

frequency

Eight nuclear 1.5GHz

Eight nuclear 1.4GHz

Body memory

16GB

16GB

Random access memory

2GB

2GB

Main camera

13 million, F/2.0 PDAF

13 million, F/2.0 PDAF

front-facing camera

5 million, F/2.2, support beauty

5 million, F/2.2, support beauty

Fuselage size

139.3x69.6x8.5mm

139.3x69.6x8.5mm

Fuselage weight

144g

144g

battery

4 100 mah

4 100 mah

Fuselage color

White/gold/gray

White/gold/gray

operating system

MIUI 7

MIUI 8 (development version)

Fingerprint identification

There is no standard version, there is a high-end version.

have

Network standard

Mobile/Unicom/Telecom

Mobile/Unicom/Telecom

price

Starting from 699 yuan

Starting from 699 yuan

From the table, apart from fingerprint identification, the difference between the two is mainly reflected in the processor. Snapdragon 430 is the highest specification version of Qualcomm 400 series chips at present, and its CPU architecture is the same as that of Snapdragon 6 16, which consists of eight A53 cores. However, in terms of frequency, the CPU frequency of Snapdragon 430 used in Redmi 3S is 4x1.5 GHz+4x1.2 GHz, and that of Snapdragon 6 16 used in Redmi 3 is. But in terms of GPU, Snapdragon 430 is Adreno 505 model, and Snapdragon 6 16 is Adreno 405 model. In other words, the CPU of Redmi 3S has shrunk slightly, but the GPU performance is stronger. Cut the crap and have a look first.

▲ Redmi 3S running results

Judging from the running score, although the CPU of Redmi 3S is slightly smaller than that of Redmi 3S, its comprehensive running score is still better than that of Redmi 3S (the running score of Redmi 3Antu Bunny is around 35,000). In horizontal comparison, Redmi 3S and Charm Blue Note3 scored the same. In other words, even though the price of Redmi 3S is only 699 yuan, its performance is already at the upper-middle level of 1,000 yuan.

"Industrial design

As an upgraded version of Redmi 3, Redmi 3S has made some adjustments in details. Obviously, the star pattern on the back of Redmi 3 with mixed comments has been eliminated. However, the overall appearance still maintains the design of Redmi 3, and the stamped metal body, polycarbonate edging and 5-inch size are all preserved. Redmi 3S * * * introduced three colors, namely silver, gray and gold. The gold version of our evaluation this time is also a brand-new color scheme introduced by the Redmi series after adopting a metal body.

We can see that the front panel of Redmi 3S also uses gold color matching, which is consistent with the color of the whole machine. The layout of the front panel is also the usual design of Redmi series at present. To sum up briefly, cancel the "mi" logo and use polycarbonate with metallic luster. Redmi 3S is equipped with a 5-inch 720P resolution screen. According to the data provided by official propaganda, it does not have the function of sunshine screen (supported by Redmi 3), but it supports eye protection mode and color temperature adjustment. The black edge of the screen is well controlled and within the acceptable range.

On the back of the fuselage, Redmi 3S is the mainstream design of metal thousand yuan machine at present. The camera layout is in the upper left corner, and the upper part of fingerprint recognition is in the center. The middle part is made of stamped metal body to ensure hand feeling, and the two sides are spliced with polycarbonate material to ensure normal signal overflow. The color difference between the two materials is well controlled, and the joint treatment is relatively smooth, which improves the integrity of the back to some extent. In addition, it is worth noting that the star pattern design on the back of Xiaomi 3S was directly cancelled.

On the side of the fuselage, we can clearly see the polycarbonate package on the edge of the screen, which is slightly higher than the screen, and the metallic luster spraying is particularly conspicuous. On the one hand, this design is based on the consideration of cost and beauty, on the other hand, it also plays a role in protecting the screen. In addition, Xiaomi officially claimed that due to the use of batteries with higher energy density, the size of the large battery of 4 100mAh was reduced, and the thickness of the whole machine was maintained at 8.5mm, which was 0.9mm thinner than that of the Red Rice 2 series.

On the top of the fuselage, Redmi 3S is equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack, a noise-reducing microphone and an infrared remote control sensor. Since Xiaomi 4, infrared remote control sensor has also become the standard of every mobile phone produced by Xiaomi, which is closely related to the layout of Xiaomi smart home ecological chain advocated by Xiaomi. At the bottom is the traditional microUSB charging and data interface (using 5V/2A standard charging head). It should be noted that the machine supports QC3.0 fast charging standard, and replacing the fast charging head can speed up the charging.

In addition, Redmi 3S adopts the design of single slot and three slots. Users can choose Micro SIM card Nano SIM card to realize dual-card dual standby function, or Micro SIM card +TF card for expansion, and the maximum expansion capacity is 128GB. Of course, this practice also makes it impossible for Redmi 3S to realize the function of dual card dual standby +TF card expansion.

