At this year's Rice Noodle Festival, Xiaomi quietly updated its tablet computer - Xiaomi Tablet 3, which was officially launched without a press conference or large-scale publicity, so it came. Can Xiaomi Tablet 3, as a regular update, have a place in today's tablet market?
Appearance design
The outer package of Xiaomi Tablet 3 inherits the tradition of Xiaomi Family. It is simple white and decorated with Xiaomi logo. At the same time, the label of storage version is specially added in the upper right corner of the front. 4GB+64GB allows consumers to see the relevant configuration more intuitively.
There is nothing special about accessories. It is still the same as the old three: the manual, data cable and charger. The output power of the charger is 5V/2A. Don't blame Xiaomi for this. You should know that Xiaomi Tablet 3 only supports 5V/2A "fast charging", and even higher power chargers are useless.
To be honest, the millet plate 3 of the body is a twin brother when it is put together with the millet plate 2. Maybe the mold has not been changed. The three-dimensional dimensions are completely the same. The only difference between the front and the rear is the slightly different sensor openings. The logo of Xiaomi on the front is canceled, so it looks more integrated.
If the back is used as a distinction, no one can recognize that the key layout, interface, speaker opening, etc. are completely the same. Fortunately, Xiaomi Tablet 3 is only champagne gold at present, so if it is pink or silver, it must be Xiaomi Tablet 2.
Screen quality
Xiaomi Tablet 3 is equipped with a 7.9-inch 2048x1536 retinal screen, which sounds good. However, its previous two generations of products also use this parameter. Therefore, Xiaomi Tablet 3 has strengthened its functions in terms of full fit and sun screen. In the software test, the default color temperature of the Millet Flat Panel 3 screen is about 7185K, covering 96.1% of the sRGB color gamut.
On the color level test, the average DeltaE of millet plate 3 is 3.4, and the maximum DeltaE is 6.7; The manual maximum brightness is about 430 nits, the minimum is not more than 1 nit, and the contrast is 1745:1; In terms of numerical value, the screen of Xiaomi Tablet 3 is standard, and the actual appearance is acceptable, so the quality of the screen can be expected.
Performance system
The Xiaomi tablet is vacillating in choosing SoC. The first generation of products uses NVIDIA Tegra K1 on the ARM platform, while the Intel Atom X5-Z8500 with X86 architecture was used in the previous generation of products, and the version with Windows system was also launched. This time, the Xiaomi tablet is back to the MT8176 of MediaTek on the ARM platform. It can be said that the processor of the Xiaomi tablet is the same from generation to generation. Back to the Xiaomi Tablet 3 in this evaluation, the MT8176 of MediaTek is not famous, but it is the world's first upgraded version of the MT8173 tablet processor that uses the A72 core - the six core design of 2xA72+4xA53, and the GPU is the PowerVR GX6250, with guaranteed performance.
In the test, we can see that MT8176 is the first in terms of single core performance on GeekBench 3 and GeekBench 4. Because of the small number of cores, it has no advantage in multi-core performance, that is, the level of MT8176 is the same as that of MediaTek's flagship "X25" Or the mid and high-end Snapdragon 653 is similar to the more high-end Snapdragon 821 or Exynos 8890, let alone the new Snapdragon 835.
Although the CPU performance is not weak, the PowerVR GX6250 is slightly inferior to the current mainstream SoC. It can be seen that the MT8176 is at the bottom of both GFXBench and 3D Mark. Even though there is no big gap in absolute performance, Xiaomi Tablet 3 is different from mobile phones after all. For example, the 7.9-inch 2048x1536 retina screen itself has higher requirements for GPU. In retrospect, the MT8176 was a product at the beginning of 2016 after all, and we certainly forgive it for such performance.
The more embarrassing fact is that the performance of single core and multi-core CPUs is improving, but the GPU performance of the Xiaomi tablet is weaker from generation to generation. It is understandable that the performance of the second generation Xiaomi Tablet 2 has declined due to the replacement of the X86 architecture. But it is also the ARM architecture. It is a bit unreasonable that the third generation product is much weaker than the original generation.
Xiaomi Tablet 3 is equipped with MIUI 8.2 based on Android 7.0, which can be said to be the first Xiaomi device manufactured from Android 7.0. The overall use of MIUI is no different from that of other Xiaomi machines. Only the layout of the interface is slightly changed to fit the larger screen. These changes are familiar to users of Xiaomi tablet. The magic plug-in on the left side of the main screen can also directly operate the player and calculator as before, but these features have already appeared in the first generation of Xiaomi tablet products. Until now, Xiaomi tablet 3 has no improvement.
In terms of available memory, there is 2.9G left after starting up, and the system occupies about 1G. After starting common application games, it can generally guarantee that there is about 1G left. In actual operation, there has never been a problem of stuttering. In addition to being unable to cope with large games. In the built-in application, the Xiaomi Mall HD has the name of HD, but it is just an ordinary magnified version from the welcome image and the overall UI design. It has not made any optimization for the tablet, and the experience is not bad, but the user may have a psychological gap.
Camera performance
The 13 million camera on the back of the Xiaomi Tablet 3 is nothing special in terms of functionality. It is almost the same as the Xiaomi mobile phone. Of course, the lack of flash is a big difference. The imaging and focusing speed are relatively fast during shooting, but the photography of the flat panel is basically functional, so the Xiaomi flat panel 3 will naturally not make any optimization in this regard. From the proof, the white balance and details are pretty good. For a tablet, such performance has been satisfied.
The samples are as follows:
Endurance fever
In our (WeChat official account: Love to play computer games ） In the endurance test of, Xiaomi Tablet 3 has 71% of the remaining power after three and a half hours of testing, which has improved compared with Xiaomi Tablet 2, and is close to the performance of iPad Mini 3. Each test item has improved to a certain extent compared with Xiaomi Tablet 2. This endurance performance of Xiaomi Tablet 3 is absolutely good. After running a large game, the maximum temperature is close to 45 ℃. Due to the obvious heat conduction of the metal body, it will be a little hot after a long time. However, this temperature does not appear in daily use when browsing the web or watching a video.
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On the whole, Xiaomi Tablet 3 looks more like a SoC product replaced by Xiaomi Tablet 2. Maybe it is more appropriate to call it Xiaomi Tablet 2s. But facing its competitors iPad or Windows Tablet, Xiaomi Tablet 3 has no unique features on the system. Its app is not as good as the iOS ecosystem, nor as the X86 compatible Windows Tablet. With the increasing screen size of smart phones, the Android tablet will inevitably be impacted. Finding its own position and targeting the target population is the most urgent problem for Xiaomi Tablet 3.
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