90 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 67BUYING GUIDE
2,340x1,080 resolution is on point, if below what
Samsung et al are capable of offering when pushing
their handsets beyond the default settings.
It offers a typical 430cd/m^2 brightness (we
measured 414cd/m^2 ), up to 60,000:1 contrast, and
version 2.0 of Xiaomi’s Sunlight- and Reading mode
features. And it’s protected with Gorilla Glass 6, which
Corning claims is two times better than Gorilla Glass 5.
Looking around the edges there’s still no
headphone jack (a 3.5mm adaptor is in the box),
but there are two new features as well as improved
audio from the integrated loudspeaker, which now
features deeper bass and uses dynamic gain to
amplify sound by 100 percent.
A button on the left edge by default wakes the
Google Assistant. (If you’re buying the Chinese version
of this phone you’ll instead have access to Xiaomi’s
own AI client.) This can be changed to quick-launchLooking around the
edges there’s still no
headphone jack