This Xioami Mi Max Is A Monster At 6.44 Inch

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This Xioami Mi Max Is A Monster At 6.44 Inch

Xiaomi is giving its large palmed fans what they might have always wanted, a large phone with a large screen…meet Mi Max the latest smartphone to roll out from the assembly line sporting a screen the size of a Moleskin diary.

The company also revealed the new OS MIUI 8, the next generation of its popular Android-based operating system. Xiaomi CEO and founder Lei Jun revealed today that MIUI has crossed over 200 million users across the world, and there are now 21 apps on MIUI with over 10 million daily active users. As of March 2016, there have been over 40 billion app downloads on Mi App Store, which is preinstalled on all Xiaomi devices sold in China, a 16-fold increase from 2.5 billion app downloads in 2014.

Tough to steal this from Low Yat

Back to the phone, Mi Max breaks the phablet boundary with 6.44-inch screen that would get consumers who are hooked on with watching movies on their current tiny smartphones. Side by side with Mi Max its totally David vs Goliath, no that some would complain after all brands like Lenovo and Samsung are enjoying relatively healthy sales in this segment. There is also added advantage for this size. Battery. Always ever enough, on the Mi Max there is a huge compartment for battery and Xiaomi uses this intelligently with a 4850mAh battery, refuted to support up to 14 hours of streaming video (via Wi-Fi) in a single charge. Wrapping all this together is a metal body with curved edges of the front, 2.5D glass surface and thickness of just 7.5mm.

At 203g, it is only slightly heavier than many 5.5-inch models. Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 650/652 processor, with an option of either a six or eight Cortex A72 and A53 cores. Graphics are enriched with the Adreno 510 graphics chip, a 6.44-inch Full-HD display, up to 4GB RAM + 128GB flash (supports up to 128GB microSD).

Camera on this is a 16-megapixel camera with PDAF for the back a fingerprint sensor on the back and option of three internal storage – 32GB, 64GB and 128GB.

Mi Max (Snapdragon 650, 3GB + 32GB) will be available at RMB 1499. The Snapdragon 652 variant with 64GB storage (3GB RAM) and 128GB storage (4GB RAM) will retail at RMB 1699 and RMB 1999 respectively.