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Xiaomi's version of a Pro Max. It has a rear display, 200MP Leica cameras, a privacy display, triple speakers and a Snapdragon chip built for gaming. So which is the real Max?
0:00 Intro
0:28 Unboxing & What's in the Box
1:40 Design
3:03 Snapdragon Elite Extreme Gen 6
3:20 Battery & Weight vs iPhone
4:17 200MP Leica Cameras
5:23 Privacy Display
6:59 Display & 120Hz
7:35 Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor
8:03 Triple Speakers
8:52 Rear Display
9:31 Rear Camera Selfies & Vlogging
11:34 Gaming Test: Blood Strike
13:05 Final Thoughts: Which Is the Real Max?
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I'll do it very gentle for you
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Rapido! Ultrasonic Rapido. Alright, it is Pro Max time. The other Pro Max, and I think you're going to be interested in it
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This is the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max. Coinciding or very close to the launch of, obviously, the iPhone 18 Pro Max
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And they think that their Pro Max is the champion. Of course, you are going to have a chance to decide, but it definitely has some things in it
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that are quite a bit different than what Apple is doing. packaging here fairly elegant and tall because I think to start with we're gonna get more in the
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package I presume this is their big boy right here this is their challenger this is 16 gigs of ram
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1024 gigabytes of storage it also has a monster battery we're gonna get into that in a moment
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and some other monster features well done a good amount of friction before i even get to the main compartment this is different
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see we are not getting this from manufacturers anymore but xiaomi's doing it for you and they're
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doing it in a way that i can appreciate 100 watts in the box to get you going with your fast
1:11
charging and yes this thing will do 100 watt and will also do 50 watt wireless so still a little
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bit ahead of the curve on that when you're going pro max versus pro max more extras there's the
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device but here it looks like we're going to get a case we are going to get a sim tool a case with a
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matte finish on it and it is a relatively hard shell but then actually the edges are a little
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more flexible so you've got something to get you going out of the package protect from scratches
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and so forth this one is in like a sparkly blue look at that that is different and you're looking
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at this right now and you're thinking to yourself okay yeah yeah it'll look like a typical kind of
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camera section over there no it's not typical at all this whole thing over here is gonna light up
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it's gonna have functionality as well because you're gonna be able to monitor what these rear
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cameras see on this display so you're using your better cameras with the ability to monitor now this
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color is something new for sure i can't say i've seen that before it kind of looks like the night
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sky with all of these sparkly specs representing the stars so it's got this polished frame sim tray
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type C connection, power, volume rocker, dedicated button on the opposite side
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designated by this red indicator. And because of the way they've integrated
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the display and the cameras, you are in a no wobble zone, ladies and gentlemen
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on the desktop. And maybe I'm weird, the fact that I even bother to check things like this
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but it does every so often happen that I'm typing on top of a surface. And from a design perspective
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It's satisfying to not have it off kilter, okay? Call me crazy
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Front facing camera, symmetrical in the center, no fancy under display stuff going on
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just straightforward. The way they've integrated this frame is polished in the same manner as the mainframe
3:00
The mainframe, I'm going to hack the mainframe. So what does it mean to have the world's first five gigahertz mobile CPU
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It means that you're gonna have an incredible gaming machine. You want the latest and greatest
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You want us to play some games. You want Will Do to play Genshin Impact. we might be able to hook that up
3:16
Ah, oh, no. Okay I just died And the other reason this phone is gonna be the one to do it is because it has a gigantic battery in it 8 milliamp hour battery in there How did they get it in there
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Well, I'll tell you how they got it in there. Silicon carbon, baby. Let me just pick up the new iPhone
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Like, I don't even know which one's heavier. Probably the iPhone. This is all for show
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We bring out the most overkill museum piece for the simplest. It's for show
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Okay, here we go. 18 Pro Max. and Xiaomi 18 Pro Max
