so here we have the Xiaomi Mi Mi Mix 2S which is their revised model with a
faster chipset in here so they've upgraded it from the snapdragon 835 to
the 845 a very fast chip the latest and greatest from Qualcomm and what they've
also changed as the camera on it so the cameras on the mimics - were quite
disappointing it had focus hunting issues and very poor low-light
performance it wasn't really that great it was an improvement over the me mix
the first model but here we have now that your camera arrangement so one of
those cameras is 2 times optical zoom 1 so you can get in a little bit closer to
your subject so it also helps out with the blurred background effect with bokeh
and then we have optical image stabilized camera sensor the main one
with dual pixel face detection autofocus now we've got ugly camera bump as you
can see here so it's not that great looking if you ask me it's definitely
copying the way the cameras are on the latest iPhones how they've set them up
with the dual cameras there and you'll notice that the design it's pretty much
exactly the same unless you break out a roll of air and you check the dimensions
of it there's a slight difference there but really good build on this we've got
ceramic on the black back of it and it's more scratch resistant than any other
glass coatings that you'll find it's a little bit slippery but you also do get
a very good case in the box now this case is perfect fit for it of course
coming from the manufacturer feels nice in hand and just adds a little bit of
grip enos to it but nice curved images very good in hand and I do like the fact
that they've got the slim bezels on the front this to me is how slim bezels
should still be done none of that stupid business put the notch that everyone
seems to be copying Apple I'm personally against that I don't like it but it's
something we're gonna see a lot of in 2018 sadly now before we go on with the
view there's a couple of deal-breakers here for most people this phone and that
is no 3.5 mm a headphone jack no micro SD card slot so if you can live without
those two things let's move on with the rest of the review here so the screen is
2160 by 1080 so that's a 2 by 1 aspect ratio good colors deep blacks there is a
tiny little bit shattering around the edge so there's some shadows that come
in but it's very very minor and this is me being quite picky with the unit
otherwise for an IPS display it's quite good maximum brightness is 500 lux
which is good sunlight legibility is average it's definitely not the best I
find that the Samsung AMOLED panels tend to hold up a lot better in some sunlight
and some of the Apple phones as well not quite as good as those optical AMOLED
panels for sunlight legibility there but overall great screen and you'll notice
too that down the bottom has just got the one loudspeaker so they haven't
added a secondary speaker on the side but it's just like the mimics 2's that
the earpiece also incorporates a loudspeaker there and I'll give you a
very quick sample of that speaker right now so you can hear from that that it's
not amazing the loudness is okay but it just lacks to meet quality this is one
of my minor complaints so audio output while we're talking about audio you're
going to have to use the adapter of course because there is no 3.5 mini
headphone jack but the quality is not too bad that that comes out of it I
found it's loud it's clean it's clear which is good that's one good positive
but of course you can't charge at the same time using that adapter you're
gonna have to swap over to using a Bluetooth headset now you also notice
too at the top there's no IR transmitter we've got a secondary microphone and you
can see there's antenna lines there so yes the design exactly the same apart
from the camera modules as the mimics twist this is not a bad thing really
good quality now the operating system it's running Android
8.0 is really hoping for Android 8.1 but hopefully that's going to be coming soon
in an update new UI a 9.5 so 9.5 adds a few new features on there one of the
most important ones ones would probably be the full screen gestures so you can
just use gestures so if you swipe up to the middle and hold then you go into
your recent apps and if you just swipe straight up goes back to home and if you
swipe from the left that takes you back once you get used to it it's actually
quite good to use this and I find it to be a little bit better but it's a shame
we don't have any capacitive touch buttons down in that well kind of large
bottom bezel so when we also look at the operating systems performance it's
really really good this is fast finance temporary again 84 fibers just blazing
fast and I have not noticed any light lag stutters nothing like
no bugs in the operating system this is really good so here's a few scores here
has the and to to score you can see really quite fast I mean it says one of
the best you'll see for an Android device if not right up there it's got
them in the top five at least and okay that's a synthetic benchmark but
real-world performance the internal storage as well is very fast ufs 2.1
spec good wireless speeds as well can get close to 600 megabits per second out
