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Xiaomi Mi 8 6.21 Inch 4G LTE Smartphone Snapdragon 845 6GB 64GB - $668 Delivered (HK) @ amaysim eBay

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Xiaomi Mi 8 6.21 Inch 4G LTE Smartphone Snapdragon 845 6GB 64GB - $668 Delivered (HK) @ amaysim eBay
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The new Xiaomi Mi8 is on sale on the Amaysim eBay page.

Xiaomi Mi 8 is a high end flagship phone from top Chinese phone brand Xiaomi announced a month ago.

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NETWORKTechnologyGSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE2G bands
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 and SIM 23G bands
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100 - SIM 1 only4G bands
LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 12(700), 17(700), 20(800), 34(2000), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) - SIM1 onlySpeed
HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps,
LTE-A (4CA) Cat16 1024/150 Mbps
GPRSYes
EDGEYes

Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) (One 3G/4G SIM and One 2G SIM)

  • HDR10 display
  • DCI-P3
  • MIUI 10

Qualcomm SDM845 Snapdragon 845

Infrared face recognition, fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, barometer, compass

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  • lostn on 10/06/2018 - 18:04
    +1

    seems every phone looks like an iPhone X now. Should Apple feel angry or flattered?

    • Bellpop on 10/06/2018 - 18:07

      ‘Brave’

    • nanoxz on 10/06/2018 - 18:18
      +1

      gets used to it

    • kingmw on 10/06/2018 - 19:09
      +2

      Apple feels "Courageous"

      • Bellpop on 10/06/2018 - 19:21
        +1

        Oh I meant courageous! Haha

    • jasswolf on 10/06/2018 - 19:44
      +9

      You might want to go back and look at the history of smartphones to realise that Apple refines ideas, rather than creating them outright.

      • Baron-K on 10/06/2018 - 20:30
        +1

        It's all moot anyway. Notches are hideous. Full stop

        • jasswolf on 10/06/2018 - 20:36
          +1

          It's just companies clamouring to squeeze more screen into the form factor. The notch will disappear once companies figure out a way to get the front camera array out of the way.

        • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2018 - 21:17
          +1

          I like them. Stop passing off your opinion as irrefutable fact.

        • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2018 - 21:18

          @jasswolf: That supposed leak of the Mi Mix 2S with a tiny cutout notch in one corner looked good. Sadly it was a fake. But if Mi Mix 3 looks like that I'd be down.

        • Diji1 on 10/06/2018 - 22:44

          I like them because it makes devices smaller and my status bar was doing nothing in the middle so it makes sense to put the camera there.

          So it was a good design decision by Apple.

          Where is the device with the notch that they refined this idea off or is it just another case of Apple making good design decisions that everybody else sees and goes yep, good idea, let's do it and non-Apple users inventing a fantasy where non-Apple devices are the real innovators and Apple just "refined" the idea and then everybody copied Apple because they're dumbos.

          Or something.

        • lostn on 11/06/2018 - 11:14

          @Diji1:

          It doesn't look good when there's full screen apps missing part of the app. Or you're watching a movie, and part of your video is cut out. This is very distracting.

          The apps would need to be rewritten to be compatible around the notch, and since Android is open, everyone will have different sized notches making this pretty difficult. At least with iPX, it's a standardised notch.

      • lostn on 10/06/2018 - 21:02
        +11

        Apple isn't the first to do it.

        But whenever there's mass copycatting, they are copying Apple, not whoever Apple refined the idea from. In other words, the copycatting doesn't begin until Apple throws their hat into the ring. Before that, the idea is not considered relevant.

        They weren't the first to remove the 3.5mm jack either. But after Apple did it, it became trendy and almost everyone else has started removing the jack, even when there was no good reason to (Apple's reason is they couldn't fit it into the body which imo is poor engineering). But other manufacturers who can fit it into the body have dropped it, including Google who only a year earlier took jabs at Apple for removing it.

        Ideas exist before Apple. But Apple defines trends. They lead, others follow. An idea isn't considered good until Apple says it is. And if Apple says a good thing is bad, everyone else changes their mind and says it's bad too.

        I don't like the immense respect their competitors are giving them, but it's the world we live in.

