Hands-on with Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 3 slider phone 1

Hands-on with Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 3 slider phone

By Hitech Century | November 22, 2018 | Comments Off on Hands-on with Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 3 slider phone

Xiaomi’s latest upcoming phone the Mi Mix 3 attempts to make sliders sexy again as the phone introduces a sliding mechanism up top that hides the selfie cameras when needed and to provide more screen real estate.

Externally, the Mi Mix 3 bears a relatively contemporary look with curved tapered edges, a mirrored backplate, subtle antenna bands on the top and bottom as well as a large display up front. Where it differs from other phones is the inclusion of a manual sliding mechanism held by neodymium magnets that hides a front-facing dual camera array (24-MP+2-MP) which ought to please more security conscious folks. This also incidentally allows for much more screen real estate with the phone coming with a huge 6.39-inch Super AMOLED panel with 2,340 x 1,080 pixel resolution and a 19.5:9 aspect ratio along with a 93.4% screen-to-body ratio.

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Fortunately, they’ve ditched the notch on this one so you get an essentially rectangular panel in FHD+ resolution to gaze at with exceptionally slim bezels to boot. The finish comes in three colour variants – Onyx Black, Jade Green and Sapphire Blue though which colours are coming to Malaysia haven’t been decided as yet. The finish is paved over with a ceramic compound, which not only makes it inordinately reflective but slippery to boot. Significant care is needed to avoid this from encountering terminal deceleration trauma.

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Under the hood, the phone comes with this year’s leading Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, an Adreno 630 GPU and four different storage/RAM configurations – 6GB RAM/128GB, 8GB RAM/128GB, 8GB RAM/256GB and 10GB RAM/256GB though which variants will be making it to Malaysia has not been decided on at this point in time.

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The rear consists of a dual camera array with a 12-MP F/1.8 paired up with a 12-MP F/2.4 camera. Powering the whole affair is a 3,200mAh battery with QuickCharge 4.0 support as well as Qi wireless charging. Unfortunately, the phone lacks a 3.5mm audio jack though it does come with a 20W wireless charger and a QuickCharge 3.0 charger bundled in the box.

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There’s no word on price or launch date for Malaysia but the local Xiaomi reps say it should be sometime before the end of the year or the early quarter of 2019.

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