I think a majority of Xiaomi's success was from their "budget" to mid-range phones especially in the third-world countries here, the flagships were just a part of their lineup until people started realizing how good they were relative to their pricing.
The video editing is very ugly though. The colours are WAY too vibrant. There's way too much contrast and the overall image is way too bright. Arun should really improve the colour grading of his videos.
Damn, watching this now makes me want to give more appreciation to Xiaomi, they started the trend that you don't need to spend $1000+ to experience high performance and premium phones.
Not anymore - their ultra phone is now ridiculously priced compared to its specs (same price as Samsung's ultra phone), and the camera donut is so freaking ugly. Xiaomi needs to learn fron the Mi 10 Ultra which had a mid range price + top flagship specs. Also PLEASE BRING BACK THE LONG ZOOM CAMERA (6x+)!
@@subhojit2003 The reason chose companies do this is because they save tons of money by not using the U.S's workers rights. They basically just underpay everyone.
@@randomoneforstuff3696 nahh i dont think so, the one mentioned here was 12s, but the 12 pro was a flagship as well and came at 60k around, and this phone could go toe to toe with samsungs flagship (but samsung gave more warranty so xiaomi has a disadavntage) And specs are lower compared to pricing? Go and check the video of xiaomi's recent flag ship in his video
As a typical US / Western customer who has heard of Xiaomi but haven't thought to buy one because there's Apple and Samsung, it's pretty amazing to see the speedy growth of them in such short of a time. Thanks for making a great showcase, and for getting some very old phones together too!
Don't ever think to buy 🤣🤣 don't spend your earned on money on these Copycats 🙏🏼🙏🏼 you will cry a river for the shitiest experience they give. Bs UI Everything Copied from Apple / Samsung / Huawei
@@thegamerscloud huawei doesn't have any invention. huawei and xiaomi they copy from Apple. and from Samsung. like when Apple releases rose gold colors oppo and huawei just stole the colors
Hey Arun, I am currently researching Xiaomi phones because I am planning to buy and switch to one from my Samsung Galaxe S20+. Thank you for making this video with a comparison to its older Xiaomi models. I appreciate this huge effort you do for the community. Thank you!
@@CombustOrange And that is how you turn your phone into a useless paper weight as Google Pay, banking and certain subscription apps get blocked and or ban the user for tripping the efuse
@@chrischoy9If you are doing it right Google Pay and Most Banking Apps still work. Got an old Xiaomi Phone Here with a custom rom, everything still works
I still remember using my old phones with 2gb and 8gb and used to think what a huge space they had, and now looking back at it, they look so weak compared to today, and this was just about 7 years back, technology is so fast, and this video helped me remember that, nice video.
Chinese phones tend to catch up on storage space upgrade rather quickly more or less for the single fact that WeChat take up tons of space (20~100GB of increment per year depending on usage). But then, even though WeChat isn't that huge outside Chinese speaking communities, many other messenger apps got the exact same issue really.
It's crazy how the size of the internet pages has escalated. My old Galaxy S2 had 8gb internally, and you could use 5 of it, my actual S20 has 8gb of ram alone.
I used Mi8Pro for several years, and although it got a lot of criticism due to its questionable design, I have to say it really delivered a very solid user experience. Nothing fancy to brag about, but it just works, and works well.
Still using the Mi 10 ultra and people are to this day impressed with what it can do. Having a Mi 10 ultra, being a flex at over 2 years after launch, is amazing.
@@Boring6127 if the software is bad then get a different one. Unlike the other phones you mentioned, Xiaomi phones have got custom rom support allowing you to change the software or so called ui to anything you desire .
I don't think it was enthusiast brand , One plus definately was until their 7 , they lost that identity and Never Settle quote is undeserving. Xiaomi was more like great budget but not enthusiast , otherwise they won't sell that many.
They say Xiaomi is one if the best devices you could ever get your hands on. They seem to be improving their designs over time. We all appreciate the fact that this review is highly informative. Keep up the good work.
I have a Redmi 9 and let me tell you , having 64GB of storage and 4 GB RAM with a good Chip for only 140 USD is a really good deal if you ask me , i have been using it for a year now and the performance is still as good as the day i got it , there high-end phone's might not be as good as iphones but the mid to low range Xiaomi phone's are the best bank for your money!
its such a treat to see all the phones progress as i have been a hardcore xiaomi tech user and see the progress their phones have made over the years! props to Arun.
the Mi Mix is still, arguably, their most iconic phone yet...the sheer beauty of the design, and the fact it is the world's first successful bezel-less phone to come to market
I remember when mi3 launched, the only way to keep updated to tech for me was a tv show called cell guru. When they were talking about the phone i felt like okay this is another new Chinese brand with a phone that would cost around 30-40k inr. But he revealed the price I was blown away. The only phone that was considered good at that price was moto G1 which had a sd400 and hd display
Good old days i had bough the redmi 1s at the very first sale unless for Xiaomi I also wouldve went for some Moto E or G series Xiaomi literally threw every competition out of the window and Moto is still recovering till this date 😂.
I’m very VERYY surprised how good the pictures were even on the first phone comparing them to the android and iPhone considering the android quality just was not really ever that good compared to the iPhone even in the recent years, but the camera quality on the mi phones was actually really good looking through the 1st one to the most recent one which really surprised me. They genuinely made a really good phone with a REALLY good price, I am really considering buying one. I really REALLY want them to bring back the mi 9 color ways I think that the oil slick chrome looking colors looked just amazing and want them to bring it back on the newer phones!!!
until recently I've been able to finely compare the Xiaomi 9T Pro, Samsung 10+, and the Huawei P30 Pro, and I did constantly go back to the Xiaomi when it came to picture quality (using the main cam, pro mode, and the GCAM mod) Now I've added the new Asus zenfone 9 to the collection and I absolutely love the Zenfone as a phone, but picturewise whilst using pro mode and GCam mod, the Xiaomi Mi 9T pro gives a way better result, no matter whether it's bright and sunny outside, or whether it's pitch black night, the GCam mod just somehow exceeds the other phones by so big difference that one should think it's not possible... So I will definitely recommend that people use the GCam mod to their phones!! 👌
I'd like to see a video of Arun doing a breakdown of his own original phone design. What parts and software would he use and what would it look like? Maybe even a 3d printed concept model.
