Xiaomi Mi 5X _ Mi A1 Review - Full In-Depth Review

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe Xiaomi Mi 5x is a bit of a strangerelease this is a cross between the bestXiaomi thinks of the redmi note 4 X andthe four and then the Mi 6 which istheir flagship. So the camera is hyped upto be as good as the Mi 6unfortunately it isn't and I even findthat the phone on the left you can seehere which is to Mi Max to the IMX 398 that it has in here actuallytakes better images than that of them me5x so it does have a lot of things incommon with a Mi Max - you can see thedesign on the rear is very similar theway they have finished the antenna linesthe dual tone LED flash on the rear aswell and the fingerprint readers both inthe same location on the bottom is whereyou will find all of the ports so wehave a loudspeaker which is slightlylouder than the likes of the redmi note4 X so I'll give you a sample of thatlater on in this video type C port nowit does not include a quick charge inthe box however it will support quickcharging but it's not the fastest tocharge it takes around 2 hours and 9minutes to fully charge from completelydid the little microphone there you cansee that dot and a 3.5 when I made aheadphone jacknow this headphone jack is now paired upwith a new digital audio analogconverter so this sound is really quitegood so we have a different deck inthere than other phones like the redminote 4 X and there's a big difference inthe audio output from this it does soundreally good quite punchy louder thannormal and overall not bad on the topyou'll find an IR transmitter secondarymicrophone for noise cancellation thatworks reasonably well in voice calls andthe camera button you can see it sticksout protrudes by approximately 1millimeter buttons on the right sidethese are made out of metal you've got agood feel to them and they don't rattlearound some tray on the Left will take amicro SD card nano SIM or 2 nano Sims onthe top of the 5x a front facing fivemegapixel camera they can shoot 720p maxand then our earpiece Hardwarenavigation keys down the bottom now youonly see them when they are activatedthe screen is the 1080p IPS it has 2.5 Dcurved edged glass on there now I don'tknow whether it's Gorilla Glass ordragon tail I feel it's dragon tailprobably the cheaper brand that they useon those so the colors you get out ofthe screen are reasonably good and themaximum brightness pops out at around400 Lux which is good but it does suffera little bit in direct daylight andoverall the screen the touch response isreally good I'd say above average therebut the screen isn't quite as good aslikes you'll find on the Xiaomi me6so it is powered by an opticalsnapdragon 6 to 5 this isn't the mostpowerful chipset this is more for amid-range mobile and the performance ofit is good I'll show you more of thatbut you can see that as coupled with 4gigabytes of RAM now you getapproximately 54 gigabytes free when youfirst get the phone and it isn't runningme ui9 yet because that is still in betanow I could download it and install thatbut I like to review exactly what I getout of the box just to make things fairhere because there will be a lot of bugsI still feel on me UI 9 that's reallythe main reason why I'm not reviewingthat it doesn't support LTE band 20unfortunately you can see the Androidversion is 7.1.2and the security patch level isrelatively recent there which is good sothe performance of the phone in generalit is most of the time fluid and snappynow loading up some things can be alittle bit slow you do see some delayshere and there now with the 4 gigabytesof RAM it allows us to do quite a bit ofmultitasking before the task managerstarts to kill things off if you do notgo to them for I think it's about 10minutes or so will kill off applicationsand things so loading up certain appssometimes you see that delay now thespeed of it to me feels a little slowerthan my show me me max 2 that I use asmy daily phone so I'm noticing a littlebit of a difference here so I feel thatfurther ROM optimisation is needed therebut overall the performance andscrolling performance and things incrime I think most people are going tobe pleased that it's not Snapdragon 805territory and you can expect thatbecause this is a mid-rangechipset but overall the performance Ifind his Twitter it's going to be prettygood you see that as smooth as to someof those images that are loading inthere which is normal they got ocationbut overall not the worst here I justhope that they release a fewoptimization tweaks and things just tospeed it up and make it as smooth as theredmi note 4 and may me max - so let'sjump through a few benchmarks here thisis the geek bench for score and then theend to to score on par with othersnapdragon six two fives so nothingreally different there now the GPS I'venoticed that isn't performing as good asI would expect from a Snapdragon 65 it'snot as good as my redmi note 4 or my memax - I've noticed that it just takes alot longer and it doesn't tend to lockon to as many satellites and theaccuracy always tends to hover around 6to 5 so I think this is just softwarethey need to do a few more tweaks toimprove on this but a littledisappointing the GPS performance sodriving around