Russian customs unpacks parcels with Xiaomi smartphones. So the country is trying to deal with gray supplies of Chinese devices. Customs does not approve?
Xiaomi: customs does not give the go-ahead?
The Chinese company Xiaomi is so popular and attractive that people are ready to order them from Chinese online stores on their own. But in addition to the risk of running into an unscrupulous seller, there was an additional risk associated with the refusal of customs to let these devices into the territory of Russia. In April of this year, there were several cases when customs refused to let Chinese company smartphones bought in China through. The official wording of the refusal may be different. Firstly, there is a requirement of the official Xiaomi distributor Smart Orange LLC for a trademark, and secondly, devices can be equated with encryption tools and also not allowed into the country. About a thousand people have already faced this problem. Basically, smartphones are not allowed to enter the territory of the Russian Federation through the customs of Yekaterinburg and Orenburg.
No cheap Xiaomi?
The opinions of news resources and analysts regarding this situation are divided. Someone argues that customs requirements are legal and it is illegal to import gray devices when there is an official representative in the country. And someone considers this whole situation a banal collusion and a lobby of distributors. Thus, not only gray suppliers suffer, but also ordinary people who independently bought smartphones in Chinese online stores. In March of this year, all divisions of the Customs Service of the Russian Federation received a notification that the Xiaomi trademark was included in the customs register of intellectual property. The method of checking devices at customs looks interesting. All parcels marked as "cell phone" or "phone" are checked. Boxes with similar marks are opened and checked. If a device with the Xiaomi logo is detected, then the customs officers contact the representative of Smart Orange, who may recognize the device as fake and import into the territory of the Russian Federation will be prohibited.
No exit?
How exactly the situation will be resolved is not yet clear. After all, not only gray retail suffers, but first of all ordinary people who want to buy good smartphone for little money. Signatures are being collected on the Change.org website for a petition addressed to the Federal Customs Service of Russia and Xiaomi Technology Co Ltd. In the petition, users call for the import of devices from a Chinese company individuals. However, customs is not obliged to respond to such activities. Another thing is that it is not realistic to process all parcels with smartphones at customs, so someone may not be lucky, but someone will calmly receive their smartphone. But it’s not worth risking buying Xiaomi smartphones in Chinese online stores yet, because it’s not clear whether you will be lucky.
Since March 15, 2017, another official distributor has appeared in Russia, the Smart Orange company. It sells Mi equipment and provides user support throughout Russia. It sounds like a good thing, but not everything is so clear.
What is the problem
A week after the loud announcement and the appearance of the official store, users in in social networks complained about the following: Russian customs, by order of Smart Orange, began to deploy Xiaomi smartphones ordered on sites like Aliexpress and ship them back to China.
It is worth noting that we are talking about users with single orders, and not about gray suppliers and delays of entire batches of "gray" products intended for sale in the country and tax evasion.
Such illegal actions were noticed at the customs of Yekaterinburg and Orenburg. Many users have already suffered from them, who never received their Xiaomi phones from Aliexpress.
How do they explain this
The Smart Orange company itself officially confirmed its participation in the "scheme" and explains this as follows:
According to the letter of the Federal Customs Service dated March 15, 2017 and paragraphs. 2 p. 1 art. 313 of the Customs Code of the Customs Union, paragraph 1 of Art. 1515 and paragraph 4 of Art. 1252 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, as well as Article 18 of the Universal Postal Convention, Xiaomi smartphones imported through unauthorized channels are not allowed to be introduced into civil circulation on the territory of the Russian Federation. Recently, cases of suspension of such shipments by the customs authorities have become more frequent. The situation also applies to private orders placed on foreign online trading platforms and sent to Russia by mail.
The company also encourages all users who are faced with similar problem, become their customers and buy the same Xiaomi smartphone from them with an additional discount. Here is a loyalty program.
