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Xiaomi Mi A3 (USA Link) - https://amzn.to/2YnSXrO
Xiaomi Mi A3 (International) - https://geni.us/BC5rrg
The Xiaomi Mi A3 is one of the few Android One smartphone options. The Mi A3 brings a software experience similar to the Google Pixel for a fraction of the cost.
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0:00
This is kind of an unusual way for a smartphone to arrive
0:04
Inside of here is a smartphone that for me, you know, it was kind of highly anticipated because I liked the previous version
0:11
I liked what it represented. This is the new version of that. This is the Mi A3
0:17
It's the Mi A3 from Xiaomi. And the reason I've been following this series of smartphone is because in my opinion
0:24
for the budget part of the smartphone marketplace, these guys give you a Pixel-like experience
0:31
It's not about like the craziest spec list, but instead it's about what's on the other side
0:37
which is Android One, the Android One program, which is giving you a Pixel-like OS experience
0:43
completely clean. We have the teardrop style notch. So if you hated the notch layout
0:49
on the previous generation Pixel XL, I mean this is a step in the right direction. It's not going to win any awards for the screen to body ratio
0:58
This is a software play and this is giving customers access to the pure vanilla, whichever terminology you choose to use, version of an Android experience
1:07
Which I kind of wish more people got to do. You can pick this thing up on Amazon according to Willie Do for around $260
1:14
And the spec sheet is actually kind of impressive. I've got in front of me here, it's got a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 series, so 665 up to 2 gigahertz
1:23
Over 4,000 milliamp hours built in with 18 watt fast charging over USB type C
1:28
Slightly bigger than 6 inch AMOLED display. That's kind of a wild AMOLED display
1:33
Retail price around $260. Stock Android. Wow, would you look at that
1:37
Once upon time, that just wasn't going to happen. A headphone jack. Dedicated, traditional, classic
1:43
It looks like a three camera setup. Boom, right there. as you can tell with a flash underneath
1:47
Now, they claim it's an AI camera. Also, interesting, it looks like it's got an IR blaster
1:53
48 megapixel ultra-wide triple lens camera, 32 megapixel selfie camera. The fingerprint scanner, you're looking around and wondering
2:01
it's an in-display style. Now, Android One is not officially the same software
2:07
as the Pixel. You may not see updates exactly as fast, but presumably and historically
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Historically, you've seen updates to this OS faster than the skin stuff from the manufacturers
2:19
which needs to be patched in The display is the first thing that you look at This is maximum brightness As I mentioned it AMOLED against my OnePlus 7 Pro AMOLED
2:31
Now, you could tell. I mean, the colors are popping. The aspect ratio here, 19.5 by 9
2:38
So it's a pretty narrow device, actually. Comfortable to hold. It's like a more narrow iPhone X
2:45
This could be really tempting for me to switch to because of the one-handed functionality
2:49
As you can see, it's so easy for me to reach across the entire device
2:53
Granted, there's not a lot of video that can fill this display, so you're going to get black bars on it comparatively
2:59
Construction here, really nice. It's all solid. Glass, Gorilla Glass 5 actually, a metal construction otherwise
3:06
I'm going to load up a Lou Later video real quick. Some interesting news here
3:11
Oh, wow. Thanks to budget. Way better than I expected. If you recall, Google came out and basically said
3:18
Look, we're not happy with where the Pixel's at. You know what? It's not the loudest I've heard, but I will say
3:23
I've done this dialogue test on the Lulater videos for a while now, and at this price point, this is one of the better ones I've heard
3:30
It's not tinny. It's a full sound. I think it's only coming out of one speaker
3:33
Let me just double-check that. Upstart manufacturers might not have, like a pocket
3:39
Yeah. It's a mono speaker setup, but I'd rather have a mono speaker setup that sounds half-decent
3:44
than worry about any type of stereo implementation. Most of those are fake anyways
3:51
They got algorithms, dude. Now the screen, as you notice, since it is that odd aspect ratio
3:56
when you crop into it, you cut off the top and bottom. So there is your default, as you can see
4:02
And then you want to fill the screen to utilize what you've got. And so you chop it a little bit
4:07
And again, this is a thing I think people are going to increasingly get used to
4:10
as phone aspect ratios change in order to be great at doing multiple things
4:16
I think this trade-off is okay. Cameras got me a bit curious
4:20
The app, to me, looks more typical Xiaomi and less Google Pixel
4:24
