Chris here back with a follow up video on Xiaomi's Mi Max 3 so I've been using
the phone now for over 48 hours and in this video I wanted to update you on
various different things so the battery life the charge times some performance
just go through that quickly a lot of questions were coming up in my first
video I posted which is the unboxing and hands on review of that one there so I
look people were asking about the performance and things they one person
said can you please show tortoise I'll do that now so I got Twitter here loaded
and you can see the scrolling here is pretty good it's smooth and it doesn't
really have any major stutters now it'll just course dependent on your internet
speeds as well loading things in but I've noticed that there's no problem
with that what I am still seeing is that full gesture lag sometimes so when
you're going through various different apps it just pops up and creeps up now
and then you can see at the moment I've got it's hard to see there but 1.7
gigabytes free now if I just get out of that and show you a course open camera
that I demonstrated in my video now there were quite a few questions people
asking about the settings what settings did I use to get that really nice smooth
and steady 4k footage so it's just simply here so you get it off Google
Play Store download it install it and under video settings this is what I've
gone so the most important is to enable video stabilization so that must be
ticked and then the resolution you just set that to the highest which of course
is 4k you can see right here now the bitrate you can either keep it as
default or you can go with I recommend 60 megabits per second the higher you go
maybe the quality will improve a little but you risk dropping frames so when you
put it at like a hundred then I noticed that it may actually drop some framework
says I wouldn't go that high it's not really actually needed now the sharpness
of the 4k video is not going to be quite as good as the stock app because they
stopped at app is recording a native 4k and what happens that when you're using
this app here it's going to actually crop in a little bit because of the
electronic image stabilization that is just simply the way it works there so
I've noticed that with the performance it is really good a lot of comments
asking about the screen and other devices so for example the rid me now
it's five I have right here and I think the Mi Max 3 screen is better
now this one here the whites they tend to look a little bit bluish tint now
this is happening with the red e plus argh sorry the Redmi 5 Plus which has the same
screen and then the 6x so the screen just a little bit of blue tint you can
pretty much correct it any way through the settings and another question that
popped up was what would you get the me pad actually this one came up quite a
few times in a tendril really I don't really understand why people asking this
of very different devices here so the me pad for has a really nice screen it's
much brighter about a hundred Lux brighter than the 450 you get or so with
the mi max three so you can make obviously voice calls on this one you
can't on this I don't think it can make voice calls with the LTE version either
even though of course it's going to have modem support because you can connect up
to the Internet with the 40 bands very limited 40 bands but I don't think
there's actually a dialer included in it and of course you need to hit set now
the speakers on this one I won't give you a sample but they have the dual
firing speakers and they do sound a little bit better to me on this one so
the cameras the different winner of course is this right here so the camera
performance on the Memex 3 is very good it's a huge step up from the me max 2
and that for that alone I would upgrade if you like this format of phone you
like the big super line phones and that is the main reason I would go and move
over to this cuz a lot of people asking me should you upgrade I'm a me max to
user I saw your me max to review highly recommended to go for that so you're
gonna gain so much because you're getting better life is actually about
the same I'll get onto that and I'll show you examples of my battery use in a
second so more or less it is the same there the voice call quality sounds
pretty much similar to me but one thing to note about the call quality it's
crazy it is better than show meas me max sorry to me mix twists and bitter than
the me 8 so the flagship phones us earpiece to me sounds a lot better than
microphones also sound a lot better as well and video which is crazy because
that's a flagship their flagship Snapdragon 805 devices a worse off sound
wise compared to this one right here so yes if you are looking for an upgrade
and you're not happy with the cameras on the Mi Max 2 - I know the video is the
worst thing because I always to carry around this here which is my
Samsung Galaxy s7 and a lot of people going why are you using two phones so
what I would do is have this is my main phone Mi Max - and this mount mainly for
the camera so the galaxy s7 has a sensor that is very similar now to the one we
have in this so the dual pixel phase detection autofocus and it was many for
the video for the optical image stabilization the sharp video and the
bitter audio quality and a rock-solid focus is the reason why I always went
with this phone here for taking any serious photos or video and now I can
thankfully finally put my galaxy s7 to rest and I'm just going to go with this