What about prices in Russia
The appearance of an official distributor in the country is an excellent event, which should first of all be aimed at improving service and user support, and secondly at selling official products. But Xiaomi fans on social networks noted the high cost of Mi smartphones, some models are sold 2 times more expensive than on Aliexpress.
For example (32 GB), which is sold on Aliexpress for 8-9 thousand rubles in the Smart Orange store, it will cost 12,999 rubles. The Mi Max phablet with 32 GB of memory costs 19,900 rubles against the Chinese price of 12-13 thousand. Mi Note 2 - 34,000 rubles against 25-26 thousand rubles.
How to order a Xiaomi smartphone so that customs does not return it
Users note that the problem affected Xiaomi smartphones, light bulbs, bracelets and other smart gadgets go through customs without any problems. And once again, we note that the cases were recorded at customs in Orenburg and EKB. And so, here is a small list of tips on how you can buy Xiaomi on Aliexpress so that customs does not return it back.
- ask the seller not to indicate that this is a Xiaomi smartphone (let them indicate Meizu, Bluboo, Venee or any other less popular brand)
- ask the seller not to indicate that this is a smartphone at all (let him write in the declaration that this is a gift, photo frame, etc.)
- ask the seller to repack the smartphone in another box so that it cannot be identified without opening the package
- please do not send to the above customs (although it is difficult)
What will happen to Xiaomi in Russia
The Xiaomi brand is very popular in Russia, Ukraine and other countries. Not a small merit in this is just Chinese stores that sell Mi equipment to the whole world. What will happen to the Xiaomi brand and products in Russia now?
The two main sales drivers for Xiaomi smartphones are low cost and balanced features. Without one of these components, the meaning in the devices of this brand is lost. There is a very small chance that in Russia users will start massively buying Xiaomi phones with a double mark-up, such a scheme simply will not work. Most users will switch to similar smartphones that can be easily ordered from China: Meizu, LeEco, Huawei, Vivo, Oppo and others.
Xiaomi Tech proudly announces its record sales every year, if you compare the numbers, it becomes clear that a large percentage of these sales are in international markets where the brand is not represented at all. The merit of these sales is precisely Chinese stores with adequate prices and delivery around the world, but the manufacturer is usually silent about this in reports.
Thus, by depriving Russian users of the opportunity to order affordable Mi-smartphones on Chinese sites, Xiaomi itself will face losses and a drop in global sales. The current situation harms not only ordinary customers, but also the Mi brand.
We hope that Chinese stores will adapt to such conditions and “whitewash gray products” by simply repacking Xiaomi phones in ordinary white boxes, without logos and inscriptions.
Instead of conclusions
Do you remember the days of Redmi 1S, Mi3 and the first Redmi Note with a 5.5-inch HD screen? When all Xiaomi devices were sold in these cute beige recycled cardboard boxes. When even in anticipation of the parcel there was something pleasant and magical. And when you picked it up at the post office and opened the coveted box, there was no limit to delight.
Today, the popularity of Xiaomi has made the company highly commercial and this is felt in all aspects. New items come with a locked bootloader, and recognizable beige boxes have become faceless white, like Apple's. Today, everyone is trying to capitalize on brand fans by inflating prices and cutting off supply lines. But many do not understand what exactly fans want from Xiaomi, since they themselves are not.
We recently talked about how Smart Orange LLC, which officially supplies Xiaomi smartphones to Russia, influenced the actions of the Russian customs, as a result of which the latter began not to allow gadgets of this kind bought in Chinese online stores (for example, AliExpress) at the border. manufacturer for personal use:
Of course, we began to find the necessary loopholes in the laws for this pressure on human rights, but this does not change the essence.
At the moment, the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation has already “wrapped up” about 1,000 smartphones at the border, calling them counterfeit at the behest of Smart Orange (although they were not bought from “gray” sellers in Russia and not for resale), or encryption means not allowed by us. (Interestingly, if I bought a smartphone abroad on vacation, would they not let me on a plane with it?)