      • Diji1 on 10/06/2018 - 22:33
        +2

        OK so what looked like the iphone before the iphone?

        • Diji1 on 10/06/2018 - 22:46
          +1

          @jasswolf: Uh wut?

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton

          Let me guess: Palm Pilot wasn't copying Apple because Apple doesn't design stuff?

        • overlook on 10/06/2018 - 23:06
          +1

          @Diji1:

          wth..why are you guys talking about PDAs…

        • jasswolf on 10/06/2018 - 23:23
          -2

          @Diji1: and the Newton copied the PDAs of the 80s, they just tried to make it about the screen for user input.

          And then the Palm Pilot minaturised it, and then the O2 XDA series made it a phone too:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_Xda

          … and then we got the iPhone. Apple aren't that creative, they're just a tech company that focuses more on design facets than many others.

        • lostn on 11/06/2018 - 11:23
          +1

          @jasswolf:

          I don't think Apple comes up with all that many original ideas. But they popularize everything they do. I can't say with confidence that if Apple never got into smartphones, the Android phones we have today would look the way they do. It's possible we were already heading in that direction and Apple just got there first and took all the credit for popularizing the no-buttons-all-screen candy bar design. I am very certain that we wouldn't have got where we are now as fast as we did if Apple hadn't made the iPhone.

          There was resistance to the idea of doing away with the keyboard/numpad and going all touch screen. Now you can't buy any other type of phone. The industry and consumers have embraced everything Apple did even when they were at first skeptical.

        • cloud226 on 11/06/2018 - 12:33
          -1

          @jasswolf: LOL! It's not that it has a large screen, then you can call it iPhone. It has the completely different interactive way - a stylus vs a finger, a resistive touchscreen vs capacitive if you cared about the underneath tech lol

        • jasswolf on 11/06/2018 - 15:46
          -1

          @cloud226: you're not serious claiming that Apple invented capacitive touchscreens, are you?

        • cloud226 on 11/06/2018 - 16:15

          @jasswolf: You are not serious about innovation == inventing every single piece of tech in the device, are you?? Apple is first one having multi-touch on the capacitive screen, (remember when Android supported multi-touch?) and it brought the true internet experience to the mobile single handed. Are you saying these are not innovation? And before all that, the full graphic interface operation system, if you insisted not to do your own research. Innovation isn't just lab research and science paper!

        • jasswolf on 11/06/2018 - 16:30

          @cloud226: my point was about the iterative nature of design that is influenced by competition and technical breakthroughs.

          Apple is rarely a company that pushes through technical breakthroughs. The original iPhone was one. The front camera array on the iPhone X is arguably another, except that they put it on the front of the phone so you could motion capture your face…

          Yet, the marketing hype is so real we're left with a company that 'invents' things rather than what they really are: a luxury phone company that prides itself on locking down the user experience.

    • smuggler on 10/06/2018 - 20:30

      Ermm…Note 8, S8?

      • lostn on 10/06/2018 - 21:07

        Those came out before iPhone X btw.

        S9 would have been well into development by the time iPX was out, so no change.

        Let's wait and see what S10 looks like. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a notch.

    • pc6673 on 11/06/2018 - 01:43

      guess someone only knows iphone since ipone4's big success, but please extending your knowledge about Android….the xiaomi mix and iphone X design styles are originally from one Sharp android phone of 2013. Too many people only experience ios/iphone before comparing with one android flagship.

      • lostn on 11/06/2018 - 11:11

        the xiaomi mix and iphone X design styles are originally from one Sharp android phone of 2013.

        Yeah well here's the thing.. they could have copied the Sharp Android phone years ago but never did. Why not? Because they didn't think it was a good design. Not until Apple said it was a good design did they decide, hey maybe it really is good. So they aren't actually copying Sharp's idea. They are copying Apple's idea of copying Sharp. Make no mistake, if Apple didn't make the iPX, Xiaomi would not be making a phone like this.

        In less than a year since the iPX, there has been a huge influx of notch based Android phones releasing, even from the bigger and more respectable OEMs (except Samsung) and not just cheap Chinese knock offs who copy everything. How many notch based Android phones released from 2013-2017? Not many. At most I've seen a camera lens mini notch. Is this a coincidence?