On the whole, there is little difference in appearance between Redmi 3S and Redmi 3S, and they are still the usual design routines in Redmi. The metal body and the size of 5 inches ensure the feel of the whole machine. Coincidentally, Meizu also released Charm Blue 3S with the same price of 699 this week. Because the front panel is covered with 2.5D glass, its appearance is more exquisite than that of Redmi.

The details of the appearance of the atlas were slightly adjusted to 699 yuan, and Redmi 3S opened the box for appreciation.

"Interpretation of the highlights of MIUI 8 system

After iteration, MIUI has long been a leader in customizing ROM for smart phones, and it is a plus item for every generation of Xiaomi mobile phones. The newly released MIUI 8 further improved the interface, function and performance of MIUI, and was well received in the public beta stage. With the help of this Redmi 3S, we also combed MIUI 8. It should be noted that the MIUI 8 pre-installed in the evaluation machine is a beta version, and the mass production machine will also pre-install the MIUI 7 stable version for transition. It is expected that the upgrade will be completed in one month.

"Clever design, elaborate.

MIUI 8 has done a lot of redrawing on the interface of the system, which is more beautiful in color selection, and the large color blocks are reused, reflecting youthful vitality. The animation effect of the system has also been redesigned, which not only pursues the coolness of animation transformation, but also pursues the natural logic behind dynamic effects, such as the number that pops up from the keyboard when dialing, the interface shrinks and removes when hanging up, and the dynamic effect of the shredder that deletes notes.

In order to improve the reading experience of the mobile terminal, MIUI 8 focused on font optimization, and the co-founder launched Xiaomi Lanting font. It is reported that Xiaomi Lanting has been polished carefully for 18 months, and updated 6763 commonly used Chinese characters, punctuation marks and Latin letters, expanding to the full-character library of 27533 Chinese characters. According to the actual reading, Xiaomi Lanting is indeed more exquisite and beautiful. As for whether it can improve the fatigue of long-term reading, more verification is needed. After all, fonts still have some metaphysical meanings, which vary from person to person.

"Perfect function, convenient and practical.

MIUI is famous for its timely and complete function updates. As a leap-forward upgrade, MIUI 8 has brought many fresh and practical functions, covering a variety of usage scenarios in life, mainly focusing on the following functional points.

"1, brand-new photo album

MIUI 8' s photo album is more convenient in photo management, supporting continuous shooting aggregation, synchronous prompt and photo album storage (folding photo cache album), and adding the photo album slimming function, that is, the mobile phone displays thumbnails, and the original image is stored in the cloud, which can save 90% of the storage space, which is very practical for friends who are nervous about storage. In addition, the new album also supports multimedia editing, with a variety of filters and rich professional parameter adjustment; Video clips have built-in multiple video templates, which can make large movies even if the editing foundation is weak, which is convenient for social sharing.

"2, strong sweep.

The sweeping of MIUI 8 is, to a certain extent, an expansion of common text search, which integrates many functions of fate. Scanning is not only limited to daily bar codes and QR codes, but also supports scanning, translation, scanning search, scanning business cards, scanning documents and so on. Among them, the function of scanning and searching questions can be called black technology. When you encounter a problem that you can't solve, you can give comprehensive steps to solve it, and support the question bank of all subjects from grade one to grade three, which is definitely the gospel of your classmates and friends.

"3, suspended ball

The appearance of floating ball is, in a sense, an improvement made by MIUI 8 on the one-handed operation of large-screen mobile phones. The floating ball can be dragged to any position on the page, and it is automatically transparent and does not block the browsing content. Different from other click operations of floating ball, MIUI's floating ball adopts sliding operation and supports five shortcut functions. Users can customize the high-frequency action into the floating ball, which is convenient for daily operation and improves efficiency.

"4. Other small functions: long screen shots and calculators.

The calculator has also been upgraded, and the calculation steps can be modified at any time. It also supports Chinese case conversion, exchange rate, individual tax, mortgage calculation, unit conversion and other calculations, which is very practical. It also adds a long screenshot function, which is not only a regular scrolling screenshot, but also can drag the area that needs screenshot up and down. It supports accurate cutting, marking and mosaic daubing, which is convenient for sharing and editing daily long emails and web pages.

"Improve performance and pay attention to safety.

MIUI 7 has significantly improved the system performance and greatly improved its fluency. MIUI 8 goes further on this basis. Aiming at the phenomenon of mutual debugging between Android applications, the interlocking startup control function is introduced to prohibit unnecessary applications from mutual debugging, thus effectively controlling the background program operation and memory consumption, making the system smoother and more power-saving.

In addition, MIUI 8 focuses on security and privacy, which is first reflected in the "separation" function. The avatar of MIUI 8 is not limited to the double opening of some social applications, but also allows the mobile phone to complete the avatar in one step, that is, by setting different passwords/fingerprints to log in to different desktops, and the data between avatars is also isolated and encrypted. Today, mobile phones hide a lot of our privacy, and this function will have more significance in some scenarios. For example, someone temporarily borrows a mobile phone, quietly enters a "visitor" account, and hides some relatively private applications, so as to protect privacy.