In response to lawlessness - a petition
Not wanting to endure such arbitrariness of our customs, the Russians created a petition against the ban on bringing Xiaomi devices into Russia. Of course, for personal purposes, and not "gray" resale. Here she is, sign:
The petition has been sent to the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation and the leadership of Xiaomi in China (Beijing Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd). We are also invited to boycott Xiaomi gadgets officially sold in Russia at shamelessly inflated prices. However, due to problems with customs, prices for “gray” deliveries of devices from this brand began to rise.
To date, the petition has already been signed by 12,387 people.
Result?
Only the blind still do not see that in Russia now only money and power rule. If the powers that be are not in the hands of some laws, they are increasingly ignored or changed with impunity. Therefore, whether there will be any sense from the petition - think for yourself. The FCS is not obliged to consider such appeals from third-party resources; in legal terms, the law does not require this from government agencies.
Push
I see two conflicting points here:
1. The prices for Xiaomi devices, which are 2 times inflated by Smart Orange LLC, are really a reason for a boycott (and for the attention of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, perhaps). Everything has a limit.
2. Another thing, all sorts of Chinese stores - AliExpress and the like. It turns out an interesting picture. In our country, state regulators are so revealingly fighting "gray" imports, supposedly so that part of the funds from officially imported and certified devices go to the Russian treasury in the form of taxes and other fees. However, at the same time, our authorities are not at all against the fact that billions and billions of rubles constantly flow away from us straight to China, enriching their economy at our expense. Stunning situation! We have only bans, fines, inspections and pressure on business, while the Chinese have a really wide tunnel to Russia. Withdraw money there through "Ali" without any "impossible" there! At the same time, our friends, relatives or acquaintances, who open offline or online stores here, then “sit” penniless and watch how their customers pay the Chinese. And try to touch this "Ali"! International relations with China will be threatened. But we can’t even buy goods for sale in China without having a contract with a factory, a foreign currency account, customs clearance at a wild cost and obtaining all sorts of “certificates”, which a small business simply cannot afford to do. And with these requirements, how can you still make affordable prices in Russia? Prices will be wild, but no margin. Why, one wonders, do they crush their own compatriots in our country and let citizens of another country live at their expense? Sad and hopeless.
Meizu M5
All the fuss with customs restrictions began with the order of Xiaomi Mi5, but the de facto distributor "covered" the supply of all models that are officially shipped to Russia. The youngest of them is Redmi 4A.
Enthusiasts are well aware of what this Redmi is - this is the only truly budget smartphone in the modern Xiaomi model line. That is, not when “we are creating an inexpensive mobile phone, but just in case, there are eight cores in the processor, a metal case, 3 gigabytes random access memory and hefty
battery". Redmi 4A has only the "vital" bells and whistles for a new smartphone - 4 cores / 2 GB RAM, LTE, HD display, 16 GB internal storage. For all this, depending on the color of the case, the Chinese are asking 5500-7000 rubles.
The alternative will not be to the taste of all enthusiasts (the more you know smartphone models, the less choice seems), but it is.
Even slightly cooler eggs of the characteristics, and even the design of the iPhone are absolutely free. Display 5.2 inches (and more bright and contrast), HD, eight Cortex-A53 cores in the processor, this time MediaTek MT6750. Not as respectable as Snapdragon, but MediaTek's eight low-frequency cores are better than Qualcomm's four high-frequency ones. Meizu's speed is noticeably higher, and there is a 3/32 GB option for those who are willing to pay a little extra.
The case is about the same in quality, but in black it looks very expensive - much more presentable than the black version of Redmi 4A. Yes, and a fingerprint scanner is present, unlike the similarly priced Xiaomi.
