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Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha
Worth it if…Worth it, with caveats.
A striking concept phone with a brilliant camera, but the wraparound screen creates more problems than it solves for now.
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- Price when I covered it
- £900+
- Featured in
- 4 videos · 2020–2021
- Category
- Phones · Concept & rare
What I liked
- Wrap-around display
- Exciting, never-before-seen wrap-around display
- Cool potential uses
- Cool charging animation
- Wraparound animations are hard to replicate
- Coolest looking phone he has used
What I didn't
- Repeated delays
- Unclear why anyone would want it
- Pointless back-screen app idea
- Apps on the back are not really needed
- More form over function
- Heavy and chunky
In my words
Straight from the video. Tap a timestamp to hear me say it.
“xiaomi is not afraid to test the limits they made the mix alpha with its wrap-around display”
“i really do commend projects like this stuff like this keeps things exciting i'm all for it”
“xiaomi failed to communicate them”
“which are very cool and hard to replicate but also not necessary”
“this is the coolest looking phone I've ever used”
“the camera here is beastly”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
9:24What you didn't know about Xiaomi.He cites the wrap-around display Mix Alpha as an example of Xiaomi willing to test the limits.
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4:0414 MEGA Smartphone Fails we’ll never forget.Commends the ambitious 360-degree display phone but says Xiaomi's launch logistics and messaging failed (4/10 fail).
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0:06Top Smartphones of 2020? ft. MKBHDA cool wraparound-screen concept, but the screen on the back adds little real usefulness.
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0:00Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha - Day in the Life!A striking concept phone with a brilliant camera, but the wraparound screen creates more problems than it solves for now.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Actually innovative
“the world had never seen the mix alpha a smartphone with a 360 degree wrap-around display”
▶ 4:04 - Actually innovative
“it feels definitively new”
▶ 1:27 - Camera nerd
“the camera here is beastly”
▶ 7:16 - Gimmick
“this I think is Sharma's biggest misfire”
▶ 9:05
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