Chris here back with the full review of Xiaomi Mi 8 SE so this is the smaller
model of the me eight and has a five point eight eight inch screen it's
powered by the Snapdragon 710 four to six gigabytes of RAM and to 64 gigabytes
of internal storage it is emmc fly point one's back and that
is all we get we don't have 128 or 256 gigabyte storage option which I feel is
an error considering that this phone you cannot expand upon that storage there is
no micro SD card support but the build quality of this phone is very good it
has a full metal frame all around the outside and we've got glass on the rear
so it's got a bit of a sony xperia meets iPhone 10 kind of look to it the quality
of it is good i've got middle buttons on the right-hand side one of them is
textured the power button so you can distinguish the difference between the
volume rocker and that button there the glass on the rear is 2.5 d and it's
quite easy to scratch I have noticed I've already got quite a few scratches I
don't even know how this has happened because I have been using a case now the
camera module you can see we've got obviously two cameras they're dual tone
LED flash the main sensor is 12 megapixels it has an F 1.9 aperture it
is a Sony AMX 363 sensor which is a decent sensor and used in a lot of
flagships it's the same sensor used in than me 8 but here it is lacking optical
image stabilization we only have electronic up to at the time of this
review only 1080p 4k currently does not work so that footage is shaky it does
take a really good photo but I'll get onto that later on in this review the
other camera below that is 5 megapixels that's just used for your portrait mode
or your depth effect blurred backgrounds up the top we have an IR transmitter
secondary mic for voice calls couple of antenna lines there down the bottom type
C port microphone loudspeaker now the type C port obviously or outputs audio
you have to use the adapter now when you use the adapter audio quality is good
it's very clear there's no hisses no static now I'll give you a sample of
that loudspeaker just mentioned that the loudest is good the
quality isn't super-high it can distort a little bit a hundred percent volume
but overall not a bad loudspeaker but here's that sample
and then on the left hand side of the device there is a sim tray yes it has a
notch so it's wider thus not than most other phones with notches it's a lot
wider than the one plus six it has a little smaller earpiece in here now call
quality and voice calls when you listen to them through this earpiece of course
sounds okay but not the best I believe it's probably because of the size of the
earpiece being smaller it just sounds a little flatter but the volume is all
right that comes out of it now we've got a front-facing LED flash for selfies and
the camera on the front here is 20 megapixels with an F 2.0 aperture it
tends to overexpose and this is a common thing that's been happening with xiaomi
phones onto the displays so it's a Samsung AMOLED panel and it's got a
really good brightness there's a 719 Lux maximum output really bright super
bright it's got good color reproduction the whites look good and you can of
course tweak that to your own personal preference through the settings now it
also supports HDR I only have one minor complaint with this otherwise really
great screen is that there blacks at certain angles don't look as deep as
they should now it's down to other two things I have worked out it's either the
glass they have used covering the AMOLED panel or it's not optically bonded there
may be a small gap between the AMOLED panel and then the glass or even maybe
perhaps a layer on top of the AMOLED panel that's the only thing but it is
just a very minor complaint this display is so much better than the likes of the
me 6 X's display or the redmi note 5 display they use IPS panels the 18 by 9
aspect ratio but this display here to me is just a lot better now the UI it runs
is me UI 9.5 that's shammies own and I won't go into a lot of detail with it
that it's got a lot of features on they've got things like double tapped
away we do have also and always-on display so that's something that's come
through of course with the AMOLED panel they can use that now at the moment in
time of this review all it can display is just your messages and the date and
the time that's it I really wish it would display other notifications if
they can allow us to customize that that would be great but it's really good
having this feature there of course it will slightly drain the battery now the
thing with the UI and the knotch too is that when you want to see the
notifications they're not actually there you have to swipe down the same goes for
the battery percent so that will not be displayed in the current setup and the
icon so Sherman's got a few patches to come through for this one clearly
because I've also seen some stutters with notifications swiping down has
sometimes being very laggy especially when you just turn on data or Wireless
and you start getting all those whatsapp notifications coming through there's a
lot of lag at times and the chipset is quite powerful and it's not a fold of
that the other thing to us notice just a couple of minor little bugs with the UI
that I've had icons on top of other ones so the ticks doubling up very minor and
also sometimes some lag when using full gesture mode just going through recent
apps so that's just a minor thing there's a few little bugs that they have
to iron out now performance of the phone in general is very good though when you
don't see any of that lag you've got an ante to score of almost 170,000 so that
puts it above the snapdragon 660 and the 6-3 six which is about 130,000 so
performance is good now the wireless I have a minor complaint here with a
whiner Wireless it doesn't seem to be as fast as other phones for some reason and
I cannot figure out what why this is I've done a lot of speed tests I've also
used apps like Wi-Fi sweet spot just to see their maximum throughput there and
it's falling below other phones I just believe a patch is probably needed again
