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We have now had a chance to review the Redmi Note 3 and Redmi Note 3 Pro. Both of these phones are a great buy and whichever phone you get, you will not be sad.

With that out of the way, let's get to it. We will save you the suspense and give you our rating right away.

There are a few votes on the review as well and they are giving it an even higher score.

Camera

There are a lot of things to love about the Redmi Note 3 Pro, one of those is its very sharp 16MP camera, which from our first tests show it having good sharpness across the frame. As we know, even expensive stand-alone cameras have issues with across the frame sharpness, so this is no small feat. Take a look at the first image at full size and look at the corners. Notice how sharp? Xiaomi has included a very good camera on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro.

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100% pixel-level crop from 16MP first image

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The pictures in our gallery are all unedited, same as with this image here (resized to 1280 and saved@75% quality)

Battery

Interestingly, the battery lasted a huge 10 hours in our battery test. This is a full 2 hours longer than the standard Redmi Note 3. We will be testing it further, but as of now it looks like, at least for video, the Redmi Note 3 Pro is significantly more efficient.

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The RN3P also appears to be quick charging, with the 4100mAh battery charging to 90% within 2 hours. An excellent result. Check out this battery charging arc.... It's a thing of beauty.

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GPS and WiFi

GPS and WiFi are also great on the Redmi Note 3 Pro, with the WiFi reaching 44m with a standard $20 home router and cynder block wall between the router and the RN3P. At this distance the connection remained stable and fast.

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GPS locked on within seconds and maintained a 25-41 SNR.

Touch-ID

Touch ID implementation on the Redmi Note 3 Pro is fantastic, with even sloppy finger lays registering without any issue. What we really like is that it's just BAM instantly in there. No need to press power button first, or swipe up into the homescreen after you scanned, it's just into wherever you last left your phone within 1 second...Even from deep sleep.

Antutu

We did a number of benchmarks on the RN3P, but perhaps the most important one, Antutu 6.0.4. gave us a healthy 76k with a 3D score of 19k.

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Conclusion

***Up until now, we've custom written this summary, not copy and pasted from the review, but we will paste the exact conclusion from the full review here:

***Xiaomi has done it again with the Redmi Note 3 Pro. Including the Snapdragon 650 has given the Note 3 Pro a big boost in CPU and GPU power, a boost big enough to have it hitting Antutu 6 scores up with the big dogs. Battery life is also improved with the big.LITTLE setup that allows the XRN3P to use lower power CPU cores when not stressed.

Perhaps the biggest plus with the Redmi Note 3 Pro is the ability to add a TF SD card up to 128GB; this is a huge bonus for those who need the storage space for media content and big games.

With great battery life, excellent WiFi, great GPS, laid-back slick looks, very good display, inclusion of internal TF SD support, and all around solid components, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro is a mobile we would easily recommend to a close friend or family member. If you’re looking for a flagship killer in the $200 ballpark, do not hesitate.***

Full review source: Mod Edit by [MENTION=4036181]Darth[/MENTION] : Link removed. Leads to selling site links. Not allowed on xda.

Full Flickr image gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/56505616@N00/albums

Up next is the Redmi 3, and Redmi Note 3 Pro vs Redmi Note 3 MTK battle.