ISSUE 65 • ANDROID ADVISOR 21REVIEWsiblings, but you'll find the edges are more aggressively
curved than on the Mi 9 at the rear, and significantly
more so than on the virtually flat-back Mi 9 SE. At
198g and 8.8mm thick it does feel reasonably weighty,
but it's not too much in our opinion.
The Mi 9T stands out for its 6.39in full-display, an
AMOLED panel that supports a Full-HD+ resolution of
2,340x1,080 pixels and a tall 19.5:9 aspect ratio. This is
our favourite kind of screen technology, allowing for
vivid colours and rich, deep blacks. It has a fingerprint
sensor built directly into it, which worked well in our
tests thanks to its larger detection area. Xiaomi claims
its scanner can recognize fingerprints 25 percent
faster than previously.
It's the same size display as on the standard Mi 9,
though obviously has a greater screen area without
the notch – there's a 91.7 percent screen-to-body
ratio, according to Xiaomi. Mi 9 SE is only slightly
smaller at 5.97in, but even though we're talking
about less than half an inch it makes a real difference
to how the phone feels in the hand.
Mi 9T also supports Xiaomi's newly customizable
Always-on ('Ambient') display, but this is switched off
by default to preserve battery life. In truth it consumes
only a fraction of the phone's power, and is actually
designed to save battery power with you waking
the screen less frequently to check the time or for
notifications. Given that there's no notification LED,
we'd recommend switching it on.
Our only real issues with the design concern
how slippery the glass can be (less so if you use the
supplied silicone case), and how easily the Mi 9T picksISSUE 65 • ANDROID ADVISOR 21REVIEWsiblings, but you'll find the edges are more aggressively
curved than on the Mi 9 at the rear, and significantly
more so than on the virtually flat-back Mi 9 SE. At
198g and 8.8mm thick it does feel reasonably weighty,
but it's not too much in our opinion.
The Mi 9T stands out for its 6.39in full-display, an
AMOLED panel that supports a Full-HD+ resolution of
2,340x1,080 pixels and a tall 19.5:9 aspect ratio. This is
our favourite kind of screen technology, allowing for
vivid colours and rich, deep blacks. It has a fingerprint
sensor built directly into it, which worked well in our
tests thanks to its larger detection area. Xiaomi claims
its scanner can recognize fingerprints 25 percent
faster than previously.
It's the same size display as on the standard Mi 9,
though obviously has a greater screen area without
the notch – there's a 91.7 percent screen-to-body
ratio, according to Xiaomi. Mi 9 SE is only slightly
smaller at 5.97in, but even though we're talking
about less than half an inch it makes a real difference
to how the phone feels in the hand.
Mi 9T also supports Xiaomi's newly customizable
Always-on ('Ambient') display, but this is switched off
by default to preserve battery life. In truth it consumes
only a fraction of the phone's power, and is actually
designed to save battery power with you waking
the screen less frequently to check the time or for
notifications. Given that there's no notification LED,
we'd recommend switching it on.
Our only real issues with the design concern
how slippery the glass can be (less so if you use the
supplied silicone case), and how easily the Mi 9T picks