On October 25th, Xiaomi released its most recent flagship smartphoone, Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 at the Forbidden City in China. This smartphone came with a 3299 yuan price tag for the base variant (6GB+128GB). This first-round sales of sales sold out swiftlly and the next round will take place at 0:00 (Chinese time) on November 11th. The sapphire blue and emerald colours will also be on sale.
One interesting thing is that the black version of the Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 is now available for sale in Jingdong Mall. Today, Jingdong Mall showed that Mi MIX 3 black version with six months physical damage insurance (broken screen or rear only) costs 3399 yuan ($489). Well, fixing a broken screen or rear for only 100 Yuan ($15) is definitely a good deal.
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The Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 uses a 6.39-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen (Corning Gorilla Glass) while its screen ratio 93.4%, this is actually lower than we expected but it is definitely decent. According to the company, this is the first slide-screen full-screen phone. A soft down-slide of the display reveals a 24MP+2MP deal selfie camera. This smartphone is powered by a Snapdragon 845 SoC coupled with 6GB/8GB/10GB of RAM and 128GB/256GB of internal storage. The 10GB of RAM model is called “Forbidden City”, named after the place it was released. The battery is a bit disappointing – 3200 mAh. However, with all the optimizations that come with Android 9 Pie, we are certain that it will seamlessly take an average phone user through a day. Moreso, it supports 10W wireless fast charge.
Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 comes with a dedicated AI button. However, XiaoAi only relates in Chinese thus global users are shut out of that feature. In the camera department, we have a dual camera setup on both sides. The front has a 24MP+2MP configuration while the rear has a 12MP+12MP configuration. On DxOMark, Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 scored 103 points, the best Xiaomi camera phone so far. This smartphone camera comes with the handheld super night scene mode and 960 frames super slow-motion shooting.
Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 available on Gearbest for $599.99
Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 available on Geekbuying (Pre-Order) for $692.99