Best Mid Range Smart Phone In Early of 2021

Recently, my mum phone storage always full and lag. So, my brother and I were planning to buy a new mid-range smart phone for my mum. Therefore, I have surf the internet and resources to find out what are the most recommended mid range smart phone available in the early of 2021. For the purpose of recording the result. I have made a power point slide so that you all of you could view it and compare it in a better way. The resources link is attached at the footer of the slide.

Basically, I was very satisfied with my Huawei Nova 2i smart phone. Too bad, Huawei no longer have play store support in their smart phone, if not, Huawei might be my first choice when choosing a smart phone. After my research, I found out that the best mid range android smart phone are:

1. Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro
2. Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro
3. Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite
4. Realme 8 Pro

The slide shared attached as below:

Please be noted that, MIUI have build in adv in their default OS and preinstalled application. However, it could be disabled. Please refer to the tutorials:

1. MIUI 12 Remove Ads: How to Get Rid of Spam on Redmi Note 9 Pro, Other Xiaomi Phones
2. How to remove ads on MIUI 12 | How-To-What-Is

Besides, I also finally understand some of the Technical Terms has been widely used:

1. 4G vs 4G LTE vs 4G LTE-A
• 4G
• G stands for Generation. 4G is a fourth generation of broadband cellular network technology.
• ITU (International Telecommunication Union defined a set of requirement for the industry such as 100 Mbps (megabits per second) download speed and 50 Mbps (megabits per second) upload speed and the latency requirements etc.
• 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) 
• It isn’t a true 4G technology because it still did not meet the requirement set by ITU for 4G Technology.
• This term has been widely used in industry because during the time of 4G, there are a lot of industrial company still on the way of developing 4G technology and they used LTE as a marketing strategy to promote that their product which is better than 3G but still on the way to 4G.
• 4G LTE-A (Long Term Evolution-Advance)
• Is consider a true 4G technology. However, they use the terms of 4G LTE-A instead of 4G because of marketing purposes as consumer might misunderstood 4G LTE is better than 4G as it has a “LTE” terms behind the 4G.
2. WiFi Tablet vs 4G LTE Tablet
• WiFi Tablet
• You can only connect to available Wi-Fi or Hotspot when you need to surf to internet.
• Pros: Much more cheaper
• Cons: Able to surf internet in a Limited Coverage Area (Highly dependent on the availability of Wi-Fi and Hotspot)
• 4G LTE Tablet
• It is a cellular tablet while you can insert your SIM card to the tablet and enable the 4G data plan when you travel around.
• It is some sort a larger size of your smart phone as you can send SMS to your friends by using the 4G LTE Tablet.
• 4G Tablet normally serves as a backup connection while it will always default to connect to a Wi-Fi connection whenever it is available.
• Pros: Convenience
• Cons: More Expansive. Battery Life drains a lot more while connecting to 4G network compared to Wi-Fi.
3. Dual SIM vs Hybrid Dual SIM
• Dual SIM
• Features with 2 SIM card slot.
• You may insert 2 SIM at a time.
• Hybrid Dual SIM
• Features with 1 SIM card slot and a hybrid slot. 
• A hybrid slot can take either a second SIM card or a microSD card.
• You may insert 2 SIM at a time OR 1 SIM card &1 microSD card at a time.

Resources:

1. 4G vs LTE vs 5G? What's the difference?
2. Phone Spec Comparing
3. Compare Mobile Processors