software here isn't quite there at the moment with those GPS signal is good it
gets a fast lock also the internal storage is fast for the specs now we're
having a look at added battery life the battery capacity is 3121 hours so it's
not the largest because it is a smaller phone obviously they had to cut down
over for example a 3400 see in the me 8 but it did surprise with good battery
life here so with my own battery life tests that i do i do continual use i use
the phone quite demanding you can call a moderate to heavier
a lot of gaming and it managed to get close to eight hours on screen time so
you're gonna get about seven to eight hours out of this phone so there's
definitely a two day mobile phone the course depending on your use just take
this as a guide only charge times also very quick so it does support Qualcomm
quick charge three and in thirty minutes are challenging you can get around about
fifty percent battery life which is great and to fully charge takes just
over one hour and twenty minutes so all good there so to the main camera here it
can take a really nice photo a little bit oversaturated at times but I know
that most people will probably prefer these photos because the colors do look
great very nice and when you're viewing them
on the AMOLED panel do they look even oversaturated more perhaps it all
depends on how you have the screen calibrated but even getting is on my PC
looking at them I did a comparison against the ribbon note five and they
tended to be a little bit more saturated differently than the Rema note five but
it did lose out there with low light performance against that phone so make
sure you check out that review that camera comparison gaming performance so
a lot of games newer titles like pub she didn't actually order to Texas net
dragons 710 very well put it on the lowest settings but if you use
applications like GFX tool force it onto the high settings the game is still very
playable and it looks great so the performance here of the Snapdragon 17 is
great and even having a look at a lineage two revolution that even on the
highest settings very playable its smooth so good gaming performance I
think that what the well 1080p resolution which is this basically is
pushing it has no issues with all the demanding titles
so this is now shooting in 4k and you can see of course we get a lot more
detail the resolution is good now do have that image stabilization enable in
ceilings but you can see that clearly it is not working because the footage is a
little bit shaky and I don't have the steadiest of hands definitely noticeable
when you start to walk and move around average Xiaomi has to improve the audio
quality it's been a problem that we've had with my boss as a recent and
affecting mostly the flagships so hopefully with mui ten when that comes
out will improve the quality of the audio and give us electronic
stabilization face unlocking is also very quick it's fast and it's also very
unsecure there's a couple of videos that have been released one from china
especially that they managed to fool the camera with a simple a4 printout in
black and white of someone's face if I've got time I may do a video testing
that one out now to quickly recap here so we've got a fantastic AMOLED panel
from Samsung five point eight eight inches I really do like the size the
build of this the screen okay it does have the knotch
but what you're gaining is really good brightness good color reproduction
blacks okay it's certain angles they don't look as dark and deep as they
should be for an AMOLED panel but I think it's the glass but really the
glass on the back as well scratched and I don't even know how he did it but
using a case and it's got a couple of scratches on it already so it's a little
bit more fragile definitely than other phones because the glass back on it and
yes it has a bit of a copycat designed look compared to say the Xperia that
iPhone 10 we know that's what Charmy has been doing recently with their designs
so the bezels on the side a little bit thicker than the press images so be
prepared for a little bit of a surprise when you get your hands on this if you
happen to buy one it just won't be exactly as you thought
I noticed that when I first unbox this and four side bezels but it is good
you're gaining a really really good screen here so better life also
excellent core quality is good Wireless speeds not as fast as I expect it but I
believe it's down to software GPS is working well
the audio quality from the three point five outs using the adapter of course
you have to plug the adapter oh that sounds good it's clear it's crystal
clear static does it no interference there the
loudness is good but really comes down to software with this phone here that
Chairman's got a lot of optimization to do with the camera so fix the 4k
electronic image stabilization or enable it or let third-party applications use
it at least they also need to optimize a little bit the camera and low-light
front-facing camera over exposes they need to fix that and the audio there are
bugs with the UI so very minor bugs though not the whole phone crashing but
I just noticed that icons doubling up now and then I noticed some stutters
some lag that should not be happening with a snapdragon 710 the 710 looks like
an efficient chipset were they a good combination of features efficiency and
power it can play all the latest games on the high settings with good frame
rates there so overall once Xiaomi fix the software
you've got yourself a very decent phone price similarly to the Mi 6x and I think
a lot of people have been asking me which one's the best obviously this is
faster has the better display I think the better cameras are on the 6x though
so that one might have a slight edge I have a camera comparison of that one
coming up and currently working on it and I do hope to catch you back in the
channel soon with my upcoming reviews if you haven't checked out my review of the
me sorry the redmi note 5 that's right up here and also the camera comparison
between the redmi note 5 and this Mi 8 SE thank you so much for watching
No comments:
Post a Comment