today we're taking a look at the Xiaomi mi 9 lite and that's coming up right
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this channel today we're looking at a more budget device and an incredible one
at that the Xiaomi mi 9 lite global version is currently priced at 248
pounds or 296 dollars and it's an incredible phone for the money well we
don't have flagship everything in this phone we've got perfectly capable
hardware with decent display and cameras if we start with the unboxing you can
see if we first get the phone itself and I have the Aurora blue color here you
can see the back of the device changes in color shifts is the light hits it at
different angles and I have to say it looks great we then get a package with
the warranty card instruction manual TPU protective case and a sim removal tool
finally we get the wall charger along with the USB type-c cable so the mean
line light has a six point three nine inch Super AMOLED display with a
resolution of 1080 by 2340 giving us 403 pixels per inch it's capable of 600 and
its max brightness has HDR and it's protected by Gorilla Glass 5 it's got an
optical in display fingerprint scanner and this does work pretty well it's not
the fastest finger print scanner I've used but it's accurate and unlocks the
device reasonably quickly the phone also comes with a screen protector
pre-installed to the device you can see we've got a water drop style notch to
house the selfie camera which is a 32 megapixel sensor this has an aperture of
f2.8 Oh supports HDR and it's able to record 1080p at 30 frames a second if we
switch over to the rear you can see we've got a triple camera setup in the
vertical alignment it consists of a 48 megapixel wide-angle is the primary
camera and this has an aperture of f-18 we've got an 8 megapixel ultra-wide
along with a 2 megapixel depth sensor when it comes to video recording we get
4k at 30 frames a second 1080p at 60 frames a second or super slow
720p at 960 frames a second on the rear there's also a Xiaomi logo in the bottom
left that's also a notification light which you don't see on many devices and
I think it is a great touch the back shift colors to give a cool effect when
the light hits it at different angles and overall it is a good looking phone
the phone feels reasonably light coming in at 179 grams and it's comfortable to
hold thanks to the slight curves on the back the phone dimensions measure in at
one hundred and fifty six point eight by seventy four point five by eight point
seven millimeters when it comes to the rest of the specs the phone uses the
Snapdragon 710 system on chip it comes with six gigs of ram and a choice of 64
or 128 gigs storage it also has a dual SIM that allows for expandable storage
using micro SB and this supports a further 256 gig it is powered by a four
thousand and thirty milliamp hour battery with 18 watt fast charge support
its USBC has bluetooth 5 NFC and a great feature is a built-in IR blaster
allowing you to control TVs and other electronics with your phone the phone
ships with Android 9 Pi in the form of me UI 10 there is however an OTA update
available that already brings you to me ui 11 another great feature of the
device is that it does have a three and a half mil headphone jack so great news
for audio fans so I've been using this phone for about a month now on while I
normally use flagship I have to say this has been great and better than I
expected in the price range the display is incredible and goes bright enough to
use one in heavy sunlight the phone is very smooth and responsive and it's been
a pleasure to use overall watching HDR media on the display looks stunning as
you can see from the video here and the audio quality is good although volume
wise it isn't the loudest I've used but it does still go loud enough the RAM
management appears to be good and I can switch between the apps and they all
reload nice and quickly when reopening to unlock the phone we've got the usual
security methods along with the in display fingerprint scanner and a face
unlock both work very well here but of course the face unlock is the 2d method
is only has a single selfie camera so if we
take a look at the camera performance we'll start with the video so this is
the rear camera of the Xiaomi mi 9 lite it's on 4k at 30 frames a second just wanted
to see how the video comes out on what the stabilization is like I'm also not
gonna touch the audio so you guys can hear the audio direct from the
microphone but obviously I'm not gonna be able to see what it looks like until
we get it on the computer so we'll just go have a look now
so for 4k at 30 frames a second it performed pretty well for a device in
its price range we have the sun shining at the lens and it still recorded decent
quality footage and the audio quality it was surprisingly good as well one thing
I would say however is the stabilization was very minimal and we can really see
the camera shake from my walking we've now changed it to 1080p at 60 frames a
second so see how it performs on this see if the stabilization is better in
1080p than 4k is at most likely is at 1080p it performs well and again the
audio is sounding good I was hoping that the stabilization would be better in
1080p but it actually seems to be around the same as the 4k footage now we're
gonna test the video on the selfie camera this is of course 1080p at 30
frames a second that is the max quality for this we'll see how the audio comes
out as well it's a very bright day so it should do well there is a bit of wind
we'll see if that comes out of course again I won't know until we put it back
on the computer the selfie camera while not the best gives a perfectly
satisfactory result again there may be some slight stabilization but we can
still see plenty of camera shake from my hand when it comes to photos the device
takes some great photos with plenty of detail I've taken a variety of shots and
these were just simple point-and-click photos without changing any settings or
focal points we get a nice amount of detail that allows us to zoom in on the
photos with some pretty reasonable color accuracy of course it's not comparable
to the high-end flagships but we do get some really detailed photos for this
price bracket when taking portrait shots it performs well well most of the time
it does do a good job at blowing the back
grounds I did however find that mainly when taking pictures of objects we
sometimes do get a bit of strange blurring as you can see here when it
comes to gaming it this device performs great well it doesn't have the latest
flagship chipset it is powered by the Snapdragon 710 it's a perfectly capable
device or not a mobile gamer myself I've tested this with asphalt 9 where it
played very well or some slower devices do tend to produce a lot of stutter it
continued to play flawlessly at ride call of duty mobile and again it played
very well these sort of games that definitely need smooth gameplay to fully
enjoying compete against the enemies and the Xiaomi mi 9 lite has not led us down here
at all finally I played pubg mobile in high graphics settings and again it
played perfectly one thing to mention is that you do have to be careful of how
you hold this phone when gaming though given that the speakers are on the
bottom I found myself covering these up a lot and reducing the volume when
gaming but have calls for more serious gamers we've got the three and a half
mil audio jack to plug in your headphones battery life I found to be
great and the device easily lasted me the day I generally have my phone at
high brightness levels and had no issues with battery Jane
well synthetic benchmarks aren't everything they do give an idea of the
phone's performance so I ran the Xiaomi mi 9 lite through antutu and Geekbench
and these were the results in antutu we received a score of two hundred nine
thousand three hundred and ten and that's broken down into seventy one
thousand four hundred and eighty for the CPU fifty four thousand nine hundred and
nineteen for GPU forty seven thousand seven hundred and ninety two for memory
and finally thirty five thousand one hundred and nineteen for the UX if we
then head over to geek bench we got a single core score of 395 and a
multi-core score of one thousand five hundred and twelve other than that
there's not really too much else to say the Mi 9 lite works well and the phone overall
is a pleasure to use using the phone for general use such as browsing the web
social media it's very responsive and looks great the cool speaker works well
and cool quality it was very good at whenever using the phone we've got some
nice animations for the fingerprint unlock
the charging and when you look at other devices in the price bracket the Xiaomi mi 9 lite
really is offering a lot so in the price range it is a very competitive
device I like the notification light on the
back and the fact that we have an IR blaster to control infrared devices is
just another advantage so hopefully I've covered everything you need the phone
was sent to me by banggood and they've currently got it on offer for 26 percent
off making it 248 pounds or two hundred and ninety six dollars unfortunately it
doesn't say how long this deal is on for so if you're watching the video a later
date it may have actually gone up for anyone who would like to purchase one
though or simply take a further look I've placed a link down in the
description below and the great thing about banggood is it's free
international shipping of course if there's anything I've missed or you've
got any questions at all please leave them in the comments and I'll get back
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