Okay so it has been a busy month here for me with Xiaomi releases and we have
one more to check out this is the Mi 6x also probably known as the A2 but A2
has not been announced yet but it could be coming in just a few months and it
will be identical hardware wise to this mobile phone at least it should be going
by the 5x and then a1 they were the same exact hardware but of course they change
the software on it so that model will have Android One stock Android this has
Android 8.1 on here with me UI nine point five skin on top of it so this is
a mobile phone that has a two by one aspect ratio screen it is five point
nine nine inches the resolution is 2160 by 1080 my models got six gigabytes of
RAM and 64 gigabytes of storage and the chipset is the snapdragon 660 it's got
dual cameras on the rear one is 12 megapixels the other is 20 used for the
depth effect portrait mode the blurred backgrounds and in low-light there's
also a 20 megapixel front-facing camera as well with an LED flash too so let's
get this unwrapped here and check it out in greater detail so I bought this
particular model here from Aliexpress the seller is goldway Hong Kong and
asked them to send it completely factory sealed for me so if you don't ask them
to do this they will actually open them up and then we'll install Google Play
for you okay so let's get this unboxed
so we have some Chinese writing there I have no idea what that says at all if
you let us know in the comments so here we go this as of course you can see wow
that camera first impressions look how much that protrudes wow that's a little
bit more than normal it's the first thing that's actually hit me but that
bill quality seems really good very very similar to the redmi note 5 in fact they
share the same front it seems pretty much exactly the same isn't it
take a look at the weight of it so it is one point six nine grams the
redmi note 5 is one point eight three grands but that's got 1,000 man-hours
more of battery so seven point five millimeters thin without that massive
camera bump i would have rather one millimeter more and less camera bump so
let's take a look at it oh wow so yeah that is massive and why is that
surprised when i first unboxed it it's because look at this this is the Remy
note 2 again so side by side you can see there the difference in the bump that
one only sticks out by a millimeter and this one is almost 2 millimeters there
and when you have a look at both the back of these devices they're very very
similar but of course we don't have the full unibody housing on the redmi note 5
so before i go over the design of the phone let's just take a look at the
charger we get included so obviously it is a chinese-style the 2 prong now this
has rated to 5 volts 2 amps so it's not Qualcomm quick charge the output of it
but it should the phone support quick charge 3 I will test that out and here
of course we have the cable so this one is a grayish color al USB 2 type C and
right in here I've just got a couple of things of course we have that adapter
that we're going to need so these 3.5 millimeter to type C and they do include
a case so just like the roomie Note 5 we can eat one of these TPU style cases the
quality of these cases is okay I mean it's good for just a first temporary
case before you get yourself something a little better so along the top here we
have an IR transmitter and the secondary microphone use for voice calls and noise
cancellation so down the bottom we have a loudspeaker microphone type C port 2
Torx screws holding the unibody housing in place you can just see the antenna
lines here so they're quite discreet a little bit hard to make out but you can
just see them and I'll rear fingerprint read it now this is metal here on the
back it's quite slippery matte coating on it
so you do want to use that case really so you've got more grip show you that
camera module again I just still can't get over how much that sticks out it is
quite odd so one of these senses is 20 megapixels
the other is 12 we have a dual tone LED flash there in the middle very similar
to the setup that is on the Remmy note 5 and that SIM tray just takes 2 nano Sims
no micro SD card support unfortunately so just powering it on for
the first time get rid of that screen protector that's just used in transit so
me ua9 and just English at the moment there will be a global wrong for this
out later on so to quickly point out here I've got the 6 gigabytes of RAM
that I ordered of course Android 8.1 and we have just over 51 gigabytes of free
storage and to quickly show you the camera sensor information so we have to
Sony I am x3 seven sixes there the 20 megapixel sensors then there main sensor
on the rear is the I am x4 86 okay so I just ran treble check this has requested
a lot and it's only system partition a so not a and B like the black shark now
I point this out a lot in all of my videos literally if you're buying the
Chinese ROM version didn't expect this Chinese bloatware now most of it you can
remove which is good you just simply need to uninstall those bloatware apps
so here's a look at the antutu score so it's the phone right here in the middle
this is the 6 X this is the redmi note 5 and it shows you just how good the
snapdragon 636 really is this in fact is my preferred phone my favorite phone
right now at the moment at the time of this video and this is the snapdragon
625 in the Memex so you can see quite a bit slower here and these two here a
Snapdragon 805 so we have the Black Shark and the mix 2's right here and to
answer that question about quick charging yes it does support Qualcomm
quick charge 3 you just have to use another charger because the one included
is not a quick charge 3 charger so quickly to comment on my first
impressions of the ROM performance it's good I've encountered no bugs so fast
it's very fluid very fast switching between apps and things I had to install
Google of course because it doesn't come with
