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hey I'm Dan with The Verge and today we're checking out the new Jean Mimi mix - which is the update to last year's new mix full screen smartphone from Xiaomi now the me mix 2 is actually a successor to the original me mix that was launched last year which was Johnny's first full screen smartphone now mix 2 has a couple of notable improvements over the me mix last year first of all it comes in both a standard and a special edition and I'll get to the differences in a second the biggest difference that you're gonna notice between last year's phone and this year's phone though is that it is smaller this is now a 5.9 nine inch screen which is still huge but because the screen is pushed all the way to the edge it makes a phone feel smaller than it did before with a six and a half inch screen of course the screen is the star of the show here it is an edge to edge panel it goes all the way to the top edge of the phone and the sides there's just a little bit of bezel here and below it it's an LCD screen with a wide color gamut it's got 1080 pixels of resolution so it's not quite as high-res and a Samsung screen or something from LG but it does look really nice outdoors and its really vibrant and colorful the other things that are really notable here is me mixes ceramic back so this is a ceramic back on a standard model and it kind of melds into a metal frame here on the side now if you opt for this special edition it's an actual full ceramic unibody which Joey says is the first phone on the market to have this kind of feature the back just kind of like morphs into the frame of the phone it feels really great in premium it's really really nice it's also really really slippery and super fingerprint T as well so it does it does come with a case in the box but you know then you cover up how pretty it is so that's that's the difference between the special edition and the standard model so one thing about ceramic all this happened is it's more resistant to scratching than glass so that's one of the positives of using it over say Gorilla Glass however it is more brittle which means that it shatters easier which means that if you drop it on a corner it's probably gonna break like I just did it filled up out on two feet to the ground and I heard it break I don't know if you heard a break but there you go that's the problem with ceramic phones now inside the phones got a snapdragon 835 processor which you can get with 64 128 or 256 gigabytes of storage it comes with 6 could good bytes of RAM in the standard model if you offer the special edition you bump that up to 8 gigabytes of RAM that's a lot of power and a lot of performance pretty much just like any other Snapdragon 835 phone I've used this year it's really fast so it's got a 34 hundred million power battery that's going to be pretty long-lasting for anybody even if you're a power user for me it's easily lasted all day and multiple days that I've been using it one thing it doesn't have is wireless charging even though it has a ceramic back there's no wireless charging so that's a little bit of a bummer other interesting things it's got dual SIM card support support so you can actually run two SIM cards at the same time and it supports over 43 different network bans which means it actually works here in the US I've been using it on t-mobile and I pretty much had signal everywhere I expected to wherever I've gone which is kind of unique for jelly phones if you're familiar with them at all it's got all these specs it's loaded with premium design obviously the big screen is the big star of the show here so what's missing well it only has a single camera it's a 12 megapixel camera with optical stabilization eff 2.0 lens it's got large pixels it takes decent photos there's really nothing to complain about with the camera it's not going to give in galaxy s a or a googol pixel any competition but it's a fine camera the other thing that it's missing there's no water resistance here so if you get it wet you're kind of screwed and there's no headphone jack it's just USB C port on the bottom it does come with an adapter in the box that will let you put standard headphones on it but you can't just plug headphones directly into it and it doesn't come with a set of headphones either so those are kind of the things that you are missing out here now for software this is running me uy9 which is based on android 7.1.1 this is Jamie's custom version of Android it really looks quite different than the Android you might get from Google on a pixel or on other phones it mostly looks like iOS which you know personal preference take it or leave it but it is very customizable you can seem it and make it look different ways pretty easily as well now the me mix 2 is going to be out real soon in China it's going to start around $500 goes up to over $700 you go for the full special edition and then it's going to come to Jimmy's other markets across the world but sadly it's not coming to the US which is kind of the story with every Joey phone no matter how cool they are so you can't buy that here but if you are able to buy it and import it into the u.s. the cool thing is it'll work here which is kind of neat so there you go that's a real quick look at the gemiini mix - for more on this stuff be sure to check out the verge comm be sure to subscribe to youtube.com the verge and one thing that doesn't have is no it broke Wow so there you go ceramic phones