so back it with another Xiaomi mobile phone this is the me 5x it's just come
out and this one here is an interesting one because they're using a snapdragon
625 in there and I was really hoping for the Snapdragon 630 at least in this
build here so it's got a 5.5 inch 1080p screen on there dual cameras on the rear
both of them a 12 megapixels and a 3000 milliamp hour battery so that is smaller
than what I would have thought I was hoping for maybe four thousand milliamp
hours now the Snapdragon 65 is an efficient chipset so battery life on
this should still be good even though it's only 3000 milliamp hours and on the
red is a fingerprint reader and apparently they do have a high quality
audio deck in this so it has four gigabytes of RAM and it's got dual SIM
and I think it also supports microSD cards on there which will be great
because it's not a flagship the flagships xiaomi always drops the micro
SD cards don't they type C port and a front facing five megapixel camera okay
so there is our box here typical shell me box and this is the 64 gigabyte
version and it is still factory sealed which is great so there's no global ROM
version of this just yet I think that'll come out later or perhaps we'll have to
flash over the global ROM on this so there's the phone I'll put that aside
for a second have a look at what's inside the box
okay there's see you changed things a little bit here so they've got the
sensor on the bottom and then inside this I think here we have the type-c
cable and white and where is the charger there is right at the bottom and then
the charger this is very small and the reason that charge is so small is
because it's only to five volts two amps so not a quick
charge three charger but you should be able to just use one a third party one
and it will hopefully were building that out later on and then an instruction
leaflet which is all in Chinese but I just noticed too that it points out how
the arrangement is on the SIM tray so it's either two nano Sims micro SD card
and another nano SIM so to check the weight of it 164 grams and a very thin
7.5 millimeters and that's without the camera bulbs the camera bulge and a
little bit more comes in at 8.2 almost so very thin so this is why we've lost
some of that battery capacity because I've slimmed it down personally I would
rather have a 4000 min out our battery and it been a millimeter thicker so on
the rear there's always these stickers here that sell I am II I number it's
going to pull that off and not expose that to the world and on the front there
is a screen protector on there but this is just one that's for transit to stop
the screen being scratched and in the factory to so they're looking at the
rear of the 5x we have a dual camera set up so the one on the right the center on
the right you can see is with optical zoom larger lens on there which is two
times optical zoom then the one on the left doesn't have that zoom on there at
all now there's no optical image stabilization or digital I believe on
this phone which is rather disappointing personally I would rather have just the
one center of optical image stabilization but with these two sensors
you can do those fancy bouquet effects so you can get a blurred background and
do those portrait shots that seem to be quite popular and very popular in China
apparently below that the fingerprint reader which looks like the same highway
that we see on the redmi series now just along the top you'll see the antenna
line is blending in with the curvature of the rear housing here so they've done
a nice job of that now the paint job on the back is made out of a matte black
and it looks like it is going to show fingerprints really easy along the top
and IR transmitter and secondary microphone for noise cancellation
and for use in video and then along the bottom 3.5 millimeter headphone jack no
they haven't done anything silly yet by removing this which is great to see
microphone talk screw type C port another talk screw and then the
loudspeaker on the right side metal volume and power buttons they've got a
real good feel to them they feel like quality and shaking the phone these
buttons do not rattle either which is good front facing five megapixel camera
earpiece and then our sim tray here which will take either a micro SD card
and nano SIM or dual nano Sims now it doesn't support European bands xx
unfortunately this phone we're going to have to wait for an international model
if they ever do release it that is of this 5x so the phone feels great in hand
very good I like the access to the buttons on the side there but you will
notice one thing that just handling it now for only a minute or two look at all
those fingerprints smudges all over the place so it's not going to stay looking
pristine for very long as it Oh get this powered up now we'll go through the
setup very quickly ok so that took about 20 seconds to get to this point here
which is your typical me UI 8 setup menu so hang on isn't it supposed to have me
UI 9 that's still in beta but it's coming and it should be pushed out to
this phone apparently first we're going to have to wait for that now this is the
Chinese ROM so there is no European languages and other language support on
does you have to wait for the global version for that which should be coming
out from any UI comm hopefully within a month or two is normally how long they
take you so I'm just going to skip this go through it as quick as possible
I will set up a fingerprint and you first need to put in a PIN number of
course ok that's just the keyboard a bit of a pain so I think it's that I need to
go in tonight I want the right engine so this can be a little bit annoying and on
the global ROM you will not have this issue of course because they use
Google's G board the Google keyboard so set up a pin and now to add my
fingerprint so we have to use my other hand so I can hear that haptic feedback
motor buzzing away it's quite loud ok so that's done go through this and the
default theme and we're done that's not too long
okay that screen looks a little bit washed out first impressions maybe
that's because of the brightness setting and it's going to lock it now and have a
look at these fingerprint unlocking ok that was basically instant maybe had a 1
second delay but that's very quick that's good so we're going to have the
typical bloatware on here that you literally always get with the chamois
phone so they've got a few Chinese applications on here that aren't
relevant again in the global ROM version that is when you can flash the global
ROM or you can buy a version with the global ROM you won't get all those apps
which are all these apps here look at them or these most of them don't act I
think pretty much all of those ones can be uninstalled by simply just holding
down and then removing them or you can go through the settings menu and Adam
still all those alright so looking back at the screen now change the wallpaper I
think was the wallpaper that made the screen look washed out my first
impression when I first saw it dead now looks a lot better and you notice that
these green brightness is very bright on the brightness setting there and then it
dulls down super dim that you can hardly even make out the icons and that is
ideal that's really what we should have on every single phone out there that
means if you use it at night you can dull that right down there ever is of
course in the setting menu here an option to turn on that night reading
