Xiaomi Mi Mix 2: The Bezel-less Sequel! By Marques Brownlee

Hey, what's up guys, I'm THD here and fun fact, my second most viewed video of all the past year was the one that I made about this guy. The Xiaomi me mix that video got a lot of attention. In fact, a lot of you guys were asking about it. Since it's been about a year if there would be some kind of follow-up or a sequel to that, and there is- and this is it- this is a Xiaomi me mix.2, you see the thing about the original me mix was as beautiful and awesome as it showed up on video. I don't know if that really directly translated to sales, I mean at the end of the day, this is still a pretty huge unwieldy phone for a lot of people. It's still running a ROM, that's pretty unfamiliar to a lot of people that aren't in those Asian markets.

So, even though it did have an awesome, super thin, bezel suite form factor that helped move the needle for the entire smartphone industry, like we see in 2017 people weren't exactly rushing to import this into the US and buy it and actually make it their daily driver. So that's where a mix 2 comes in so pretty much. Every single change that Xiaomi made from the mix 1/2, the mix 2, is to make this a more approachable, more viable sequel to the phone that made such an impact for them last year. So right off the bat the mix, 2 is smaller, so it's rocking a 6 inch OLED display but of course, keeping the signature, tiny front and side bezels. So it's a huge display about the same size as the new iPhone we're about to see.

You know, 5 point 8 to 6 inches but of course, in a footprint, that's way smaller and easier to grip, even with one hand and the 6-inch display, even though it sounds big for a phone. It's in that tall and narrow two-to-one aspect ratio. So it's going to be easier to reach the size in the corners than your typical 6-inch screen. Not all 6 inch displays are created equal. A lot of people forget that the body is now ceramic on the back and aluminum on the sides.

So it's still that super shiny fingerprint ii slippery finish, but is also a bit heavier than normal phones of this size. So ceramic is a really dense premium material like we talked about with the essential phone, and it's packing that as well, but really all the placement of everything the buttons the ports. The speaker is all the same because the body is smaller, so that just means everything is easier to reach. The only difference is just that got rid of the headphone jack this year, so essentially now that they have everything from that original phone in a smaller, more compact, more reasonable size. What they did was basically a once-over of the entire phone to take anything that was a little extreme to make that original design happen and bring it down to earth so that piezoelectric speaker at the top of the old phone that had to vibrate the whole front of the device to make sound.

That's replaced by an actual real front facing speaker and earpiece up at the top of the phone. Much more practical, directional sound, much more useful. It still has the ultrasonic proximity sensor, firing through the glass, so that's cool, and the selfie camera is still at the bottom in the small chin, but they coated the glass in a slightly more polarized shaded way. So it kind of it's darker and it sort of blends into the front of the phone more, and it's harder to see it's a nice touch that adds to the seamless feel of the phone and doesn't seem to have any impact on the cameras performance, and they did upgrade the camera on the back. So it's now a 12 megapixel Sony AMX 386 sensor with optical image, stabilization, an F, 2.0 aperture and still inside that 24-karat gold ring in the middle of the back of the phone. So no dual cameras on the back of this guy again, but it's definitely an upgrade in the camera department, even if it's not quite to the level of what Samsung and Apple are doing right now and the fingerprint reader on the back is also now even faster, like it's superfast at which is confidence-inspiring and of course it's now in that ideal location for one-handed use, since the phone smaller, and it's still in the middle of the back and on the inside, have some pretty op specs right now, snapdragon 835, six gigs of ram up to 256, gigs of storage and a 3400 William hour battery.

So with all that refresh in the hardware which is pretty impressive, it basically comes down to whether or not you can stand the new e software on top of Android that ROM, and they have added a bunch of new things in these updates to make it more accessible. But more importantly, more familiar me now has a split-screen multitasking mode, so this is something almost every phone now has, except the iPhone, where you can do two apps open at once. That's been added, and it's pretty simple to use and works well, so you can really take advantage of the big screen honestly I'm kind of surprised. It wasn't on the original. There's still that quick ball that moves the autumn row of shortcuts anywhere.

You want on the display in case the corners of the six-inch panel are still kind of hard to reach, and it's over all cleaned up. It's pretty snappy. It doesn't have much bloat, not many bloatware, apps, honest honestly, already gotten one software update since I've gotten the thing out the box, and hopefully it continues to get more. Furthermore, it's on top of android 7.1.1 right now, so pretty standard for new phones coming out right now, but I think the benchmark is just how fast they move to Android 8.0 I'm kind of having tabs on all the big phones to see how fast they do it, but wait. There's more! There's! Also, a mix ? special edition here.

It is actually next to the standard me mix -. Surely you can tell the difference: they're, probably not the special edition. Basically, instead of rocking the matte black aluminum sides has curved the ceramic all the way over a round to the front. So it's a ceramic unibody phone, which is actually kind of amazing, and then it also has eight gigs of RAM. So that's what makes a special edition super limited a little more expensive hard to get also harder to grip.

That's your call, so a lot of changes that are comfortable and make a lot of sense for the mix to that I think they're, hoping we'll get people to go from drooling over the mix to actually buying one. Obviously, 2017 has been this year of disappearing bezels on the front of smartphones. I made an entire video about that, but I think the changes they're making are more to just put it on a global scale. Now this supports a massive amount of bands.37 bands total 22 of those being LTE bands. So the goal here it has a dual SIM card slot.

The goal is that you can put your SIM card in this anywhere, and it'll work, including here so to mix or not to mix. That is the question that I'll pass on to you guys, but either way, that's pretty much it. The new iPhones right around the corner, new video on that coming very soon be sure to subscribe, to see that if you haven't already until then catch you guys in the next one talk to you later, peace.

Source : Marques Brownlee