I had many Xiaomi devices (3, 4, 4C, 4S, 5) and the real Xiaomi problem is about the Software. The Chinese version doesn't officially support Google services and in order to install them, you have to rely on the 3rd party which does not clarify what you are really going to install. 3rd-party ROM like Xiaomi EU doesn't really provide stable build and once again you need to rely on someone else which might install in your device a malware.
Not installing Play Store by default is a big pro in my book, rather than a con. However there're plenty of trustworthy sites distributing the "Gapps" so I don't really see what the problem might be. Anyhow you'll always be dependent on the manufacturer not doing anything nasty in the software which is why I prefer to wait for CM or now LineageOS versions to come out before I buy an Android phone.
It's really cool how people across the world have wildly different priorities. You for example trust the Chinese and their hackware over Google services. I on the other hand, will never buy anything Chinese unless it came with pure Android (like the Nexus 6p). To each their own I guess.
Regarding the device, stunning design. It's rarely I'm impressed by a Chinese phone.
I'm sorry, but that comment has nothing to do with 'racism'. It has everything to do with a government of a country which is notorious for spying on its citizens. We need operational definitions for some of these words...everything seems to be 'racist' these days. Ugh.
Yes this is true, but in the US we have the power to fight against this, or at least we think we do. We are not proud of what has been done to the American public since 911, it's going to take a long time to recover our rights and dignity. In the meantime, we'll keep taking our shoes off at airports.
I was stating my preference, though I agree with you in principle. Google scares me in terms of the access to information they now have and the capability for abuse. So far they seem to be very careful in terms of managing their priorities and policies to work in the public interest while also banking crazy profits. Ultimately they provide their services for free though, it's up to you if you want to use them.
I was referring to previous cases where Chinese versions of Android were modified to report data back home. I'm weary of Google too, but a lot more eyes are looking at what they do, and the code they publish, until they betray the interest of the public I'll play along. You don't get that from the Chinese firms. As I stated in my post, I like the Nexus 6P, this has little to do with racism but if you want to call it that so be it.
I have a Redmi Note 3 "Special Edition", which to my knowledge is the first "global" phone by Xiaomi. It came preloaded with Google services, and if fact, if the only phone in Xiamomi's lineup that does not have a chinese firmware.
Xiaomi is expanding to new markets, so many newer phones have a "Global Firmware" that includes Google services. To name a few, Redmi 4 and Redmi Note 4 have a "Global Firmware". Now, LTE band support is another matter.
I have a Mi 5 which I bought from a third party re-seller as soon as it was released last year, was using a 4c before that. I immediately unlocked the phone through Xiaomi unlock tool, wiped the phone and installed the global MIUI 8 Developer variant. It comes loaded with all Google services, all menus' etc.. are all in English and all Chinese bloatware is removed. I was able to choose USA as my region. I get weekly updates and it is constantly being improved. It works great in PA on AT&T. I get many compliments from people when they notice the phone.
@m4r1k: well you claim you had many devices but I wonder how you can say such things about miui. I've come to Xiaomi last year and as far as I remember MI4 variants had global ROM, and MI5 definitely has global ROM, global rom means google ware installed by default. Most of devices (if not all) does have global roms, although not immediately after phone release.
Personally I'm using EU rom (which are based on cn and tweaked a little) as I don't want to have all google stuff installed which I don't use in system. Plus it has some tweaks over lame global verions. Ofc disadvantage is that you need to have unlocked BL (on new phones) which makes it easier for thieves to reuse your phone...
Also it is pretty much untrue that xiaomi EU (fan made btw) doesn't provide stable versions. They does, probably from very beginning.
Also big plus for Xiaomi is that they keep updating old devices like redmi2 that has like almost 3 years.
And as for China concern, well I rather "trust" CN then west/US, so I'm more happy if CN has my data rather then west, because as simple as it is, CN influence in the west is minimal, ie I cant see how they can misuse my data. But as living in EU (or US) we are more vulnerable from data collected by google and other companies because we live in the same "system" (doesn't mean I approve data collection and spying)
But sure Xiaomi isn't ideal, they release too much devices, which slows them down in miui updates, and they mostly focus on stupid cosmetic things rather then fixing real issues. But at least they tend to update android security patches quite often.
