Red rice 3S evaluation: 699 yuan with fingerprint recognition + long battery life

On June 14, it was also the first day after the release of Charm Blue 3S. Xiaomi also directly launched the Red Rice 3S mobile phone through the official website. From the author's point of view, it is quite different, but it is also reasonable. Because it is not an iterative product, it is more biased toward supplementing the hardware features of previous generation products. Red rice 3S canceled the pattern design of the red rice 3 back, and the processor switched to Qualcomm's newly introduced mid-range SOC --- Xiaolong 430. The other is to add the fingerprint recognition function. If you compare the high-end versions of the two phones, they are identical except for the difference in the processor. Whether it is industrial design, memory size or camera quality are exactly the same. This left us with a question. What is the significance of Xiaomi's launch of the Red Rice 3S mobile phone?

First of all, this issue needs to be viewed from two perspectives. From a subjective point of view, the mobile phone industry is highly competitive, and even more so in the Thousand Yuan machine market, there is a company that launches products with a price of less than 1,000 yuan each month. In order to maintain the brand's popularity, especially for Xiaomi, which is based on cost-effective and new domestic goods, it is time to introduce new products and continuously refine the product line for users' needs so as to gain continuous attention and allow consumers to acquire a sense of participation.


Objectively speaking, Meizu's latest Charm Blue 3 mobile phone not only uses a metal body design and 2.5D glass design, but also equipped with fingerprint recognition capabilities, and support for the entire network. The price is only 699 yuan, and red rice 3 mobile phone flat, but the standard version of red rice 3 does not support fingerprint recognition. This shakes Xiaomi's reputation as the king of cost-effective consumers. Therefore, Xiaomi is in urgent need of launching a new product to compete with it, so the Red Rice 3S is born and born.

Although the red rice 3S upgrade point is slightly less, a little rekindled the feeling of old things, but the flash point of the phone body is still very clear, that is long life. First of all, Xiaomi put a 4100mAh capacity battery in this mobile phone measuring only 139.3x69.6x8.5mm, and the body weight is also controlled to 144g, which is not easy. To know that most mobile phones on the market are only equipped with a 5.5-inch screen will be equipped with more than 4000mAh battery capacity. In addition, the smaller screen of the Red Rice 3S also means more power savings, and with the MIUI 8 there is considerable effort to optimize power savings. According to the official report, Red Rice 3S has no problem in normal use for two or three days.


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

Red rice 3 and red rice 3s parameter comparison Mobile phone model red rice 3 Red rice 3S screen size 5 inches 5 inches resolution 1280x720 1280x720 processor Qualcomm Xiaolong 616 Qualcomm Xiaolong 430 frequency eight nuclear 1.5GHz eight nuclear 1.4GHz body memory 16GB 16GB running memory 2GB 2GB main camera 13 million, F/2.0 PDAF 13 million, F/2.0 PDAF front camera 5 million, F/2.2, support beauty 5 million, F/2.2, support beauty body size 139.3x69. 6x8.5mm 139.3x69.6x8.5mm body weight 144g 144g 4100 mAh 4100 mAh battery colors white / gold / white gray / gold / gray operating system mIUI 7 mIUI 8 (Dev) standard version no fingerprinting, with high Edition has a network standard mobile / Unicom / Telecom Mobile / Unicom / Telecom price 699 yuan from 699 yuan

From the table, in addition to fingerprinting, the difference between the two is mainly reflected in the processor. The Snapdragon 430 is the highest specification in the current Qualcomm 400 series chip. Its CPU architecture is the same as that of the Snapdragon 616 and is composed of 8 A53 cores. However, in terms of main frequency, the Snapdragon 430 is used in the Red Slim 3S. The CPU is clocked at 4x1.5GHz + 4x1.2GHz, and the CPU of the Snapdragon 616 used on Redmi 3 is 4x1.4GHz + 4x1.1GHz. However, on the GPU side, Xiaolong 430 is an Adreno 505 model, and Xiaolong 616 is an Adreno 405 model. In other words, the red rice 3S CPU part slightly shrinks, but the GPU performance is stronger. Now that we don’t talk nonsense, let’s pull it out and run it.

