Xiaomi redmi note3, 4G ok?

Diskussion i 'Redmi & Redmi Note' startad av thewickedd, 9 apr 2016.

  1. thewickedd

    thewickedd Infant Droid Medlem

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    Dear All,

    I'm sorry that my Swedish is not good enough to write a message in it, but I can read all your messages in Swedish well enough to understand. So please feel free to write in Swedish in this topic. I hope this topic is in the correct subforum.

    My brother in law from Hong Kong is recommending a Xiaomi redmi note3 as new phone. I have been doing some googling and an issue is that the only relevant 4G bands it supports are band3 and band7. Or so i thought, in discussion with my brother in law, i found out that the Hong Kong version also supports band8: http://www.mi.com/hk/note3/specs/. Does that mean that I'll be able to use it most of the time? How important is band20? I live in southern Skåne (Lund). Are there also potential issues with 3G? For as far as i can find, in Sweden 900 and 2100 MHz are used, which are supported by this model.

    Other than that, I understand that it is important to have a model with the Google play store activated/installed, correct?

    Are there any other things I should look out for?

    Thank you!
     
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    Hi!

    And Welcome to Swedroid, one of the most pleasant, nice and polite forums in Sweden!


    Most important bands is number 7 and 8. Band 20 is the long range band and is more important if you spend much time in the countryside.
    I think the speeds one can get on 3 g is sufficient for everyday use.

    I had the RedMi Note 2 and it worked out for me.

    If you can get a model with Google Play preinstalled you could opt for that, but it could be that the installation is made by the seller and is ful of other apps that you really not want.
    I would go for a clean origin Xiaomi, and then install the Google services by myself. It really is a easy task.

    http://en.miui.com/thread-198204-1-1.html

    All the best / Rospigg



    ps, thats a really nice handset, GET IT!
     
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    Hi Rospigg,

    Thanks very much for the reply and resolving my questions. Thanks even more for the note on how to get google software installed if it isn't and get a bloatware free ROM, very helpful! This does look like the right phone for me, unless a Hong Kong version of the mi5 with band 8 appears by June (when I'm there).

    Thanks a lot and for your forceful buying advice!
    All the best,
    Dee
     
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    LTE band 7 is probably the most important as it's used in densely populated areas. Band 8 and 20 are both slower long range bands that are commonly used in rural areas. I would say that band 20 is the most important of these two. AFAIK band 8 is only used by Tele2 and even they are moving more and more to band 20.
     
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    Thanks for weighing in! Sounds like the mi5 may be a good choice too then. And indeed 3G speed is fine too, so why worry at all. Just a check: what is considered rural and what densely populated? Having lived in Hong Kong for 7 years, everything here is rural, even center of Lund or Malmö :P

    And indeed, this is a very nice forum. Thanks for the pleasant advice and warm welcome
     
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    What operator are you using?
     
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    Thanks both of you! That's very useful :)