so last year's Mi Mix brought back that bezel is designed that sharp originally
introduced but weren't so successful at it
so we've got them mix 2 here now and it is sadly a case of two steps forward
and one step back so they've made some real improvements to the camera we've
finally got optical image stabilization something that the mix lat we have
improved call quality with a better earpiece and we have a lot better LTE
band coverage now you're probably thinking why am I saying it's a step
back well the battery's gone down 1,000 milliamp hours and as you see later on
you're not going to get the same better life you did from the first model and
also the bezels you can see they just don't have that same well factor that
the me mixed it because the bezels here slightly larger and definitely at the
top it's larger because of that new earpiece the design change they had to
make to get better sound quality although the chin on the bottom is 12
percent smaller so like the mix the rear housing does have ceramic on it which is
very scratch resistant however quite slippery so on the rear you will find
the fingerprint reader which is exactly the same as the previous generations
coated with ceramics so it's quite scratch resistant and it unlocks the
phone fast and flawlessly the camera module you can see here does protrude by
approximately one millimeter and we do have a dual tone LED flash now including
a slot at the top for the sound to be transmitted through from the earpiece
which is actually inside the phone here the bezel did increase a little bit but
thankfully the call quality is now up it doesn't sound completely flat like it
did on the Memex and really overall quite a big
improvement the body on the standard version is made out of metal but there
is a special edition that has 8 gigabytes of RAM and the hot body is
also made out of ceramic including the buttons so on the left side of the phone
you'll find the SIM tray it takes dual nano since there's no micro SD card
support on this one but with my particular model having 256 gigabytes of
storage that's not really an issue now you notice on the top you can see
two antenna strips and a secondary microphone there's no 3.5
millimeter headphone jack we won't be seeing that Jack ever again on Charlie's
flagships which is a real shame here it's a design to us that I don't agree
with so along the bottom another two antenna lines there loud speaker
microphone and then the type C port then the bottom right-hand side you'll find
the front-facing camera five megapixels with an F 2.2 aperture the notification
LED has located just here above the type C port so overall the build quality is
great this is premium it's a lovely looking phone it does really look very
nice but it doesn't stay looking clean for long as you can see it gets all
smudgy with fingerprints very quickly and if your hands are cold it's
extremely slippery too but inside the box you will find this case here now it
has a matte coating to it so it is quite grippy that helps with the slipperiness
and it does protect the sides and the top of the phone it is well made in fact
fits it perfectly that much so that it almost looks like it is part of the
phone it does however lack protection for the screen so the screen is an LCD
panel it's 1080 by 2160 and that means it's 18 by 9 aspect ratio so when you
have a look at anything that's sixteen by nine you'll get these borders either
side maximum brightness comes out to be 570 lux to find the colors to be natural
good reproduction there blacks are reasonably deep not as deep as the
AMOLED panels but of course it does offer more natural-looking colors which
I prefer now I have noticed that there is a minor flaw on my unit and that is
that the bottom bezel edge along here has a bit of a darker patch to it as you
can see there it's not IPS bleed it's more like a darkness perhaps it's from
the process of bonding the display to the digitizer glass so the phone is
currently shipping out with me oh I 8.5 stable now this is the latest version I
have on it at the time this review there was a 1.4 gigabyte update now me UI 9
that is coming shortly but it's still in its beta phase so I don't know when
we're gonna see that approximately but it should be hopefully only a few months
away now performance for a snap dragon ate through five and six
gigabytes of RAM it's very quick and snappy have a look at chrome here the
scrolling is really fast I'm currently actually screen recording
this at the same time and it doesn't seem to affect their performance at all
so it is very quick at switching between apps we'll have a look now at Twitter
performance - no issues overall it's very fast I've encountered no bugs
whatsoever the ROM seems to be completely stable and on the topic of
performance here here's Geekbench four very good score so you can compare this
to your own mobile phone if you're thinking about replacing it or if you're
on the me mix that's the end - to score almost hundred thousand now these scores
are really good the ufs 2.1 storage it has on here now my version is the 256
gigabyte one so really quick 700 megabytes per second sequential reads
that's faster than a SATA 3 SSD you'll find in older generation laptops and PCs
now the battery life I did my little test here so I was a bit of gaming using
it phone calls basically to just test the core quality but I got screen on
time of my first test 8000 36 minutes and then my second test 7 hours and 21
minutes you can see a bit of my use here so there was a bit of gaming going on
there screen on time there well closer to 8 hours actually which isn't too bad
but this is still down on what we get from the Memex because it has a larger
battery this has got 3,400 million hours and the Memex
has four thousand four hundred million hours so it's to be expected even though
the Snapdragon 805 is a little bit more efficient GPS performance very good no
issues here you can see it locked on to every single satellite and view moving
around in my car around town it never lost the signal and accuracy always