What worked for xiaomi was giving options to users to turn off ads, letting them use custom roms while giving warranty ( if your phone gets bricked while flashing new rom, you can still claim warranty), no paid ads or billboards(creating hype using social media which is free), no actors to take royalty and keeping less than 5% margins.
MiUI is one of the only Android skins, if not the only one, that I think feels nearly as good as iOS. When that shot was shown of entering the home screen on Samsung vs Xiaomi, I immediately thought of how well designed Xiaomi’s was versus how Samsung’s just felt a little cheap.
Honourable mention should have been Pcophone F1. I have been using this for four years. Only recently there were some bugs. After factory reset, this set is on the track, again! Love this set.
I love this series though it's really expensive to make. I love your details on all the units and giving it easy understanding for non or newbie in understanding tech. Huge kudos as always Arun. ❤️🎉
@@TemkaUwU Give it time. Sourcing all the phones released every year is difficult to find nowadays especially if it's sealed and unused. If he ever reads this comment, it would give him the idea to it next or he maybe doing it behind the scenes and we never know, so be patient.
Nice one, but I was missing the Mi Mix phones. I understand that they are not the flagship phones, but these always had a neat design tweak to them. The first Mi Mix influenced the design of every other smartphone maker after that
Dude Mi Mix lineup was their most premium phones and most expensive. When their regular Mi flagship prices caught up with mix lineup, they abandoned mix. Just check the built quality, Innovation, internals on a Mi Mix series to their flagships on the same year basis. You will find Mix series is ridiculously premium even compared to apple and Samsungs of those times. I mean Apple and Samsungs were plastics and glass while Mix series was ceramics.
As a side note, they could have skipped 7 as it is considered unlucky in China. "Seven can also be considered an unlucky number since the 7th month (July) is a "ghost month". It also sounds like "to deceive" (欺, pinyin: qī) in Mandarin."
Watching and typing this from my 6 year old Xiaomi mi 6!!! I was looking for a durable, performing phone back then. Guess I picked the right one! :D Best phone I ever had and still works amazingly, actually. Beautiful design, allows me to accomplish all of my tasks, good enough camera, decent speed... Aside from battery life, which decreased as expected after 6 years of use. I feel sooo satisfied about my pick, and also afraid that if I get a new phone, it might not last me as long as this one :/. I might upgrade for a better battery and camera, but my phone will leave the game like a champ. 💪🏻 Gg 2017 Xiaomi 😏👏🏻👏🏻
You know who else can put a smile on your face? Me! I make entertaining content as well, come see for your self and tell me what you think I can do better !🔥
As someone that has had xiaomi/huawei phones for a long time now, i love them. You literally get features that other phones dont; i personally love that i can theme my phone however i want without having to download different apps for it, the fact that you can play games for free, and listen to youtube with the screen off. Very good brand
I had never heard of this company until I started watching this channel, like literally never. The word "Xiaomi" had never been spoken or written in front of me before until I found this channel a few months ago. That's wild to me, how such a massive company in such a major industry was just not something I had ever heard.
boss i remember the mi4 my mom, dad, grandma all used to own a mi 4 ,redmi 4A and more, the redmi 4a looked exactly like the mi 4 , and i still have it but it doesnt work anymore being an s22 ultra user rn, i can say that xiaomi still manages to keep up with the greatest i remember playing pubg all day long on the redmi 4A , brings me back
Got mi 10t in 2020. This was the best phone for the price. And this ui is abit different compared to other phones (like Im swiping for 'back' button) but definitely ok for daily use. The only con is the screen is still lcd
i'm not even kidding i'm ready to pay a huge amount of money to watch this guy because of how much he puts on his videos and man you deserve every bit of support and love you're getting because you had proven you deserve it in every aspect on this platform
@@Techsnowball thats true but man you gotta give this youtuber credit for making such pleasing and appealing content but yeah hope youtube doesn't make this platform even worse as its already is
i really like these "i reviewed every" style videos. the performance comparisons, sales graphs, everything! the way you show things off and the editing is really cool :) please keep making videos like these!
It's clearly an investment and this video will make many times more than that in revenue.. I don't really understand comments like this, he's not doing it for charity.
Same here, I also really like it's finger print sensor on the back. And it's form factor is the best I've ever seen, it's thin, light, not too big and feels so good in the hand.
You know who else can put a smile on your face? Me! I make entertaining content as well, come see for your self and tell me what you think I can do better !🔥
I've been using xiaomi twice now (2019-now) since my old samsung from 2016 always ran out of space for no reason even though i don't really donwload anything. Xiaomi is really good for a budget friendly smartphone, they manage to fix problems that both samsung and iphone flawed in; memory space and battery life expectancy. The recent xiaomi phones even has fast charging where you can get a full battery in just under 25 minutes (without using it or turn on the hotspot during charging)
You know who else can put a smile on your face? Me! I make entertaining content as well, come see for your self and tell me what you think I can do better !🔥
Early Xiaomi devices really changed the world's prejudice on "made in China" techs. I've owned about 10 different models of their phone line up & currently on Poco f3. Will upgrade to Apple once they start using USB C
Arguably DJI is the bigger name for high tech made in China things, though, giving that even their consumer oriented stuffs is now somehow sufficient even for military uses. Xiaomi is more on bringing cost efficient stuffs rather than high tech ones, and in fact, in China they are actually kinda better known for just selling everything, from phones to home electronics to even jackets and backpacks, and their single use batteries and ballpoint pens are oddly good value despite they probably don't sell a lot of. And better yet, their stores are actually called Mi Home rather than Mi Store and that speaks itself.