I know Japanese phone aka keitai is not well known, but please give some credit back to Sharp as it's AQUOS Crystal line is probably the earliest bezel-less phone.
Yeh this worries me a little. What eases my concern a little is that western "spy" agencies have access to most of our stuff anyway but you get the feeling that there is a little more professionalism and oversight going on there.... possibly...... a little.
At the end of the day people quite happily throw a load of information at Facebook for "their friends" to see but not realising that if they're not paying for the product then basically they are the product. I wonder just how much my Amazon Dot is listening to me - there's an interesting criminal court case where what the Amazon box picked up will be used as evidence and I for one will be very interested to know why it recorded anything at all without the activation command being spoken and what it recorded. My Dot may be headed for the bin.
I think we have to accept that "software extras" are just the norm these days, whether they are corporations or our own governments who can just watch and listen to us as they please. Whether the Chinese or Russians are necessarily worse at this than us may just be a feature of our biases rather than based in fact but I don't think any of us actually have enough information in order to make that assessment.
If however you're on about organised crime sticking malware / spyware on there for the purposes of extracting credit card data, etc then I concur. There is evidence that large numbers of phones are being intercepted somewhere along the line and infected which is why my girlfriend's new phone got a full virus scan performed before she started putting any data on it whatsoever. Not fool proof but better than nothing. I think the risk of this kind of issue is probably higher when the phones spend more time in countries where bribing people to say, park a truck up for a few hours whilst they go for a nice break, is seen as the norm.
Per your echo comments... how do you suppose it hear an activation command without it recording your audio? It has to process the audio in order to determine if it matches the activation command, and to do that, it has to record.
According to Amazon, that audio is stored locally on the device, but is not transmitted to Amazon servers. I'd probably trust them on it; there isn't really a way to do this without recording, and it'd be pretty easy to tell if there were an increased number of transmissions to amazon servers when you were speaking.
No, that's not what they're saying. Amazon says they'll detect the keyword(s) locally before sending the recording over to their servers. Since there's no way of reliably figuring out whether that is true, how reliably the keyword detection works and how easy it is to work around this "protection" I'd rather stay the hell away from that crap.
Putting the front camera in the bottom right corner seems to be a high price to pay for having no bezel on top of the screen. Looks a bit gimmicky to me.
Yes. That overly large single bottom bezel looks horrible. If they would just split it between the top and bottom of the phone for two very small bezels it would look much better.
No: the bottom is often obstructed by the fingers in some way. And the bottom of the keyboard becomes really difficult to reach without a bezel. So giving the "full" bezel size to the nominal bottom is fine, because you have the orientation sensor if you turn the phone around to use the front camera (as Trixanity already said).
Except that some users doesn't have a use for the selfie camera. You have a point though that they could get away without the Piezo electric speakers, increased drop durability, top front camera, probably lower cost, and improved landscape handling for games if there's a bezel at the top with a size similar to the S8.
I don't appreciate the ceramic body. I see no value despite costing Xiaomi and consumers.
You do know that you can just turn the phone upside down and take a selfie, right? You should be mad at Dell doing the same on a laptop where you can't do anything about it.
I don't know if I've ever taken a selfie and I don't do video conferencing from my phone. So for me, I couldn't care less. If there was no front facing camera at all I don't think I'd even notice.
That was a short analysis and doesn't have analysis comparing this to the G6 and S8. I've held an S8 and G6 at a local grocery store and was disappointed with both. The tall aspect ratio of the S8 has little value in terms of screen real estate and the screen area feels cramped. It could have work in landscape orientation. The G6 isn't that bad but the LCD screen is washed out compared to the S8's AMOLED screen and it costs almost an S8. The Xiaomi Mi Mix beats these latest, unavailable devices easily. Unfortunately, I am leaning towards AMOLED screens as they are just superior in every aspect except to an all white UI or content.
I am looking forward for the refurbished Note 7's which has a display performance and spec similar to the S8.
