Xiaomi Mi3 Announced As First NVIDIA Tegra 4 Powered Android Smartphone 52
MojoKid writes "NVIDIA's Tegra 4 SoC is destined for devices beyond NVIDIA's own SHIELD gaming handheld. In fact, ASUS stepped out with the Tegra 4-powered Transformer Pad TF701T just yesterday and today Xiaomi steps out with the 5-inch Mi3 Android smartphone, also powered by Tegra 4. Here in the US Xiaomi might not roll right off the tongue but the Chinese manufacturer is making some serious inroads as of late and attracting top talent to boot. The new Xiaomi Mi3 is based on a 5-inch IPS display with a full HD 1080p resolution, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of on-board storage and a 13MP camera. NVIDIA's Tegra 4, with its quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU and 72 GeForce GPU cores ought to make the device feel rather nimble, especially with gaming and multimedia. If the Mi3 handles anything like SHIELD did in the benchmarks, it could be the Android phone to beat on the test track in the coming weeks."
Ummm... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Maybe you should choose the Snapdragon option if you don't want your phone to function as a space heater
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57601611-94/xiaomi-miphone-3-offers-choice-tegra-or-snapdragon-processor/ [cnet.com]
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i can't keep up with all the jargon... tegra, snapdragon, 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 cores, now 72 cores? is that like the iCore? Mi3, i3, whatevs, man... how can anybody keep them straight!
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According to Wikipedia, this is clocked only 100MHz lower (1.8GHz, not 1.9GHz as in the Shield). I strongly suspect thermal or TDP limits will throttle that if more than one core is used. For most things, I doubt it'll even kick in the "actual" cores, preferring to run on just the low-power 800MHz "companion core".
Nexus 4 Alternative? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Nexus 4 Alternative? (Score:5, Interesting)
At a supposed price of $327, and as an unlocked android phone, I'd say this is pretty stiff competition for the Nexus 4.
Xiaomi should be scaring the pants of established phone makers. Their Hongmi (Red Rice) phone has a quad-core 1.2Ghz SoC with 4.7-inch 312ppi IPS display and is selling for $130. Even at that price, it looks like they'll have healthy profit margins - TrendForce says their BOM is only $85.
http://www.slashgear.com/chinese-xiaomi-red-rice-smartphone-has-85-bom-30295442/ [slashgear.com]
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Re:Nexus 4 Alternative? (Score:5, Insightful)
Cortex A7 cores, though. And clocked pretty low. The four of them together amount probably to about one and a half 1.8GHz Krait cores or thereabouts.
Re:Nexus 4 Alternative? (Score:5, Interesting)
Cortex A7 is not ARM's flagship performance chip, but it's pretty respectable. It's basically a tweaked Cortex A8, with the instruction decoder updated to be compatible with the A15 extensions and the layout optimised for better power consumption. It's still in-order, but it's dual-dispatch and gets similar performance to the A8 clock-for-clock in a much lower power envelope. My current phone has a single-core 1GHz Cortex A8, and it's starting to feel a little slow for a few things, but it's not exactly crawling.
The Krait is an A15, which does have a much higher IPC than the A7, but at the expense of power consumption. Four A7 cores, at the same clock speed, will draw slightly less power than one A15 core. For a tablet, I'd definitely be more interested in an A15 (or a big.LITTLE with both), but for a phone the A7 is probably a better choice.
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But is anyone buying them? I personally wouldn't invest $325, I buy Chinese only when the price is so low that I won't get angry if it breaks after one week.
1080p on a 5 inch display.. (Score:2)
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Why?
The same reason why you need 2560x1600 on a 13" Macbook Pro... because.
Re:1080p on a 5 inch display.. (Score:4, Informative)
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720p at 5" is "friggin' beautiful" as well and takes far less processing to fill meaning a REAL savings in GPU power over 1080p.
People who claim to see a difference between 440 dpi and 470 dpi in a phone are liars.
