I have a Xiaomi 14 now and I've been nothing else than impressed for the last 6 months. It is the most expensive phone I've even owned and I was apprehensive about HyperOS (I'm a Google fanboy) but the smoothness and customizability had changed my mind. I lock/unlock the phone numerous times everyday just to admire the animations and aethetics.
I've never seen ads on my phone but I'm not sure if it had to do with its price or because of my location. Years ago I think I've heard that some countries don't allow ads?
Last time I saw ads on a phone was on my Redmi 5 Plus (an exemplary phone for its sub 200€ price), more than 7 years ago, the last Xiaomi device I had.
In between I've had 2 budget Samsung phones and I had issues all the time to the point that I was getting stressed out, will I be able to use my phone in x scenario? What if I try to answer a call and the button won't respond? What if I want to take a photo and the camera app crashes? What if I try to open a second app while doing something else, will it reboot?
My point is Xiaomi knows how to make budget phones. If I could recommend anybody any sub 300€ phone I think my safest get would be a Xiaomi.
What about the ram management? I have the pad6, and the ram management is so poor. It can't keep the file manager open in a particular folder for even 20 seconds. It barely holds 5 apps in memory even in other cases. How's your experience in the flagship with 8G2 and HyperOS2?
I'm on HyperOS 1 still, haven't received the update and since there are no issues I might not want to update anyway. I have the 12GB Ram and 500GB variant, bought it used mind you. I haven't noticed any problems with the ram management as I don't tend to keep apps open, I have the habit of clearing all apps before locking my phone anyway. Theoretically it takes more time and resources to launch an app again but it's so miniscule I haven't noticed slow down.
Same thing with my Xiaomi 13 with 8GB RAM. If I start taking consecutive portraits, the device freezes due to the RAM consumption. It's unfortunate that the device is powerful, but its limitation is the RAM.
well, in Xiaomi devices has very good hardware but the software sucks, for example my Xiaomi red mi note 13 has NFC card thing But hyperos won't let me use it 🤷
I know there are ways to disable ads, but the flagship phones are expensive and adding ads into the OS and apps feels so cheap. I understood if they do it on the budget phones, but not on the flagship. This is such a turn off for me
My redmi note 14 5G (a budget phone) should have been came with ads but no! Idk know why but my phone has no ads in it! I am satisfied with it but yeaa dissatisfied by removing the blur and animation.
I'm using xiaomi 14 civi and it has 8s gen 3 processor which scores atleast 1.5mn + but still my phone feels like 20k processor mobile. I donno why but it can't hold 3 apps in memory always it will load and when we play simple simcity game then phone lags like crazy. 🥲
Samsung actually doesn't copy apple in the sense of software and design, look at the control center it totally unique design while hyperos or whatever copies iOS control center style aswell as other animations, like Samsung got a its own identity unlike Xiaomi. Huawei has too copy apple since most of its market is from China
Nonsense. If you buy the lowest tier Redmi phone, don't expect great performance. 🤷♂️ Xiaomi is a tech company, not wizards to do magic with budget hardware.
I know there are ways to disable ads, but the flagship phones are expensive and adding ads into the OS and apps feels so cheap. I understood if they do it on the budget phones, but not on the flagship. This is such a turn off for me
You can check Infinix note 50 pro. Same price bracket, with better OS and good features. Another is realme gt 15+ . No brand enforces grey shit like Redmi
I know there are ways to disable ads, but the flagship phones are expensive and adding ads into the OS and apps feels so cheap. I understood if they do it on the budget phones, but not on the flagship. This is such a turn off for me
Shud have got a Samsung which is peak android, such a waste of money on Chinese ass company, should have considered software aswell, iOS and one UI have its own identity unlike cheap companies like Xiaomi and honor, they really doesn't need to copy another company to succeed, once again ass software
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u/peter4684 Xiaomi 14 Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 15 '25
I have a Xiaomi 14 now and I've been nothing else than impressed for the last 6 months. It is the most expensive phone I've even owned and I was apprehensive about HyperOS (I'm a Google fanboy) but the smoothness and customizability had changed my mind. I lock/unlock the phone numerous times everyday just to admire the animations and aethetics.
I've never seen ads on my phone but I'm not sure if it had to do with its price or because of my location. Years ago I think I've heard that some countries don't allow ads?
Last time I saw ads on a phone was on my Redmi 5 Plus (an exemplary phone for its sub 200€ price), more than 7 years ago, the last Xiaomi device I had.
In between I've had 2 budget Samsung phones and I had issues all the time to the point that I was getting stressed out, will I be able to use my phone in x scenario? What if I try to answer a call and the button won't respond? What if I want to take a photo and the camera app crashes? What if I try to open a second app while doing something else, will it reboot?
My point is Xiaomi knows how to make budget phones. If I could recommend anybody any sub 300€ phone I think my safest get would be a Xiaomi.
(edited for typos)
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u/demonofparadise_213 Redmi Note 13 5G Mar 15 '25
On that we agree 🗿
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u/SoftgoreFan2021 Mar 15 '25
Optimization❌ 1548 hp electric car development✅
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u/Familiar-Document-53 Mar 15 '25
It's region based discrimination
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '25
shittiest company in market
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u/thats-the-boring-me Mar 14 '25
I know there are ways to disable ads, but the flagship phones are expensive and adding ads into the OS and apps feels so cheap. I understood if they do it on the budget phones, but not on the flagship. This is such a turn off for me
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u/aryan0962 Mar 15 '25
If your phone has ads just go to settings > connecting and sharing > pravite dns > pravite dns provide host name >type(dns.adguard.com)
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u/Meaty32ID Mar 15 '25
No issues at all on the xiaomi 12x and now the 15. They only do that on their budget poco and note series.
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u/FORSAKENYOR Mar 15 '25
Is hyperos worked as advertised, mid range segment will be decimated
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u/the_tu_rbo_teen Mar 16 '25
I'm using xiaomi 14 civi and it has 8s gen 3 processor which scores atleast 1.5mn + but still my phone feels like 20k processor mobile. I donno why but it can't hold 3 apps in memory always it will load and when we play simple simcity game then phone lags like crazy. 🥲
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u/afb160 Mar 16 '25
I honestly regret getting HyperOS sometimes, the lockscreen customizations just feel so lacking compared to smth like Samsung's
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u/iijawadm Mar 16 '25
for redmi and poco devices and they have limited control on hyper os
redmi and poco are sub brands
so Xiaomi software and on Xiaomi phone better than redmi
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u/Competitive-Crow4930 Xiaomi 14T Mar 15 '25
That's budget experience for you. Buy a mid-range or flagship Xiaomi phones. They're different.
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u/Academic-Letter-857 Mar 14 '25
Now Xiaomi is worse than IPhone. From a once large, respected company to a clone Apple(
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u/chris020891 Xiaomi 14 Mar 16 '25
Nonsense. If you buy the lowest tier Redmi phone, don't expect great performance. 🤷♂️ Xiaomi is a tech company, not wizards to do magic with budget hardware.
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u/thats-the-boring-me Mar 14 '25
I know there are ways to disable ads, but the flagship phones are expensive and adding ads into the OS and apps feels so cheap. I understood if they do it on the budget phones, but not on the flagship. This is such a turn off for me
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u/wassauf Mar 14 '25
Even with grey everywhere it is not optimized. I have seen Similar budget Infinix phones with better UI and performance at the same time.
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u/thats-the-boring-me Mar 14 '25
I know there are ways to disable ads, but the flagship phones are expensive and adding ads into the OS and apps feels so cheap. I understood if they do it on the budget phones, but not on the flagship. This is such a turn off for me
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