Just thought I'd add my two cents: I got this phone 3-26 and I really like it Like most people say, yea it lasts forever On my Galaxy s6 active I'd be lucky to get 3.5 hours of screen-on-time With this the minimum is 5 hours, I think the most I got was a little less than 6.5 hours The display is sharp, but you can tell it's not as sharp as a 1440p phone I just flashed a near-stock ROM on 7.1 and it's soooo nice. MIUI is ok after hours of fiddling, but I still didn't get it to 100% English I'm using the included case and I'm still horrified of dropping it, but all in all its a great phone
I'm wondering when I look at it - wouldn't putting the bezel on TOP instead of bottom be nicer? Camera on top, microphone, sensors... The bottom bezel is useless anyway ;-)
I'm a bit disappointed to see the 91.3% screen to body ratio mindlessly re-published here just like it was on every other major site when they first introduced this phone. It goes to show how a simple misleading marketing slide can fool millions of people into believing something that is measurably incorrect.
The only way to get to 91.3% is to ignore the lower bezel entirely, and that's not how you calculate the screen to body ratio of a phone. The actual screen to body ratio is just shy of 84%, or about exactly the same as the Samsung S8+. Don't get me wrong... it's still an impressive feat, but the fact that they marketed it the way they did (and that every major news outlet regurgitated the same info without even doing a cursory check) is pretty shameful.
Please correct this in the article, and take the time to verify the information written on marketing slides before repeating it as fact in the article.
I measure the MIX's screen-to-body ratio to be 87.9%. Xiaomi's figure might be a little optimistic, but it seems pretty close to me, and Xiaomi is working from the CAD model rather than measuring a retail device with a caliper.
Thanks for the response. I don't think there's much to measure here... the screen is a 6.4" 17:9 aspect ratio. By definition it has a physical size of 143.67mm x 76.06mm which is a total surface area of 10927.5mm square. The phone itself is 158.8mm x 81.9mm which is a total surface area of 13005.7mm square. This gives an aspect ratio of exactly 84%. Normally you would need to account for the tiny delta caused by the corner radius, but in this case the screen has the same radius, so it won't change anything.
If you take a look at GSM arena, they have it correctly calculated in their spec sheet. I'd be curious to see how you came up with 87.9%.
Finally, "a bit optimistic" might account for less than a 1% error, but even a 3% error is a very big delta. If I showed you a phone with a true 91.3% screen to body ratio your jaw would drop. As it is, Xiaomi published a number that was 7.3% off, and that's the same as the difference between the S7 and the S8!
Using the frame dimensions, I get pretty close to 84% too. For the 87.9% figure, I measured the "body" as only the flat area of the front bezel and factored in the radii, which I thought might be closer to how Xiaomi is calculating the ratio.
Hello been using mi mix for a week,never had a issue with the finger scan,either the OP has sticky hand or is using fingerprint scanner for first time.Mi Mix ticks all the boxes,bought it from an onlien shop gearbest,NO issues running In India,Global Rom is perfect.Now I understand what really is MI is all about and why people are crazy..Innovative.
When you think of cheap pine king/ queen size storage beds for children you usually think of either platform beds or loft beds. Murphy beds are too dangerous for children and ottoman storage beds are too complicated, heavy and dangerous. Children need space to play in, and they need comfort and safe environments, which is why purchasing a storage bed for them is a very wise decision.
IMO, the bezel reduction trend this phone may have started is the single biggest improvement in smartphone design in the past few years. I just wish that it wouldn't be applied only to increasing screen size in current form factor phones, but scale back down as well. I'd love a phone with 4.5" screen (3:2 ratio preferably) and the absolute minimum in bezels. This constant march to bigger phones has really been off-putting to the minority of us that want something small and isn't landfill-grade hardware. And I'm talking about overall phone size, not putting a 4" screen in the same size body as flagships with 5-5.2" due to woefully oversized bezels.
One thing I hate about the MIX design is the 17:9 screen ratio. To me the dimension of a phone that impacts pocketability most is height, and this just makes it worse. I just don't get why phones would be designed around 16:9 when all that ratio is really optimal for is watching video (and is ok for playing games) and literally nothing else. Bigger reported screen size dimension while providing a smaller screen area-wise? Sorry for the rant...