phone right here and then the step up and performance is really why I
recommend going for the max three over the me max - if you know I'm noticing
the difference even though I said okay you get those full gesture stutters that
I am seeing coming in other than that it is very smooth the performance is a step
up and you do notice it just feels a lot more fluid loading things up it doesn't
take as long so I will show you the battery life I'm getting out of this so
right here this was my full test so this was a sick and cycle of the battery and
the first cycle got about 11 hours of screen on time this one here I managed
to get a 13 so this is best-case scenario so it was on Wireless about a
good 70 to 75 percent on the time so if you're on data then of course you can
expect lower figures here so you can see that it went down quite steady this gap
here is where I went to bed and I didn't use it of course so you can see that the
screen was not on it but it was waking up a couple of times I don't know why I
woke up like it was almost looking to unlock with the face unlock on there and
that's why you see these little tiny bars you can probably see there where it
actually wasn't in a proper full deep sleep even so over about 12 hours it
only lost three percent so the idle battery life consumption is really quite
good on this so you can see the screen on time there that's 13 hours and 33
minutes and I'll show you my use so it was rather heavy so I did play pub G and
was gaming quite a bit and I played a few other games but for some reason this
doesn't seem to be that aircrew the times are a little bit off I was using
Chrome quite a bit as well and
YouTube so here's a pub G total use of two hours and 20 minutes play quite a
few games in the game and performance in pub G I find to be perfect
HD seating high frame rate like I showed you in the unboxing video as we're
really smooth and I didn't notice any major status lag and I've been able to
win a couple of games with it and it's just a lot better with a larger screen I
feel playing games like that but I still prefer the meat pad for because the
snapdragon 616 is faster with that one there so chrome was on for three hours
three hours of use of that and two minutes and YouTube if it's only
reporting 37 minutes but it should actually be about two hours if not more
with you - because I was streaming 800 sorry 1080p and when you stream for
about one hour you lose around 6% battery it all depends on your screen
brightness of course you're probably gonna ask that next well what was my
screen brightness it was set to about 200 Nets what I always test was so the
same brightness always tested along all devices the automatic brightness of
course is disabled and it's somewhere around this level so it's about 40%
battery as well as sorry screen brightness is where I have it set so
it's not super bright and either is it super dull this is where any battery
saver actually 13 hours and 41 minutes was the final score there so really good
battery life it's super solid Battery life it's about what I was getting out of the
Mi Max 2 when I first got it on the Chinese ROM and you can see there
there's a stats that says using GSam battery monitor so I didn't make many
voice calls only four minutes of voice calls entitled that I'm not a big voice
call person obviously send most of the time actually whatsapp and things like that
so there's why so there were questions about the wireless speed so yeah I
didn't point that out in the video but you can see here they're pretty good
this is the maximum you can get out of a wireless AC router so about 260 megabits
per second on the Snapdragon 805 devices I can get over 400 so you do notice a
difference there because this is really basically a low-end chipset or a
mid-range one you could say and 4G speeds as well a fine signal strength is
fine and as I mentioned before the call quality
bitter than the flagship is from Xiaomi and to quickly mention the charge time
so it has a large five thousand five hundred million power battery bit it
charges very quick just as fast as say the me mix 2's in two hours and 16
minutes it will fully charge that's Qualcomm quick charge 3 charging and it
will take you from about 7% battery to about 34%
battery in 30 minutes which is going to give you about a whole days you so this
is definitely a 2 to 3 three-day mobile phone so impressive battery life and
very quick charge times now a lot of comments were in regards to the cameras
obviously it is a big step up and it's very similar to the Ruby note 5 in fact
this is really just a large readme Note 5 with a type C port that's what the max
3 is and that's always been the max formula when you have a look at the
previous models that Ramin Note 4 now that was the me max - basically the same
kind of spec there so low-light photography it does alright did get a
bit of grain in here where if notice though it's not very good is the
low-light video so the front-facing camera drops frames and it's very grainy
and I give you a disease - selfie samples here so this is without the LED
flash people were asking as well for a sample of that so without it you can see
there's a lot of grain it looks really there's not a good image at all isn't it
it's bad and then with the LED flash it's not super bright but you can see
it's illuminated my face here quite a bit more and it gives you just a little
bit bit of detail but still a bad photo now this is in pretty much darkness it
was 11 p.m. at night when I took this photo now give you a sample from video