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That was right. My intuition was correct. Now Mo can go ahead and insert the actual measurements
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in grams here, but this phone has an 8,500 milliamp hour battery
4:03
and it has an extra display on it, but it weighs less. I'm also noticing how slim the bezel is on this thing
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Very strong screen to body ratio. Anyway, how significant is it? I mean, it's not like that big of a deal
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but it's just interesting. Let's talk cameras. They've got this collaboration going on with Leica
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It continues. The main camera, 200 megapixels, F1.67 optical image stabilization. It's a big sensor as well
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equivalent to the sensor size that Apple is using. But the difference here is that on their zoom lens
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they also included a massive sensor, not quite as big as the sensor on the main camera
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but quite a bit bigger than the competitors have for their telephoto. And they're very proud of it
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and it's also a 200 megapixel sensor. Well, let's hit it with a 0.7 first
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0.7, two, 3.2. So we're onto the bill now. And then let's see what we are dealing with
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We've got plenty of paper, plenty of pulp. That's on the reach, that's on the zoom
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That's kind of crazy for a zoom. Seeing the pulp, look at that red strand in here
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And the other thing I should mention, the telephoto supports macro photography, 12 centimeters away
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Whoa. Whoa. Look at how small it is what you're looking at
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That's that there. And look at the amount of detail that we have here. It's this dot right there
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The display is 6.9 inches and it features privacy display. They're using some new hyper RGB 2.0
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So I go right around here. You can still see the screen off access
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It's just a little more dim. Then I hit the privacy button and it's gone completely
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You cannot read what's on there. It's a cool feature. You show your friends, you're like, you can't see what I'm looking at
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Maybe you're a serious business guy. I don't know what you're reviewing on here
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Let me see if I'm looking dead on. Okay, it does get a little bit dimmer
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with full screen privacy on. I'll just show you what I mean, okay? Overhead camera on, off
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On, off. So it gets a little bit dimmer. I mean, first of all, you don't have to use the feature
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if you don't need that level of privacy, but all of a sudden you're on the airplane and God knows what you're looking at
6:08
You can have it turn on based on the scenario. You can select specific apps
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my contacts and dialer gallery, my password manager. I mean, that may, I mean, password manager
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Although, are you dying? Don't be managing your passwords out in public with the guy next to you on the airplane
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Like save that for later, if you can. Even if you forget to add some apps, privacy display will be turned on automatically
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when you open sensitive pages, such as password entry, payments, transfers, and messaging
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So you can have it kind of guess what's gonna be sensitive and then pop on
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So the cool thing about this privacy mode, you can go full screen with it, or you can just have it on certain sections
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like in this case here where it on this one window So you see how this square right here is blacked out off axis When you look at it straight on perfectly fine So this is just the gallery app but this could be any app that you wanted to keep private
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no matter when it was open during multitasking. Satisfactory. So let me boost up the brightness
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and head over to settings. Ooh, very vibrant. Sunlight mode, watch it blast
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I mean, this isn't sunlight, but like we have very bright lights. I'm just gonna leave it on
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Adaptive refresh rate pro, Get more refresh rate options, which is dimming from BC to PWM
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Wow, even more functionality in here. Vision care, let me get crazy
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I'm gonna just lock it at 120. Yeah, every app, all the time
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120, all day, every day. And Will's gonna appreciate it when he films his gaming segment
7:32
I need a gun. What's going on here? By the way, Rapido. Ho
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Rapido ultrasonic rapid. Wow. Jeez Louise. Look at how subtle it touched
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I can basically just bang. I don't even need to be on there. Just a tap
