Xiaomi Mi Max: the first phablet of the company

Like any other brand, the Chinese company Xiaomi is experimenting with devices and offers its customers something new. The demand for devices with a large diagonal can hardly be called high, but there has always been interest in such models. That is why the market appeared Xiaomi Mi Max, a large, but very thin and comfortable smartphone.

Specifications

In the line of the company Xiaomi before there were smartphones with a large diagonal, but the model called Max became larger than the largest of them by an inch. Such smartphones are called phablets, since they in size closer to the tabletrather than a smartphone. Unlike many competitors, the device turned out to be very pleasant in feeling in the hand, and this is at a diagonal of 6.44 inches. The characteristics of Mi Max 1 are presented in the table below.

CPU	Snapdragon 650, 6 nuclear
Graphics	Adreno 510
RAM / ROM	3/32 GB
Screen	6.44 inches, IPS, FullHD, Gorilla Glass 4th version
Camera	5 and 16 Mp
Wireless interfaces	LTE, GPS, A-GPS, Glonass, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, infrared
Battery	4850 mAh
Dimensions, weight	173.1 * 88.3 * 7.5 mm, 203 grams

Important! Xiaomi Mi Max has support for 2 SIM cards and can be supplemented with a memory card.

Initially, the model was produced only in the version indicated in the table, but later devices with similar characteristics appeared, but extended memory version - 32Gb or 64Gb. The third version of the device is different platform - Snapdragon 652 with eight cores. In this modification, the model comes with a more serious memory: 4Gb operational and 128Gb constant. All versions work on Android 6.0, but the proprietary firmware MIUI in a more productive device is already the 8th version, while the first devices from the box came with the 7th firmware.

Package and design

Xiaomi Mi Max is sold in a standard white box. A complete set - phone, the power supply unit and a cable, the instruction, a clip for a tray of a sim card. The design of the model can hardly be called unexpected or original. This is quite a classic device from the company.

The device is made of aluminum, the screen is closed with a protective glass oleophobic coating. On the front panel below the display is a panel with three touch buttons - back, home, menu. Top camera, speaker for talking and light indicator. The back panel has rounded edgesthat when the size of the device allows you to make it more compact and convenient. Above right is a camera and a double flash. In the middle at the top of the fingerprint scanner, it is round, has a high sensitivity, can work with applications from third-party developers. The back panel has plastic inserts at the bottom and top. The rest is completely metal.

On the right side of the device is a volume control carriage and a power button. Left compartment for SIM cards. They can put two or one of them change to microSD up to 200GB. At the bottom of the connector for the charger, speaker and microphone. The upper end is a headphone jack, an infrared port for controlling various devices, and another microphone.

Build quality in general leaves a pleasant impression, however plastic inserts they suggest that they can quickly be damaged if struck.Why the manufacturer decided to do this is not entirely clear, because for a long time already two small notches have been made in completely metallic devices, under which the communication modules are placed. According to user feedback, plastic inserts do not bring any particular problems, so the attitude towards them is a purely subjective opinion.

Dimensions and display

As a rule, phones with a large screen size, namely, with diagonals of more than 6 inches, are not designed for use with one hand. In the case of Xiaomi Mi Max, this statement is not confirmed. Due to the rounded edges and thin dimensions of the device, it not only fits in one hand, but it is quite possible to use it without resorting to the help of the second. However, here again, it all depends on the user. The girls are likely to have to hold the phone with two hands.

The diagonal of the device is 6.44 inches. The screen is really big, but it had no effect on the image quality. At right angles, the device conveys color perfectly, if you slightly change the slope, the picture will start to fade. It is quite normal for IPS matricesTherefore, there are no complaints about the manufacturer and there can not be.The oleophobic coating is excellent, the display is completely unmarked. Of course, it is sometimes required to wipe it, but in general it doesn’t get dirty much.

Important! The model has an automatic brightness control, and the high contrast allows you to make it possible to view something on the Xiaomi Mi Max screen even in very bright light.

Performance and autonomy

Smartphone Xiaomi Mi Max already in its first version was equipped with a fairly good processor and graphics adapter. Thanks to them, the device does an excellent job with Full HD content and plays games without brakes or lags.

Important! During games, the device is heated in the area of ​​the finger scanner. All reviews of Xiaomi Mi Max say this. Even taking into account the metal case, the heating is not strong, and there are no discomfort when using it.

For the autonomy of the phone is responsible battery 4850 mAh. It is worth noting that the volume is not just big, but huge. Even considering the size of the device, many manufacturers prefer to install smaller batteries. Despite the fact that it is very capacious, it did not affect the thickness of the device. In the description of the phone Mi Max says thatthat the battery here is enough for 11 hours of video viewing provided the wireless interfaces are disabled, and in read mode with 30% backlight, the device can last for about 29 hours. The real numbers correspond to the stated ones, and in the online video viewing mode the device was able to work for about 6 hours, which is a very good indicator.

Phone Xiaomi Mi Max supports fast charge technology, the reviews say that 85% from 0 the device will charge in 2 hours. The downside is the fact that the package includes a charging unit that does not support this technology.

Camera and operating system

The operating system in Mi Max - Android. Due to the proprietary shell, it looks much nicer than the usual versions from other manufacturers. Xiaomi company was able to make a very user-friendly interface for its users with a large number of different interesting features. It makes no special sense to talk about the system, since any user of the Android device has an idea about it. It should only be noted that optimization is at a high level, the system does not take a lot of resources of the device. Everything works stably and without brakes.

The camera in the device is quite functional and traditionally the company offers many different settings and filters. There is a manual mode, panoramic, shooting timer, voice, fisheye. In the native camera application, you can adjust the skin tone, while the front camera has beauty mode, that is, improve the quality of the picture. By itself, the camera does an excellent job of shooting in the daytime and in bright light, but in artificial light or at night, the quality of photographs drops significantly. Frankly, the camera is quite standard, you can not call a bad one, but it will not be able to overtake the competitors.

Important! Video can be shot in 4K, the maximum frame rate is 120 per second. For video there is a Slow-motion mode and Time-laps.

Advantages and disadvantages

Like any smartphone, Mi Max has its positive and negative features. In general, the device is quite good and worth the money. At the time of release the price was 23 thousand rubles.

Advantages:

The phone was fast, enough for gaming and surfing, the battery can last a day or more,and support for fast charging will allow even in the case of discharge to quickly return the device to the system. Good optimization avoids system braking. A thoughtful approach to design makes the phone visually pleasing and comfortable in the hand, even considering its size.

By cons can be attributed no power pack for fast charging included. For your money, the phone could be equipped with NFC. For people who shoot a lot on a smartphone, the camera may not be the most suitable.