Xiaomi Mi Mix one more phone from Mi. i thought this is best for for me but when i compare with Doogee Mix then found som fact. Doogee MIX have sports glass back body with 5.5-inch AMOLED display offering Full HD resolution and comes with on-screen navigation buttons. Doogee MIX packs a MediaTek Helio P25 (MT6757T) octa-core processor. It runs on Android 7.0 Nougat and dual-lens camera setup on the rear with 16MP and 8MP sensors. For selfies, there is a 5MP front camera placed on the bottom bezel of the device. so my choice is Doogee MIX.
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m4r1k - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I had many Xiaomi devices (3, 4, 4C, 4S, 5) and the real Xiaomi problem is about the Software.The Chinese version doesn't officially support Google services and in order to install them, you have to rely on the 3rd party which does not clarify what you are really going to install.
3rd-party ROM like Xiaomi EU doesn't really provide stable build and once again you need to rely on someone else which might install in your device a malware.
Daniel Egger - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Not installing Play Store by default is a big pro in my book, rather than a con. However there're plenty of trustworthy sites distributing the "Gapps" so I don't really see what the problem might be. Anyhow you'll always be dependent on the manufacturer not doing anything nasty in the software which is why I prefer to wait for CM or now LineageOS versions to come out before I buy an Android phone.niva - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
It's really cool how people across the world have wildly different priorities. You for example trust the Chinese and their hackware over Google services. I on the other hand, will never buy anything Chinese unless it came with pure Android (like the Nexus 6p). To each their own I guess.Regarding the device, stunning design. It's rarely I'm impressed by a Chinese phone.
lazarpandar - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
"the chinese and their hackware"It's as much software as anyone else's software. There's no need to pepper your opinion with racist implications.....
sweenish - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Eh, I've always considered the Chinese OS's to be a major disappointment in comparison. Hackware might be a bit strong, but it's not great software.vortmax2 - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
I'm sorry, but that comment has nothing to do with 'racism'. It has everything to do with a government of a country which is notorious for spying on its citizens. We need operational definitions for some of these words...everything seems to be 'racist' these days. Ugh.Lozes - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Funny. "A government of a country which is notorious for spying on its citizens" could easily be applied to the US as well ...niva - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link
Yes this is true, but in the US we have the power to fight against this, or at least we think we do. We are not proud of what has been done to the American public since 911, it's going to take a long time to recover our rights and dignity. In the meantime, we'll keep taking our shoes off at airports.Loenrankez - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link
Kettle and pot or just being ignorant, CIA is the biggest spy network the world ever known.sonny73n - Sunday, April 16, 2017 - link
"It has everything to do with a government of a country which is notorious for spying on its citizens"Are you talking about the US? Lol. China is only about 1% compared to the US for that matter. Try wikileaks vault#7!
Daniel Egger - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
> You for example trust the Chinese and their hackware over Google services.No, you got that all wrong. I trust neither the Chinese nor Google which is why I only buy Android devices if LineageOS is available...
niva - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link
I was stating my preference, though I agree with you in principle. Google scares me in terms of the access to information they now have and the capability for abuse. So far they seem to be very careful in terms of managing their priorities and policies to work in the public interest while also banking crazy profits. Ultimately they provide their services for free though, it's up to you if you want to use them.niva - Thursday, April 13, 2017 - link
Oh looks like I touched a nerve there.I was referring to previous cases where Chinese versions of Android were modified to report data back home. I'm weary of Google too, but a lot more eyes are looking at what they do, and the code they publish, until they betray the interest of the public I'll play along. You don't get that from the Chinese firms. As I stated in my post, I like the Nexus 6P, this has little to do with racism but if you want to call it that so be it.
Glock24 - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I have a Redmi Note 3 "Special Edition", which to my knowledge is the first "global" phone by Xiaomi. It came preloaded with Google services, and if fact, if the only phone in Xiamomi's lineup that does not have a chinese firmware.Xiaomi is expanding to new markets, so many newer phones have a "Global Firmware" that includes Google services. To name a few, Redmi 4 and Redmi Note 4 have a "Global Firmware". Now, LTE band support is another matter.
