Chris back with the mi 8 se and have been using it for most three days now
full-time there's been a lot of questions from the unboxing video I will
try to cover what I consider the the common questions that arose in the
comment section now a lot of people want to know battery life but first I just
wanted to mention the bug that I'm seeing there well not bug you could say
the stats is the leg and the UI it is only in full screen gestures I noticed
when I use the on-screen gestures but I prefer to use now on these phones full
screen gesture mode there sometimes when you swiped up after leaving the phone
for a while there was a little bit of a stutter with those animations it is
nothing major this is just software it is definitely not the chipset the
Snapdragon 710 seems quite powerful for what it is and inefficient chipset as
well and I just noticed that was really the only thing that was that's happening
and sometimes when you pull down notifications that it just did again
instead of coming down nice and smoothly it would just do a little bit of a
starter so it's very minor that now better life is the thing that was popped
up a question quite a lot any comments why haven't you shown better life but
obviously I didn't have time to do a full cycle this is now my second cycle
and the best results yet it's almost 9 hours of time on the battery here no I
did some what I would call moderate to heavy use of the phone so it was on a
lot it was mostly on wireless those was only
about 30% on data when I I did go out and you can see here screen on time I'll
just bring that up close now that banding you can see it's going down the
screen right now this is only on film that it's doing this so me recording
with my camera it's something to do with my sony a6300 it does not like AMOLED LED
panels for some reason and it's to do me with a pulse width modulation the
brightness control this why that's happening so 7 hours and 48 minutes that
to me is a really odd assuming that cuz there's a screenshot of it a screen
capture very good time I feel for the size of this better because it's 3000
120 million hours it's not exactly the biggest battery there so a good result
and you can see my use here so a lot of YouTube I was playing lineage to
revolution Final Fantasy chrome these stats aren't correct by the way I don't
know what's going on but the various stats have been off for quite some time
because I paid played pump G a lot more than Chrome so this F you should be
above Chrome but it's not and when you looked at the
on screen time it also wasn't correct either time of year so quite heavy usage
what this translates into real-world use two days easily two days for most people
of course this is going to be vary from person to person your own personal use
this is just a guide the battery life as always now a few other comments were
what about the feel of the phone I do like it the squared off looked as I
mentioned in the unboxing it just feels a little bit better I feel then this
model the size it's more comfortable in hand I like the fact they haven't done
this on than me eight the man it's got a normal power button and they've added a
texture to the power button I want to see more manufacturers do this by the
way on the Mi 8 SE and what that means that if it's late at night instead of
actually pressing sometimes you press the volume down button instead of the
power one you can distinguish the difference now by touch of course which
is really great they've done this you got that little texture on there that
just adds to it and I like they've done that and it does have a Sony Xperia look
to it and you can see it's covered with smudges and fingerprints because of the
glass everywhere and and obviously if you drop it it will be a lot more prone
to cracking and breaking than say an alloy back if you've got the alloy metal
back on this it will just put a ding and little chips in it when you drop it but
this will just probably shatter everywhere and make it a bit of a mess
really but it does have a nice build a good feel to it I like the fact the chin
and the bottoms a little bit smaller you know my feelings about the knotch
and that's just one of those things it is there and we can't really do anything
about it so you don't get the notifications that'll show up any here
like they do on say the oneplus 6 as notch which is of course a lot smaller
so I believe she um he's got a bit of work to do I'd love to see a battery
icon that will actually show the battery percent without having to swipe down
that's just a minor little complaint with that another common question was to
do with FM radio I know other budget models well you could say around this
price range on the redmi note series you do have FM radio but it seems of course
that when they dropped the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that they
can't seem to wire up or use headphones anymore for radio I don't know if any
other manufacturers have done that but you cannot see if AM radio app in here
it is definitely not there we do have the
she´ll AI so that's their AI program and it's really only valid and useful to
people who's big Chinese or you live in China as well I think you have to be
Chinese and in China for that one there but no FM radio they did have some I'm
streaming FM radio app again it was like a Chinese application so I just
uninstalled that so that was gone and I someone also asking about getting rid of
the bloatware so there's an easier quick way to do that that I should have shown
you guys on the channel and you simply needs to just pinch like this of course
and you can go and select all the block where apps you can go along and take all
of them and simply then hit uninstall and that will get rid of them in bulk
and now some of those apps you will not be able to uninstall so they'll still be
there after you run that command on there the IR blaster or IR transmitter
you can see at the top it's next to the microphone there are a few questions
about this yes it's there and you can use it to control using me remote
there's an apple in there so you can control your air conditioning if you've
got a brand that supports it you can turn off your aircon you control various
things with us something that the more premium meat 8 model is lacking which is
kind of strange with Shelby's decision to not edit this was another one that
was also frequent I saw it quite a few times in the comments of the unboxing