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Huh? That's a difference between 294ppi and 469ppi.
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oh.. you're comparing 1080p at 4.7in vs 5in
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I'm 20/13 vision in both eyes and can already spot pixellation in the iPhone 4S display, at arms length.
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I'm 20/13 vision in both eyes and can already spot pixellation in the iPhone 4S display, at arms length.
The Iphone 4s has retina display. For a retina display to work its' magic, you need to hold it at a typical viewing angle. In short, you're holding it wrong
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That latter bit is a trick I've been exploiting for years now to make the file sizes of my full-HD wallpapers smaller; I actually make them 3840x2160 8-bit and let the OS make use of, essenti
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Probab
Just the *Android* phone to beat? (Score:2)
Re: Just the *Android* phone to beat? (Score:1)
Knowing apple, new iPhone will kill it in real world performance since nvidia has to pay devs to code for its platform
Not at all difficult to pronounce (Score:4, Informative)
The 'X' is pronounced more or less like English 'sh', and 'ao' is the same as the 'ow' in English 'how'. So it's 'shyow-mee'. First syllable's a high rising tone, second is low rising. For an English speaker, if you simply stress the first syllable, that's close enough.
It means 'millet' (a type of grain--nothing to do with the French painter).
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No it doesn't. *sigh* So many people, including a lot of people who should know better, still insist on pronouncing pinyin X as "sh". Chinese already has an sh sound. X is pronounced in a way that native English speakers cannot replicate. You have to learn an entirely new way to move your mouth. I cringe whenever I hear people saying "shay shay" instead of "xie xie" for thank you.
Xiaomi should have chosen a new name for overseas export. Lots of unpronounceable Chinese brands do this. Gome instead of
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well, guys, why don't you type out the phonetic way??
right now I can't even say how english speakers spell "sh", except in the case of shit. is xi more like xenon? surely you don't spell xenon as shenon?
finnish speaker here, you should all switch to the finnish way of just writing like it's spoken. much simpler.
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First of all, I said "more or less like", not "[exactly] the same as".
Second, the difference between X and SH depends largely on the part of the country you're talking about. In the Beijing area, they're quite distinct. In Guangdong, not so much. And yes, I'm talking about different regional varieties of Mandarin, not about differences between Mandarin and Cantonese.
Third, your complaint about people pronouncing "xiexie" as if it were spelt "sheishei" is conflating this with an entirely different issue. I'v
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Xiaomi should outsource the manufacturing of these things to Missouri. For a dollar or two, the state legislature might change the nickname to "The Xiaomi State". Hell, manufacturing jobs in Missouri probably pay less than in various parts of China now.
Bait and Switch (Score:1)
Xiaomi's advertised prices are always a kind of bait-and-switch; they're notorious for having seriously limited production runs for their directly-sold models. If you want to buy the unlocked model at the advertised price, you'd better order within 5 minutes of the announcement or they'll be out of stock. This isn't an exaggeration - their previous model sold out in 3 minutes 39 seconds [gizchina.com]
Fortunately for those that didn't manage to get hold of one, the mobile operators have plenty of Xiaomi phones; all you nee
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I was able to find a Xioami phone without all the trouble you are mentioning. When they just came out, of course it was hard to find even if they create an artificial outage, but the same is true of the new HTC One. Samsung is the only company that I have seen that has this massive availability for their products after they are announced.
In any case, pretty cool phone and even though I hated Android mods (unless it is Cyanogenmod), this is one to look for since it is very well done. Btw, even if you sign up
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I honestly believe you cannot find such a deal in the States.
it depends on how many yuan are in a dollar.
Disappointed (Score:2)
Tongue Rolling... (Score:1)
Here in the US Xiaomi might not roll right off the tongue
I feel oddly compelled to help with the pronunciation of the company name... Anyway, should be:
"shao mee"
not
"ziao me" as many will probably be predisposed towards.