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Shami hopes to put together all of the best features from the last year's worth of smartphones into one cohesive package it's Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody and this is my first impression on the Xiaomi music it's pretty easy to notice the design of the music's mostly because there are quite a few colors but the main one is a blue with gold accent it's almost like a reverse Iron Man of sorts and it's incredibly eye-popping it's definitely different from the standard black and the standard white but I will tell you about a couple of other somewhat more exclusive colors the highly exclusive one is one that's not even available for the public just yet they just wanted to show how as engineers they really wanted to take an idea and make it a reality in this case it is the Silver Edition now all of the musics is have stainless steel frames which takes a lot in the manufacturing process however in trying to make the entire device that sheen of silver out of tens of thousands of different attempts maybe only 10 to 20 of them actually make it out of the manufacturing process making this a highly sought after device because it's well technically really hard to make but if you're looking for the most premium version of the music's well Xiaomi is sticking to their ceramic guns if you remember the me mix there was a ceramic edition of that that looked really great and we still enjoyed that material for these smartphones and Xiaomi is going back to that well for the mini six this is the most premium version and it comes with 128 gigabytes of on-board storage and 18 karat gold to line the cameras on the back so we can go ahead and get into the specifications all of the screens for the music's are 1080p panels and more conventional 16 by 9 aspect ratios making them just a little bit behind all of the current specifications for flagships that we've seen thus far in 2017 however it does have highly saturated colors that do the me UI justice and there's also an eye care mode that is a lot like the blue light filter however they've dialed it back so that if you want to use the blue light filter or the I care mode it's not going to put that aggressive yellow hue on everything beneath the display is the capacitive array including a home button that's a little bit reminiscent of the HTC 10 basically a small area that does get you back to home but it also doubles as the fingerprint reader and if you look at the glass in the four corners at least on the front it has a four-way curved glass allows it to literally wrap around the front of the device meanwhile if you turn the phone around the glass curves upward so that it would make the entire device a little bit easier to handle in one hand definitely more of a comfortable grip so that covers design let's go deeper underneath the surface Xiaomi has positioned itself as the first manufacturer to bring the snapdragon 835 to China six gigabytes is no standard for RAM and their different capacities for on-board storage like we mentioned already the ceramic Edition has 128 gigabytes of on-board storage and the battery is one of the bigger deals with the stone as its parts 33 50 million hours we're still going to do our full testing on this device however it is interesting to note that with a 5.1 5 inch 1080p display and then there's 3350 million power battery the ratio between the two is higher than most flagship devices however in order to make that type of battery fit in the Xiaomi 6 unfortunately the company had to do away with one key element the headphone jack Yami's moves in the camera are very notable as well in the era of the dual camera Xiaomi is bringing its own flavor to it by bringing a dual camera setup that has a regular wide angle and also a telephoto lens that adds a 2 X optical zoom this is a little bit like the iPhone 7 plus and it also comes with a couple of features you might recognize from there as well including a portrait mode now I was able to take the ceramic Edition and it is the one that we are going to review out for a few tests when it comes to the camera at the temple of heaven in Beijing now photos did come out quite well at least in my initial testing and you can see them here in the video but also video gets a little bit of a bump up as the main camera the main wide-angle camera has for access stabilization now unfortunately one of the big drawbacks to this camera array at least for now is that you're not able to zoom when recording video I have been told that this is not a hardware limitation and this could become a feature in future versions of the me UI but they will stop short of actually guaranteeing me that that would happen for a little bit more depth of field from the F 1.8 aperture lenses you can use the portrait mode which is a lot like the one you find in the iPhone 7 now essentially it's going to zoom in and then add a lot of Boquete in the background of a cutout subject this is a little bit different from the Huawei p10 bouquet effect and that you can't really control the amount of depth of field that you get however it does do a pretty good job of finding the subject cutting it and then adding the effects but you do have to be rather close to the subject any further back and you might get a little bit of blurriness on the subject itself so with very little to say about the software all of these hardware changes are the crux of this chamois me sex experience me UI is constantly changing however under the guidance of its forum members and we could see some changes come in the future but for now the music's is a conglomeration of some of the best features we've seen in the past year put into one package so how much does this cost actually it's surprisingly affordable for a snapdragon 835 Siksika bytes of ram and a dual camera users can get the phone the base model for the RMB with equivalent of 360 dollars if you want to go for the full premium to the ceramic Edition then it would only bring it up to a total equivalent of about four hundred and thirty five dollars in the West this is a price that's kind of unheard of for something that packs all these features into what is considered a flagship device my first impressions does put the music's in a pretty positive spot as it does pack a lot of great features into a package that hopefully will become more refined as updates come in unfortunately it will not be made available in the West but this is certainly a pretty good prospect for those who are in the East keep it tuned to andrew authority for our full review in about a week or so as I continue testing the ceramic version of this device and remember to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already so you can see that and even more from here from us here at Android authority because we are your source for all things Android