kind of mode so it removes that blue light and that shouldn't keep you awake
at night or so they say anyway so just tick to see if there were any wireless
updates and there as one here this one fixes and addresses
problems with the wireless disconnecting so that is good I'll have to apply that
shortly and that's the firmware you can see so it's version eight point five
point eight and apparent that's the stable build of course and sitting two
megabyte download I will do that in just a second but we'll have a look at now
and the settings you can see that it is four gigabytes of RAM of course as
mentioned and the Android version is the latest so it's seven point one point two
which is good to see and the patch level is from June ok so what this menu here
is is the version information you can bring this out by just tapping on the
kernel version inside the settings you keep tapping that and then you get to
this menu and then select number one and here we are so what this does is tell us
the hardware components that Xiaomi has used on this so we can see here that the
front camera is a Samsung and the LCD panel and the emmc and the RAM as well
both Samsung products although can you see something unusual here some some
some some Samsung Samsung what's going on why does that not say Samsung is this
a clone product from China of Samsung probably not it must just be any area
here I hope so the front camera Samsung sensor 5 megapixels the two rear ones
are from ovie now we're not the sony IMX sensors that i thought we were going to
have on here so that's interesting to see so you can see the accelerometer
gyroscope and then just a few other of the hardware components there so down
the bottom we do have hardware menu keys which is great to see i'm not a huge fan
of on-screen navigation keys if we've got this basic course it down the bottom
the nav keys they are backlit as you can see which is great they light out and
you can barely see them when the light isn't on and that turns off only just
after a few seconds they're so free available space we get on the emc is
fifty four point three gigabytes and here is the end to to score so 63,000
that's approximately more or less what the
hey Leo p25 gets but the Snapdragon 625 is much more efficient so being a
Chinese ROM it does not have Play Store installed but it's quite easy to install
you have to do is just move over and extract some folders into the backup
file on the phone and then restore that and that will give you play services
contact sync and everything seems to working so far I haven't had any
problems with it and that's how I was able to install the antutu benchmark
that sounds reasonably good it's quite loud there's a hint of bass and they're
not a bad loud speaker it's a shame that they haven't opted also like them me 6
to include a little loudspeaker and the earpiece that means we get dual but it's
not actually too bad for a single loudspeaker solution now I don't know
about you but I'm keen to check out the camera on this since we've got dual
cameras we can do those fancy bokeh blurred backgrounds and we've got two
times optical zoom but I've already found out that both of the sensors are
ovie sensors they're not Sony AMX branded ones which is a little bit of a
shame okay they're just telling us about the portrait mode so just like the me 6
that I have if you tap here you go into the optical two times and I can see the
color is kind of shifted then a little bit so shutter 8 here should be pretty
much instant and it is me I'm under studio lives here baking cooking myself
under studio lights I should add so this is all straightforward just like all the
me your iPhone's the same settings here you got manual options but we have a
look and see what they give us so we've got white balance focus exposure time
ISO and then you can opt and choose which lens you want now we might not be
able to look use both of these for video because we couldn't with the me6 but
I'll have a look now in modes and see what other settings we've got here I go
just the typical add watermarks I'll go over into the video mode now so you swap
over into video mode and so slow-mo is basically useless on these Shelby's I
don't like it at all it's not good and they don't even have 60 frames per
second so the focus mode here is continual auto focus or tap to focus of
course so we've got 4k option and I'll test out continual auto focus there so
no electronic image stabilization or digital options no so no electronic
which is a shame but you know this is a priced around at the moment around 250
yes us so that's what you can't expect so take a few snaps and show you some
samples of just what there camera and the front camera can do on
the me 5x so this is the rear camera in 4k the continual autofocus enabled and
you can see that typical problem we get with the xiaomi mobile and that is that
the focus will pulse and an hour all the time and it's doing it pretty bad so
it's disappointing to see seems to have a little bit of trouble focusing and
there is no option to switch to the 2 x optical sensor at all this is now the
flat facing camera the audio seems to be a little bit muffled and funny I first
tested this and it's only in 720p as you can see so the quality is that the
greatest like the flagship that can shoot up to 1080p or even for 10 the
front camera but the quality overall seems to be why versus with my first
impression here
you
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so that may fall somewhere between the note 4 and the 4x
and then the show me mean 6 but do we really even need this model I mean come
on seriously think about it if you want a very decent dual camera arrangement
you want to have the 2 times optical zoom and you want a better sensor then
you would go for the me 6 it's a flagship and cost about 80 us more you'd
save your cash get that model instead and if you wanted battery life then
you'd go for the redmi note 4 and the note 4 x-series so this is somewhere
something in between that charm is trying to create here that I feel we
don't actually really need because ok the build is great it's really well put
together a nice 1080p screen but the rear cameras aren't really adding a lot
the quality of them at the moment seems quite average and low light they do look
disappointing we don't have optical or electronic image stabilization and then
the battery life has been reduced from other models we only got 3000 out hours
here and why do we not have a Snapdragon 630 that is the latest Qualcomm chipset
we still have the 625 and then it even could have put the 6 to 6 in there to be
a little bit different so really I'm holding out for a Snapdragon 630 mobile
660 mobile and hopefully we're going to see something like that before the end
of the year so we'll be back with a full review of this one here I'll be testing
out the battery life gaming performance more benchmarks Wireless GPS and of
course it is a mobile phone so we'll make some calls on it to check out the
call quality and it will chest out that deck on there to see if it has improved
the 3.5 millimeter audio as well the loudspeaker seems quite good there are a
lot of positives with this mobile I mean it doesn't have me ui9 gifts but that
we're coming soon so I do have to catch you back with the full review of this
mobile if you do have any questions please let me know in the comments and I
will try to answer them thank you so much for watching bye for now