Hey guys I just wanted to give you an update here with the Mi Max 2 because
there's been a huge amount of comment lots of questions in my unboxing video
so I wanted to just give you my initial impressions and how it is after my first
24 hours full on with it and I found that it is really good so far enjoying
this phone it's just a refined Mi Max and really so much better there's a
couple of things that surprised me and one of them is the performance now I'll
show you demos and things like that and the full review but just the overall ROM
to me feels exactly the same if not I would say leaning towards more faster
than the me max that I have which is maybe because it's got an additional one
gigabyte of RAM where that models got three this has four it's made the OS
seem a little bit faster now the Snapdragon 625 isn't exactly a beast, a
monster but I find that the performance is adequate you will now see now and
then see some stutters in the UI and other things in here to that you going
to see this chinese turn the rom but it's got the latest Android ROM on here
and there were some questions about Google Play is google syncs contact
syncs working is gmail working because that was not working on the stock rom
led to me six so it is working I have no problems I've got my context all synced
I've got Gmail syncing working just fine first it pops up with an error and what
you need to do is just go into play store or find Google services update
that and make sure you enable all the permissions and how you do that and give
enabling all the permissions as in the settings menu here to go through
permissions and then you go ahead and find your Google services framework and
make sure you just I just enabled literally everything there and the
context as well to make sure that that's going to work
give it permissions to modify your contacts and the other thing too is make
sure that you set it on auto start so these are the things I have for auto
start which is the G board the contact sync and Play services and then the
Google services framework no problems no errors I'm surprised on the ROM because
the Mi pad 3 ROM was horrible it was unstable and so was the MI 6 ROM I
could crash it I can't crash this from I haven't seen it crash and it has been
really good so a lot of questions about the battery life and really just one
word phenomenal it is so good so hoping running battery whereas it should be
here I'm doing a bit of multitasking at the moment but I still need to go
through my whole couple of cycles that I like to do before I post my review now
here nothing amazing him screen on times been on for an hour and 20 minutes but
hang on look at my battery percent there you can see hopefully that's 95 percent
and right down here screen on time 17 hours and seven minutes now
unfortunately I don't have any screenshots from the Android hardware
info there to back up that claim because what happened is I was just about to
take the screenshot I was at 5% took a voice call as soon as I entered the
voice call the phone then powered off completely so I couldn't capture that
but that was gaming that was using Chrome which I've been doing at the
moment and I've got an hour there but it's looking like I would say 15 16
hours of screen on time and that's with me with a fixed brightness I leave it
about just over 50% which you can see in this video I find to be quite bright
now one thing though that is with wireless on the whole time okay so if I
go on to data then it's going to lower that it's not going to be as good but
even so the Snapdragon 625 is a super efficient chipset I really like it and
I'm so looking forward to checking out these Snapdragon 630 when I can get my
hands on a mobile that has that so when it charges alright it does get quite hot
now charge times I can not give you an accurate amount just yet but it's
looking approximately two and a half hours maybe less so very quick to charge
considering this has got a five thousand three hundred million power battery but
it heats up I've got my thermal probe out and checked it out it got up to a 37
degrees C so quite warm to the touch that's the only time I've started
getting hot now the build quality is just so much better than my me max
which you can see here it does me max has had quite a beating
look at all this damage here that's because I've dropped it a lot hopefully
I won't be dropping this but I do find the larger phone can be a little bit
clumsy it fits in my pocket okay
another couple of areas I wanted to mention too was the voice call quality
has improved over the me max because it now has that different earpiece now when
you get a call coming in the loudspeaker will also work here and in the bottom so
it's a lot louder you're going to hear your calls come through and also just to
mention if I go back into others game here where are we
ash felt that I just started turn the speaker's up a little and although I
can't play that in music track because it'll give me copyright problems so this
handles just the mids this speaker here meds and the bass really where this is
treble and a little bit of meds but most of the deeper lower tones are coming out
of here and I find it works well so for gaming and just Internet performance
