Xiaomi has built a huge software and hardware landscape in just a few years, from smart phones to full coverage smart homes. It has become one of the most influential technology companies in China. A single online channel can no longer meet Xiaomi's ambition. With the gradual promotion of Xiaomi Home nationwide, Xiaomi is also active in offline layout. Xiaomi 6X is such a cost-effective model aiming to seize the offline market.
Appearance and unpacking
The Xiaomi 6X launched this time is such a targeted product. Lei Jun announced at the press conference that the positioning of the machine is a new offline retail, that is, it is Xiaomi's "new flagship" for the offline market. What's more, it continues Xiaomi's consistent pricing strategy, which is cost-effective, and it is one of the most cost-effective products among the current Snapdragon 660 models.
Although the Xiaomi 6X launched this time is mainly aimed at the offline market, its configuration is also unambiguous even from the perspective of Internet mobile phones. It uses a 5.99 inch 18:9 full HD full screen with a resolution of 2160 * 1080.
The design of the fuselage continues Xiaomi's consistent style, with the sandblasting metal fuselage commonly used by Xiaomi on the back, supplemented by bright colors. This time, a total of five colors are provided: quicksand gold, cherry blossom powder, glacier blue, red flame red, and obsidian black.
Post fingerprint recognition is also the standard design of Xiaomi now, especially after the tide of full screen swept through smart phones, the border became narrower and narrower, and it was difficult to accommodate the fingerprint recognition module in the front of the body, so more and more mobile phones chose to return to post fingerprint.
In terms of appearance design, Xiaomi 6X is mainly "thin", and the thickness of the whole machine is only 7.3mm, slightly better than competitors at the same level. With the waist design of "willow waist", it is still OK to hold.
The rear dual camera is a 12 million pixel main camera+20 million pixel sub camera. When the light is relatively sufficient, the main camera still relies on the 12 million main camera for shooting.
The portrait mode of the rear camera will automatically switch according to the light environment. The 20 million pixel subphoto is designed as a 4-in-1 pixel, which is combined into a 2 μ m unit pixel area when taking a view. Compared with the main camera, it has a larger light sensitivity. This time, Xiaomi also cooperated with the famous photographer, Pankawa Shihua, and built five customized filters for Xiaomi users.
It is worth noting that all camera sensors of Xiaomi 6X are from Sony, the rear is IMX486+IMX376, the unit pixel area is 1.25 μ m and 2.0 um respectively (four pixel integration technology), and the aperture is all f/1.75.
The front camera is the same 20 million pixel camera as the rear sub camera. The sensor model IMX376 also uses the four pixel integration technology, which supports AI intelligent background virtualization.
In terms of specific configuration, Xiaomi 6X adopts Snapdragon 660 processor, which is also the most stable midrange processor at present. Through optimization with Tencent officials, it can still have a very stable performance in games like King Glory. In terms of storage, Xiaomi 6X has three storage versions: 4GB+64GB, 6GB+64GB and 6GB+128GB.
Due to the thin body, the battery only contains 3010mAh lithium-ion battery, which is standard in the same class of models.
The most surprising thing is that QC3.0 fast charging is supported, which is also rare among the thousand yuan machines. However, the attached charging head is the standard 5V/2A of the thousand yuan machine. Users who want to fast charge need to equip their own fast charging head.
Xiaomi 6X has also introduced the support of USB Type-C interface this time, which is more generous among thousands of mobile phones. After the development of several generations of mobile phones, USB Type-C has become the first choice of many Android phones, and Type-C cable has replaced Mirco USB as the most common data cable in life.
Screen quality
In terms of screen, the machine uses a 5.99 inch LCD screen with a screen scale of 18:9 and a resolution of 2160 * 1080. In terms of objective quality, the color temperature is about 7000 in the standard display mode. In terms of color gamut, the sRGB color gamut is 98.3%; In terms of color standard, the average DeltaE is 3.8, and the highest DeltaE is 9.7, which is average.
System experience
In terms of system, Xiaomi 6X is equipped with MIUI 9.5.15.0 stable version, customized based on Android 8.1. It is the latest stable version of MIUI system, and has no choice in terms of system stability. In addition to the lack of NFC that makes it impossible to use the bus card function, the overall experience is almost identical with other Xiaomi models.
In terms of dealing with rogue domestic applications, Xiaomi can be said to be playing a "big game". After Google quit China, GCM push has waved goodbye to domestic users, and Xiaomi also launched mipush service at this time. As more and more domestic applications use mipush push service, MIUI system's Shenyin mode (renamed: background intelligent power saving) begins to show advantages.
After the Shenyin mode is enabled, applications that use mipush can still receive message push even if they are restricted from self starting, while other mobile phone manufacturers' management methods that restrict the self starting of applications will result in failure to receive message push. Xiaomi has established "application ecological advantages" at the system level through the "besieged city" approach, which has to be said to be quite forward-looking.
However, here I also want to express my concern about the Android application ecosystem. Although looking at the international scope, more and more application developers have paid more attention to the research and development of Android applications, the application quality has been greatly improved compared with the previous years, and some applications, such as Twitter third-party clients, are even better than iOS, But on the whole, it still lags behind the iOS platform, and the number of exclusive applications is much less.
