I mean, it's literally a £100 phone rn, compare it with other phones of its price and it beats out every competitor. If phones were cars, the xiaomi would be a model 3 going up against Toyota Corolla's and KIA's
Yah. We know they are cheap. Plasticky. Crappy toy software. Adware and bloated. They have very tight margins and must sell absolutely shed loads of them, mostly theur lowest end phones the Redmi. Their screen are inferior, not like tge beautiful AMOLED. Someone may correct me on this but i was under tge impression that using AMOLED screens, when displaying blacks simply turn off, thus saving battery power. If so, i wont be doing too badly as i have implemented dark mode in Android in almost every app.
If Xiaomi were a car, i recon it would be a Vauxhall Corsa or Ford Fiesta. You are giving it far too much credit.
Saying that, you can give these phones a nice upgrade if you disable the bloatware on it. I already mentioned this above. But, that MIUI skin makes me puke, and without rooting it, think ur stuffed with it. So not for me.
If you don't mind a tacky, cheap, plasticky phone with basic LCD screen with ok hardware and camera, maybe the Redmi range of Xiaomi is for you. But flagship they are not. OnePlus competes with the big boys in terms of premium quality, feel, endurance, excellently smooth and blistering speed of software. When there is an.offer for OnePlus they are great, usually i get a generation behind to get maximum bang for buck without the hefty pricetag. I believe they get their beautiful AMOLED screens from Samsung still.