I bought this from the previous deal and found it quite interesting phone.
The build quality is surprisingly good, look and feel are great.
System runs very quick, apparently quicker than s6.
It doesnt have tempered glass but you can buy an additional tempered glass as the screen protector from gear best cheaply. I bought case and tempered glass with the phone and it cost me around £125.

The only drawbacks that I found so far:
1. youtube apps seems to be modified for xiaomi and it is NOT a good app. It runs very slow upon loading and most of the cases (99%) it crashes when loading the next video (that if you managed to load the first one :smiley:). you can have workaround on this by using the browser to run youtube website. It will run smoothly but of course it lacks integration with other apps
2. menu is in english but there are some areas that still left in chinese.
3. They have very cool theme but very buggy as well. The first theme that I tried looks very pretty but it makes me unable to find the menu (bug). Made me panic for a while until i find the workaround
4. they have a lot of bloatware. most of them can be disabled from the apps manager. However, there are 3 things that cant be disabled fully: app cleaner, DU booster, and the browser. I never expect having the well known app cleaner as built in app (that cant be disabled) is so damn annoying.
5. Ads on the lock screen!! It is bloody annoying but I think I managed to disable it (although it sometimes come up every now and then randomly).

Would I recommend it? Its a bit of hassle but i think its really good value for money.
It is approx 1/3 to 1/4 of the price of the mainstream phone. There are annoying features on this phone but there are ways to go around it.

FYI, the UI is using MIUI6, not the latest MIUI7. The english menu is apparently comes from the reseller, not xiaomi (that's my understanding, CMIIW). So I might not dare to upgrade to MIUI7 until its confirmed that it will come up in English.

Yup. https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=42335

Choose xiaomi.eu_multi_hermes_V7.0.6.0.LHMCNCI_v7-5.0.zip

This is MIUI 7 5.10.22 and is the stable build. Weekly builds are rooted, stable builds are not. There are newer versions out but allegedly no obvious improvements and frankly, for me, it ain't broke so I'm not fixing it (or flashing it!)

great phone but surely for all these deals from China we should include the extra 20%?

Great spec.

EU warehouse for white, 118

Just noticed that the link on the deal takes you to the less discounted version, please see here for the price I've listed

Good review 8/10
http://www.trustedreviews.com/xiaomi-redmi-note-2-review

How does this compare to the ultra 6, specs look similar

It appears the EU warehouse for 32GB white has sold out. No EU stock in black either. The 16GB 'standard' model is still available at the EU warehouse at $149 delivered (about £100). I'd have paid a tenner extra for the 32GB version, would make a massive difference if you're an app junkie.

Ah well, better luck next time. This is a flagship phone at 25% of the price of the other flagships, according to TechRadar the performance benchmarks rival that of the Galaxy S6 and it has an almost equally good camera!

Bloody hell. Ordered a Meizu M2 Note for about the same price as this. Stonking deal.