town and things sometimesit was quite a bit off track D it wasn'treally reporting where I was exactly orwithin the range of about 5 or 3 metersso bit of a disappointment there now thewireless AC speeds here you can see theycould define no problem with that nowtheir range went to the other side ofthe apartment here and it drops down alittle bit the performance is definitelynot up to par not expected to be of theme 6 which performs a hell of a lotbetter because it's got a two x twoantenna set up on that one so the speedsyou can see pretty much halved from theother side of the studio here now 4Gspeeds there are a lot of people in townat the moment it's fiestas here they'vegot so many different events and thingson that population has doubled and the4G speeds the network seems to be alittle bit slower here but perfect finespeeds no issues with that no issues atall of the signal reception and strengthso the internal storage is e MMC 5 specit's not you FS you get that on thehigher inflation but good speeds in noproblems with that whatsoever randomreads and writes perfectly fineso onto battery life now here is thebest results that I'm showing you herefrom the four days or so that I wascontinually testing and using this phoneyou're looking at around between sevento nine hours of screen on time whichfor me is slightly disappointing totaking into fact that on my redmi note 4X I was able to get 14 hours of screenon time now we've got a three thousandand eighty million hour battery in thismobile here and of course we get 1,000more four thousand milliamp hours on theredmi note 4 X so if you want batterylife that is still the mobile phone togo to I feel all the me max of coursewhich has an even larger capacity sothat involved quite a bit of gaming Iwas running modern combat 5 for a coupleof hours YouTube listening to musicstreaming continuously some more gamesas well played on there and you can seethe screen on time was nine hours andthree minutes and the history so it wentdown and depleted quite slowly thereanother thing to point out as well thatI've noticed the standby battery drainisn't as good as it should be it'slosing every hour or so about fourpercent or three percent at times itcould be some of my applications toblame the fact that I've got a a PlayStore I have installed it with like acheat kind of way it's not built intothe rom so maybe they had something todo it but it's just notice that itwasn't that greatso here was the last firmware updatewhich thankfully fix the problem withthe front cameras audio which was greatso one disappointment is the chargerthat they include on this even thoughthe Qualcomm Snapdragon 65 supportsquick charge 3 they don't include oneyou only get two amps and five volts butyou can get yourself something like thiswhich is a third party official Qualcommquick charge 3 charger now using thisthese are the charge times I got hereyou can see displayed so it took arather long time to get up to 91% was anhour and a half now if you use the statand charger to fully charge is going totake almost three hours but with thequick charger it took two hours and nineminutes to get to 100% and the slowestbeing from 90 to 100%about 40 minutes of very slow goingthere that last 10% so they mentioned atthe start we've got a loud speaker onthe bottom now unfortunately it does nothave a loud speaker in the earpiece aswell like we get on the me 6 or than memax 2 so as a result it doesn't soundquite as good as my me max 2 the loudspeaker I feel but it is not a bad loudspeaker at all the volume it puts out asyou'll hear and it does have a littlebit of bass and the 3.5 millimeterheadphone jack quality is above averageit's reasonably loud it's just morepunchy than normal because of that deckthat they've got in there now voicecalls come out to be very good nocomplaints whatsoever I've made a coupleof voice calls and the annoyedcancellation and noisy environments alsoworks quite well using that secondarymicrophone on the top so let's have alisten to how it soundsso there you go not a bad loudspeaker atall that Xiaomi has used on this one sogaming performance as you'd expect froma Snapdragon 65 is okay because there'sonly a 1080p screen I mean theperformance is good you don't tend tosee too many little stutters but it willhappen now and again you get a fewlittle tiny little micro pauses andframerate dips but overall all of thelatest games that demanding new titlesare all playable on this mobile so aftergaming on it for 38 minutes now look atthe temperatures it gets a little warm37 degrees on the front almost 38 and onthe rear I've notice that it's gettingquite hot around this area here doesn'tseem to be thermal throttling though sowe're actually a little bit cooler hereon the rear of the glass so if you'regoing to be gaming loss for extendedperiods do expect it to get quite warmso the rear camera on the red they'vegot a similar setup to the me6 but it isnot the same camera here it has adifferent sensor it's got an omni visionsensor in it both of them are 12megapixels with an F 2.6 aperture nowI've noticed that there's quite a fewissues that have pulled through fromprevious mobile phones with the rearcamera is that the focus will pulse inand out a lot it struggles