Taking a page from Apple's book of tricks, just like the iPhone 5C , the Mi 4i comes in a number of snazzy colors. There will be five versions to choose from: white, black, blue, orange and pink, and there will also be covers for more color options that you can snap on to the phone to protect it. Depending on the market, some colors may not be available, though I daresay I quite liked the bright matte yellow version best. It reminded me of Nokia's brightly colored Lumia devices. Keeping in line with the move toward larger screens, the Mi 4i comes packing a 5-inch full-HD display -- that's 1,920x1,080 pixels, giving a pixel-per-inch density of 441ppi. This puts the ppi above the iPhone 6 's 326ppi and 6 Plus ' 426ppi, which Xiaomi was keen to point out earlier at the launch a few weeks back.

Everything looked sharp to my eye; fonts were crisp and colors were vibrant, It's certainly not the cheap low-end panel found on most budget phones that come with bad viewing angles, On the contrary, Xiaomi's display uses IPS technology and has a 178-degree viewing angle, This means the screen can be easily viewed from from the sides as well (which is great for sharing), Xiaomi claims that the screen is capable of rendering 95 percent of the NTSC color gamut, and while uag monarch premium iphone xs protective case - carbon fibre I'm no expert, things looked great to my eye..

The only thing that Xiaomi seems to have left out of the phone's design is a microSD card slot for expanding storage, but it does have space for a dual-SIM 4G slot located on the right side of the phone. The Mi 4i is far more than a simple budget phone with nothing else to offer except good specs for its price. The phone actually comes with a built-in hardware feature called Sunlight Display, which uses local tone mapping to identify areas on the screen where it's darker and brightens it so details become clearer under bright sunlight.

Think of this feature as a form of HDR for the 5-inch full-HD display and you'd be right on the mark, One thing to note, though, is that this doesn't work indoors, so if your image is relatively dark, these areas won't be lit up unless you force Sunlight Display to activate by shining a bright light at the light sensor, uag monarch premium iphone xs protective case - carbon fibre This feature does decrease the amount of glare on the display, making it very usable outdoors, which makes a lot of sense to me, since both India and Singapore (where I'm based) are usually bright and sunny, I tried it outdoors and it seems to help, though given the bright glare, it's sometimes hard to make out just when it kicks in..

Besides Sunglight Display, the phone packs a massive nonremovable 3,210mAh battery. It has a quick-charge feature that delivers up to a 40 percent charge in 1 hour and a full charge in 3. It's a really huge battery to squeeze into the 7.8mm frame. For comparison, the 5.1-inch Galaxy S6 is 6.8mm thick and has a 2,550mAh battery. The fact that Xiaomi managed to squeeze in quite a bit more battery capacity with only a slight 1mm increase in the thickness is impressive to me. I'll have more on how well the battery fared later in this review.