The Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition is a flagship device that boasts impressive features and specifications. The phone comes with a 6.1-inch AMOLED display, which provides an excellent visual experience. The display has a resolution of 1440 x 3040 pixels and a pixel density of 512 PPI. It also supports HDR10+ and has a 19:9 aspect ratio.

The Mi 8 Explorer Edition is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset, which provides fast performance and efficient battery life. The phone comes with up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage, making it suitable for heavy users who want to store many apps and games on their device. The phone also supports expandable storage via a microSD card slot.

The Mi 8 Explorer Edition has a dual-camera setup, which provides high-quality images with advanced features such as portrait mode, bokeh effect, and AI-powered scene detection. The camera app is extensive and offers various modes, including manual mode, video recording, time-lapse, and more. The phone also supports 4K video recording at 60fps.

In terms of software, the Mi 8 Explorer Edition comes with MIUI 9.5, which provides a user-friendly interface and advanced features such as gesture-based navigation, customizable notification shade, and enhanced security features. The phone is available in several colors, including white, black, and blue.

One of the notable aspects of the Mi 8 Explorer Edition is its optical image stabilization (OIS) system, which reduces camera shake and provides sharper images. The phone also supports dual-pixel PDAF, which improves autofocus speed and accuracy. The OIS system is particularly useful in low-light conditions, where it helps to reduce camera noise and produce better results.

The Mi 8 Explorer Edition has a fingerprint sensor located on the back of the device, providing convenient biometric authentication. The phone also supports Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0, which provides fast charging speeds and can charge the battery from 0 to 100% in just 30 minutes.

In terms of connectivity, the Mi 8 Explorer Edition supports Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac), Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, and USB-C. The phone also comes with a headphone jack, which is a rare feature among modern flagships. The device measures 158.7 x 75.9 x 7.9mm and weighs 191 grams.

The Mi 8 Explorer Edition has a 3400mAh battery, which provides all-day battery life and can last up to two days with moderate usage. The phone also supports fast charging, but the charging speed is limited to Quick Charge 3.0. This means that the phone may not be able to charge as quickly as some other devices with faster charging capabilities.

The Mi 8 Explorer Edition is available in several variants, including a 64GB model, an 128GB model, and a 256GB model. The device is priced competitively, considering its specifications and features.

Overall, the Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition is a powerful and feature-packed smartphone that offers excellent performance, camera quality, and software experience. While it may not be available in India, it's worth considering for users who are looking for a high-end device with advanced features at an affordable price.

In terms of availability, the Mi 8 Explorer Edition is currently only available outside of China, but Xiaomi has announced plans to release it globally. The phone will likely be sold through various channels, including online retailers and physical stores. Prices for the device vary depending on the region and retailer, but it's expected to be priced around $700-$800.

