Rating of the best Chinese smartphones in 2019

There is no such thing as a good smartphone. If you share this point of view, you will surely be interested in the Xiaomi phablet. The most remarkable thing is that even with a screen diagonal of 6.9 inches, it does not seem prohibitively large. Out, anyway. Holding the Mi Max 3 with one hand is still uncomfortable, so it’s best not to consider this phone as your primary means of communication. But we can safely recommend it to moviegoers and fans of mobile gaming. «Heavy» toys with ultragraphics third Mi Max without drawdowns FPS will not pull, but even with medium quality settings, its stuffing will satisfy the needs of almost any shooter. The same PUBG Mobile, for example. Not bad for this smartphone is the case with autonomy. A 5500 mAh battery allows you to count on several days of life away from the outlet with moderate use, about 10 hours when working in navigator mode or 4-5 with a gaming load (resource-intensive).

The proprietary shell of the Chinese company Xiaomi is rightfully called the most suitable for fine-tuning the system. If you prefer smartphones running on “pure” Android, you don’t have much choice, and we consider Mi A2 to be the best Chinese smartphone in this price category. Especially if you buy a phone on a well-known marketplace. The model is not the latest, but that’s good: «childhood diseases» are treated, the price has dropped, the most successful solutions have been found and described by the community of owners. Actually, the Mi A2 did not have any special shortcomings (if you do not include the impossibility of using memory cards as such), but there are enough advantages. For example, a smartphone boasts a powerful mid-range hardware platform and simply gorgeous cameras. Even in the stock state, Mi A2 shoots pretty decently, and after installing alternative software, it is ready to compete with much more expensive camera phones. But there is no NFC module here.

The main feature of this Chinese smartphone is a modern design with a waterdrop notch for the front camera. And it is also very likely that relatively inexpensive Huawei models will now attract the attention of potential buyers with branded gradient color transitions. The undoubted advantages of the updated version of P Smart include the ability to work with contactless payment systems, which is frankly lacking in devices from the available lines of the same Xiaomi. The second fundamental difference between smartphones of these brands can be considered the best communication quality of Huawei products. Finally, after the appearance of the Kirin 710 platform, the situation with the performance of the corresponding equipment has also radically improved. Including gaming. In fact, the most significant drawback of P Smart 2019 is the minimally comfortable, by today’s standards, amount of RAM. It will be problematic to work with several resource-intensive applications on such smartphones at the same time.

And again, we recommend the “x” version of the smartphone, this time in the Redmi Note 4 line. The fact is that the original “four laptop” was based on the Helio X20 platform, to which users had a lot of complaints. We must pay tribute to Xiaomi — its specialists quickly responded to criticism, and the updated version of the device works much more stable, and also heats up significantly less. In addition, the 4X uses the Adreno graphics core, which is better optimized for most popular games. By the way, this example illustrates very well the thesis that happiness is not in «parrots». Otherwise, everything is typical for inexpensive Xiaomi products, including high autonomy, a solid screen, as well as the lack of support for the B20 range and an inexpressive design. Well, once again we will complain about the manufacturer’s transition to the camp of fans to combine seats for a memory card and a SIM card in one tray. Actually, therefore, we recommend the maximum configuration of the model.

Unlike the Honor Play discussed above, the specialized gaming smartphone of the Chinese company Xiaomi does not need software “crutches”. With any gaming load installed in the Pocophone F1, the top-end Snapdragon of the previous generation can handle it on its own without any problems. More precisely, only the heat pipe cooling system helps it. The developers of the model even abandoned the use of a metal back cover to ensure better heat dissipation. To match the powerful chip and memory. Moreover, both in terms of available volumes and in terms of speed (LPDDR4X and UFS2.1, respectively, operational and non-volatile). Other functionality of the phone was formed according to the principle of reasonable minimalism — soundly, but almost nothing outstanding. By this «almost» we mean a face recognition system based on an IR sensor. Surprisingly fast and undemanding to the level of lighting.

Against the background of other conditionally frameless smartphones, this model stands out for its front-mounted fingerprint scanner and can serve as a kind of negative example for other manufacturers. Not only did this solution turn out to be very inconvenient from an ergonomic point of view (the fingerprint scanner has small dimensions, it has no embossed borders, it is located too close to the bottom edge of the case and the screen), but there are also problems with sensitivity. If the above points do not bother you, you should still take a closer look at the Honor 10. Face unlock works even in complete darkness, the filling is powerful, autonomy is high (after turning off everything unnecessary), the screen is excellent, the chamber part is decent, the appearance is simply premium. Please note that in order to obtain high-quality sound, it may be necessary to select headphones and replace the stock player.

You can increase the usable screen area in different ways. Apple introduced the fashion for a monobrow, Vivo engineers decided to remove the front camera on a retractable block, Oppo designers were even more radical and decided to install all sensors and sensors on it, and Xiaomi tried to revive the slider idea. Alas, all of the above options are not perfect. For example, in addition to the issue of durability, there are complaints about ergonomics in relation to Mi Mix3. At a minimum, the high-quality oleophobic coating on its screen prevents you from easily shifting the front of this smartphone. The finger slips, to put it simply. Nevertheless, such a concept deserves respect, if only for its unbrokenness. By the way, the manufacturer claims a 30,000th mechanism triggering resource, the top platform (at the time of development), as well as a convincing memory reserve and excellent photo and video shooting abilities (6th place in the DxOMark resource rating) speak in favor of choosing Mi Mix3.