so right here I have my Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 for unboxing and to check this out in
greater detail my first hands-on. SO it's the successor to the me mix from last year
which I reviewed now that was the phone that rekindled the trend really to
started again the trend of going for bezel-less phones that sharp started quite
a while back but now it's very popular in 2017 with all those latest releases
including the iPhone 10 and the Samsung Galaxy s8 all trying to slim those
bezels down and make phones bezel less but we still have bezels on this now
having a look at the press images I noticed that it could even be the fact
that on this model to success so the bezels are slightly larger but we'll
check that out and we've also got less battery capacity on this so they've gone
from four thousand four hundred million powers to only three thousand four
hundred which is slightly disappointing no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack but the
size of it now is a little bit more manageable for most people so instead of
being six point four inches which was rather large it is now five point nine
nine inches and the screen it's not Super AMOLED or anything that it's still
LCD should look pretty good though with those smaller at least the chin on the
bottom and then the top the earpiece was under criticism as well for not sounding
so great I didn't particularly like it in my review or the rear camera which
didn't have any optical image stabilization but now with this model we
have a sony IMX three eight six and it has full access optical image
stabilization and we also have a new redesigned earpiece so anyway let's get
this unboxed and have a look at it in greater detail so I lost my typical
unboxing knife and I just had to get this makeshift one for now so it's not
the 64 gigabyte version I have but in fact the 256 gigabyte one which is great
all right so there we go I'm not too sure what that is I don't read Chinese
so I start off with the accessories here we have a type C cable the power supply
here just switched in there quite nicely and this is rated to 12 volts 1.5 amps
maximum and the phone here now there should be a case as well included which
looks like it's gonna be here so this is the case so just like the first version
the me max also came with a very nice case in fact was a live the one this one
doesn't look to be liver so some tall the adapter therefore type c2 3.5
millimeter headphone jack such a shame that they are removing these jacks on
these phones and it looks like yeah it doesn't seem to be litter but a hard
plastic this time around so a little bit cheaper the case there and has a gray
kind of finish to it rubberized paint job overall it's not
too bad looks nice and it even covers the buttons there so it has this
protective slip around it you can see that this is where the NFC antennas
going to be in this location here that they've marked out all right that looks
very nice feels solid so the frame on this one is made out of metal now there
is a special edition model that will have the whole thing out of ceramics so
the only ceramic it on this is just this rare on here that looks like it's going
to be a bit of a fingerprint magnet although at the moment it's not too bad
so on the back here we have that 12 megapixels sony IMX
386 camera now the lens protrudes here which is a little bit ugly and to top it
off with the ugliness they've put gold around it which I'm not particularly
fond of I wish this was black but nevermind that's not too bad there's the
fingerprint reader and we have a dual tone LED flash so along the bottom of
the device you see the two antenna strips there we have a microphone
loudspeaker the type-c port of course and this right here is the 5 megapixel
camera so still located in the Chinn now the chin of it or the bottom
bezel is now a 12 percent smaller according to xiaomi now the aperture of
this front facing camera is 2.2 and we'll have to check out the quality of
that to see if they've improved that over the previous generation but more on
that later on so on the top left you'll find the dual SIM tray here now this
takes two nano Sims there is no microSD card support on this mobile but with 256
gigabytes of internal storage that is not going to be an issue for me then
along the top two antenna lines secondary microphone and our earpiece
now it's still not a traditional earpiece here because the speakers
located internally the sound is then transmitted through that gap here but
hopefully it will sound better than the Memex but I'll report back on that in my
full and final review on this model and lastly on the right side metal volume up
and down and power buttons here they've got a good feel to them they do not
rattle around at all which is great so overall it has a premium build quality
to it and you can see that or really I'm getting a lot of fingerprints and
smudges on this ceramic back and in hand feels good easy access to those buttons
and a lot more comfortable than the Memex due to its slightly smaller size
so without the camera bulge 7.7 millimeters and then with it it comes
out to be 8.6 so it's almost a millimeter more that camera bump on the
rear and weighs a hundred and eighty eight grams so have a look at the case
now which is perfectly designed for this phone of course so the cutouts are on
the right places all open at the bottom but it does protect the corners if you
end up dropping it so this should just clip in I think like so and you can see
there that those buttons and they still work great good level of protection
although that screen really isn't protected but a very nice case and you
can see that looks really quite decent and in hand feels a lot better gives me
more confidence that I'm not going to drop it because the ceramic material
