Mi A2 2018 Android One Smartphone from Xiaomi
so I spent the last few days playing around with the Xiaomi me a2
and to give you an idea of how much you like it if someone had just handed me the phone without giving me a price tag I would have said this feels like a really solid 400 euro of phone it's actually 249 there are a lot of cool things going on , So Let's Start.
Then up scaled back to 20 megapixel that probably pointless to the results speak for themselves in low light it is noticeably sharper than photos from the primary lens and is even within a stone's throw from the camera on the vivo NEX s an $800 phone the front 20 megapixel camera also benefits from the same tech and is actually one of the surprise highlights here it uses charlize new Beauty Engine 4.0 for even more intricate face embellishment .
It's a feature that I don't hate when it's on it's lighter settings and there are even more options to make yourself beautiful than ever before but you can always turn it off if you don't like it an unfortunate spin off of this is abnormally high exposure which makes it lose some points versus a phone like the Google pixel 2 but the a 2 does have a lot going for it including front-facing flash and convincing portrait mode using that single lens so the camera overall gets the big thumbs-up and I'm happy to say the good news doesn't end there wishlist .
Xiaomi have been using these Snapdragon 625 for some time now to power their mid-range devices this time they stepped it up with the pretty news Snapdragon 660 and 4 gigabytes of RAM one a 99% stock Android 8.1 it's a really quick phone it doesn't have quite that same instantaneous snappiness you might find on the oneplus 6 but for this price it would be tough to point you to a faster feeling phone compared to Qualcomm's 800 series flagship chips you miss out on a chunk of graphics performance but I have tried games like pubG on high settings darkness rises and it is 30 frames per second solid.
Xiaomi has three main tiers of phones the budget redmi devices mid-range mi a devices and then their flagship me devices whilst the glass construction is saved for the highest tier the me A2 does benefit from a smooth metal finish fairly well disguised antenna bands and a curved back for the first time as a point of comparison this basically feels like a slightly heavier 1 + 5 t it's actually the exact same thickness just a couple of grams more while I would say the curve is palm fluttering it does create a very real table wobble situation which kind of gets on my nerves cuz I often use the phone next to my laptop when it is lying flat and this issue doesn't make it easy the speaker on the bottom handles voice is pretty.
and to give you an idea of how much you like it if someone had just handed me the phone without giving me a price tag I would have said this feels like a really solid 400 euro of phone it's actually 249 there are a lot of cool things going on , So Let's Start.Highlights:
Display5.99-inch
Processor2.2GHz octa-core
Front Camera20-megapixel
Resolution1080x2160 pixels
RAM4GB
OSAndroid 8.1 Oreo
Storage32GB
Rear Camera20-megapixel
Battery Capacity3010mAh
A lot of the big improvements since the last generation come from the camera on the back we've got a 12 megapixel plus 20 megapixel arrangement and the main camera sensor has had a nice upgrade since the me a1 which was already I'd say the best phone camera at the price in fact this time round the a2 comes dangerously close to the 1 plus 6 dual camera photos are really punchy and detailed and the HDR mode kicks in pretty much when you need it enabling it to cope fairly well even in challenging lighting and I really dig the portrait mode as it is a budget phone you sort of go in expecting one thing but you actually get something quite different what's even cooler is that in low-light you can switch to using the secondary 20 megapixel lens which has a neat trick up its sleeve it uses pixel binning to fuse for smaller pixels into one large noise-free pixel effectively scaling it's 20 megapixel sensor into a 5 megapixel image which is then up scaled back to 20 megapixel.
It's a feature that I don't hate when it's on it's lighter settings and there are even more options to make yourself beautiful than ever before but you can always turn it off if you don't like it an unfortunate spin off of this is abnormally high exposure which makes it lose some points versus a phone like the Google pixel 2 but the a 2 does have a lot going for it including front-facing flash and convincing portrait mode using that single lens so the camera overall gets the big thumbs-up and I'm happy to say the good news doesn't end there wishlist .
Xiaomi have been using these Snapdragon 625 for some time now to power their mid-range devices this time they stepped it up with the pretty news Snapdragon 660 and 4 gigabytes of RAM one a 99% stock Android 8.1 it's a really quick phone it doesn't have quite that same instantaneous snappiness you might find on the oneplus 6 but for this price it would be tough to point you to a faster feeling phone compared to Qualcomm's 800 series flagship chips you miss out on a chunk of graphics performance but I have tried games like pubG on high settings darkness rises and it is 30 frames per second solid.
Xiaomi has three main tiers of phones the budget redmi devices mid-range mi a devices and then their flagship me devices whilst the glass construction is saved for the highest tier the me A2 does benefit from a smooth metal finish fairly well disguised antenna bands and a curved back for the first time as a point of comparison this basically feels like a slightly heavier 1 + 5 t it's actually the exact same thickness just a couple of grams more while I would say the curve is palm fluttering it does create a very real table wobble situation which kind of gets on my nerves cuz I often use the phone next to my laptop when it is lying flat and this issue doesn't make it easy the speaker on the bottom handles voice is pretty.
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