Overall, the Mi 8 Explorer Edition is a solid choice for users who want a high-end smartphone with advanced features and specifications. While it may not be available in India, it's worth considering for users who are looking for a premium device at an affordable price.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys what's up this is Verity or watching I again and today we're gonna be unboxing and taking a look at the infamous Xiaomi me aid it was officially globally launched but it never made its way to India but we're gonna be unboxing it and checking it out so let's quickly get started so the box is quite different it's a full black box with the number 8 on it the phone is now available for anywhere from 400 to 500 US dollars I leave a link to buying it in the description below from the place where we got it and if you guys interested you can go check it out as well it doesn't look like the phone is going to launch in India but we'll stay tuned to figure that out so let's quickly cut through the packaging the first thing inside the box is an insert which includes a clear protection back case some documentation a sim ejector tool and a USB 2 3.5 mm dongle which means that this device will not have a 3.5 mm jack but most of you guys were already aware of that now if you go further in we get the device itself I'm going to place it to the side for the time being inside the box also is a USB type-c cable and a USB wall charger this charge is a 12 volt 1.5 amp charger giving you upwards of 18 watt for charging up the me 8 so that will get the quick charge three speeds but not the faster speeds that the 8 4 5 will support and that's it for everything from inside the box it's time to take a look at the phone itself now I'm going to remove the plastic stickers that are on the device and the first thing I'm going to try out is the back cover now because the device on the back looks really nice it's got this glass back panel and in this white color you can see that the finish and the look of the device is quite premium the rear glass also contours into the side frame much like in the case of premium flagship samsung devices you can also see the vertical camera layout on the back but once you put on the silicon case there is not a lot of difference it's a completely clear case and it allows you to protect the device without losing any kind of look because this device looks extremely premium let's do a quick one over with the device so over at the front you do have the front-facing camera and the earpiece built-in - this knotch on the device the front-facing camera is a 20 megapixel camera with an f/2 aperture the front camera also gets portrait lighting effects and a full-fledged portrait mode you can also apply filters and adjust Beauty options before you capture an image now below the camera is the main display now this is a six point two one inch display and it is a Super AMOLED display now because of the knotch the device gets an eighteen point seven is the nine aspect ratio and a two two four eight by 1080 pixel resolution the screen is 402 pixels per inch in terms of density and has HDR ten capabilities on the device itself which is absolutely brilliant the Xiaomi me it does have Corning Gorilla Glass and even though the company has unspecified it a quick search of Corning's website reveals that on the front as well as on the back of the me eight is Corning Gorilla Glass five now since Xiaomi has enabled gesture based navigation the bottom part can get rid of the buttons and you get more screen real estate but you do still have a considerable bottom chin on the device now over at the right side you can see the power buttons and the volume buttons and over at the bottom of the device you will see a USB C port flanked on either side by dual grills one of them is a microphone while the other is a speakerphone grill you can also see the antenna lines and lots of symmetry on the bottom edge of the device over at the top you do have a noise cancellation microphone and on the left is your dual SIM tray the device does not support expandability and it is something that has been a little bit of a letdown for a lot of people now the back has dual 12 megapixel cameras one is a 12 megapixel camera with an F 1.8 aperture and a 1 / 2.5 5 inch sensor size you also get optical image stabilization and dual pixel PDAF the other camera is a 12 megapixel camera with an F 2.4 aperture and it is a 1 over 3.4 inch so it's a much smaller sensor size and you only get a 1 micron picture size this also allows you to get 2 X optical zoom on the phone the phone will capture 4k video and you can see the fingerprint sensor is also on the back of the device now once you power on the phone you will see immediately that the device is running on me UI 9.5 and you will also get a few software updates I would recommend getting those going immediately after you have set up the device since this is now gonna be a official global variant you will not get Google Play installed directly on the device but there is a really simple app that you need to install from the me app store all you need to do a search for Google and the first app that shows up just install that and run it and it will automatically install all your Google Play services and your Google Play Store then you'll be able to download and use any app from the Android App Store now because the display looks absolutely brilliant you'll thoroughly enjoy using me UI 9.5 on this extensively you do get gesture based navigation and of course you do get a lot of customization from Tommy's me UI interface so you can customize how the lock screen will look how the notification or a status bar will look you can customize all of these things as per your requirement and you can also set up full screen