if you live in China then you can pick
up one of these for $360 USD its the MI 6
for everyone else it's going to cost a
little bit more around $480 USD but it is
a very premium mobile phone with top-end
specs on it. It's got a Snapdragon 835
processor a Adreno 540 GPU 6 gigabytes
of RAM 64 gigabytes of internal storage
up to 128 gigabytes of ufs 2.1 storage
which is very quick for a mobile phone
it has an ultrasonic fingerprint reader
in 1080p screen now these are leftovers
from them the Mi 5s but it's not a bad
thing as it's a very nice screen and the
fingerprint reader really does work
extremely well so on the rear we've got
this new dual camera setup a 2 times
optical fixed zoom 12 megapixel sensor
and the other 12 megapixel sensor is
more of a standard affair here with just
optical image stabilization but it
happens to be 4-axis stabilization
battery life has also increased to three
3350 mAh
however we've lost the 3.5
millimeter headphone jack so it seems
they give us something and then take
away something else which is a little
sad to see. We've got curved glass on the
rear now that feels good in hand bottom
of the Mi 6 has a loudspeaker the
microphone and a USB type-c port and on
the Left we just have the dual SIM tray
so there's no micro SD card support in
there sadly just like the Mi 5 & Mi
5s and things that show me they're not
putting micro SD cards and their flag
shows because they want you to buy the
higher storage capacity phones the
buttons on the right side have a good
feel to them they're made out of metal
and they change the front-facing camera
it is now an 8 megapixel unit so what's
smaller pixels in there and as a result
I feel the quality is not as good as the
Mi 5's 4 megapixel ultra pixel camera
which had larger pixels on it
and on the top there's an IR transmitter
secondary microphone which is used for
noise cancellation and also the
secondary mic in video. Now looking at
the display it is a really decent 1080p
display one of the best that you'll find
for 1080p to me it looks just as sharp
as a 1440p screen because it does have
428 PPI being 5.15 inches maximum
brightness tops out at 540 Lux which is
good enough for viewing it in direct
sunlight only just but it's not as
bright as my Samsung Galaxy s8
in direct sunlight the build quality is
superb it's very good the fit and finish
on here really there is no faults with
it there is one minor complaint though
that I have and that is just around the
cameras here it's a little rough the
edges there is a metal trim that goes
around those two camera modules and it's
a little sharp there so they could
improve on that it could just be my
model bear but it feels in hand just as
good as my Samsung Galaxy s8 the build
very similar because we've still got
that middle frame painted middle glossy
black frame on there both of these
phones of course absolutely fingerprint
smudge magnet so in the Box you do get
this TPU case which fits it perfectly
and makes the phone a little less prone
to dropping because the design of it
being all glass like any smart phone
it's all made out of glass it is
extremely slippery in hand and it does
look good in this case it's not as
premium as the case we got on the me mix
which was made out of leather there's
quite a cheap case but the quality is
fine and you can see it's got cut out
there for the camera and for all of the
ports there including the IR transmitter
and secondary mic at the top so now we
have the biggest con of the phone and
that is the ROM itself is just not
stable while the performance of it is
quick and snappy most of the time
certain applications just don't want to
work sometimes and will also cause you
can see now actually look at that
trying to run CPU Z it just freezes then
for a second I don't think that's going
to load properly and I've seen it caused
the whole phone to reboot completely
unacceptable
it's really disgraceful the state that
this ROM is in now I know that Xiaomi
will fix this
later on when they get a stable ROM on
this phone it's going to be really good
perhaps one of their best yet that I
have seen an asphalt xtreme was kind of
also load that look at that there we go
the phone has completely locked up and
I've seen the UI reload again see if I
can load asphalt. So a very poor rom
really so unstable. So the Snapdragon 835
that it has has a maximum turbo of two
point four five gigahertz it's also
coupled with six gigabytes of RAM and
ufs 2.1 storage meaning it gets really
good scores here very quick this is
flagship top-of-the-line kind of results
here benchmarks if benchmarks mean
something to you then this is the phone
that really does get some incredible
scores here so there's sequential read
speeds these are almost as good as my
Samsung Galaxy s8 700 megabytes per
second sequential right 206 the random
read for kaze and writes also excellent
really good
so no bottlenecks deal with the storage
the antutu score again if you love your
benchmarks it's really high a hundred
and eighty mm very decent result there
now vite wireless AC really impresses me
very good range I'm able to get really
good speeds still over the other side of
the studio here and maxing out them
maximum speeds that I can basically get
out of my fiber optic line which is 300
meters per second unable to achieve that
only top Wireless chipsets can do that
the 3G speeds nothing amazing they're
fine 4G speeds as well really good no
problems with the signal strength so
connectivity very good we also have
Bluetooth 5 on there here is the work to
score again another really high
benchmark score aided by the fact we've
got ufs 2.1 storage and the gps no
problems whatsoever it locks on to
satellites really quick
never lost my position attested it to my
car as well very good accuracy gets down
to around three meters which is
perfectly fine so very happy with the
GPS performance so on to battery life I
did run various different tests over
three or four days here I got a on
screen time of 11 hours now this was
medium to light use the brightness was
set at 200 lux and the screen here you
can see there 10 hours now that always
isn't going to be the way when it comes
to better oh but I am impressed with the
battery life it's very good for a
flagship chipset you can see I was doing
some gaming there now this is my second
test where I got 7 hours and 15 minutes
on screen time so the average I would
say is around about 8 hours depending on
what you're doing up on screen time just
to quickly cover the charge times you
can see here the results you get so it
takes a while to charge from 80% to 100%
and overall to fully charge it from 5%
to 100 is just over two and a half hours
there so it's not the fastest phone but
still quite quick when it comes to
charging the music's has two
loudspeakers on it so it's got one down
the bottom here the microphones next to
it and out of the earpiece is where the
second male speaker is now I'm going to
compare the sound here against my
Samsung Galaxy s8 I'll have listen to
the quality of it and just how loud it
gets looking at the disavow meter they
have
all right so that speaker is loud the
quality of it has definitely improved
over previous models because they've got
that additional speaker there's a little
hint of bass in there and compared to
the Samsung Galaxy s8 I think the S8
sounds slightly better there but the
volume out of it is good
now of course shall we did something
really bad and then as they drop to the
3.5 millimeter headphone jack support so
you're going to have to use this adapter
now which is a little bit annoying so
charging and listening to music at the
same time it's going to be a problem.
