Which smartphone is worth the purchase? The Sony Xperia C, the Samsung Galaxy Mega 2, or the Xiaomi Mi3.
In terms of design and display, the Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 will feature a faux leather rear panel with fake stitches on the left and right edges, with the camera and LED flash in the center. Although its dimensions haven’t made public yet, we expect to see a massive phablet with a 6 inches display that will support a resolution of 720x1280 pixels with 245ppi.
The Xiaomi Mi3 features a uni-body design, with flat back, top and bottom edges, but with curved sides. It has a 5 inches IPS LCD Display is protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels with 441ppi. Its dimensions are 144×73.6×8.1 mm and weighs 145 grams.
The Sony Xperia C has a glossy aspect, a rectangular body with round edges, measuring 141.5×74.2×8.9 mm and it’s fitted with a 5 inches TFT display It supports 540x960 pixels, which gives a pixel density of 220ppi, and weighs 153 grams.
For the hardware, the Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 is expected to be powered by a 1.5GHz processor with four cores, backed by an Exynos 4415 chipset and will use a Mali-400 GPU. It will have an internal memory of 16GB, which will allows users to expand it up to 64GB and will run on Android 4.4.4 (KitKat) with 1.5GB of RAM.
The Xiaomi Mi 3 is the most powerful phone between the three, being equipped with a quad core 2.3GHz Krait 400 processor, based on a Qualcomm MSM8274AB Snapdragon 801 chipset, which couples with an Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM. This smartphone has two variants of memories (16 and 64GB), but they don’t support expansion with a microSD card. It runs initially on Android v4.3 (Jelly Bean), but you can upgrade it to v4.4.2 (KitKat).
The Sony Xperia C comes with a decent Cortex A7 processor with four cores, clocked at 1.2GHz, it has a Mediatek MT6589 chipset, a PowerVR SGX544 GPU, 1GB of RAM and a small internal memory of 4GB, which is expandable up to 32GB. It runs on Android v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean).
For the battery and camera specs, the Samsung Mega 2 has a removable battery of 2800 mAh, the Xiaomi Mi 3 has a non-removable battery with the biggest capacity of 3050mAh which delivers up to 25 hours of talktime on 3G, and the Sony Xperia C has a user replaceable 2390mAh battery which allows users to talk 12hours on 3G.
The Samsung and the Sony devices have 8MP rear cameras with autofocus and LED flash, but the Samsung smartphone has a 2.1MP front camera, while the Sony smartphone features a VGA front snapper. The Xiaomi Mi 3 has a 13MP back camera with dual-LED flash, autofocus, HDR and other features found on the other two phones. The front camera is 2MP, being capable of recording at 1080p@30fps.
The Samsung Mega 2's expected price is at $525, while the Xiaomi Mi3 16GB cost $310 dollars and the Sony Xperia C is available on amazon.com at $272.
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