Chris back here with my final video on Xiaomi's Mi 8 their first notch flagship
and when i first unbox this I was a little let down by a couple of things
that it was missing I was disappointed to see that Xiaomi did not go with
wireless charging they dropped that from their mean mix 2s they also dropped the
second during loudspeaker and they didn't go a step further adding IP
splash resistance that doesn't have an IP rating and I just feel they could
have gone a little further with some things but it turns out that maybe I was
a little bit too harsh on this phone here so obviously we've got a notch here
that's not going to be to everyone's liking but you can hide it with the UI
but apart from that we have a fantastic AMOLED panel here it's a Samsung panel
the resolution is 20 to 48 by 1080 it is 6.21 inches and one of the best screens
that xiaomi has gone with so this one tops out at 710 lux it's very bright
now it did criticize a little bit that when you look at it at certain angles
the same with the Mit 8's see their smaller version that you will see a bit
of what looks like to me either a gap between the digitizer glass and in the
AMOLED panel below or perhaps even an anti glare layer or something there
that's just a very minor minor complaint and really that is me nitpicking apart
from that that this green is just really good and as mentioned one of the best
the colors as you can see now they look really good colors it's a vibrant screen
but you can adjust of course how you want it to be well the settings you can
go through there with the contrast dynamic contrast standard looks the best
more correct white balance can also be adjusted now they do have an ir
assistant light there so this will be used in conjunction with the face
unlocking feature with the front camera which is 20 megapixels so when you
unlock the phone and you're in low-light conditions you can actually sometimes
see well mostly on camera you will see a little tiny like a purple light and then
it's flashing illuminating your face and that means that unlocking the phone in
low-light will just be faster than other typical phones there now the build of it
is very good we've got a metal unibody that goes around the outside while metal
frame but then we do have glass on the rear which is
apparently gorilla glass it could be gorillas five curved edges very
comfortable a rare fingerprint reader which unlocks
in under half a second your typical fingerprint readers they on flagship so
very fast it doesn't seem to ever let me down now the camera modules you can see
we've got a dual camera arrangement here so the secondary auxilary sensor is used
for your depth effect photos the main sense is 12 megapixels a Sony IMX 363
with an f1.8 aperture 1.4 micrometer size pixels and four axis optical
image stabilization up the top here you can see a two antenna line secondary mic
down the bottom we have a microphone loudspeaker you can see their antenna
lines there so type C port now the charging times on this are very quick it
takes 1 hour and 37 minutes to fully charge this phone that was from 7% and
it is really good so it's very fast it's using Qualcomm quick charge 3 the
charger that is included and battery time so I will mention them now at the
start of the day so you get anywhere between about 7 to 6 hours up to
possibly about eight hours of continual on screen time it's a definite 2 day
mobile phone I found the battery life on average to be about 7 hours with my
typical kind of use so it is a very decent for a flagship and the spec of
this phone so the chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 there's their
top-of-the-line chip at the time of this video we've got six to eight gigabytes
of RAM 64 gigabytes of storage is my model and you can see here that the
storage speed its ufs 2.1 so it is very quick no bottlenecks here it's super
fast and right up to 256 gigabytes of storage
now it's non expandable so we don't have micro SD card support on this and all we
have is just dual nano Sims and the tray you can see there it does actually have
a little gasket around it so there is possibly a little bit of splash
resistance with this phone some people say but there is no IP rating which you
feel they could have added here now the UI it is me UI 9.6 that it ships with as
mentioned before and then it's running Android 8.1 with the latest security
patch being from March no big huge up they came through with his phone that
was two gigabytes and it affects some of my complaints from my unboxing video so
I ran into these micro starters and problems and full screen gesture mode
that should not be happening with this particular chipset because it is very
fast of course so they cured it which is great okay so
we've got some really hyped up GPS claiming to be super air credits using
level 5 where all the other mobile phones only use level 1 frequencies now
I believe that there's something up here this either a bug and updates needed or
perhaps maybe the software's not reporting it but my accuracy didn't get
any better than 16 meters now I did see it go to 8 at 6 at one point now on
other phones with the snapdragon 845 i'm able to get an accuracy of about 3 to 4
meters now when we look at gaming performance it's as expected this is a
flagship phone and every single game that you test out on Android will have
very very smooth frame rates and you can put it on the highest settings as well
with all of games out there and you get super playable smooth gaming experience
on this so great for gaming and because the battery life is fairly decent it's
quite an efficient chip 10 nanometers the Snapdragon 805 it doesn't burn
through the battery as fast as you would think it would so it gives you still
quite a lot of time to games you get I would say straight gaming depends on
