Xiaomi Mi A2 Unboxing & Hands On Review

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enSo it was really on the fence as towhether it will pick up one of thesethis of is Xiaomi's Mi A2 andit's exactly the same hardware as the me6x that I reviewed so I'm not going tobe in this video covering the hardwarein detail unlike I do with that videoplease refer to that video if you wantmore in-depth information and detailabout the actual hard way because I'mnot gonna be like those our 1 plus 6 andiPhone guys that when there's a newcolor they review the whole phone allover again 10 15 minute video just for anew color as if anything house changesand it's the same case here so nothingelse has changed they didn't decide tochange their mind Xiaomi and go ohhang on let's give them me a to a microSD card slot and a 3.5 millimeterheadphone jack now they didn't do thatso the specs you're probably familiarwith them if you see my 6 X videosnapdragon 660 which is a mid-rangechipset and it does perform really quitewell am i testing it's a good chipset Ido like it we've got to the dual camerason the rear so one is 12 megapixels theother is 20 now that 20 megapixel cameradoes do some pixel binning with thelow-light photos and it's a basicallythey can auto detect system that halvesit up so when it detects the camera bothof the cameras on the rare that it'slow-light scenario then it will switchto that 20 megapixel sensor selfiecamera the front is also 20 megapixel solet's check out here the me a 2 withAndroid one so I have here the globalversion it is factory sealed I got thisone from Gear Vita which is a newChinese retailer that I am testing outand they shipped this one here with theHL so that's why I got it quite quickit's actually being sold locally andwill be out on I think it's the 6 thingsthis month here in Spain you can pick itup and also in India it's gonna be outon the 16th my version is the 4gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabyte ROM soremember to choose wisely depending onwhat kind of use you have of your phonebecause if you're someone that has ahuge music collectionremember no expandable storage on thisso we have right here at the top I knowfrom experience from the 6x that this isa case that it will come with andthere's a user guide the adapter fortype C 2 3five millimeter headphone jack and thenthe some trade tool so it will take twonano Sims and the TPU case they give youright here which is one of those oftransparent style gray ones and it doesdo the job and it's good to see that alot of manufacturers are now puttingcases in the box with these phones thatare very easy to scratch and damage sothat we have the phone right there ofcourse type seek cover and then ourcharger now this of course is an EUcharger because I have the globalversion and it is the European versionnow the maximum output of this is 5volts 2 amps so it's not actually usingQualcomm quick charge 3 but in myexperience with the 6x it will fullycharge the phone in just over two hoursso it's still very very quick now thephone in he has a 3000mAh battery which israther small they should have gone with4000 mAh one if you ask me but it is light only168 grams so the A2 is a thin mobilephone you can see right here at 7.5millimeters but it has this hideousmassive camera bump that sticks out anextra couple of millimeters bringing thethickness up if you measure it with thatto 9 millimeters next to the redmi note5 it's very noticeable the differencethere with those cameras how much itactually sticks out on the 6x now withthe redmi note 5 we've got at the tophere plastic but got antenna lines onthis one and the unibody build is of amuch higher standard much better qualitymetal buttons on the right-hand sidethat do not rail and and they have agood feel to them the front camera withan F 2.0 aperture 20 megapixels this onehere does actually take your selfieshots with the blurred background so thebokeh effect portrait mode if you willand it does a pretty good job ofstitching that up and there is also aselfie flash which is located just herethen down the bottom you can just makeout the antenna lines here a little bitmore prominent on the other colors butwhat the black you don't see it as muchwe've got to what looks like twoloudspeakers but in fact just one so theloudspeaker microphone and then ofcourse the type C port and the onlyphysical difference from this to the 66I reviewed from looking on the outsideis this right here it's gonnathey Android one on the back so in handthe phone feels good it's a five pointnine nine inch screen that they do haveon this which of course is 18 by 9 or 2by 1 aspect ratio so this cover on thefront that's just of course for transitso this green star not going to getdamaged or anything like that so youjust have to pull this off and I may aswell show you what it looks like in thecase because I know a lot of peopledon't actually do this so you get a bitof a lip around here so it is going tocover the screen so if you put itfacedown the screen then should not getscratched and you'll see that it is alsocovering up that camera so that's alsogiving that some added protection thereall and of course the case fitsperfectly it's coming from themanufactureryou've got the cutouts there for all theports and everything and it's not badfor a freebie or should I say anincluded case oh and that that userguide if you're a wondering yes it's allin English even that's a Chinese phoneat the top you'll find a secondarymicrophone and yes there is an IRtransmitter so at least they did keepone thing so powering it up now for thefirst time of course we get the Androidone boot screen haptic feedback ofcourse there is a haptic motor in thereand we just have to go through ourstandard setup so the screen is full HDplus of course because it's like a 1080pscreen but just stretched out a littlebit taller here so this is just like astock Android setup because that'sexactly what it is running stock Androidlike those other budget phones that Isometimes