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Don’t hold out your hopes for a higher-resolution display. (Also see: Best Chinese phones.) Mi Mix 3 Core Hardware & Performance Inside the Mi Mix 3 is exactly the same hardware as you find in the Mi Mix 2S – unless you opt for the Palace Edition, which has 10GB of RAM. This means you get the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 running at 2.8GHz. It’s an octa-core processor built on the second-generation 10nm manufacturing process, and integrates Adreno 630 graphics. This chip is paired with 6GB or 8GB of RAM, and you get a choice of 128GB or 256GB of internal storage.

Neither option is expandable through microSD, but both are sufficiently generous that this shouldn’t be a problem. As before we are blown away by its performance, despite the fact it actually performed a little slower in our benchmarks than did the Mi Mix 2S. It’s normal for synthetic benchmarks to fluctuate, though, and it’s the real-world experience that matters more. It can handle anything and everything, all at once. We’ve charted its performance results below along with the Honor Magic 2, Lenovo Z5 Pro and Mi Mix 2S. The Honor is fastest with its 7nm Kirin 980 chip, and the Lenovo Z5 Pro slowest with its mid-range Snapdragon 710 – though we have heard a Snapdragon 855 ‘Z5 Pro GT’ version with 12GB of RAM is imminent, likely launching at CES in January.

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In terms of connectivity there’s everything here bar an IR blaster, which are increasingly rare but still found on some Xiaomi phones. There’s support for 4G dual-SIM dual-standby, and the specs suggest that even this Chinese version has full support for all UK 4G LTE network bands. You also get dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 and GPS and GLONASS, and while the slider screen payment options are all Chinese services there is support for NFC and Google Pay. As we noted the battery has been reduced by 200mAh, but Mi Mix 3 still supports Quick Charge and wireless charging (now with a 10W Qi charger and 18W wired charger in the box). You’ll easily get a day’s life from the phone, and potentially more depending on your usage. Mi Mix 3 Cameras & Photography We’ve already touched on the selfie camera, which has seen big changes in this model, but the primary camera has some enhancements too. As previously it’s a 12Mp + 12Mp dual-lens camera, but some software improvements mean the quality is higher than ever.

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Whereas Mi Mix 2S scored 97 points in the DxO Mark test (and the Mi 8, which uses the same camera, 99 points), this Mi Mix 3 nets 103 points. The setup comprises one Sony IMX363 wide-angle lens with f/1.8 aperture, 1.4um large pixels and Dual Pixel Autofocus, and one Samsung S5K3M3+ telephoto lens with f/2.4 aperture and 1.0um pixels. The combo boasts optical zoom and four-axis OIS, and is capable of 960fps slow-motion video.

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It’s an AI camera, which means it can intelligently select the correct preset scene for your photo, without you having to give it too much thought. It can also use the second lens for Portrait mode in which it achieves bokeh-effect background blurring. You can see some of our test shots below. The first is a simple point-and-shoot from our seventh-floor office terrace, looking over the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel the other side of Euston Road.

With no input from us the image is true to life with realistic colours and great detail, well exposed and sharp right to the edges. With HDR mode engaged the shadows and highlights are enriched, but some evidence of blurring goes to show how important it is to hold still the camera during such shots, especially on a windy roof terrace. Even so it’s still a very decent photograph that shows Mi Mix 3 is capable of great things.

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