Xiaomi Mi A1 64GB

Advantages: 1. First of all software. For all the time of use, updates arrived every month, something finished, something improved, phone support was top notch.
2. Performance. The phone perfectly pulls games such as Ashalt8, Mortal Kombat, PUBG MOBILE.World of tanks in high settings. All everyday tasks are performed quickly without any complaints.
3. Memory. 64 GB is enough for everything and for storing 4k video and hundreds of photos, music and games and 20 more gigs remains + you can add a BD card to the detriment of one sim,
Ram. Enough for all tasks, applications from memory are not unloaded, everyone is happy.
4. Battery. Despite the not too large capacity, apparently due to optimization, it keeps 6.5-7 hours of active screen (5-6 hours of Internet traffic (instagram, vk, twitter, chrome, telegram and + 1-1.5 hours of games) enough from morning to night if less active is 1.5 days stable.
5. Camera. Perhaps the most promising place in this smartphone. I agree that for a regular user, it’s more likely to be a minus, but for “geeks” like me, plus, I’ll tell you why. The portrait mode in the stock application shoots well, blurs correctly and clearly, but only during the day. The lack of stabilization is solved by shooting 4k video and stabilizing through google photo. Also, all camera problems are solved by such third-party applications as OnePlus cam, SnapCam, Cinema FV-5.
Front-line mid-level inst'y go)
6. Sound. Not a music lover, but the sound in the headphones is revealed perfectly as for me. The loudspeaker volume is decent above many competitors.
7. Screen worthy of 2.5 d effect. But the sun is clearly not enough brightness.
8. Scanner of prints. Very smart, it recognizes perfectly, in energy saving mode it will simply recognize at the speed of light. In general, satisfied.

Disadvantages: 1. Camera. Brought to the mind by hand, and this will not understandably deal with many.
2. There is no NSF, although I do not use it, because there is no possibility of such payment. (One of the reasons for the lack of it, in China, the alternative to NSF is banal QR codes and they don’t need it)
3.Screen. It was possible and brighter to deliver.

Comment: For the price of $ 200, they are recommended for everyone to buy, because you will hardly find devices with Google support directly. The most popular smart in 2k17th beginning of the 18th.

Advantages: Camera, design, memory, clean android, price

Disadvantages: Not found

Comment: Bought this phone a week ago. I doubted it for a long time, since the reviews on it were rather contradictory, especially with regard to the camera, which, by the way, turned out to be very good. I attach the photos taken to this device, the first and the second were made in good lighting conditions, the portrait mode was chosen, the third one in the evening, the lighting was insufficient. The pictures are quite high-quality and rich, even without additional settings. Pleases the amount of memory, after updating to 8 android free space was about 55 gigs, plus you can put a memory card. The battery life is also good, the phone’s charge lasts for a whole day of quite active work (social networks, camera, various games and applications, listening to music + almost constantly burning screen). For such a short time, I didn’t reveal any deficiencies, and I hope I’ll not reveal them in the future, I definitely recommend the phone for purchase)

Advantages: Very fast wi-fi
Och fast internet 4G.
Design and build
Moisture protection (see there is a video of how it is immersed in water, working under water and taken out). Ps. - I checked it myself, see photo. After a couple of minutes of swimming, the speaker turned off, but it dried up and after five minutes it worked, everything is OK.
Headphone jack is finally on the bottom :) (MI left headphone effects)
The camera makes quite artistic portraits with a non-blurred blur.
The screen is cool, soft light, soft colors. It is very comfortable to work both in the light and in the dark. White is white, not bluish or pinkish.
External speaker is not bad.
Frost-resistant - lay in the freezer for 40 minutes, did not lose a single% of the charge. Battery Discharge - Movie 1:30 - 16% charge.

