Big smartphone players like Apple, Google etc are being criticized for not cutting on bezels of the phone and making phones with low screen-to-body ratio, Xiaomi, a big player in Chinese smartphone market unveiled a nearly border-less display phone which they like to call as concept phone, but will actually go on sale.
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The main attraction of the phone is pretty insane 6.4-inch, 2040x1080 pixel, 17:9 aspect ratio display developed by sharp. Xiaomi claims the device to have 91.3% screen to body ration which is more than any smartphone out there in the market. This is truly a Xiaomi original phone. It looks stunning and has a ceramic back for the premium feel.
The phone specs are amazing too. It is powered by the new Snapdragon 821 chip and has 2 RAM variants: One with 128 gb storage and 4 gb ram and other with 256 gb storage and 6 gb ram. The 256 gb also gets some design upgrades with 18k-gold trims at rear for camera and fingerprint sensor.
The phone has 16 megapixels main-shooter with PDAF and 4k-video recording and the secondary shooter is 5 megapixels which is at the bottom of the phone on the thin and only bezel of the phone. It supports dual-sim and has a 4000 mah battery with Qualcomm Quick-Charge 3.0 technology for fast charging.
The Mi MIX starts at RMB 3,499 ($515) for the 4GB/128GB model and RMB
3,999 ($590) for the 6GB/256GB model. Having ceramic back the phone becomes a bit slippery so Xiaomi has taken a very good step to include premium leather case in the box of both models.
Xiaomi is making the competition stiff for big players which such innovations, Lets see what the future holds for the smartphone industry.Source