Mishuno - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I have a Mi 5 which I bought from a third party re-seller as soon as it was released last year, was using a 4c before that. I immediately unlocked the phone through Xiaomi unlock tool, wiped the phone and installed the global MIUI 8 Developer variant. It comes loaded with all Google services, all menus' etc.. are all in English and all Chinese bloatware is removed. I was able to choose USA as my region. I get weekly updates and it is constantly being improved. It works great in PA on AT&T. I get many compliments from people when they notice the phone.fm13 - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
how's headphone volume level on Dev ROM? it's too low on Global Stable for me.lordken - Saturday, April 22, 2017 - link
@m4r1k: well you claim you had many devices but I wonder how you can say such things about miui. I've come to Xiaomi last year and as far as I remember MI4 variants had global ROM, and MI5 definitely has global ROM, global rom means google ware installed by default. Most of devices (if not all) does have global roms, although not immediately after phone release.Personally I'm using EU rom (which are based on cn and tweaked a little) as I don't want to have all google stuff installed which I don't use in system. Plus it has some tweaks over lame global verions. Ofc disadvantage is that you need to have unlocked BL (on new phones) which makes it easier for thieves to reuse your phone...
Also it is pretty much untrue that xiaomi EU (fan made btw) doesn't provide stable versions. They does, probably from very beginning.
Also big plus for Xiaomi is that they keep updating old devices like redmi2 that has like almost 3 years.
And as for China concern, well I rather "trust" CN then west/US, so I'm more happy if CN has my data rather then west, because as simple as it is, CN influence in the west is minimal, ie I cant see how they can misuse my data. But as living in EU (or US) we are more vulnerable from data collected by google and other companies because we live in the same "system" (doesn't mean I approve data collection and spying)
But sure Xiaomi isn't ideal, they release too much devices, which slows them down in miui updates, and they mostly focus on stupid cosmetic things rather then fixing real issues. But at least they tend to update android security patches quite often.
daiwai - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I know Japanese phone aka keitai is not well known, but please give some credit back to Sharp as it's AQUOS Crystal line is probably the earliest bezel-less phone.http://www.gsmarena.com/sharp_aquos_crystal_and_cr...
Qwertsun - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I do agree with you on this. I dare say that Sharp is the reason why Mi Mix stands out; Sharp's know how on making bezeless screens.jabber - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I like the look of all these phones but I just wonder about what little 'software extras' are hidden away in the back there.philehidiot - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Yeh this worries me a little. What eases my concern a little is that western "spy" agencies have access to most of our stuff anyway but you get the feeling that there is a little more professionalism and oversight going on there.... possibly...... a little.At the end of the day people quite happily throw a load of information at Facebook for "their friends" to see but not realising that if they're not paying for the product then basically they are the product. I wonder just how much my Amazon Dot is listening to me - there's an interesting criminal court case where what the Amazon box picked up will be used as evidence and I for one will be very interested to know why it recorded anything at all without the activation command being spoken and what it recorded. My Dot may be headed for the bin.
I think we have to accept that "software extras" are just the norm these days, whether they are corporations or our own governments who can just watch and listen to us as they please. Whether the Chinese or Russians are necessarily worse at this than us may just be a feature of our biases rather than based in fact but I don't think any of us actually have enough information in order to make that assessment.
If however you're on about organised crime sticking malware / spyware on there for the purposes of extracting credit card data, etc then I concur. There is evidence that large numbers of phones are being intercepted somewhere along the line and infected which is why my girlfriend's new phone got a full virus scan performed before she started putting any data on it whatsoever. Not fool proof but better than nothing. I think the risk of this kind of issue is probably higher when the phones spend more time in countries where bribing people to say, park a truck up for a few hours whilst they go for a nice break, is seen as the norm.
Drumsticks - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
Per your echo comments... how do you suppose it hear an activation command without it recording your audio? It has to process the audio in order to determine if it matches the activation command, and to do that, it has to record.According to Amazon, that audio is stored locally on the device, but is not transmitted to Amazon servers. I'd probably trust them on it; there isn't really a way to do this without recording, and it'd be pretty easy to tell if there were an increased number of transmissions to amazon servers when you were speaking.
