Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha - Day in the Life!

Do you think this is the future? We are not welcome to a smartphone without limits. This is the Xiaomi imitates

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. We're talking about a device with a 360-degree immersive screen, a 108-megapixel camera, and materials straight out of a spaceship. Then you might be wondering what. Earth, what would it be like to use it? I spent a full day trying to push this unlimited phone to its limits and first of all I have some answers, as you may have guessed, for something so ridiculous the unboxing experience is just insane inside the outer cardboard there is an inner layer made of which feels like incredibly soft plastic to the touch.

The first thing you see is an embossed card with

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written in Greek and just below it imitates the alpha itself and Wow, this is a heavy phone, there is a small cardboard cutout. and then right at the bottom is the final package which contains all the accessories and all of this is literally boxes within boxes like some sort of Russian doll, there is a USBC cable, a 40 watt power brick for quite a bit of charging quickly and finally an envelope, it's just I have this card and I'm not really sure what it says, but overall, this is at least nine out of ten packaging for a smartphone, but now it's time to use it, so let's let some things clear.

This is the most attractive. phone that I have ever used leaving practicality aside for a second the feeling of holding a phone that is almost entirely screen is a real novelty, it feels definitely new in a market where many people complain about the lack of differentiation and all Ways quite a few things became clear even in my first 20 minutes of use, everything is one continuous screen, but the way the software was designed, you can treat it as if it had four separate screens, the main one on the front, which you are facing. used to. on a smartphone, but then turn left and you get the things you want to check quickly and often, like the date, time and notifications, and then on the right you have what would normally be in your status bar, duration battery, Wi-Fi and signal and further down the virtual power and volume keys and finally, if you turn everything around, it's a rear screen with all kinds of quick access widgets, but I'll come back to this, the total size of the screen It comes in at 7.92 inches, which sounds colossal. but that's actually the size of the longest diagonal that runs all the way around, so when you're facing the front it's larger than average, but it's still somewhat manageable now because at all times you're touching some part of the screen upon entering this.

I was initially concerned about activating apps left, right and centre, but this wasn't actually a problem, a combination of sensors means that when you use the phone from the front, the back can be prevented from registering touches and vice versa. Anyway, these were the types of thoughts that ran through my head on first impression, but I was also curious to know what other people thought, so I asked them and their answers could be roughly divided into three categories. The first was just this is really cool. It looks different I think the curved look makes it quite attractive well, how big is that circle?

Yes, he is impressed, it is interesting. Do you think it is revolutionary? Yeah, maybe the second type of comment was that actually, more than anything else, this design is just a little bit awkward, so you'd be constantly worried about dropping it. Yes, I have broken a few. I'd probably break them in a day. Yeah, too, okay, you don't see the appeal at all, I don't know. I mean, it's heavy to a certain extent. I would agree with the impracticality of the Alpha - it's heavy and thick and people are rightly concerned about the fragility. The phone is covered in reinforced Gorilla Glass, five uncountable, but the way it has been assembled is using two large curved sheets of glass that are joined on each side.

So the concern is that this creates sort of a seam that goes down the middle, which is an obvious point of vulnerability. To my surprise, there is actually a working case for the Alpha simply not being very protective and not to mention the other battery

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concern. The 360-degree screen will naturally consume more battery than a dead one, so I understand that the practicality of all this is questionable, but that's not really the purpose here, which brings us to the third set of answers, which was essentially a full charge. of people asking this question, what is the purpose of your normal applications here?

Then you could turn them around and have a bunch of separate apps, but it's really easy to just want to use black, maybe I mean, it's like why do you need it? stuff on the back, so what's the difference between this side and the other side? Oh yeah, it's too much skiing, yeah, yeah, it's pretty close. I don't think I would ever use the back, although I think it's cool, but not Not only do I not see the use of the back, yeah, when are you going to put your phone on it for sure? So the general consensus seems to be that yes, the phone is great, but there are some serious drawbacks and benefits. of the design are not particularly clear, people can't see why they should go through those inconveniences.

However, I must remind you that the alpha copycat is a concept phone, this is not Jeremy saying, oh look, it comes from our ultra-high-end flagship. phone for $2000, they're the ones saying: here's a cool experiment, let's see if it has any potential and having spent a whole day with it, I generally think so, it's just that the concept of this phone almost seems like it's ahead of what our current technology can In fact, I hope this makes more sense towards the end of the video. Anyway, the screen, while notable, is really just one of the things I wanted to see here.

In fact, I wanted to take this phone to the top of the shard one night. the tallest building in the entire country with the aim of taking a 108 megapixel night photo of all of London and to get there we had a rather unconventional means of transport, the only thing is that we arrived a little late, so we were walking to this dock where we were going to board and I was trying to call the ship company and I noticed something else because this phone is almost completely screen, there is no space for a physical earpiece, it is the glass of the screen that vibrates to send sound waves to your ears to be honest. although for my experience it wasn't very good because the whole screen vibrates, the psalm tends to be more dispersed compared to a normal headset that shoots the sound directly into the ear anyway when the time came we had like three minutes to get to our ship, so you can probably imagine when we did it, it literally felt like something out of a low budget Mission Impossible movie, this was fun, things started slowly, the ship just sailed, I got some good phone footage and it became It becomes evident very quickly that the camera here is beastly.

