The new Xiaomi Mi Max 2 has received a 6.44-inch Full HD screen, an improved camera, built-in stereo and a long-playing "reverse" battery. The price announced at the time of the announcement fully corresponds to the declared characteristics.
Update without surprises, but all on business.
Xiaomi introduced its new "Tablet Smartphone" Mi Max 2. In Xiaomi did not improve the device with a frameless design, it also did not receive the newfangled display in this season or a dual camera, and also remained with the usual 3.5-mm audio connector.
In confirmation of the data previously published by CNews, the similarity between the new smartphone Mi Max 2 and its predecessor is limited to a 6.44-inch display on an IPS-matrix IPS-type with a resolution of Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels, density 342 pixels per inch).
The new smartphone received a much more powerful "stuffing", a good camera - like a smartphone Xiaomi Mi6, and a powerful battery - all at a fairly reasonable price.
Detailed specifications.
Design Xiaomi Mi Max 2 is quite similar to the appearance of its predecessor, but Xiaomi strongly emphasize that the frame on the side edges of the display has become twice as thin: 0.7 mm in Max 2 versus 1.5 mm in Max.
Smartphone Xiaomi Mi Max 2 is made on the 8-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 (core ARM Cortex A53, 64-bit architecture ARMv8) with graphics subsystem Adreno 506.
All versions of Xiaomi Mi Max 2 will be equipped with 4 GB of RAM, but the volume of the built-in drive can be 64 GB or 128 GB, with the possibility of expanding to an additional 256 GB due to flash cards microSD.
The device received a high-quality rear 12-megapixel camera on the Sony IMX386 sensor with a pixel size of 1.25 microns - exactly the same is used in the flagship smartphone company Mi6. The camera supports phase autofocus, works with the expanded dynamic range (HDR) and shoots video with a resolution of up to 4K. A dual 2-tone LED flash is located to the left of the camera (the predecessor's flash was on the right).
Frontal "Selfie" 5-megapixel camera is capable of shooting video with a resolution of 1080p. The list of useful functions of the device also includes a modern USB Type-C interface, a fingerprint scanner on the back of the smartphone and an audio track with built-in stereo speakers that were not in its predecessor Mi Max.
Smartphone Xiaomi Mi Max 2 is equipped with an impressive battery capacity of 5300 mAh. The device supports the technology of Quick Charge 3. 0 for fast charging: the battery can be restored to 68% charge in just an hour.
The full charge of the MiX-2 smartphone battery is sufficient for autonomous operation for 18 hours when watching video, 9 hours in games, 21 hours in Internet surfing, up to 57 hours of calls in the cellular network or 10 days of audio playback with the display off.
Another interesting feature of the Mi Max 2 battery is its so-called "reversibility": the device can be used as a power source for recharging batteries of other gadgets.
Smartphone Xiaomi Mi Max 2 "out of the box" is running the operating system Android 7. 1 Nougat and proprietary software shell Xiaomi MiUI 8.
Terms and prices.
Smartphone Xiaomi Mi Max 2, according to official figures, will begin to arrive in Chinese retail from the first days of June, but there is no exact information on other countries yet.
The cost of Xiaomi Mi Max 2 in the version with 64 GB of storage for China is announced at 1699 yuan (about $ 248), in the version with 128 GB of storage, 1999 yuan (about $ 291).