hi everyone this is Dom from tech advisor here for another unboxing what I
have here is the Xiaomi Mi 9T so we're gonna take a look at it okay so the
first thing we need to know about Mi 9T is that the naming is a little confusing
for this phone I often learn about confusing phone names this is a really
bad case so if you're in Europe I have cut that mm worked let's try that again
if you're in Europe this phone is coming out as the Xiaomi Mi 9T it's already
out in Spain in France and Italy I think we're hoping it's going to come to the
UK but that hasn't actually been confirmed but this phone actually is
already out in China and has been for a little while as the redmi k20 there's
also a redmi k20 pro version but there's no Mi 9T pro yet though there
probably will be even more confusingly is actually rumored at the moment that
the same phone or one of the two models might come out in India and some other
markets as the pocophone f2 so we might be seeing like the same phone come
out with three names it is a lot taken I'm gonna try and
treat this as a part of the mi9 family which is how it's being pushed in
Europe and the UK if it comes to the UK so I'm gonna talk about mostly
in terms of that stuff but if you've heard of the redmi k20 this is the exact
same phone as the K 20 and it may or may not be what the Pocophone f2 ends up
being okay so here we go let's get a look okay so let's get the phone itself
out first so here we have it the Mi 9T and your
cheat sheet with the specs for me so yeah we'll run through this in more
detail but we've got a triple rear camera setup familiar for the me nine
six point three nine inch AMOLED display familiar from the moon nine big four
thousand milliamp hour battery which is nice and a mid-range chip so this is not
packing the snapdragon 855 that kind of flagship spec and we can see the back I
will revisit the phone in a second let's just run through everything else we've
on here so this feels a lot like it's going to be a case if I can get to the
case yeah very nice actually that is in those case that's a very you know very
nice like plain black finish but it's got a nice sort of matte soft touch to
it I'm always it wary with cases a little
bottom cut out there but anyway yeah for a for a sort of throwing case this is
nice obviously it's it's opaque so you're not going to show off the back of
the phone I don't know if they give clear cases with the other colors we've
got it in black here but there's also blue and red versions which I kind of
feel like it'll be a bit odd to give you a bright blue phone and their black case
to cover it up but we'll see yep USB C charging cable as you'd expect they
power adapter that's a European plug from the look of it makes sense so I
think this is a Spanish phone and that is it for the box there are no
headphones in there despite the fact that as we will see the phone does in
fact have a headphone jack which it's the only one in the mainline family to
include one I believe okay so let's get to the actual hardware so all that I
thought I was going to appeal something dramatic off but it's not that's just
okay right where's the next peely bit there you
go
okay there we go so we got that nice six point four inch screen pretty beautiful
and just pick a corner all right here we go
we have these around the Mi 9T this is the carbon black model so you can see
it's got that sort of carbon fiber sort of line dotted finish going across most
of the back and then it's a nice effect where that kind of runs around the edges
less so in the middle it kind of slowly edges into a deeper black in the middle
of the body which actually adds a nice way to do a black phone black phones are
you know I find them a bit boring now maybe but that is a nice that has a nice one
you can also get it in red flame and glacier blue I believe the color names
they were also again that they're bright red bright blue but they've got a little
sort of finish to them so they catch the light in interesting ways in the same
way a lot of the sort of like Honor has been doing with a lot of its
phones that kind of finish under the surface of the glass so yeah I mean I
think Black is probably the least interesting of the three colors but ya
know this looks really nice so we've got the triple camera set up on the rear
with the 48 megapixel main shooter headphone jack already mentioned us pc
charging obviously sim traits dual SIM as you'd expect and then a nice red
accent on the power button which is always a sort of nice touch that little
detail I like otherwise yeah it's a very you know simple looking phone from the
front obviously but you know yeah that's that's an attractive kit especially for
the price this is uh we'll see a sort of mid-range specs will fairly good
mid-range specs but pricing wise it's um three hundred and twenty nine euros I
think so if you're in the UK we'd probably be looking at a price somewhere
around three hundred pounds or you know if you import it right now from Europe
you'll be looking at somewhere 300 350 pounds probably which is pretty
competitive given the specs we're going to go
okay so let's go through setup hopefully isn't gonna tell us being Spanish or
something there we go English that's what I like to see okay so we will
already notice we have the lovely full screen finish at the top there is no
knotch there's no cutout there's nothing like that I'll just run through set up
quickly and we'll skip through that okay so there we go this is pretty much set
up it is doing the final stages ooh loading apps, we'll see how long that takes, this is
running the new, well not that new, MIUI 10 Xiaomi's android overlay which
okay I'm not that familiar with I've not used many on Xiaomi phones for long so
I'm curious to see sort of what it feels like to use I didn't use either of the
Mi 9 models myself yes so the big thing we'll notice I think I mentioned
already we don't have any not sure or anything at the top which is different
to the other mean nine to the Mi 9 and the Mi 9 SE both both have the
little teardrop knotch the tiny notch right in the central right in the center
of the top of the screen instead what we've got with the ninety is we have a
pop up camera up here so it's a 20 megapixel selfie camera that will slide
up out the phone which it's not the first yummy to have that I think the mi
mix 3 I want to say is the low the phone that had that and me to introduce that
don't quote me on that but yeah here we go
I don't know where it's gone that time phone that's completely wrong yeah okay
