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single bloody phone around here that doesn't have a notch in it

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Shami me mix three

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all screen nice

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no not sweet

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snapdragon 855 processor oh

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nope looks like they're reserving that for the 5g model but it's got a slide

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it's so satisfying what an innovative

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idea having the phone slide like that why didn't anybody ever make a slider

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phone before

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feels good

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smart deploy allows IT departments to reimage unlimited computer models from

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worth over $600 at smartdeploy calm slash Linus

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the meme x3 is xiaomi's newest flagship

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and it is readily apparent as soon as you open the box we even get this note

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from Xiaomi CEO Li Jun on the road of

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exploration we will constantly invest constantly strive and constantly break

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through we are willing to devote an

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additional 100 percent even if we only

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improve by 1% be friends with our users be the coolest

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company in the hearts of our users

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yeah sure it flows a lot better in

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Chinese next we've got the phone itself and then finally in the last compartment

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of the box you get a shockingly complete accessory package the headphone dongle

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kind of sucks it's a little thin and the case is unexceptional at best but they

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included a 10 watt wireless charger it's like a $50 value now on to the phone

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this thing is pretty it's got smooth

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curves a rear that's surprisingly easy

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to hold on to and a thicker profile that

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tickles me and exactly the RET sorry what was i talking about right phone

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sorry so one thing you'd expect in a

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device that is shoes the modern thin is in design trend is a bigger battery but

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the mix 3 actually loses 200 million powers of rated capacity

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over its predecessor on the right edge we've got our volume buttons and a lock

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button and then on the Left we've got an AI button that can be set up to launch

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pretty much anything you want through a combination of single press double press

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and long press activations

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I'm gonna let that sink in for a moment Samsung are you guys listening that's

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how simple it is to make proper use of an extra button so the thickness

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actually makes room for the slide but

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we're gonna get into that later first let's talk about the screen it's a 19

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and a half by 9 aspect ratio 1080p AMOLED panel that gives the mix 3 a

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staggering 9 3.4% screened to body ratio

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that means that it is unmatched by all

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but the Oppo find X which also used a

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sliding mechanism for itself you can the

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difference here is that unlike the motorized find X the mix 3 is all manual

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but in actually a good way it feels a

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lot like those old slide phones with the built-in keyboards and it's both

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satisfying in the hand and solid with no

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wobble or anything like that to feel concerned about it now I was worried

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about the motorized design on the find X so honestly I'm actually happy to see

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this more pragmatic approach show up even if it doesn't quite have the sex

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appeal so the way it works is it gives you this visual cue when you slide it by

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pulsing along the screen edges and it'll emit a configurable audio tone just in

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case you need your phone to sound like you've unsheathed disord when you're

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taking a selfie for some reason what's cool is that it isn't all for show so

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you can actually turn the slide into a gesture that performs an action of your

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choosing Samsung are you guys taking

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notes on this though this approach does

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have its flaws so if you like using your phone for more than one thing like say

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for example taking selfies and also

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engaging NVIDIA calls chances are that you'll find Auto launching an app as

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annoying as it is helpful and it would be nice to have a black list of apps

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where when they're open it doesn't just take over what you're doing now on the

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plus side if you choose to take a selfie option which is what I've got going on

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here it will even work without unlocking

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your phone pretty nice speaking of which the mix 3 does have face unlock but

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unlike the find X and the iPhone 10 for that matter the whole experience does

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feel a little less magical and seamless

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because you have to manually slide the phone in order to expose the sensors the

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good news is that unlike the iPhone 10

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Xiaomi didn't feel the need to remove

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the rear fingerprint sensor so if you prefer that way well then you've got

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good old-fashioned fingerprint sensing that is virtually instantaneous and

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pretty darn accurate so much so that it's actually possible to accidentally

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unlock the phone just by brushing against it in your pocket and that level

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of responsiveness is system-wide even though the writing is

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on the wall for the snapdragon 845 SOC that our mix 3 is equipped with now on

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our 6 gig model everything that's butter smooth and even opening apps from a cold

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start is quick and painless and it can

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only get better from there if you spring for the top-end model you get a whopping

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10 gigabytes of RAM to make sure that there's always some memory available for

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task switching though that's most of the

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nice stuff that I can say about the software experience it's no secret that

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me UI is not my favorite Android skin

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but its latest iteration did at least get a couple of things right the system

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theme is consistent feeling it looks reasonably pleasing and jemmye

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apparently didn't get the memo that and rape I dropped the quick access to

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system-wide audio sliders which is just

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fine by me and actually while we're at it the camera app is pretty competent

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too there's plenty of manual shooting options here to control things like

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exposure ISO and white balance along with a number of shooting modes you got

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your night mode your 9 60 FPS slo-mo and a bunch of what Xiaomi calls AI modes AI

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portrait AI beautify AI studio lighting AI scene detection and AI background

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music that's a weird one the cameras

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themselves are arranged in a two front-to-rear configuration with the

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primary front camera using the new sony IMX 576 sensor that's set up to make use

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of super pixels essentially simulating a

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larger physical sensor with its massive resolution to reduce the incidence of

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noise and improve low-light performance as for our testing well it I don't know

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sort of worked it's a little weird so

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our low-light photos weren't especially noisy but there was definitely a lot of

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smoothing going on more than you might expect even on an Asian phone that's got

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all the beauty enhancement that you would expect from it as for the rear

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shooter well it's kind of the usual Xiaomi experience if you're a full

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manual operator then there's plenty of options but if you just want to pick up

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and snap and get something usable every time you're still gonna want a pixel or

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an iPhone or if you're on a budget I guess a 1 plus interestingly it does

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seem to handle highlights very well as seen in our living room shot here but

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it's processing tends to over brighten the image beyond what looks natural I

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mean these days when it comes down to is that software processing is far more

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important than the specs of the camera and that's an area where Google and

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Apple still stand out though I am rooting for the s10 to be a big leap

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forward for Samsung's processing also I've got some more bad news along with

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the lack of headphone jack is another missing feature that I've come to expect

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on high-end smartphones stereo speakers

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why have all of this screamed for

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watching YouTube TV shows and movies on the go if you're just gonna put a single

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downward firing speaker without an

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amplified earpiece speaker and it's not

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even a fantastic one now with that said you are getting a bit of a discount at

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between five hundred and sixty to 600 bucks on gearbest the mix threes main

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competitor is the oneplus 16 and it doesn't give up much in comparison at

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least on paper specs are very similar now the front fingerprint scanner on the

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60 is a BFD and 1 plus as oxygen OS is

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in my humble opinion miles ahead of me UI but that's almost a

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completely separate video and anyway to counter that Xiaomi not only supports

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wireless charging which one Plus does not they even throw in the

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aforementioned charger so I think for a lot of people it's gonna come down to

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style which is I guess how Samsung and

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Apple keep managing to charge a lot more for phones that frankly don't have much

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