really is quite slippery and if you are wondering yes the case does protect the
camera lens so if you place it facedown like
the lens is just not going to touch it due to the clearance there you can see
the case is slightly higher than the lens itself which is great all right so
it is just powering up now and you can see that yes there are still bezels
there in fact it doesn't have that same wow factor
the me mix dead because if you have a look at that basil effect let's measure
that and I'm curious so the top of it it looks like it's going to be
approximately 3.5 millimeters and those side bezels are around also three point
five millimeters so that's far from being what I would call basalis which
would probably only like a millimeter or a millimeter a half or something so me
ui8 half-expected this because me oh nine is still in beta so we have English
or Chinese options and Tibetan I think some other language is there but not a
multi-language ROM so I'll just skip ahead from this part and get right into
it so I think there are a few reviews saying it came with me ui9 not yet but
later on it will okay I'm gonna set up a fingerprint now so first we need to put
in a pin this is typical normal ok the Chinese keyboard so this is an annoying
thing here so once you get the global version with the global ROM then you
won't have this here because it'll just be in either your own European languages
or English whatever you want there so okay I'm just gonna set up my super
secure pin here it's like a fingerprint time the reader is located just here of
course below the camera module so I didn't actually mention that before
sorry but it was pretty obvious so place my finger there and have to do this now
I think it's ten times and done okay go with the default themes set up so that
is great it's loading up now and just turn it off check how it unlocks so it
should unlock read and learn straightaway which it did that is very
quick
that is pretty much instant they're really good so first impressions of the
screen here okay I had a bit of a rant about the bezels no it's not business
but it doesn't look too bad but it does remind me a lot of the LG G 6 or the
Samsung Galaxy s8 does the way of it and Xiaomi have clearly used a darker
background here to try and make the bezels look even a little bit smaller
there so we have a look at the settings can see they've got this new summary
menu here in me UI 8.5 that it's running the current version actually I'll just
show you that ROM too so there it is that's the one that they call stable but
I'll connect up to the internet and download any updates if they are pushing
them out or ready for this device so it does have Android 7.1.1
and see the resolution the specs they put some of the information there for us
which is great but if you just go along here to all specs then you get the
typical menu that I'm used to seeing here and we can see the security patch
level is from July and for those of you that want to know the panel information
there it is right there you can see the panel and in the back camera we already
knew what it was the IMX three eight six front cameras an omni vision ovie fifty
six seventy five free available storage 241 gigabytes on the 256 gigabyte model
so there is an update straight off the bat that I've got a download which is
1.4 gigabytes and if you're wondering where the notification LED is well here
it is down in the chin because there's nowhere else to put it on this phone so
looking at the display so far it seems good to me you'll notice when you're
looking at sixteen by nine content that you're going to get these borders either
side here and that is typical of these types of screens so they have to do that
otherwise you can I think maybe there's an option later on to stretch that
probably to get it to go to the whole screen and also we do have those
on-screen buttons there which minimize and kind of get themselves out of the
way there at least which isn't too bad now when looking at the ROM here you'll
notice that there is no Google Play that's because this is the Chinese
version so it doesn't come installed on this ROM but if you get later the global
ROM version or someone flashes it over it will come with that already built
into the ROM now there are quite a few blow
we're applications but from experience you can remove I think most of them you
can see under more apps huge amount of blight that is crammed on here they even
started putting some Microsoft applications on there so even further
bloating it up a bit but they should hopefully all be removable and it looks
like they will be so I'll go through and clean that up too later on before my
full review because I hate having all that extra bloat and for those
interested here is the antutu score so almost 180 thousand which is on par with
other Snapdragon 835 devices with the Adreno 540 now so far in my initial
testing here the ROM performance seems to be really good I haven't noticed any
bugs yet but it's early days yet I'll use it probably for around about a week
before I post my full review now I have installed Google Play if you want to
know how to get that it's just a matter of moving some files over onto the phone
and then through the back up menu system you can restore that and what you're
doing is restoring Google contacts seeing Play services the framework and
Google Play Store there and it's all working and performance of that as well
seems to be very smooth and quick as you'd expect so have a listen to loud
speaking out but before we give you a demonstration I've just discovered that
I didn't expect this there actually is audio that comes out
of the top earpiece so it acts like a sick injury fullen speakers not quite as
good as my me max - for example which uses both of those speakers but anyway
let's have a listen to it
okay so you can hear that that front facing speaker that little gap that
