After unveiling the first flagship smartphone under its Redmi brand, Xiaomi is today back with yet another smartphone. This one under its own brand name to expand on one of its most popular smartphone series. The Android One-backed Mi A series. Yes, the Mi A3 has finally launched in India with an AMOLED display, a powerful new Snapdragon chipset, an in-display fingerprint sensor, and triple cameras on board.
Xiaomi has priced the Mi A3 starting at Rs 12,999 for the base variant, with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. You would have to shell out Rs 15,999 for the 6GB + 128GB variant.
Mi A3 went official globally earlier last month, so we already know everything about this Android One smartphone. It is a rebranded Mi CC9e that launched in China just recently and brings along a curved glass design, with Gorilla Glass 5 protection both on the front and back. Xiaomi is calling the S-shaped curved pattern on the rear Helix as opposed to their recent Aura design schemes.
Mi A3 features a 6.088-inch HD+ AMOLED display, with a dot notch design that we have been seeing since the launch of the Redmi Note 7 series. It has a tall 19.5:9 aspect ratio and 91% screen-to-body ratio.
All that aside, Mi A3 is part of the Android One program and runs stock Android 9 Pie out-of-the-box. Xiaomi does not make a boatload of changes to the vanilla experience, apart from its camera software and algorithms into the mix. All your connectivity options remain the same and the 3.5mm headphone jack makes a much-awaited return. Yes, it was absent on the Mi A2 but user feedback has now got it back on the successor.