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That's it. Ultrasonic is the way to go with those as far as those. Because you have face unlock here, but it's optical
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So it's just going to be camera based. This is going to be better than that. Barely touching. I didn't even compress my thumb on that
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I need to compress. I'm telling you. There was no compression. You know what
8:03
I'm going to mix it up and play with the speakers first. He said it has a three speaker array
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triple speaker setup. One. One. Two
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Where is three? Oh here! Up top! Definitely
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Loud in every direction. Where's the beat drop? Coming. Coming. Here we go
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I guess when you hold it, yeah, it's gonna fire into, you know, like that
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and maybe like bounce off your hand a little bit. Pretty good. Now you're getting a sense for this back display
8:55
That's the fun part. Double tap to wake and learn about rear display
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Let's go. Swipe right to open the camera. Different styles we can choose from. This is the default clock that's there
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However, I can switch it. Well, how about a cool koala for you
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We're going to double tap. He gets a little brighter. Look at him. Then we swipe up. We can see, oh, maybe we just want to see our battery back there
9:14
Look at that. Okay. 57, nine hours, 41 minutes from me. We've got a big battery
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We swipe up from down there. Upcoming events, desk calendar. Down from the top, notifications and messages
9:25
You can pin. Look at that. Like flights, timers. We swipe. Oh, look at that
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We can actually just change the guy's mood. You can use the camera on your rear display now
9:34
Yeah, let's do it. Rear display camera and then check it out. Show your palm to take a photo, so gesture based
9:39
That's cool. Press the volume button to take a photo. We know about that. And then we also have just like an overlay for zoom
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We can use our big telephoto lens with the massive sensor and 200 megapixels
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But like while we're looking at it, we actually have all of our camera settings right here
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Flash, fill light, HDR, aspect ratio. The selfie is using the rear camera
9:59
It's a different ball game at that point. Once the selfie is using the different camera. Look at the eyeball
10:04
who's kidding who? Who's kidding who? You know the only other way really to do this in an elegant fashion is with the folding devices but those get a lot bigger and bulkier from a portability standpoint to have this rear monitor here is a whole different thing
10:19
Like you can imagine vlogging or whatever. Like let me just switch it to a video
10:22
Yeah, so I'm just talking. I'm just walking and talking using my good camera
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Everything is solid and it feels normal. Like it doesn't feel weird
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I can see what's in frame. the ability to monitor that frame instead i'm getting there's some isolation going on on the
10:40
audio as well best lens on the phone but mainly like you think about where the front-facing cameras
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really struggle in like low light situations you're not gonna have to worry about that you've
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got your most sensitive sensor this is a video this is a frame for this is video frame you're
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seeing the beard hair on it it's a video frame dude i'm just realizing though that like was the
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video that i shot 4k i don't think so no it was 1080 30 for sure let me try it again i'm gonna go
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4k now i want to see what 4k 60 looks like that's my hand focus okay so this lens can focus super
11:11
close so when they were talking about 12 centimeters i can see your fingerprints what i want to do is
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actually switch to the telephoto here so stay where you are and then back to the 1x
11:23
what's in front and then back to the telephoto that's a lot of reach
11:27
Yeah, I'm just like... Wow. Wow. Do I have to have it plugged in? Wow
11:37
I don't even know how to play this game, dude. Okay. Why do you have to stand here
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Just hovering over? Okay. What do you want? So I haven't played this game
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It's called Bloodstrike. Lou wants me to play it. So here we go
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As you can see here, the refresh rate and the frame rate is
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120 everything is ultra we had to download an ultra graphics pack. It's kind of like fortnight kind of like Call of Duty
12:17
Okay, I just died I thought you said it was gonna be I need a gun
12:29
What's going on here? I have a gun. Oh, boy. Oh, God
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Oh, God. Brutal. Oh. Oh, dude
12:54
oh we won sweet okay i mean not bad for my first time i got the w i got three kilns
13:03
cool so there you have it it is the xiaomi 18 pro max now you tell me which is the real max what
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does max even mean in 2026 is it about an external display maybe it's about the maximum
13:15
battery capacity or maximum screen or screen to body ratio i don't know but the fact is you have
13:22
a Pro Max to choose from that isn't made by Apple
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