XIAOMI MI 4I REVIEW

Xiaomi launched its midrange android phone namely Mi 4I in India which is priced @ 12,999/- sold via Flipkart. It is available is Blue, White, Yellow, Pink, Grey & Black shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is pretty good. It has a corning gorilla glass 3 on front and a polycarbonate unibody back and feels  good in hands. It is slim at 7.8mm and weighs 130gms. It has 5 inch FULL HD LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1280 with 441 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Great. It runs on MI 6.0 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS

It has 16GB of internal storage which is not further expandable. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a video player for playing movies respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Connectivities like Wifi a/b/g/n/, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.1 but lacks NFC support.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and  led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is Great overall. Daytime the images are Excellent and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images and clarity is quite good. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 16-17 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the video clarity is pretty good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is acceptable could have been better. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's which does 720p video and clarity is quite good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 5.0.2 Lollipop out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 (MSM8939) processor running a quad core at 1.5 GHZ (Cortex A53) & a quad core at 1.0 GHZ (Cortex A53) with 2GB RAM and Adreno 405 (550 MHZ single Core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.

QUADRANT :15650.

ANTUTU : 34506.

NENAMARK 2 : 59fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a Non-Removable Li-Pro 3120 mah battery with Quick charging support. The battery life is very good which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 8:30H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 10:15H.

TALKTIME : upto 18H(2G) / upto 21H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 500H(2G) / upto 480H(3G).

PROS

*Very Good Build Quality.

*Great Display And Viewing Angle.

*Excellent Performance.

*Great Camera And Quite Good Video Recording Clarity.
*Pretty Good Loudspeaker.
*USB OTG. 

*Very Good Battery Life.
*Great Value For Money.

CONS

*Non Removable Battery.
*No NFC Support.
*No MicroSD Card Slot Only One Storage Option.
*Does Get Heated Up Quickly But A Little Better After The Software Update.

*No Dedicated Camera Key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.4/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.