Overview Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 - the newest frameless slider with a sliding cam

Specifications

Equipment

The matt black box - a smartphone, a hard plastic case, USB cable - USB Type-C, the adapter (Layfhakeru got to sample Chinese fork), clip, headphone adapter and note the wireless charging - a nice and unexpected bonus for not very expensive device.

Design and Ergonomics

I have been in the hands of a sample of the deep dark emerald green. Hue is difficult to convey in the photo, but, in my view, a very good option.

"Bangs" to the sensors is no longer a controversial element, but rather a sign of good taste for modern smartphones. In this

model Xiaomi to give it up. At first glance, this seems an excellent solution: the device looks fresh.

Yet not without borrowing. For example, a camera module, we have someone seems to have seen.

Mi Mix 3 weighty, if not heavy. And big. But his hand is convenient: the smart phone body is quite narrow.

Looking ahead, I will say that the design I think the main advantage of Mi Mix 3. Smartphone want to touch and examine it looks much more expensive devices in its segment and is ready to compete with the flagship.

slider

The main feature of Mi Mix 3 - is a sliding module with front-facing camera and speaker. I'm not sure it's a good solution, which will be popular, and here's why:

1. Slide system eliminates devayse in moisture- and dust protection.
2. The presence of mobile elements inevitably reduces the life of the device, especially in unskilled hands.
3. Shift module is simple, but is even easier to do nothing and accept the frame.

It is in the Mi Mix 3 in the slider is not very smooth running. So intuitively want to move the body to the other side - as in a gesture of "collapse." To this can be used to, but the process does not cause positive emotions. And this is bad.

Telescoping slider when talking necessarily: on the edge of the screen there is a membrane through which the audible sound from the speaker.

Display and Audio

Screen size - 6.39 inches, resolution - 2340 × 1080 pixels.

Mi Mix 3 is positioned as a completely frameless. This is not entirely true, especially if you look at the bottom of the brow. To work with the device is not affected, so it is not a bad thing, as the author of a niggle.

AMOLED-display bright, contrast, color reproduction is excellent. Differences with the naked eye from the champions and Samsung Apple overlook.

During the short time spent with the device showed up minus is too thin side frames: when trying to reach some buttons on the left side, I often touched the palm of the right side of the screen. This problem can be solved Enough, but at first it is terribly annoying.

The top speaker is only spoken, and therefore, all music and audio while watching movies is broadcast in mono. The sound is good, the average stock volume.

Camera

I spent a half hour with a smartphone and managed to make a few shots. The main camera with two 12-megapixel lenses censures did not cause the quality of photos with sufficient natural or artificial lighting is excellent.

Resolution main front camera - 24 Mn, auxiliary - 2 Mn. The photos are really detailed, but still spoils byutifikator software, which is included by default. The algorithm works gently but noticeably. Selfie quality - for an amateur.

Byutifikator can be disabled.

Around me there were no people, so it was not possible to test the portrait mode. Of course, I tried to take a picture of a lamp with beautiful bokeh - I did not like the result. Perhaps due to the fact that it's a lamp.

Portraits on the selfie camera out very average: clipping rough, sometimes incorrect, and always artificially smoothed.

Protection

Mi Mix 3 supports unlocking of different types of PIN-code, fingerprint and face. To activate the latter you need to move the body to the front camera you saw.

Local Face ID operates smartly and correctly, but as to his reliability have questions. When you set up your smartphone just me photographed. And yet. No head movement and study facial topography. Suspiciously.

Fingerprinting is located in the optimum location on the back - and in the middle below the chamber. Probably, with prolonged use, I would choose the unlock method on a finger as the primary.

Performance, autonomy and software

These three things I could not check. Therefore bit specifications.

The smartphone is powered by an eight Snapdragon 845 with a maximum frequency of 2.8 GHz. Various modifications differ RAM volume - from 6 to 10 GB. For performance Mi Mix 3 claims, likely will not.

Also Mi Mix 3 is installed a battery with 3200 mAh on board. Supports quick and wireless charging.

Global firmware on Mi Mix 3 has not yet emerged. By Layfhakeru testing a smartphone came from China with all the consequences: lack of Russian language and a bunch of applications and services with the characters.

Program shell - MIUI based on Android 10 9 Pie. Supported by some "ayfonovskie" gestures.

For example, a swipe upwards can be folded all the applications and after delaying a finger swipe, you can view all open programs.

Impressions

Mi Mix 3 left a mixed impression. I really like the way it looks, and it seems that in terms of user experience, he is superior to most devices with the Chinese market.

In the smartphone has disadvantages, and the most significant of them, I'm afraid, will be the slider - the main feature of the device.

As for all the disadvantages associated with the work program devaysa - things can change for the start of sales, to hit Layfhakeru still a test version of Mi Mix 3.

the following prices:

• 6 GB + 128 GB - 3 299 yuan (≈ 32 000 rubles);
• 8 GB + 128 GB - 3 599 yuan (≈ 34 100 rubles);
• 8 GB + 256 GB - 3 999 yuan (≈ 37 900 rubles);
• 10 GB + 256 GB - 4999 yuan (≈ 47 300 rubles).

The date of the start of sales in Russia is unknown. Most likely, the smartphone will be sold here in the beginning of next year.

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