display modes for certain applications you can also have the ability to hide the knotch if that is something that you guys don't want you can also select what apps will get the full screen mode so you can enable those automatically for the apps that support it the phone has inbuilt six gigabyte of RAM and is available in 64 128 and 256 gigabyte variants while the me 8 Explorer Edition has not officially been available in a lot of places the me 8 in this white color I think looks absolutely brilliant it is also available in a black and a blue color if that is something that you guys are interested in now running everything for the me it is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset you get Foucault's at 2.8 gigahertz and focus at 1.8 gigahertz and you also get the adrenal 630 GPU the battery on the Miette is a 3400 milliamp hour battery and it also supports only Qualcomm quick charge 3 and not beyond that it is something that Xiaomi must have done to sort of ensure better battery life it's a good thing in a way but it's also a little bit of a letdown because it slows down the charging speeds that the chipset can support now the camera app is quite extensive and you do have AI shooting modes on the me8 you do have a full-fledged portrait mode which allows you to get not only a depth effect but also portrait lighting you also get panorama shots manual mode along with video and a short video mode along with time-lapse capabilities on the device you can also apply filters on or off HDR and you do have a fair bit of customizations that you can do to the camera before you click the image the camera in itself seems really nice with the dual 12 megapixel sensors and you also get the ability to get a 2 X optical zoom directly in the frame much like what you see on Samsung and Apple iPhone devices with dual cameras now the overall look and feel of the device is extremely premium and it's a pity that xiaomi has not launched this device in india i would understand that this would be an expensive device it'll be slightly difficult for xiaomi to bring it at a price bracket that would entertain its consumer base there are also already a lot of other options in the market including ones from oneplus owner and even new phones from huawei that are sort of challenging this price segment making it difficult for brands like Xiaomi to bring in devices which otherwise you would consider cheap but when they come to India may not be so like I mentioned I'll be testing this phone with other devices and giving you a full review in the coming videos if you have any questions or queries do let us know in the comment section below and we'll try and answer those out for you in the full review if you're interested in getting this device I'll leave a link to where I got it from in the description below as well that's it for this video if you liked it don't forget to smash that like button hit that subscribe button if you're not already a part of team again this is Ben Barrett thank you guys for watching I will see you in the next onehey guys what's up this is Verity or watching I again and today we're gonna be unboxing and taking a look at the infamous Xiaomi me aid it was officially globally launched but it never made its way to India but we're gonna be unboxing it and checking it out so let's quickly get started so the box is quite different it's a full black box with the number 8 on it the phone is now available for anywhere from 400 to 500 US dollars I leave a link to buying it in the description below from the place where we got it and if you guys interested you can go check it out as well it doesn't look like the phone is going to launch in India but we'll stay tuned to figure that out so let's quickly cut through the packaging the first thing inside the box is an insert which includes a clear protection back case some documentation a sim ejector tool and a USB 2 3.5 mm dongle which means that this device will not have a 3.5 mm jack but most of you guys were already aware of that now if you go further in we get the device itself I'm going to place it to the side for the time being inside the box also is a USB type-c cable and a USB wall charger this charge is a 12 volt 1.5 amp charger giving you upwards of 18 watt for charging up the me 8 so that will get the quick charge three speeds but not the faster speeds that the 8 4 5 will support and that's it for everything from inside the box it's time to take a look at the phone itself now I'm going to remove the plastic stickers that are on the device and the first thing I'm going to try out is the back cover now because the device on the back looks really nice it's got this glass back panel and in this white color you can see that the finish and the look of the device is quite premium the rear glass also contours into the side frame much like in the case of premium flagship samsung devices you can also see the vertical camera layout on the back but once you put on the silicon case there is not a lot of difference it's a completely clear case and it allows you to protect the device without losing any kind of look because this device looks extremely premium let's do a quick one over with the device so over at the front you do have the front-facing camera and the earpiece built-in - this knotch on the device the front-facing camera is a 20 megapixel camera with an f/2 aperture the front camera also gets portrait lighting effects and a full-fledged portrait mode you can also apply filters and adjust Beauty options before you capture an image now below the camera is the main display now this is a six point two one inch display and it is a Super AMOLED display now because of the knotch the device gets an eighteen point seven is the nine aspect ratio and a two two four eight by 1080 pixel