Missing B20 support is a little annoying. Otherwise pretty good.
Stu.C
2 Mar 174#106
Just sharing this in case useful for anyone... I've been searching the web for information on the 1 year warranty that is automatically added by AliExpress, and I've been considering whether to remove it using the trick of setting US delivery first.
If you check the warranty page on AliExpress, it doesn't actually list the UK as being included. However, I have contacted AliExpress and The Warranty Group, and I've been told that the UK is included. Here are the T&C from the Warranty Group, which includes a version specific to the UK for AliExpress customers: https://www.thewarrantygroup-cares.com/aliexpress/ConsumerTC?language
I searched the web to find some stories about people trying the claim on the warranty (none from the UK unfortunately), and the recurring story seems to be that people send the phone off, it often goes "missing" for a month, then it is found, then the customer is told that AliExpress will give a refund, then there is little/no further communication... however, for the people brave enough to return to AliExpress to purchase a replacement phone, they have found a credit on their account equal to the cost of the original purchase. Having now found the T&C document, this makes some sense, since it talks about credit vouchers from AliExpress... however, communication seems to be lacking when this has been applied.
Anyway, take what you want from this... I hope at least the two links here might be useful to someone.
Personally, I was going to skip the warranty to save money, but now I think I'm going to pay it. Also, if I was forced to ask my credit card company to bail me out, I wonder what their position would be if I willingly dodged a warranty that is meant to be compulsory.
badboyofrock
26 Feb 173#18
You don't always need B20 at all. Mine doesn't have it and works perfectly. Anyway, it's good to see you back. How you doing? How've you been? Do you fancy a pint?
lugsy3 to bak2brighton
26 Feb 173#25
You have to select usa but gbp then on shipping change it to uk, warranty is not there then.
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ken218
26 Feb 174#1
Missing B20 support is a little annoying. Otherwise pretty good.
craigstephens to ken218
26 Feb 17#5
Its not a problem if you're with a half decent network.
djames108
26 Feb 17#2
I'm sure that they will do a full international version soon like with the 3 pro, this is great if you don't need b20
sam_of_london to djames108
26 Feb 17#15
You always need B20 as UK networks have it. Foolish to buy phone without it to use in UK or Europe. But if you live in China, India or Africa etc it may not matter as this phone is made for them, not us.
fubuki81 to djames108
26 Feb 17#27
They did redmi note 3 pro international global etc. for Taiwan only. You can buy it from geekbuying only and have a lot of issues as it has not been made for international ROM. As i see Xiaomi has no plans to do phones with band 20. Even newest redmi note 4X is without it.
jenmumof5
26 Feb 17#3
Do you need to have the smarts to remove everything on these phones and load android onto it? Or is it ready to go out of the box?
davewave to jenmumof5
26 Feb 17#4
yes, can be a faff.
badboyofrock to jenmumof5
26 Feb 172#6
This is the Global Rom, so should work straight out of the box.
r4do
26 Feb 17#7
The only thing I don't like about the redmi 4 Pro are the black bezels around, unless you have this phone in gray. I had the redmi 3 pro gold (smaller black bezels) and the device is really good, but after loading few apps, it wasn't as smooth. The Snapdragon CPU in redmi 4 pro is much better then the Snapdragon in redmi 3 pro.
Currently I'm using the redmi note 3 pro with the Snapdragon 650 and I like it, yet I'd prefer the redmi 4, because it's smaller.
little_green
26 Feb 171#8
Is this better than the redmi note 3 snapdragon 650 version?
This has a sd 625 processor right?
_clueless_ to little_green
26 Feb 171#9
I read up on this before ordering a note 3 pro the other week. the 650 is less power efficient (although the note 3 pro comes with a big 4050mAh battery) but 2 of it's 6 cores are apparently much more powerful than any of the 625's 8 cores giving the 650 better single threaded performance, also I recall reading the 650 has a better GPU.... The 625 being better at multi tasking and power consumption. Formfactor wise the Note 4 is .5 inch smaller (probably due to its smaller, more power efficient chip... maybe, I'm not a phone-guy just passing on what I read)
badboyofrock
26 Feb 17#10
The Note 4 is 5.5 inches, the same as the note 3
slipd
26 Feb 17#11
Just to clarify, this is a "Note" yes, the most current iteration of the Redmi Note 4?
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If you check the warranty page on AliExpress, it doesn't actually list the UK as being included. However, I have contacted AliExpress and The Warranty Group, and I've been told that the UK is included. Here are the T&C from the Warranty Group, which includes a version specific to the UK for AliExpress customers:
https://www.thewarrantygroup-cares.com/aliexpress/ConsumerTC?language
If you need to make a claim, you need to go here:
https://www.thewarrantygroup-cares.com/aliexpress
I searched the web to find some stories about people trying the claim on the warranty (none from the UK unfortunately), and the recurring story seems to be that people send the phone off, it often goes "missing" for a month, then it is found, then the customer is told that AliExpress will give a refund, then there is little/no further communication... however, for the people brave enough to return to AliExpress to purchase a replacement phone, they have found a credit on their account equal to the cost of the original purchase. Having now found the T&C document, this makes some sense, since it talks about credit vouchers from AliExpress... however, communication seems to be lacking when this has been applied.
Anyway, take what you want from this... I hope at least the two links here might be useful to someone.
Personally, I was going to skip the warranty to save money, but now I think I'm going to pay it. Also, if I was forced to ask my credit card company to bail me out, I wonder what their position would be if I willingly dodged a warranty that is meant to be compulsory.
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Currently I'm using the redmi note 3 pro with the Snapdragon 650 and I like it, yet I'd prefer the redmi 4, because it's smaller.
This has a sd 625 processor right?