I love so much the amount of info I learn in this this channel and the amount of effort put into his videos and... No annoying ads, no time wasted in self promotion (like, subscribe, share, etc) and no bullsh*t.
@@justinsm Every single phone even those without an official IP rating are build to not die instantly when they get wet. Also warranty does not accept water damaged phones.
I do not like pop up cameras that much because what if the pop-up mechanism breaks or something? If you have other opinions, feel free to tell me about it
Watching this from the original Mi8! I actually think people don't realize how good this phone still is. The screen on this is just better than the one in my new tab s8, and the camera with gcam produces impressive portraits. Best buy I ever made
I have been using Xiaomi phones in Australia since I first saw them on a Chinese website. I still have a redmi3 sitting in a drawer, which I just turned on and it still has 50% battery state of charge. It was a great little phone for its time. I am currently on an Mi 10 lite, 256 gb, Oled screen ,very nice phone still. The xiaomi phones have always offered great value.
I was extremely skeptical about Xiaomi until I used Xiaomi Mi5. Only Xiaomi and HTC could actually code their OS according to Chipset. Sadly MIUI is too heavy now.
MIUI is more buggy and less innovative now because it seems to me Xiaomi is releasing soooo many devices that they just can't make it work everywhere. The software engineers must be one step from killing themselves with all the work they have to do. Bare in mind that despite the big growth and tons of devices etc the company is still a lot smaller compared to Huawei, Samsung, Apple etc. So they don't have as many people perfecting the software despite having many times more different devices out there than those companies. The release something every damn week. How can anyone keep up trying to release software on a gazillion devices.
@@SIPEROTH MIUI is bad on "non Xiaomi" phones aka redmis and pocos. Xiaomi Mi 10t lite is a much better experience than the "more powerful" Poco X3 pro.
@@HAWXLEADER Well even if they focus more on their first line Mi devices isn't that still wrong? You can say POCO is a little split from them but REDmi is completely Xiaomi, they simply put the REdmi name in-frond of it so they can sell other type devices without confusing it with the simple MI devices. Is even called RedMI. Still Mi devices but RED-MI devices.
@@JeZZGro I won't say my devices are a buggy mess or anything but i got some freeze and glitches every now and then when it never happened before. After every big update it also needs factory reset to work well as well. Also their updates are slow as hell at times. My Redmi 9 Pro just got Android 12, not even 12.1 and Miui 13 when Android 13 is coming out. And the update screwed the drop down menu when in landscape mode as well(clumsy stuff). Also i used to spend 10 minutes to deactivate all add stuff on my Xiaomi device and then used it fine without ever seeing an ad. Not any more. Now every now and then an ad pops up and for the love of me i don't know how they pass it threw since i deactivated everything. BUT, THE ABSOLUTE WORSE, is just the lack of innovation. Even conservative Apple that likes to keep things working as it is has innovated much much more the last few years. When i first got a MIUI phone the system was amazing! Features that you couldn't find anywhere else, a nice designed environment etc, it showed this company started by making Android skins and software. Now, NOTHING! Just NOTHING! No new user ability to modify lock screen etc, no new features on how to use the phone and abilities. Hell they even remove great things they had replacing it with the basic Google stuff. No new productivity features. Just got MIUI 13 and i see no difference from all the 12 versions at all.
I bought my first Xiaomi phone in 2015 after using the Mi3 for a day. MUI was at another level compared to other androids. Since then I'm using their phones and Never thought of switching to another brand in the last few years. But now things have changed, every other smartphone brand has similar phones and similar features. and Xiaomi screwed up MIUI with ads and bugs. Updates became fewer. The same MIUI which attracted me to them is their con now. But the incredible feat they have achieved in 10 years is astonishing. They have the tech to make groundbreaking phones. All they have to do is make MIUI great again and stop copying stuff from Apple.
小米一直也是我喜歡的中國品牌，湖北雷軍真的是非常良心的商人，小米也一直努力推出有性價比的產品Xiaomi has always been my favorite China brand. Hubei Leijun is really a conscientious businessman, and Xiaomi has been trying to introduce cost-effective products.
i loved xiaomi for a year when i first got a phone from them as they are expanding to Eastern Europe now. Cheap (comparatively) phone that works great and has great specs. then i got a xiaomi high end robot cleaner and also love it to this day (will start it after i write this comment as apartment is kind of dirty :D ) but then i got their wifi extender last month and its not good... 5ghz is not working with my connection at all (spent 2 days trying to fix it with every solution i can think of and any solution i could find on the internet). i love that their products offer smart home solutions to lower middleclass people like me( as the price to quality is very good) i will still buy xiaomi products and actually prefer them over some more known tech companies as i know for now im not paying for a brand name im paying for product. even though i had a bad experience with one of their products i will keep buying them because even the bad product is working and im using it and it wasnt so expensive that i would be devastated
I mean what's the problem if he ask for a patreon or a merchandise ? doesn't he deserve them for all the work in his videos ? making videos is like a full job. its not something easy that you would do for free
@@AdamGamingARK I’m not saying there’s a problem it’s just he makes videos for us the fans and not for the money, even if it isn’t profitable he still puts out amazing quality vids which deserves my respect.
Xiaomi is definitely a game changer in Smartphone Market. ❤. Even i no longer use a xiaomi phone i still recommend their devices to my family and friends.
