Xiaomi Mi2 / 2s, 3, 4 – everyone’s flagship Chinese company has been successful for its time, the smartphone, and now they look quite actually. Small disadvantages of each of them, for example, the traditional lack of support for memory cards more than offset the low cost of the competition. Today, look at the model Mi Note – it can be perceived as an interim replacement Mi4 and expansion of the model range, or as a simplified version of the flagship Mi Note Pro, get the performance platform Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 and 2K-screen.
The models in the line: 3
Price Range: 12,882 – 14,475 USD
The product is given online store “Xiaomi Ukraine”, www.xiaomi.ua
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Xiaomi remain true to yourself, packaging design and its content does not change with the years. In a tight cardboard box is smart, documentation, paper clip eject simkarty, cable and charger 2A.
Design and usability
The Mi Note continued to develop design ideas embodied in Xiaomi Mi4. The main body materials – metal and glass. In a typical version of the smartphone back cover is made of curved glass, it can be seen on the official photos below. There are versions of two colors-white and black, and later should appear pink (female). Traditionally, Xiaomi, initially in sales appears white version, but other colors have to wait long.
But for the review, we decided to take the most interesting, bamboo Mi Note. In this version, the glass back cover was replaced with a natural bamboo. In this design the smartphone immediately stands out from their own kind, because by and large, today it is difficult to surprise someone with metal or glass, they are almost all flagship.
In addition, the majority of smart phones with glass backs are relatively slippery another thing bamboo. He’s not like uhvatisty soft-touch plastic, rather close to the usual plastic. A separate question – how the material will behave over time, but for two weeks with careful use of the test Mi Note nothing happened.
The dimensions of the smartphone standard for models with a screen diagonal of 5.7 inches. It is a little more Meizu M1 Note, but the difference in the width and height is almost imperceptible, in contrast to the thickness (7 mm). Compared with Xiaomi Mi4, the difference in thickness is about two millimeters. The result today is not a record, but the smartphone felt fine.
Comparing sizes Xiaomi Mi Note and Meizu M1 Note
The rounded edges of the cover added convenience, but large Sizes still feel Mi Note cope with one hand not everyone can.
Location controls usual. Power button and volume controls are located on the right, the power button is located exactly under your thumb. The keys have a distinct middle course, convenient to use. On top there is the headset connector and the microphone of the second hole in the left corner of the lower face placed microUSB, the center – the mesh wide single speaker.
good speaker placement. When the smartphone is on the table or in a pocket, the sound is not muted, due to the wide mesh speaker difficult to completely cut off the hand when holding the smartphone horizontally (while watching videos or playing games). The very high-quality speaker – playing loud, clear and with a hint of volume. CALL speaker also good, with an average stock volume.
On the front panel there is the usual logo Mi, three touch keys with backlight, camera, a set of sensors and indicator light.
The settings allow you to set the time of backlight touch buttons or leave always running.
The indicator light may illuminate several colors – is also configurable for different events you can choose the color regular means.
Another positive point is the slightly rounded edges of the protective glass screen. Thanks to them svaypat from the edges of the screen is much easier, such a gesture is often used in Android-applications.
The build quality should be commended – the details are well adjusted, on a metal frame made accurate bevel and tray for two SIM cards (Micro and Nano) sits perfectly in its place. The back cover is in our smartphone in some places barely perceptible sagged – to achieve this effect, and it can be noticed through once, it does not cause inconvenience in use. Overall, the new Xiaomi Mi Note looks great. His role in this is a bamboo cover.
Display
The smartphone has IPS display diagonal of 5.7 inches with a resolution FullHD. It covers protective glass Gorilla Glass third generation with slightly rounded edges.
The range of brightness control different: from 6 to 459 cd / m2 – enough for comfortable use, both in the dark and the bright sun. The measured contrast ratio – 1: 902.
The screen is well calibrated, natural color reproduction, color saturation and viewing angles are maximum. In the settings you can change the contrast and color temperature of the image.
Also, there was a special reading mode, which reduces the amount of blue component in the image. When activated, the image becomes yellow-green, but with prolonged reading eyes get tired less. The intensity of this mode of operation can be customized to include it globally or only for some applications.
Display Xiaomi Mi Note leaves a good impression, it corresponds to the champions. You can find fault except to olefobnomu coating, which caused mixed emotions. After a long use on the screen are prints that are removed safely in his pocket. If you get a smart phone in half an hour, the glass is clean.
The operating system and shell
The smartphone runs on the sixth version of MIUI, based on the basis of Android 4.4.4 KitKat. Compared to previous versions of the firmware changes here at least most of them are visual – applications and icons peresovany flat style.
From useful innovations mention only a reduced screen mode, which facilitates one-hand operation. Everything else remains as before – in MIUI is no separate application menu, all programs fall on your desktop and sorted into folders. Exterior shell is changed by the fact that change not only the appearance of labels and wallpapers, ringtones, fonts, design of individual applications runoff.