I can report though that the quality out
of that type C port is really good it's
super clean there's no hiss there's no
interference and also the voice call and
call quality in general is really good
it's excellent no problems top audio
quality just that we are lacking that
3.5 millimeter headphone jack the
fingerprint reader on the me five is
front-facing ultrasonic and it works
every single time for me very quick, no
need to wake the phone first just simply
place your scan finger on there it
unlocks instantly so here's the camera
application nothing's really changed
from your typical Xiaomi mobile however
we do have a couple of different modes
here because of that dual camera setup
tapping this right here and uses the
second auxilary sensor with that two
times optical zoom and this one right
here is our portrait mode so here's a
couple of very quick samples you can see
that's my cat there Vera and it's taken
quite a nice looking photo here with
some bokeh, blurring the background out
there now the stitching isn't quite
perfect you can see just on the outer
edges of her fur that there's like a
well an effect there you can see there's
a little bit blurred so it hasn't
stitched it to get it perfectly but you
can get some life photos with that so
here are some samples now from the
cameras and you can see here that it
does take a really good image just have
a look at the quality of this flower I'm
happy with the colors as well the colors
it doesn't tend to overdo it like some
mobile phones do and it captures a lot
of detail there
and I feel that the Samsung Center which
is the one with the optical zoom on here
you can see with the zoom and then
without it it also does a decent job but
only in good light when things go into
see later on in the samples I'm about to
show you into low-light it doesn't quite
have the same result but overall I'm
very very impressed with this camera I
do feel that in good lighting conditions
it really can take a good photo that's
as good as my Samsung Galaxy s8 just
check out my comparison you'll see
side-by-side images of those to see what
I mean there
you
rear camera now shooting in 4k the
maximum setting so we don't have the
second sensor the two times optical zoom
one in video mode not at this stage it
does have phase detection autofocus if
it focuses there on my camera okay a
little slow at times now there is 4
axis optical image stabilization and
walk along now and it works okay but
really it's not made for walking or
running it doesn't have electronic image
stabilization as well so the combination
of both would be ideal now the audio
quality that our wind noise at the
moment of course was it's windy here I
feel that the audio quality isn't as
good as it could be
show me really should up the bitrate and
try and improve on the audio quality and
video it's not really up to other
flagships but overall not bad quality as
you can see stuff will now from the
front-facing cameras you can see the
quality is quite good here but in direct
sunlight it will over close your face
seems to do that at the moment it's
cloudy so everything's been casted quite
well you can see the cliffs in the
distance and even details of the sky
which is really quite good
1080p maximum resolution here in
low-light as you see later on it does
drop frames 4k gain this time in
low-light and you can see it struggling
it does drop a few frames
Vera. And the focus has a lot more
difficulty but these kind of lighting
conditions you see it does pulse in and out
there a little. So this is what the
front-facing camera is like in low-light
starts to drop frames it's now at about
15 frames per second which is really
unacceptable for a flagship mobile to be
dropping frames especially with this
processor
so when it comes to gaming performance
as you'd expect from an Adreno 540 GPU
very fluid really nice and smooth you
will see the occasional little dip in
frames per second and lag as expected
but overall top performance out of this
GPU and it'll play all of the latest and
greatest games with very playable frames
per second so this is their best phone
yet I believe once they can fix that
firmware it really is mud at the moment
by the unstable firmware it's buggy it
can lock up the whole phone it could
reset on you completely for no reason
launching certain applications like CPU
Z seems to do it and trigger it apart
from that the build quality is excellent
it's premium their best. Yet splash
resistant. We've got very decent battery
life on here for Snapdragon 835 really
good performance, gaming performance is
good, gps is brilliant, very fast wireless
AC, really good 4G. Okay we're missing the
3.5 millimeter headphone jack but we do
get this second speaker on there so the
loudspeaker performance has improved a
little bit. Now the camera performance
some surprises here that the still
images in good light take a very decent
image really good impressed with the
performance of both of the cameras there
but the video quality still is a little
bit of a letdown. Xiaomi have to
improve their video quality and the
audio quality and video I feel aswell
needs to be tweaked. So if they can fix
this software side of things this is a
really decent phone for the price which
is going to be dropping at the moment
around $480 USD. By the time this review is
about three or four months old it'll
probably be selling for around $400 USD or
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