I enjoy these types of videos! Especially the console ones as well. I'd love to see more of those! It's crazy how fast technology has come. We went from these large boxes that is just a speaker to a literal computer in our hands. That's crazy to me.
last 2 phones have been xiaomi phones and they've blown away any competition in the same price bracket from your "traditional" companies. The same can be applied to the other chinese brands on the market too (honor, oneplus) etc
You know who else can put a smile on your face? Me! I make entertaining content as well, come see for your self and tell me what you think I can do better !🔥
I think a majority of Xiaomi's success was from their "budget" to mid-range phones especially in the third-world countries here, the flagships were just a part of their lineup until people started realizing how good they were relative to their pricing.
I have mi 11x and it doesn't feel like a midrange phone
@drysushi it's 3 years of security updates. Also, Xiaomi has an amazing community behind them for software updates beyond the official releases.
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@drysushi 2 years?????
Xiaomi 11T series/12 Series/12T series all support 4 years of updates
💀💀
This video style looks so insanely good - the drawer, the rig. I'm just amazed.
@mrbeast commented on my vid STFU
Hi didn't use the rig though. I expected video quality comparison.
The video editing is very ugly though.
The colours are WAY too vibrant. There's way too much contrast and the overall image is way too bright.
Arun should really improve the colour grading of his videos.
@@everything_huawei_pro4743 yea no
@@BlackParade01 turn down ur brightness 💀
The fact that their mid range usually outclasses all others in price/performance is the true reason of their success!
Nah, not all
The midrange is the redmi version, and the redmi version is shit
@@Boring6127 mid-range is Poco as well, the F series are the best midrange phones
Outclassed, not anymore, they have high prices like everyone else, so it's not worth it anymore, you can buy anything else at the price.
@@geniceka Poco F5 is great, one of the few phones with good performance that still have a headphone jack
"Mi 2 , that name did not age well" 💀
i dont get it
@@MaxBaxPamparapa
"Me too"
😂😂
@@starvoid_official LOL 😂 Bro
If u know u know
Damn, watching this now makes me want to give more appreciation to Xiaomi, they started the trend that you don't need to spend $1000+ to experience high performance and premium phones.
Agreed, most chinese companies used this same formula.
Yems
Not anymore - their ultra phone is now ridiculously priced compared to its specs (same price as Samsung's ultra phone), and the camera donut is so freaking ugly. Xiaomi needs to learn fron the Mi 10 Ultra which had a mid range price + top flagship specs. Also PLEASE BRING BACK THE LONG ZOOM CAMERA (6x+)!
@@subhojit2003 The reason chose companies do this is because they save tons of money by not using the U.S's workers rights. They basically just underpay everyone.
@@randomoneforstuff3696 nahh i dont think so, the one mentioned here was 12s, but the 12 pro was a flagship as well and came at 60k around, and this phone could go toe to toe with samsungs flagship (but samsung gave more warranty so xiaomi has a disadavntage) And specs are lower compared to pricing? Go and check the video of xiaomi's recent flag ship in his video
As a typical US / Western customer who has heard of Xiaomi but haven't thought to buy one because there's Apple and Samsung, it's pretty amazing to see the speedy growth of them in such short of a time. Thanks for making a great showcase, and for getting some very old phones together too!
Don't ever think to buy 🤣🤣 don't spend your earned on money on these Copycats 🙏🏼🙏🏼 you will cry a river for the shitiest experience they give.
Bs UI
Everything Copied from Apple / Samsung / Huawei
@@thegamerscloud huawei doesn't have any invention. huawei and xiaomi they copy from Apple. and from Samsung. like when Apple releases rose gold colors oppo and huawei just stole the colors
@@thegamerscloud eww
@@discovertheuniverse848 scam
@@thegamerscloud sure it's a scam?
Why doesn't mrwhoistheboss do something?
You are taking tech videos to a totally another level man.
Hey Arun, I am currently researching Xiaomi phones because I am planning to buy and switch to one from my Samsung Galaxe S20+. Thank you for making this video with a comparison to its older Xiaomi models. I appreciate this huge effort you do for the community. Thank you!
@Kot Koy Ok just less hatred bro
@@Thebananahandle1407 he is right Xiaomi software is 🤡
@@Hehebroty flash. flash it.
@@CombustOrange And that is how you turn your phone into a useless paper weight as Google Pay, banking and certain subscription apps get blocked and or ban the user for tripping the efuse
@@chrischoy9If you are doing it right Google Pay and Most Banking Apps still work. Got an old Xiaomi Phone Here with a custom rom, everything still works
I still remember using my old phones with 2gb and 8gb and used to think what a huge space they had, and now looking back at it, they look so weak compared to today, and this was just about 7 years back, technology is so fast, and this video helped me remember that, nice video.
Chinese phones tend to catch up on storage space upgrade rather quickly more or less for the single fact that WeChat take up tons of space (20~100GB of increment per year depending on usage). But then, even though WeChat isn't that huge outside Chinese speaking communities, many other messenger apps got the exact same issue really.
Even today 256gb not that huge anymore
It's crazy how the size of the internet pages has escalated. My old Galaxy S2 had 8gb internally, and you could use 5 of it, my actual S20 has 8gb of ram alone.
I used Mi8Pro for several years, and although it got a lot of criticism due to its questionable design, I have to say it really delivered a very solid user experience. Nothing fancy to brag about, but it just works, and works well.
The bots are really tweakin' right now~
No it doesn't..
Xaoimi phones only works for 2 years maximum
@@almahdialsharef6066 can't accept a bs opinion from a guy who has never used one
@@almahdialsharef6066 My Redmi 5 Plus from 2018 is alive and well in 2022 on a custom ROM. Stop the bullshit.
@@almahdialsharef6066 you mean they only get.major OS updates for 2 years. Which is not required to use a phone at all.
Still using the Mi 10 ultra and people are to this day impressed with what it can do. Having a Mi 10 ultra, being a flex at over 2 years after launch, is amazing.
