Overview Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 - ceramic powerful smartphone with a frameless screen
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 - second generation Flagship smartphones line Mi MIX, which is released innovative design using continuous screens. It was with this line in October 2016 began and continues rampant fashion for such full-screen-displays that occupy a maximum area of the front panel.
Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is even more refined than the first Mi MIX: Frame thinner, smoother lines. In August 2017 the smart phone has become the gold medalist IDEA design competition, and in October was added to the collection of the Design Museum in Helsinki. Filling with the powerful, and the price - democratic.
Characteristics
housing | Aluminum, ceramic |
Display | 5.99 inches, IPS FHD + (2160 × 1080 dots), Corning Gorilla Glass 4 |
Platform | Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor (MSM8998), graphics accelerator Adreno 540 |
RAM | 6 GB, LPDDR4X |
Built-in memory | 64/128 / 256GB, UFS 2.1 |
camera | Basic - 12 MP, Sony IMX386; front - with a 5 megapixel |
link | 2 nanoSIM slots; 2G: GSM 850/900/1 800/1 900; CDMA BC0, BC1, BC6, BC10; 3G: WCDMA 1/2/3/4/5/6/8/9/19; CDMA EVDO, BC0, BC1, BC6, BC10; TD-SCDMA 34/39; 4G TD-LTE 34/38/39/40/41; FDD-LTE: Band 1/2/3/4/5/7/8/12/13/17/18/19/20/25/26/27/28/29/30; B41 support 2 496-2 690 MHz; LTE B41 technology with 4 antennas, support 4 × 4 MIMO |
Wireless interfaces | 2 × 2 MIMO, Wi-Fi 802.11a / b / g / n / ac, 2,4 Hz / 5 Hz; 5 Bluetooth, GPS / GLONASS / BeiDou |
expansion slots | USB Type-C |
sensors | Accelerometer, ultrasonic proximity sensor, light sensor, gyroscope, compass, fingerprint scanner, a barometer, a Hall sensor |
operating system | Android 7.1.1 + MIUI 9.1.2 |
Battery | 3400 mAh (nonremovable); fast charging 3.0 9V / 2A |
Dimensions | 151.8 × 75.5 × 7.7 mm |
Weight | 185 g |
Design, materials and ergonomics
Appearance and materials Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 claim to premium status. Base of aircraft-grade aluminum, ceramic rear panel mirror, gold 18 carat bezel camera - glamor, brilliance, beauty! If you love bright things, Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 you exactly like it.
However, in terms of practicality there are nuances. Firstly, the unit gets dirty, it is necessary only to take it in hand. Secondly, it is slippery. Slippery so that they can check the level of the surface of the slope: put Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 table, and if it will go quietly to the side and fall, then there is a slight deviation from the line horizon. Third, it does not have dust and moisture protection, which have expensive flagships of Apple, Samsung, LG.
Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 heavy, weighs 185 g Dimensions same as that of the 5.5-inch smartphone with a conventional screen. In general, convenient.
In Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 no 3.5 mm audio jacks, so if you have headphones with a plug, they have to be connected via an adapter to the port USB Type-C, which comes in the kit. All this construction is not very convenient and it looks pretty complicated. It can endure the winter, when the smartphone is in the breast pocket of a coat or jacket, but in summer, when it will move into the pocket of jeans, an adapter will be uncomfortable.
Note that Xiaomi released headphones connecting USB Type-C, so you can buy them to your phone.
Screen
The main decoration of smartphones series Mi MIX - screen, which occupies almost the entire frontal plane. Display feature Mi MIX 2 not only in the aspect ratio 18: 9, but in the rounded corners - it looks pretty and fresh.
The device uses a 5.99-inch matrix with a resolution Full HD + (2180 × 1080 pixels), but which - namely, a manufacturer is silent. What is clear is that it is LCD, not OLED. Brightness, contrast, color reproduction - at altitude. In the settings you can enable read-only mode, in which the filter blue light, change the color tone and contrast.
Performance
To compute and graphics resources of smartphones Xiaomi questions no one ever arise. The company uses the most productive components, and as a result its production breaks all benchmarks.
Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is no exception. It Flagship 10-nanometer chip Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 with 8 cores and 6 LPDDR4X GB of RAM. In AnTuTu smartphone steadily gaining 171-174 thousand points, Sling Shot Extreme test of 3DMark pack - 3738 points. The unit becomes slightly warm even under heavy load, throttling is not, and the result remains stable.