Hardware Platform
As a base used Mi Note let it last year, but it is the actual decision – Qualcomm Snapdaron 801, 3 GB of RAM and 16 or 64 GB of internal memory. Memory card slot as usual there, if we consider the version of 16 GB, this can be attributed to the shortcomings of (originally available 13 GB).
Like all flagships with a similar filling, running smartphone quickly and smoothly, it You can play any games. With daily use, including photography, Mi Note remains cold, and if you long to play demanding games felt normal heating, the hand does not burn. For the Wi-Fi or GPS observations did not have.
Calls multimedia
Xiaomi Mi Note – one of the few champions with support for two SIM cards. The radio in the smartphone one, but the logic of simok no different from other phones.
There is a separate audio chip, so that the quality of music, at least not worse than the other flagships. A nice feature of the music smartphone Xiaomi – Supports any three-button headset. On some devices they are working “out of the box,” and then you can be sure that any headphones “zavedutsya” – extra keys are set.
hours
The capacity of the internal battery – 3000 mAh. It is enough for daily work in the active mode or day and a half with an average load. The result is the standard for today’s smartphones, though there are also long-lived PHABLET.
Camera
The main camera Xiaomi Mi Note has a resolution of 13 MP, equipped with a two-color flash and optical stabilization system. Since the device has entered the market recently, image processing algorithms is damp and at the time of the review camera is inferior to the other flagships.
When taking pictures of close objects is no problem, but the landscape Photo succeed through time, auto focus can be established by the average position, which is why suffer the sharpness.
Taking photos at night is also not tenable. This is a familiar situation for Xiaomi – the device is brought to mind after entering the market.
To front camera with a resolution of 4 megapixel questions asked – she now takes a well, and fans of the genre will enjoy self.
Results
Xiaomi Mi Note – the best smartphone ever created by the company. In the first place it deserves this title because of its design, before Xiaomi create simple practical model with a neutral appearance, immediately have a slim body, interesting materials, ergonomic curves. Other – as in the past champions, at the market and compared with others. The main camera shoots not as good as it could be, you need to wait for new firmware that has become a tradition. Really nasty surprise – the price. New Chinese are getting better, but manufacturers can not keep the cost at the same level, the real price is closer to the flagship Samsung, LG, HTC, Huawei. Therefore, restraint can not be silent about the irregularities, they pay more attention. In the case of Xiaomi Mi Note – this support, bringing to mind the different roughness, the localization of the firmware by the community, the lack of memory card slot, NFC, infrared, and other innovations that have already appeared in the competition.
We are grateful to the online store «Xiaomi Ukraine» (www.xiaomi.ua), granted smartphone Xiaomi M i Note testing.
likes:
+ Design, body materials, thickness
+ Screen, rounded protective glass
+ The speed of
+ The quality of music playback
+ front camera, support for two SIM cards
Do not like:
– No support Memory Cards
– The price
– The main camera
– The lack of NFC, IrDA, fingerprint scanner
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| Type | Smartphone |
| Type SIM-card | Micro-SIM, Nano-SIM |
| Standard | GSM 900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100, LTE |
| High speed Information | GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE |
| The number of SIM-cards | 2 |
| operating system | Android 5 + MIUI 6 |
| RAM, GB | 3 |
| Built-in Memory, GB | 16 |
| Expansion | – |
| Dimensions, mm | 155x78x7 |
| Weight, g | 161 |
| Protection against dust and moisture | – |
| Battery Battery | Li-Ion, 3000 mAh (removable) |
| Hours (manufacturer’s data) | unknown |
| Diagonal inches | 5,7 |
| Resolution | 1920 × 1080 |
| Type of matrix | IPS |
| PPI | 386 |
| Sensor dimming | + |
| Touch Screen (type) | touch (capacitive) |
| Other | coating Corning Gorilla Glass 3, contrast ratio 1400: 1 |
| CPU | Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 + GPU Adreno 330 |
| Type the kernel | Krait 400 |
| The number of cores | 4 |
| Frequency, GHz | 2,5 |
| The main camera, MP | 13 |
| AF | + |
| Movie | 1920 × 1080 pixels, 30k / s |
| Flash | dual LED |
| The front camera, MP | 4 |
| Other | optical stabilization, face detection / smile in the frame, geotagging, panorama |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11 a / b / g / n |
| Bluetooth | 4 |
| GPS | + (support GLONASS, Beidou ) |
| IrDA | – |
| NFC | – |
| Interface Connector | USB 2.0 (micro-USB) |
| In Audio | 3,5 mm |
| MP3 player | + |
| FM-radio | – |
| Type of housing | candy bar |
| Case Material | metal / glass |
| Keyboard Type | input screen |
| More | Hi-Fi audio (wide dynamic range of 127 dB, playback of lossless 24-bit, 192 kHz) |
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