  • timbobjim on 10/06/2018 - 18:09

    Don’t poke the bear…

  • ash2000 on 10/06/2018 - 18:22

    No MicroSD slot, what a shame.

  • Azif on 10/06/2018 - 18:31
    +10

    Something something band 28

    • CyberMurning on 10/06/2018 - 18:44

      No no

    • XCelR8 on 10/06/2018 - 18:51

      I dont think this has NFC as well? Can anyone elaborate?

      • Xavier1128 on 10/06/2018 - 19:07

        You are RIGHT, no NFC or wireless charging on this model.

      • zoner on 10/06/2018 - 19:32
        +1

        It does have NFC, the new MI8 SE doesn't have NFC though

        • XCelR8 on 10/06/2018 - 20:04
          +1

          Thanks i knew there was a version without it.

          I wish they would go back to smaller screens, i have the Mi 6 and its PERFECT!

        • zoner on 10/06/2018 - 20:29

          @XCelR8:

          Yeah, samesame….I have the mi5s….but what I found out is that the 5.2 is the actual screen size….which makes the 6.22" (1" bigger) screen only a 1cm bigger phone.

  • SpaceNinja on 10/06/2018 - 18:33
    +8

    Take that apple and samsung, this phone has both notch and chin!

  • Hirolol on 10/06/2018 - 19:18
    +8

    No headphone jack

  • parker2004au on 10/06/2018 - 19:24
    +7

    It seems every Xiaomi there's one thing missing - either no sdcard, no NFC or no usb type c, or no 4000mah capacity battery.

    Wish they made a super phone as I've been happy with their cheap options over the years

    • Shiq1 on 10/06/2018 - 20:14

      I still have the Mi Mix 1 with the 18k gold 256gb/6gb ram

      I've never needed an SD card, but has the rest.

      • Wonderfool on 11/06/2018 - 01:46

        They'll get my attention immediately if the mi mix get back the 6.4 form factor (or 6.7 in 18:9 case).

        I hope mi max 3 lives up to the hype.

    • habib23q on 10/06/2018 - 20:38
      +3

      My Xiaomi Mi Max 2 has sd card slot with a 200gb sd card, USB type C as well as 5300mah battery. Bought it last November still going strong.

    • iamnotafish on 10/06/2018 - 20:46

      So true. I have the MI6 and love the phone, except the lack of SD card. Was one of the few phones that still have an IR blaster, which I need to control PVR, whose remote has long died.

      Don't know why they didn't include NFC, as this means no Google Pay contactless payments - not that I really use it anyway, but just another compromise made.

      • urbancartel on 10/06/2018 - 21:07
        +1

        I had a MI6 and I'm sure it had NFC as I'd never had a phone with it before?

        EDIT - just checked the specs and it has the following "Full-feature NFC, supports read/write, card emulation, and P2P" might wanna check your settings ;)

    • [Deactivated] on 10/06/2018 - 21:07

      I need NFC, SD card slot and headphone Jack. I guess I'll never buy a Xiaomi phone

  • Jamesx on 10/06/2018 - 19:42
    +3

    Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) (One 3G/4G SIM and One 2G SIM) ~WTH?

    • Piztol on 10/06/2018 - 22:13
      +2

      I'm pretty sure it supports 4G on both sims at the same time.

      • redcreek200 on 11/06/2018 - 13:47
        -1

        @piztol. specs disagree with you.

        • Piztol on 11/06/2018 - 16:49
          +1

          Both sims are not locked to any operator, both 4G standby (支持双卡不限运营商，均可4G驻网, from Xiaomi official website: https://www.mi.com/mi8/specs/)

          Actually dual 4G standby is a very basic function supported since Mi 5 or even earlier.

  • Baron-K on 10/06/2018 - 20:27
    +2

    Xiaomi lost the plot on this one. Best value currently is MI MIX 2 IMO. Join the Mi Mix Masterrace!