video camera manual modes why did you not show them obviously I can't show you
every single thing the video would be hours long and I would probably also go
insane but there you go so you've got white balance focus control shadow
control and ISO and while I was shooting this video it's the third time I've seen
this now but sometimes you will see this happen so in the application here you
can see this is I'm always screen on I think it's called what's happened is
another app has ended up over writing the text of that icon you can see so
you've got the app icon there and then the text below is just joggled miss you
can't read it so it's a very minor little UI bug so that's why I say that
shall we clearly have some updates coming for this particular model and
they need to come out soon it's just very minor things there's nothing major
like the whole phone freezing up it's just little stutters tiny little things
like this now this was in the comments a few times run pub G using what's called
GFX tour around that application and then that has run pub G here you can see
now whether I set the higher settings ta so it's got it on the extreme framerate
option so we can get an idea of the frame rate and then it's on HD instead
of smooth because it auto detected and will not let me go above the default
settings the lower settings for the snapdragon 710 but anyway let's see how
it performs and runs the game with these settings so here it is with those high
settings and the high frame rate and you can see perfectly playable got a couple
of BOTS here shooting at me
so the snapdragon 710 can handle these higher settings it's getting a little
warm on the back now that is to be expected of course and the icons there
for example to pick up that pack very tiny because I have set it to that 1080p
resolution so it's not stretching out a little bit so after 20 minutes of
playing it's reaching around 34 almost 35 degrees on the back the front is
around about the same temperature as well and there were a lot of questions
about the AMOLED panel so it yeah there's a lot of speculation in the
comments people saying that they've used cheap AMOLED panels we've got sick and
rate ones from Samsung we don't really know this as a fact but
me looking at the screen there is no flaws well that it's not a second it is
a premium paddle it does look good it's a Super AMOLED panel and right now you
can see looking at it straight on you can hardly distinguish the difference
between the black of the bezel and then the black of the screen itself here the
camera application is a good place to show this because it's displaying
completely black you've got no IPS bleed the whites look a lot better so the
screen is much better for example than the me 6x all the redmi note 5 already
note 5 pro those models they're the 16 sorry the 18 by 9 panels the IPS ones
this is better it's a step up now what I'm just pointing out to people I know
it is being fussy I know it's nitpicking but I want people to be aware of it
because I myself would like to be aware of it because I'm used to looking at say
a Samsung panel we don't see it that when at certain angles and especially in
daylight it's actually quite bad the screen in daylight the visibility I have
to give you a sample of that in the full review but you do see then at certain
angles that those blacks deep blacks then shift to more like IP
looking blacks are more grayish and it's very minor this is no way near a
deal-breaker some people commenting that it's a deal-breaker it is not and you
can see there with the Samsung panel when that is off that it doesn't seem to
do it as much you can see it there it looks a little bit darker again very
minor I'm not trying to turn this into a big massive issue because it definitely
is not it's a very good screen that they have gone with alright so that's just an
update here but it is looking very positive for this mobile phone I can see
no reason why I would not recommend this Mobile apart from yeah it's all personal
preference but the knotch the design I do like as I mentioned the smaller size
to it now where it runs into cons of course is the obvious there's no 3.5
minute headphone jack there's no microSD card and for European users that need
that band xx you just got to be aware of that that this model doesn't have it and
I don't think it will ever get it storage also caps out at 64 gigabytes
which i think is a bit of an error they should really add 128 gigabyte model
considering the fact that we can't expend on the storage now a lot of
people have been asking me is this better than the meme x6x
and in in a ways it is it's got a better screen I like the design and build
quality slightly better but I believe that the meme x6x
has a better camera setup on it I believe it takes a slightly better photo
because at the moment we don't have any electronic image stabilization in 4k
that may change but using open cam you can see that I have installed doesn't
change anything because I open camera on the mimics sorry than me 6x does you can
use that you can get that electronic image stabilization as I've shown but
the roomie note 5 and get some really steady good looking footage ok battery
life very very similar between both of them they've got the 660 and the 17 the
17 does seem marginally better so that may be another reason to go for this
model instead it of the 6x so we'll have a camera comparison at some point
between the me 6x and this model here so we'll find out definitely once and for
all which one produces the better pictures at the moment I found in my
unboxing that the cameras are good it has a very good sensor on it this Sony
IMAX 363 the only problem with the camera performance I
found with this one is that tended to over saturate a little bit the photos
now a lot of people do actually like that it creates maybe a pleasant looking
photo for them it just doesn't seem as accurate it's not true to life but it
does offer yes very good image quality low-light doesn't look to be that great
because we are lacking the optical image stabilization which of course the Big
Brother model the me8 does have that's got optical image stabilization for
access and it does seem to produce better low-light photos there may also
be a camera comparison between the me 8 enemy 8 se up coming in the channel so
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thank you so much for watching this update on the Mi 8 SE