Hi Chris here back with the Xiaomi Mi 8 and thanks for all your comments
on my unboxing video which I went into quite a bit of detail with Xiaomi's new
mobile phone so this is just a follow-up video you could say my impressions after
now a day of use with the phone so there's a couple of things I wanted to
cover in this quick video before I do my camera comparisons before my full and
final review of the mobile phone so a lot of people are being commenting about
various different things so you first off wanted to start with the AMOLED
panel so when I said that it doesn't look as dark the blacks I will do a
quick comparison head-to-head with my samsung galaxy s7 so that has a super
amoled panel now I know it's 1440p so it's not fair comparing it to a 22 48 by
1080p screen here but you can see that the viewing angles it is differently
superior to the mimics to us whether it's IPS panel it's not a bad i PS that
this one has it's definitely a step up from almost out of the frame here of the
shot the ribbing note5 that this phone here okay for the kind of screen you're
getting even that yeah it's 18 by 9 aspect ratio is still a really good
screen I feel for the price of this phone and of course seeking a lot of
value for money with the me a the specs you're getting and everything like that
so yeah the viewing angles are definitely off the panel are where it
wins out here and you can see that when you have a look with thee if I can get
that in the shot good it's just a little bit better but it's not a massive huge
step up perhaps I was just thinking it was gonna be more like say the likes of
the Samsung panels or the Oneplus 5 t that I recently just sold and I'm speaking the
oneplus 6 tomorrow I wanted to demonstrate this if I can on camera it's
very hard to capture on camera so here's the Samsung Galaxy s7 yes it's an old
flagship does take a look at the blacks there and now I'll show you the me eight
and you have a look at the blacks now I know you're saying put them side by side
I can't see what you're talking about here so you hear when you look at them
and then you're angered it a little bit it depends it on the how you're looking
at in the light this is very hard for me to get right calibrated both of the
displace to have about the same exact brightness using my meter and it's just
it's hard for me to get the angle here but it's just at a certain way you look
at it can definitely tell that the Samsungs
blacks are much deeper not that they are bad of course on the v8 if you turn the
lights off you look at it in pure blackness it does look really quite dark
you get none of that IPS bleed that you would would the me mix 2's now when you
hide the knotch which I've done here you get the black along the top and at
certain angles about here or so you can see the difference in the blacks there
is another way to spot it and just not being as dark as say other mobile phones
but I think this is not a deal-breaker but not as a deal break I know for a lot
of people so you're missing out as I pointed out in the unboxing - on a lot
of the notifications I'm someone that likes to look at my battery % all the
time well I'd just like to know because when you look at the bear you don't
really know exactly what it is so now you always have to swipe down for the
toggles there then you can see clearly oh it's a 20% battery life and that for
me is a bit annoying you can't see whether you've got for example the
silent on you don't see that there you're not gonna see your network speeds
along the top as well so they've made some compromises I could have mentioned
this probably quite a bit of an internal conflict in shell me headquarters
between the me software developers and then the hardware design team guys that
decided hey we're gonna go with the knotch they probably are fighting
between them saying you know what you've done when it comes to notifications yeah
so that's one area that said just another thing that I find a little bit
annoying now this is also my first full charge so I charge the phone right up to
100% and let's have a look at my battery use a lot of people have been asking
about this and it is looking very good so the screens been on for 6 hours and
48 minutes in total and I've had it on most of the time on wireless ok so data
rates will drop this time here so on screen time is looking because I still
have 20 was at 19 percent now left that means I could easily say seven hours of
continued on screen time which translates in real-world use to medium
moderate use of about two days so this is looking good I will go into settings
here and just show you when you go through to the battery of course battery
and performance power and to show you that better at use so I've done a lot of
YouTube one hour there okay of YouTube revolution played that for quite a long
time as well actually now I thought it was a bit more than that you get the
idea pump G a lot of things in there show me service framework was chewing
through a bit of battery this are not too sure what's up with that now in the
history here I'll show you that you can see that's where I was using it
continually and then I wanted to test out the idols standby drain so it's not
that great it's about 2 to 3 percent per hour that you will lose a better life
that's with wireless on data on but not actually using the phone so it's
basically in idle there and hardware of course screen on time I'll just show you
that again so well almost seven hours it's reporting here slightly different
to what the GCM battery monitor was recording so yes battery life is good
for the three thousand four hundred million hour battery that this has a net
demo it's not four thousand milliamp hours which I feel feel would have been
ideal now one other thing that's a little bit bothersome to with Xiaomi is
that we still got wide vine level three support here and what that means is when
it comes to things like Netflix we're only gonna get in fact just SD so we're
not gonna have HD movies on here you cannot have that HD Netflix so that is a
real shame I don't know whether they're gonna end up fixing that ever in their
roms that they're gonna add support for that hopefully they will in the near
future now to comment on call quality I know people have been asking about their
