hi guys Chris here back with the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 this is a follow up video one week
later a week of using the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 and I'm gonna cover a few things that
I missed out on my first video the first video was only after just a couple of
days of using the phones of this now I've used for quite a while and I'm
finding that it's a really good phone I want to cover a couple things with the
phone to that the screen really nice so no problems with this emiliya panel it's
very bright really good bonus on here now as you can see I've switched over to
the full screen gestures on this and sadly I have actually noticed from time
to time you will actually get a little bit of full screen just your leg that
sometimes comes through I will sing this a lot on me away 9.6 and sadly it's
still on me you 18 now when it normally happens is if you're not using the phone
for a while so imagine you unlock now if you wanted to unlock with using the face
unlock you always have to slide down for that with the front facing cameras so
imagine that unlocks and then you decide that I'm going to go to recent apps are
you gonna swipe up and go home then you might see a tiny little bit of a stutter
there now there were a lot of comments and people asking how does the case work
with the slider so they have to make a gap here at the bottom and that's how it
works I mean a few comments to people asking me about this gap now there is a
little gap between the slider that's about one millimeter and that doesn't
really bother me it's a tiny getting it it has to be there I think it's to stay
the way it is the design the slider mechanism on that so I'm perfectly fine
with it the only thing that bothers me sometimes a little bit is that is that
when you're playing a game for example and you haven't depressed just up and
down here with the case on it doesn't happen so the case completely stops this
but if the case wasn't on it get a tiny little bit of play just on the edge of
the screen wobbles a little bit but it's only about one millimeter and it's
really not a big issue at all now one of the things I mentioned with the case
when I did the unboxing is it just feels a little bit cheap and it's not up to
the same quality as the case that you got with the original Mix in the Mi Mix
2 and the 2s and they've gone with a plastic that's a little bit thinner and
I think the reason is because of the wireless charging they don't want it to
inhibit the charging so that's not going to be a problem with that that's
probably why they went with a thinner case with this now it doesn't actually
your prediction with the camera here I thought it did but when you light a flat
it's at about the same exact level out as the camera lens here now this is
covered with glass at least but putting it down on a table and if you move that
around a little bit then you could end up scratching the lens now in hand the
phone feels great but I do have a little bit of a complaint with this case that
if you happen to just squeeze either side of it
you sometimes hear a little bit of a creak so there is a tiny a little bit of
a flex and movement with that case so if any dust or grains of imagined sand or
something like that got in there then it would end up probably scratching around
a little bit there and of course if you happen to get something in between and
the slider then perhaps that could scratch but the slider mechanism after a
week of use it feels great and I like the way it works now a lot of questions
to people have been asking me okay if I happen to have the me macstew or the
tourist should I upgrade now if you're coming from the - for example Mimas - is
that one there I don't think you really need to upgrade it all with this phone
the only reason to go for the newer model this one of course mmx3 not for
the chip they're not not for the better live is probably for the improved selfie
cam now this camera with its 24 megapixels is a big step up over there
like sort of mimics - is so you don't have to flip the phone around anymore of
course you just have to slide it up now I don't take a lot of selfies so I don't
really actually see this camera a lot I normally just take selfies for my
reviews and the odd occasional one here and there it does have a front-facing
LED flash in here as well and we do have that secondary two megapixel camera now
here's a sample now this sample in fact I showed you with the unboxing video but
if you have a look at the details that this can capture when you zoom in that
it's really good and a greatly improved front facing camera here with the me mix
3 so that is probably the best reason if you want to be - selfie cam and you
already have or you're choosing between the mimics 2s and then this model that's
why you would go for this model right here for the improved selfie cam if
that's what you need otherwise they do look very similar when
you look at the back of them you've got the ceramic on here now the biggest
thing for me with these phones here is the weight so this is slightly here oh
it's about 25 30 grams heavier than your typical flagship it is also a little bit
thicker now I go over the thickness of this that it's up to
about nine millimeters with the camera bump and around about eight or so or
what was it eight eight point one I think so it's a slightly thicker mobile
phone computer most flagships out there but the main thing is the weight of it
now in terms of build quality it is really good but I feel that the mimics
to s just has a better build to it because you don't have the slider there
so you're not having this more susceptible lip around here now this is
a middle frame that does go around the screen so that is fine but I can just
imagine that it would probably break a little bit easier on the screen around
here then saving me looks to us not only that the mixed OS is of course a little
bit thinner and a slightly lighter as well it's still a heavy phone but it's
not quite as heavy as this one here now follow up with the camera I have been
using it quite a bit I've been out and about I've also been to a couple of days
out on things I took a few photos of a steam locomotive here yes it's dressed
