Today Xiaomi announced the Mi 8 it's the new flagship with a snapdragon 845 and
also the new Snapdragon 710 that's going to in fact be a world's first
we've got three models this time around so instead of just say than me seven
which we're not going to get of course because it's the eighth anniversary of
Xiaomi they decided to name it the Mi
eight. But we've got different models here so I'll start off with the standard
model you could say, the Mi 8 so this has a 6.2 inch screen it's an
AMOLED panel from Samsung with a maximum brightness of 600 nits of brightness so
it's gonna have deep blacks really bright we're moving away from IPS panels
it's great to see this. So that is a good move but what isn't a good move and we
knew it was coming, the notch. The notch here with Xiaomi
I don't agree with this silly trend with mobile phones at the moment I hope it
dies out as quick as it started but anyway it is there and we have 3d face
mapping and unlocking so what this promises according to Xiaomi is a very
secure form of face unlocking there. It will also be very fast and it will be
reliable in low-light so if you happen to do the face unlocking at night and
a lot more effective. So that is good I'm happy with that. And I'm happy with
the AMOLED panel now when it comes to the design when you look at the phone
straight away it just screens iPhone X so yeah let's admit it, it's a
shameless copy of that design and it does look a lot like the Mi Mix 2S. The
camera modules on the back the way they are orientated and the fingerprint reader
there as well and the glass material to the corners the edges. It's got a type C port
on here, we have NFC I believe on the top spec model we do have wireless charging
I hope they haven't opted to leave that out. I mean on the Mi Mix 2S that I
have in my hand here, this does have wireless charging. The cameras so they
are hyping them up. They say it has a DxO rating of 99 but take DxOmark ratings
with a pinch of salt, I don't believe they can't be trusted anyway the main
sensors a Sony IMX 363 with a pixel size a 1.4 micrometers so it should be
good at low light, it does have optical image stabilization, 4 axis
electronic image stabilization there's no mention of 4k 60 frames per second.
now we've got a secondary sensor that's used for the depth effect mode which is
another 12 megapixel one it's a Samsung and that'll give us the blurred
backgrounds it's got a I scene detection up to 206 modes all the typical stuff
that is with the Mi 2S as well that's got that, Ai detection you can
disable it too if you don't want it front-facing camera is 20 megapixels F
2.0 aperture you do have those Animoji's if you like that sort of thing
I personally don't so I'll never probably use that. Now another first here for
Xiaomi is dual GPS modules and you may think of this as a bit of a gimmick that
why would you need to GPS modules when there's nothing wrong with the single
GPS with my Snapdragon 845 on the Mi Mix 2's for example. But if you're a tramping,
you're a hiker, you're a mountain biker, a cyclist maybe you do want really
accurate GPS and this phone the Xiaomi is promising that it's going to be the
most accurate phone out there when it comes to GPS and GLONASS and all that
Now I'm looking forward to testing this out because I'm a mountain biker myself
then we get on to the more expensive models so both of these models also have
a 3400m hour battery as well I would have liked to have seen 4000
million hours but I guess they couldn't fit it in there who knows what their
excuse is for that. Anyway the Explorer model, the Mi 8 Explorer has a transparent
back on it so like the recent HTC model that's just been released you can see
some of the internals so it does look cool, but the main feature it has that
separates it from the main model and it's 200 us more expensive because of it
as we do have an in screen fingerprint reader so very similar to the Vivo x21
but it's slightly different because it has a pressure sensor in there as well
so as soon as you pressed down it will detect that and unlock. Now don't believe a lot
of people will be using this and it's going to be worth the extra 200 USD
because you'd probably just stick with that face unlocking wouldn't use so you
wouldn't be using it just I'm not gonna be a lot faster so I don't really get
why I understand why they want to put that in there now you do of course get
two gigabytes of RAM more and 64 gigabytes of storage more for that about
600 USD the price of the Explorer model now the standard model that one's going
to cost about 420 USD in China so when retailers export it to anyone
wants to buy it outside of China expect an additional 100 US or so more on top
of that price sadly that's just the way it is. Now they're more interesting and I
feel probably the best model considering for value for money is going to be the
Mi 8 Se model, the're even copying Apple's naming scheme here this one has
the snapdragon 710 so that should be a good chipset its performance will be I
believe very similar to a Snapdragon 820 but the best thing about it is it's got
a smaller screen five point eight eight inches it still has the knotch sadly but
AMOLED panel too but it's only gonna be about 300 USD dollars in China so that
that one's priced really well I'm for me that's the most interesting model now
we'll be checking out all of these different models in my channel at some
point I aim to get the standard edition as soon as possible hopefully about on
the 8th or 10th of June so stay tuned to the channel for that now these models
are all going to come hopefully but probably not actually ship with MIUI 10
that was also just announced so there has some notification changes just
different aesthetics to it a few little tweaks it'll still be based on I believe
Android 8.1 and the phone is probably going to actually ship that
with MKUI 9.5 so let me know in the comments what do you think about the new
Mi 8, is it exciting? is it a boring release? Is it a clone of the iPhone 10
thank you so much for watching this video and I do hope to catch you back
with my next one bye for now.