I was actually only recording this at 1080p resolution, we'll pretend it was on purpose, but even then the footage looks so clean, the dynamic range is good, you can see clear details in the bright sky and dark buildings. but probably the most noticeable improvement here compared to most phones we're used to is that the camera sensor is literally several times larger, so when you focus on closer objects it means you get a strong effect. DSLR type background blur and then the boat. It accelerated a little and started moving at about 35 miles per hour, which when you're in rough waters feels like we're being tossed around like noodles in a stir-fry.

At this point, I was quite impressed with the built-in optical image stabilization. It turned the trembling nervousness of the boat into an almost gliding experience. One of the few obvious advantages of having a 360-degree screen like this is that you can use your main set of cameras for the front, so by simply rotating the phone I could now use my ultra-wide angle camera to get videos of Wide selfies and they are good images. We also got around 50 portrait mode selfies. The people on this boat must have thought that I really like myself now. I'll probably head to the snippet for our 108-megapixel Night Photo.

We had to kill time, it wasn't dark enough yet, so I decided to take a really good one; think, but to start with, the back of this phone in terms of materials, we will have saved few expenses. Looking at a titanium alloy frame supposedly three times stronger than stainless steel, which itself is stronger than aluminum, there are some ceramic parts and a sapphire glass coating to protect the cameras, so when you turn On the phone, Xiaomi has placed a large number of widgets. On the back there are things like a music player, a step counter, a voice recorder and I think this is Sharma's biggest mistake.

Think about what the people we interviewed earlier said: You don't need a rear screen because you can only look at one screen at a time. once and there is some truth in that, the biggest benefit of having a screen that surrounds the entire phone has nothing to do with apps or widgets that you can only use on the back, there is nothing you can run on the back from your phone that You can't just stop in front, but this concept still has merit. I just think the company needs to do a better job of communicating the possibilities.

You have the obvious advantage we talked about before being able to turn your phone around. around and use its main set of rear cameras as selfie cameras, but there's a lot more, so here are some ideas I literally thought of in the last 20 minutes. Dual profiles. What if you could have a set of accounts that are permanently logged in? the front of your phone and another set for the back, one for work, one for home for example, and add to that that this is a dual SIM phone, so you could even set it up so that calls made from the front use one of the SIMs and then we turn it over calls made from the back can use the other SIM it's just a random example but that effectively gives one phone the functionality of having two phones what about multitasking?

Let's say there was a game that you wanted to keep open and keep checking back from time to time. you can just pin it to the back screen and then go back to the front and work on that. It has gestures that you could use on the front of your phone, but also set the back to respond to gestures like double-tap for screenshots or Notifications, regardless of which side of your phone you place on a table facing up, can flash when you receive an incoming call or message, instead of having to turn your phone face up normally just because nothing will appear on the back.

What about virtual buttons? True, the implementation of them here is still a prototype II, but when it improves, I have no doubt that virtual buttons will replace physical ones, they are simply much more practical for the same reason that virtual keyboards replaced physical ones. physical keyboards, there is also the fact that this screen can display more information, you can see a video in full screen on the front and at the same time be able to see the time in the notifications on the sides, all this is something that Xiaomi really has not spoken, instead choosing to focus on specific applications that could be shown.

On the back there is also an in-display optical fingerprint scanner, but that's pretty standard stuff these days and a single speaker at the bottom anyway the overnight cool-down period was approaching and it was time to heading to that final location and, as someone who doesn't actually live in London, it's really shocking how many people can fit into one tube station. Anyway, we get to the shot where you take a combination of stairs and elevators to get to the 72nd floor from here, of course London is little more than a blur, the view is absolutely spectacular but so dark that even my main camera was having trouble so I took out my phone and took a full resolution photo and this is what we got raw and if we zoom in it's obviously not sharp at daytime level but you can see the features of each and every building and points of reference.

I probably sat there for 10 minutes just zooming in and around that photo to see what I could find, it's really something and now a couple of final things before I put together all this stuff that I wanted to see. If you could apply a normal desktop wallpaper to this 360 degree display, I went to Google Images, downloaded one and yes, yes you can and finally the phone is powered by a Snapdragon 855 plus chip, 12 gigs of RAM and 512 gigs of speed uf s3. storage, so performance is a bit behind phones with the latest chipsetSnapdragon 805, but it's still on the edge of that edge with a 5g modem inside, so if that was the alpha imitator and my current conclusion is that I think it's almost a little bit ahead.

It's time for the idea of ​​everything being a screen, that's what we're moving towards, but the manufacturing methods and software solutions needed for that aren't good enough to make it viable, but right now I think which is a form factor. As this creates more problems than it solves, but looking towards the future I think it does a lot of good and as a concept in order to lead the way and guide the market in a certain sense, I am glad that Alpha exists and a company must be applauded. who is willing to experience how this at least is exciting thanks for watching my name is Erin and this is mr.

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