review but I'll skip this parthere and we'll go straight into the romand so here we go the UI stock Androidcompletely stocks so this is the show memobile to get for people that couldnever stand me why you didn't like itand ultimate I never liked me UI in thebeginning and I've learned to like itI've gotten used to and I like some ofthe features and extras it does have acourse that you're gonna be missing nowwith this so we'll have a look at thestock apps we have installed so Googleof course of Kramden quite a few thingsthere Xiaomi has two apps so we've gotme stormy community and really that isabout it now they could have probablylighten this up a little but really thisis not bad at allnow what I thought would be interestinga little bit different was to take alook more at the differences betweenstock Android and sayanyway on this same exact screen herenow you notice straight away that thecalibration of these two panels is verydifferent so out of the box I'm gonnahave to go with Google with Androidstock Android the way they've calibratedthe screen here seems a lot better to mebecause this is the default on standardand then under standard the screen looksa little bit more correct but out of theboxI think it's on automatic contrast andit always tends to have a blue tint toit hopefully you can see that comingthroughbut one thing you are missing that I doparticularly like here is of courseyou've got this customization here youcan tweak the colors to your ownpreference with stock Android you'remissing out on that and you're not goingto get that unfortunately this is justone of those things you need to bear inmind between the two of operatingsystems having the stock and in adifferent custom skin on there with meor I now the speed of them and have tocomment that so far and it seems alittle bit faster on stock Android I'dsay just some of the animations goingthrough things now I'm not gonnaactually do one of those speed testthings because I just find them reallyirritating to be honest those kind ofvideos I know I've done them in the pastbut we notice too with the cameras theyare almost the same exact application sowhen I launch them here and you seeactually look at me who I came up fasterthey are very similar because theyobviously had to go with this becausethat's the camera software they'retweaking the optimization that show mehave done but when you have a look atthe settings menu this is where younotice some differences so undersettings here just to show you this thatwe've got stock camera setup with theceiling so stock Android settings andthen it's still the me UI of course thatyou'd expect so you've got the sameoptions more or less but there's acouple of things that are missing likethe scan the QR codes doesn't seem to beon there if you needed that of coursethere's apps on AB store you can use forthose you're not missing out on anythingthere but even the pocket mode thingslike thatyou've got the watermark of course ifyou want to put that on there that'ssomething that shown me is quite fond ofbecause these cameras they are quitegood cameras really for this type ofphone so that is why they do that thereso a lot of those options there they'reexactly the same now in terms of thevideo this is one I'm interested in I'mgoing to have to test this out so if Imove over now into the video modeand just go through this now on to theoptions you see we're going to get thesame here so image stabilization videoquality 4k Ultra HD of course imagestabilization enabled it's enabled hereas well and this is the same exact thingno actually it's not on this model the4k that's because it's just not enabledon the readme five plus if I was lookingat the 6s X sorry we would have then ofcourse 4k of course the obvious thedifference is here with the toggles atthe top your notifications and thingsare gonna look a lot different differentthere so show me has crammed in moretoggles so you can get to them a lotquicker there and control the autobrightness there from the screen therewith just the setting and you can seehere of course that yeah you have to fitthem in we have to swipe to the sidethere and instead of differences likethis that are really just very minor ofcourse now one thing it is missing fromthe move to stock Android is that wedon't have the full screen just yourmode so somehow they couldn't implementthat or they didn't want to which is theshame so we're always going to have touse the navigation keys which isperfectly fine that's what every otherphone normally has anyway but I'm soused to gestures it would be nice toactually see that there so what we dohave just under the normal gestures asyour typical one here so double tappingthe power button will launch the cameraand that's the only one we've gotso there are some good news and bad newsfor Netflix lovers out there so yes it'son the Play Store yes you can install itbut it's only in standard definition noHD and that is because shell me is stillonly supporting Widevine level three sowhat does this jargon mean well if thiswas level one that would mean Netflix inHD Full HD but there is a welcomechanged here that I did half expect andthen as we've got full proper treblesupport so this is great if you wantedto later on flash your arm over then youshould be able to do this unless ofcourse the bootloader is locked well itwill be locked and you'll have to applyto unlock it with show me which isnormally the case but they're reallytightening down and changing on that sothat may possibly change in the futurenow me remote is on there which is goodof course that allows us to take a bunchof that ionstransmitter that I showed you at thebeginning of the video and why not let'stake a peek at the screen in closerdetail so the gamma is pretty muchspot-on 2.0 it should be around 2.2 buthey it's not too far off so it's not badand this of course is just a phone withan IPS panel and the viewing angles wellyou can see them here it does shift outand darken a little bit at the sight asyou'd expect it's an