resolution the screen is 402 pixels per inch in terms of density and has HDR ten capabilities on the device itself which is absolutely brilliant the Xiaomi me it does have Corning Gorilla Glass and even though the company has unspecified it a quick search of Corning's website reveals that on the front as well as on the back of the me eight is Corning Gorilla Glass five now since Xiaomi has enabled gesture based navigation the bottom part can get rid of the buttons and you get more screen real estate but you do still have a considerable bottom chin on the device now over at the right side you can see the power buttons and the volume buttons and over at the bottom of the device you will see a USB C port flanked on either side by dual grills one of them is a microphone while the other is a speakerphone grill you can also see the antenna lines and lots of symmetry on the bottom edge of the device over at the top you do have a noise cancellation microphone and on the left is your dual SIM tray the device does not support expandability and it is something that has been a little bit of a letdown for a lot of people now the back has dual 12 megapixel cameras one is a 12 megapixel camera with an F 1.8 aperture and a 1 / 2.5 5 inch sensor size you also get optical image stabilization and dual pixel PDAF the other camera is a 12 megapixel camera with an F 2.4 aperture and it is a 1 over 3.4 inch so it's a much smaller sensor size and you only get a 1 micron picture size this also allows you to get 2 X optical zoom on the phone the phone will capture 4k video and you can see the fingerprint sensor is also on the back of the device now once you power on the phone you will see immediately that the device is running on me UI 9.5 and you will also get a few software updates I would recommend getting those going immediately after you have set up the device since this is now gonna be a official global variant you will not get Google Play installed directly on the device but there is a really simple app that you need to install from the me app store all you need to do a search for Google and the first app that shows up just install that and run it and it will automatically install all your Google Play services and your Google Play Store then you'll be able to download and use any app from the Android App Store now because the display looks absolutely brilliant you'll thoroughly enjoy using me UI 9.5 on this extensively you do get gesture based navigation and of course you do get a lot of customization from Tommy's me UI interface so you can customize how the lock screen will look how the notification or a status bar will look you can customize all of these things as per your requirement and you can also set up full screen display modes for certain applications you can also have the ability to hide the knotch if that is something that you guys don't want you can also select what apps will get the full screen mode so you can enable those automatically for the apps that support it the phone has inbuilt six gigabyte of RAM and is available in 64 128 and 256 gigabyte variants while the me 8 Explorer Edition has not officially been available in a lot of places the me 8 in this white color I think looks absolutely brilliant it is also available in a black and a blue color if that is something that you guys are interested in now running everything for the me it is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset you get Foucault's at 2.8 gigahertz and focus at 1.8 gigahertz and you also get the adrenal 630 GPU the battery on the Miette is a 3400 milliamp hour battery and it also supports only Qualcomm quick charge 3 and not beyond that it is something that Xiaomi must have done to sort of ensure better battery life it's a good thing in a way but it's also a little bit of a letdown because it slows down the charging speeds that the chipset can support now the camera app is quite extensive and you do have AI shooting modes on the me8 you do have a full-fledged portrait mode which allows you to get not only a depth effect but also portrait lighting you also get panorama shots manual mode along with video and a short video mode along with time-lapse capabilities on the device you can also apply filters on or off HDR and you do have a fair bit of customizations that you can do to the camera before you click the image the camera in itself seems really nice with the dual 12 megapixel sensors and you also get the ability to get a 2 X optical zoom directly in the frame much like what you see on Samsung and Apple iPhone devices with dual cameras now the overall look and feel of the device is extremely premium and it's a pity that xiaomi has not launched this device in india i would understand that this would be an expensive device it'll be slightly difficult for xiaomi to bring it at a price bracket that would entertain its consumer base there are also already a lot of other options in the market including ones from oneplus owner and even new phones from huawei that are sort of challenging this price segment making it difficult for brands like Xiaomi to bring in devices which otherwise you would consider cheap but when they come to India may not be so like I mentioned I'll be testing this phone with other devices and giving you a full review in the coming videos if you have any questions or queries do let us know in the comment section below and we'll try and answer those out for you in the full review if you're interested in getting this device I'll leave a link to where I got it from in the description below as well that's it for this video if you liked it don't forget to smash that like button hit that subscribe button if you're not already a part of team again this is Ben Barrett thank you guys for watching I will see you in the next one\n"