Xiaomi Mi Mix vs Mi Mix 2: What’s new?

At an event held today in China, Xiaomi launched the much awaited Mi Max 2 with ultra thin bezels and a reduced chin size of 12%. The Mi Max 2 is the successor of the Mi Mix that was launched year.

Last year at the launch of Mi Mix, the company launched a special edition of the phone having 18k gold rims around the camera and fingerprint sensor. Continuing this trend, it has launched a special edition of Mi Mix 2 as well that sports a similar gold ring around the rear camera.  Let’s take a look at what more the company is offering with this phone.

Display and design

Unlike Mi Mix that comes with a screen size of 6.4-inch, the Mix 2 has a 5.99-inch full HD display. So, the size of the device has actually gone down which should make it more portable. These days most of the flagships are coming with an aspect ratio of 18:9 and the Mi Mix is no different. There is not much difference as the Mi Mix comes with the aspect ratio of 17:9, it is a minor tweak, but this new resolution is being now widely adopted which will make a big difference. 

For providing a much wider viewing experience, the company has reduced the bezel size from bottom by 12% in Mi Mix 2. Also, the new phone comes packed in a four sided curved ceramic body placed inside in an aluminium frame and weighs 185 grams. On the other hand, the predecessor lacks the aluminium frame and weighs around 209 grams. So overall, this is much smaller and lighter phone which should make it better for most consumers.

Processor

The newly launched Mi Mix 2 is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor clocked at 2.45 GHz. This alone is one of the biggest updates to the phone. Compared to the Snapdragon 821 which was there on the Mi Mix, the 835 is much faster and more efficient and that happens despite it having twice as many cores as the Snapdragon 821.  

The big reason for this is that Qualcomm is using a 10nm manufacturing process. It also has 6GB RAM as opposed to 4GB RAM on the standard Mi Mix.  There’s also a special version of the phone which gets 8GB RAM matched only by phones like the OnePlus 5 and the Asus ZenFone AR. This is a pretty massive upgrade for the phone.

Camera

In the imaging department, the Mi Mix 2 sports a 12-megapixel camera with dual tone flash and a 5-megapixel front shutter with facial recognition. On the back, Xiaomi is using the superb Sony IMX 386 sensor with 1.25 um pixels. This alone is quite a big update because the original Mi Mix had a horrible 16-megapixel camera so no matter what Xiaomi did the camera was bound to be better, but this is a huge update.  The front camera retains the same 5-megapixel resolution but only time will tell if it also is a big update.

Software 

Xiaomi has launched the Mi Mix 2 with MIUI 9 based on Android 7 Nougat which is better than MIUI 8 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow in Mi Mix. The MIUI 8 has features like dual apps and dual spaces so it is expected that the new UI may offer much improved features.

Battery

The Mi Mix 2 comes with a 3400mAh battery which is smaller as compared to Mi Mix that has a 4400mAh battery to fuel it up. However, both the phones have the Quick Charge 3.0 that promises to increase the charging speed by 20%.

The interesting bit out here is that as this phone uses a more efficient processor and a smaller screen coupled with a newer version of Android with some battery enhancements, the end result could be the same.

Some other goodies

As discussed above, the Mi Mix 2 also has a special edition variant. While the standard phone comes with a 6GB RAM that can be coupled with 64GB, 128GB and 256 GB storage capacity, the special edition features a 8GB RAM combined with a storage space of 128GB. Sadly, the storage cannot be extended just like Mi Mix.

Similar to Mi Mix, the Mi Mix 2 comes with Cantilever piezoelectric acoustic technology and ultrasonic proximity sensor. This differentiates Mi Mix and Mi Mix 2 from other smartphones falling in the same price range.

The Mi Mix 2 also comes with global LTE support having a deck of 6 modes and 43 bands.

Apart from Mi Mix 2, the company also launched Mi Note 3 and Mi Notebook Pro at the event.

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