Disadvantages: No possibility to install MIUI shell
Accumulated charging cords will not work, here is a new connector, like in Xiaomi Notebook Air
Who had OTG cables too goodbye. Cord charging in the car, too, to change who has.
The flashlight is not white, but reddish.
Sometimes, for some strange reason, the application running in the background is closed. Sometimes it is difficult to unlock the phone - you slide your finger up the lock screen, but without success.
Once the camera stopped shooting, there is a shutter sound, but the photo does not appear. Alarm does not turn on if the device is turned off! (Who knows how to solve, write in the comments to the review).

Comment: Probably just write the first! impression. The second will be at the end. I switched from model Redmi 3s. I loved the second space, loved duplicate apps, loved the built-in apps from xiaomi, themes from xiaomi, notes, synchronization with the Chinese account was also used; I loved the weather app, I loved the way the desktop could be organized (for example, dragging icons). He loved the built-in screen recording program, an excellent calculator (with the ability to update data on currencies, etc.), MIUI9 is ​​a fucking convenient thing. Here is a pure android and google apps, from xiomi a couple. Applications will have to search, download, adapt.
In general, who is used to the MIUI shell - I do not advise, everything is “not so”, in general, everything is not so. I easily turned my Redmi 3s into an IPhone - the built-in tempos, there are no topics here. Application clones, application protection, no. There is not even a weather app! All need to swing. Music player? - play music. Gallery?)) - google photo !!) Notes? - they are not. And so on. Chinese embedded applications coped well with their tasks - this eliminated the need to search and download. If you are a Googleman - a device for you.
When you get used to something, which becomes part of your processes in work and social life, then you either don’t want to change what you’ve got used to, or you have to get used to it with great difficulty. (It's like those who are accustomed to Apple - they put on all these "excellent, comfortable" phones.
Second impression: I would advise this phone to those who are tired of MIUI, from the same type of Chinese, because this phone is completely different and does not look like a Chinese. In the hands of a new phone, many moments will be uncomfortable or unusual. But the phone will attract you to use further, double feeling. Redmi 3s, for example, creates a greater sense of stability, manageability, customization

Advantages: A productive processor, but at the same time very economical, the battery does not eat. The camera, of course, with the flagships, does not bother, but you can make very decent photos that you are not ashamed to pour into the instu (see Photo). Operatives for the eyes. At night I watched YouTube, turned. During the day, I started the browser, messengers, games - I drove the phone in full. In the evening I launched YouTube - it was revealed in my memory, nothing flew out. The system works fine, as intended by the manufacturer. Everything that should work - works. And after the MIUI on the old Redmi Note 2, it pleases and surprises. Yes, there are not enough mulecules and chips that were in MIUI, such as a headset setup, a convenient and beautiful dialer, etc. But choosing between beauty and stability will choose, perhaps, stability.

Disadvantages: Noise in low impedance headphones. You'll have to change your homemade cheap gags for something more expensive. The proximity sensor sometimes strangely works when you call. Once even turned on the ear flashlight during a call. A miserable and uncomfortable native dialer. You can put something outside.

Comment: Very balanced phone for price, quality and features. One took his wife, the other himself. The important point - if you take in the store, then be sure to see what kind of screen is installed in this particular model. There are two options: tianma and EBBG. The second is more pleasant - the colors are warmer and somehow brighter or something. But for someone, the first option is more to their liking. I ordered both phones from China and was full of random. As a result, one phone came with tianma, and the other with EBBG. Both me and my wife liked EBBG more. They really differ from each other.
In any case, I recommend to buy. There are several HYIP articles in the network, where this model is frankly muddled, but they have nothing in common with reality.

