Xiaomi Mi Mix 3: The Ultimate Slider? By Marques Brownlee

Hey, what's up guys, I could be HD here, and this is the Xiaomi me mix.3 may have heard of it. It's not really like anything else, I've seen in a while. Why you may ask I mean it's really addicting like anyway, let's get into it, so the mix, you may remember that name from the first me mix, video I did two years ago that kind of blew up. It was one of the first bezels phones, or he may have picked up that this one, my runner-up for the best design award in 2018 now I want to be perfectly clear. This isn't a review of the whole phone. This is just a deeper look in another notch avoidance technique.

That's become one of my favorite, so on this race, 2 bezels phones, we have the standard notch. Everyone knows it. We have the teardrop notch. We have the infamous bathtub. Furthermore, we have the selfie pop-up, we have the motorized chassis, and now we have this.

The manual slider and I got. To be honest. This is one of my favorite ways to do it, so the slide motion is spring-loaded as you'd expect. So it kind of snaps into place and that's what makes it click and that's what makes it this super addicting motion and also every time you do it with the volume on you get this sound effect and a lighting effect along the sides of the display where automatically opens the front-facing camera and then, when you close it as you can see, it closes the camera, and that makes perfect sense because that's really the only thing housed in this particular slider. The back facing camera, is already around the back available anytime and there's no face unlock on this phone.

So no IR blaster. It has a fingerprint reader on the back already. So, basically, the only thing you need the slider for that you can't fit in this already tiny top bezel is the dual front-facing cameras and yes, that is an LED flash for your love, light selfies and actually the only thing I can get. The second front-facing camera to work with is selfie portrait mode. So it's not like a second wide-angle front-facing camera or anything crazy or useful, like that, but basically just another sensor for better depth detection.

So, like I said this, this race for the apparently ideal bezel, a smartphone of the future, has spawned some of those interesting stuff doing it. This way has its own set of and cons the upside of being a manual slider, of course, instead of a motorized one means no motors, so a lesser chance of failure. It's just Springs and I'm. Pretty sure this motion back and forth is guaranteed for hundreds of thousands of repetitions, whereas a tiny motor activated by software I can't be, quite so sure, and I'll also say the satisfaction of this click Enos. This addicting feel it's not the only phone that slides like this, but this is definitely the most 2019 a slider can get.

The downside, though, is it still is a moving part. Most smartphones have zero moving parts, so the chance of failure is greater than zero, and obviously it will increase with any sort of debris or anything that might get into this mechanism. You got to be careful about that. Although I guess with this one, it's not the end of the world because if it fails you're just losing your front-facing cameras and some people might not really take that many selfies anyway. So if you're that person- maybe it doesn't matter as much to you also another doubts that would be cases for this phone is probably not going to get that many and not just because it's a slider but more because it's just not as popular of a line of phones, but there is one that Xiaomi makes that comes in the box, which is cool, and it works perfectly.

The bottom is opened up, so the slider mechanism works perfect, and it's more drippy than glass. So if that's your style, then you're in luck, and actually that brings up one of the more under etchings things about this phone. This is a really slick phone. It's really slippery and there are other really slippery phones, but that matter is more with this one see there was another slider phone a couple of years ago this is called the BlackBerry Drive. Yes, I still have mine, and this was also a vertical slider same mechanism with the thin display at the front and then the rest of the components in the back still spring-loaded and of course it had a full on physical keyboard.

So then what they did with the back of this phone is they made it super drippy. It's this tacky rubberized, finish like this is literally the drippy stone I own, and I made a lot of sense to do because slide the phone open and close need a lot of moving around the phone in your hands so to have a drippy phone to be able to do that. Just felt more secure that way. But this me mix three is basically all mirror glass, and it's not as dramatic of a slide as the full physical keyboard, but that's a little more dangerous in the hand. If you have such a slippery back and then course it's double dangerous, because glass breaks, so the slippery back is a legit downside.

It's a con here, but maybe other phones that do this in the future will use different materials or different finishes o than that, though, it's just a fascinating idea that you can buy into right now. If you want again, it's a moving part, and I'm pretty sure a single grain of sand or just enough debris getting in here would eventually become a problem, it's hard to show on camera. But if you look at the right angle, you can actually see light passing through the inside of this phone, which is kind of scary. Oh, and also another thing, I found interesting about me mix 3. Obviously you don't need two earpieces, but it kind of looks like this phone does have that it looks like the bottom one in the thicker part of the phone is the real earpiece and the top part is just this grill, that's just a hollow pass through.

So when you slide it up, it passes right through which is clever, and it makes sense. Xiaomi doesn't use the earpiece as a second speaker anyway, so it's not used that much. It's also six point: four inch: OLED display 3200 milliamp-hour battery Snapdragon, 845, six SIG's of ram dual front-facing and dual rear facing cameras. I mean it's a solid phone again, it's not a review, but if you do want to buy into this idea now it's not a horrible idea, you can do it, but what do you think of the whole slider thing? Should more phones be doing this, but with better materials? Maybe I don't hate it. Let me know what you think also, let me know if you think of these shorter, but more like regular, topical videos, I think they're a lot of fun either way thanks for watching Dora guys, the next one base.

Source : Marques Brownlee