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ingle bloody phone around here that

doesn't have a notch in it Shami me mix

three all screen nice no not sweet

snapdragon 855 processor oh nope looks

like they're reserving that for the 5g

model but it's got a slide it's so

satisfying what an innovative idea

having the phone slide like that why

didn't anybody ever make a slider phone

before feels good

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the meme x3 is xiaomi's newest flagship

and it is readily apparent as soon as

you open the box we even get this note

from Xiaomi CEO Li Jun on the road of

exploration we will constantly invest

constantly strive and constantly break

through we are willing to devote an

additional 100 percent even if we only

improve by 1% be friends with our users

be the coolest company in the hearts of

our users yeah sure it flows a lot

better in Chinese next we've got the

phone itself and then finally in the

last compartment of the box you get a

shockingly complete accessory package

the headphone dongle kind of sucks it's

a little thin and the case is

unexceptional at best but they included

a 10 watt wireless charger it's like a

$50 value now on to the phone this thing

is pretty

it's got smooth curves a rear that's

surprisingly easy to hold on to and a

thicker profile that tickles me and

exactly the RET sorry what was i talking

about right phone sorry so one thing

you'd expect in a device that is shoes

the modern thin is in design trend is a

bigger battery but the mix 3 actually

loses 200 million powers of rated

capacity over its predecessor on the

right edge we've got our volume buttons

and a lock button and then on the Left

we've got an AI button that can be set

up to launch pretty much anything you

want through a combination of single

press double press and long press

activations I'm gonna let that sink in

for a moment

Samsung are you guys listening that's

how simple it is to make proper use of

an extra button so the thickness

actually makes room for the slide but

we're gonna get into that later first

let's talk about the screen it's a 19

and a half by 9 aspect ratio 1080p

AMOLED panel that gives the mix 3 a

staggering 9

3.4% screened to body ratio that means

that it is unmatched by all but the Oppo

find X which also used a sliding

mechanism for itself you can the

difference here is that unlike the

motorized find X the mix 3 is all manual

but in actually a good way it feels a

lot like those old slide phones with the

built-in keyboards and it's both

satisfying in the hand and solid with no

wobble or anything like that to feel

concerned about it now I was worried

about the motorized design on the find X

so honestly I'm actually happy to see

this more pragmatic approach show up

even if it doesn't quite have the sex

appeal so the way it works is it gives

you this visual cue when you slide it by

pulsing along the screen edges and it'll

emit a configurable audio tone just in

case you need your phone to sound like

you've unsheathed disord when you're

taking a selfie for some reason what's

cool is that it isn't all for show so

you can actually turn the slide into a

gesture that performs an action of your

choosing Samsung are you guys taking

notes on this though this approach does

have its flaws so if you like using your

phone for more than one thing like say

for example taking selfies and also

engaging in video calls chances are that

you'll find Auto launching an app as

annoying as it is helpful and it would

be nice to have a black list of apps

where when they're open it doesn't just

take over what you're doing now on the

plus side if you choose to take a selfie

option which is what I've got going on

here it will even work without unlocking

your phone pretty nice speaking of which

the mix 3 does have face unlock but

unlike the find X and the iPhone 10 for

that matter the whole experience does

feel a little less magical and seamless

because you have to manually slide the

phone in order to expose the sensors the

good news is that unlike the iPhone 10

Xiaomi didn't feel the need to remove

the rear fingerprint sensor so if you

prefer that way

well then you've got good old-fashioned

fingerprint sensing that is virtually

instantaneous and pretty darn accurate

so much so that it's actually possible

to accidentally unlock the phone just by

brushing against it in your pocket and

that level of responsiveness is

system-wide even though the writing is

on the wall for the snapdragon 845 SOC

that our mix 3 is equipped with now on

our 6 gig model everything that's butter

smooth and even opening apps from a cold

start is quick and painless and it can

only get better from there if you spring

for the top-end model you get a whopping

10 gigabytes of RAM to make sure that

there's always some memory available for

task switching though that's most of the

nice stuff that I can say about the

software experience it's no secret that

me UI is not my favorite Android skin

but its latest iteration did at least

get a couple of things right the system

theme is consistent feeling it looks

reasonably pleasing and jemmye

apparently didn't get the memo that and

rape I dropped the quick access to

system-wide audio sliders which is just

fine by me and actually while we're at

it the camera app is pretty competent

too there's plenty of manual shooting

options here to control things like

exposure ISO and white balance along

with a number of shooting modes you got

your night mode your 9 60 FPS slo-mo and

a bunch of what Xiaomi calls AI modes AI

portrait AI beautify AI studio lighting

AI scene detection and AI background

music that's a weird one the cameras

themselves are arranged in a two

front-to-rear configuration with the

primary front camera using the new sony

IMX 576 sensor that's set up to make use

of super pixels essentially simulating a

larger physical sensor with its massive

resolution to reduce the incidence of

noise and improve low-light performance

as for our testing well it I don't know

sort of worked it's a little weird

so our low-light photos weren't

especially noisy but there was

definitely a lot of smoothing going on

more than you might expect even on an

Asian phone that's got all the beauty

enhancement that you would expect from

it as for the rear shooter well it's

kind of the usual Xiaomi experience if

you're a full manual operator then

there's plenty of options but if you

just want to pick up and snap and get

something usable every time you're still

gonna want a pixel or an iPhone or if

you're on a budget I guess a 1 plus

interestingly it does seem to handle

highlights very well as seen in our

living room shot here but it's

processing tends to over brighten the

image beyond what looks natural I mean

these days when it comes down to is that

software processing is far more

important than the specs of the camera

and that's an area where Google and

Apple still stand out though I am

rooting for the s10 to be a big leap

forward for Samsung's processing also

I've got some more bad news along with

the lack of headphone jack is another

missing feature that I've come to expect

on high-end smartphones stereo speakers

why have all of this screamed for

watching YouTube TV shows and movies on

the go if you're just gonna put a single

downward firing speaker without an

amplified earpiece speaker and it's not

even a fantastic one now with that said

you are getting a bit of a discount at

between five hundred and sixty to 600

bucks on gearbest the mix threes main

competitor is the oneplus 16 and it

doesn't give up much in comparison at

least on paper specs are very similar

now the front fingerprint scanner on the

60 is a BFD and 1 plus as oxygen OS is

in my humble opinion miles ahead of me

UI but that's almost a completely

separate video and anyway to counter

that Xiaomi not only supports wireless

charging which one Plus does not they

even throw in the aforementioned charger

so I think for a lot of people it's

gonna come down to style which is I

guess how Samsung and Apple keep

managing to charge a lot more for phones

that frankly don't have much on their

Chinese competitors at this point

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