Advantages: 1. Materials and build quality (very pleasant to hold in hand, solidity is felt)
2. Good IPS display (without any complaints at all)
3. Good conversational speaker
4. Good microphone
5. Good noise reduction (works correctly)
6. Fingerprint sensor works fast enough.
7. The sound through jack 3.5 is very good! This is a direct discovery for me, I did not expect from the phone for 15k such a sound level.
8. Double flash
9. Fingerprint on the back cover
10. The camera is able to take good pictures.
11. USB-C
12. AndroidOne
13. Thin (in the case will be good)
14. Good signal strength of both the network and WI-FI
15. No onscreen buttons
16. Infrared
17. Metal case
18. High level of autonomy (6 hours of screen when working with 1 SIM)
19. Appearance (I really like how it looks!)
20. Cold (under load practically does not heat up)

Disadvantages: 1. Slippery (it is not possible to use this phone without a cover)
2. Wide enough for use with one hand (perhaps the discomfort from this point will go away when using the cover, as the phone will become less slippery)
3. Native Camera Software (I don’t like the algorithm, as well as the HDR setting constantly flies, each time it needs to be re-enabled)
4. Raw software (hung up once, closed the application I worked in 2 times)
5. Not the most convenient arrangement of the main speaker, I like the front one more than the bottom one.

Comment: Until the acquisition of this unit was the happy owner of the Nexus 5x with which it has been the last 1.5 years. I liked everything about him, with the exception of the memory capacity of 2/16 GB, at the moment for me it is extremely small.
Choosing the next phone stopped on the Samsung S8, LG V20, ZTE Axon 7 and actually Xiaomi mi a1. By a combination of factors, I chose the latter, and I remain very pleased with my choice. Great phone for the right price.
Xiaomi mi a1 is much stronger than the nexus in many ways, but loses in the camera. If for you, the camera is not the most important aspect in the phone, then Xiaomi mi a1 will hardly disappoint you. But dimensions require addiction.
The phone is quite fresh and some software dampness is felt, but not critical. By the way, at the beginning of work, the network of the Nexus 5x fell off altogether, such significant flaws in working with Xiaomi are not observed. It is clear that soon all these nuances will be finished, but I really do not like the camera application.

Advantages: For regular users:

+ Material from which the case is made
+ Location and excellent work of a fingerprint scanner (identifies instantly and accurately)
+ Performance (higher than Mi 5X)
+ Battery
+ Camera
+ Sound
+ Good firmware
+ Fast charge
+ Presence at the same time: 1. Headphone jack 2. USB-Type C 3. microSD module
+ Internet speed
For developers and geeks:

+ A / B system partition (Opens many new features)
+ Easy unlock bootloader
+ Clean Android with long system update support up to Android P, and possibly Q

Disadvantages: - Lack of NFC, but for me it is not critical, since I have been using the watch with the NFC module for a long time
- The location of the buttons (used to the onscreen, but I think, and so it will come down, not a big minus)

Comment: A few words about Fast Charge or Fast Charging. Many have written / are writing / and will also write that their smartphone is charging for a long time and does not support fast charging.
Do not believe it! Fast charging is when the smartphone came with 65 percent, put on charging, I look, and after 30 minutes already 100 percent has run over. The goods are definitely worth their money, so don’t be afraid - take them. And if you are an Android-geek with an old Nexus 4 or 5 and you don’t have enough for a new Pixel with an A / B partition, then you definitely need to take this model, because I think it sets new standards in the development of software for Android. Thank you for reading to the end!

Advantages: Fell in love with the phone at first sight, I like everything very much.

Disadvantages: Lack of NFC. Regarding the problem with 4G, I wrote the solution below;)

Comment: Guys, who has a problem with lte on the first SIM slot, do not worry, the problem is software and is very easy to solve, I was also upset at first. If the first sim loses 4g permanently, do the following. I hope I will be useful
About the Internet 4G / 4G +
Turning off the Internet.
Go to the "phone" -> enter * # * # 4636 # * # *
Set preferred network type: LTE / CDMA / UMTS auto (PRL)
Then go out with the button <(back) on the desktop
Reboot the smartphone
If 4G / 4G + appeared: leave as is!
If not, look further.
Go to Settings-> Wireless networks - More -> Mobile networks. Here we change the type of network first to 3G, then again to 4G