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10 Days with Mi Max – Review

July 24, 2016 by computerera

Here is the Mi Max Review Personally, I love Samsung high-end smartphones. Started with Samsung Galaxy Note 1st Generation in 2011, till now I used Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy Note 4 and right now I’m using Galaxy S6 Edge plus. There are few strong reasons for my interest in Samsung high-end devices.

Why I prefer Samsung?

They come with Super AMOLED display which offers greater color reproduction and pixel density.
The build quality and the design is stunning
Moreover as a Technology magazine Editor, I must maintain a good mobile time to time to create quality content. So I prefer Samsung high-end devices.

Two years back I bought “One Plus One” by breaking my rules. I didn’t spend even a single day with it. It is not at all up to my expectations. After a long time, once again I tempted to buy another smartphone, not from Samsung. This time, I waited for Xiaomi Mi Max and luckily ordered the phone on its first flash sale on 6th July. The phone delivered to me on 13th July 2016. So I’m using Mi Max since past ten days. Here are my observations on the phone:

Battery back is awesome

Mi Max equipped with 4850 mAh massive battery. Not only on papers it proved in my usage pattern also. You can clearly notice the backup time I got with Mi Max in the above photo. In my casual usage, it offered 2 Days 17 Hours backup, still another 34% battery left on the phone. I never used such a powerful battery equipped phone till now.

The only drawback with the 32 GB model is, it lacks Fast Charging support. My first few charge cycles took almost 5-6 hours to charge the phone completely. After that, now the battery is completely charging just within 3.30 hours.

Huge Screen is my favorite feature

Personally, I love big screen phones. I read a lot of tech and not tech content all the day. Even while walking also I prefer to read information on my smartphone.

I fell love with 6.44-inch huge screen Mi Max. Now I’m more comfortable in updating my knowledge through my phone. The display is comfortable to watch movies and videos also. Many people thought that 6.44-inch phone couldn’t fit in our jeans. Just it is an assumption. Whenever I go outside, I’m placing the phone into my jeans pocket. It conveniently fits there.

Butter smooth performance

I never expected such a great performance just in 15K phone. Xiaomi is pumping more power for less price. Every app, game I used on the Mi Max phone worked smoothly without any lag.

Your phone never break with Gorilla Glass 5

July 21, 2016 by computerera

You may already hear the name Gorilla Glass, which protecting the expensive smartphones from years. Right now smartphone manufacturers like Samsung, Xiaomi, etc., using Gorilla Glass 4 protection on their latest models.

Today Corning, the company behind Gorilla Glass announced its latest Gorilla Glass 5 technology. With the introduction of Gorilla Glass 5, Corning taken the glass protection technology to the next level.

As per Corning statistics, 85% of the smartphone users dropped their beloved phones at least once in a year. Moreover 55% of the people dropping their phones at least three times in a year. The latest Gorilla Glass 5 technology can protect your smartphone even it falls from 1.6 meters height.

The latest technology is commercially available right now, but it will take some time to get latest smartphones equipped with Gorilla Glass 5 protection because the phone manufacturers have to use the protection on their smartphones. You can watch the official demo video Corning Gorilla Glass 5 above.

Xiaomi launched it’s first Drone for Approx. Rs. 30,000 for 4K recording

May 25, 2016 by computerera

As I already mentioned a couple of days back, today Xiaomi launched it’s first Drone which costs Rs. 30,000 for 4K recording. Xiaomi is not manufacturing the Drone itself. Instead, it is associated with Flymi company which produce the drones; Xiaomi adds its brand to the ready-made drones and markets the devices through its online channels like Mi.Com and other e-commerce marketplaces.

At present DJI Phantom is the major company that manufactures commercial drones priced in between 1 Lakh to 3 Lakhs. Compared to DJI Phantom drones, Mi Drone is much cheaper which costs 2499 CNY ( Rs. 24,640 in Indian currency) for 1080p video recording quality drone and 2,999 CNY (Rs. 30,787) for 4K video recording drone.

The Mi Drone runs on 5,100 mAh battery that lasts up to 27 mins flying session, and it has a range of 3 KMs. The flying duration is five minutes more than DJI drones. The drone also includes a 360-degree camera which can shoot 4K video footage.

For now, the Drone will be available for open beta in China starting from July, the global availability of the Drone will be possible in another few months.

Mi Drone launching on 25th May

May 23, 2016 by computerera

Xiaomi expanded its product range from Smartphones, fitness bands to home appliances in the recent past. Now the same company planning to launch Mi Drone on 25th May.

At present DJI Phantom is the major company which manufactures commercial drones priced in between 1 Lakh to 3 Lakhs. Mi Drone may be priced at CNY 3,999 (Chinese currency, Rs. 41,500 in Indian currency)

Manu Jain Xiaomi’s India head tweeted the image in a “Mi Drone” teaser tweet. The Mi Drone will equip with inbuilt camera capable of 4K video shooting with 30 frames per second frame rate.

As per the information from various sources, the Mi Drone can be controlled by Mi Band and all popular Android, iOS smartphones with the help of a dedicated app.

MIUI 8 Launched for All the Mi Phone Owners

May 10, 2016 by computerera

MIUI 8, a new big update of Mi phones operating system has launched today. along with MIUI 8, Xiaomi has announced Mi Max, Mi Band 2 on stage at Beijing.
Xiaomi stated that it has over 200 million users worldwide, up from 170 million which they said in Feb 2016.

They redesigned many frequently used apps like Camera, Notes, Phone, Calculator, and others. It has tremendous changes in colours and styling. MIUI 8’s colour will change according to the weather.
Exciting right..!! Let’s discuss little details:

Gallery

Gallery app which will allow users to add filters, stickers, crop, or even create a music video.
1. New editing tools
2. space utilization
3. ability to change filters with single tap
4. video editing tools
ahh..! it can minimise dependency on other apps to edit pictures.

Calculator

It has an advanced calculator.
1. real time exchange rates along with tax and mortgage calculations
2. unit conversions
No need to struggle for searching in google for them, just a finger tip away from you.

Screenshot tool

1. lets you take scrolling screenshots
till now we are taking more than one screen shot for a web page by scrolling, we can get rid of this hurdle by this new feature.
this allows the user to save an entire web page in a single image.

Notes app

1. app has been tweaked and has a better layout
2. new Notes app which allows users to set password and fingerprint to secure private notes
User interface became so easy by this kind of simple swipes
Simply swipe down to quickly create a new one.
Double swipe up to delete it as a paper shredder.

New Power saving mode

Power Saving Mode that freezes background app activity, and limits chain start-ups.

New Notification Shade

Now the notification shade will offer a much more dynamic experience
They used white color as background to replace the Gaussian blur effect in MIUI 7
Your can now access your favourite settings such as WIFI, Torchlight, Bluetooth, GPS even quicker as it is shown in the notification shade.
When you scroll up the notification panel, the settings you always use would be automatically hidden, and we’ve a really cool and cute animation.

According to Xiaomi, the MIUI 8 China ROM will be available for beta registrations starting May 16 while testing of the beta build kicks off June 1. The company has announced that the first Developer ROM will be available starting June 17. The MIUI 8 Developer ROM supported devices included Mi 3, Mi 4, Mi 4c, Mi 4S, Mi 5, and Mi Max. The company says that the entire Redmi range and Mi Note series will be supported by MIUI 8 Developer ROM.
– Kalyani Pandamaneni