Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer - now you know

In spring 2018, at May Xiaomi announced their new model Mi 8 Explorer

Processor, memory, etc,

Model contains processor Octa-core (4x2.8 GHz Kryo 385 Gold & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 385 Silver), having chipset Qualcomm SDM845 Snapdragon 845 (10 nm), Video card on Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer is Adreno 630.

Memory on this model is 128 GB, 8 GB RAM, no external card slot supported, ant this is running Android 8.1 (Oreo), upgradable to Android 9.0 (Pie).

Body and color variants

Xiaomi made their Mi 8 Explorer model with dimensions 74.8mmX154.9mmX7.6mm.

You may own this version in black (transparent back).

Screen on Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer is built as Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, on that point this model was winning 92% devices available by screen size, 6.21 inches, 97.1 cm2 (~83.8% screen-to-body ratio) screen supporting resolution 1080 x 2248 pixels having density 402 pixels in inch with multi touch, regarding glass protection I can mention that used corning Gorilla Glass 5. Few more details regarding screen

• HDR10 display
• DCI-P3
• MIUI 10

Connectivity

Mi 8 Explorer supporting bands EDGE, GPRS, 2G, 3G and LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 12(700), 17(700), 20(800), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500). Performance is about HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (4CA) Cat16 1024/150 Mbps, GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE, CDMA 800 & TD-SCDMA.

Communication types on this model are GPS Yes, with dual-band A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS, USB Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot, Bluetooth 5.0, A2DP, LE, aptX HD, NFC.

Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer features

Few features on the model are - Fast battery charging (Quick Charge 4.0+) - MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.265 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player - Photo/video editor - Document viewer.

Regarding autonomy of this phone, it has Non-removable Li-Po 3000 mAh battery.

Another important things on smartphone are sensors, on this model there are Face ID, fingerprint (under display), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, barometer, compass.

Talking about camera

Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer has two lenses 12 MP, f/1.8, 1/2.55", 1.4µm, 4-axis OIS, dual pixel PDAF 12 MP, f/2.4, 1/3.4", 1.0µm, AF, 2x optical zoom. Few another extra charateristics are Dual-LED flash, HDR, panorama. Video recording on main camera of this device is supported with 2160p@60fps, 1080p@30/240fps, 960fps modes. This is not bad for instance one of available devices at the moment, Huawei Watch 2 2018,

Video camera on selfie camera of Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer is supported with 1080p@30fps choices.