MI MIX

For the very first blog, I am going to introduce the phone on my cover page, or more precisely, the “father” of my cover page phone. So the name of the phone on my cover page is MI MIX 2, which is released in September 2017. Obviously, the phone that I am going to talk about is MI MIX, which was born on November 4th, 2016.

Before talking about the MI MIX, let me briefly introduce the producer of this phone — MI. MI is a young Chinese company which is just 8 years old. The reason why MI became one of the biggest smartphone producers in China is that MI released its first phone at a much more affordable price with the similar quality and functions compared to other companies like Apple and Samsung. Right now, MI still launches its phone with the best hardware but at the lowest price. MI also has a variety of technology products like televisions, appliances, and even daily life consumptions. That is why MI is my personal favorite Chinese technology company.

So back to MI MIX. Last year, everyone was shocked by the large screen when Apple released its tenth-anniversary phone — iPhone X. But the world first smartphone that has more than 90% screen-to-body ratio (common known how big the screen is compared to the whole body of the phone) is MI MIX, one year before iPhone X, and it is designed by French famous designer Philippe Starck.

Picture of Philippe Starck and MI MIX

Like I said before, MI uses the best hardware and sells its phones at the lowest price. MI MIX has a screen of the size 6.4’’, which is just 0.1’’ smaller than the screen size of iPhone XS Max (The biggest and the most expensive iPhone ever) that was released last month. The MI MIX Exclusive Edition has the best chipset at that time — Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 821 — 6GB RAM, 256GB storage. These are advanced technologies on cell phones even for now. And the whole body of this phone is made of CERAMIC!!! This phone can even use the vibration of the whole ceramic body to make sounds, so they eliminate the speaker in the front to save more room for the screen. And the price of that at that time in dollars is just approximately $576.