So I have about 6 phones (well 4, because 2 dont work cuz my parents ruined them).
What I find good about Xiaomi phones is that they offer high quality and good design at cheaper price.
First, its the camera which offers like 100 to 200 megapixels, depending on model. You are not going to find same sensor size and megapixel count at any other phone producer, at same price.
And 108 megapixel photos are like huge if you use that mode. 200 megapixels are even bigger. We are talking about maybe 20 to 40 megabytes per photo.
then its memory storage size. Even some very cheap Xiaomi phones have like 256 gb storage.
And RAM is easy to find at 8 GB.
take for example, Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 (phone I bought a year ago). So 256 GB memory, 8 GB RAM, and 108 megapixel camera.
You simply dont find these specs at any other phone producer selling for 150$.
the only way to find these specs at this price with some other phone producer is if you buy used old phones, and not new one.
But when it comes to buying a new phone, there are no any phone producing companies which offer new phone, with better specs and same price, or better price of same specs.
Like, most samsung phones which are not flagship have about 50 megapixel camera, with much smaller sensor than in Xiaomi.
Even if they match RAM and memory storage, they dont match camera quality.
Because camera quality depends a lot on 2 main factors: Sensor size and megapixel count.
With low megapixel count, zooming in on photo quickly results in poor quality of image, irrelevant of quality of sensor.
And smaller sensors, even with all the advances in image processing, struggle in low light.
So when Xiaomi offers 1/1.6 sensor size at 150$, you are simply not going to find same anywhere else for same price.
Xiaomi is the only company which offers flagship level similarity at price far below flagship.
And you cant even find Apple iphone with 108 megapixel camera. Only recently they moved up from 12 megapixels to 48 megapixels, while Xiaomi offers 200 megapixels at lower price.
And megapixels are important because when you zoom in image, 12 megapixel image quickly becomes blurry.
this is also true in drawing. Digital drawing at higher resolutions of image is always superior, because when you zoom in, if resolution is lower, you quickly see pixels, and there is no way to avoid it.
Likewise, phones with lower megapixel camera, it doesnt matter what quality of sensor or processing they have. Unless someone manually upscales each image he takes to a higher resolution, he will see pixels when zooming in. thats just unavoidable with lower resolution images, because those are images with bigger pixels always, and pixels become easily visible with zooming in.