Redmi 3 Pro review: The 4,100 mAh budget metal phone that ran for days.
A budget endurance legend.
Redmi 3 Pro paired a 4,100 mAh battery with a metal build and fingerprint sensor at $130 in 2016 — a multi-day budget phone that sold by the million.
01Display
56/10056/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2016.
02Camera
50/10050/100 puts it above the 48-point average for budget phones of 2016.
03Performance
46/100At 46/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among budget phones of 2016 — 7 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
80/100At 80/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among budget phones of 2016 — 11 points above the cohort average.
05Build
64/100At 64/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among budget phones of 2016 — 6 points above the cohort average.
06Value
70/10070/100 trails the 73-point cohort average for budget phones of 2016.
- Huge 4,100 mAh battery at $130.
- Metal build + rear fingerprint.
- microSD + IR blaster.
- Multi-day endurance.
- 720p LCD.
- SD616 slow.
- 5 W charging.
- Support ended.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 4-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .