So we got here the Xiaomi Mi Max 2 this is the successor to the Mi Max
which I've been using for the last year and I really do like this phone I've
always gone back to it because of its am innocent large screen and very good
battery life so this really isn't a success of the me max - it's more I feel
of an improved and revised version I think show me should really call this
the Mi Max S because that's really what it is because the chipset has been
downgraded to a snapdragon 625 so it is a super large mobile phone as you can
see 6.44-inch screen and when you use it as a phone you sometimes do get a few
looks like you're holding a mini tablet up to your ear well really you are
because this to me has the best features of a mobile phone and a tablet in one
and having something like this in my pocket means I don't even need to have a
7 or 8 inch tablet because I've got this right here so what has it improved on
the new model we have now a new unibody housing which is a lot stronger just
looks better feels better in hand as well slightly smaller bezels we have a
new camera, 2 loudspeakers but the overall layout of the phone as you'll
see is exactly the same so our screen is a 1080p IPS 6.44 inches has just
mentioned and it has a maximum brightness of 510 Lux
which means it is quite bright now it's not the sharpest panel because it's
1080p stretched over 6.44 inches but I do find it'd be fine if you look close
enough you will see the pixels on there and the screen feels quite well and
direct sunlight even though it's only 510 Lux what other screens can go way up
over 600 I find it perfectly fine I'm able to send text messages make calls
and see what I'm doing on the screen clearly without issues on the top we've
got a 5 megapixel front-facing camera it's exactly the same as the me Mac so
it's got an f2 point to aperture and the quality of it might have been
slightly tweaked via software but as you'll see later on it's not
really the best front-facing camera ambient light sensor the proximity sensor
the air piece has changed because it now incorporates a loudspeaker the quality
of it during voice calls I find to be slightly better than the me max down the
bottom our capacitive backlit menu keys along the bottom we've got a slight
change here now it's unibody we don't have the plastic along the bottom like
you do with the me max the microphone and loudspeakers here now the
loudspeaker handles mostly meds and lows type C port and two Torx screws holding
things in so if you drop it the whole thing shouldn't split apart which used
to happen with the Mi Max finger put readers in the same location as the me
max it works really well and unlocks every single time for me no problems
with that so on the rear we've got this new camera module now so this is a Sony
IMX 386 the same exact sensor that's in the Mi 6 but it does not have optical
image stabilization the aperture is f 2.0 and it does have a dual tone LED
flash to the left of it so a big improvement here over the me Max's 16
megapixel camera on the top the 3.5mm headphone jack, really
good quality out of this there's no static there's no interference. Secondary
microphone for noise cancellation and video and IR transmitter and these
buttons here these are made out of metal and they do not rattle around they don't
make any noise which is great lastly on the left side as the sentry
which will take either two Sims or you have to give up one of those Sims if you
want to use a microSD card and note that if you live in Europe there is no band
20 LTE support unfortunately so compared to the previous model the bull quality has
improved significantly it just feels so much better in hand with those rounded
corners and a more of a quality device to without having the plastic at the
bottom which you can see here we still have the plastic strips there on the me
max which is for the antenna reception now the antenna lines are part of the
design on the max 2 and the internal black bezel has now been haft on the max
- you can see on the max there there was quite ugly a bit of an eyesore so it's
good to see them slimming that down so all you get in the box is a quick
charger here which is quick charge three spec because it's 12 volts 1.5 amps and
it will fully charge the phone in approximately two hours and 23 minutes
which is quite fast considering the battery capacity a type-c cable and then
a sim tool here so there is no included hits it or other extras like a case so
the ROM came with is eight point five point one this is a stable version and
unlike other phones are tested from show me this really is stable because the me6
wasn't neither was there than me 5c or the me pad 3 it's based off android
7.1.1 and the performance of it feels faster and smoother then my snapdragon
650 powered me max so getting around in things website browsing super smooth
really good good performance very happy with it now does not come with Google
Play installed you need to install that yourself but it's not too hard to do you
can see there that performance really good multitasking switching between apps
and things really don't have any problems with it whatsoever YouTube here
really quick performance it does not feel like a snapdragon 625 to me at
least when you're in the wrong now benchmarks like antutu will show that
the me max is faster of course this is on paper benchmark scores to me really
and everything it's down to the performance and maybe because it's got a
newer rom on here this of course has Android 6 still but this is the global
ROM the latest stable and this has Android 7 I just feel it's a little bit
better optimized perhaps helped by that addition of one gigabyte of memory so
even though I said that benchmarks and everything I'm still going to show you
benchmarks here because I do believe it's an important you can gauge that
between your own mobile phone and people like to see this so this is Geekbench 4
and the entry to score they just showed you and the internal storage now these
results here are faster than the me max slightly faster so each MMC 5 speck
the pc/mac school of us to work to performance I mean that's an OK score
for this chipset now this is an area that I wanted to show you that does pop
up with Gmail when you're thinking okaying this it goes away and I can use
Gmail perfectly fine wireless speeds now the way the speed and range are found to
be good now that's not the fastest the wireless range and performance is not as
good as the me 6 I found the me 6 Wireless to be one of
the best I have ever tested it has a dual antenna setup and really good range
but still good performance and here are my 4G speeds again not bad good for the
chipset GPS performance no issues with it really
ok times it wasn't as accurate as I would like to see like 3 meters but it
kept up with me walking around town later driving and testing at any car as
well no problems really I find it's fine wanted to go into a little bit more
depth here was did battery life because I believe it's one of the most important
aspects of a mobile phone more so with this combination of a Snapdragon 625 and
of course a 5300mAh battery so here I was playing this battery test 3% battery
life I had walking dead for almost 5 hours and this was subsequent brightness
Chrome for 4 hours and 24 minutes most the time was actually streaming using
YouTube and it was YouTube streaming too so I use the YouTube app and that was
almost 2 hours there so screen on time of 15 hours and 35 minutes is really
good now the screen on times that I can get out of this they are a lot faster
sorry lot bigger than the mean maximum max I can get around 20% more with this
mobile if not my as you'll see so there's the history of that the wireless
was on the whole time now I used wireless if I use my data 4G data which
I don't have a lot of then at times would be a bit less here now here we got
19 hours of screen on time which is phenomenal this is crazy I lower the
brightness here though down to 40% and there at the screen Islands is in 19
hours same kind of use I was going through my apps not out so walking dead
a shot extreme so what can get was on for three hours gaming that
as what extreme for almost two hours YouTube use chrome some of the
applications there didn't pop up and yeah 19 hours crazy battery life now to
cover the standby battery drain so when the screens off it's just sitting there
not doing anything I had 19% battery here and the time was
16 minutes past 8 when I finally lost 1% so now and then I was checking the
screen was about 4 hours later as you can see so not bad so every 4 hours are
going to lose every 4 to 5 hours about 1% battery so very good standby battery
consumption show me added a front-facing loudspeaker on there now this one
handles the meds and more the high end where the speaker at the bottom handles
more mids and lows so let's have a listen to how it sounded that it's a lot
better than the mean max
I have noticed that depending on what kind of track it is if it's super loud
like something like a game you will get some distortion coming out of the
speakers 3.5 mini headphone quality also is really good as mentioned in the start
that it's clear there's no static over there and reasonably loud volume output
now gaming performance it's not the fastest because of course it's a
Snapdragon 625 with adreno 506 GPU but it does play all of the games out there
demanding titles newer titles with at least playable framerate if you haven't
seen my gaming review then check that one out you'll see that I test a lot
more games and you will see occasional stutters now and then but overall the
best thing about it as you can game for a very long time because of the battery
life the camera here from show me hasn't changed still the same me UI eight one's
got various different modes here so video will go all the way up to 1080p
I'll show you some samples of that in just a second slow-mo is basically
useless time-lapse I don't find to be that good either both of them off of
quite poor quality and I would not be personally using them so 4k as the
maximum sitting but do you always have to keep going back and sitting out which
is quite annoying continue autofocus is enabled but as you'll see with my sample
that there are problems with the focus still now and then so not the greatest
quality over in the camera mode now the most interesting mode of course will be
manual so you can control the focus the white balance ISO and exposure time
which goes all the way up to 32 seconds as the highest so quite a long time
there to get those streaky lights and everything like that but of course
you've been wanting to use a tripod for that is a goes up to 3200 so I've got a
few samples here now to show you from the camera and both good and lower light
conditions as well as some camera samples now the front-facing camera so
you can hear it's not loud enough so I've got to turn the volume up in the
video editing process it's so quiet there's something wrong with the gain so
Xiaomi got to go and release an update here the quality is okay but I feel it's not
any better than the MI Max at all really. So this is now the rear camera 4k
you will see that now and then it does that the focus still has problems even
in these conditions here pulses in and out seems to be something very common
with show me mobile phones and their camera optimization so at the moment on
continual autofocus focusing on the ball they're back on the background then I'm
not at all happy with the focus really it should actually be set to tap to
focus to avoid these problems but is something we shouldn't have to do
you
okay guys so that is the Mi Max - I really do like it I believe it saying
all-rounded great step up from the original me max which also had great
battery life but doesn't taken things a step further of course with the
downgraded chipset which is a shame to see I would have really liked to seen a
snapdragon 660 or the 630 however 19 hours of screen on time when
I had to bite in a set to 40% that continual screen on time is just crazy
that is crazy good battery life and what that translates into for me my own
personal use is I won't have to charge this now until about every fourth or
fifth day which is great so a large screen super immersive really good for
emails for typing on the keyboard because it got a lot more screen real
estate it just makes things easier they're great for movies for YouTube now
the speakers have improved the camera has improved but it's not perfect as you
see with my video samples video quality the audio is far too low front-facing
video camera quality is still quite average it's not the greatest and then
when it comes to low-light performance from debts only IMX 386 well it's a lot
better than the original the mean max it's still not perfect so it's not going
to be a mobile phone set everyone there are the cons the obvious that it's huge
okay six point four four inches now I can fit this in my pocket luckily but
there'll be a lot of people out there that they just won't be able to
accommodate to such a large phone we also have no NFC support no Android pay
then of course and it does not support LTE band 20 so you really need to think
on that and would I buy a 7 or 8 inch tablet having such a big mobile I would
not so this is going to be replacing my me max I'm really enjoying this so far
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