Using an iPhone X when launched with iOS 16 installed and still going strong as it can shoot RAW with Lightroom, hope the same can be said for you.
@@avieshek the Mi Ultra can probably do more
@@cherrio347 lol she got owned.
@@avieshek don’t gotta embarrass all iPhone users
@@avieshek Mi 10 Ultra does more than that lol
Tbh i never had xiaomi but im so happy you made this video so i can finally see how does xiaomi upgrade their phones
The software is bad, so i don't recommend it
Google pixel, samsung and apple is better
@@Boring6127 I have Galaxy S22 but i still like other phones and would like to see them get better
@@Boring6127 Yeah my brother has P30 Pro and even the camera is not good for me because i dont like the colors
@@Boring6127 if the software is bad then get a different one. Unlike the other phones you mentioned, Xiaomi phones have got custom rom support allowing you to change the software or so called ui to anything you desire .
Interesting video. So Xiaomi was once sort of an enthusiast type phone. But it's really grown fast.
@mrbeast commented on my vid that ain't mrbeast that's mryeast
I don't think it was enthusiast brand , One plus definately was until their 7 , they lost that identity and Never Settle quote is undeserving. Xiaomi was more like great budget but not enthusiast , otherwise they won't sell that many.
They say Xiaomi is one if the best devices you could ever get your hands on. They seem to be improving their designs over time. We all appreciate the fact that this review is highly informative. Keep up the good work.
Very true
@@_Anakin_Skywalker in the term of price to performance ratio in low and mid segment ofcourse Xiomi is better but at top segment it's a draw i think
Yeh Xiaomi provides good cheap phones
Honestly the thing that made me not want to get Xiaomi is their software. I'm not a fan of MIUI and how buggy it can be.
I have a Redmi 9 and let me tell you , having 64GB of storage and 4 GB RAM with a good Chip for only 140 USD is a really good deal if you ask me , i have been using it for a year now and the performance is still as good as the day i got it , there high-end phone's might not be as good as iphones but the mid to low range Xiaomi phone's are the best bank for your money!
Really appreciate the editing and the sense of "excitement" carried through the whole video. keep up the good work!
"Who tf would watch a 19 minute video about old xiaomi phones?"
Arun subscribers: "Yes"
Best youtube in the history of mankind
ngl that shirt is sus
Why?
@@Sahil___90796 among us
@@Sahil___90796 among us
Get it because it anong us
How??
its such a treat to see all the phones progress as i have been a hardcore xiaomi tech user and see the progress their phones have made over the years! props to Arun.
the Mi Mix is still, arguably, their most iconic phone yet...the sheer beauty of the design, and the fact it is the world's first successful bezel-less phone to come to market
The A series also w/c was the stock android line-up. Not that iconic but another choice for some. 😁😁
1:06 "My cat was doing weird things to my phone"🔥💀
@OFFICIALMRWHOUSEBOSS 🧢
I feel like you’re the only tech TH-camr that reviews Xiaomi. Love the vid!
I remember when mi3 launched, the only way to keep updated to tech for me was a tv show called cell guru. When they were talking about the phone i felt like okay this is another new Chinese brand with a phone that would cost around 30-40k inr. But he revealed the price I was blown away. The only phone that was considered good at that price was moto G1 which had a sd400 and hd display
Good old days i had bough the redmi 1s at the very first sale unless for Xiaomi I also wouldve went for some Moto E or G series Xiaomi literally threw every competition out of the window and Moto is still recovering till this date 😂.
@@Chin-ny4kj yes I remember Xiaomi was offering same specs at half the price of Moto g. Which was a good value for money phone phone on its own.
But, now in terms of price they're not much different from the other
Whenever this guy uploads, it always makes my day, these videos always have so much effort put into them! Keep up the amazing work!
18:18 Lol you’re now in a rabbit hole. Welcome to hell.
I’m very VERYY surprised how good the pictures were even on the first phone comparing them to the android and iPhone considering the android quality just was not really ever that good compared to the iPhone even in the recent years, but the camera quality on the mi phones was actually really good looking through the 1st one to the most recent one which really surprised me. They genuinely made a really good phone with a REALLY good price, I am really considering buying one. I really REALLY want them to bring back the mi 9 color ways I think that the oil slick chrome looking colors looked just amazing and want them to bring it back on the newer phones!!!
The production value of these videos is insane. Definitely does not go unnoticed
Mrwhosetheboss in 2050: I bought all the spacex rockets!
until recently I've been able to finely compare the Xiaomi 9T Pro, Samsung 10+, and the Huawei P30 Pro, and I did constantly go back to the Xiaomi when it came to picture quality (using the main cam, pro mode, and the GCAM mod)
Now I've added the new Asus zenfone 9 to the collection and I absolutely love the Zenfone as a phone, but picturewise whilst using pro mode and GCam mod, the Xiaomi Mi 9T pro gives a way better result, no matter whether it's bright and sunny outside, or whether it's pitch black night, the GCam mod just somehow exceeds the other phones by so big difference that one should think it's not possible... So I will definitely recommend that people use the GCam mod to their phones!! 👌
Keep on going, king!
The kind of time and effort Arun puts in his content is really commendable
Poor Sonia got 2 comments from bots.
Rip
And a sub to his channel would be . . COMMANDABLE
Really? On these copycats companies?
This is even worth of what? 0.0000000000001 Cent?
@@Poemwriter_Angelo How's her likes now dude!? 😏
@@technicalgamer770 he wasn't making fun of the like count lol, he said that two bots had replied to this comment
I'd like to see a video of Arun doing a breakdown of his own original phone design. What parts and software would he use and what would it look like? Maybe even a 3d printed concept model.
