Review 8 Mi Pro - Xiaomi leader from a transparent back panel
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Table of contents
- Specifications
- Equipment
- Design
- Screen
- Sound
- Camera
- Performance
- Software
- Protection
- autonomy
- Differences between Pro-version of the Mi 8
- results
Specifications
Colors | "Transparent titanium" |
Display | 6.21 inches, Full HD + (2248 × 1080 pixels), Super AMOLED |
Platform | Snapdragon eight-845 (4 × 2,8 GHz Kryo Gold + 385 4 × 1,8 GHz Kryo 385 Silver) |
RAM | 8GB |
Built-in memory | 128 GB |
camera | Summary - 12 + 12 Mn, front - 20 Mn |
Shooting a Movie | Up to 60 FPS 2160p and 1080p to 240 FPS |
SIM card | Two slots for nanoSIM |
Wireless interfaces | Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, NFC |
connectors | USB Type-C |
sensors | fingerprint sensor, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a vibration motor, a barometer, a Hall sensor, light sensor, proximity sensor, compass |
unlocking | Face, fingerprint, PIN |
operating system | Android 8.1 + MIUI 9.6 |
Battery | 3000 mAh |
Dimensions | 154.9 × 74.8 × 7.6 mm |
Weight | 177 g |
Equipment
In the box: smartphone, silicone case, an adapter for mini-jack, clip, USB Type-C cable adapter (we got a sample of the British with the corresponding plug).
Design
If you look at the Mi 8 Pro from the front side, then it is unlikely to succeed to find something extraordinary. Almost completely filling the front panel display, "bang" from the iPhone and slightly thickened frame below.
But the most important thing here behind. Namely the translucent panel, which can be seen through the board with decorative chips. Despite the fact that the apparent domestic smartphone - simply cute dummies, transparent cover - an interesting solution that distinguishes smartphone competitors.
On Xiaomi presentations Demozone even work with loops, so that people can distinguish between specifications and meaningful inscriptions.
We did not arrange a crash test, but there is a feeling that the back panel is not very strong. When tapped it responds as plastic.
On the left side is a slot for nanoSIM, bottom - Type-C, right - coupled volume button and somehow bright red power button.
The smartphone is rather narrow for comfortable grip and good in the hand. Because of the rounded faces, he felt something like iPhone X - is only a little wider.
Something special about the tactile feel of Mi 8 Pro is not. The smartphone is simply convenient. Visually, the device differs only cyberpunk-back, and it's strange to name advantage. One such chips like it, others do not.
Screen
I do not remember when I last had to scold the screen of a smartphone. And this again is not the case: the display Mi 8 Pro bright and with a very nice color.
There is set with Super AMOLED luminance 402 nits. Detailed image, the image on the screen is read even under the sun. Calibration "out of the box" is excellent, but the colors and contrast can be adjusted separately.
Supports read-mode filtering blue and Always On Display, in which even in the off screen shows the time, date, and to-do list.
Something that is difficult to convey in a review, but felt immediately - not the most pleasant Haptic feedback. He seems to be quite rude and remains too noticeable even when you select "weak."
Sound
The sound is average. On the one hand, Mi 8 Pro a good stock volume. Sound, albeit with serious tipped the scales in the upper frequencies, but readable even at maximum volume.
Alternatively, there is only one speaker. Stereo sound - what I want to expect from a smartphone with a large screen and a claim for the title of leader. Here it is not.
Mini-jack in Mi 8 Pro either, but included is an adapter for it to USB Type-C.
Camera
For images corresponds module with two 12-megapixel lenses with sensitivity ƒ / 1,8 and ƒ / 2,4. The first enables you to capture the light, the second - helps with portraits and gives a two-time optical zoom.
I want to praise the camera. In some scenarios, I, for one, do not give the impression that she was losing my iPhone XS camera. This comparison with the Flagship flagships 8 Mi Pro passed with advantage, sometimes possible to feel the difference except that a detailed comparison or high magnification.
In any light the pictures are clear, pleasant in color and quiet. To my taste, a little edgy, but it is not critical.
Portrait mode is also pleased with its clear contours and the seizure of a natural bokeh. However, only in good light. In the dark - matter.
To front chamber no complaints. Quality selfie can be done anytime and anywhere. One thing is unclear - why include default byutifikator and so far hidden button to turn it off. "Decorating" algorithms in Mi 8 Pro simply disgusting. Here is a photo without byutifikatsii:
Performance
On board the smartphone: an eight-core Snapdragon 845 and 8 GB of RAM. Performance Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro - The real competitive flagship that cope with everything you need: resource-intensive applications, games, and lots of programs running at the same time.
Geekbench test results in 4:
In AnTuTu:
Software
Mi 8 Pro runs on Android 8.1 with a proprietary shell Xiaomi MIUI 9.6 (MIUI 10 will be released later). This iOS-like system with the features that are familiar to any "Yabloko" - icons, folders, widgets panel.
Borrowing, fortunately, is not limited to the design. All works are more or less correct and logical. So if you like pretty and predictable software and you do not sickened feeling a second time, then MIUI you will do.
There are inherent disadvantages Xiaomi smartphones - advertising and recommendations, which we did not ask, sewn into the software and it is unclear how removed.
Protection
Identification occurs PIN code, fingerprint or face. Analogue of Face ID on our Semple was not available. On the Internet, it says that the system has not yet launched in Russia, but unlocking the face can be customized by changing the region in Singapore.
More interesting is the fingerprinting, hidden under the screen. Always fires and quickly. And yet positioned so that the finger itself falls on it - it is very convenient. The process is accompanied by animation.
autonomy
Battery capacity of 8 Mi Pro - 3000 mAh. Indicators are not a record, but this volume is enough to smartphone lasted longer than a day on a single charge with moderate use. With a maximum load of smartphone game lasts about five hours, and when watching videos or surfing the Web - more than 10.
Fast charging is. Wireless not.
Differences between Pro-version of the Mi 8
From Mi 8 our smartphone features a number of things:
- Back cover. An ordinary Mi 8 is not transparent cover - the smartphone stands out among other obscenities.
- Memory. 8 GB of RAM in the Pro-version to 6 GB in a conventional 128 GB ROM vs. 64, respectively.
- Fingerprint Sensor. At Mi 8, he is not under the screen, and on the rear panel.
- Battery capacity. In the Pro-version of it is less than 400 mAh.
- Price. Pro-version of the more expensive 5 000 - 39 990 against 34 990.
results
Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro - strong flagship batter his worth with a vengeance. He's nice in the hand, does not irritate the software solutions, it makes great pictures and good portraits in good light. A more easily live up to the evening charge.
But different from the normal version of Mi 8 he still minor. If you do not need a transparent cover and the sensor under the screen print, five thousand, and you can not overpay.
Buy
The author expresses his gratitude to the company for Xiaomi provided for testing the device. Rates devices specified in the survey, taken from an authorized shop Mi-Shop.
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