At the end of November 2015, Xiaomi released three final products of the year - Hongmi Note3, Xiaomi Tablet 2 and a small air purifier, all of which were priced within 1000 yuan. As we all know, both the Hongmi note series and the first generation of air purifier are products with a price of less than 1000 yuan. At that time, Xiaomi Tablet 1 with strong performance swept the market with a price of 1500 yuan at the beginning of its launch. Now, the newly upgraded Xiaomi Tablet 2 has pulled the price back to less than 1000 yuan, The price positioning has determined that it will be a "new domestic product" with high cost performance. Let's have a look at the experience with the fish.

Appearance details

The packaging of Xiaomi Tablet 2 is the same as that of Xiaomi Note3. Instead of the kraft paper hard box packaging in the past, it is replaced by a simple white style paper box. The only difference may be that you can't stand on the box, but now this design method will be more suitable for gift giving and retail store display.

Open the box and you can see the whole front of Xiaomi Tablet 2. In the black screen state, you can already feel the beauty of screen extinction.

The following is a family photo, including: Xiaomi Tablet 2, charger, data cable, user manual, warranty card, etc.
From the appearance, Xiaomi Tablet 2 still maintains the screen size of the first generation, and the resolution is also the same. It also uses a 2048 × 1536 7.9-inch screen.
The front camera at the top of the screen uses a 5 megapixel camera with aperture F/2.0 to support beauty.
The three virtual buttons at the bottom are the same as those of Generation 1. Their brightness is not too high. They can also prevent light pollution.
The biggest difference between Xiaomi Tablet 2 and Generation 1 is the rear shell, which is made of the popular all metal material. Today, Xiaomi Tablet 2 has three colors: space silver, champagne gold, and cherry blossom powder. The one I received is champagne gold. The overall texture of the metal is very good, and the metal surface has been sandblasted, which not only makes it more wear-resistant, but also can effectively prevent fingerprints.
The rear camera in the upper right corner uses an 800w pixel camera, the aperture also uses F/2.0, and supports 1080P video recording.

The horn is designed below the back.

The buttons on the side are still made of the same metal material, which is an integral whole. The feedback of key schedule is good.
The top is designed with a 3.5mm headphone hole, and the bottom is also equipped with a popular USB Type-C interface, which also supports fast charging.
In terms of thickness, Xiaomi Flat 2 is 18% thinner than the first generation, reaching 6.95mm, which is about the same diameter as a pencil. Thin and light has always been the direction of intelligent products. That's all for appearance introduction. Thank you for watching.

screen

The screen of Xiaomi Tablet 2 uses a 7.9-inch display screen, with a resolution of 2048 × 1536 and a ppi of 326, which has met the requirements of the retinal screen. From the perspective of the live shooting effect, the display effect is good, and it does not turn yellow under the default display settings. The author is satisfied with its screen display.

system

In terms of system, the MIUI7 based on Android 5.1 system carried by Xiaomi Tablet 2 is not very different from the MIUI system of mobile phone version. It just eliminates the communication and security center functions. In addition, it is very smooth in use.

The notification bar and shortcut keys dropped down anywhere on the desktop are also very familiar.

The only thing worth mentioning about the system settings is that the cloud backup function provided by MIUI is very easy to use. If you have a Xiaomi mobile phone, you can easily share the contacts, photos, notes, music and other data of Xiaomi Tablet 2 and Xiaomi mobile phone automatically! Especially the photo function. After the automatic cloud backup is enabled, the beautiful photos taken by the mobile phone can be displayed on the Xiaomi Tablet 2 instantly. Of course, the premise is that both the Xiaomi mobile phone and the Xiaomi Tablet 2 are online.