your brightness setting of course up to around 4 to 5 hours on this phone now
let's focus on audio so voice calls I've found they'd sent to be average now
because the earpiece is a little smaller due to the knotch the compromises they
have made what that notch of course it doesn't sound as good as my Samsung
Galaxy s7 or mine me max - for some reason now it's obviously the limitation
of the little tiny driver the speaker they have in there so it doesn't double
as a loudspeaker that out speaker down the bottom does sound decent the volume
output is good I will give you a sample of it now
now when it comes to the audio performance using 3.5 millimeter
obviously there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack you must use a Type C
23.5 adapter but the audio quality is really good so whatever deck they're
using and this does sound really clean there's no history no static very good
audio it just lacks a bit of volume I wish it was louder obviously Shami
doesn't want us to damage our ears so they limit that volume me you do get a
warning saying that you know you increase the volume there that you could
damage your ears now for cameras we've got an F 2.0 20 megapixel camera on the
front that takes a decent photo as you can see here from these selfies now in
the beginning it was over exposing a lot that has been corrected to the most part
with the latest update the bug fix update that went through with 2
gigabytes and it will take portrait photos well with the rear cameras and
combination of both for those 12 megapixel sensors so one of them is a 2
x optical zoom 1 which is a Samsung sensor and then a Sony I am x36 trees
the main sensor and now this has 12 megapixels and F 1.8 a Bircher and it
also has full access optical image stabilization so here's a sample from
that rear camera so the audio is my biggest complaint here it's not really
wonderful they could definitely improve on the quality the focus is good because
it's got that dual pixel face detection autofocus I mean it locks onto things
really quick you see right here when I put my hand up no problems with that no
focus hunting either which was plaguing the shamans of last year I had lots of
problems with that we only have optical image stabilization so you can see you
get a lot of that optical image stabilization rock so the scents are
moving around the lens actually an essential moving around in there so it
would be nice to see electronic image stabilization which it is lacking it is
also lacking 4k 60 frames per second which the Snapdragon 805 can do I mean
overall the quality is good it is sharp as you can see it's just the
stabilization so a sample with a front-facing camera it's 20 megapixels
f/2 zero aperture and in the shadow here
their quality is fine the exposure is okay but watch what happens when I step
into the direct sunlight it does start to strike a little bit over exposes I
mean I do have a white t-shirt on so very hard conditions for the camera
again the audio you can hear it's not the best and also no stability so it
doesn't have any electronic image stabilization which really for a
flagship I believe should have alright guys so the Mia is a fantastic phone for
the price it's a flagship phone it's super fast a really nice screen yes it
does have the knotch yes it has compromises with the UI with the call
quality the earpiece is slightly smaller doesn't sound quite as good as other
mobile phones that's just a minor there but what did disappoint me when I first
unboxed let's find it in the first video on it
what's the lack of the secondary loud speed speaker on there the fact that
they dropped wireless charging it doesn't make any sense to me if this is
meant to be their top-end model their flagship model and even the me a
Explorer is not going to have wireless charging on it either or a little bit of
splash resistance a proper IP rating I feel they should have done with that I
feel Xiaomi could have done more with this phone it's almost like they took
the mimics to s combined it with a new notch display and created of course a
new phone out of that but they're really so similar because the internals are
basically the same the same battery capacity so the better life is good it
charges really fast it can take a really good photo video quality in 4k is sharp
however optical image stabilization only has no electronic image stabilization
which I feel it should have there's no 60 frames per second 4k which I feel
they could have added the chipset supports a the camera module does
support it as well so why is it not there they hopefully they can push it
out with more updates so when I first got the phone to the other thing that
was disappointing for me was I seeing all this UI stutter and full gesture
mode now and then and even notifications started that should not be happening
with this speakerphone with the fast internal storage the plenty of RAM that
has gone on there and of course it's not broken April 5
luckily of course Xiaomi it took them a month they pushed out that bigger
which is 2 gigabyte won and now it seems really smooth to me all those little
bugs and things that I encountered they seem to have gone but they didn't
improve on the audio quality on video as well and voice calls it seems to me to
be pretty much exactly the same I can't distinguish any difference between it so
hopefully they will correct that with me oh I 10 otherwise this is very good
phone for the price for what you're getting and a brilliant screen even
though it's got the knotch this is a very nice AMOLED panel that they have
gone with and one of their best yet I would say that Xiaomi has put in one of
their flagship phones thank you so much for watching us review right up here I
do have the camera comparison against the me mix twist if you're interested in
that and my latest video is right up here bye for now