Hi guys Chris here with Xiaomi's Mi 6x so this could possibly be the meet a -
we don't really know that it has not been confirmed by Xiaomi at this point
but based on the fact that the 5x turned out to be the A1 it's quite possible so
this mobile here from them has a focus on being slim light with good cameras
it's a mid-range er it has a mid-range chipset in here although the Snapdragon
636 is almost about as fast as this one here not a big difference when you look
at antutu scores so it is powered by the Snapdragon 660 has Adreno 512 GPU you
get 4 gigabytes of RAM or 6 now my model has the 6 gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes
of storage up to 128 it has a 3030 mini up our batteries so because they've
slimmed the body down on this it is not as large as the redmi note series so
they rid me note for the redmi note 5 that has 4,000 an hour battery sizes on
there and yes that of course translate into less on screen time I'm gonna
mention that here at the start of the video because I believe a lot of people
want to know that information straight away so with my testing this one here
you can get around 7 hours of on-screen time whereas when I did continual use of
the phone on the redmi note 5 I managed to get about 9 hours of on-screen time
so there's a big difference there so that translates into real world use on
the redmi note 5 at least 2 days for most people this one here I believe is a
two day phone depending on your use so if you're quite heavy to moderate use
you may have to charge it every night because it's just not gonna be able to
do a full two days which is a shame but the better life is still decent
considering that battery capacity so the screen on the front of it it's an IPS
panel it is 2160 by 1080 and that's two by one aspect ratio of course it's a
bright screen decent blacks on here not as dark of course as an AMOLED or
optical OLED pan or anything like that sunlight legibility as well as okay not
the greatest there now it does have good color reproduction the whites
out-of-the-box the calibration is a little bit cool white but if you set it
to the standard setting it looks a lot better there and overall it is a nice
screen and we've got 2.5 degrass corners as well so they're smoothed off nice now
up the top here we've got a 20 megapixel camera now this can take some of those
portrait photos as well here's a sample so it will stitch in the background
reasonably well but if you have a look around my face it's not perfect the rear
camera does a better job of that now this camera like the redmi note 5 tends
to overexpose a little bit but it is much better I feel than the camera and
the redmi note 5 pro we've also got an LED front-facing flash on here - this is
4500 K and up the top and IR transmitter a secondary microphone used for noise
cancellation and yes there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on this there
was also no micro SD card support so that is a deal-breaker I realize for a
lot of people and I'm not too sure why xiaomi is doing this I'm not agreeing
with their design choices here with this model I feel that most people would be
happy with a slightly thicker build maybe one millimeter more less ugly
camera bummer just sticks out about two millimeters but giving us 1000 when an
hour's more of battery a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and micro SD card support
they would have created then I feel one of the best possible phones around for
the price so this one's priced around 300 us and I feel for what you're
getting it is a very decent phone apart from of course those obvious cons here
so the operating system due to this six gigabytes of RAM that's very smooth I
haven't encountered any bugs multitasking is great and I won't go
into details here with me why I'm pretty sure most people who are watching this
will be familiar with xiaomi's custom UI so it's their own skin on top of that it
gives you a lot of settings and a lot of things to tweak and the old days back in
the older versions I think was me UI 607 I didn't really like it that much but
I've grown to like it and I do like some of the tweaks they have with this
operating system one of them is on screen full-screen jest as I said say
if you ever controller so you just swipe up to go home
swipe in home for recent apps swiping from the left of the right is to go back
and it works quite well and one thing it does save on is those often accidental
presses when I use on-screen keyboards with the on-screen menu keys I
accidentally tap recent apps or home and when you're in full-screen mode of
course that does not happen at all but it is annoying to see that with that
bezel down the bottom the chin we have that we don't have capacitive menu keys
down there they still have room for it so really wish that Xiaomi would add
them there now that loudspeaker down the bottom it actually sounds not bad but
it's just the single speaker there here's a sample of what it sounds like
since we're on the topic of sound also wanted to comment on the call quality
good no problems good noise cancellation it does not sound muffled like the meet
to s which is great so--but audio quality even that loudspeaker is better
than their flagship me to s which is good and that is also bad for the me two
years I don't know what is going on with that model I hope there's going to be a
fix for that so call quality great wireless reception and cool reception is