The “victims” in comparison with Redmi will be the volume of the sound in the headphones and the volume of the speaker (it’s generally a problem), which can only partially be brought back to normal using the engineering menu. In terms of the quality of shooting on cameras, smartphones are approximately equal, but Meizu does not have freedom for firmware lovers (and MediaTek too, hee hee) - you definitely won’t be able to “put on” some Android 9 smartphone on an old smartphone after a couple of years. But there is a global multilingual firmware that does not have to be Russified through “hard-to-reach places”, as is the case with Meizu smartphones for the Chinese market.
Replacement options for Redmi 3S, 3X, Redmi 4, 4X
Same thing with different sauce. Models with a 5-inch HD display, a Snapdragon 430 processor, unprepossessing cameras and 4100 mAh batteries. Not much, in fact, differs, except for the design of the cases and the fact that Redmi 3S / 3X are “elite” modifications of the third generation of Redmi, and Redmi 4 and 4X are fourth-generation medium-equipped options.
So that life does not seem like honey to newcomers to the Xiaomi world, all these smartphones are also available in two versions - with 2/16 and 3/32 GB of memory. But the junior equipment is still more popular, because instead of the “luxury”-Redmi 3S, it is much more reasonable to take the Redmi 4 Prime with a much faster processor and a Full HD display. All these models are Chinese
sellers today estimate at 8500 - 11000 rubles, depending on the color, modification and impudence of a single seller. From here we will dance.
Be mentally prepared for the fact that you will not find a smartphone comparable in terms of autonomy and openness to flashing at a similar price, you will have to make compromises.
Meizu U10
In this article, the number of Meizu will certainly set you on edge, but there is nowhere to go. Because, minus Xiaomi, this is one of the few manufacturers that, unlike all sorts of Elephone and Doogee, produce high-quality smartphones without "childhood diseases", but still do not ask for impressive amounts for them, like Lenovo and Huawei.
So, Meizu U10 is a "clone" of Meizu M3/M3s mini in a glass-metal case. Gurus will say that it would be wiser to counter the mid-range Redmi trim levels with Meizu's symmetrical answer - M5s, but this model is so "neither fish nor fowl" and self-quoting M3s mini that it is better to prefer the U-series. Moreover, the smartphone is very beautiful in black.
Everything that was said about the Meizu M5 is also true for the U10, with the only difference that you get not 5.2, but exactly 5 inches of the display and unsightly autonomy (“would last until the end of the day”) in exchange for a much more humane price - about 6700-8000 rubles for models with 2/16 GB on board. The quality of the display, cameras and speed are about the same as Redmi in the title, the sound is worse, the autonomy is worse (alas).
Well, or you can still buy the M5s, it’s already doing well with autonomy, and the body is metal. It's time to give Meizu a medal for the ability to "spread" the same model into several families, in the best traditions of the classic Zhiguli.
ZTE Blade V7
No need to grin, gentlemen geeks - let ZTE release not the most functional and hassle-free smartphones for its price, but after Oukitel or Leagoo you will understand that it can be worse.
ZTE tried to sell this model in Russia, but to pay 16 thousand rubles for a smartphone in which the proprietary shell periodically “hiccups”, and the case is cheap even in appearance, there were few who wanted to - they were all taken away by Huawei and Samsung.
But for 10 thousand - quite an option! Let it be a little “curve” in color reproduction, but still a Full HD display, an eight-core MT6753 processor, a good front camera and “one-day” autonomy. In terms of sound quality, GPS / GLONASS reception level, design and speed of the system, autonomy, the smartphone is inferior to Redmi, but the display and front camera are cooler, the rear camera is similar in quality to Redmi, and application performance is also not bad. An equivalent alternative if you don't need custom ROMs or super stamina.
Replacement options for Xiaomi Redmi 4 Prime (Pro)
Xiaomi Redmi 4 Prime
If you should miss any of the "banned" in Russia Chinese Xiaomi, then according to Redmi 4 Prime - one of the best smartphones of 2016, and generally an all-time cool "budget". If only because the same combination of a capacious (4100 mAh) battery, display clarity (Full HD) and processor performance (Snapdragon 625) in one model is still
so far no one offers. And, by and large, 11-12 thousand in Chinese stores versus 16 thousand in Russian retail no longer look like an exorbitant overpayment, but let's not be like the capital's tired colleagues, for whom 4 thousand rubles is not money. Let's look for alternatives.
