hey everybody hope you guys are healthy and safe so this is the xiaomi mix flip this is the global version which is pretty big news because this is the first time xiaomi is launching its foldable phones outside of China on top of that a lot of reviewers had already reviewed the xiaomi mix flip the China version and most of them had good things to say about the overall Hardware but the biggest gripe was the fact that
the software was running the China ROM the China ROM has some China phone specific quirks like delayed notifications you cannot run Android auto you cannot pair the China phones with a Android Wear watch and you also when you use the outside screen you can only use xiaomi stock keyboard not
any other third party keyboard well all those issues are fixed on the global version so on outside screen you can run gboard if you like or swift key any other keyboard you can run Android auto you can pair this with anywhere OS watch and also there’s no more delayed notifications because this is running the global
version of hyper OS how however with that comes a slight hit in battery life but this is still one of the longest lasting flip phones that I have tested and I want to say it has the best cameras in any flip phone yet and that’s huge for me because I have been quite honest about me not being a big fan of flip phones
Xiaomi is launching its foldable phones
because I believe in foldable phones when they’re the larger book like phone Factor because you’re getting two devices in one you’re getting a regular phone and a mini tablet with flip phone I feel like you’re just getting one normal phone phone that requires an extra step every time you want to use it this was especially true a few years ago when outside screen was mostly good for just glancing notifications
the other issue I had with flip phones was that the camera is usually quite a bit worse than the slap phone counterart I’m happy to report most of that is fixed too like I said the cameras here are surprisingly good you have a 50 megapixel f1.7 main camera better yet you have a 50 megapixel f2.0 2x optical zoom now because it is a 50 megapix sensor and with a real ly fast F2 aperture you can also do an in sensor crop you get a pretty credible 4X Zoom just look at these samples here on top of that I really love the various Leica
filters that you can apply to the cameras I think Mr mobile said the same thing after using a phone like the xiaomi mix flip you jump back to something like a Google pixel and you’re a little bit disappointed by the fact that Google pixel only have one color signs and all the pictures have that exact same color signs with the xiaomi mix flip I can have a lot of different moods and Vibes particular the black and white I really like the black and white shots look at this shot right here I think this is really good regardless of any
phone not just a clam shell foldable phone now the second issue I had with flip phones was that you always have to open up to use it right well that is mostly fixed to to because the outside screen is huge this is a 4 in outside screen ltpo panel gets up to 3,000 nits of Maximum brightness you can definitely see it outside and you can open any app you want in its full form now one caveat is that even though the screen covers almost the entire front side of the flip you can only open an app in a rectangular form right
corner right here above the camera lens are always taken up by a ridget or some type of secondary information tell me did that on purpose because if an app is stretched out all the way in a square form you tend to crop out crucial information so they’re not giving you the option you have to open an app in a rectangle form for the most part I don’t mind it although the keyboard is very cramped so whenever
you try to type on this expect to take multiple tries like you’re not going to get what you’re typing on the first goal but hey the good news is you can use Google Voice typing on this guy and that works very well you have a 6.8 inch ltp ol panel this also gets up to 3,000 nits of Maximum brightness this is an absolute top-notch panel that makes whatever is on the flip six look bad like you notice the crease is a lot less
Snapdragon a gen 3 with 12 gigs of RAM
noticeable than the flip six when I run my finger up and down through the crease I don’t feel any deep sudden gutter this is one of the best crease I’ve seen on a foldable phone yet powering the phone is a Snapdragon a gen 3 with 12 gigs of RAM and a really large for a flip phone battery 4780 Mah this is a larger battery than what’s even in the Samsung fold 6 so Samsung’s big fold has a smaller battery than in
this guy battery life for the most part is really good but not as good as the China ROM I am a very heavy user so if I’m outside for 12 13 hour days the battery will drain down to under 20% by the end and anytime it gets down to 20% I just get a little bit uncomfortable the good news is you can charge this very
fast at 67 Watt and the charger is included with the Box in fact you also get a case that comes with the box and it’s a very nice case too overall Hardware is really good as you’d expect from a xiaomi flagship the phone’s really light it weighs 190 G it’s lighter than most slap phones out there on the market and it measures 16 mm thick when it’s folded when you open it up it measures 7.6 mm I only really have three
gripes with the Ware so number one is that there is no wireless charging in this phone you have to charge without a cable number two is that even though this hinge it can stay in place when you’re in the middle like this so you can still prop this up and use it as a tripod but when you open it up to a little bit wider like I want to say 105° it is not stiff or reassuring it will probably flop open anytime if I move it a little bit see
just like that like right here it just cannot stay in place at that final range of angle that the Z flip six can do but still the hinge overall is still very nice it’s just a little bit looser and floppier than what we’ve been used to from Samsung or even opal the number three gripe is that because this is a clamshell flip phone the thermos on it aren’t that great so I try to run a 20 minute extreme Wildlife stress test on the app 3d mark this is a test that pushes your phone to the limits for 20 minutes and the mix flip sad to say could not
Extreme Wildlife stress test
finish that test about halfway through it popped up a screen that say the device is overhea and it shut off that app so it could not complete that test now to be fair there are quite a bit of slap phones even two years ago when they’re running Snapdragon hn 2 that couldn’t compete that test too and that is a very extreme test so by no means am I saying this phone will constantly overheat and become unusable
during daily use like this is not as bad as the Google tensor G2 for example but it definitely has thermos a little bit inferior to what’s in the zflip 6 and what’s in the slap Flagship phones so I want to make clear The Thermals are not terrible it’s just a little bit worse than the flagship slap phones that we are used to now I want to go back to the cameras a little bit more like I said this is probably the cameras that take the best
looking photos of any flip phones and video performance is surprisingly good too it’s really stable particularly during the day even when you’re shooting with a zoom l so even at 4X I find footage to be perfectly acceptable and because there’s a microphone on the front screen you can also record yourself taking selfies and get really good audio and with such a large screen this is an excellent Vlog camera just
walk and talk like this and you get a clear preview of your entire face and your background you can film yourself using the outer screen so this is pretty cool I can completely you know it’s a really large screen I can see myself right now and then likewise you can watch videos and make phone calls with the phone closed because there’s a microphone on the outside and the speakers are really good I mean check it out
and when you open up the phone you have stereo speakers right here [Music] too on the software front this phone runs the global version of hyper OS so everything works out of the box there is a little bit of bloatware out of the box including a xiaomi specific App Store and some extra apps that you didn’t ask
Xiaomi specific App Store and some extra apps
for like xiaomi community and also Google has a lot of blow apps too like Google meet it’s a dedicated app when you can go into Google meet via Gmail but you can uninstall almost all the extra apps that you don’t want and have a very clean experience I have no issue with the software whatsoever so this is the
xiaomi mixed flip in a nutshell now this phone is launching globally including Europe but I do not know the official pricing in Europe yet and if you ask me I think it’s going to be slightly marked up again Europe I’m guessing maybe like €9.99 or $10.99 but in Asia if you buy this guy from Hong Kong or Singapore or Malaysia you can get it for probably a little bit under $1,000 us that’s why for this review .
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