    • smuggler on 10/06/2018 - 20:30
      -6

      no ty. I don't want the Chinese government looking at my data

      • jimbler on 10/06/2018 - 20:47
        +10

        Because the Chinese Government have a massive interest in a Neville Nobody from Bankstown. They probably have you under 24/7 surveillance as well to see if you shop at Aldi or Coles.

        • smuggler on 10/06/2018 - 21:01
          -4

          I'd rather buy a Chinese phone than go to Bankstown

  • altomic on 10/06/2018 - 20:30
    +5

    $604 delivered on aliexpress (after 8% cashrewards) shipped by DHL - link

    • lazybones1987 on 10/06/2018 - 20:34

      Wouldn't Amaysim shipping be faster compared to the 30-39 days by Aliexpress?

      • altomic on 10/06/2018 - 20:56
        +2

        shipped by DHL - should be actually be 3-5 days.

    • cosmickinect on 10/06/2018 - 22:13
      +1

      true much cheaper but with amaysim you do get 2 year Australian warranty

  • lazybones1987 on 10/06/2018 - 20:32
    +3

    The cameras on the Xiami MI 8 seem to be better (IMO) on most aspects when compared to the Huawei P20 Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PitbFOmyIR4

  • lostn on 10/06/2018 - 21:10

    If you want to buy an import phone without paying new taxes, you better do it this month.

  • FutureTech on 10/06/2018 - 21:38
    +1

    But this on xiaomi official website is only 2699 rmb which is about 550 aud though…

  • Exec-Matrix on 10/06/2018 - 21:44
    +2

    I'm surprised noone has mentioned Band 28…

    • Wonderfool on 11/06/2018 - 01:48
      +1

      We're growing up! Are you proud of us?

  • bom72 on 10/06/2018 - 22:37

    Does anybody know if this has an IR blaster? I'm trying to find the ideal phone with large screen, NFC, dual SIM and IR blaster

    • user01 on 11/06/2018 - 02:11
      +1

      mi 8 has IR facial recognition, no IR remote control. However, mi 8 SE has IR remote control.

  • usmanyousaf on 10/06/2018 - 23:13

    i am tossing between Xiaomi 8 & Oneplus 6. What do you think folks???I don't play games. Just browsing and camera and apps.

    • Wonderfool on 11/06/2018 - 01:55
      +2

      They're about the same, honestly. Mi 8 is a bit cheaper, longer OS support, and if it's anything like previous Xiaomi phones, easy to repair and replace. You also get 2 years warranty, supposedly. So I guess choose this one for a piece of mind.

      OP6 has stock Android, headphone jack and band 28.

    • GeneralSkunk on 11/06/2018 - 07:58
      +1

      I was thinking the same but lately I've been interested in the Mi Mix 2S vs the Mi 8. Both same 845 chipset + 6GB + similar size screen (Mi 8 = AMOLED, Mix 2S = IPS). Similar price point. Currently erring toward the Mix 2S for the non-notchiness and ceramic back. Both have MIUI which is way different to stock Android (as on OnePlus 6). I've found the OP6 to be $100 more than both of these options for no good reason.

      https://techlector.com/xiaomi-mi-8-vs-xiaomi-mi-mix-2s/

      Specs comparison:
      https://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Xiaomi-Mi-Mix-2s,X…

      • usmanyousaf on 27/06/2018 - 09:12

        I am using Mi 5s since it has been launched. Still working fine. so familiar with MIUI.
        Display & design is definitely better with mix 2s. However, for me Mi 8 is still tempting for camera, dual gps & in-display fingerprint.

  • dingdong3000 on 10/06/2018 - 23:21

    Where best to purchase OnePlus 6?

  • RolandWaites on 11/06/2018 - 11:24

    As a person who plugs their phone into their car with an AUX cable to hear sweet tunes, is there a way to connect a phone without a headphone jack to an auxiliary cable?

    • matn on 11/06/2018 - 12:52

      Sure, it even comes with an USB-C to AUX adapter out of the box. Only charging at the same time won't be possible..

    • digitizer on 11/06/2018 - 14:52

      Try a $10 bluetooth reciever from ali. Music starts playing when you get in the car - dont even need to get phone out of your pocket. And can have a physical switch to change tracks, a bit safer then fiddling with your phone while driving

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