The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 is a smartphone developed by Xiaomi Inc.as part of Xiaomi's low-end

Redmi Redmi is a subsidiary company owned by the Chinese electronics company Xiaomi. It was first announced in July 2013 as a budget smartphone line, and became a separate sub-brand of Xiaomi in 2019 with entry-level and mid-range devices, while Xia ...

smartphone line. It has three variants: * The

MediaTek MediaTek Inc. () is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for wireless communications, high-definition television, handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers, navigation systems, consumer multimedia ...

variant (codenamed hennessey) was released on November 24, 2015. * The

Snapdragon ''Antirrhinum'' is a genus of plants commonly known as dragon flowers, snapdragons and dog flower because of the flowers' fancied resemblance to the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed. They are native to r ...

variant (codenamed kenzo) was launched on February, 2016. * Redmi Note 3 Special Edition (codenamed kate) was launched in June 2016; it features an upgraded modem and a new housing, other specifications are the same as the Snapdragon variant.

Specifications

Hardware

The

variant of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 is powered by the MediaTek MT6795 Helio X10

system-on-chip A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC ; pl. ''SoCs'' ) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system. These components almost always include a central processing unit (CPU), memor ...

with a 2.0 GHz octa-core

ARM Cortex-A53 The ARM Cortex-A53 is one of the first two central processing units implementing the ARMv8-A 64-bit instruction set designed by ARM Holdings' Cambridge design centre. The Cortex-A53 is a 2-wide decode superscalar processor, capable of dual- ...

CPU and a PowerVR G6200

GPU A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobi ...

. The

variants are powered by the Snapdragon 650 system-on-chip with a hexa-core CPU consisting of a high performance cluster with 2x 1.8 GHz

ARM Cortex-A72 The ARM Cortex-A72 is a central processing unit implementing the ARMv8-A 64-bit instruction set designed by ARM Holdings' Austin design centre. The Cortex-A72 is a 3-way decode out-of-order superscalar pipeline. It is available as SIP core to l ...

cores and a high efficiency cluster with 4x 1.6 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 cores, and an

Adreno Adreno is a series of graphics processing unit (GPU) semiconductor intellectual property cores developed by Qualcomm and used in many of their SoCs. History Adreno (an anagram of AMD's graphic card brand ''Radeon''), was originally developed by ...

510 GPU. The phone comes with 2 GB or 3 GB of

RAM Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to: Animals * A male sheep * Ram cichlid, a freshwater tropical fish People * Ram (given name) * Ram (surname) * Ram (director) (Ramsubramaniam), an Indian Tamil film director * RAM (musician) (born 1974), Dutch * ...

and 16 GB or 32 GB of

eMMC The MultiMediaCard, officially abbreviated as MMC, is a memory card standard used for solid-state storage. Unveiled in 1997 by SanDisk and Siemens, MMC is based on a surface-contact low pin-count serial interface using a single memory stack sub ...

5.0 internal flash storage. Another notable difference between the MediaTek and Qualcomm variants of the phone is the rear-facing camera; there is a 13 MP camera sensor on MediaTek variant whereas this is upgraded to a 16 MP sensor on the Qualcomm variants. There is also a 5 MP front-facing camera on all variants. All variants of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 include a

1080p 1080p (1920×1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen ve ...

display with 1080x1920 pixels resolution and 403 ppi pixel density. The Snapdragon variants use a special display technology known as 'Sunlight Display' in which the phone detects the ambient light and makes pixel level adjustments in order to improve the legibility under the sunlight. The phone also features a blue light filter for low light (night) reading. Another notable feature of the phone is the presence of a fingerprint sensor at the back. It can also be used for taking photos via the front-facing or the rear-facing camera. The phone has a 4050 mAh

Li-Po A lithium polymer battery, or more correctly lithium-ion polymer battery (abbreviated as LiPo, LIP, Li-poly, lithium-poly and others), is a rechargeable battery of lithium-ion technology using a polymer electrolyte instead of a liquid electrolyt ...

non-removable battery.

Connectivity

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 has Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, thus supports both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. The MediaTek variant supports two SIM cards while the Snapdragon variants have a SIM card and a microSDHC/SIM card hybrid slot; the microSDHC slot can also be used as a secondary SIM card slot.

Software

The Snapdragon variant (kenzo) runs on an Android based

MIUI MIUI (pronunciation: ''Me You I'') is an Android -based mobile operating system developed and maintained by Xiaomi independently of Google exclusively for its smartphones. MIUI includes various features such as theme support. It is the basis f ...

7 OS which was updated to MIUI 8 based on

Android 6.0 Android Marshmallow ( codenamed Android M during development) is the sixth major version of the Android operating system developed by Google, being the successor to Android Lollipop. It was announced at Google I/O on May 28, 2015, and released ...

and then to MIUI 10. Many custom Android ROMs are available for this device; notable examples are MIUI 9 based on Android 7.0,

CyanogenMod CyanogenMod ( ; CM) is a discontinued open-source operating system for mobile devices, based on the Android mobile platform. It was developed as free and open-source software based on the official releases of Android by Google, with added origi ...

13 and 14 (based on Android Marshmallow and Nougat, respectively), Lineage OS 13, 14, 15,

Resurrection Remix OS Resurrection Remix OS, abbreviated as RR, is a free and open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform. UX designer and head developer Altan KRK & Varun Date started the project in 2012. ...

8.6 (based on Android 10) and an unstable port of

Sailfish OS Sailfish OS is a Linux-based operating system based on free software, and open source projects such as Mer as well as including a closed source UI. The project is being developed by the Finnish company Jolla. The OS first shipped with the ...

. Custom ROMs based on Android Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat, Oreo, Pie, 10, 11 and 12 are also available, like Pixel Experience, ArrowOS, HavocOS, etc. The Redmi Note 3 Special Edition (kate) came with MIUI 8 based on Android 6.0 which can be updated to MIUI 10. Although both of the Snapdragon based variants (kenzo and kate) are similar with their ROMs, their firmware aren't compatible with each other and installing the wrong one may brick the device. The MediaTek variant (hennessey) runs on MIUI 7, it can be updated to MIUI 9 but didn't get a MIUI 10 update. On 21 December 2018, Xiaomi announced the end of software support for the phone. In January 2019, it received its final MIUI update.

Sales

On 25 August 2016, Xiaomi reported it had sold around 1.75 million units since March 2016. It also became the highest-shipped smartphone in India's online market in Q2 2016. It also became India's best online selling phone after it sold 2.3 million units until September 2016. In September 2017, InsightPortal reported the phone ranked 10th in their list of top ten devices worldwide with a market share of 1.1%.

Parts provider

*System-on-chip: Qualcomm or MediaTek *Modem: Qualcomm or MediaTek * PMIC: Qualcomm or MediaTek *Wi-Fi/Bluetooth: Qualcomm or MediaTek *Display panel: Sharp, Tianma, BOE *Touchscreen: Focaltech, Atmel *Camera: Samsung, OmniVision *Battery: Sunwoda, Coslight *Fingerprint reader: FPC, Goodix

References

External links

* {{Xiaomi, people=yes, software=yes, phones=yes, tablets=yes, laptops=yes, video=yes, wireless=yes, smart=yes, scooter=yes, below=yes Phablets Xiaomi Mobile phones introduced in 2015 Discontinued smartphones Mobile phones with infrared transmitter