Like any other flagship, Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is powerful enough to its owner did not have to worry about the performance for several years.
Built-in memory may be 64, 128 or 256 GB. This is quite a lot, so the lack of support for microSD card not frustrating.
Camera
While Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 - the top model, the manufacturer has determined there monokamery usual, one behind and one in front.
Main camera selected 12-megapixel photo module Sony IMX386. Here optics aperture f / 1,8, pixel size of 1.25 microns, optical chetyrohosevaya stabilization phase autofocus. However IMX386 - it is mid-level module. It can be found, for example, in last year's middling Honor 6X of the group "smart phones to 15 thousand rubles." Why Xiaomi uses top smartphone exactly is the solution? We expect to save money and at the same time to save the warehouse unsold unused modules.
Of course, with such a camera Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 does not go to any in comparison with the flagship of Apple, Samsung and the LG, even last year. Yet what a smartphone?
The camera is fast, accurate autofocus, but thoughtful. The image stabilizer allows you to grab on the go smartphone out of his pocket and then make a sharp photo. In the video shooting mode, the stabilizer is also good manifests itself.
Dynamic range is poor: with the dark tones of the problem. With a decrease in the amount of light dramatically increases the amount of noise, with for this sometimes simply cloudy weather. Smartphone use radical suppression of noise, which is shamelessly kills detail, transforming the line into spots.
Front 5-megapixel camera with "byutifikatorom" could be called normal, if not for its location. If 99.9% of the smartphone it is located on top of the screen, then Xioami Mi MIX 2 - in the lower-right corner, which allowed us to not only slim side frames, but the top.
Hence two problems. Firstly, holding the smartphone in your right hand, you close the camera with his hand - you need to be accustomed to do it again. But how? Secondly, and Self, and during video calls, you'll always look somewhere upwards. Yes, it turned out not very good, although good for design.
link
Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 supports 43 cell range, and will not leave you without a connection and fast internet either in Russia or in China or in Europe or in the United States. You can install two SIM cards.
Support for Wi-Fi networks and wholesome: the protocols 802.11a / b / g / n / ac, band 2.4 and 5 GHz. You can both take Wi-Fi, and distribute it.
Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 - one of the few smartphones that support the latest Bluetooth 5.0. Compared with the version 4.2 range Bluetooth 5.0 has been increased four times, speed - in two capacity - eight time. For the average person who uses a Bluetooth connection to a smartphone with headphones, smart watches and fitness gadgets, and in the evening, possibly with wireless acoustics, the use of such technology is not. However, Bluetooth 5 - this is a good foundation for the future, when there will be more compatible devices, and possibly more user scenarios.
There Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 and the NFC module. You can use your smartphone in emulation of a plastic card for contactless payment in the Android Pay system, as well as to write data to NFC-tags and transportation cards.
Satellite receivers of GPS signals, GLONASS and BeiDou work as expected.
Security
Here everything is very simple. The fingerprint reader is located behind a camera. Works quickly and accurately, it is used to unlock the smartphone and authentication transactions in Android Pay.
Software
Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is running an operating system Android 7.1.1 Nougat and has a proprietary GUI MIUI 9.1.2. The interface, as all Chinese smart phone, simple, like a iOS. However, "under the hood" covered a lot of interesting features.
The most striking - this is perhaps an opportunity to create a second workspace. In fact, you get another system in the smartphone with other accounts, settings, applications. The entrance to the second space can be password protected and a fingerprint.
Working hours
While Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is an energy-efficient processor, is still more than a day in the "bit of everything", he will not survive. battery capacity of 5.99 inch smartphone is 3400 mAh. There Fast Charge Technology Quick Charge 3.0, but it works only with the power adapter 9V / 2A. From 0 to 100% smartphone charges in less than 2 h.
Total
Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is suitable for those who want a productive frameless flagship, created using the latest technologies, but is not willing to overpay. In this sense, the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 no competitors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and a continuous combined display only LG V30Which will cost money space, and OnePlus 5TThat we do not sell.
However, if you care about the camera, the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 absolutely does not fit. Here the manufacturer has saved, thinking that it is possible to do last year's mediocre sensor.
The official store Xiaomi smartphone can be purchased for 34 990 rubles.
The author thanks the press service Xiaomi in Russia provided for testing the device.