Red rice 3S run results

From the results of the running sub-points, although the CPU part of the red rice 3S slightly shrinks compared to the red rice 3, but the overall running score is still stronger than the red rice 3 (red rice 3 An rabbit runs around 35,000). In horizontal contrast, Red Rice 3S has the same score as Charm Blue Note3. In other words, even if the red rice 3S price is only 699 yuan, but the performance has been in the thousands of machines in the upper level.

Appearance industrial design


Red rice 3S as an upgraded version of Red Rice 3, has undergone certain adjustments in the details. The more obvious is that the back starry patterns on the red rice 3 have been removed. However, the overall appearance still maintains the red rice 3 design. The stamped metal fuselage, polycarbonate edging, and 5-inch fit are all retained. Red Rice 3S launched a total of three kinds of colors, namely silver, gray, gold, gold version of our evaluation is also a new color of the red rice series introduced after the metal fuselage.

We have seen that the front panel of the red rice 3S also adopts a golden color scheme, which is consistent with the color tone of the whole machine. The layout of the front panel is also the current design of the red rice series, which is simply summarized. The "MI" logo is removed and a metallic glossy polycarbonate edging is used. The red rice 3S is equipped with a 5-inch 720P resolution screen, according to official data provided by the publicity, does not have the sun screen function (red rice 3 support), but support eye mode and color temperature adjustment. The black border of the screen is well controlled and within an acceptable range.

The back of the fuselage, red rice 3S is the current mainstream design of metal thousand Yuan machine, camera layout in the upper left corner, fingerprint identification upper center. The middle part adopts a stamped metal body to ensure the hand feeling, and the two sides use polycarbonate material for splicing to ensure the normal overflow of the signal. The color difference between the two materials is well controlled, and the seams are treated more evenly, making the integrity of the back improved. In addition, it is worth noting that the back starry pattern design that was previously mixed is directly canceled on Xiaomi 3S.

On the side of the fuselage, we can clearly see the edge of the polycarbonate edge of the screen, this part is slightly higher than the screen, the use of metallic glossy spray is particularly conspicuous. The reason why this design is adopted is because of cost and aesthetic considerations on the one hand, and protection of the screen on the other. In addition, millet officials claim that due to the use of higher energy density batteries, the large 4100mAh battery size can be reduced, the overall thickness is maintained at 8.5mm, compared to the red rice 2 series correspondingly thinner 0.9mm.

The top of the fuselage, red rice 3S equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack, noise reduction microphone and infrared remote sensor. Starting from Xiaomi 4, the infrared remote sensor has also become the standard for every mobile phone produced by Xiaomi. This is closely related to Xiaomi's advocacy of Xiaomi's smart home ecological chain layout. At the bottom is the traditional microUSB charging and data interface (using a 5V/2A standard charging head). It should be noted that this machine supports the QC3.0 fast charging standard, and changing the fast charging head can speed up the charging rate.

In addition, Red Rice 3S uses a single card slot three card design. The user can select a Micro SIM card + a Nano SIM card to implement the dual SIM dual standby function, or select a Micro SIM card + a TF card expansion with a maximum expansion capacity of 128 GB. Of course, this approach also makes Redmi 3S unable to achieve dual-card dual standby + TF card expansion capabilities.


Overall, the appearance of red rice 3S and red rice 3 is minimal, and is still the usual design of red rice. The metal body and 5-inch size ensure the machine's feel. Coincidentally, Meizu also released the same Charm Blue 3S with a price of 699 this week. Because the front panel is covered with 2.5D glass, the appearance is more refined than red rice.

MIUI 8 system highlights interpretation


After iterating through MIUI, it has long been a leader in custom ROMs for smartphones and is a plus for each generation of Xiaomi mobile phones. The latest MIUI 8 release further improved MIUI's interface, functionality, and performance, and it was widely acclaimed during the beta testing phase. With this red rice 3S, we also do some sort of MIUI 8. It should be noted that the pre-installed MIUI 8 is a beta version, and the mass production machine will be pre-installed with a stable version of MIUI 7. It is expected that the upgrade will be completed in one month.

Ingenious design, crafted

MIUI 8 has done a lot of redrawing on the interface of the system, and it is even brighter in color choices. Large color patches are used repeatedly, reflecting youthfulness and vitality. The system's animation effects have also been redesigned, not only the pursuit of animation cool, but also the pursuit of natural logic behind the effect, such as dialing numbers from the keyboard when the phone pops up, hang up the phone when the interface is removed, remove the scraps of the broken Paper efficiency and so on.

