hey guys Chris here back with Xiaomi's Mi Mix 2s. So this is the revised model
here like all the other s models now I wanted to give you a quick update here
after two days hands-on with this phone I'm going through my battery test camera
test and everything I normally do with my reviews and so far I just wanted to
report on a couple of things it's looking really good so far very good
performance this thing is blazing fast the snapdragon 845 it really doesn't
impress me now going from the snapdragon 636 and the repnotify i thought okay we
wouldn't see too much of a difference but it just seems to be so much quicker
multitasking and everything thanks to the chipset performance but also the
storage so it's using UF s 2.1 which is a very quick indeed you get about 700
sequential megabytes per second reads and very good 4k reads and writes I mean
just going through things for example YouTube often I see on the snapdragon
especially the 6 to 5 you start playing the video and you'll notice that other
videos and when scrolling like this there's a little bit of stutter I mean
you don't get any of that lag not with a snapdragon 845 it just really is good
now you're probably thinking that's going to take a massive toll on the
battery life right but it's actually not bad at all I'm going through my testing
and I'll just quickly show you that the results that I have so far if we look
under the battery use so you'll see right here k been doing quite a bit of
gaming as I'm a little bit addicted to pub G at the moment it seems to be the
only Android game that I can actually win sometimes and get some kills in so
hardware screen on time 8 hours 37 minutes this is really really good
considering it's a three thousand four hundred million power battery just shows
you how efficient the Snapdragon 805 really is now this battery capacity is
three thousand four hundred million hours it's not the largest that you will
see on a one of these mobile phones running this chipset but I think due to
the fact that the screen is probably 1080p that's aiding the fact now this is
my better life tier so I use a fixed brightness which is approximately 200
Lux and this is the ceiling right here where it comes out to be more or less
and that's what I dudes there and it's mostly wireless you so I have more
information on this in my full review of course
and you can see how long was they gaming for well almost two hours Pub G chrome
for quite a bit as well YouTube you kind of get the idea but overall it's really
impressive so are there any con so far well one thing that kind of annoys me a
little bit is the camera performance okay it takes a really decent photo and
we've got some advanced settings in here when it comes to the video performance
like you can change the codecs well you can use h AVC codec and you know that's
that's good that we've got these options in because they're high compatibility so
I have to really use this for my YouTube videos because I find that while I can't
upload directly of course using h.265 and I think YouTube's supporting that
yet so that's quite a good codec that we've got this option here we've also
got an improved bitrate which is also great but if you've seen my hands on you
would have heard that the audio is not actually that good is it from the rear
cameras and the stabilization and 4k video I find that the budget redmi note
5 has better stability and better audio which shouldn't be the case this is the
flagship mobile here remember yeah there's a budget one so that's one area
that's not so great the same goes with the front-facing camera performance that
it tends to overexpose a lot especially in direct sunlight you'll be super
bright you lose details in the background as well although that's gone
so they still need to work on the cameras obviously now I've had have
quite a few questions people ask me what's the call quality like so that's
something that of course is important this is a mobile phone after all I've
made quite a few calls on this and it's decent it's good I perhaps the noise
cancellation maybe is a little heavy-handed you hear kind of like a a
whooshing effect like it's hard to explain like washed out a little bit but
this is according to the other end I really need to hand this phone over to
someone else and get them to call me so then I can judge that cool quality as
well I will do that in my full review about at the moment it's good it's very
clear but the problem is I think it's just heavy-handed approach to noise
cancellation so perhaps it's the actual mic quality that they've used and
there's the top one there and the mic right here the other thing the
disappointment too is the loudspeaker so again in my unboxing I tested that one
out and have a listen to a dare that it distorts at hundred percent volume it's
not a quality speaker even though we do have a speaker in the earpiece that's
aiding and and boosting their performance so we get some audio coming
from here as well I just find it's it's not it should be of better quality
considering this as a flagship now the things to comment on the the build of
this is really good it's fantastic I love the design of the phone okay maybe
the chin if they could done have done something different here that will be
good for example at the front-facing camera was in the corner like the rumors
that were saying it could be that maybe might have been a little bit better but
I've got the case on at the moment and I take back what I said first that the
case it's a little cheap it's a little slippery but it's not really a cheap
case it fits it so well I mean it's perfect it's perfectly designed for it
it's as if the case is almost part of the actual housing of this phone here
it's really that good now I'm not a big fan of the layout of the camera the way
they've done this kind of copying Apple haven't they I mean they have like the
the they I phone 8 plus and things like that will have this camera layout and
arrangement and I wish they could have made that all flat I mean incorporate
the cameras only without having the bulge the bump there but now that's just
personal tiny little things I'm getting picky really with this phone here so
overall it is really excellent and holding up well and no doubt it's going
to be a good review it's just those minor things here also to report on as
well the GPS performance is really really good on this I mean I have a look
it was my screenshot ok really good I mean this gonna be in the full review
as well and look at those bars there so you get really good signal performance
all in the greens and yellows here and it uses every single satellite it sees
and I've been using this in the car to yesterday and it just doesn't lose
position really really good so the Qualcomm latest chipsets they've stepped
up the GPS performance it wasn't bad at all it's really good in the 8:35 but it
just seems to be even better here on this one same goes for wireless
performance very very quick you can get a maximum of around 660 megabits per
second speeds depending on your router this is my fast route I've got at home
that can actually run at a gigabit so it's doing really well this is a lot
faster than the snapdragon 6 3 6 course it's got a two by two antenna
setup so overall good phone can I recommend people that want to buy this
yes but of course wait for the price to drop down if you are a meme x2 owner I
would only get it for the improved camera on the rear and that really is
about it and unless of course you must have wireless charging now I have been
testing out wireless charging it's really slow going to fully charge the
devices where I need to do those tests because I've just been using it so often
now I haven't been how to do my full charge test on there but all that's
gonna be up and coming in the review hope to catch you then I'll cover a lot
more more photos from the cameras as well lots of camera samples but it is a
very decent shooter it's just the video quality I find to be a little
disappointing audio instability there I've rambled on enough here I hope to
see you with the review bye for now