ZUK Z2
Hand on heart - there is no full-fledged replacement for Redmi 4 Prime. Any analogues will either be slow, or not so hardy, or without a Full HD matrix (that is, they will smell like an “economy class”). But if you arm yourself with the idea of a model (a powerful geek budget non-phablet), you can find analogues.
For example, the most “exclusive” right now (because Lenovo is burying this subsidiary brand) is a glass smartphone with a 2016 flagship processor, Snapdragon 820, and a Full HD matrix at the core. Exciting? Very! Against this background
The Redmi 4 Prime smartphone is a “brake”, especially since Xiaomi looks cheaper even after the Chinese screwed a design in the style of the spectacular Redmi Note 4 to the younger model. Yes, and the cameras in the ZUK Z2, although not masterpieces in themselves , but certainly better than the despondency that roams in Xiaomi's compact state employees, starting with Redmi 3.
But there are no freebies even on Aliexpress (or “especially on Aliexpress,” as buyers of fake flash drives would say), so read the shortcomings of the Beetle right away, and don’t say that we didn’t warn you:
- The case is glass and very slippery, so any " broads" becomes more likely and, more importantly, "deadly" for the body panel, even if the smartphone falls on its "back". Scratches on the case also appear very quickly even without any extreme sports. In Redmi 4 Prime, everything is much better with durability.
- With firmware, everything is rather gloomy - new smartphones do not always come with a Russian language pack, flashing this model is quite "dreary". Although, in terms of the degree of "dirty perversions", nothing compares to modifying the USB cable in order to "fill in" the global firmware in Redmi 4A. Everything is relative, but be prepared to modify the smartphone software yourself.
- The brightness of the display is so-so. Using a smartphone on the street is painful.
By and large, ZUK Z2 is such a “degraded” and more affordable Xiaomi Mi5, but in the absence of fish among the search for replacements for Redmi 4 Prime, it is good in its own way.
Huawei nova
Perhaps, officially imported Huawei will be the main "gravediggers" of Xiaomi in Russia, if there are no smartphones at prices from Aliexpress on the market. But with foreign models, not everything is so simple - the Chinese carefully “castrate” Huawei and Honor for the Celestial Empire in such a way that they do not operate 4G (and sometimes 3G) frequencies in foreign markets. Therefore, it is better to bypass the very attractive Honor 5C and 6X on Aliexpress. Or not to bypass, but before that, find the only workable version of the Chinese modifications and make sure that it has multilingual firmware installed. Why live like this?
Therefore, better grab a rare species - Huawei smartphone with a Qualcomm processor! The Chinese are importing American chips with their Kirin if you don't know. Huawei nova started as a mid-range mobile phone with an emphasis on glamor and your endless selfie beauty (when automatics remove pimples from the "face" of the face, widen the eyes and mask the double chin) at a not very adequate price, but now it has fallen in price on Aliexpress to about those the same 12 thousand rubles that they ask for Redmi 4 Prime. For a smartphone with 3/32 GB of memory with exactly the same Snapdragon 625 processor, no longer budget case materials and incomparably cooler cameras - a good exchange, isn't it?
By and large, nova is inferior to Redmi 4 Prime only in terms of speaker quality, sound in headphones and autonomy. All other functions in it work at the same or higher level. And, of course, do not expect support for LTE Band 20 in models for the Chinese market, but the standard B3 / B7 are available in absolutely any modification. You can take it without looking.