IPS panel there'sno screen protector on this it does notcome with one pre-appliedwhich a lot of the Chinese tech does andsome real-world photos so the screendoes look really quite good there's nocomplaints from me whatsoever with thispanel I think if I was being reallyreally fast he may be too sad don'tparticularly like the rounded cornersthat much but apart from that this is areally it's a fantastic screen for theprice of this phone and to to schoolhere so 130,000 this is not bad at allfor a snapdragon 660 and this is quite abit faster than the old model so the a1has the snapdragon 6 to 5 and they getto approximately 80 to 75 maybe a littlebit higher thousands and points so thisis about fifty to forty thousand higherand you do notice this leap inperformance it's quite a bump up and thecameras of course was Wow are a lotbetter on this particular model internalstorage speeds MMC 5.1 spec very goodhere so sequential read of 276 writesalmost 200 and good random reads andwrites this is not going to bebottlenecking there's mobile at all so Iwent out for a little walk on the streetand had a look at the GPS and it'sworking perfectly fine just like the 6xso it's between 3 to 4 meters theaccuracy and 4G speeds good results hereso 30 megabits per second download 18upload no problems with the signalstrength the range as well and all thatwith wireless is also perfectly fineexactly the same here as expected samehardware as the 6x so around 250megabits per second is the maximumyou're gonna get on wireless AC is 5 Gband so we just got the one nailedspeaker as I pointed out at the start ofthe video which is just on the bottomthere no secondary loudspeakerthe front-facing one the likes you geton other mobile phones like my me max tothe me max three but the loudspeakerdoes sound good I'll give your sample ofit nowso I bout to head out now take somephotos some video as well now opencamera with 4k electronic imagestabilization is working because it doeshave you can see right here legacy atleast it's something it's not fullsupport but legacy our camera API tosupport so I'm not showing you a bunchof fingerprints and smudges on the rearno but that's just what happens whathoodoo wanted to show you is thefingerprint read on the back okay justto mention it that it works flawlesslysuper quick to unlock exactly like allthe other Xiaomi phones since the redminote 3 was it i think that i started toreally improve the fingerprint readersand no problems it's so fast and worksevery single time but we don't have anyface unlocking for some reason with thismodel you get it on the 6xbut maybe Google just didn't want themto have it because it's not so secure sothis is a sample from the front-facingcamera get 1080p maxexactly like the 6x the quality isdecent it's good for the priceno complaints the audio as well seems tobe perfectly fine so let's take a looknow at the rear cameras so this is 4kwith this stock app even though I dohave the image stabilization enabled itdoesn't seem to really do anything orwork at all so it's a little shaky thefootage but it is sharp the quality isgood it's just that stability butluckily there is a solution to this andjust like there meet 6x and that is touse open camera so you can see straightaway the massive difference open cameramakes with electronic imagestabilization the current bitrate is 16megabits per second if you hold it withtwo hands really still it looks like itis almost on a tripod or you're usingsome sort of gimbal and just panningaround here and I will walk down thesesteps just to show you that thisstabilization is very very good and it'salmost like the Google pixel you see howsteady that is and how smoothso front-facing camera in low-light youcan see there's lots of grain and not avery good image notice is to be expectedvery difficult conditions I will turn onthat front LED flash as well now you seethat's marginally better but now my faceis kind of orange like an orangenow sample of low-light video and youcan see the focus does start to actuallyhunt so it's pulsing it out the wholetime there's one problem that it doeshave here there's quite a lot of grainand overall the image actually looks alot brighter than what it actuallyreally isso there we go guys the me a2 is bothtwo steps forward one step back becausecompared to the me a 1 we've lost a fewfeatures here we'll lost a 3.5millimeter headphone jack and themicroSD card which is a real shame and Ialso feel that Xiaomi could have made itabout a millimeter thicker and theycould have added a four thousandmilliamp hour battery would have been alittle bit better just like the Rubynote 5 now apart from that if you don'tlike me UI then this is clearly thephone to go for but not only that it hasfantastic cameras for the price andcategory of this phone so it's sellingfor around two hundred and twenty nineus at the moment at the time of thisvideo and normally that limits you tothose mediatek phones out there and it'snot a wonderful process and normallythey have really bad cameras on them soyou're getting something just so muchbetter if you're someone that does notlike these custom Chinese launchesyou're worried about Chinese firmwaresyou want the latest updates that comethrough this is meant to get Android PAndroid 9 as soon as it comes out itssupposed to be one of the first devicesaccording to Google at the pressconference I was at so we'll see whathappens there so it's going to get theupdates quick and overall theperformance is really good now I haven'tshown you any gaming so check out my me6x for that and also check out mycomparisons for the camera so you wantto compare the ribbing Note 5 to thisbasically this exact same camera thencheck out my also comparison of thatstraight up here and please do check myfull review of the me 6x and that coversa lot more detail but overall if youwant stock Android you want basically aGoogle pixel on a budget this is thephone to go for thank you so much forwatching and I do hope to see you backin the channel bye for now\n"