update on the Red mi note 3 pro I got 2 weeks ago.
- flashing the EU rom and unlocking the bootloader was a pain in the ass (I suggest folks make a windows 64bit VM - MS has free images you can use since you gotta do a bunch of random shit and disable signed drivers)
- Phone is good. EU rom didn't have some normal shit you would expect on android like sqlite3, find, etc. It wasn't a big deal to cross compile those tools and a few other useful ones.
- I still find the phone a little big coming from the nexus 5.
- Phone is fast as fuck.
- Battery life is crazy good, I talking heavy usage, streaming video, browsing, gps, etc in a day and then forgetting to charge it and having plenty of battery for the day. (I went 2 days over the weekend without charging it - light usage for the most part)
- Phone charges to a decent amount of battery life pretty fast.
- EU rom (maybe miui is the real issue?) has some issues with notifications. My google calendar widget has froze a bit and required me to open it up to get it on the right day.
- Some times notifications don't get pushed properly (gotta actually use the phone before FB says "oh yeah messenger got shit for you")
- DAC is really solid. It's the first phone I owned that I felt had really good sound.
- FM receiver is hella useful, I use that shit all the time because my provider has a shit network at peek times and I like to listen to the news.
- I don't care much for MIUI trying to replace google apps, and you can't remove them on the EU rom. Maybe i'll try CM or build a rom with the shit I want at some point and get off the botnet.
- Camera is nice. I read a review saying the camera was shit but I dunno I think it takes nice pictures. Maybe my expectations were low coming from a nexus 5.
- the finger print reader is not that great. When it works it's great. I hit it by accident in my pocket and my phone vibrates which is annoying.
Phone has survived some light drops onto hard surfaces with a case