Replacement options for Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro/Note 4/Note 4X
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4
A hardy 5.5-inch phablet with a very fast processor by the standards of "state employees" - this is the whole Redmi Note, of any generation. Among the people, of course, we love the Redmi Note 3 Pro most of all with its Snapdragon 650, good endurance and reliability, but the more beautiful Redmi Note 4 with a ten-core MediaTek, which eats up the charge indecently quickly, but “heaps” in benchmarks, also many like it. Redmi Note 4 with a Snapdragon 625 processor is, frankly, not that interesting, but it is just the golden mean between the first two models. Anyway, we are talking about smartphones with Full HD display, powerful processor, so-so cameras and good autonomy at a price of 10-12 thousand rubles. There are not as many alternatives as we would like, but they do exist.
Meizu MX6
When the MX6 appeared on the Russian market and they asked for 28 thousand rubles for it, the first thought was - “who needs you at all?”. For almost 30 thousand, it was already possible to aim at much more thoroughbred and faster models, and a beautiful “shovel” with a cheap processor without outstanding features did not impress anything against this background.
But the Chinese sell the same Meizu for 12 thousand, and these, as they say in Odessa, are two big differences. Because the display in Meizu is slightly brighter than in Redmi Note 4, the processor is the same, and the cameras are much better. Autonomy is approximately at the same level as that of Xiaomi, the sound in headphones without adjustment is better than in Redmi, with adjustment it is worse. There are no problems with firmware (that is, there are, but they are easily solved), the ranges of Russian cellular networks LTE is supported at Band 3 and Band 7. You can take it.
LeEco Le S3 X522
Offering a Xiaomi fan to buy a LeEco instead is like giving a pink Volga to an American muscle car lover. But after Smart Orange unwraps your package at customs, you may change your mind.
In general, LeEco has not been feeling very well lately - just look, it will “give oak” due to the fact that the costs of promotion were significantly higher than the profits from sales of mobile phones and TVs. Specialists who had previously joined the company from JD and Lenovo “ran” from the Russian LeEco - is the trend clear?
But we do not buy a painting by a classicist artist in order to predict whether it will be valuable for several years ahead, so we will not delve into the jungle. Let's go deeper into new model LeEco - Le S3. Well, like a new one - this is such a “rethought” Le 2, from which custom (“amateur”) firmware is even suitable for the new model.
A slightly more advanced smartphone than Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro in terms of hardware - Snapdragon 652 (against Xiaomi's 650), a slightly more elegant case and a brighter screen. Disadvantages - sound quality in headphones, less endurance, amputated headphone jack (as an alternative, there is an adapter with USB Type-C). Well, the rear camera is worse. That is, not “so-so”, like Redmi Note 4, but “bad”.
But it's still a good smartphone, which "brings all the money" in benchmarks and in real use, and it costs only 9-10 thousand with full Russification and good performance. Who knows if the reliability of budget LeEcos has improved since Le 2, but outside of Xiaomi and Meizu in the same class of devices, a more sensible alternative does not come to mind.
Replacement option for Xiaomi Mi Max
I don’t envy fans of “shovel phones” - smartphones with a near-tablet display diagonal are already few, and Mi Max is one of the best among them and certainly the best in terms of price / quality / autonomy, if we are talking about
Chinese prices. But all this is lyrics, and here we have “counterfeit”, so here are options for large-sized high-quality smartphones worth 13-18 thousand rubles.
ZTE Nubia Z11 Max
An unpopular phablet, but in vain. Yes, it doesn't have the wow factor of the standard bezel-less Z11, it doesn't even have an audiophile chip like the 5.5-inch model. But this is the only model in the category "6 inches or more" at a price of up to 20 thousand rubles, which cannot be called a "budget bucket". Apart from Mi Max, of course.
