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Review on Smartphone Xiaomi Mi 8 Lite 6/128 GB, midnight black by DoYun Kim ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good value for money, I recommend it.

I chose a new phone after Nokia 5 and RN3Pro, at first I wanted to splurge on Mix2S, but I regretted the extra 10tr. I liked Mi8Lite already at the stage of inspecting the appearance, and really there is a difference between all sorts of Redmi and A-series, of which I have a full house)) I wanted a solid device, and I got it. USB-C, glass on the back, the thickness is uniform and small. The screen is almost the entire panel, including a small eyebrow and a frame at the bottom - all this creates the impression of a solid modern device, which you are not ashamed to show to others, and you yourself like it. The latest versions of MIUI, regular ates are also pleasing, I turned on gestures and see a good picture. But there is an annoying problem here: this is optimization for such a screen. How many phones with an eyebrow have been produced already? A year and a half? Stories on Instagram do not fit in width, WhatsApp in the horizontal does not really understand where to put what. If you hide the cutout programmatically, you will see another annoying factor: you have a rounded screen on the bottom, and sharp corners on top. Well, make them the same smoothed! Videos are shown in the same way, round edges on the right, straight corners on the left, and some YouTube videos are generally 20% smaller than the entire screen. The eye hurts a lot. Some unpopular programs do not adapt at all, for example, viewing surveillance cameras again does not fit in width, but at the bottom there are several millimeters of emptiness. For all this, there is a magic phrase "they will fix it in ates", everyone says so, but the firmware comes regularly, since the purchase (2 weeks) it has already been two, and this is not everywhere a MIUI cant, but also application developers. I will be very happy if the authors of the firmware and applications notice this, but so far the best impression is when you look at the main screen :) The cutout was not programmatically hidden, so it creates a feeling of "filling" the entire panel of the phone with the image, and I have seen enough of the frames on all previous devices. I strongly recommend buying for 15-16 it's a great phone if you don't want to watch other brands, which i really didn't like.

Pros
  • + Solid appearance - feels like Mi line, not Redmi + Balanced iron + Small neckline and chin at the bottom + Unusual camera arrangement + The cameras themselves are great too + Good screen quality + Fast fingerprint scanner and the same face recognition, works in complete darkness, if not the minimum screen brightness + Quite thin and in the hand even with a case lies well + Back cover with a holographic effect, although it is almost invisible under a dark cover + In an unstable mode of use, the battery survives until late at night, maybe 15%, or maybe 35% - I'm satisfied + In general, the phone itself is excellent for me!
Cons
  • There were no downsides. - The banal absence of NFC has already been discussed by everyone, sadly, but I knew what I was buying. - Someone here wrote about a scratched place near the USB-C connector - now I'm afraid to blindly put it on charge at night, I don't want to spoil the appearance. The regular cover lies flush with the camera module, but I still want to protect it. - External stereo sound is very requested, but no. - The main disadvantage here is software - very poor optimization for this screen format, I will write about this below.

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