The Xiaomi Mi 4i may have been lauded for being the compact and good looking device that it is, but it seems like it isn’t all about outer appearance for the phone.
A teardown by Hugo Barra himself for PhoneRadar reveals that the phone looks as good on the inside. It is mentioned that due to the super-compact nature of the internals, addition of a microSD slot was made impossible. The narrator rightly adds that the second SIM slot could double up as a microSD slot, an answer to which we’re still looking for.
Nonetheless, take a look at the Mi 4i teardown video here:
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As I mentioned before, and as you can see from the video, the components on the Mi 4i are indeed quite tightly packed. In fact, the motherboard that sits inside the Mi 4i is the smallest that Xiaomi has ever produced for a smartphone!
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Meanwhile, if you’ve paid attention, you’ll realize Barra once again confirms that the 13 mega-pixel sensor on the Mi 4i is indeed the one that is found on the much more expensive Mi Note. This means that the Mi 4i should have better picture taking abilities than the more expensive Mi 4.
No one gets excited like Hugo!
I think I found my next work phone.
I like everything about this phone except the fact that Hugo thinks this phone will only be used in the first world countries. Cloud Memory requires 3G/4G which isn’t cheap at all over here. So what the hell was he thinking?
On one hand they are giving us an excellent camera and on the other hand they are saying, “Oops we forgot to include enough memory for you to use that camera and take pictures, so take pictures and delete the old ones immediately”
I think he is thinking this is a midrange phone intended for people who don’t need a lot of storage space.
People in India who heard about or would buy a Xiaomi phone are young people. People who are nagging about lack of external SD are those exact same people who are probably under 30 years old.
So, it was a bad move for Xiaomi, just look at all the blogs,youtube videos and articles where Indians are saying this exact thing over and over again.
It is like releasing a phone for the US and not supporting 4G. The phone would work but people would miss out the higher speeds.
Within 15 seconds of the sale going live Xiaomi sold 40,000 units. Like I said its more than just youngsters who buy phones.
Personally I don’t see a 64 GB version coming out. That is based on nothing other than opinion there has been no official word one way or the other as far as I know.
Wow! Amazine! Just can,t wait to see how Mi5 looks like.