Design of Xiaomi Mi A3
The Xiaomi Mi A3 has a glass sandwich design, remind that the Mi A2 was launched with a metal-clad. Corning Gorilla Glass 5 has been used on the front, back and camera modules of the phone, which will help protect the device from some extent scratch during day-to-day use. The selfie camera has found a place in the Dudep Notch in the front panel of the phone.
The sides of the Mi A3 have thin bezels, but the border in the upper and lower part of the phone is slightly thick. The Xiaomi Mi A3 also uses chrome finish with plastic frames. We have a peacock with a white color variant for review. Apart from this, not just just blue and kind of gray color variants of Mi A3 have been launched.
It seems that the names of the color variants of Mi A3 are inspired by Google’s pixel phone. The upper part of the phone has a 3.5 mm headphone jack, secondary microphone and IR emitter that can be used to control IR based appliances. There are two grills at the bottom of the Mi A3, but the grill on the right has loudspeakers, as well as USB Type-C port.
Xiaomi has given power and volume button on the right side of the phone, the hand to the button easily reaches. Hybrid dual-sim tray is given on the left side of the phone. The back of the phone has three rear cameras with single-LED flash. Like Mi A2, Mi A3 will not get a fingerprint sensor on the back panel of the phone as the Mi A3 is equipped with in-display fingerprint sensor.
Xiaomi Mi A3 Specification and Software
Competition is increasing in the price segment of less than Rs 15,000, this is the reason that handset manufacturers are launching the best hardware smartphone market. In this price segment Redmi Note 7 Pro ,Review) And Vivo Z1 Pro ,Review) As phones are already available in the market which are equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 and Snapdragon 712 processors respectively.
The Xiaomi Mi A3 has Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 processor. The same chipset has also been used in the recently launched Realme 5 (Review). This processor is an upgrade of Snapdragon 660, this processor was used in Mi A2. Two variants of Mi A3 have been launched, one with 4 GB RAM/ 64 GB storage and the other with 6 GB RAM and 128 GB storage.
We have 6 GB RAM variants of Mi A3 for review. Xiaomi says that the Mi A3 has UFS 2.1 storage. One thing that was surprising is that the company has used HD+ display in Mi A3. While both Mi A1 and Mi A2 were launched with handsets full HD+ panel.
The old model had LCD panels as compared to the Mi A3 amoled panel. We did not find any way to adjust the color output of the screen, we found that it boosts more. There is enough brightness in the panel, but sometimes there may be difficulty in reading on the display in the light of daylight.
The Mi A3 has a 4,030 mAh battery to revive, remind that the 3,000 mAh battery in Mi A2 works to revive life. The phone supports 18 watt fast charging, but Xiaomi has given only 10 watts of charger in the retail box. Mi A3 Bluetooth 5, dual-band Wi-Fi, dual 4G VoLTE and four satellite navigation system support.
Since the Mi A3 is part of the Android One program, it runs on stock Android instead of MUI. There is no blotware pre-install, which means no spam notifications will be found. Mi is a community app with some Google app. There is no app to use IR Emitter, so you have to download yourself.
Mi A3 will also get the facility of digital wellbeing feature. The Mi A3 is guaranteed to receive major Android OS updates for two years and security updates for three years.
Xiaomi Mi A3’s performance and battery life
While using Mi A3, we did not feel that the phone slowed down. The Snapdragon 665 processor given in the phone runs apps without any problem. , We have 6 GB RAM variants of Mi A3 for review, so we were able to easily multitasking the apps in the background without a clin. The in-display fingerprint sensor is placed slightly downwards in the display. However, this is not inconvenient and is also not slow in unlocking the smartphone.
PUBG Mobile Default was set on low quality preset, graphics on smooth and frame rate medium. We set the graphics quality on balanced and we found that the Mi A3 could run the game without any problem. After playing the game for 30 minutes, we saw that the smartphone was a bit hot and 10 percent of the battery was also consumed.
Mi A3 provides good battery life as compared to Mi A2. In our HD video loop test, Mi A3 supported 16 hours and 21 minutes. With our regular use, in which we used all benchmarks, for photos and videos and used an active WhatsApp account. Once charged, the phone lasted for about one and a half days.
The 10 watt charger coming with the retail box charges 27 percent in 30 minutes and up to 54 percent in one hour. If you want to charge the battery quickly then you can buy a charger of 18 watts.
Xiaomi Mi A3 Camera
Xiaomi Mi A2 was launched with good cameras and naturally people are expecting the same from Mi A3. The Mi A3 has three rear cameras, it has a 48-megapixel Sony IMX 586 primary sensor and an 8-megapixel secondary camera with wide-angle lens. A 2 megapixel depth sensor is also given.
The Sony IMX 586 sensor is given in premium phones like OnePlus 7 and Redmi K20 Pro. For selfie and video calling, the Mi A3 has a 32 -megapixel front camera. The camera software of Mi A3 is nothing different from the Redmi smartphone running on MIUI. The phone camera app has many shooting modes including Portet, Night, Panaroma and Pro.
It has separate buttons for HDR, AI, flash and filter. Apart from this, there is 48 megapixel mode with the help of which you can take photos at full resolution, but regular photo mode provides 12 megapixel pixel-bining shots for better clearing. The details were well captured in the photos taken in the daylight. The phone quickly locks the focus and sets the exposure correctly.
The object and text located at a distance can be easily identified. However, the Mi A3 HDR does not handle very well. With the help of wide-angle sensor, you can capture the wide frame but there will be a shortage of details.
It was not easy to take a macro shot from Mi A3, as it focuses at a slow pace. It maintains the distance between the subject and the background well and the details are also well captured. Portet makes the facility to adjust the background blur before taking the mode shot. In this mode, the age detection of the phone was good and the colors also captured properly.
Mi A3 gives good shots in low light. This focus locks rapidly but is slightly slow in capturing the picture. Details in low-light shots captured well and noys are also under control. The photos were captured with bright and better details when switching on night mode in Mi A3.
The details in a selfie taken in outdoor were well captured. The app has a beautiful mode that can be enabled before taking the shot. Edge detection was good during selfie portate, as well as you get the option to set the level of blur. Details were well captured in a selfie taken in low light.
Primary camera is capable of recording video on 4K and selfie camera 1080 resolution. Primary rear camera provides video stabilization during shooting at 1080 resolution. Shimmer effect appears in low light. For the information of people, let us know that stabilization will not be available when shooting on 4K or using a selfie camera.
Our decision
Xiaomi gave the option to increase the 3.5 mm headphone jack and storage in Mi A3 but has made the screen resolution HD+. Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 is a competent processor at this price and it performs well. The Mi A3 has a large battery that provides good battery life. The camera performance of the phone in this price range is also very strong.
Buying a Mi A3 variant with an initial price of Rs 12,999 may not prove to be a profitable deal, because with this chipset in the market Realme 5 The price is available at Rs 9,999. If you give importance to performance more than photo quality, then Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro ,Review) Snapdragon 675 is equipped with chipset.
The high-end variant of Mi A3 of Rs 15,999 is not very attractive, because for Rs 16,999 Realme 5 Pro The 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage variants are available. Xiaomi Mi A3 can be special for those who want stock Android experience, software updates and good camera performance.