up as Thomas the Tank Engine but I was taking my daughter along there and you
can see it takes a really good photo but what I have noticed that with this
camera when you use the two times camera which I think is almost 2 times optical
but a little bit of digital perhaps in there as well that it often over
saturates over exposes sorry not over saturates over exposes you can see the
images look a little bit white with some of these examples here but then again
most of the time initially it will take a very decent photo just a couple more
samples here because people pointed out in my first video the unboxing that it
wasn't perfect lighting conditions but it wasn't daylight in some of the photos
it was getting a little bit overcast but here with these images you can see it
does take a very decent photo so about the same level really as the me 8 or the
mimics to is it is after all using the same camera setup now a battery life was
something that I was a little concerned about it in the beginning because it's
got a smaller battery smaller than most other flank shows 3200 milliamp hours
it's not exactly huge now when paired up with this name check an 8 4 5 but this
screen is much more efficient now but the in the beginning I did run into this
problem here that caused me to actually move my files off the phone do a factory
reset and reinstall Google Play Store you can see right here that was using a
whopping huge 46% of my battery and I struggled
to make it through a full day I was using the phone a lot this is very heavy
use and he looked at my screen on time here I managed to get only four and a
half hours and it was when I was at 29% battery so I was getting a little bit
worried in terms a better life it was not looking good however as I said I did
a factory reset and I reinstalled Google Play and this is more normal here now
you can see the YouTube was the main user because I was doing a lot of
YouTube streaming watching a bit of YouTube chrome as well and Google Play
was only using then 3% of my battery which makes sense so my normal days use
here screen was 30% when you look at hardware and then check it out really
impressive time here considering the battery capacity eight hours of some
very demanding use now I kept my screen brightness on a manual setting which was
calibrated to about 250 Lux so I lifted it that I could have gone less and I
could of course gone with a brighter screen but eight hours remember this is
an estimated use my own personal use here so eight hours for me is impressive
and really good considering the battery capacity so just goes to show that
they've done some optimization and to me it's probably because of the AMOLED
panel that the better life is so good here
what else is impressive is the wireless charging times and also the cable
charging time so just plug in and normal it's one hour and 29 minutes that was
from five percent battery so really quick to charge that's only using I'm 18
watts that's Qualcomm quick charge three and then wireless charging also is super
quick so this only took two hours and two minutes that's the 10 watt wireless
charger that's included in the box which is great to have so super quick that
charges as fast as other phones that would charge using the cable of course
so while it's charging in over just over 2 hours around 2 hours to me is
absolutely brilliant and I won't be using the cable with us at all because
that has super quick so there we go for me this is overall a very good phone it
is a decent phone considering in the price really great so it's got great
battery life at a charge super fast both wirelessly and with the cable that's one
thing that really did surprise me and they better live getting eight hours of
screen on time I did not expect this I expected maybe about six and a half
seven I thought around that kind of figure even though I did say I know in
my unboxing seven to eight hours and it was good to see that actually that came
true so the screen is very nice and the UI is for the most part fluids you just
occasionally has mentioned we'll see now and then just a couple of little
stutters when you go swipe out there go home and that there's only just after a
while so if you haven't done that for a while gone home or you're just weak and
switching over to other apps as the only time that is gonna really happen so
hopefully sham is going to finally fix that the other thing that doesn't know
me a little bit as the audio quality and video it's still not there Xiaomi still
can't seem to get that right it seems to be a little bit too high with the
trebles and that is me yes Ben maybe a little bit fussy there nitpicking with
that the overexposure on the second zoom camera there is something of course that
can be addressed with software so hopefully they're just going to be able
to tweak that back a little bit but overall it takes a really good photo the
fingerprint unlocking is really quick I know it doesn't have the one that
everyone thought it would probably be coming with in the screen which would
have been nice but they often tend to be a little bit slower now face unlocking
yes that's possible I'll just do that again but you have to call swipe down to
get that front facing camera and it is really quick but I don't think it is
very secure on this mobile you can probably hold hold up a photo of your
face and it would unlock this so all-round you get that nice slider
mechanism on there and yes there is a little bit of players eye and they're in
the unboxing video my first hands-on with this phone a little thicker a
little heavier but all round you can't really go wrong with this phone and yes
if you are looking between the mimics 2s and then this phone like I mentioned it
all depends if you want a better selfie cam that to me is really the only reason
to go for this one otherwise stick with well okay better screen to almost forgot
that yes you get a much better screen on this the bezels and everything but if
you want that better selfie cam as well then that's the main reason to go for
this I feel if you're gonna be upgrading otherwise the the IPS panel that is on
the mimics to us is not bad thanks a lot for watching this follow-up second part
of my review of Xiaomi's Mi Mix 3