Xiaomi Mi Mix review: Mi-Sci-Fi
Mi-Sci-Fi
The gallery
The Xiaomi Mi Mix and MIUI 8 come with a redesigned Gallery app, now showing more photos on the screen than ever. It defaults to your camera roll, but it also supports different albums.
Gallery
The new integrated editor powered by Camera 360 offers various filters, crop options, enhancements (sharpen, contrast, brightness, saturation, vignette), and doodles. Oddly, this image editing app is less capable than the one supplied with the MIUI v7.
Editing an image
Xiaomi Mi Mix may or may not come with a standalone video app depending on your ROM. Either way, you'll get a rather basic app or section in the Gallery, where you can browse and play all of your videos. The video interface is very basic; subtitles and pop-up play are not supported.
If you live in China, you will definitely get a proper Video app and it comes with paid streaming services on top of its basic functionality for offline playback.
Browsing and playing videos
There is also a new video editor with MIUI 8. It supports trimming, filters, and adding text, and audio tracks.
Video editing within the gallery
Music player
The MIUI music player is a custom app with a well laid out, easy to navigate interface. The player has cool effects, transitions, and transparent elements, especially on the expandable Now Playing section. Lyrics are supported, too.
In some markets a streaming service similar to Google Play and Apple Music comes as part of the Music app, too.
Music Player • Albums • Songs • Now Playing screen • Options
Xiaomi Mi Mix offers customizable equalizers within the phone's Settings menu - there are a few default presets already available for use. You can also try Xiaomi's MiSound enhancer, which comes into play when you use headphones, and especially, a Xiaomi-branded headset.
Audio enhancements and equalizers
Audio clarity is very good, loudness is excellent
The Xiaomi Mi Mix passed the active external amplifier test with flying colors, matching perfectly clear output with very high loudness.
Headphones did cause a moderate hike in stereo crosstalk and added a tiny bit of intermodulation distortion but the output remained mostly good. And since the loudness didn’t take a hit either it was a very good showing indeed.
And now here go the results so you can make your comparison.
| Test | Frequency response | Noise level | Dynamic range | THD | IMD + Noise | Stereo crosstalk |
| +0.01, -0.02 | -94.6 | 94.6 | 0.0014 | 0.0063 | -94.3 | |
| +0.08, -0.26 | -94.3 | 94.2 | 0.020 | 0.263 | -57.6 | |
| +0.03, -0.01 | -92.2 | 93.0 | 0.0026 | 0.0093 | -93.3 | |
| +0.06, -0.05 | -91.1 | 91.8 | 0.016 | 0.056 | -63.5 | |
| +0.01, -0.03 | -94.0 | 94.0 | 0.0033 | 0.0066 | -92.9 | |
| +0.17, -0.04 | -92.0 | 92.7 | 0.0067 | 0.125 | -62.0 | |
| +0.06, -0.02 | -83.9 | 83.0 | 0.0033 | 0.047 | -84.9 | |
| +0.95, -0.10 | -82.0 | 83.3 | 0.245 | 0.564 | -48.0 | |
| +0.10, -0.04 | -93.1 | 93.1 | 0.0015 | 0.0098 | -80.5 | |
| +0.10, -0.03 | -93.1 | 93.0 | 0.0013 | 0.015 | -76.8 | |
| LG V20 | +0.01, -0.03 | -93.0 | 93.1 | 0.0036 | 0.0075 | -93.7 |
| LG V20 (headphones attached) | +0.04, -0.09 | -92.4 | 92.4 | 0.051 | 0.105 | -57.5 |
Xiaomi Mi Mix frequency response
You can learn more about the tested parameters and the whole testing process here.
Reader comments
- Anonymous
- 26 Dec 2023
- U@W
me too using it...still better than most phones..people ask me which phone is it...
- JooooooD
- 30 Nov 2023
- thc
This is my work phone... It's only function since 2018 for me is for texting, calls, emails, taking pics of some documents, messenger, telegram and browserfor some work related stuff... Never replaced the battery... Still last for a week.... Sti...
- Seelu
- 11 Nov 2023
- U@W
True..even in 2023i use it as second phone and it’s still going solid…