Secondly, in response to the increasingly rampant pseudo base station SMS fraud, MIUI 8 launched the pseudo base station identification function in time, which can intercept spam messages, identify phishing websites in SMS through big data, and make effective reminders. It doesn't matter even if you accidentally bump into the phishing URL link in the text message. The URL detection of MIUI browser will further verify the URL, and if necessary, it will carry out corresponding interception and filtering to fully ensure the safety of mobile phone use.

On the whole, MIUI 8 has many bright spots. Compared with MIUI 7, it has improved significantly, becoming more beautiful, stronger and safer, which is worth upgrading for Xiaomi users. It is an out-and-out bonus item in Redmi 3S.

Redmi 3S and Redmi 3S are identical in camera hardware parameters. Redmi 3S is equipped with a13 megapixel rear camera with an aperture of f205 megapixel front camera and an aperture of F2.2 The main camera supports PDAF phase focusing, which can be completed within 0. 1 second at the earliest. In addition, in terms of software, Redmi 3S has built-in functions such as checkpoint, scene mode and manual mode, which improves the playability of the camera function. Let's take a look at the performance of Redmi 3S through proofs.

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Enlarge proof

It can be seen from this sample that the word "taxi" on the top of the black car model can be clearly identified, and the word "taxi" on the dark side has also been restored. 100% magnification, the front grille can still distinguish scattered lines, which is also a good performance in the same price segment of mobile phones. It should be said that Redmi's 3S65438+03000 pixels have enough resolution in daily life, and are fully qualified for the shooting task of sharing life.

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Judging from the indoor proofs, the imaging level of Redmi 3S is not bad when the lighting conditions are acceptable. The picture 1 has high color saturation and accurate color reproduction. At the same time, it also shows a good background blur effect, which makes the little doll lifelike. Fig. 2 shows the clarity of the sample taken by Redmi 3S. Even if the original picture is enlarged, the figures on the toy car can still be clearly displayed.

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Judging from the macro proofs in Figure 3, the performance of Redmi 3S is relatively average. When taking a sample, the frame of the mobile phone camera shows that the focus has been completed, but the taken sample is slightly out of focus. However, in terms of color saturation and white balance adjustment of proofs, Redmi 3S won my heart. Its imaging is close to the real color of things, and on this basis, the saturation is slightly enhanced, making the color of the proofs very pleasing to the eye.

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In the night scene, the performance of Redmi 3S is also remarkable. Although it can't be compared with the flagship mobile phone in details, it doesn't have the glare phenomenon common in thousand yuan mobile phones, and it is enough to clearly express the picture. At the same time, when shooting self-luminous billboards, Redmi 3S can rarely shoot clear pictures of advertising text, and at the same time, it can keep the highlights well.

Generally speaking, the imaging level of Redmi 3S is enough for ordinary life scenes. Although the noise control is slightly insufficient and the proofs are slightly delayed, Redmi 3S has surpassed most thousand yuan machines in terms of color performance and white balance stability. At the same time, for a mobile phone with a price of only 699 yuan, we should also give it some tolerance in taking pictures.

"Purchase suggestion:

I have to say that Redmi 3S is indeed a cost-effective and practical model. This is mainly reflected in the ease of use of MIUI 8 and the large battery of 4 100mAh. If you want to compare competing products, then the first one is Charm Blue 3S. They all have the characteristics of metal body, fingerprint identification and full netcom. And Flyme OS has fluency and functionality that does not belong to MIUI. The main difference between the two is that Charm Blue 3S is slightly superior in face value because of its front fingerprint and 2.5D glass design, while Redmi 3S has no small advantage in battery life.

Therefore, if you are a heavy mobile phone user, I recommend you to buy Redmi 3S, because it can ensure that you will not run out of power for at least a whole day and bid farewell to mobile power. If you care more about design, Charm Blue 3S is also a good choice. As for performance, it is not the main decision point for the thousand yuan machine, and the user experience is evenly matched. Although you can't run large-scale games smoothly, games like clash royale are still easy to control.

"Assessment summary:

Redmi 3S is exactly the same as Redmi 3 (high-end version) in industrial design. If an ordinary user chooses, it can't judge the difference between the two at all. The appearance of Redmi 3S mainly makes up for some defects of Redmi 3S, such as the lack of fingerprint identification, the controversy over the beauty and ugliness of the back pattern and so on. Therefore, according to the author's judgment, Xiaomi will gradually reduce the shipment of Redmi 3 in the future, and even completely replace Redmi 3 with Redmi 3S.

Generally speaking, Redmi 3S has a good size and attractive design. Hardware performance and imaging quality can fully meet people's daily needs. In addition, long battery life is a big selling point and one of the pain points of many users. At present, Redmi 3S is definitely the mobile phone with the strongest endurance among 5-inch mobile phones, and there is no one. If you want to buy a mobile phone with a small screen that can withstand heavy use, then Redmi 3S is worth having.