The Asian Age

Different strokes for different folks!

The mobile phone satisfies a wide spectrum of needs from essential tool to productive platform to style statement. This week we review three new handsets at widely disparate price points from below `2,000 to `80,000

- VISHNU ANAND

A lot of brands have genuinely impressed us with imaginativ­e User Interface (UI) enhancemen­ts that make lives easier. Some have also gone overboard and flooded us with enhancemen­ts that are pointless, make us feel dumb as human beings, and sometimes downright bizarre. In order to regain sanity in such a scenario, Google introduced Android One, providing the purest version Android and Xiaomi has been a front runner in this programme by collaborat­ing with Google and creating the ‘A’ series of smart phones. Its latest number, the Mi A3 is the best Android device in recent times.

With a 48 MP back camera, coupled with an 8 MP ultra-wide and 2 MP depth sensor, the MI A3 also features a 32 MP selfie camera with large pixel size for better low-light photograph­y. Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 chipset, a 4030 mAh battery, Android Pie out of the box, and a

6.08 inches Super AMOLED display, Xiaomi, with the A3, has created a monster compared to its predecesso­r. With sensible enhancemen­ts like Corning Gorilla Glass protection on the front, back, as well as the camera module, the Mi A3 is splash proof as well and comes with a 7th generation in-screen fingerprin­t scanner.

Built with a glass sandwich design, the device features a dynamic lighting effect, that is shiny but not overtly so. It has good feel and can be used easily with onehand. Available in blue, white and grey, the MI A3 is priced at `12,999 (4 GB + 64 GB) and `15,999 (6 GB + 128 GB) respective­ly. For this price, it is a steal for those that appreciate an OS in its purest form, with aesthetic design and sensible innovation­s. — IndiaTechO­nline

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TAKING ‘STOCK’ OF THE SITUATION Xiaomi’s Mi A3 taps stock Android, to bring UI sanity to smart phones

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