In order to improve the mobile end of the reading experience, MIUI 8 focused on font optimization, and Founder launched a small Milan Pavilion font. It is reported that after 18 months of meticulous polishing, Xiao Milan Pavilion updated 6,763 commonly used Chinese characters, punctuation marks, and Latin letters, and extended it to the full font of 27,533 Chinese characters. From the actual reading point of view, Little Milan Pavilion is indeed more exquisite and beautiful, as to whether it can improve the long-term reading fatigue, but also need more verification, after all, the font has some metaphysical meaning, varies from person to person.


Perfect function, convenient and practical


MIUI is well-known for its full-featured update. MIUI 8 is a leap-forward upgrade that brings a host of new and useful features, covering a wide range of usage scenarios in life, focusing on the following functional points.


1 new album

MIUI 8 albums are more convenient for photo management, support continuous shooting aggregation, synchronization prompts and album storage (folding picture cache albums), and add an album slimming function, ie mobile phone display thumbnails, the cloud to save the original map mode, can Save 90% of storage space, which is useful for storing some tight friends. In addition, the new album also supports multimedia editing, photo editing comes with a variety of filters, and has a wealth of professional parameter adjustment; and video editing built-in multiple video templates, even if the clip base is weak can also produce large films, easy to social sharing .


2, powerful sweep

To a certain extent, the sweep of MIUI 8 is an expansion of the common text search, incorporating many anti-day functions. Scanning is not limited to daily bar codes and QR codes, but also supports scanning, copying, scanning questions, scanning business cards, and scanning documents. Among them, the problem-solving function can be called black technology. When you encounter a problem that does not, you can give a comprehensive solution to the problem and support the full-scale question bank from the first to the third year. It is definitely the gospel of the student friend.


3, suspension ball


The emergence of suspended ball is, in a certain sense, an improvement made by MIUI 8 for single-handed operation of large-screen mobile phones. The floating ball can be dragged to any position on the page, and automatic transparency does not block the browsing content. Different from other floating ball click operations, the MIUI suspension ball uses a slide operation, which supports five major shortcut functions. Users can customize high-frequency motions into the suspended ball to facilitate daily operation and improve efficiency.


4, other small features: long screen and calculator

The calculator is also completely upgraded. It can be used to modify the calculation steps at any time. It also supports conversion of Chinese and capital letters and supports calculation of exchange rates, individual taxes, mortgage calculations, and unit conversions. It is very practical. Long screenshots have also been added, not only for regular scroll screens, but also for dragging up and down areas that require screen capture to support precise cropping, marking, and mosaic smearing to facilitate daily sharing and editing of longer emails and web pages.


Improve performance and focus on security


MIUI 7 has made significant improvements in the performance of the system and has greatly improved its fluency. MIUI 8 has taken this a step further, and has launched a chained start-up control function for non-resonance between Android applications. Necessary applications are used to adjust each other to effectively control the running of the background program and memory consumption, making the system more smooth and power saving.

In addition, MIUI 8 has been focused on security and privacy, first of all reflected in the function of "avatar." The split of MIUI 8 is not limited to the dual-opening of certain social applications, but it also allows one-step mobile phones to complete "spam", that is, by setting different passwords/fingerprints to log in to different desktops, and at the same time, the data between clones is also isolated from each other and encrypted and stored. In today's mobile phone hidden many of our privacy today, this feature will have more meaning in some scenarios, such as when someone temporarily borrows a mobile phone, quietly enter the "visitor" account, hide some of the more private applications, will not make people aware, It also protects their privacy.

Secondly, MIDI 8 has launched a pseudo-base station identification function, and it can intercept spam messages and identify valid phishing websites through big data. Even if the link to the phishing URL in the text message is mistakenly touched, MIUI Browser's website detection will further verify the website and, if necessary, conduct corresponding interception and filtering to fully guarantee the security of mobile phone use.


As a whole, MIUI 8 has a lot of highlights. Compared with MIUI 7, the improvement and improvement is obvious. It becomes more beautiful, more powerful, and more secure. It is worthwhile for millet users to upgrade. It is not dismissed on Red Rice 3S. Buckle for extra points.