I had a similar thought .... I wonder if you would ever design your own phone
The ultimate boss phone
He has already did it.... PASSION FRUIT
Passion
What worked for xiaomi was giving options to users to turn off ads, letting them use custom roms while giving warranty ( if your phone gets bricked while flashing new rom, you can still claim warranty), no paid ads or billboards(creating hype using social media which is free), no actors to take royalty and keeping less than 5% margins.
MiUI is one of the only Android skins, if not the only one, that I think feels nearly as good as iOS. When that shot was shown of entering the home screen on
Samsung vs Xiaomi, I immediately thought of how well designed Xiaomi’s was versus how Samsung’s just felt a little cheap.
You have the old miui themes on the store too
Miui is only good on flagship phones
I really love your content Aaron. So Top notch & super detailed🔥. Mad love from Kenya🇰🇪
Man, I still remember how astonished I was when the Mi 10 Ultra came out. I love how tech evolves so fast.
It's amazing how Xiaomi as grow 😄 Pretty happy to have one of here first smartphones
Honourable mention should have been Pcophone F1. I have been using this for four years. Only recently there were some bugs. After factory reset, this set is on the track, again! Love this set.
four years already? damn!
Using it with crdroid Android 13 rom with NGK Kernel and gcam mod, nothing comes close to it's performance in today's mid range segment.
The Mi3 was my first ever flagship. Absolutely loved it!
Videos like these put into perspective how far mobile phones have become and how much better they will become given the right perspective
These are the types of videos that keep me entertained. Brilliant video as usual, Arun!
Arun’s getting too good with his contextual jokes 😂
I love this series though it's really expensive to make. I love your details on all the units and giving it easy understanding for non or newbie in understanding tech.
Huge kudos as always Arun. ❤️🎉
Agreed yo
Same I wish Arun makes a vid on Asus sometime but probably never gonna happen
@@TemkaUwU Give it time. Sourcing all the phones released every year is difficult to find nowadays especially if it's sealed and unused. If he ever reads this comment, it would give him the idea to it next or he maybe doing it behind the scenes and we never know, so be patient.
@@ajthefujoshi nah Asus definitely ain't a big enough phone manufacturer for this type of vid
@@TemkaUwU We will never know. 😅
Nice one, but I was missing the Mi Mix phones. I understand that they are not the flagship phones, but these always had a neat design tweak to them. The first Mi Mix influenced the design of every other smartphone maker after that
Dude Mi Mix lineup was their most premium phones and most expensive. When their regular Mi flagship prices caught up with mix lineup, they abandoned mix. Just check the built quality, Innovation, internals on a Mi Mix series to their flagships on the same year basis. You will find Mix series is ridiculously premium even compared to apple and Samsungs of those times. I mean Apple and Samsungs were plastics and glass while Mix series was ceramics.
After his health transformation him and his team have been posting a lot more quietly videos,
Keep up the good work Arun❤️
The editor is doing a marvelous job. As an editor myself I know how hard it is to pull off those effects. Accept my regards!
I really love the way he presents his topic; plus, his highly detailed and simple visualization.
9:10 the first phone that inspired others in 2 Cameras capabilities was the Huawei P9 series back in 2016.
could argue that the LG G5 was first
I have Huawei p9 lite it's camera is phenomenal 😁
And there was the iPhone 7 Plus
Actually it was the HTC One M8 since 2014
Arun has every piece of phone history 🔥
As a side note, they could have skipped 7 as it is considered unlucky in China. "Seven can also be considered an unlucky number since the 7th month (July) is a "ghost month". It also sounds like "to deceive" (欺, pinyin: qī) in Mandarin."
I have been a Xiaomi fan since 2015 ❤️
Thank you so much for highlighting Xiaomi's journey 👍🏻
Watching and typing this from my 6 year old Xiaomi mi 6!!! I was looking for a durable, performing phone back then. Guess I picked the right one! :D Best phone I ever had and still works amazingly, actually. Beautiful design, allows me to accomplish all of my tasks, good enough camera, decent speed...
Aside from battery life, which decreased as expected after 6 years of use. I feel sooo satisfied about my pick, and also afraid that if I get a new phone, it might not last me as long as this one :/.
I might upgrade for a better battery and camera, but my phone will leave the game like a champ. 💪🏻
Gg 2017 Xiaomi 😏👏🏻👏🏻
That is impressive!
The effort you put into your videos are just insane
Love the edit on this
Great work
You know who else can put a smile on your face? Me! I make entertaining content as well, come see for your self and tell me what you think I can do better !🔥
definitely
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@@john_rafael125 no the I hope you die wasn’t too much and yes this comment is a mastapiece
Bot
As someone that has had xiaomi/huawei phones for a long time now, i love them. You literally get features that other phones dont; i personally love that i can theme my phone however i want without having to download different apps for it, the fact that you can play games for free, and listen to youtube with the screen off. Very good brand
I had never heard of this company until I started watching this channel, like literally never. The word "Xiaomi" had never been spoken or written in front of me before until I found this channel a few months ago. That's wild to me, how such a massive company in such a major industry was just not something I had ever heard.
boss i remember the mi4
my mom, dad, grandma all used to own a mi 4 ,redmi 4A and more, the redmi 4a looked exactly like the mi 4 , and i still have it but it doesnt work anymore
being an s22 ultra user rn, i can say that xiaomi still manages to keep up with the greatest
i remember playing pubg all day long on the redmi 4A , brings me back
7:53 that sound is so cute
Got mi 10t in 2020. This was the best phone for the price. And this ui is abit different compared to other phones (like Im swiping for 'back' button) but definitely ok for daily use.
The only con is the screen is still lcd
i'm not even kidding i'm ready to pay a huge amount of money to watch this guy because of how much he puts on his videos and man you deserve every bit of support and love you're getting because you had proven you deserve it in every aspect on this platform
Don't give ideas to youtube
@@Techsnowball thats true but man you gotta give this youtuber credit for making such pleasing and appealing content but yeah hope youtube doesn't make this platform even worse as its already is
i really like these "i reviewed every" style videos. the performance comparisons, sales graphs, everything! the way you show things off and the editing is really cool :) please keep making videos like these!
