Xiaomi Hongmi (Red Rice) complete review

Xiaomi Hongmi (Red Rice) is the most inexpensive phone from Xiaomi. The phone is bought on Spemall: http://www.spemall.com/Xiaomi-Hongmi-Smart-Phone-with-MIUI-V5-OS-MTK-MT6589T-Quad-Core-1-5GHz-4-7-Inch-1280-720-pixels-IPS-Screen-GPS-8-0MP-Back-Camera_g.html You can also use the coupon, which Spemall gave me specially for my YouTube channel: YouTube3%OFF It is a 3% coupon for any order above $100. Now there 2 similar versions of this phone. One of them is a TD-CDMA version, which works with 3G only inside China, and the second one is WCDMA version, which supports 3G worldwide. Also, there are many fake phones. Most of them have 960x540 screen (instead of 1280x720), 512 Mb of RAM (instead of 1 Gb), MT6572 1.2 GHz Dual Core SoC (instead of 1.5 GHz Quad Core) and so on. Sure, they are not compatible with original firmwares. So you should be careful when you buy this phone and choose only reliable suppliers. Xiaomi Hongmi ("Hongmi" means "Red Rice" in Chinese, so that is why it is frequently called so) is the most inexpensive Xiaomi phone for today. Still, it is quite advanced: it is based on the Cortex A7 quad core 1.5 GHz Mediatek MTK6589T with PowerVR SGX544MP 384 MHz GPU. Also, it has a good 4.7" Super IPS LED 1280x720 screen, covered by Gorilla Glass 2, 1 Gb of RAM, 4 Gb of flash memory, dual 1.3 Mp and 8 Mp (BSI with flash and autofocus) cameras, 2050 mAh battery, full set of sensors (light, proximity, accelerometer, gravity, gyroscope, rotation vector, digital compass, orientation), 7 colors notification LED, official MIUI V5 OS, a lot of different high quality accessories, etc. Sure, it supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM-radio, GPS, wireless display. Also,Hongmi supports USB OTG technology, which allows to connect external devices like flash drives. The battery in this phone is good, but not perfect. It has a typical capacity of 2050 mAh and minimum capacity of 2000 mAh, and it is average value for such phones. Battery life is about 8-14 hours with the screen on, and up to 1 week in "phone only" mode. In gaming mode this phone is capable to run for 5-8 hours. The phone comes with Android 4.2.2 based MIUI V5 firmware, which is made by Xiaomi especially for its phones. This phone has a great community, so there are dozens of different firmwares, including not only MIUI, but also simple Android, LEWA OS and other modifications. Benchmark results: AnTuTu Benchmark 4.1.6 - around 16200 points Quadrant - over 5900 points Basemark Taiji - 18.1 FPS Nenamark 2 - 52 FPS Vellamo HTML5 - 1267, Metal - 521. GFXBench 2.7.2: 520 megatexels per second 3DMark: 3950 points Epic Citadel: 51.8 FPS (High Quality), 28.9 FPS (Ultra High Quality) Advantages of Xiaomi Hongmi: great 4.7" 1280x720 IPS LED screen, powerful and power efficient 28 nm Mediatek MTK6589T 1.5 GHz, PowerVR SGX544MP 384 Mhz GPU, a couple of good cameras (1.3 and 8 Mp BSI, but they are comparable with 2/13 Mp cameras of other Chinese phones like Jiayu G4 or Neo N003), perfect build quality, many c