that all you reviewers never talk about the call quality I always mention it in
my reviews at least I should I've placed a few calls and not on this first charge
but when I first got the phone I called a few people and it sounds fine to me
but it just it doesn't sound as good as my samsung galaxy s7 the earpiece off
notice it's just maybe because it's a little bit small it just sounds a little
bit tinny but apart from that no complaints and of course we don't have a
3.5 and I mean a headphone jack but I used an adapter I have and that type C
audio out sounds good I mean it's it's loud it's crystal clear there's no
static there's no interference which is great there but the other thing to
complain about with the sound quality is that of course movies video sorry that
you record on this phone the video footage is not good at all because of
the audio audio I posted on my hands on I see the
audio sounds are what was my comment scratchy and that's the best way to
describe it a little bit muddy it's scratchy it's not great so they're not
using high quality mics in this the same goes for the me mix too it's the same
exact problem I don't know what chamois you're doing here it was really
interesting tonight if you have a look at my comparison between the mimics 2's
camera and then this right here the redmi note 5 you'll find that actually
the redmi note 5 has better microphones or better audio recording quality then
it's flagships which to me is absolutely ridiculous
xiaomi are doing something terribly wrong here why are they not fixing that
now i also had some comments about the GPS okay we've got the fancy dual gps so
quite a few people well about five or ten in total mentioned about the gps
that first off it's my fault that i had it in my pocket that i was indoors
testing it i mean that's not the case i don't do things like that why would I
make the GPS intentionally look bad I mean that's just dumb I don't know where
you're trolling me or you're just extreme fanboys probably extreme fanboys
so one guy pointed out that you need to enable the special dual GPS function
otherwise it will not work what sitting there is no sitting for that in here I'm
pretty sure you don't even own the phone so yeah anyway it's set on to higher
accuracy as you saw in fact I've never changed that it's always on the default
and I had it connected up I even used GPS test to update the a GPS switch that
grabs information and where exactly satellites are and I still cannot get it
any better then about eight meters of accuracy then it jumps up to sixteen and
stays at sixteen so I have some other guy commented it well that it's my phone
it always seems to be the case yes I always get a faulty phone with problems
it's me it's just a bug I feel that Xiaomi have and they need to fix it
apparently meant to work really good but once that's fixed I will probably test
that out and go for a hike or go on a mountain bike trail and compare that to
my other snapdragon 845 devices so there have been some valid questions quite a
lot of good questions though the comment are really actually very good in my
channel I'm quite happy with them so people asked about the knotch
are you gonna see the notch when you game so no typical sixteen by nine
content will hide the knotch and this is pub G on the high settings
that I can do so high visuals and the high frame rate and it is super smooth
this is really fast it's good it's exactly like the Black Shark between the
mimics 2's the black shark and this phone here gaming performance without
loading up a synthetic benchmark is identical so yes it is early days here
with the me 8 for me but I can already see that this is a good phone you are
getting a great spec for the price and that is really the focus I believe of
this phone that's what it is ok they followed the trend of the notch that's
very debatable so you got a great spec but it doesn't to me seem like a great
phone so far it's just a little disappointing and a very unnecessary
release I feel because I think a lot of people would agree with me here that
they've dropped features that they had in the me mix to it so that's got a
front-facing loudspeaker this hasn't this has wireless charging this hasn't
so they could have kept those features they could have just released the
explorer model which I feel would have been a better move from them just
released the explorer model with its inferring finger fingerprint reader with
the proper 3d face unlocking and tracking it's gonna be a lot more secure
than 2d of course and that to me as as where I feel that made a bit of an error
that it's a cut it's an unnecessary release so a lot of people as thing
saying to me there has been some more comments yet again those extreme fanboys
saying I by Xiaomi tick just to hate on it now obviously
you haven't seen my other videos you haven't followed my channel for long
enough and that's just absolutely ridiculous I wouldn't go to the trouble
of reviewing their tech spending my own money just to hate on it it's obvious
isn't it that I am a fan of Xiaomi I'm never hidden that fact that I am and
where I feel they're really good at is devices like this so budget devices so
this is the rid me Note 5 for the price it's a fantastic mobile great camera
super fast fingerprint unlocking good build good screen read
good performance from the Snapdragon 636 we got 4k with electronic gyro
stabilization if you use a third-party application called open camera I even
picked up one of these for my wife for only a hundred and 69 US and that's an
absolute steal and then as we're show me Excel when it comes to their flagships
they always seem to be falling behind so they've got a bit of work to do with the
camera and issues with the mimics - coming across - than me eight really
shows me that show me are just moving far too fast they're pumping out too
many phones they need to slow down and focus on a decent proper flagship I know
they can do it something like the vivo NEX would be ideal I feel just before I
go I will have a camera comparison between the Mi Mix 2s and the Mi 8
that'll be coming up soon and also the oneplus 6 and the mi 8 SE a lot of
questions about this one I may have it on Friday so stay tuned to the channel
for that and thank you so much for watching this video