Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Xiaomi Mi A3: Pure Google For $250”.
This kind of an unusual way for a smartphone to arrive inside of here is a smartphone that, for me, you know it’s kind of highly anticipated, because I liked the previous version I liked what it represented. This is the new version of that. This is the mean a3, it’s the mean a3 from Xiaomi, and the reason I’ve been following this series of smartphone is because, in my opinion, for the budget part of the smartphone marketplace, these guys gave you a pixel like experience, it’s not about like the craziest spec List, but instead it’s about what’s on the other side, which is Android one, the Android one program which is giving you a pixel like OS experience completely clean. We have the teardrop style knotch. So if you hated the notch layout on the previous generation pixel excel, i mean this is a step in the right direction. It’S not gon na win any awards for the screen to body ratio. This is a software play and this is giving customers access to the pure vanilla. Whichever terminology you choose to use version of an Android experience, which I kind of wish more people got to do. You can pick this thing up on Amazon according to Willy do for around two hundred and sixty dollars and the spec sheet actually kind of impressive I’ve got in front of me here. It’S got a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 series, so 665 up to two gigahertz over 4,000 milliamp hours, built in with 18 watt fast charging over USB type-c, slightly bigger than 6 inch AMOLED display that’s kind of a wild animal.
Ed display retail price around 260 stock Android Wow. Would you look at that once upon time that just wasn’t gon na happen? I have phone Jack dedicated traditional classic. It looks like a three camera setup boom right there, as you can tell with a flash underneath.
Ah, they claim it’s an AI camera. Also interesting. It looks like it’s got: an IR, blaster 48 megapixel ultra wide triple lens camera: 32 megapixel, selfie camera, the fingerprint scanner you’re looking around and wondering it’s an in display style now, Android one is not officially the same.
Software as the pixel, you may not see, updates exactly as fast but zooom ibly and historically you’ve seen updates to this OS faster than the skin stuff from the manufacturers, which needs to be patched in that displays. The first thing that you look at this is maximum brightness. As I mentioned, it’s AMOLED against my one plus seven pro and AMOLED.
Now you can tell I mean the colors are popping the aspect ratio here. Nineteen point five by nine. So it’s it’s a pretty narrow device actually comfortable to hold it’s like a more narrow, iphone ten. This could be really tempting for me to switch to because of the one-handed functionality. As you can see, it’s so easy for me to reach across the entire device. Granted is not a lot of video that can fill this display, so you’re gon na get black bars on it, comparatively construction here really nice.
It’S all solid glass, Gorilla, Glass, five, actually, a metal construction; otherwise I’m gon na load up a loo later video, real, quick. Some interesting news: oh wow, thanks to budget way better than I expected. If you recall, Google came out and basically said, look we’re not happy with where the pixels at you know what it’s not the loudest I’ve heard, but I will say: I’ve done this dialog test on the loo later videos for a while now and at this price Point this is one of the better ones. I’Ve heard it’s not tinny, it’s a full sound it. I think it’s only coming out of one speaker. Let me just double check that yeah, it’s a mono speaker setup, but I’d rather have a mono speaker setup. That sounds half decent, then worried about attention any type of stereo implementation. Most of those are fake, anyways.
Now the screen as you notice, since it is that odd aspect ratio when you crop into it you’ve cut off the top of bottom. So there is your default as you can see, and then you want to fill the screen to utilize what you’ve got, and so you chop it a little bit and again. This is a thing I think people are gon na increasingly get used to as phone aspect ratios change. In order to be great at doing multiple things, I think this trade-off is okay.
Cameras got me a bit curious. The app to me looks more typical, Xiaomi and less Google pixel and will snap a quick photo. It’S at one X, zoom and I can tap that button. There go into 2x telephoto or all the way back out to 0.6 wide it go for 0.6.
There. We move into 1x here and we go all the way to 2x focus here. The zoom looks pretty good standard looks pretty good y-yeah. I don’t feel like it’s as sharp as the standard focal length, although this is kind of a common effect of wide-angle lenses in general, especially small ones. My criteria for quality is a bit different for each of those inside of a smartphone, but nonetheless it’s softer on the 0.6 setting, in my opinion, now the ai functionality I’m gon na turn that on I want to see what it does. Let’S see if it can pick up the plant and then when I frame up the plant, it goes to a leaf and you can see the vibrance goes up ever so slightly. You saw it’s not that photo now. It actually gripped somewhere in in the middle there.
Of the plant for sharpness for the focus point, you could get a little bug photography on if you choose to. If that’s your thing, the standard focal range, on the other hand, looks great it’s by far the best photo of the bunch selfie mode. They say it’s got a lot of megapixels on the front camera there we go so no AI enabled no HDR enabled bit blown out on a highlights. Let’S try it with the HDR functionality turned on now you bring back some of the skin detail, some of the pores there, I’m assuming even further look at that.
You got pores individual little beard hairs surviving in there all the aged. That’S a lot of detail. This is sort of a showcase for two things: the contrast on the camera, but also the display quality being in OLED display. You can see how the black in the frame here just goes perfectly into the black of my shirt now, because it is running Android one. All of your Google apps are pre-installed by default.
If I try to get rid of me community, can I uninstall it? I can so even that’s not a big deal, I’m glad that those aren’t locked or anything. It is a true Android. One experience you can go and get rid of the things that you don’t use.
This device has quite a bit of wobble to it. I feel it’s worth noting a lot of them do this day and age, but I’m just I’m noticing this one a little more than I normally would. Maybe it’s that camera hump. Okay, let’s give this fingerprint scanner a quick try as well, because it’s not set up. It’S not on here yet so here we go we’re gon na press vibrate do the usual, so lock, not the fastest. It’S a little there’s a second there there’s a little extra with the animation part of me feels like when you’re evaluating these fingerprint scanners.
It’S like your own interpretation of the animation is how you determine how fast it is yeah. It doesn’t look like you turn that animation off now, it’s not the most offensive. I’Ve seen way worse, animations just from a aesthetic perspective like it’s pretty simple, but it definitely it takes a second to unlock. Now they did say, there’s some kind of AI face on lock. So maybe you end up using that. Instead, though, with these optical based front camera face unlocks, it’s always a little sketchy of like how secure they actually are face.
Unlock is less secure than a pen password or pattern. Your devices might be unlocked with your photo as well as people or objects with similar appearance, so it tells you straight away to be clear, not as secure so just like other devices that are just using a front facing camera same situation now. The benefit of these is that they’re super convenient. I mean look how fast they added my face.
That’S ridiculous! Can you see that jack open your eyes? Did you tell me to open my hat interesting now? I’M gon na try with my eyes closed. Okay, wait! A second: what does it say? Open? Oh interesting, so, no eyes closed, no snow sleepy unlock. Nonetheless, it’s like it’s kind of an amazing device here, like what you’re getting for the bunny two hundred sixty bucks Android one. I want to see Android one on more devices.
Those immediately become options for me things I feel more comfortable recommending a lot of people. Ask me you’re always talking about budget phones, which one do you actually recommend it’s kind of hard, particularly for people around here coming from iPhones coming from Samsung they, you know they have a vision of what a smartphone should be and looks like, and you don’t want To recommend something that might throw them off too much. This, I feel, like you, could put in a pocket, feel very comfy pretty much straight away. It really does feel like a true pixel alternative granted, not as fast.
You know the whole thing, but it does feel like a valid budget pixel alternative available for around two hundred sixty bucks. That’S interesting! .