Redmi throws shade at Samsung Galaxy M series
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- Anonymous
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- 06 Feb 2019
AnonD-454049, 05 Feb 2019lol I hope you're joking. It took them almost a decade prod... moreI'm not joking and yes, I love Xiaomi's phones for having good specs and build quality at a very affordable price you can't get with Samsung's midrangers - not until now. Samsung's midrange phones have always been more expensive than Xiaomi's and yet, are lower in specs/features and build quality, causing me to choose Xiaomi over Samsung every single time. Now with Samsung upping up their game, Xiaomi deserves to feel threatened. The Samsung M series are clearly priced at the same range as Xiaomi's Redmi phones like the Redmi Note 7. Aggressive pricing plus great specs - bigger 5000mAh battery, dedicated micro sd card slot in a dual sim phone, dual cameras (regular + ultrawide) and comparable PLS TFT display quality (Samsung's version of IPS display) are all plus points for Samsung. The only thing the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 has that the Samsung's M20 phone doesn't have is the IR blaster and an LTE only mode. All the rest of the specs - be it FM radio, headphone jack, huge battery, dual sim, comparable display resolution/quality etc, the Samsung has them all and it's even better with bigger battery and dedicated micro sd card slot. So it's a good fight that can only benefit consumers.
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- Anonymous
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- 06 Feb 2019
Anonymous, 05 Feb 2019What kind of "shade"?
A lamp shade?
A window shade?'Throws shade' is actually an idiomatic expression which means 'to insult'. The article title could have been 'Redmi insults/mocks Samsung Galaxy M series' but gsmarena prefers not to use the word 'insult' or 'mock'.
Helpful info for those who don't have English as their native tongue:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_shade
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- 05 Feb 2019
Mediatek sux, 05 Feb 2019Its good enough to compete in india. You dont know how many... morelol I see
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- 05 Feb 2019
Abhi Dahiya, 05 Feb 2019Expected price? Who told you that? The Samsung fanboy that ... moreLol you look more like a Xiaomi fanboy here.!
Well my assumption is based on the fact that the Redmi Note 6 Pro is currently priced at 14k for 4/64 variant.
Note 7 being a major upgrade, would logically be priced at, at the very least, 1k premium, probably even 2k.
Add to that, Note 6 Pro is just 3 months old. And they marketed the hell out of it, and are doing it even now. If they price it at 14k, the backlash from Note 6 Pro buyers would be quite big a risk.
If they price 4/64 at 13-14k I would be one of the first people to get it! But as a Xioami fanboy, at least you definitely would know Xiaomi's recent pricing strategy and offline push won't allow that!
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Feb 2019
No matter what Redmi says, the fact that they are misleading people with a false advertising is truly pathetic.
On the other hand, at least Samsung is giving us widevine L1 Certification which I doubt, Redmi or Xiaomi can ever provide.
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- 05 Feb 2019
Tae ng Pilipinas, 05 Feb 2019Samsung has been left behind by chinese brands in India, it... moreleft behind ? Samsung's smartphone share in india hasn't declined , it still the same
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- Tae ng Pilipinas
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- 05 Feb 2019
Samsung has been left behind by chinese brands in India, its 2019 already and they are just releasing these M phones?? I kinda laughed at the tft display, samsung you are garbage for putting out a phone with it. Stop making a fool of people who buy your garbage even if its overpriced.
No wonder Xiaomi has left samsung in the dust already.
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Feb 2019
For those who said that pls tft is new and it's better than ips just check samsung j2 prime it uses pls tft and it was launched in 2016
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Feb 2019
Anonymous, 05 Feb 2019This shows that Xiaomi is worried about Samsung. For the mi... moreAnd even better,but redmi is trying to "nerf" m20 sales.
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- Aadam
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- 05 Feb 2019
Where were you guys before the announcement of the m20? < cuz I saw most of yall kept on mocking the new redmi phone.. im not talking about the camera.. But everything about it
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- viano
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- 05 Feb 2019
Anonymous, 05 Feb 2019Asus zenfone max m2 costs 1000inr higher than m10
And same... moreNext time you should read more carefully ...
there is 'this days' and
'for prices check ...'
with others words, that offer starting tonight
and the keywords are (as mentioned)
'OMG! Days Sale'
and Goooooogle is ur friend (or that u r using there)
Since when has Redmi Note 7 price in India?
doesn't even has global or IN version!
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- 05 Feb 2019
AnonD-454049, 05 Feb 2019lol I hope you're joking. It took them almost a decade prod... moreIts good enough to compete in india. You dont know how many ignorants there are here who jump at the brandname samsung
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Feb 2019
What kind of "shade"?
A lamp shade?
A window shade?
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- 05 Feb 2019
Anonymous, 05 Feb 2019Samsung is a fast learner. Finally, Samsung has started giv... morelol I hope you're joking. It took them almost a decade produce a somewhat good offering and it's still not enough to compete with xiaomi
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Feb 2019
viano, 05 Feb 2019" Nobody else matters." lol
That's why Samsung copyin... moreAsus zenfone max m2 costs 1000inr higher than m10
And same as redmi note 7
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Feb 2019
This shows that Xiaomi is worried about Samsung. For the misinformed and uninformed, Samsung uses PLS TFT, which is similar to IPS.
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- Anonymous
- tDR
- 05 Feb 2019
Lol, chill down dude.
Competition is good, maybe next year xiaomi will ditch miui and upgrade the batteries and Samsung will improve their SoC and camera.
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- 05 Feb 2019
The last Oracle, 05 Feb 2019I guess Samsung will be going after the Chinese brands big ... more" Nobody else matters." lol
That's why Samsung copying ASUS Zenfones ... this time.
- wich Xiaomi has 5000mAh akku?
- Triple-Slot (dedicated SD-Slot) ?
- ultra-wide-view second camera?
Check for Zenfone 4 Max (ZC554KL) from 2017...
a lot of things and
the full camera set-up
of Galaxy M-s is taken from that ASUS phone!
But that's from 2017 ...
this days ASUS has much better offers than Sammy
Zenfone Max M1 (ZB601KL) w/ SD636 and Full HD+ screen
cost less, than M10 (both the 3-32GB versions)
with that last crap, laggy Exynos 7870
= FHD, proven SD636 vs HD, dated and weak Ex.7870
or if somebody would like the bigger size, can get the new
Zenfone Max M2 (ZB632KL)
with Snapdagon 632 (3-32GB version as well)
for the same price as an M10.
Both Zenfones offer at least similar performance as the M20
at the price of one M10.
- For prices check - OMG Days Sale -
and reviews for comparing performance.
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- 05 Feb 2019
GSMArena, why didn't you precise that TFT is the basis of both IPS and PLS screen technology? TFT is not a display technology to begin with. This precision is important in a mobile technology news website, and I believe this is one.
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Feb 2019
Lul, 05 Feb 2019I feel bad for xiaomi, these samsungs has PLS TFT panel whi... moreWhat are you talking about? Samsung's entire low-end methodology is to justify junk parts through the process of "updating" components that should've been outdated half a decade ago and charging you a comparable price to modern hardware.