stayed around three to four meters now the wireless speeds they are excellent
here super fast I'm getting the full speeds out of my fiber line here via
Wireless really really good no complaints and even the range is good so
the performance of that two-way - antenna setup is really good just like
them me 6 I found 4G speeds as well excellent
so the loud speaker on the bottom puts out around 85 decibels and we also have
sound being transmitted via the earpiece there at the top although it doesn't
really add much it is better than nothing now the audio quality using some
type C headphones I found to be very clear and nice and loud it's good
however of course being a type C port it's a little difficult to charge at the
same time I really wish they did not get rid of that 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack that I believe is a big error and voice calls sounds so much better thanks
to that new earpiece design it's really a huge step up over than me mix so what
about gaming performance well it's powered by a Snapdragon 835 as you'll
know from the start of this video with audrina 548 GPU and all games that
I've tested they've got very playable frame rates it's most of the times
smooth however you will occasionally see the few odd little stutters here and
there if you want to see more on gaming performance of the Memex to check out my
gaming review should be a little card popping up in the or right hand corner
right now and now on to the charge times as you can see charging in under one
hour and thirty minutes it's very quick to fully charge now these results here
we're both charging the phone off and then on as you see when it's on it's
slightly slower but overall very quick and great results here now on to the
camera which has improved greatly over the Memex due to the fact that we've got
an AMX 386 sensor on there that's 12 megapixels with 1.25 microns so larger
pixel size there and the aperture is 2.0 now we have also got for access optical
image stabilization now the original did not have any image stabilization on
video and that resulted in horrible video quality
there was just shaky and not really usable without the use of a tripod or
gimbal or something like that it's great to see we improved on that
now we have a look at some camera samples now I've already just shown you
a couple here and you'll see that in lower light I feel that the performance
of the camera still is nowhere near the likes of the latest flagships even the
2017 flagships it's falling behind
so now on to the front-facing camera 5 megapixels with an F 2.2 aperture and I
think it's on par or maybe slightly better than that of the Memex but as you
see now in direct sunlight it will over expose quite a bit but when you step
into the Shadow it's not as bad there now there's no settings whatsoever so we
cannot control the resolution it is shooting in 1080p and you see now what
I'm in the shadow it's exposing my face a little bit better here not over
exposing like it does in the Sun but I roll for a flagship I feel they need to
improve on this video quality other Bibles are now shooting 1440p and even
up to 4k on the front camera so this is the sample here shot in 4k and as you
can see the footage is relatively steady compared to what we had on the meme X
the first model didn't have any stabilization optical or digital and it
was really unusable footage because it was just beach shaky and horrible now
the audio bitrate is still quite low earnest it should be a little bit higher
and as a result the audio does sound a little bit washed out I find and
compared to other flagships because we don't have any combination of both
electronic and optical stabilization that it's still not as smooth and the
focus at times does have problems but overall it is a step up over the me mix
so the meme x2 is both a step forward and a step back from the original but
first we'll cover the positives here the earpiece has greatly improved over the
flat sounding one on the Memex the camera now has of course that
optical image stabilization video is now usable and the camera quality has
improved a lot for stills front-facing camera doesn't seem to have improved
that much a little bit perhaps and then of course the band supports we've got
lots of LTE band coverage now so if you didn't have it on the original Memex
you have it now on this model which is literally covering the whole globe that
is a huge step forward and then of course the size of it five point nine
eight inches makes it a lot more accessible to people that just felt that
the original model was a little too big at six point four inches then of course
there comes the cons on this the bezel size has increased a little bit that top
bezel due to a compromise made by the improved earpiece it's now a little
larger so it doesn't have that same impact the first model did when I
remember unboxing that one just going while this is amazing so you don't get
that same feel to it and then of course the battery capacity is down 22 percent
but the Snapdragon 835 is a little bit more power efficient there which helps
out so you're not exactly losing 22 percent battery overall I feel it still
got a good on-screen time the performance is really fast
very good connectivity so for G and Wireless speeds on this are top-notch
they are really quick indeed same goes for that internal storage another
compromise of course is the fact that we don't have a 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack on this which is disappointing to see that trend that charm is following
on with us in all their flagship flagships not including that a real
shame there so overall it does come recommend it but if you have the
original me mix I feel buying this model here you're gonna be disappointed with
the bezels the battery life but of course think about the improvements if
you are considering upgrading do you value the call quality and video quality
more than perhaps it's an option for you thank you so much for watching this
review I will have the Xiaomi me Note 3 to
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