Red rice 3S is identical to red rice 3 in the hardware parameters of the camera section. Hongmi 3S is equipped with a 13 million-pixel rear camera with an aperture of F2.0 and a 5 million-pixel front camera with an F2.2 aperture. The main camera supports PDAF phase focus, and the focus can be achieved within 0.1 seconds. In addition, in terms of software, the red rice 3S features built-in spirit level, scene mode, and manual mode, which improves the playability of the camera's functions. Here we look at the red rice 3S performance through the proofs.

Appearance enlarged proofs


From this proof, it can be seen that the word "TAXI" at the top of the black car model can be clearly identified, and the word "TAXI" in the dark side is also restored. After the front grille is 100% zoomed in, it can still distinguish the lines that are scattered, which is also a good performance in the same price segment of the mobile phone. It should be said that red rice 3S with 13 million pixels, resolving power in the daily enough, fully capable of sharing life shooting tasks.

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From the indoor proofs, Hongmi 3S has a fairly good imaging level under acceptable light conditions. Figure 1 has a high color saturation and accurate color reproduction. At the same time, it also shows a good effect of background blurring, making small dolls lifelike. Fig. 2 highlights the sharpness of the red rice 3S. Even if the original image is enlarged, the text on the toy car can still be clearly expressed.

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From the macro proofs in Figure 3, red rice 3S performed more generally. When you take a sample, the phone's viewfinder box shows that focus has been achieved, but the proof that you took the picture is slightly defocused. However, in terms of color saturation and proofreading of white balance, the Red Rice 3S won my heart. Its imagery is close to the true color of things, and at the same time, the saturation is slightly enhanced on this basis, so that the color of the proofs is very good for eyeballs.

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The performance of the night scene, red rice 3S is also worth noting, although in the details can not be compared with the flagship level of mobile phones, but enough to clear the picture will not appear in thousands of machines common glare. At the same time, when patting the self-illuminated billboards, the Red Rice 3S is able to retain the highlights while clearly capturing the ad text, which is rare.

In general, the red rice 3S's imaging level is sufficient for general living scenarios. Although the noise control is slightly insufficient, the proofs are slightly smeared, but regardless of the stability of the color performance and white balance, Red Rice 3S has Can surpass most of the thousands of machines. At the same time, for a cell phone priced at only 699 yuan, we should give it a degree of latitude in the camera.

Purchase suggestion:


Have to say, red rice 3S is indeed a cost-effective and consider the practical model. This is mainly reflected in the ease of use of the MIUI 8 and the large 4100mAh battery. If you look for competing products to compare, then first of all is Charm Blue 3S. They all have features such as metal fuselage, fingerprint identification, and full Netcom, while Flyme OS has fluency and functionality that is not part of MIUI. Their main difference is that the Charm Blue 3S is slightly superior in terms of face value due to the use of pre-fingerprint and 2.5D glass design, while the Red Rice 3S is not insignificant in terms of endurance.

Therefore, if you are a heavy user of a mobile phone, I recommend that you purchase red rice 3S because it guarantees that you will not lose power for at least one day and bid farewell to mobile power. If you are more concerned about the design, then Charm Blue 3S is also a good choice. As far as performance is concerned, it is not the main deciding point for the Thousand Yuan Machine, and the user experience is evenly matched. Although it is not possible to smoothly run large-scale games, such games as the Royal Wars are still easy to manage.


Evaluation summary:


The red rice 3S phone is exactly the same in industrial design as the red rice 3 (high version). If you let an ordinary user choose, it simply cannot judge the difference between the two. The appearance of red rice 3S is mainly to make up for the defects of some red rice 3, such as the lack of fingerprint recognition, the back of the United States ugly controversy, and so on. Therefore, according to the author's judgment, Xiaomi will gradually reduce the shipment of Red Rice 3, and even use Red Rice 3S to completely replace Red Rice 3.

In general, Red Rice 3S has a good body size and a more durable body design. Hardware performance and imaging quality can fully meet the needs of people's daily life. In addition, long battery life is a major selling point, and it is also one of the pain points for many users. Currently, the Red Rice 3S is definitely one of the strongest mobile phones among the five-inch mobile phones. If you want to buy a small screen that can stand up to heavy use, then Red Rice 3S is worth it.

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