Daniel Egger - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
No, that's not what they're saying. Amazon says they'll detect the keyword(s) locally before sending the recording over to their servers. Since there's no way of reliably figuring out whether that is true, how reliably the keyword detection works and how easy it is to work around this "protection" I'd rather stay the hell away from that crap.Daniel Egger - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Now Xiaomi, please the same in non-phablet size and I'd be all over it...uhuznaa - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Putting the front camera in the bottom right corner seems to be a high price to pay for having no bezel on top of the screen. Looks a bit gimmicky to me.SquarePeg - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Yes. That overly large single bottom bezel looks horrible. If they would just split it between the top and bottom of the phone for two very small bezels it would look much better.MrSpadge - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
No: the bottom is often obstructed by the fingers in some way. And the bottom of the keyboard becomes really difficult to reach without a bezel. So giving the "full" bezel size to the nominal bottom is fine, because you have the orientation sensor if you turn the phone around to use the front camera (as Trixanity already said).zodiacfml - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Except that some users doesn't have a use for the selfie camera. You have a point though that they could get away without the Piezo electric speakers, increased drop durability, top front camera, probably lower cost, and improved landscape handling for games if there's a bezel at the top with a size similar to the S8.I don't appreciate the ceramic body. I see no value despite costing Xiaomi and consumers.
Trixanity - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
You do know that you can just turn the phone upside down and take a selfie, right? You should be mad at Dell doing the same on a laptop where you can't do anything about it.vanilla_gorilla - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I don't know if I've ever taken a selfie and I don't do video conferencing from my phone. So for me, I couldn't care less. If there was no front facing camera at all I don't think I'd even notice.thetuna - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Just turn the phone when you take a picture ¯\_(ツ)_/¯zeeBomb - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Xiaomi doing big things... I wish they were some Here in the US.zodiacfml - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
That was a short analysis and doesn't have analysis comparing this to the G6 and S8. I've held an S8 and G6 at a local grocery store and was disappointed with both. The tall aspect ratio of the S8 has little value in terms of screen real estate and the screen area feels cramped. It could have work in landscape orientation. The G6 isn't that bad but the LCD screen is washed out compared to the S8's AMOLED screen and it costs almost an S8. The Xiaomi Mi Mix beats these latest, unavailable devices easily. Unfortunately, I am leaning towards AMOLED screens as they are just superior in every aspect except to an all white UI or content.I am looking forward for the refurbished Note 7's which has a display performance and spec similar to the S8.
UtilityMax - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - link
Anandtech has gone downhill. They stopped reviewing smartphones and tablets after the Pixel.dstarr3 - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
No removable battery, no sale.unrulycow - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
If this came with stock Android, I'd be in.Harlan - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Just thought I'd add my two cents:I got this phone 3-26 and I really like it
Like most people say, yea it lasts forever
On my Galaxy s6 active I'd be lucky to get 3.5 hours of screen-on-time
With this the minimum is 5 hours, I think the most I got was a little less than 6.5 hours
The display is sharp, but you can tell it's not as sharp as a 1440p phone
I just flashed a near-stock ROM on 7.1 and it's soooo nice.
MIUI is ok after hours of fiddling, but I still didn't get it to 100% English
I'm using the included case and I'm still horrified of dropping it, but all in all its a great phone
jospoortvliet - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I'm wondering when I look at it - wouldn't putting the bezel on TOP instead of bottom be nicer? Camera on top, microphone, sensors... The bottom bezel is useless anyway ;-)But maybe it would look less 'wow'.
RaistlinZ - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
It's 2017. Why can't we get properly calibrated screens by default? I don't get it.opc - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I'm a bit disappointed to see the 91.3% screen to body ratio mindlessly re-published here just like it was on every other major site when they first introduced this phone. It goes to show how a simple misleading marketing slide can fool millions of people into believing something that is measurably incorrect.The only way to get to 91.3% is to ignore the lower bezel entirely, and that's not how you calculate the screen to body ratio of a phone. The actual screen to body ratio is just shy of 84%, or about exactly the same as the Samsung S8+. Don't get me wrong... it's still an impressive feat, but the fact that they marketed it the way they did (and that every major news outlet regurgitated the same info without even doing a cursory check) is pretty shameful.
