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Xiaomi now the 5th largest smartphone manufacturer in the world has announced a new very high-end smartphone than before I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and this is our unboxing of the Xiaomi me--for before we get started we'd like to thank our friends at 28th mobile for lending us the Xiaomi me for for a view if you'd like a me for to call your own simply click the link in the description below or go to 28 mobile comm where you can also find dozens of other smartphones for purchase so before a few weeks ago my experience with Xiaomi was practically nothing I had read of them and of course heard of them when Hugo Barra of Google went to Xiaomi to help expand the company internationally but the company it's actually doing some pretty big things especially of late last week it was named the fifth largest smartphone manufacturer in the world which kind of took me by surprise maybe a lot of other people but this is the company's brand new handset the me for so the fourth generation of its me handsets and this one in particular has gotten a lot of flack well the company actually has for the way it is said to take a lot of inspiration from Apple but this device in particular once we get out of the box you'll see what I mean definitely takes a lot of inspiration from the design of the newest iPhone the iPhone 5s or five but without any delay let's get inside the box and see what this is about of course this is the 16 gigabyte version this comes in two different versions 16 and 64 and eventually it'll come in a lot of different color options but right now it's just white so there's that and also on the inside you're getting a lot of of the same specifications you're gonna find on many other flagships this year inside it has a Snapdragon 801 that's with Krait 400 CPUs clocked at 2.5 gigahertz it also has 3 gigabytes of RAM which a lot of other phones don't have now you've got your g3 which does and a few others that do but like the One m8 and galaxy s5 do not this also has a 13 megapixel camera but we're gonna set it to the side while I continue to talk about specs it s it has a 5-inch 1080p display that's IPS LCD so very similar to what you're going to find on other high-end flagships of course in this packaging we have a micro USB cable of course and this is our standard power block and it's actually for the US so I did not expect that and reading materials and I think that's it there so no headphones in this which is pretty standard especially when you get a phone from Xiaomi because they actually sell the phones at or near production cost which is unlike most others that make their money through selling applications on that applications themes and wallpapers and icon packs and little aftermarket things like that nothing major in here but you do get a sim removal tool which is really nice and I'm gonna take that out and save it for later but that's it in the box nothing terribly fancy you get a very stark packaging very plain things inside the box but the phone itself feels really nice it's actually actually kind of hefty the primary thing that you're going to notice about its built-in design is actually that the rim is stainless steel and actually the whole core of the phone is a machine stainless steel still if you go to their website it shows you the entire process of how they make this and it feels really nice and it feels actually kind of iPhone quality feels a little bit like an iPhone on the hand - the slick plastic on the back which is something I'm not particularly fond of but if we tear this off its not gonna make any noise I'm not even gonna try tear this off and take some plastics off the back I need to get this IMEI and everything off so you guys don't see it so if you do a quick Hardware tour here at the top we've got the earpiece speaker and of course some sensors this is your front-facing camera do not remember the resolution of this camera of course the rear one is 13 megapixels and you do have a tiny little LED flash down here you have capacitive navigation buttons which is back home and menu this is your sim port here along the left edge nothing else there your machine drilled holes for your speaker grille micro USB port power and volume rocker and along the top you've got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack as well as an IR blaster and around back again camera and some nice shiny me branding other than that this thing is pretty basic your battery is a 30 50 million power battery and again Snapdragon 801 13 megapixel camera three gigs of RAM and a 5-inch 1080p display and you'll notice that the bezels are very very small on this I'm going to turn on the display here and while I do I'm gonna pull up the One m8 so you can see just how it compares in size it's shorter of course because it doesn't have those front-facing speakers but it's it's very slim and the bezels are just tiny and maybe I can get the g3 here I have it as well you can see it's bezels actually look slimmer than the g3 s which is saying something because that's a very very minimal bezel phone and you can see those are very very slim bezels but this does come with me UI and actually I'm not sure if it's actually loaded on here to begin with the newest me UI which is new UI six I believe it said to come out the 14th of this month this one I'm not sure we can actually jump into settings and see if this is actually the newest one which new UI version I can't tell but the display actually really quickly looks very very nice it's very vibrant very poppy and so far this is really nice I like it it's a very sturdy phone and best of all because Xiaomi does sell their phones at or near cost this thing is not gonna cost a whole lot of money four hundred and fifty nine dollars so that is significantly lower than other flagships stay tuned for more Xiaomi me for coverage over the next week or two and until next time Tyler Martin and thanks for watching folks thanks for watching and supporting pocket now if you'd like to help us even more be sure to click the thumbs up button below and subscribe to the channel you can find us around the web on Twitter Facebook and Google+ at pocket now I'm Taylor Martin you can find me on twitter at casper tech and i will see you next time