Can we just stop and appreciate how much he spends just for us to see what the products actually is like in DETAILS
It's clearly an investment and this video will make many times more than that in revenue.. I don't really understand comments like this, he's not doing it for charity.
He is not doing it out of the goodness of his heart, he is sponsored and he gets paid by ad revenue when people watch it
@@Begohan1234 I agree with you, but he could have spent a lot less and still earned lots
i got into xiaomi thru the pocophone f1, still the best phone ive ever had
The F1 really made them a player in Europe
Same here, I also really like it's finger print sensor on the back.
And it's form factor is the best I've ever seen, it's thin, light, not too big and feels so good in the hand.
Finally a video I'm interested in....pity we can't buy them in Australia without taking the risk of buying from dodgy overseas websites
Hello I am the second comment on this video
Ok
Good on you because I also live in australia
You know who else can put a smile on your face? Me! I make entertaining content as well, come see for your self and tell me what you think I can do better !🔥
I'm Australian and have bought from both Kogan and AliExpress with no issues. Also bought a xiaomi phone from Amazon AU once.
I still use my Mi 9T and still love it. Love the beautiful screen, the fancy pop up selfie camera, the big battery and MIUI of course 🙌
Another well thought out content. Thanks for pumping these stuff out, Arun!
I've been using xiaomi twice now (2019-now) since my old samsung from 2016 always ran out of space for no reason even though i don't really donwload anything. Xiaomi is really good for a budget friendly smartphone, they manage to fix problems that both samsung and iphone flawed in; memory space and battery life expectancy. The recent xiaomi phones even has fast charging where you can get a full battery in just under 25 minutes (without using it or turn on the hotspot during charging)
Ever since my first xiaomi phone, I've been in love with the brand and their software. I've always loved them, and I loved watching this video!
You know who else can put a smile on your face? Me! I make entertaining content as well, come see for your self and tell me what you think I can do better !🔥
@@KingKobra49 🎵stop promoting your own channel in the comments it's obnoxious and bad business
@@john_rafael125 yes they need to earn the subs by being everywhere like some guy without a mustache he got verified by being everywhere
16:27 of course its not a mrwhosetheboss video without a rickroll
Dual Rickroll Sus
I've been using Xiaomi for many years now and it's been always fulfilling my expectations. Really good smartphons, and fair prices.
Bro is about to get his hands on every phone in the world
Already did that almost!
oh he will
THE PHONE BOSS
Yea lol his next vid he just gets every device on the planet
Phone give away after for all haha 👼✨💫
16:52 that was sooo damn smooth
Saw the joy on his face when he said this😹❤️ 8:07
14:14 I still have that Mi5, 3GB/32GB varient. Still a very good phone for casual use, just needs a battery replacement.
The fact that he is filming this at 12 in the night is just it for me
I wish they had a better reputation for software support. I've been really tempted by them lately.
Early Xiaomi devices really changed the world's prejudice on "made in China" techs. I've owned about 10 different models of their phone line up & currently on Poco f3. Will upgrade to Apple once they start using USB C
Arguably DJI is the bigger name for high tech made in China things, though, giving that even their consumer oriented stuffs is now somehow sufficient even for military uses. Xiaomi is more on bringing cost efficient stuffs rather than high tech ones, and in fact, in China they are actually kinda better known for just selling everything, from phones to home electronics to even jackets and backpacks, and their single use batteries and ballpoint pens are oddly good value despite they probably don't sell a lot of. And better yet, their stores are actually called Mi Home rather than Mi Store and that speaks itself.
And that was xiaomi's main goal
you mean downgrade* to Apple
I love so much the amount of info I learn in this this channel and the amount of effort put into his videos and... No annoying ads, no time wasted in self promotion (like, subscribe, share, etc) and no bullsh*t.
Got my 9t long time ago, and still enjoying it. Such a shame they don't make pop up cameras anymore
For real, the last one was like poco f2 pro.
Fr, pop up cameras seem like such a good idea. It was probably because there was some problems adding that feature.
U can't add IP rating on phone with pop up camera. Plus not that powerful
@@justinsm Every single phone even those without an official IP rating are build to not die instantly when they get wet. Also warranty does not accept water damaged phones.
I do not like pop up cameras that much because what if the pop-up mechanism breaks or something? If you have other opinions, feel free to tell me about it
Watching this from the original Mi8! I actually think people don't realize how good this phone still is. The screen on this is just better than the one in my new tab s8, and the camera with gcam produces impressive portraits. Best buy I ever made
I really love all your high effort videos! Best tech channel indeed! :)
I have been using Xiaomi phones in Australia since I first saw them on a Chinese website. I still have a redmi3 sitting in a drawer, which I just turned on and it still has 50% battery state of charge. It was a great little phone for its time. I am currently on an Mi 10 lite, 256 gb, Oled screen ,very nice phone still. The xiaomi phones have always offered great value.
I was extremely skeptical about Xiaomi until I used Xiaomi Mi5. Only Xiaomi and HTC could actually code their OS according to Chipset. Sadly MIUI is too heavy now.
MIUI is more buggy and less innovative now because it seems to me Xiaomi is releasing soooo many devices that they just can't make it work everywhere.
The software engineers must be one step from killing themselves with all the work they have to do.
Bare in mind that despite the big growth and tons of devices etc the company is still a lot smaller compared to Huawei, Samsung, Apple etc.
So they don't have as many people perfecting the software despite having many times more different devices out there than those companies.
The release something every damn week. How can anyone keep up trying to release software on a gazillion devices.