also good no problems with the 4G speeds no problems with wireless speeds either
there so that is all a positive GPS as well works well and I won't lock onto
every single satellite it sees but it does always stay around 3 to 4 meters of
accuracy so taking a look at those cameras on the rear so they have hype
them up a little bit now one thing that's not available at the time of my
review here is the AI scene detection mode that should be on here but the
current camera app and the firmware that I am on doesn't have that so it will not
automatically detect the scene if there's a cat there it will display a
cap like the mimics 2's does so that is missing but besides that from these
samples that I've been showing you now you can see it can take a really good
photo now compared to the redmi note 5 this camera i feel is better it's just
overall better contrast to get more details in the shadows and even with
video as well it's got more details so if you're interested in seeing which
one's better check out my side-by-side camera comparison with the redmi note 5
and the me 6x here but here are some video samples now so you can record in
4k and EIS is enable but it doesn't tend to do a very good job or is simply just
not working so it's a little bit shaky but overall the audio quality is really
quite good and I do like the video quality this is definitely up there with
flagship grade not bad at all now it does of course lack optical image
stabilization we don't have this but I will show you a fix to get some really
nice steady 4k video so to get that really super smooth
steady pixel like stabilization you just need to use a program called open camera
an able electronic image stabilization and this is the result here so this is
handheld I'm not using a gimbal hold it really still and it looks amazing like
it's on a tripod this is really good and look at the stabilization now gonna walk
down these steps really impressive and I really do like the video quality you can
get out of the me 6x and a very quick low-light sample here you can see that
the focus has a little bit more trouble here with these current lighting
conditions so this is video that's being shot on the front facing cameras you get
1080 P maximum even though it's a 20 megapixel sense I feel maybe they could
have added 1440p maybe even 4k to this but it's in ATP that's alright for a
front-facing camera if you're not too bad quality you can see when I'm in the
shade here is really quite good not bad the audio quality as well as good and
low light with the front-facing camera as well it's not doing too bad at all so
when it comes to gaming performance the snapdragon 616 with the Adreno 512 it
runs all the games at 1080p which this is basically running okay some games
will stretch out to the 2160 most modern titles will every single game I have
tested which is World of Tanks shadowfied three pub G it's all smooth
with very playable frame rates you do see the occasional little stutters here
and there but that even happens with the Adreno 630 and that's what the
Snapdragon 805 system Android thing optimizations not that wonderful but all
games ran really well so I'm pleased with the performance with gaming so
overall this is a really good phone I do like it there's a lot of positives on it
but of course those deal break as I mentioned so the build quality is great
it's got a really good screen it's very fast it's fluid
really good at multitasking the front-facing camera can overexpose a
little bit the audio quality in video is much better than the Memex 2s for
example and if you want really good for case stabilization just use open camera
like I showed you with the redmi note 5 so you get really
stable footage there now the focus is not quite as good on this camera as the
Remy Notes 5 because it doesn't have that dual pixel phase detection
autofocus it's just phase detection autofocus so now and then you will see a
tiny little bit of focus hunting but not like the previous generation of shammies
now the operating system ok Android 8.1 that's great we're on the latest version
almost the latest version and their security patches are coming out with us
they're patching it they're working on it haven't encountered any bugs so it's
all looking good for this mobile apart from the fact that the camera bump is
quite large that will put off a few people I feel but the main thing of
course is no 3.5 min a headphone jack maybe not so much of a deal-breaker for
some but no micro SD card support so they really should have put this that on
their shell me and that is really the only thing that puts me off I still feel
the best bang for your buck has to be the redmi note 5 that is still my
favorite even though this does have better cameras on it you get the better
battery life or get an FM tuner 3.5 and I mean a headphone jack and you also get
micro SD card support on the redmi note 5 not to mention it's a good 70 or 60 US
cheaper so that I feel is the one to go for but if you must have better
low-light photography then get yourself of course the 6x. Thanks a lot for
watching this review if you haven't checked out my review of the Mi Mix 2S
that's right up here and please check out my review of Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 up
here as well and subscribe to the channel for more up and coming videos
because next week I'm going to have the a me laptop which is their gaming laptop
sorry so that is looking really good and I'm excited to get hold of that one