In terms of resources, Xiaomi has its own apps such as Duokan Reading, Xiaomi Music, and Xiaomi Video. Duokan Reading provides a large number of legitimate book resources. Although many good books need meter coins, they can also get book coins or chapter scrolls by signing in on the Duokan Reading app every day. People who love reading can sign in every day, Maybe you can read your favorite authentic books for free. In addition, the resources of Xiaomi music and video are the same as those on mobile phones or Xiaomi TV. The only thing worth mentioning is that the resources of Xiaomi video are becoming more and more abundant with the continuous development of Xiaomi TV. At the same time, these resources also support the offline viewing function, and download some favorite TV plays or movies when there are network resources, You can continue to watch when there is no network.

If the built-in resources of Xiaomi can't meet your needs, you can also download and install your favorite games or software in the game center and app store. Its games and software resources are relatively rich.

practical application

Xiaomi Tablet 2 uses a 7.9-inch screen with a 4:3 ratio, and the 4:3 ratio has always been the size ratio used by the iPad. Under the 4:3 screen ratio, especially e-books, web pages and games can have the best visual experience. In addition, in order to protect the user's vision, eye protection mode is specially added, which can be set arbitrarily and is very user-friendly. In the leisure time, play quietly on Tablet 2 and brew a pot of tea, which is a very pleasant sin... (Here is also a hint: UC The browser has always been the browser used by many friends. Many problems about UC browser flash back can be seen in many places on the forum. In fact, you only need to download a UC browser that supports X86, and there is no flash back problem.)

The only reason why the 4:3 screen ratio is insufficient is that there will be wide black edges at the top and bottom when watching videos. If you are used to it, you will ignore it.

contrast

The experience of Xiaomi Tablet 2 was supposed to end here, and then I always felt that there was still much to be desired. After all, there was no comparison, and it might be difficult to see the advantages and disadvantages of Xiaomi Tablet 2. For comparison, there was no need to compare the products whose prices and shapes were too different, so the author used an older mini2 for comparison. In terms of price, the mini2 is still about 800 more expensive than the Xiaomi tablet. Is it worth it? Let's take a look at the comparative experience of these two products.

The two products use screens of identical size and resolution.

The front camera on the top is in the middle. Xiaomi uses a 500w front camera, while the mini2 uses a 120w front camera.

Different keys at the bottom of the screen.

The design of the back is like a pair of twin brothers. For the rear camera in the same position, Xiaomi adopts 800w rear position and the mini2 adopts 500w rear position. At the same time, the rear shells are made of all metal aluminum alloy, and sandblasting process is used.

In addition to the addition of an open key on the top of the mini2, both products have 3.5mm headphone holes at the same location. In addition, the rounded corners have a similar feeling.

At the bottom of the speaker, the mini2 is designed at the bottom, while the millet flat plate 2 is designed at the bottom of the rear shell. If the square is on the table, the millet flat plate 2 will press the sound hole, thus affecting the external sound. In the middle of the bottom of the other two products, USB interfaces that can be plugged in both front and back are used.

In terms of overall size, the size of millet plate 2 is 200.4 × 132.6 × 6.95mm, and the size of mini2 is 200 × 134.7 × 7.5mm. The millet plate 2 is narrower and thinner. In terms of weight, millet plate 2 is 322g, and mini2 is 331g. The difference is not too big.

The screens all use the same specifications. How about the display effect? Both models are in the default settings and maximum brightness. All photos are original without any modification. It is easy to see from the live shooting that the Xiaomi Tablet 2 is more inclined to the original film in color display, while the photo of the mini2 is too white. Especially for the display of different colors in the middle, the Xiaomi Tablet 2 is also more realistic. Although the mini2 has higher brightness, it is still inferior to the Xiaomi Tablet 2 in color restoration. This may be because the full fitting technology of Xiaomi Tablet 2 is better now.

In terms of system, Mini uses IOS, and Xiaomi Tablet 2 uses MIUI7 based on Android. Objectively speaking, there is no comparability between the two systems, and I personally believe that the IOS system itself can be worth more than 1000 yuan.