overall ROM performance switching i've got chrome here and i found it to be
really quite good everything smooth the the performance like i mentioned just
before in the start compared to my mean axe i feel is better
even though it is a lower chipset that according to benchmarks say is slower
but i think it's got something to do maybe that extra bit of ram and I'm
still Google keyboard a dumped the me the showing me keyboard I hate it it's
not very good but this one's okay but things like web browsing on this
mobile it's just so nice like why would I need a seven inch or 8 inch tablet
even when I've got a tablet in my pocket and you can run the other desktop mode
here of course in Chrome and there we go so you have a lot come you can see that
it's a little bit choppy just then because it's a super image heavy but
overall everything to me seems pretty good there's a little bit of lag there
so that's probably where the slower Snapdragon 65 will show up you can see
just then that it's not as good but I can get lag like that using the v6
whether it's Snapdragon 83 5 so the main positives of this phone so far for me
are just the improved build quality it feels great it looks a little bit better
by even the bezels there around the screen I'm glad that they slim that down
see the difference there so that inner bezel even though the outer bezel now
looks a little bit wider side-by-side you can see it is a big difference but
not only that the screen just seems a little less reflective and slightly
better on the me max - they're probably because maybe the glass of used on it is
slightly different according to sources on gsm arena that it's Gorilla Glass 4
the views I happen to believe that because this thing I've dropped so many
times and I've never used a screen protector on it I hate screen protectors
and along here there is a little scratch I don't know whether you can see it
they're not too bad and if you find a little scratches so I do believe that
they have used Gorilla Glass on these mobiles and not the dragon towel version
because it's holding up really well other things I can mention here that the
cons to it well of course is the size it is bulky and it's big the camera
performance I still find to be a bit of a letdown now it could be the meat
application so I know a lot of people have mentioned they use open camera use
this camera use the other application that could be the problem there ok it is
definitely better than this it is an upgrade if you've seen my unboxing but I
find a low-light just to be over processed over sharpened low-light
photos I'll have examples and everything like
that is going to be in my full review this is just something in-between
jsut to let you know after 24 hours how I feel about using this mobile and really
I'm loving it so far and it's just the battery life on this thing is just crazy
good it is really insane I'll see if I can go
back into the battery figures they're there in performance are there's no
extra performance mode to keep people keep asking me put it on performance
mode put it on battery saving mode it's unbalanced
oh seating here on the Qualcomm chips that you only get that in menu I when
you're using the meteor tip ones anyway battery so at the moment I was just
doing a bit of Chrome I've only just recently charged it and I'm going to try
and kill the battery which is so hard so screen the biggest consumer here so one
hour 30 minutes and I've lost 6 percent battery life and I was in crime looking
at some videos and things and listening to music - by the way the quality out of
the jack also really good fingerprint unlocking is working really well so just
going to wrap up this video here but one last question that's been quite common -
in the unboxing video is which did you get so should you get the me max or
should you get the me max - I would say it really depends on what your needs are
if you want to save money straight away go for this one the max of course but
performance wise ok forget about the benchmarks I feel this one is clearly
faster maybe because of the Android serve and ROM maybe because I've got an
extra gigabyte of RAM here or it's just bit optimized the ROM this has the
global version the official global version with the OTA updates and it's ok
better life as well this thing gets I get three or four days of medium use out
of my me max and sometimes even four really depends what I'm doing of course
and this to me looks like I'm going to be getting four to five days so if you
value battery life and you don't mind having such a large mobile phone I think
this is a real winner despite having the snapdragon 6 to 5 a lot of people I just
feel you need to get over that point because it is a good chipset though
there's going to be a gaming review as well that's going to come up so you'll
see in the gaming review that yes it will have more stutters than a
snapdragon 825 or the 835 because it's only got the Adreno 506 in here so
not the most powerful so I hope to see you back in that gaming review and there
will be a full review with benchmarks 4G speeds and detailed battery stats and
charging times all of that including more on the camera and things like that
thank you so much for watching this first impressions 24 hours with the new
Mi Max 2 here.