of this well that's two by two antenna setup and gps performance i wanted to
point this one out because it is really good in fact the best i have seen
probably on a recent mobile phone that I've reviewed 4G speeds I noticed to be
decent no complaints with that at all good signal a good call quality well the
call quality actually have a few little complaints about this like the video
quality as you see later on the microphones to me sound a little bit
muffled as if a little bit washed out hopefully sham is going to be able to
fix this that's one area of complaint I do have with this mobile is that the
call quality isn't really at the flagship standard and now we're going to
look at other things like gaming performance it's going to play all the
latest titles out there so I tested out pubG World of Tanks and Shadow Fighter
3 and it's all super smooth everything's running at maximum speeds here we're
looking at 60 frames per second aided by the fact that the screen is basically
almost at 1080p screens so it's got plenty of power to drive that kind of
resolution so the mimics - it does have fingerprint unlocking just like their me
mix in the mimics - and it's really quick this is under a second it just
unlocks really really super fast you can see no problems with this now also has
face unlocking the face unlocking is not as secure it tends to work most of the
time I'd say about eight out of ten times moving on now to better like this
actually came out a lot better than I thought I was expecting maybe about
seven to eight hours but as actually close to nine hours with my own battery
test here so what I did was set the brightness to 200 units and continue
just to use it that was mostly gaming most at the time and I did use a bit of
Chrome YouTube things like that I kept it connected up to wireless on the whole
time I used a little bit of data perhaps only about 20% of the test so keep that
in mind there so continual use almost nine hours
really good from a really high performance chip like this one here now
charge times it's one hour and 39 minutes to charge it from zero with the
supplied cable and charger so that's really good that's very fast
I went almost forgot so it does have wireless charging and this is the first
time that show me has used it and if you're gonna be using a 7.5 watt
wireless charger you're looking at almost three hours to completely charge
the phone so that's about double the time of using the cable so then when it
comes to the camera performance so we've got a couple of new features here with
the camera or one of them as the camera AI and this really is a bit of a gimmick
to me all it seems to do is just bolster up the contrast the brightness and a lot
of shots so here you can see I've got it detecting my cat here Vera and it's put
a little cat icon so it knows it's a cat so that's clever but look at the
difference between these two shots this is what the AI are and it just kind of
doesn't really do that much it tweaks it a little bit and with flowers that's
going to over saturate massively and just bolster up the brightness the
front-facing camera as well is not really that great it over saturates a
lot we get poor dynamic range and you often lose a lot of details in the
background now we'll support portrait mode this front facing camera as well
here's a shot here of the rear cameras portrait mode and you can see it looks
good but when you're getting close you can see around the here areas like that
around the face that it's not gonna stitch it together - well this is all
too common now a couple of other photo sample so it takes a really good photo
and the low light performance is well - really quite good this is probably one
of the best I have seen from a mobile phone from Xiaomi this is good to see
however the camera's not all 100% brilliant when we move over to video now
it does have a electronic image stabilization option it is enabled but
clearly it's not actually working at all okay works in 1080p now the video
quality it's pretty good not bad one thing that is lacking in one area is the
audio quality to me is just not as good as it should be neither is the stability
it's not as good as even the redmi note 5 now that's charmese budget phone but
at least the focus is really quite good
so no more focus hunting issues that plate the mimics to so overall this is a
really great phone I'd really do love it top performance great build quality we
got the ceramics on it they have improved the camera but if you own a me
mix too I wouldn't be upgrading to this unless of course you must have wireless
charging and you really want to have a much better camera well keeping that
original mimics to design I do really like this phone there's just those areas
of concern so the core quality is not really that good it sounds a little bit
muffled the microphones on this for the other end and then the audio quality and
video and then a stability own video and colors in video now this these are all
things they can fix was software so hopefully Shelby's going to come out
with an update correct all of that and this will be an absolutely brilliant
phone for the around 500 550 us that this is selling for thanks a lot for
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