When running a single software, because the processor performance of Xiaomi Tablet 2 is better than that of mini2, the author has tested several identical software in succession. The opening speed of Xiaomi Tablet 2 is better than that of mini2, and the smoothness of the whole system is almost the same. However, for background applications, there is no comparability at all, Mini2 can save more applications in the background, while Xiaomi usually runs three software in the background. Once several more software are run, the background software will automatically close.

camera

With regard to the camera function of the tablet, the author has always believed that this is a function that can be eliminated. It is a very painful thing to just hold a large piece of the camera facing the camera. Since it is equipped with a camera, the actual photo effect can be seen at random. In general, its photo samples are certainly inferior to mobile phones. By the way, let's make a comparison with mini2.

performance

Xiaomi Tablet 2 uses Intel's Atom x5-Z8500, which is its mid tier CPU. Overall, the performance is good. The author never likes running points, and everything is based on experience. The author tried to play a 4k roast duck video directly, without any stuttering, which is very smooth.

In terms of the game, we downloaded a 1G Jupao implication, a large ARPG action mobile game, and all kinds of fighting scenes are very smooth.
Although 4k video playback and large action mobile games can run smoothly, because its CPU uses the X86 architecture, and most Android software is based on ARM architecture, there is still a long way to go in terms of compatibility. My favorite NBA 2K games, Super Spider Man 2 and other games on the shelves in Xiaomi Game Store have experienced flashbacks, and can not run perfectly, We only hope that Xiaomi can optimize more games belonging to Xiaomi Tablet 2 in the future.
If you want to give full play to its hardware performance on Xiaomi Tablet 2, you can upgrade its system to WIN10 in the future. Because the tablet is a 16G version, if you upgrade it to WIN10, there will be only about 4G of built-in memory left, and there will be few software that can be installed and run at that time. Therefore, the author suggests that if you want to buy Xiaomi Tablet 2, please buy the 64G version directly.

Endurance

Xiaomi Tablet 2 supports Qualcomm 12V fast charging, and it takes only more than two hours to fully charge with its own charger. When the battery is fully charged, the screen brightness is the highest, and the volume is 80%, the author played Ju Bang for half an hour, and then watched Mi Yuechuan for two hours, and there is still 62% left. Therefore, at the highest use intensity, it is no problem to use it for more than 5 hours. If you turn down the screen brightness and use a Bluetooth speaker to play it out, you may be able to reach the 12 hour online video in Xiaomi's official data.

summary

advantage:
1. The screen displays clearly.
2. All metal material design, overall workmanship is good.
3. Support fast charging.

Insufficient:
1. Compared with Xiaomi Flat 1, the performance is not improved much.
2. At least 32G of memory should be configured as standard, and 16G cannot play happily under win10.
3. The memory expansion slot owned by Xiaomi Tablet 1 is castrated by Xiaomi Tablet 2.
4. At present, under MIUI7 system, many software will flash back, which needs to be optimized.


In general, after experiencing the Xiaomi Tablet 2 for several days, the author feels that the appearance of the Xiaomi Tablet 2 has been greatly upgraded, and the texture of the Xiaomi Tablet 2 has been multiplied by the use of the popular all metal materials. In terms of performance, the 64 bit mid-range performance Atom processor with Intel 14nm technology is used, so the performance is not bad, but unfortunately, because of its X86 architecture, many of the software provided by Xiaomi App Store under the MIUI system is incompatible, and needs to be optimized. If win10 is flashed, the specific situation is unknown because the official ROM has not been released. But it is certain that compatibility will not be a problem under win10, but the 16G memory is too small, which will affect the experience. If you already have a tablet in your hand, Xiaomi Tablet 2 may not satisfy you. After all, its hardware is standard and not flagship, and its compatibility also needs time to optimize. If you are lack of a tablet, and it is only used for reading books and chasing dramas, Xiaomi Tablet 2 will be a good choice. After all, it can meet your entertainment requirements, but also has a very good face value. Even if the system is tired, it can be used in different systems in the future.