This week, Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun took to the stages at the renowned Forbidden City in Beijing to unveil the Xiaomi Mi MIX 3. The flagship has a four-sided curved ceramic back with aluminium frame, a camera setup with DxOMark photo score of 108 and wireless fast charging support.
The highlight of the Mi MIX 3 is the innovative magnetic display slider design with life expectancy of up to 300,000 cycles for the ultimate full-screen experience. The slider hides the front cameras and sliding the screen up can answer calls, take selfies and opens shortcut drawers and lots more.
It sports a 6.39-inch (2340 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 19:5:9 AMOLED display 93.4% screen-to-body ratio, rear fingerprint sensor, Bluetooth 5.0, USB Type-C port, NFC, Dual 4G VoLTE and a 3,200mAh battery with both Quick Charge 4.0+ and 10W Qi wireless charging.
The dual rear camera setup combines 12MP + 12MP sensors with 1.4µm pixel size, OIS and Dual Pixel AF along with 960fps slow-motion video, AI scene detection and various other AI features. The dual front setup includes 24MP + 2MP sensors with selfie light and AI live selfie video bokeh.
The Xiaomi MI MIX 3 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 mobile platform paired with up to 10GB of RAM and up to 256GB (UFS 2.1) built-in storage space. It boots Android 8.1 Oreo OS with MIUI 10, AI voice assistant support (as well as dedicated AI button) and Google ARCore.
Pricing and Availability
The Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 arrives in three colour options: Jade Green, Onyx Black and Sapphire Blue; and will go on sale in China starting November 1, 2018. The Mi MIX 3 5G will launch by Q1 2019.
Pricing is detailed below:
- MI MIX 3 6GB + 128GB – CNY 3,299 (~US$ 474)
- MI MIX 3 8GB + 128GB – CNY 3,599 (~US$ 518)
- MI MIX 3 8GB + 256GB – CNY 3,999 (~US$ 575)
- MI MIX 3 Palace Museum Edition with 24K Gold-Coated Bronze Statue 10GB + 256GB – CNY 4,999 (~US$ 720)