However, there is a long way to go, and the domestic Android application ecosystem is much worse. Although there are already third-party push services such as mipush and aurora push, the domestic Android application ecosystem is still embarrassingly important on the whole. Large Internet manufacturers represented by BAT still ignore Google's design specifications, and small factories need not say more. In addition, the domestic Internet environment has no respect for personal privacy, and the degree of abuse of application permissions is heinous. It is not uncommon to see cases of normal use of applications without permission. I am afraid that the domestic Android application ecology is saved is a story.
Photography and imaging effect
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Top left: Red rice 5 Plus Top right: Red rice Note 5 Bottom left: Magic blue E3 Bottom right: Xiaomi 6X
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Top left: Red rice 5 Plus Top right: Red rice Note 5 Bottom left: Magic blue E3 Bottom right: Xiaomi 6X
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Top left: Red rice 5 Plus Top right: Red rice Note 5 Bottom left: Magic blue E3 Bottom right: Xiaomi 6X
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Top left: Red rice 5 Plus Top right: Red rice Note 5 Bottom left: Magic blue E3 Bottom right: Xiaomi 6X
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We have selected several comparison models, such as Hongmi 5 Plus, Hongmi Note 5, and Meilan E3. In terms of daytime samples, in most scenes, especially the overall appearance, the gap is not too big, especially for models with the same number of pixels. However, in terms of the ultimate analytical power, the Hongmi 5 Plus has a big gap with the other three. Although the sharpening effect is good, the ultimate analytical power is really weak. The other three models are relatively close. The best comprehensive performance of ultimate analytical power is Xiaomi 6X, followed by Meilan E3 and Hongmi Note 5. The red rice note 5 has a feeling that the pixels are not enough in many groups of proofs, and the sharpening effect is not so good; Meilan E3 is not stable, and the image quality will be seriously degraded when the light is slightly dimmed or some backlight environment.
Light scene ↓
Top left: Red rice 5 Plus Top right: Red rice Note 5 Bottom left: Magic blue E3 Bottom right: Xiaomi 6X
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Dark scene ↓
Top left: Red rice 5 Plus Top right: Red rice Note 5 Bottom left: Magic blue E3 Bottom right: Xiaomi 6X
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Top left: Red rice 5 Plus Top right: Red rice Note 5 Bottom left: Magic blue E3 Bottom right: Xiaomi 6X
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Left: Hongmi Note 5 Right: Xiaomi 6X
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At night, it is the time to really test the ability to take photos, and the gap between several machines has widened. In the light environment with relatively bright light, Xiaomi 6X performs fairly well, which is close to Magic Blue E3, with a slightly poor texture, but slightly better than Red Rice Note 5. However, as the light further darkens, the performance of Xiaomi 6X is not so satisfactory. Although the overall image appearance and brightness are still very good, the details are a bit horrible when you zoom in. It can only be said that it is slightly stronger than Hongmi 5 Plus, better than exposure control. The overall night view quality is between Hongmi 5 Plus and Hongmi Note 5, ranking from weak to strong as Hongmi 5 Plus, Xiaomi 6X, Hongmi Note 5 and Meilan E3.
Performance and Running Score
In terms of configuration, Xiaomi 6X adopts the Snapdragon 660 processor, which is the most widely used in the current mid tier computers. It is also the most stable mid tier processor at present. It makes a good trade-off between processor performance, display performance and power consumption, which can be regarded as the most stable mid tier processor in recent two years.
GeekBench scores before system upgrade
GeekBench scores after system upgrade
Processor performance test
In the processor part, the four small cores did not participate in the GeekBench score running for several primary versions, so the performance of multi-core score running was abnormal, only 4700 points. The performance of this Snapdragon 660 has finally reached the normal level after the latest version of MIUI has been updated recently.
Memory performance test
Graphic performance test
Storage performance test
In terms of graphics performance, the performance of Xiaomi 6X is relatively normal. Both GFX and 3DMark are within the normal performance range, and there is no abnormal score of multi-core processors. Users who like to play games can rest assured. In terms of storage performance, except for random writing performance, which is still higher than that of Magellan S6 with Exynos7872, other reading and writing performance is within the normal range.
Although there is no advantage over the Snapdragon 710 processor at present, the price advantage lies there after all. The price difference of 500 yuan is quite different for a mobile phone less than 2000 yuan. In addition, if the game is properly optimized, the Snapdragon 660 can deal with such games as King Glory easily（ Penguin father: recharge will become stronger ）。
summary
For a product produced by Xiaomi, the most frequently mentioned word is cost performance, which is also Xiaomi's strongest trump card when facing other manufacturers. In terms of price, the 4+32/4+64/6+64/6+128 version is 1299 yuan, 1499 yuan, 1699 yuan and 1899 yuan respectively. Although it has been launched for some time, it is still one of the most cost-effective products in the Snapdragon 660 model. For those users who do not have high requirements for game performance, but also want to have a certain cost performance ratio, they can still consider the choice.
As a product of Xiaomi's efforts in the offline market, Xiaomi 6X is highly competitive both online and offline. In addition to the lack of NFC and weak photography, there is not much black spot. However, if Xiaomi really wants to compete with OV offline, cost performance alone is not enough, and efforts are still needed in appearance. After all, many offline consumers are "appearance party", and the appearance of Xiaomi 6X is still too "Xiaomi face".
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