Measuring 7.5 mm thick, the Mi Max is a full metal body phone and houses a large 4850 mAh battery.
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Back in May, we got a look at some of the aspects of MIUI 8, Xiaomi’s new version of its popular Android skin.
The new interface MIUI 8 has a refreshing redesign and several innovative new features. Xiaomi is targeting Mi Max at people who are using a tablet as a calling device.
The Mi Max is a super slim phablet which flaunts a 6.44-inch display.
MIUI 8 also introduces the ability to take long screenshots beyond what can be seen on the screen, which is very useful for sharing long articles in just one image. They can also doodle on photos, add stickers, and make use of enhanced video editing tools with various effects and music.
You’ll also find support for Dual Apps, which allows you to have a copy of an existing application on your device and easily allows multiple account management. The same feature is also available for messages. The sheer size makes the Mi Max quite unwieldy and doing anything with the phone while standing or in motion usually accompanies a lot of fumbling around. The Mi Max supports Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 technology which can charge the phone faster in less time.
The Snapdragon 652 variant with 128 GB storage and 4 GB RAM will also be available soon for Rs 19,999.
“We are establishing a new smartphone category with Mi Max”.
The New Xiaomi Mi Max Smartphone was recently launched in china, In Three storage options – First one comes with a 1.8GHz hexacore Snapdragon 650 processor which is paired with 3GB of RAM with 32GB Internal storage with a Price Tag of CNY 1,499 (approximately Rs. 15,000). The Mi Max because of its size is more niche, so Xiaomi decided to make a phone that’s more mainstream than what most people have attempted before, albeit with minimal compromises.
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If you are not concerned about the decreased pixel density in Mi Max, we would suggest you buy Mi Max since you will be able to work with the latest Android Marshmallow right after unboxing. But “Once you go big, you can’t go back”, said Barra, referring to the difficulty any power user of a large phone would have scaling down to using smaller screens, tinier keys on small keyboards, less information available at one glance, and so on.
