Xiaomi on
Thursday launched the Mi Max in India, its "largest smartphone yet",
priced at Rs. 14,999. It will be available from Mi.com in its first flash sale
on July 6, with registrations opening on Thursday. The company at the event
also unveiled the global ROM of MIUI 8. Open sale on all partner platforms will
begin on July 13.
To
recall, the Xiaomi Mi Max had been launched first in China in May. The
all-metal body smartphone is available in Dark Grey, Gold, and Silver colours.
It sports a fingerprint scanner on the rear panel. While the company had
unveiled three variants in China, only one variant has arrived in India - 3GB
RAM/ 32GB inbuilt storage/ Snapdragon 650 SoC.
The
Chinese conglomerate added that the Snapdragon 652 variant 4GB of RAM and 128GB
of inbuilt storage will also be available soon in India - Xiaomi
says it will be priced at Rs. 19,999. All variants of the smartphone come with
a hybrid dual SIM configuration, allowing users to place up to a 128GB microSD
card in the secondary SIM card slot.
Xiaomi
also announced 3 months of free movies and 1 year of unlimited music on Hungama
Play for the first 1 million Mi Max, Mi 5, and Redmi Note 3 users. Free Batman
vs. Superman movie streaming for first 10,000 Mi Max users.
Xiaomi Mi
Max specifications and features:
The phablet is equipped with a 6.44-inch full
HD (1080p) display on top of Corning Gorilla Glass 3. Under the hood the
phablet is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 650 hexa-core processor which includes two Cortex A72
cores and four Cortex A53 cores paired with 3GB of RAM and 32GB onboard
storage. There two other variants, both of which are powered by Qualcomm’s
Snapdragon 652 SoC that comes with four Cortex A72 and four Cortex A53 cores.
One variant is paired with 3GB of RAM and 64GB storage while the
top-of-the-line Mi Max variant comes with 4GB of RAM and 128GB onboard storage.
A microSD card slot for further expansion is also available. Both the
Snapdragon 652 and 650 come with Qualcomm’s Adreno 510 GPU but the two additional powerful Cortex A72 cores
in the Snapdragon 652 gives it an edge in terms of performance.
On the
photography front, the Mi Max is equipped with a 16-megapixel rear camera with
f/2.0 along with dual-tone LED flash and PDAF. Up front, there is a 5-megpaixel
camera with beautify 85-degrees wide-angle selfie camera for photos and video
calling. The Mi Max is equipped with a 4,850mAh battery, which the company says
is decent enough to offer full day talktime and lasts 20 percent more than the
Redmi Note 3. It also includes Qualcomm’s Quick Charge support to quickly charge the device. In terms of
connectivity, the Mi Max features 4G LTE with VoLTE support, Wi-Fi 802.11ac,
GPS and Bluetooth. The Mi Max runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow and will soon receive
MIUI 8.
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