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A rare Mi Note 3 Kris Wu Special Edition from 2017 is on sale

Xiaomi Mi Note 3 was the last Mi Note series smartphone before the 2019’s Mi Note 10 with 108MP camera. This handset made its debut in September of 2017 in China. It also had a special edition with actor-singer Kris Wu’s (Wu Yi Fan) name engraved on the back panel. Now, after three years, a rare variant of this edition of the phone with the celebrity’s signature popped up on Alibaba’s Idle Fish ( 闲鱼) platform.
The Xiaomi Mi Note 3 was one of the best mid-range smartphones of 2017. It was powered by then newly introduced Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 paired with 6GB RAM and 64GB / 128GB ROM. It had a 5.5-inch FHD IPS LCD panel with 16:9 aspect ratio.
The phone had a huge forehead and chin, which housed a front-facing oval-shaped fingerprint sensor. It featured a dual-camera setup consisting of a 12MP primary sensor with OIS and a 12MP 2x optical zoom telephoto camera. Whereas, the selfie camera was of 16 megapixels.
The device came with MIUI 9 based on Android Nougat out of the box. But it was later updated to MIUI 11 based on Android Pie. It will be neither getting the latest MIUI 12 or Android 10.
Anyway, special editions are known as collector’s item. Hence, even if the software support has ended for the device, it is still worth buying for the 1,999 Yuan ($281) asking price. Above all, it is a rare variant with the signature of Kris Wu rather than his name as the retail special edition.

by Sudarshan