Hi Chris here and I've got with me to
unbox today the Xiaomi Mi 6
it's their new flagship mobile phone
that's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon
835, Adreno 540 GPU, six gigabytes of RAM
now this model has 64 gigabytes of
internal UFS 2.1 storage there's another
model that has 128 gigabytes but it's
currently not out so what has changed on
this new model that I'm going to look at
we've now got a interesting dual camera
setup so two 12 megapixel sensors on the
rear one of them has 4-axis optical
image stabilization the other one has a
fixed two times optical zoom we also
have a splash proof design now it's all
made out of glass the rear curved
backing on it and we do have a slightly
larger battery 3350 mAH
however there's a big con for a lot of
you out there
we've lost the 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack which is sad to see anyway enough
talking let's get this one unboxed and
take a look at that in greater detail
this one I picked up from Aliexpress
A seller called Hong Kong Goldway and they
shipped it out really quick and very
pleased with them because they managed
to get it out before the Labor Day
holidays so it's well packed up it
should be still in the factory sealed
wrapper because I asked them to not open
and don't install Google Play, don't set
it in English. So it's going to have the
Chinese ROM on there of course not the
global one it'll be English and Chinese
only but that's to be expected so you
can see it yes it is still in the
factory seal which is great and six
gigabyte 64 ROM version. Okay so black is
the only color that is available at the
moment
put the phone aside for a second and
check the accessories we get so they do
include a premium case just like the
Mi Mix I can see I'm hoping that's going
to be leather no it's not actually it's
just a TPU style one better than nothing
though so that's something. So we have
instruction manual here's just telling
you about the dual nano Sims. Sim tool
That's all in Chinese and here's a
different charger this time around but
it's quick charge I can see that's rated
to 12 volts and 1.5 amps. What else we get
of course is the cable you need for
charging it so it's type C and there's
also bundled in there sadly and adapter
that we need now if you want to listen
to music. Okay let's have a look the weight
so it is a hundred and seventy-one grams
and the thickness comes in at seven
point six five millimeters which is
quite thin. So it feels really good in
hand this has a quality feel to it the
build and you've got this pre applied
transit screen protect of course you
need to pull off and there's another one
on the back and also one covering the
two cameras. Now looking at the camera
modules on the rear we see we have a
dual tone LED flash, now the camera
that's on the left this one has
4-axis access optical stabilization and the
camera on the right you can see with the
larger lens will be our two times fixed
optical 12 megapixel camera. On the
bottom of the device we've got the
microphone loudspeaker type C port and
two antenna lines and on the top
secondary microphone and an IR
transmitter on the right side of the Mi 6
the volume and power buttons now
these don't rattle around they have a
really good feel to them and on the left
side of the mobile phone we have the
dual nano SIM tray
unfortunately there's no micro SD card
support here which is really sad to see
I wish they would add that and you can
see this rubber gasket that is around
there that is of course to stop any
water getting in and lastly up the front
an eight megapixel front facing camera
the earpiece and there is an ambient
light sensor in there
of course too, as well as a status LED so right
here next to my Samsung Galaxy s8 I must
say that both of them have a very
similar feel to them because they're
both clad in glass of course. Now you get
the curved edges on the me6
but you get the curves on both front and
back on the Samsung Galaxy s8 and they
both have a very similar sides to them
so the frames of both of them being
painted in that glossy black paint job
overall the build quality of the Mi 6
is definitely premium it feels top-notch
okay so time to power it on for the
first time go through the initial setup
and as mentioned because it's the
Chinese version that it's only going to
have Chinese and English on there. If you
want other languages are you going to
have to wait for the global ROM. Now this
should be running Android 7.1.1 I think
that's the version that they advertised
it with. So first impressions of the
screen it's great it looks really good
in fact I've seen a lot of this panel
this was a course on being Mi 5 and the Mi
4 and the Mi 5s, And also the Mi 5c that
I reviewed it's a very nice 1080p
panel okay so we've got Asian languages
Tibetan in English and I can see that
already yes it is detecting wireless AC
networks that are around from the
neighbors and I will add my fingerprint
now I've used this fingerprint reader in the
Mi 5S and it worked out to be
very good even if your hands are wet or
damp it will still read them so it's
going to set up my super secure pin
okay so you
you do this about 10 times I'm going to
do it quickly for this video. Ok that is
done you can of course add the same
finger or other fingers if you want even
more accuracy and options to unlock it
so I'm going to go over the default
theme so setup that was reasonably quick
Okay now to quickly check out that
fingerprint reader performance I'm going
to now just lock the phone simply place
my thumb there that I of course setup and it
unlocks instantly so that is great to
see. You don't need to wake the phone
first it's just a straight read and
unlock and very quick at that. And just
go through into the settings about phone
quickly to have a look so you can
see that it is running 8.2.13
I will connect up to the
wireless but its Android version seven
point one point one which is good to see
okay so we've got fifty four gigabytes
free that's a little bit to play around
with but you have to remember that you
can put your 100 gigabyte mp3 collection
on this because there is no microSD card
slot and for those of you out there that
that want to know the finer hardware details
about it you can see here this is the
screen information that what screen it's
using and more importantly there the
camera sensors so we've got a Sony IMX
386 as one of the back cameras then the
auxilary one as a Samsung sensor which
is the s5 k3 m3 and the front camera is
another sony the IMX 286. So I've
got antutu benchmark six point two point
seven they're finishing up and you can
see that's a really good score one
hundred and eighty two thousand and then
see finer details there for those of you
interested you can compare that to your
existing mobile phone. So really good
score so here now in CPU Z I just wanted
to show you very quickly the sensors
because I know a lot of people ask that
what sense does it have onboard so
