It's plastic-perfectly acceptable at this price range-but there isn't an ounce of give to the body. The Mi 4i is solid, compact 5-inch device that feels like it's worth a lot more than $200. When it comes to building a phone, Xiaomi seems to have something figured out that the rest of the industry hasn't. In the battery department, we're always looking for more. Still, it's nice to see a battery this big in such a compact device. Almost all the smartphones we try out have great screens, fast processors, and speedy connectivity. The battery life is comparable to the Moto G, but despite packing an extra 1050 mAh, the Mi 4i doesn't blow it away. ![]() The 3120 mAh battery certainly seems impressive, but it didn't score as well as we were expecting in our battery tests. The difference, (besides the extra $20) is something we've seen over and over from Xiaomi: it has lower prices than anyone else. You might think it's because the Moto G is from 2014, but the rumored 2015 Moto G specs are pretty similar. That's a huge difference between the two devices. The best part is the battery: the Moto G has a 2070 mAh battery, but the Mi 4i has a much larger 3120 mAh battery. Neither device has NFC, but the Mi 4i trades the microSD slot for a second SIM slot, and-oh yeah-the Mi 4i has LTE. You get a 5-inch 1080p screen, a 1.7GHz (64-bit) Snapdragon 615, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and a 13MP camera. The Mi 4i takes those specs and bumps just about everything up a tier. The price puts it in the same ballpark as the $180 Moto G, but compare the specs and you'll see that Xiaomi blows away Motorola's nearly year-old phone. The 2014 Moto G has a 5-inch 720p display, a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, and an 8MP camera. Today we're looking at the recently launched Mi 4i, a Xiaomi phone that costs just $200. We've mostly paid attention to the company's flagship lineup- the Mi 4 and the Mi Note-but when even the high end stuff is only $480, what do the company's lower-end offerings look like? ![]() It combines great build quality and specs for prices that are often half that of the competition. While some smartphone OEMs seem to be in autopilot mode, Xiaomi looks like it's built for disruption. Xiaomi is one of the more interesting OEMs out there. RBG notification LED, dual SIM slots, LTE, Quick Charge 2.0 Eight-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 (Four 1.7 GHz Cortex-A53 cores and four 1.0 GHz Cortex-A53 cores)ĭual Band 802.11b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
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