@@SIPEROTH MIUI is bad on "non Xiaomi" phones aka redmis and pocos.
Xiaomi Mi 10t lite is a much better experience than the "more powerful" Poco X3 pro.
@@SIPEROTH I have Mi 10 and i had 0 bugs and problems.
@@HAWXLEADER Well even if they focus more on their first line Mi devices isn't that still wrong?
You can say POCO is a little split from them but REDmi is completely Xiaomi, they simply put the REdmi name in-frond of it so they can sell other type devices without confusing it with the simple MI devices.
Is even called RedMI. Still Mi devices but RED-MI devices.
@@JeZZGro I won't say my devices are a buggy mess or anything but i got some freeze and glitches every now and then when it never happened before.
After every big update it also needs factory reset to work well as well.
Also their updates are slow as hell at times. My Redmi 9 Pro just got Android 12, not even 12.1 and Miui 13 when Android 13 is coming out.
And the update screwed the drop down menu when in landscape mode as well(clumsy stuff).
Also i used to spend 10 minutes to deactivate all add stuff on my Xiaomi device and then used it fine without ever seeing an ad.
Not any more. Now every now and then an ad pops up and for the love of me i don't know how they pass it threw since i deactivated everything.
BUT, THE ABSOLUTE WORSE, is just the lack of innovation.
Even conservative Apple that likes to keep things working as it is has innovated much much more the last few years.
When i first got a MIUI phone the system was amazing! Features that you couldn't find anywhere else, a nice designed environment etc, it showed this company started by making Android skins and software.
Now, NOTHING! Just NOTHING!
No new user ability to modify lock screen etc, no new features on how to use the phone and abilities. Hell they even remove great things they had replacing it with the basic Google stuff. No new productivity features. Just got MIUI 13 and i see no difference from all the 12 versions at all.
I bought my first Xiaomi phone in 2015 after using the Mi3 for a day. MUI was at another level compared to other androids. Since then I'm using their phones and Never thought of switching to another brand in the last few years. But now things have changed, every other smartphone brand has similar phones and similar features. and Xiaomi screwed up MIUI with ads and bugs. Updates became fewer. The same MIUI which attracted me to them is their con now.
But the incredible feat they have achieved in 10 years is astonishing. They have the tech to make groundbreaking phones. All they have to do is make MIUI great again and stop copying stuff from Apple.
1:58 that name did not age well LMAO
小米一直也是我喜歡的中國品牌，湖北雷軍真的是非常良心的商人，小米也一直努力推出有性價比的產品Xiaomi has always been my favorite China brand. Hubei Leijun is really a conscientious businessman, and Xiaomi has been trying to introduce cost-effective products.
4:45 I do remember this time. It was like we were fighting to buy this smartphone. Unluckily I wasn’t able to purchase it due to the rush.😂😂😢
Thank you so much for this update! It's really entertaining and informative for us who are into Xiaomi products! All the best! 💖
No one gonna talk about earphone jack at 9:30 🤣🤣🤣
i loved xiaomi for a year when i first got a phone from them as they are expanding to Eastern Europe now. Cheap (comparatively) phone that works great and has great specs. then i got a xiaomi high end robot cleaner and also love it to this day (will start it after i write this comment as apartment is kind of dirty :D ) but then i got their wifi extender last month and its not good... 5ghz is not working with my connection at all (spent 2 days trying to fix it with every solution i can think of and any solution i could find on the internet). i love that their products offer smart home solutions to lower middleclass people like me( as the price to quality is very good) i will still buy xiaomi products and actually prefer them over some more known tech companies as i know for now im not paying for a brand name im paying for product. even though i had a bad experience with one of their products i will keep buying them because even the bad product is working and im using it and it wasnt so expensive that i would be devastated
2:20 Now we know what time Arun really records his vids
One of the only TH-camrs left who doesn’t ask us for money, for a patreon or merchandise. Mad respect😎
I mean what's the problem if he ask for a patreon or a merchandise ? doesn't he deserve them for all the work in his videos ? making videos is like a full job. its not something easy that you would do for free
@@AdamGamingARK I’m not saying there’s a problem it’s just he makes videos for us the fans and not for the money, even if it isn’t profitable he still puts out amazing quality vids which deserves my respect.
Xiaomi is definitely a game changer in Smartphone Market. ❤. Even i no longer use a xiaomi phone i still recommend their devices to my family and friends.
The fact that the phones are reasonably cheaper and not money-eating, the software and performance stuff is just genuinely mind blowing!
I would have loved to see some photos taken in different environments and lights with all the phones for comparison.
I enjoy these types of videos! Especially the console ones as well. I'd love to see more of those! It's crazy how fast technology has come. We went from these large boxes that is just a speaker to a literal computer in our hands. That's crazy to me.
4:50 c4etech ash 🔥🔥
last 2 phones have been xiaomi phones and they've blown away any competition in the same price bracket from your "traditional" companies. The same can be applied to the other chinese brands on the market too (honor, oneplus) etc
The most dedicated channel ever. True representation of how much he loves his own fans and fan base. Truly wholesome.
"Most Dedicated" is subjective.
You know who else can put a smile on your face? Me! I make entertaining content as well, come see for your self and tell me what you think I can do better !🔥
I do not think he is the best of the best, but he spends a lot of time making content so we can enjoy it
when the xiaomi drops just a few scratches, when a samsung falls the battery explodes
@@john_rafael125 thanks for copying and pasting and that little creature trying to get money
Your video quality are just on other level
I remember using my brother's mi 4 back in those days .....it was one of the first phone that I ever used of Xiaomi 😂😂 good old days
ok
@@zoro_065 yes
@@ADVERSE04 NO
Bruh the amount of effort he puts into these videos is unreal, he does this just for us, love the vid Arun
2:56 Did anyone notice Minecraft in MI 2
I noticed