quickly list them before I do that you
can see free available RAM at the moment
is a three point four gigabytes now on
first food it's about four point three
gigabytes I've got and Antutu benchmark
running in the background so just
clicking over now into the
sensors very quickly run through there
we've got a accelerometer, gyroscope
pressure even did not expect to see that
there a lot of sensors on there and
sorry
don't let scroll too fast and of course
an ambient light sensor is that one
right there detecting the lux value. Okay
so with the audio there is a
deal-breaker for some people they've
removed that 3.5 mm headphone
jack and they decided no we're going to
go type C digital only like Apple and
follow Apple's lead like they always
seem to do they're good at copying
aren't they like that
however they have added in at least a
front-facing loudspeaker right here in
the earpiece just like the LeEco
Le Pro 3 that I reviewed let's have a
listen to it how it sounds and most
importantly how loud it is I have my
decibels meter right here
alright that actually topped out around
95 decibels which is really quite loud so
at least they've got the volume there. Now
there is a hint of distortion at 100%
volume I can hear some sort of
vibration coming out of those speakers
they of course lack bass it's
mostly just meds and treble coming out
of the speakers. So I've only had the
phone literally for a few hours and I've
already discovered a bug I've already
had the launcher crash on me so the
current rom is far from stable if I go
into gallery I want to view my photos
and this is what happens gallery stops
responding it does not work it keeps
popping up with an error message asking
me if I wish to wait or okay it and
close it now go again back here free up
the memory we'll try and close it. Sorry
there we go back into gallery there's my
photos I want to see that far away just
took off my dog come on hello
not so it's been released with a
completely unstable ROM not good to see
it all so show me have really emphasized
on their camera performance on this
model than me six of course with two
cameras on there they're really pushing
ahead and I cross my fingers in the hope
that they have improved their camera
quality because it has been and their
previous flagships disappointing never
up to the quality of the likes from HTC
Apple Samsung all of the other major
brands they just never come close so
hopefully that is going to change so
first like we've got this little you can
see one times and tapping that two times
so what that's doing is using the second
sensor now which doesn't have the
stabilization and that is how we're
going down to zoom in there's also this
new little setting here I can see on the
left which goes into portrait mode so
it's going to do those bokeh blurred
backgrounds for you so hopefully the
subjects going to be in focus and then
the background will all be blurred out
like you've got some crazy low aperture
even though it's a mobile phone so I'll
have to test that out later on out modes
we have here you can see these are all
the typical so nothing really too
interesting and they're apart from the
manual settings sorry that I just went
into I just killed that off went back
into auto sorry there we go so without
white balance focus exposure time
there's a few things we can change there
and you can change which lens you want
the wide lens or then tele which of
course is the two times zoom lens there
and enter the camera mode we don't seem
to have any controls here to select what
you want to use what camera you want to
use so we're forced to use the for
access optical image stabilized one
instead of the two times zoom I believe
but perhaps that could change here you
can see that video quality goes up to 4k
continued autofocus sadly where's the
1080p 60 frames per second option no
that isn't there you don't get that
still with Xiaomi's flagships. So
I'm going to go outside now take some
sample images there will be a camera
review coming up later on but here
there's just going to be a preview from
the front and rear cameras video quality
too as well so I'm shooting with the
rear camera this is the 4-axis
optical image stabilized camera you
can't use the fixed two times zoom
camera not at the moment I wish they
would add that with a firmware update so
I'm going to go down some
stairs here just to test out the
stabilization
seems to be doing an okay job and I
wonder if it's also incorporating
electronic image stabilization like my
Galaxy S8 does so let's have a look now
at the front-facing 8 megapixel camera
This is now the front-facing camera so
it has 8 megapixels now they've changed
from that 4 megapixel ultrapixel camera
they used to use I can see here that
these sensors struggling a little bit
with the bright background but the
further I get away from it now it's
bringing my face in to exposure a lot
better now looking at the screen the
quality seems reasonably good 1080p
maximum. No 4k from the front camera like
some other Mobile's can do like the vivo
x9 I looked at
you
so that we have it that's the unboxing
there and overall my first impressions
well pffft because the software we're still
getting crashes. What's going on Xiaomi!
your software lately the Mi 5c then the
Mi Pad 3, completely unstable roms on
them and they were apparently well they
were stable roms though it's the release
version yes you saw this box was
completely factory sealed it's not like
this has a third-party ROM on there it's
not a hacked developer a ROM or anything like
that so they've got to get their act
together sort out the software on this
the hardware on it very nice feels great
in hand looks like a great mobile phone
the camera performance is good from what
I can see but I need more time on it
this is just my first impressions there
I need to go out in low light of course
take some more photos and find out just
how well though for those rear sensors
perform a little disappointing to see
that we can't use the optical 2 times
optical zoom in video mode they force us
to use the optical image stabilized
video mode which is yeah you know some
of this
I'm also disappointing there's no 3.5
mini headphone jack
I personally can live without that I
know there are people out there that
cannot so I will be back with benchmarks
everything in the full review I can
think of so the audio quality is well
call quality just how really everything
is and using this because I will be
using this I'll put my Galaxy s8 aside
and this will then be the only phone I
will use during that time so report
everything back in the full review. Thank
you so much for watching and do remember
that you can win one of these not this
particular one but a brand Mi 6
there's a competition have a look in the
description there's a link there another
video where you can enter in for the
draw to win one of these so best of luck
and thank you so much for watching this
initial first video on the Mi 6