Full of peace of mind: big screen and long battery life Xiaomi Max 3 evaluation

IT 168 Evaluation Nowadays, the use of mobile phones is becoming more and more audio-visual and entertaining. Watching videos, brushing Tik Tok and playing mobile games occupy more and more time in users' daily use. Who is not a big consumer of games and videos? I believe that many people have the same anxiety as the author, so a bigger screen and longer battery life have become a great demand. What's more, a spare machine was specially prepared for the enjoyment of audio-visual entertainment.

Xiaomi saw this demand of users and created a series called "Max". After two years, "the big-screen mobile phone is Xiaomi Max" has already been deeply rooted in people's hearts. For users who are looking for long battery life, Xiaomi Max is definitely the best choice with the highest cost performance.

On July 19, Beijing time, Xiaomi Max 3 arrived late in expectation. Next, let's look at such a "big" product.

Let's go!

Appearance configuration: screen, bigger!

Xiaomi Max 3 continues the consistent pursuit of Max series and integrates the current full-screen technology. The width of the whole machine has been reduced from 88.7mm of Max 2 to 87.4 mm While holding it with one hand, the screen has been directly upgraded from 6.44 inches to 6.9 inches, giving people a more extreme big screen view.

Xiaomi Max 3 did not follow this year's wave of special-shaped screens, but chose the 18: 9 full screen popular at the end of last year, accounting for 85. 19% of the screen. The resolution of the screen is also improved from 1920 x 1080 of Max 2 to 2 160x 1080 FHD+, which ensures that there will be no graininess in daily life.

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 screen display

Since the screen of Xiaomi Max 3 is still 18: 9, I pay special attention to it during use. Compared with the current full-screen mobile phone without big screen, it will not display more content, but will enlarge the displayed content as a whole. This is more conducive to the use of the elderly. In addition to the better visual experience brought by the narrower forehead and chin, the black edge control of Xiaomi Max 3 is also very suitable.

▲ Black border details of Xiaomi Max 3

The back of Xiaomi Max 3 still uses the all-metal integrated body that Xiaomi has been using this year. The slight "waist" curvature of the fuselage further improves the comfort in the hand. Due to the reasonable size control, although the author's hand belongs to the smaller one among men, there is no pressure to hold it with one hand.

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 has no pressure with one hand.

In addition, the large-size full-screen used by Xiaomi Max 3 not only gives space for finger exchange operation, but also is not as easy to touch by mistake as the special-shaped full-screen and the operation is clearer when playing games.

Dome antennas are used at the upper and lower ends of the back of the machine. The color of the antenna injection belt is similar to that of the fuselage, which maintains the high integrity of the whole machine, and is more concise visually and will not appear abrupt.

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 upper and lower antennas are integrated.

The processor of Xiaomi Max 3 is Snapdragon 636 from Qualcomm. The main frequency of this processor is 1.8GHz, and its performance is not much different from that of Snapdragon 660, which basically meets the needs of daily use and common games. The upgraded Xiaomi Max 3 has two configurations to choose from, namely 4GB RAM+64GB ROM and 4GB RAM+64GB ROM memory combination, which also ensures the basic experience of Xiaomi Max 3 in audio-visual games.

▲ Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 processor

Xiaomi Max 3' s earpiece and both sides of the speaker below make sound together, which makes surround sound more substitutive when watching video. When playing games, especially when eating chicken in the hottest exciting battlefield, stereo supports listening to voice positions, bringing users a purer game experience.

Xiaomi Max 3*** has three colors to choose from: obsidian black, dream gold and dark blue. Although these colors are not surprising, they are basically suitable for mobile phone users of all ages. This kind of color matching makes no matter what kind of user takes out his hand, it will not appear abrupt.

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 three colors

It's hard to find your opponent's big battery: I'm worried that it's dead the first time! ?

Xiaomi Max 3 continues to exert its strength in battery capacity. The ultra-large capacity of 5500mAh is increased by 200mAh on the basis of Max 2 (for reference, iPad Mini 4: battery capacity is 5 124mAh). According to the official propaganda, Max 3 can play video 17 hours continuously and play games 10 hours continuously.

It is not difficult to do a standby charging test for an ordinary mobile phone, but this mobile phone seems a little different. Originally, I wanted to measure the charging speed again when there was no electricity, but because the battery was a little too full when I got the phone, I wanted to say that I tried my best to use the electricity.

Xiaomi Max 3 supports QC3.0 fast charging and dual-channel parallel charging technology. The official data is that 1 hour can be charged to 7 1%. At room temperature, the measured data obtained without operating the mobile phone at all are as follows: at 2:45 pm, Xiaomi Max 3 was connected to the charging equipment supporting QC3.0, 16% power, at 3: 56 pm, the mobile phone was charged to 75% power, and at 4: 30 pm, the mobile phone was charged to 94% power, which basically met the official data.

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 charging curve

During the whole charging process, holding Xiaomi Max 3 in my hand only feels a little warm and the heat control is better; The temperature of charging equipment is higher than that of Max 3, but it doesn't feel hot, and the heating control of charging equipment is also ideal.

There is a reason why Xiaomi Max series is called "charging treasure that can make phone calls". Xiaomi Max 3 retains the reverse fast charging function of Max 2, and only needs an OTG line to support the provision of 5V 1.2A reverse fast charging second-variable portable charging treasure for other devices.

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 charges other mobile phones in reverse.

Functional support: give you the audio-visual entertainment you want!

On Xiaomi Max 3, in order to facilitate users' daily use and make full use of the big screen of Max 3, Tencent video, Xiaomi video and other applications all support the picture-in-picture function, and the video is placed next to the screen, which is normal and does not affect each other.