they've got that it's not very loud but hardly adds anything but it's better
than nothing I've noticed that at one hundred percent volume though the
speaker is distorting a little bit overall it's quite decent the loudness
that is putting out now if you're not fond of the on-screen buttons at least
having them showing up all the time you can get them to auto hide and to do that
it's just to go into additional settings here then you'll find buttons and then
at the top hide soft buttons and you'll see now that I don't have the on-screen
buttons showing 24/7 so I just need to swipe up for them to appear again and
that's how you get your home button but it does make things I feel look a little
bit cleaner a little nicer but it's a real shame that Xiaomi couldn't actually
incorporate Hardware ones in this space here I know we haven't got a lot of
space because you've got the camera down here and have also got the notification
LED so that was probably why it wasn't possible for them to do that so this has
the same sensor as the me6 but unlike them e6 it's got four access optical
image stabilization which is really good that's going to benefit video low-light
photo performance as well so in the options here everything's standard here
according to the camera app that me ui8 users Gnomeo a nine I think I made a few
tweaks and changes there now we don't have that beautifying mode because this
does not have dual cameras on the rear of course it's just got the single one
there which I prefer I'd have that an optical image stabilization instead of
just the dual cameras so manual mode we can tweak the white balance focus we can
override that exposure time and then the ISO and under video normally they don't
give us a lot of options here let's see what we've got we've got
slow-mo time-lapse and then settings by default video quality will always be
full HD but you can see we are still missing in 2017 60 frames per second
1080p come on where is it we really do need to have that everyone else has got
that in their flagships and then focus mode continue autofocus is by default
but you can override that to tap in case we do run into problems with the
like focus hunting which is being plaguing these phones for so long
hopefully fingers crossed it's not going to be happening and focus will not be an
issue on this but I'm going to go outside now while the light is good take
a few photos and some video sample from both front and rear cameras so let's
check out my samples now
so this is the rear camera here shooting in 4k with the default settings so
continual autofocus is on and it's doing a pretty good job to take out any shake
that optical image stabilization on the IMX 386 walk along a little you can see
that the stabilization is doing a reasonably good job a little bit shaky
here and there because it doesn't also incorporate digital stabilization like
other Mobile's we sample like the iPhones or the galaxy is 7 & 8 by zs8
sorry that has that in 4k so the focus seems to be a little bit more controlled
here it doesn't seem to be pulsing in and out all the time but I'm still not
convinced that is actually locking on to things properly so it might be wise just
to override it in the settings there there we go see that pulsed in and out
then so it seems like the focus may be a bit of an issue still on this which is
sad to see but it's a lot better definitely
than what the me mix was like so this is a sample now from that front facing
camera so 5 megapixels if 2.2 aperture quality seems right but I have no idea
whether this is 720p or 1080p until I get it on my computer because there's no
settings I can't change it you can't with your resolution but I roll so far
looks reasonably good ok so that's just a preview there and my unboxing of the
me mix 2 it's looking promising but I must say it just doesn't have that same
well factor when I first unbox this like the mean mix tube did because that was
something new but now this isn't really new is it now the business designs are
everywhere and that is the thing of 2017 so obviously I've got a lot of work to
do with this I've got to use it I've got to test the core quality battery life
I'm a little bit concerned about because it's a powerful chipset and they'll size
the battery down now to only three thousand four hundred milliamp hours
which isn't exactly super large so the positives odda the design is premium
it's very nice it is a fingerprint magnet the camera okay the quality I
haven't it's too early already judged it looks a lot better though then
definitely what to me Mex is I can say that front-facing camera video quality
looks a little average and the photo quality too doesn't seem as good as
other flagships so they're falling behind a little bit there we are also
missing things like waterproofing and of course that 3.5 millimeter headphone
jack gone I don't think we're ever gonna see it back again but hey you know we're
moving over to digital they're getting rid of the analog that's their excuse
and if their excuse was to waterproof the phone then why doesn't have an IP
rating no I'm not going to be testing it I will not make that error like I did
with them e6 so yes I will be back in my full review I do hope to catch you back
then well I will fully test everything out I will have a separate gaming review
as well and if you want to see more on the camera perhaps a camera comparison
against my Samsung Galaxy s7 then please let me know in the comments
and if I do have time I will try to get that out I will also have the me Note 3
that's going to be here on Monday for unboxing and I will start to review that
one after this mobile so do keep an eye on my channel for that and if you do
have any questions please let me know down in the comments thank you so much
for watching this video bye for now