ZTE Nubia Z11 Max
At the same time, you can’t call Nubia cheap either - it looks much cooler and more expensive than Xiaomi, the proprietary shell is also beautiful, the characteristics are about the same (Snapdragon 652, 4000 mAh, 4/64 GB), except that the display is smaller (6 inches exactly). The Russian language is already included in the firmware, there are no problems with frequency support, the quality of the cameras is about the same as in Mi Max, or even a little better. Autonomy is worse, but also not bad, and the main problem is the disgrace with software support. For a long time, owners were content with Android 5.1, and Android 6.0 was released when smartphones of the same age as the Z11 Max began to upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat! And in general, in the case of Nubia smartphones, it is enough when the developers said “yes, this phone, we changed our mind!”, And users were left with nothing, sometimes even without custom firmware at all.
The distributor of smartphones of the Chinese brand Xiaomi, Smart Orange LLC, now has the full right of the copyright holder in Russia. As a result, the customs makes a mass seizure of parcels with Xiaomi smartphones and accessories and returns them to Chinese sellers. And at the moment, you can buy Redmi and Mi series smartphones in Russia with an impressive markup. We want to tell you how you can replace Xiaomi smartphones with other worthy Chinese smartphones.
Xiaomi phones can be replaced with decent alternative Meizu smartphones. The most important thing is that you do not have to overpay. And you can buy a decent Chinese phone for the same price.
What can replace Redmi 4A?
Smartphone Xiaomi Redmi 4A belongs to the budget series. It has a 5" HD display. Powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 425 processor with Adreno 308 graphics. This is a budget solution, and you should not expect high performance from it. RAM is only 2 GB and 16/32 GB permanent. The smartphone is equipped with a 13 Mpix main camera and a 5 Mpix front camera. Xiaomi Redmi 4A has a 3120 mAh battery and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with MIUI 8.2 interface. You can see the full review.
A good alternative would be the Meizu M5 smartphone. Yes, indeed, many may not like the special corporate design of the company and even the interface. But, it's all trifles.
The M5 smartphone belongs to the budget series and has a plastic body, like Redmi 4A. Meizu M5 has a 5.2 inch HD screen with 2.5D protective. Powered by 8-core Mediatek MT6750 chip with clock frequency 1.5 GHz. Two memory options are available, 2GB + 16GB will cost $103 and 3GB + 32GB will cost $132. 13 MP main camera with f/2.2 aperture with PDAF, fast auto focus and dual tone LED flash, and 5 MP front camera. You can see a full review of the smartphone.
Replacement option for Redmi 3S, 3X, Redmi 4, 4X smartphones
The main advantage, which is also its main drawback, is a huge 6.44-inch display with Full HD resolution, covered with 2.5D glass. Powered by a 6-core Snapdragon 650 processor, 3 GB of RAM and 32/64 GB of permanent memory, a 4850 mAh battery.
Both smartphones have Full HD resolution, Corning Gorilla glass protection, but different displays. The PHAB 2 Plus has a 6.4-inch display with 2.5D curved glass, while the Mi Max has a 6.44-inch display. Lenovo PHAB 2 Plus is powered by MediaTek MT8783 octa-core processor with 3GB RAM and 32GB ROM + slot for microSD cards up to 256 GB. phablet Mi Max runs on a higher quality 6-core Snapdragon 650 chip with 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal memory + a hybrid slot for microSD cards up to 128 GB. The phablet has a dual rear 13MP camera and an 8MP front camera, while the Mi Max has 16MP and 5MP for selfies. The Mi Max has a 4850 mAh battery, while the PHAB 2 Plus has a slightly smaller 4050 mAh battery.
I also want to note that it is another worthy competitor for the Xiaomi Mi Max smartphone. Phablet Nubia Z11 Max has a 6-inch Full HD screen, a 16-megapixel main and 8-megapixel front camera, an 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 processor, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of internal memory expandable with microSD cards up to 200 GB. 4000 mAh battery.
Options for replacing flagships Xiaomi Mi 5, Mi 5S, Mi5S Plus, Mi 6
Xiaomi Mi 5 is the first smartphone in the history of Xiaomi devices, which was equipped with a physical front button, instead of the classic three capacitive keys. Smartphones and have very good specifications. I wonder what they can replace?
