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with this latest attempt a xiaomi moves ever closer to that original vision a smartphone that is basically all screen but what's even cooler is the way they achieved this almost 94% screen to body ratio its Joshua for Gaara what's going on everybody and this is PocketNow bringing you a look at the Xiaomi me mix 3 so I've been able to use the Chinese version of this phone over the last couple of days in Beijing China and that means I won't be keeping this phone so our full review will have to wait until we get a global unit for now though I did make sure to get a lot of photos and videos or with the device and I'm going to put together a couple pieces of content over on my channel youtube.com slash Joshua regard so if you are itching for more about this exciting phone then you can head over to my channel as well 93.4% that is the screen to body ratio that was achieved in the me mix 3 via a mechanism that is a bit of a throwback but also is a very practical way of hiding all the bits and pieces that were cut into the display that's right the entire front slides down and what's great about this is that the me mix 3 is actually not any thicker than most other flagships it's just at the front the display in particular actually slides down with a very satisfying click mechanism and I have to admit I have been doing this way more than I probably should have but it seems like it's sturdy enough to be able to take that many slides the front-facing camera array includes an LED flash actually and it can be used for face unlock on top of the fingerprint sensor which is more conventional and it's found on the back which means that there's a lot that can happen by just sliding down the display originally before getting face on lock setup if you slide it down a nice little animation shows up you might get a sound effect that in the future is going to be customizable and then to go straight into the selfie portion of the camera app after getting face unlock set up bringing the screen down made it start looking for my face and I was able to get straight into me UI very quickly and in a very stylistic manner the screen itself takes up so much of the front and it's kind of a sight to behold it is in AMOLED display at 6.39 inches and because it's taking up all of the front it is a nineteen point five by nine aspect ratio that does mean that some applications need to be catered to this taller display even the camera app itself has a little bit more the bottom underneath the shutter button then I think it should have but let's not forget about the rest of the phone no you do not get a headphone jack on here you still get an adapter in the box and speaking of what is in the box you also get a wireless charger bundled with it it is in the box and this is a trend that I think should be happening more and more often as wireless charging becomes more prevalent the wireless charging happens through a ceramic backing and ceramic is still the material that Xiaomi champions and it's great to see it back again and in three different colors the Xiaomi me mix three comes in black green and blue the one gripe that I have about the green and blue additions is that they're not more obvious about what they are you can really only see the difference between them in good lighting otherwise they're a lot more muted than I would have liked still the phone is artfully designed especially considering that AMOLED display that made everything look pretty awesome in my first two days with it this is the Chinese edition of the phone like I said so we didn't have any Google Play services or YouTube or even the games from the Play Store to have on here but with everything that I've recorded and everything that the me UI shows inside of this device it still looks pretty great and of course it's AMOLED so the colors pop pretty well but it's all about sliding down that display and revealing what is underneath you get the front-facing camera array which is a dual camera set up 24 megapixels and then 2 megapixels with AI capabilities it does come in at F 2.2 aperture which may not be totally ideal but there are modes to give you that depth of field via portrait mode or there are also the beautify modes there also a couple of other fun functions on here that only the Chinese ROM gets including a magic mirror mode which you mean you can sound off on it in the comments below of it basically is just a fun mode where it just looks at you and tries to assess how let's say attractive you are you can move your face and around or even the phone around and you'll be able to get some sort of score and the highest that I was able to get was a solid eight point three but that's silliness aside you do get that portrait mode up front with the beauty modes that from zero to one already do things like slim your face and after you take the picture you can change the depth of field to show different light trails and you can also use the cutout in order to add other lighting effects as well I also used it as a vlogging camera sorts and one thing I am happy to report is that the focal length is actually just right enough so that you don't feel too cramped in the frame so this phone will definitely be good for some social media and it might be good for some regular videos if you're using this as a vlogging tool let's get to the rear cameras you get two cameras as well and it's a dual 12 and 12 megapixel array and the secondary sensor is at F 2.4 aperture and provides a 2 times optical zoom there are a lot of different modes in the camera app including slow motion video at 960 frames per second and it does it a little bit differently than other flagships what it does instead is it gives you a few seconds to get ready and then at the end of that cycle it makes the 960 frames per second trigger so you know exactly when it's going to trigger and you can plan it out properly you also get 120 frames and 240 frames as well so you're not really locked into this 960 speaking of frame rates I did record a lot of the video using the phone at 4k at 60 frames per second as well Shami is also bringing in their version of the night mode you might have seen this mode in other phones like from Huawei and in this case the night mode is actually shorter in length it may be 2 or 3 seconds and it's just enough to be able to get that super HDR effect that makes all pictures look a little bit like a painting now there are going to be situations where this looks good other situations where it looks a little bit hokey for example you might get that halo effect around objects because the HDR is really working quite hard to make sure that everything is evened out now obviously take this with a grain of salt but DxO market did rate the me mix 3 at one point higher than the Huawei P 20 Perot so the photography from this one is looking to be a big highlights and we're looking forward to putting it through full testing once we get our review units and again this is the Chinese Edition that you're seeing here so you get me UI 10 but we weren't able to have the Play Store or Google Play services installed but me do I still brings a lot to the table stuff that you might have seen in the past like the second space or the dual apps so on top of everything in Android P you can expect that this will be a pretty full feature software platform and this is all being powered by a slew of high-end specifications including the snapdragon 840 5 & 6 8 or 10 gigabytes of ram I know it's getting kind of ridiculous that we're really blasting past that original 4 gigabytes of RAM mark so if you have been following Xiaomi for quite a while you know that all of these specs and all of these offerings are really nothing new they are able to provide a fairly affordable price for a flagship phone that has more than even some of the competition but in this case what you're getting here in this really hectic smartphone season is yet another phone that you're trying to be everything for everyone it's just that Xiaomi has been able to do it in such a way that is not only unique but strikes us is really practical then this might be one of those sleeper hits and one of those phones that we really wish was available in more markets just like we did with the original me mix the mimics to and everything in between just the slider phone lover in me is already sad to give up this device but hopefully the global unit will be on its way as soon as possible and then we will be able to bring you our full review keep it tuned to pocket now for that full review but also head over to my channel youtube.com slash Joshua vergara to see how I feel about this phone and what kind of users I think it might be for you might have already clued in to a few of them just by watching this hands-on video and then I also vlogged one day in Beijing using the cameras of the me makes three so look forward to that I'm still working on it and you can look forward to it coming very soon all right I'm gonna call it on this one and I will probably see you on the pocket now weekly once I get back stateside and I can get back to hosting the podcast thank you so much for watching look forward to the next one and I'll see you that