it and it's a bit of a lengthy process I just actually what I did is restore a
backup from the redmi note 2 v and that was easier easiest and quickest way to
get set up there but it's very really good the performance I can't really tell
too much of a difference between the Snapdragon 636 and a 660 they really do
feel to me at least in the UI about the same performance wise taking a look at
the screen now so I've got it side-by-side here with the ribbon note 5
because they're basically the same kind of screen so they're both IPS panels
both have 2160 by 1080 resolution and they really look identical to me I can
see no real difference in them that brightness seems to be exactly the same
I do believe it's the same exact hardware panel they have used in here so
this is the the 6x right here and overall it's a good screen deep enough
blacks for an IPS you're not going to get any deeper not deeper as AMOLED deep
no of course not but it is good I feel for the price of this phone the category
is the mid-range is still a decent screen here and I roll looking good the
panel so we just have the one loudspeaker on the bottom there's no
loudspeaker in there earpiece there whatsoever so I'll play your sample
track now and the output of this it's loud it sounds decent enough and it's
even better than the mimics 2's flagships loudspeaker
having look at some gaming now so this is the new title Dungeon Hunter
champions Dhoni just released and it's running is perfectly fine as you'd
expect for the Adreno 512 GPU I'll demonstrate the fingerprint reader so
it's always on you just simply touch it unlocks really really quick this is as
fast as the Remi note 5 the ribbon note 5 + the root note 5 the Chinese version
the same exact fingers into hardware and it takes under half a second really
really quick so I'll quickly demonstrate face unlocking now this is not as secure
and it's saying it cannot recognize me there we go it took a little while it's
because I've got the camera in the way but I've also noticed that it doesn't
seem quite as good as the roomie Note 5 for some reason to face unlocking so no
first hands on and unboxing from me would be complete without having a look
at the camera so me UI 9.5 camera up here yes we do have portrait mode on the
front camera we also do have a LED flash here so you can turn that on and see
right there it's very bright now this is a 4500 K LED flash so almost neutral
white there neutral White's considered to be 5000 K Kelvin and if you have a
look at the video modes here well on the front-facing camera it's only 1080p on
the front-facing camera on the rear we get up to 4k so the settings here very
similar to other Shami markers like the redmi note 5 4k at least we do have
image stabilization is enabled but again i don't actually think it's working it
doesn't look to work at all and 4k at the moment this is a problem I've
discovered with the mimics 2s and even the black shark mobile phone doesn't
seem to work either but I'll give you some samples now from the camera a
couple of portrait mode shots as well and some video and now this is a sample
from the front-facing camera so it's 20 megapixels I think the aperture is if
2.2 or 2.0 and yes my face is a little bit overexposed here at least we're high
actually getting some details of the clouds you can see so the
is doing better than the black shark and the me mix to s so right now I'm
shooting using the stock camera application and it doesn't have
electronic image stabilization even though it's enabled it's clearly not
working so you have to use open camera for that I'll give you a sample of that
but just look at this guy here what is this idiot doing it's really close to
buildings and things to me that just looks like a recipe for disaster so this
is now we're hoping Cameron you can see a huge difference so very similar to the
redmi note 5 got really good stability here even though it's only electronic
there's a bit of wind noise of course being picked up on the microphones is
really windy here but i raw impressive stability here not bad considering I am
walking
so there we go that is the me 6xn first impressions well it's got a decent
screen it's really good it's just as good as the note 5 and the battery life
well we know it's gonna be less than the note 5 don't view because it's a
thousand milliamp hours less which is a shame they made it one millimeter
slimmer to give us less battery life and a larger camera bulge I don't understand
Shelby's engineers their designers why they went with that choice
okay the unibody is nice it's got a Type C port on here but I do believe so far
with my time on with us which is basically just half a day now that I
feel the readme note 5 is still the one to go for that one has a better camera
main camera focus is much better better electronic image stabilization it also
has FM radio microSD card support a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack show me if
they combined the unibody housing the type C port with the redmi note 5 they
would have the best phone then all-rounder but they're giving us these
segregated different releases which doesn't really make sense to me but
overall it's looking good if this is going to be the show me a toe it looks
good but there's just those cons there that I listed but other than that the
build quality is excellent it does look like it does have at least good camera
as you can see it will take a very nice photo with both of those cameras you can
get the depth effect now I will test out the battery life gaming a lot more tests
will be coming in the full review I also wanted to comment on I've got the black
sharp on hand at the moment the Black Shark is their gaming device from Xiaomi
but I can only review one mobile at a time for a week I need to use it for a
week so which one do you want to see first do you want to see the me 6x first
or the Black Shark please let me know down in the comments if you liked this
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