single bloody phone around here that doesn't have a notch in it
Shami me mix three
all screen nice
no not sweet
snapdragon 855 processor oh
nope looks like they're reserving that for the 5g model but it's got a slide
it's so satisfying what an innovative
idea having the phone slide like that why didn't anybody ever make a slider
phone before
feels good
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the meme x3 is xiaomi's newest flagship
and it is readily apparent as soon as you open the box we even get this note
from Xiaomi CEO Li Jun on the road of
exploration we will constantly invest constantly strive and constantly break
through we are willing to devote an
additional 100 percent even if we only
improve by 1% be friends with our users be the coolest
company in the hearts of our users
yeah sure it flows a lot better in
Chinese next we've got the phone itself and then finally in the last compartment
of the box you get a shockingly complete accessory package the headphone dongle
kind of sucks it's a little thin and the case is unexceptional at best but they
included a 10 watt wireless charger it's like a $50 value now on to the phone
this thing is pretty it's got smooth
curves a rear that's surprisingly easy
to hold on to and a thicker profile that
tickles me and exactly the RET sorry what was i talking about right phone
sorry so one thing you'd expect in a
device that is shoes the modern thin is in design trend is a bigger battery but
the mix 3 actually loses 200 million powers of rated capacity
over its predecessor on the right edge we've got our volume buttons and a lock
button and then on the Left we've got an AI button that can be set up to launch
pretty much anything you want through a combination of single press double press
and long press activations
I'm gonna let that sink in for a moment Samsung are you guys listening that's
how simple it is to make proper use of an extra button so the thickness
actually makes room for the slide but
we're gonna get into that later first let's talk about the screen it's a 19
and a half by 9 aspect ratio 1080p AMOLED panel that gives the mix 3 a
staggering 9 3.4% screened to body ratio
that means that it is unmatched by all
but the Oppo find X which also used a
sliding mechanism for itself you can the
difference here is that unlike the motorized find X the mix 3 is all manual
but in actually a good way it feels a
lot like those old slide phones with the built-in keyboards and it's both
satisfying in the hand and solid with no
wobble or anything like that to feel concerned about it now I was worried
about the motorized design on the find X so honestly I'm actually happy to see
this more pragmatic approach show up even if it doesn't quite have the sex
appeal so the way it works is it gives you this visual cue when you slide it by
pulsing along the screen edges and it'll emit a configurable audio tone just in
case you need your phone to sound like you've unsheathed disord when you're
taking a selfie for some reason what's cool is that it isn't all for show so
you can actually turn the slide into a gesture that performs an action of your
choosing Samsung are you guys taking
notes on this though this approach does
have its flaws so if you like using your phone for more than one thing like say
for example taking selfies and also
engaging NVIDIA calls chances are that you'll find Auto launching an app as
annoying as it is helpful and it would be nice to have a black list of apps
where when they're open it doesn't just take over what you're doing now on the
plus side if you choose to take a selfie option which is what I've got going on
here it will even work without unlocking
your phone pretty nice speaking of which the mix 3 does have face unlock but
unlike the find X and the iPhone 10 for that matter the whole experience does
feel a little less magical and seamless
because you have to manually slide the phone in order to expose the sensors the
good news is that unlike the iPhone 10
Xiaomi didn't feel the need to remove
the rear fingerprint sensor so if you prefer that way well then you've got
good old-fashioned fingerprint sensing that is virtually instantaneous and
pretty darn accurate so much so that it's actually possible to accidentally
unlock the phone just by brushing against it in your pocket and that level
of responsiveness is system-wide even though the writing is
on the wall for the snapdragon 845 SOC that our mix 3 is equipped with now on
our 6 gig model everything that's butter smooth and even opening apps from a cold
start is quick and painless and it can
only get better from there if you spring for the top-end model you get a whopping
10 gigabytes of RAM to make sure that there's always some memory available for
task switching though that's most of the
nice stuff that I can say about the software experience it's no secret that
me UI is not my favorite Android skin
but its latest iteration did at least get a couple of things right the system
theme is consistent feeling it looks reasonably pleasing and jemmye
apparently didn't get the memo that and rape I dropped the quick access to
system-wide audio sliders which is just
fine by me and actually while we're at it the camera app is pretty competent
too there's plenty of manual shooting options here to control things like
exposure ISO and white balance along with a number of shooting modes you got
your night mode your 9 60 FPS slo-mo and a bunch of what Xiaomi calls AI modes AI
portrait AI beautify AI studio lighting AI scene detection and AI background
music that's a weird one the cameras
themselves are arranged in a two front-to-rear configuration with the
primary front camera using the new sony IMX 576 sensor that's set up to make use
of super pixels essentially simulating a
larger physical sensor with its massive resolution to reduce the incidence of
noise and improve low-light performance as for our testing well it I don't know
sort of worked it's a little weird so
our low-light photos weren't especially noisy but there was definitely a lot of
smoothing going on more than you might expect even on an Asian phone that's got
all the beauty enhancement that you would expect from it as for the rear
shooter well it's kind of the usual Xiaomi experience if you're a full
manual operator then there's plenty of options but if you just want to pick up
and snap and get something usable every time you're still gonna want a pixel or
an iPhone or if you're on a budget I guess a 1 plus interestingly it does
seem to handle highlights very well as seen in our living room shot here but
it's processing tends to over brighten the image beyond what looks natural I
mean these days when it comes down to is that software processing is far more
important than the specs of the camera and that's an area where Google and
Apple still stand out though I am rooting for the s10 to be a big leap
forward for Samsung's processing also I've got some more bad news along with
the lack of headphone jack is another missing feature that I've come to expect
on high-end smartphones stereo speakers
why have all of this screamed for
watching YouTube TV shows and movies on the go if you're just gonna put a single
downward firing speaker without an
amplified earpiece speaker and it's not
even a fantastic one now with that said you are getting a bit of a discount at
between five hundred and sixty to 600 bucks on gearbest the mix threes main
competitor is the oneplus 16 and it doesn't give up much in comparison at
least on paper specs are very similar now the front fingerprint scanner on the
60 is a BFD and 1 plus as oxygen OS is
in my humble opinion miles ahead of me UI but that's almost a
completely separate video and anyway to counter that Xiaomi not only supports
wireless charging which one Plus does not they even throw in the
aforementioned charger so I think for a lot of people it's gonna come down to
style which is I guess how Samsung and
Apple keep managing to charge a lot more for phones that frankly don't have much
on their Chinese competitors at this point
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