Please correct this in the article, and take the time to verify the information written on marketing slides before repeating it as fact in the article.
Matt Humrick - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
I measure the MIX's screen-to-body ratio to be 87.9%. Xiaomi's figure might be a little optimistic, but it seems pretty close to me, and Xiaomi is working from the CAD model rather than measuring a retail device with a caliper.opc - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Hi Matt,Thanks for the response. I don't think there's much to measure here... the screen is a 6.4" 17:9 aspect ratio. By definition it has a physical size of 143.67mm x 76.06mm which is a total surface area of 10927.5mm square. The phone itself is 158.8mm x 81.9mm which is a total surface area of 13005.7mm square. This gives an aspect ratio of exactly 84%. Normally you would need to account for the tiny delta caused by the corner radius, but in this case the screen has the same radius, so it won't change anything.
If you take a look at GSM arena, they have it correctly calculated in their spec sheet. I'd be curious to see how you came up with 87.9%.
Finally, "a bit optimistic" might account for less than a 1% error, but even a 3% error is a very big delta. If I showed you a phone with a true 91.3% screen to body ratio your jaw would drop. As it is, Xiaomi published a number that was 7.3% off, and that's the same as the difference between the S7 and the S8!
opc - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Oops.. that should read: "This gives a screen to body ratio of exactly 84%."Matt Humrick - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Using the frame dimensions, I get pretty close to 84% too. For the 87.9% figure, I measured the "body" as only the flat area of the front bezel and factored in the radii, which I thought might be closer to how Xiaomi is calculating the ratio.Amolsonthalia - Monday, April 10, 2017 - link
Hello been using mi mix for a week,never had a issue with the finger scan,either the OP has sticky hand or is using fingerprint scanner for first time.Mi Mix ticks all the boxes,bought it from an onlien shop gearbest,NO issues running In India,Global Rom is perfect.Now I understand what really is MI is all about and why people are crazy..Innovative.ahadali1 - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - link
When you think of cheap pine king/ queen size storage beds for children you usually think of either platform beds or loft beds. Murphy beds are too dangerous for children and ottoman storage beds are too complicated, heavy and dangerous. Children need space to play in, and they need comfort and safe environments, which is why purchasing a storage bed for them is a very wise decision.hybrid2d4x4 - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - link
IMO, the bezel reduction trend this phone may have started is the single biggest improvement in smartphone design in the past few years. I just wish that it wouldn't be applied only to increasing screen size in current form factor phones, but scale back down as well. I'd love a phone with 4.5" screen (3:2 ratio preferably) and the absolute minimum in bezels. This constant march to bigger phones has really been off-putting to the minority of us that want something small and isn't landfill-grade hardware. And I'm talking about overall phone size, not putting a 4" screen in the same size body as flagships with 5-5.2" due to woefully oversized bezels.One thing I hate about the MIX design is the 17:9 screen ratio. To me the dimension of a phone that impacts pocketability most is height, and this just makes it worse.
I just don't get why phones would be designed around 16:9 when all that ratio is really optimal for is watching video (and is ok for playing games) and literally nothing else.
Bigger reported screen size dimension while providing a smaller screen area-wise?
Sorry for the rant...
adsforme2007 - Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - link
Xiaomi Mi Mix one more phone from Mi. i thought this is best for for me but when i compare with Doogee Mix then found som fact. Doogee MIX have sports glass back body with 5.5-inch AMOLED display offering Full HD resolution and comes with on-screen navigation buttons. Doogee MIX packs a MediaTek Helio P25 (MT6757T) octa-core processor. It runs on Android 7.0 Nougat and dual-lens camera setup on the rear with 16MP and 8MP sensors. For selfies, there is a 5MP front camera placed on the bottom bezel of the device. so my choice is Doogee MIX.