And we'll snap a quick photo. It's at 1x zoom. Now, I can tap that button there
4:30
and go into 2x telephoto or all the way back out to 0.6 wide
4:36
We go for 0.6 there. we move into 1x here, and we go all the way to 2x
4:45
we focus here The zoom looks pretty good Standard looks pretty good Wide yeah I don feel like it as sharp as the standard focal length Although this is kind of a common effect of wide lenses in general
5:02
especially small ones. My criteria for quality is a bit different for each of those inside of a smartphone
5:08
But nonetheless, it's softer on the 0.6 setting, in my opinion. Now, the AI functionality, I'm going to turn that on
5:15
I want to see what it does. Let's see if it can pick up the plant and then when I frame up the plant
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It goes to a leaf and you can see the vibrance goes up ever so slightly
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So I'll snap that photo now it actually gripped somewhere in in the middle there of the plant for sharpness
5:30
For the focus point you could get a little bug photography on if you choose to if that's your thing the standard focal range
5:36
On the other hand looks great. It's by far the best photo of the bunch
5:41
Selfie mode they say it's got a lot of megapixels on the front camera
5:45
camera there we go so no ai enabled no hdr enabled a bit blown out on the highlights
5:54
let's try it with the hdr functionality turned on now you bring back some of the skin details
6:01
some of the pores there i'm gonna zoom in even further look at that you got pores individual
6:07
little beard hairs surviving in there all the age that's a lot of detail this is sort of a showcase
6:14
For two things, the contrast on the camera, but also the display quality being an OLED display
6:20
You can see how the black in the frame here just goes perfectly into the black of my shirt
6:26
Now, because it is running Android One, all of your Google apps are pre-installed by default
6:31
If I try to get rid of Me Community, can I uninstall it? I can
6:36
So even that's not a big deal. I'm glad that those aren't locked or anything. It is a true Android One experience
6:42
you can go and get rid of the things that you don't use this device has quite a bit of wobble
6:47
to it i feel it's worth noting a lot of them do this day and age but i'm just i'm noticing this
6:52
one a little more than i normally would maybe it's that camera hump okay let's give this fingerprint
6:57
scanner a quick try as well because it's not set up it's not on here yet so here we go we're gonna
7:04
Compress, vibrate, do the usual. So lock, not the fastest
7:15
It a little there a second there There a little extra with the animation part of me feels like when you evaluating these fingerprint scanners it like your own interpretation
7:28
of the animation is how you determine how fast it is yeah it doesn't look like you turn that
7:33
animation off now it's not the most offensive i've seen way worse animations just from a
7:38
aesthetic perspective like it's pretty simple but definitely it takes a second to unlock
7:44
now they did say there's some kind of ai face unlock so maybe you end up using that instead
7:51
though with these optical based front camera face unlocks it's always a little sketchy of like how
7:58
secure they actually are face unlock is less secure than a pin password or pattern your devices might
8:05
be unlocked with your photo as well as people or objects with similar appearance so it tells you
8:10
straight away to be clear not as secure so just like other devices that are just using a front
8:15
facing camera same situation now the benefit of these is that they're super convenient like i mean
8:22
look how fast it added my face that's ridiculous can you see that jack
8:26
open your eyes did you tell me to open my eyes interesting
8:33
Now I'm going to try with my eyes closed, okay? Wait a second
8:40
What does it say? Open? Oh, interesting. So no eyes closed. No sleepy unlock
8:48
Nonetheless, it's like this kind of amazing device here. Like what you're getting for the money, 260 bucks, Android One
8:56
I want to see Android One on more devices. Those immediately become options for me
9:01
things I feel more comfortable recommending. A lot of people ask me
9:05
you're always talking about budget phones. Which one do you actually recommend? It's kind of hard
9:10
particularly for people around here coming from iPhones, coming from Samsung. They, you know
9:15
they have a vision of what a smartphone should be and looks like and you don't want to recommend something
9:20
that might throw them off too much. This I feel like could put in a pocket
9:25
feel very comfy, pretty much straight away. It really does feel like a true Pixel alternative
9:31
granted not as fast you know the whole thing but it does feel like a valid budget pixel alternative
9:39
available for around 260 bucks that's interesting
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