Here is another iPhone X look alike smartphone with great specs and low cost. Xiaomi Mi 8 is designed having a dual rear camera with the LED flashlight in between them, it has a four sided curved glass body making it look awesome and pleasing to the eyes, well rounded corners with a customized water drop curve also. The design really looks great.
DISPLAY
Mi 8 features a wide display screen size of 6.2-inches with a notch design, 2248 x 1080 pixels (display resolution) with up to 402 pixel per inch giving it a very vivid display quality plus it supports a full HD+ display, reading mode, sun-light mode e.t.c
The display is protected using a Gorilla glass 5 which is scratch resistant but not 100% and 2.5D curved glass is adopted to give the front a good look that matches the notch design.
CAMERA
The camera design looks everything like the iPhone X, dual camera with the flashlight at the middle. Both cameras are 12MP, the one above has a wide angle lens with four axis optical stabilizer and a f/1.8 aperture, while the camera below has a telephoto lens, a portrait camera lens and a f/2.4 wide aperture.
The rear camera comes with some nice features to enhance photo shoots like the Artificial intelligence scene, Artificial intelligence beautification features and more to be seen below in the table.
On the front is 20MP camera with 3D Beautify blur background for portrait shooting. It uses an artificial intelligence program to make the operation possible.
HARDWARE & MEMORY
Xiaomi Mi 8 is highly equipped with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, Octa-core with a clocked speed of 2.GHz. The processor is further supported with a large LPDDR4X 6GB RAM to make operation very smooth. It houses a 64GB/128GB internal storage and cannot be further expanded.
This phone is produced in other edition
POWER & OS
It is equipped with a 3,3000mAh Lithium Polymer non removable battery capacity which Supports fast Charge, and a USB Type-C reversible connector port. The battery should last a 6.5 hours browsing the internet and 7.5 hours watching HD videos.
It running on MIUI version 10 which is based on Android v8.1 Oreo but somehow feels like Android version 9 (Pie). The MIUI v10 comes with some variety of pre-installed apps a which might interest you and it the OS offers the full screen mode gesture like what we have on Vivo NEX and some others.
- No app drawer
- High quality camera
- Good optimized OS
- Users get to see adverts in some preinstalled useful apps which might be annoying
- Good battery life
- Fast operations
- Fast in loading applications
Xiaomi Mi 8 full specs and price
| Display | |
|---|---|
| Type | AMOLED capacitive touch-screen Display |
| Size | 6.2″ Inch FHD+ |
| Resolution | 1080 x 2246p |
| Pixel density | ~402 PPI |
| Colors | 16M |
| Display Protection | Yes |
| Screen to body ratio | 82% |
| Camera | |
|---|---|
| Type | Tripple camera (2 back + 1 front) |
| Back Camera | 12MP + 12MP |
| Front Camera | 20MP |
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| Hardware and Memory | |
|---|---|
| Chipset | Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 |
| Processoor | Octa Core 4x 2.8GHz Kryo 385 + 4x 1.8GHz Kryo 385 |
| GPU | Qualcomm Adreno 630 |
| RAM | 6GB |
| ROM | 64GB/128GB |
| Memory Speed | 1866MHz |
| Available Memory | |
| Memory slot | No |
| Sensors |
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| OS | MiUI v10 based on Android 8.1 Oreo |
| Power | |
|---|---|
| Type | Lithium Polymer |
| Capacity | 3,300mAh |
| Technology | Fast charge |
| Network & Connectivity | |
|---|---|
| Network | 2G | 3G | 4G |
| Volte | Yes |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, 802.11n 5GHz |
| SIM type | Dual SIM (Nano) |
| Bluetooth | v5.0 |
| USB type | USB Type-C + OTG support |
| Audio jack | Type-C USB audio jack |
| other’s | |
|---|---|
| Video format | 3GP, MP4, FLV, WMV, AVI, MKV, H.264, M4V, H.265 |
| Audio format | Support WAV, AAC+, OGG, FLAC, MIDI, WMA, M4A, MP3, AMR, AAC, eAAC+ |
| In the Box | |
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| Price | |
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| Mi 8 Price in Nigeria | 170,000 – 200,000 |
| Price on Dollar | $600+ on Amazon |
