Redmi Note 3 review: The metal-bodied 2016 budget legend that sold by the tens of millions.
The budget phone that defined a category.
Redmi Note 3 was a phenomenon — a metal-bodied, big-battery phone with a surprisingly fast Snapdragon 650 at a rock-bottom price. It sold in staggering numbers and cemented the Redmi Note as the default value pick worldwide.
01Display
64/10064/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2016.
02Camera
58/10058/100 puts it above the 56-point average for budget phones of 2016.
03Performance
58/100At 58/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among budget phones of 2016 — 9 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
76/100At 76/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among budget phones of 2016 — 8 points above the cohort average.
05Build
66/100At 66/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among budget phones of 2016 — 7 points above the cohort average.
06Value
78/100At 78/100 this is one of the strongest value showings among budget phones of 2016 — 14 points above the cohort average.
- Metal unibody at a budget price.
- Snapdragon 650 was unusually fast.
- Big 4,050 mAh battery.
- Fingerprint sensor + microSD.
- Mono speaker.
- MIUI ads.
- 60 Hz LCD.
- Ended at Android 6.0.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 57-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .