Oh, sweet irony. After copying for a long time, Apple and Samsung, the Chinese Xiaomi has just unveiled a smartphone that buries the competition with a futuristic design, astonishing. The Mi Mix offers a screen almost “edgeless” (no-edges) that occupies more than 91 % of the front facade. Of course, Sharp did the first one in 2014 with the Aquos Crystal, but Xiaomi and the French designer Philippe Stark outdid themselves. As the Mi 5 Pro, the Mix offers a ceramic chassis able to withstand a hacksaw or a drill, without a scratch.
In a first time, Xiaomi has introduced a smartphone as a ” concept “. But then, the company has indicated that it would be sold in China (probably with a stock is fairly limited) by the end of the year at a price of around 500 euros. Unfortunately, unlike the Mi Note 2, it only carries radio compatible with the 4G LTE French.
at this rate, the Mix has nothing to send to the Google Pixel, with the same Snapdragon cpu 821, 4 Gb Ram, 128 Gb of memory and a camera of 16-megapixel. Especially, by eliminating the edges on the sides and above, it has almost the same measurements as the iPhone 7 Plus, but with a screen of 6.4 inches compared to 5.5 to Apple. Xiaomi is proud of its smartphone offers a ratio of screen-to-chassis of 91.3 %, compared to 67.7% the iPhone 7 Plus.
Do away with the edges there are two major problems : where to put the speaker for the ear and the proximity sensor. The response of Xiaomi ? It is enough to remove them. The Mix uses a piezoelectric power system : the vibration of the sound propagate in the ceramic chassis and simply paste the ear anywhere on the screen to hear.
Hired at Google, Hugo Barra, vice-president in charge of international, promises that the sound is of excellent quality and that a neighbor can not hear your conversation. Xiaomi has finally replaced the proximity sensor in the infrared by a solution using ultrasound. In short, this Mix is not a bash of aesthetics : it also loads of technological advances, that will without doubt in many smartphones in 2017. Your turn, Apple.
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