Gorrila Glass3 Screen Protection on Xiaomi Redmi NOte

For you who curious about screen protection on Xiaomi Redmi Note, you can view this video especially about a demo showing how he test the screen by cutting a plastic tape by a cutter on the screen. Here is the video. 

Xiaomi Smartphone Redmi Note Indonesia Review

I got the Redmi Note smartphone in the first flash-sale through Lazada online shop, Xiaomi partner for marketing in Indonesia. The first flash sale was in 13 November 2014. I guess about 10 thousand unit were sold-out just during a few minutes flash sale. 

Key features

• 5.5" IPS 720p capacitive touchscreen with 267pi pixel density
• Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with MIUI v.5
• 1.7GHz octa-core Cortex-A7 CPU; 2 GB of RAM; Mali-450MP4 GPU; MediaTek MT6592 chipset
• 13MP camera with LED flash, 1080p video capture
• 5MP front-facing camera; 720p video recording
• 8GB of built-in memory, expandable via a microSD card slot (up to 32GB)
• Dual-SIM
• Active noise cancellation with a dedicated microphone
• 3,200mAh battery

Main disadvantages

• No Android KitKat yet (Some said the update will be available on Q1 2015)
• Thick and heavy (almost 200 gram)
• Sub-300ppi pixel density
• No hardened glass for screen protection
• No LTE (single-SIM 4G version available)

Here are the specification of Xiaomi Redmi Note Indonesian version.     

NETWORK

SIM 1 : 3G Network HSDPA 1900 / 2100

SIM 2 : 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 

(standart SIM)

BODY

Dimensions 154 x 78.7 x 9.5 mm (6.06 x 3.10 x 0.37 in), Weight 199 g (7.02 oz)

Display IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, One Glass System (Not Gorilla Glass) 16M colors

Size 720 x 1280 pixels, 5.5 inches (~267 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch

SOUND

Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones

Loudspeaker, 3.5mm jack

MEMORY

Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB

Internal 8 GB, 1/2 GB RAM

CONNECTIVITY 

GPRS, EDGE, HSPA+

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth v4.0, A2DP, LE

USB microUSB v2.0, USB On-The-Go

CAMERA

Primary 13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash

Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, HDR, panorama, tap to capture, dual theme (standart menu & minimalist menu)

Video 1080p@30fps

Secondary 5 MP, with timer & auto rotate

OS & SYSTEM

Android OS, v4.2 (Jelly Bean) enhanced with MIUI 5

(Kitkat & MIUI 6 will be available at end 2014)

Chipset Mediatek MT6592

CPU Octa-core 1.4/1.7 GHz Cortex-A7

GPU Mali-450MP4

Sensors : Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass

BATTERY

Li-Po 3100 mAh battery

OTHER

Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM

Browser HTML5

Radio 

GPS Yes, with A-GPS

- Mi App (Mi Cloud, Mi Theme market, MiTalk, Mi Updater, Wheather)

- MP4/H.264/H.263 player

- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player

- File Explorer

- Photo/video editor

- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)

- Google Apps 

- Voice memo/dial/commands

- Predictive text input (Tianjin/SwiftKey/Google Keyboard)

- Compass App

- Security App

- Backup App