so we got into the phone yesterday I mean it looks nice you'll see like the
blacks a very black on here down that corner and that kind of thing
it's a it's an AMOLED screen if you look at the specs you might think it's exact
same as the regular me knowing six point three nine inch AMOLED they are actually
slightly different the regular me line is a Super AMOLED whereas this is
regular AMOLED and so there's likely it's going to be small differences this
supports HDR the Mi 9 supports HDR 10 this has gorilla glass five protection on
the front the regular mi 9 has Gorilla Glass six so you're seeing a
slightly different panel and there's slightly different level of protection
and the quality maybe isn't gonna pop quite as much but still it's a very nice
screen and actually for the price you're not gonna have much to complain about
basically in terms of what we look at the front let's see if we get that
selfie camera going so we can yep fine okay come on
okay ready for horrible selfie there you go there the noise - okay there I am so
it should slide back and forth as we go guys how it lights up as well look at
that red glow to it as it comes out I've not seen that before I don't know if the
mi mix before did that I hope you can turn the noise off I do quite like the
glow so yeah that's one of the big differences you're getting in this
you're getting that full screen effect which again hasn't it's not the first
phone to do it it has mostly been higher priced things that I've had that so far
not exclusively but it's always nice to see something down at this kind of 300
price range that lets you have this total full screen experience without
much compromise elsewhere going back we'll do the rest of the camera stuff
while we're on it as we can see we've got 48 megapixel mode there so that is
taking advantage of that that full 48 megapixel main shooter the other stuff
we've got is we've got a wide-angle so punch in and out of the wide-angle and
we've also got I think it's a two time zoom oh no that's not there we are
- time - yeah so it's a two times optical telephoto zoom lens I'm not sure
which way around those are but yeah this is it's a very similar camera setup -
you mean ours I think these are the same lenses as the mi 9 se which is the
cheaper model it's a similar setup to the regular mi 9 but the regular mi 9 has
just higher megapixel counts on these two lenses and I suspect there's some
other differences that are harder to read through in the specs so you're not
going to get quite the same camera performance as the me9 but it's pretty
close and again a triple lens camera with zoom and telephoto around this
price really really solid that's really impressive rest the specs wise it's a
Snapdragon 730 so that's a mid-range chip again not the 855 if the mi 9t pro
ever turns up that runs on 855, the top-of-the-line
Snapdragon chip and then you get six gigabytes of RAM compared to eight in
the mi 9 and a choice of 64 gigabytes or 128 gigabytes of storage
which is going to be plenty for most people otherwise there are some other
like little differences from the mean nine that I mean the well one is a
headphone jack this is the only phone in the mean nine range that comes with a
headphone jack I'm still a sucker for a headphone jack I use Wireless headphones
all the time but I just love that security of knowing that worst case
batteries die I can plug in and everything will work the other thing is
charging there is no wireless charging in this
even though it's got the Gulf back even though the me9 had the wireless charging
it's wide only but it's 18 what fast charging so yeah and that's not the
fastest charging in the world but is fast I'm not sure what numbers Jeremy is
quoting in terms of what kind of charging speed you're gonna get but you
know you you are I would expect you'd be able to sort of get something in the
region of half the battery capacity and half an hour something like that so if
you are yeah it is it is solid fast charging just not top-of-the-line but
good for this price point oh and the other poke is actually the battery
itself it's a four thousand milliamp hour battery which is really good and
also quite a lot better than the main line or the mi 9 se which are yes use
3000 ish in the mi 9 is 3300 so this is the biggest battery in the mi 9 range
you lose the wireless charging but if you just want the battery life and you
saw up the false wired charging like this is a really solid offering for not
a lot less than a regular meet 9 it's in a way not a super exciting fun there's
no like really snazzy exciting feature you're gonna find in this that's not in
anything else but what this is is a really nice looking mid-range device
that offers very serious specs for that price point which is really where
Xiaomi's kind of sewn up the European market recently or they're trying to there
there there make some very competitive entries at this point on the me knowing
we thought was a great offering at its price this at a good chunk less is
seriously compelling and unless you need that like
top Snapdragon 805 performance that the the mean nine has that should be very
easy to suggest someone drops down to the 90s you still get the triple camera
it still got very decent specs in terms of process of RAM storage that kind of
stuff and the fact that you get this full screen display in the pop-up camera
I mean that for me that's a pro I know some people are nervous about pop-up
cameras an idea that it might break and it wouldn't last long enough especially
if you're someone you want to phone to last you three years I understand the
worry about having a physical mechanism there that might break but it's so nice
having that line across the top it's just a completely unbroken display and
at six point four inches like this is a nice size its fills the hand but it's
not sort of overwhelming I'm coming from using a one plus seven Pro and I love
that phone I am used to doing a lot stretching over the corners to try and
do anything so yeah this is the mean ninety I think I'm a fan actually
haven't go into this like you know not quite sure what to expect from this I
like the look of this a lot we don't know if it's coming to the UK it
probably will but officially nothing has been confirmed yet including pricing it
is in Europe at three hundred thirty euros I think that's for the base model
and not understand sure but you're looking at that kind of price you can
get it in Europe if you're in China it will be the redmi k20 and it may or may
not end up being a pocophone f2 I have no idea but whatever name it goes by
it's probably worth buying