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    Default Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    The Mi Mix is a 6.4-inch ceramic dream that’s going on sale in China next month for $520

    by Vlad Savov Oct 25, 2016, 5:42am

    Nothing says sci-fi like a bezel-less screen, and Xiaomi’s newly announced Mi Mix Android phablet is very sci-fi with its 91.3 percent screen-to-body ratio. This 6.4-inch device has just been announced as a concept phone by the Chinese company, but weirdly enough, it has a price, ¥3,499 ($516), and a release date of November 4th in its home country.Think of every out-there spec you could cram into a phone and the Xiaomi Mi Mix probably has it. The rear of this handset and its side buttons are both made out of ceramic. The display is curved at the corners — just like that Sharp prototype we recently saw — and all the top-mounted sensors have been removed. The proximity sensor has been replaced by ultrasound, the earpiece has been replaced with a piezoelectric speaker that uses the metal frame to generate sound, and the front-facing camera is relocated to the bottom (though the phone can thankfully be rotated upside down for more flattering selfies).



    Xiaomi Mi MixInside, the Mi Mix has the latest Snapdragon 821 chip that powers Google’s Pixels, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Looking at the status bar above, the Mi Mix seems to also have support for two SIMs, a popular feature in China, and Xiaomi also notes it has a 192Hz / 24-bit DAC chip for higher-resolution audio. There’ll also be a ¥3,999 ($590) option with 6GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and 18-karat gold accents around the camera and fingerprint sensor on the rear of the Mix. The battery weighs in at a generous 4,400mAh, the rear camera comes in at 16 megapixels with phase-detect autofocus, and yes, the headphone jack is intact ("for now," as Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra jokes on Facebook).



    The big deal here, though, is really that design and the incredible display. Xiaomi recruited noted French designer Philippe Starck to lead the design effort — which, frankly, with a display like this basically left him to just say "keep it simple, stupid" for the rest of the device. The Xiaomi Mi Mix is said to launch on November 4th in China, but we can’t imagine there being a great many of them to go around. Hell, the devices held up on stage during Xiaomi's launch event were stuck at the same 8:16 time as on the press image above, so it's not certain that we've even seen a functional unit yet. Xiaomi itself calls the Mi Mix a concept phone ( as well as "a breathtaking work of art that surpasses existing innovations in the smartphone industry"), so the real devices should be quite the exclusive pieces of kit to find.

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    http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/25/13401440/xiaomi-mi-mix-concept-phone-specs-release-date-price

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    Default Re: Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    If it was more like 5.5 inch I would be up for that. Looks stunning though just too big for me.

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    Default Re: Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    Love the idea of these screens. Think we will be seeing a lot more like this.
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    Default Re: Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    Very nice bit of kit, personally i prefer the bigger phones, go phablets!
    You know he grew up as a little shitspark from the old shitflint and then he turned into a shitbonfire and driven by the winds of his monumental ignorance he turned into a raging shitfirestorm. If I get to be married to Barb I'll have total control of Sunnyvale and then I can unleash the shitnami tidal wave that will engulf Ricky and extinguish his shitflames forever. And with any luck he'll drown in the undershit of that wave. Shitwaves.

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    Default Re: Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    Glad to hear you're happy with it.

    I'd be keen to get one of these bu two things hold me back:
    1. There is no support for 800mhz (so therefore no 4g on O2 or GiffGaff)
    2. Updates... Spyware... UK settings...

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    Default Re: Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    Quote Originally Posted by ERU View Post
    Glad to hear you're happy with it.

    I'd be keen to get one of these bu two things hold me back:
    1. There is no support for 800mhz (so therefore no 4g on O2 or GiffGaff)
    2. Updates... Spyware... UK settings...
    I have had a couple of these Chinese Phones, last one was a near-perfect clone of the S6 - fantastic specs, lovely screen and it was fast
    it was also however buggy as fuck, never saw a single update for it (even tho you could go onto the companies website and see "Update Coming Soon")
    Ended up developing more bugs as time went on and I got shot of it as I could no longer make calls for longer than 30 seconds
    You know he grew up as a little shitspark from the old shitflint and then he turned into a shitbonfire and driven by the winds of his monumental ignorance he turned into a raging shitfirestorm. If I get to be married to Barb I'll have total control of Sunnyvale and then I can unleash the shitnami tidal wave that will engulf Ricky and extinguish his shitflames forever. And with any luck he'll drown in the undershit of that wave. Shitwaves.

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    Default Re: Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    If you have a xiaomi phone then the rom to use is the one from xiaomi.eu.. updates every week, all the chinese crap removed and all menus in english

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    Default Re: Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    Quote Originally Posted by andmor View Post
    If you have a xiaomi phone then the rom to use is the one from xiaomi.eu.. updates every week, all the chinese crap removed and all menus in english

    good info, nothing available for my brand new 5S plus, but the Chinese rom is pretty legit set to english. There a few apps that wont uninstall though, unexpected ones like video watching apps etc.

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    Default Re: Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    Is that not the natrium model? If so its on the list..

    https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/6-10-20.35693/

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    Default Re: Xiaomi is selling the concept phone of your wildest dreams

    Quote Originally Posted by andmor View Post
    Is that not the natrium model? If so its on the list..

    https://xiaomi.eu/community/threads/6-10-20.35693/

    Sent from my MI 5 using Tapatalk

    ah yeah, you're right there. I'll have a proper look

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