to get focusin video and even sometimes taking aphoto the focus will be off at first andyou need to tap to manually focus to getthe photo that's not too much of aproblem but over I find the quality'sdisappointing a ShowMe saying it's justas good as than me 6 but it is clearlynot when you have a look at my sampleshere now it can take a really good photoa very good photo and good light sooutdoors brilliant sunshine it will takea nice photo and you get the 2 timesoptical zoom on the sensor right herewhich is the one on the right side verysimilar to the way the me 6 here you cansee is set up but what disappoints isoften the photos are way oversaturatedespecially when it comes to brightcolors like floweras it will clip and there's oftenproblems with the color that it's notspot-on the colors are just off and verydisappointing low-light and indoorphotos as you'll see from my sampleshere so let's take a look at them sothis is a sample now from thefront-facing camera there was on thefirst version of the ROM that I testedan issue with the noise cancellationthankfully that is now gone on thelatest update now the quality of it youcan see is okay it does tend to wash outa little bit with the backgrounds andstruggle a little bit with the dynamicrange and see what the mountains forSoviet ever that's kind of normal youcan't really expect too much from thefive megapixel front-facing camera Ithink it does a decent job this cameraat least now let's have a look at therearso our rear camera can shoot up to 4kbut it's always 1080p that's the defaultnow like other show-me phones we cannotrecord in 60 frames per second 1080pwhich is quite annoying a lot of othermodels support that and you'll see thatthe focus the whole time it is pulsingin and out it has that focus breathingissue which is all too common on xiaomiphones i mean i have seen this on phonesensitive me note 2 or even before thatit seems that they can never get thecameras right the quality itself isalright but we do not have optical imagestabilization or even digital orelectronic stabilization which wouldhelp to smooth things out if they hadthat enabledso because we have the two senses it hasportrait mode now what this entails isusing the two times optical sensor youcan see here so we'll zoom into thesubject and then use the main sensor asthe background and it will stitch themto both of them together using softwarenow here are some examples of my cathere Vera and you can see that it doestake quite a good-looking photo with theblurred background there but when youlook at some of the images of course onanimals it doesn't come out as good withthe fur and even people with their hearit you can really notice around thosearea that the stitching the way itstitches it together with the softwareisn't quite perfect now I personallywould rather have an optical imagestabilized sensor instead of both ofthese sensors here because I feel it'sjust a bit of a gimmick but it seems tobe something that is very popular at themoment and that is the reason why shallwe have it on this mobile so the me 5xis a mobile file that is stuck betweenthe me 6 which has better dual camerason the rear and then the redmi note 4 Xand the rebbe Note 4 which is a mobilephone that is powered by the same exactchipset has a larger battery and as waycheaper we're talking about a hundredu.s. cheaper this at the moment isretailing for 240 to 250 us which is fartoo expensive and then the likes of theredmi note 4 and the redmi note 4 x theyare selling for about a hundred andforty so really it comes down to thefact that do you want this dual camerasetup do you actually need to take thoseportrait photos there maybe maybe thenit's a good phone to go for don't get mewrong it's not a bad mobile phone Ireally do like that 3.5 millimeter audiocalls we have out of it is excellent butit just disappoints with the batterylife it's only getting around eight tonine hours of on-screen time I can getfourteen from the redmi note 4 x andthen those cameras aren't really good atall in low lights and the focusingproblems pressand yet another shall me phone which isa real disappointment so the buildquality overall is good it's nice andthin and it's following on from the samekind of design we have that reallystarted within me 5c that I reviewed andthen the me max 2 and now this whichisn't a bad thing but I'm not reallyfond of this trend to move towards thesedual cameras I would rather have abetter rear sensor with larger pixels anoptical image stabilization I feel wouldproduce better low-light photos bettervideo quality and overall probablybetter daylight photos too so at the endof the day it comes really hard torecommend this one I feel you're betteroff spending your money and getting theredmi note 4 X if you want the batterylife in the same performance or if youmust have dual cameras then go for theme 6 which takes a lot better image andI feel that those sensors just perform alot better and low-light as well thankyou so much for watching through viewand I do hope to catch you back withfuture up-and-coming releases of theXiaomi series of phones we're probablygoing to see another 2 or 3 before theend of the year and I do hope to see youback then with those reviews bye for now\n"