right now on the front-facing camera with a front camera notice that in the
low-light it's dropping you frame some indoors here it's not well-lit at the
moment I'm going to go outside where it is even darker and we can already see
that it's grainy and it's dropping frames so it's not a nice smooth 30
frames per second so sure we've got some optimization to do with the video and
low light especially with this front-facing camera and this is a sample
from the rear camera now so it's about 11:30 p.m. so very dark I've turned off
most of the lights outside and just left one on so you can see that it's not
great and it never would be great even with a flagship camera this is not going
to come out amazing at least it's not dropping any frames like the
front-facing camera I have noticed though however that the focus it doesn't
tend to be as good as it is in daylight of course here it seems to struggle a
lot more so this video has now been shot in 60 frames per second I know my videos
encoded and only 30 frames per second but the point is just to show you that
the focus is not as good as the 30 frames per second focus I'll put my hand
up now you can see it'll in fact look it's struggling there we go it's got a
lock and it locks on to the background there but it's just not as good it tends
to be quite a bit of focus hunting with 60 frames per second mode so hopefully
xiaomi is going to be able to patch this because if you see my samples of the 4k
30 frames per second the focus there is just rock-solid it doesn't do that
hunting as you can see now when it pulses in and out which is really quite
annoying and really does ruin the video one of the other questions that popped
up was the front face unlocking so I found that it works in fact one of the
best for Xiaomi phones and it I'll give you a little tip here that when you take
the photo sorry with you face actually when you're setting it up you can see
now it doesn't recognize me there boom it unlocks that's how fast it is but the
tip is that when you get that photo make sure it's not blurred and you're in
really good light so if it you see it blue when it shows you and that example
I showed in the unboxing just make sure it's a very sharp image and once you get
a good image of you it will unlock very fast I did notice that even when I put
some sunglasses on that it will unlock just as fast in fact maybe even faster
so that's to me a sign of how insecure it really is so if you're wearing
sunglasses that are blocking all my eyes basically it still unlocks so give you a
sample in the unboxing video there hands on review of pump G and it just runs
perfectly fine no problems whatsoever what about a newer game this is f felt 9
that a lot of people were asking about so I've got it on the high settings so
I'll just show you quickly so when you go into the game settings here under the
display I've just forced it onto high quality and you can see now with the
gameplay that it looks really good and there are no major legs or stutters
occasionally you see the frame rate dip down a little bit but the Snapdragon 636
is handling this perfectly fine World of Tanks lineage to hit all of those kind
of games they're all super playable and really good with this massive screen
another question that cropped up was the speakerphone so in calls it did test it
out and I had the speakerphone on and it works just as good as the me max - right
here no problems with that I can hear that
other in fine and they can hear me which is the important thing so the mics are
working with the loud speaker really good and what I'm showing you the bottom
of the phone here this was another question that was asked a few times as
the bottom chin bezel the bottom bezel is it shorter well you can see here that
it is shorter than the redmi note 5 you can see the difference there of
approximately two millimeters or so shorter and that just gives to me the me
max 3 a little bit of a better look to it in fact not having that chin so tall
so there we go the me max 3 for me is a really good phone and this is going to
be my new main phone I am gonna leave this behind which is my sorrow here it
is so many phones around and the max - I'm gonna end up probably just selling
that one off because I'm only using this phone now so you've got really really
good battery life it's amazing gonna get about three days at least out of this
and if you're continually using it and you're very demanding user then expect
screen on times above 10 hours as long as your brightness is not too high and
you're not recording lots of video so the weakness of this phone really has to
be low-light video on the front facing camera dropping frames this can be fixed
with software but I don't see the actual quality of selfies improving in
low-light they're not really that good at all rear camera as well in low-light
doesn't look amazing 60 frames per second video in 1080p is great to have
but the focus is all over the place and then an occasional UI for Strings full
screen gesture lag that I have seen that has popped up a few times
it's not always there it just raised its ugly head now and then it's not a major
for me but it's a really just a larger version of the redmi note five Pro which
is a fantastic mobile and of course this just has the type see better battery
life and the cameras they're very very similar so summer in fact that I will
not be doing a comparison thank you so much for watching this follow-up video
of Xiaomi's Mi Max 3 and I do hope to catch you back on the
channel with further up and coming videos bye for now