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throughout this video you might notice a strand of dog hair hanging from my cheek you can blame this creature right here every now and then on this channel we have the opportunity to review a smartphone this is about the fourth or fifth review in this channel but this isn't typically where you go to find your typical smartphone and review speaking of which we're going to talk about it's quarks it's weird features and then we're going to take it on the road and see how it drew weight so the wrong channel okay we might still talk about its quirks it does have a few of those and it also looks familiar looks very familiar what's kind of like an iPhone 7 plus I'd like you to meet the Xiaomi me six a beautiful flagship from China sorry this phone gets extremely dirty fingerprints dust all that just sticks to this thing like a magnet it reminds me away of the iPhone 7 and 7 plus jet black series phones they're just they're just fingerprint magnets and dust seems to find its way all over this device so for those of you who are unfamiliar with this brand of this phone in particular Xiaomi is a very popular smartphone brand in China it's actually one of the largest manufacturers of smartphones in the world but we don't hear about here in the States because pretty much all of it takes place in China and the me six is their latest attempt at a smartphone flagship I've got to say pulling it out of the box using it for a few days my impressions this is an awesome phone especially for the price I would have chosen this over my daily driver the Samsung Galaxy s7 any day of the week it's sporting a Snapdragon 835 octa-core processor pretty much top-of-the-line by this point in 2017 to the comparison here between this and s7 and six gigabytes of RAM which is phenomenally large for a phone of this caliber five point one five inch displays only 1080p and IPS but I would say that 1080p in its ratio and the screen size is actually sufficient you don't see any pixels anyway really can't see the difference between that and 1440p display she gets super super close and the fact that it's a lower resolution means that it's battery life will last considerably longer than the s7 counterpart build quality is immaculate this is something that I'm always concerned about with Chinese knockoffs if you will but this really doesn't give you that impression at all this is a phone that feels like it belongs in the top tier I'm talking along with the oneplus 5 the Samsung Galaxy cs8 the LGG six and even the iPhone 7 and the upcoming iPhone 8 and with the price of around 400 US dollars this has to be one of the best feeling smartphones ever that I've ever held and I've held quite a few smartphones I used to buy and sell them all the time on Craigslist this feels better in the hand in the iPhone 7 and better in the hand than the s7 I can say that with confidence now let's talk about this screen a bit more up to 600 nits of brightness which is comparable to my MacBooks brightness that's pretty incredible in itself and down to a mere one NIT of the ultra night mode display if you want this thing to get super dark on you that's not a problem here it just be cautious you barely even be able to think anything even got eye care on board to filter out that extra high-energy visible blue light something else I have to say the contrast ratio of this IPS display is freaking awesome I was convinced at one point I'm not going to lie that this was a Super AMOLED display actually had to double check online to make sure it was IPS the blacks here look very black it's really good I think the contrast ratios 1350 to one that's not infinite of course but it looks very convincing and a screen resolution of 1080p combined with 30 350 million power battery gives you easily a full day's use I've actually had this last about twice as long as I have seven to date that's because my seventh battery she's been slowly dwindling down to a mere like six hours of daily use it's pretty bad I've only owned this phone for about six months or so I'm kind of disappointed with how the battery life has degraded so much over time if I have this phone and six months I'll be sure to give you a follow-up on this battery life as well but for now this is a bigger battery than the s7 and the screen size is almost identical to get seven so I expect that this phone will just have a longer battery life in general they were able to squeeze such a big battery into this small phone as well I'm actually quite impressed with that that's something I want to bring up about water resistance this is technically only splash resistant this actually isn't water resistant either this is just IP 68 splash proof so you could dunk this in a cup of water you're not supposed to but it would probably be okay this phone on the other hand is not IP rated it's just splash proof so I'm not sure I would feel as comfortable dunking this in a cup of water although I'm sure it would be okay if you just dunked it in pull it back out there are still connections that are exposed there on this phone as well but I think this would bear just bit better because it does have that IP rating now I kind of overlooked the graphics performance in this video understand that it's porting the same Adreno 540 that the Samsung Galaxy s8 8 + + 1 + 5 are at the HTC u 11 every flagship for the most part you can think of by this point in 2017 is sporting the adrenal 540 it's a beast of a graphics processor in a mobile phone and around any mobile game you want I didn't see any hitches at all playing the few games that I played on here now let's talk about this dual camera setup back here for a lot of people the camera is a make or break this is one of those things that kind of speaks to the build quality of the phone the camera quality is not that great then the whole phone just feels less impressive and this was going to be the make-or-break for me with the me 6 I have to say though I am extremely impressed so each of these cameras is slightly different of course they're both using 12 megapixel sensors but one has an extra lens piece this is the wide angle lens it also has a shorter focal length and a wider aperture the second camera what they're calling the telephoto camera has twice the focal length of the first camera and has an F 2.6 aperture so it won't do as well in low-light situations but it will give you twice the zoom of the first camera and you don't have to lose any resolution at all so this has the flare of both the iPhone 7 plus and the LG G 6 which I see nothing wrong with it's a pretty good combination the G 6 had an ultra wide-angle lens and a fairly narrow lens the iPhone 7 plus had one camera but the focal length of 28 millimeters the other with a focal length of 56 that's how you get this cool like double focus shots on the iPhone 7 plus now while this can't focus on two things at once which to be frank isn't that big of a deal I think very few people are going to use that feature