▲ Picture-in-picture function of Tencent video

Xiaomi Max3 runs MIUI 10, supports split screen mode, and brushes Weibo while watching video; Chatting on WeChat while watching videos is not a problem. The split screen mode of small screen is not cool enough. I experienced the split screen mode of Max3. Thanks to the large enough screen, no matter whether the split-screen APP is vertical or horizontal, it will not delay the operation on both sides.

▲ Vertical arrangement in split screen mode

▲ The split screen mode is horizontal, and there is no pressure on the two videos.

Xiaomi Max 3 comes with MIUI 10 system-level game toolbox, which includes many functions such as intelligent game acceleration, improving hardware performance, not disturbing messages, and ensuring game network bandwidth. With the processor of Snapdragon 636 and mass storage, after the author's personal experience, running the glory of the king's high frame rate mode has no obvious feeling of being stuck.

▲ the glory of the king high frame rate mode is stress-free.

Flagship rear dual camera+front soft light: know your camera better!

Xiaomi Max 3 has also made some efforts in taking pictures. In terms of hardware, Xiaomi Max 3 rear camera12 million+5 million pixels, main camera12 million pixels, single pixel size 1.4μm, and aperture size f/ 1.9. Add a closed-loop motor to achieve fast and accurate focusing and support dual-core fast focusing.

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 photo proofs during the day

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 outdoor photo proofs

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 indoor shooting proofs

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 night scene shooting sample

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 night scene shooting sample

In terms of software, the camera of Xiaomi Max 3 uses the same AI scene camera as Xiaomi 8. The official said that it supports 25 tags and 206 scene recognition, providing better shooting results.

Judging from the samples taken, in the daytime and outdoor environment, the AI scene is intelligently tagged for imaging, and the rich color reproduction degree is good, but the quality is slightly poor; Under the condition of indoor shooting during the day, because the light is not very strong, the details in the dark light are basically restored well, and the color contrast is also very real, but some details (such as the screen) are not clearly imaged.

Under the condition of shooting at night, the AI scene camera automatically completes the scene recognition at night at the initial stage of shooting, and the imaging quality is good, some details are restored well, and the distant luminous characters are basically clear without astigmatism effect. However, the noise of the sky photographed at night is obvious, and the moving objects are not well grasped.

The camera supports intelligent object recognition, direct photo recognition, photo collation, text translation, and even photo filing. In the demonstration, because the Chinese characters in the luminous screen are recognized by direct shooting, a large number of garbled characters are recognized. I believe that the accuracy will be higher and more accurate when recognizing the characters on paper.

▲ Automatically recognize the text on the screen.

The front of Xiaomi Max 3 is an 8 megapixel camera, which can turn on the soft light in dark conditions. After selecting portrait mode, the front camera supports AI single-shot portrait blur, and the beauty mode can also choose the beauty level according to your own preferences. As can be seen from the following proofs, the overall imaging quality is ok, the character boundary selected by the algorithm is also relatively accurate, and the noise on the black clothes is a bit obvious. After the beauty is turned on, the overall beauty effect is natural and there is no "fake" feeling.

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 pre-opened portrait mode proofs (open beauty)

Personally, I care more about the bonus items:

Xiaomi Max 3 adopts the card slot scheme of three-choice, full netcom 5.0, and supports dual card and 4G online at the same time. This is just the need of domestic consumers. At present, the proportion of dual-card users in China is very high. There are many situations in which one card and one card surf the Internet. We don't have to worry about supporting dual card and 4G online at the same time.

The most important thing for Xiaomi Max 3 to win my favor is to keep the 3.5mm headphone jack, so that no matter watching movies or playing games, you don't have to worry about headphone switching. However, it is worth noting that the package of the mobile phone does not contain headphones, so you need to match your own headphones.

▲ The headphone jack of Xiaomi Max 3 is arranged above the mobile phone.

The fingerprint of Xiaomi Max 3 is still arranged in the familiar back position, and the fingerprint input speed is really fast. Basically, it only takes a few clicks on some parts of the fingerprint collector to identify successfully. (The picture below is a gif picture made at the original speed. )

In addition, the face recognition speed of Xiaomi Max 3 supports AI face unlocking, which gives the author the feeling that it is much faster than iPhone X. After turning on the wake-up switch, I basically pick up the phone and unlock it in one go, without feeling stuck in the middle.

Forgive me for always focusing on some messy functions. Xiaomi Max 3 also retains the function of infrared remote control. In addition to remotely controlling Xiaomi's own TV, only MIUI's own universal remote control APP is needed, which greatly saves the effort of looking for a remote control everywhere.

▲ Xiaomi Max 3 turns on the universal remote control.

Evaluation summary:

Xiaomi Max 3, a mobile phone with obvious functions and long battery life, costs 1699/ 1999 yuan, which is enough to knock on the hearts of many consumers.

Large screen and large capacity battery, QC3.0 fast charge, high cost performance, and many attractive small functions. The progress in taking pictures has basically made Xiaomi Max 3 the best choice for big-screen mobile phones.

In addition to users with audio and video needs, larger display fonts, longer battery life and more convenient intelligent systems are also very suitable for relatively older users.

However, considering the newly released Xiaomi tablet's 4.8-inch screen, 6000nAh battery capacity, main video entertainment function and similar pricing range, I can't help worrying about Xiaomi Max 3, but at least it's a good thing.

Of course, the last and most important point is that when I first saw Xiaomi Max 3, I thought it was the best choice for pressing instant noodle barrels in mobile phones. (Laughter)