on the iPhone 7 plus this does have the ultra wide-angle lens on the first camera so you get quite a lot in your field of view for that first camera and then if you want to zoom in twice as far without losing any resolution you can do that by switching to the second camera as easy as clicking this button right here and you can see that despite having a smaller aperture on the second camera the zoom feature does fairly well outside in daylight brightness and contrast look pretty good especially at Auto mode I would say that the inside the bluish tint in these photos is a bit unnerving I think the white balance could be adjusted a bit more for a picture taken inside the s7 though to be frank has the same issue although it's pictures tend to look a bit more green for some reasons you can only really tell if you compare these side-by-side but that's just how these cameras are calibrated depends on where they're calibrated and in what lighting situations a negative feature both the s7 and the v6 sport though when it comes to color reproduction is over saturation on their rear cameras I would say that the s7 is a bit worse in this regard Samsung phones have always been this way though I found that even the s3 and the galaxy s2 tended to over saturate colors this isn't too big a deal though and I think that the Super AMOLED screen makes things look a bit worse video quality also pretty consistent on this phone you're looking at some examples now this is a side-by-side comparison between the v6 and the galaxy s7 so you get kind of like a 4k versus 4k comparison of sorts I will say though that the me 6 is a bit strange in the way that it handles video I would say that the 4k 30 option is pretty much mandatory at this point but it does not include a 1080p 60fps option only 1080p 30 in fact to get 60fps you have to go all the way down to 720p I would much prefer the 1080p 60fps option over the 720p 120 FPS option but I mean that's what they went with it's really only choice we have here the galaxy s7 by the way will record in 1080p 60 and it does a fairly good job at it you know I got to be honest here I did not test the front camera at all I don't even get there here we go okay stick shot that look too bad alright look it's guessing my age no way it says age 23 male there's no way well if I squint it thinks I'm older I need to do this from now on I've got to say while this isn't the most accurate thing in the world it's pretty cool that it shows me how old I am and let's check video quality in the front looking pretty good I have no idea what resolution this is but I know no looks decent on camera hopefully looks decent on YouTube as well that front camera by the way 8 megapixels I expect that in the flagship also 1080p recording resolution now another trait of the music that will have you second-guessing whether or not they completely ripped off the iPhone 7 is the fact that it has 2 speakers so it's going to stereo speaker array and it uses the earpiece for the first and the speaker on the bottom I think it's the bottom right bottom right this one here as the second speaker this one is a bit louder but I will say that the clarity in both is satisfactory oh and something else you may have caught down here there is no headphone jack so guess what that means folks you got to use movies right here this isn't the lightning to three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack but this is the USB C which is the charging port here USB type-c two a three a half millimeter headphone jack yep we are back to this and this right here is just screaming iPhone seven seven plus I don't know I don't know what to think about this I'm going to keep this in here for the rest of the video so that you know you know other traits the music shares with the iPhone seven the fact that there is no removable battery but of course you kind of have to expect that with build quality like this you sacrifice the removable back panel for just a better feel in the hand this glass here is not going to be coming out easily and that's something I am willing to accept I will take the compromise of not removing the battery for the sake of having a phone that looks better all around the Mystics also does not have an SD card slot that it has two SIM card slots which I guess is cool for those who travel a lot but even my global s7 only has one SIM card slot instead uses the second slot for expandable storage this phone only has 64 gigs of internal storage that might be enough for some it's enough for me but it might not be enough for you so having that expandable storage taken away is a bit of a downfall here a few changes from the iPhone 7 though this is also a deviation from the Samsung Galaxy s7 this phone comes with an IR blaster so you can still control your TV consuming you have like a TV that's compatible with universal remotes you can do that on your phone this also has a volume rocker instead of dedicated up-and-down volume buttons this is a bit old-school here I'm not a huge fan of this it just feels a bit cheap I'd rather have dedicated up and down buttons that's just me personally I'm used to about this point I mean the s7 had them the iPhone 7 7 plus had them I don't know why this doesn't happen the last thing worth mentioning about this phone the home button it resembles sort of kind of an away the iPhone 7 home button it also kind of resembles with the samsung galaxy s7 s home button so this is not a physical button you can't push it in so that's kind of like the iPhone 7 so that's not a physical button either but instead of giving you that fake button click this one just vibrates that's that's all it does but it's super quick check this out super quick it recognizes your thumbprint right away you don't need to click the home button or anything will get to turn the screen on all you got to do is just gently rest your thumb over the home button and the phone will turn on and unlock for you it's extremely responsive and it's recessed slightly into the phone's body so you know exactly where you're pressing every single time so what I would rate this phone on a scale from one to ten assuming price pros and cons this is a solid eight point five out of ten and I say that with confidence I say that actually in a good light I think that a be average is excellent for a phone that's holding about four hundred dollars this is probably the most inexpensive flagship you can buy with the exception of a few competitors that you'll find on Amazon elsewhere the show me me six is probably the least well known brand here in the United States that makes a really good smart phone this would be my daily driver if only I could use it with Verizon doesn't work with Verizon I already tried that as always you can find the product review in this video this is a xiaomi me six linked in this video's description be sure to check it out let me know what you think also leave a comment regarding I don't know maybe a phone 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