I’m not exactly the most careful person in the world, so I can be quite careless when it comes to how I handle my phone. I’ve dropped my 2s from a great height, thrown it, had it knocking in my bag with other hard objects, had it fall onto the ground multiple times, dropped other things onto it and despite all that, I don’t see a scratch or notice a dip in performance.
All I’ve got on it is a $5 case from amazon and an equally cheap screen protector.
Xiaomi practically has it all with their phones. Good performance, good price, good build. Why can’t more phone makers do this?
I just dropped my phone and I broke a branch from a tree 💀
My Xiaomi 10T pro fell out my hand and landed on stone it is cracked but still works perfectly fine i might replace the glass later tho
i had my Redmi A4 and have abusively used it for 2 years before I finally upgraded to my Samsung S9+..
It still works and performs well, although it has noticeable scratches.. screen cracked a bit after 2 years of abuse but otherwise still works fine despite the small visual annoyance
Corning gorilla glass 5 for ya
The 5G version will have the latest 7nm sd855 chipset, way less battery consumption than sd845, even the endurance rating in mi9 which has the same chipset is 95hr. So no worries on the battery life.
Yeah even without a case Redmi devices have a lip on the side designed to protect against drops. Unlike some OEMs I know I’m looking at you Samsung with your curved dudplays.
Dude there’s a reason why warrantees exist. Every brand occasionally ships defective devices. You got two bad copies of devices that were first of their lines. That doesn’t mean everyone
My current mobile phone is Xiaomi, I have been using it for 3 years, I think it can still be used for 1 year.
Yeah, my previous phone (Redmi PRO) was not a good phone overall, but dam it took a lot of abuse and was still fine
Yeah the name isn’t Chinese at all, unlike Xiaomi, huawei, etc. To be fair, Lenovo also did their share of mistakes (superfish etc) but thinkpads are still the best laptop for me.
I always use Thinkpads and can’t live with other laptops.
The moving mechanism is really simple, probably that helps. Give it a look at JerryRigEverything dissassembly video.
Note 4*****
Is nice to hear of a mix 2s dropped few times without damage. I feel the phone on the heavy side, and in spite of having a 360 case, i have put a lot of care in not dropping it cause of this. On the other hand i have dropped my redmi note 4x many times without any issue beside breaking the sacrificial templated glass.
What i dont like of mi mix 2s, is the highly slippery ceramic back, i woulndt see myself using it without a case.
I have to point out though that both redmi note 3 pro and redmi note 4X have shown deformation of the frame right beside the sim tray. While it looks ugly, the rest of the phone doesnt seems to be bending.
The Mate 20 X and the Y Max.
I’m not a clumsy person with my phone generally speaking, but the number of near misses I’ve had with my A1 is crazy.
There is some kind of coating on the back of the case that I think is meant to make it resistant to fingerprints which has the effect of making it almost frictionless.
I have put it on a table with books and papers and watched as it started to slide away down the slightest incline and had to catch it just as it slid off the desk.
Needless to say it had a very rubbery case now that stays on permanently.
My Redmi Note 3 Pro motherboard had a problem and I was unable to connect it to PC.
My Redmi Note 5 Pro motherboard had a problem and the screen stopped working. Just after 6 months.
Well the redmi devices till 3 series were rather unreliable. From 4, the quality rose drastically. Especially the Note devices. I own a Redmi Note 5A Prime and my mom owns a Redmi Note 4X. Both holding up very well and have been dropped a few times with no damages visible.
Yeah what scratches screens always confuses me, the desks at my school mess up any screen on contact.
Have you had anything like sand/dirt/lint between the halves? I’m pretty intrigued by the 5G mix coming out, but that scenario plus battery life are my only doubts… Not that I plan on dropping my phone is sand or anything, just curious.
My RN5 survived that at least 10 times from waist height onto many surfaces, I felt very lucky, but then it shattered after falling off my desk.
I didn’t even realize that Lenovo was a Chinese company until around a year with my think pad x1 carbon lol
Yes. I had some problems too. We can just trust on it for one year and/or a half. Redmi are really mid range level and not very reliable.
Say what now? I did not downvote you, I don’t care for that weird karma thing. But apparently many people do.
I still prefer Xiaomi over Huawei when it comes to the ease of unlocking and flashing. And Huawei is a bit more expensive these days. But the build quality is about the same. I’m only buying the budget phones of the year so I’ve only had the Y300 and the Redmi4X but I’ve repaired lots of broken screens on both brands and different models.
My Xiaomi Pocophone F1 has been dropped and thrown around the house a bunch of times. It has a Spigen case and nothing else. Not a since scratch on the screen, no break, nothing wrong with the body. It is one tough customer.
In the past 7 years I had a Nexus 5, Galaxy S6 and now Pocophone. So I gave used both plastic and glass backs extensively. I refer plastic more to be honest. Once you put the case on they all feel the same. It all comes down to the quality of the display, which has improved drastically in the last 7 years. And with Chinese phones offering top end specs for cheaper price, it is a great time to be a smartphone consumer.
I just wrecked my Mi8 screen even with tempered glass and a case so this thread is killing me 😅
I had a tight case on my Redmi 6 and when I applied force to remove the case, the screen came off from the corner, everything works except for volume up button. It’s not the phone’s fault, the case was too tight, but it did happen
Hardwood is a lot more absorbant than tile tho
It all depends on angle, surface, speed… many factors contribute whether will something break, chip or scratch or nothing happens.
Like falling from bicycle. There are no two identical falls from it.
Sweet, Good to know my mix 2s has good ancestry 😀
My 2S is still in good shape without case for over 6 years!
…. Mi2S 😀
I guess that much is true, although right now my 7 Plus is housed in a massive phone shaped rubber phone case that I’m pretty sure can protect it from just about any crash. Being styled after a legendarily tough phone really has made it unbelievably tough; I have so much faith in it that I now literally toss my 7 Plus wherever I want to leave it, just because I can
He did look into that but decided it wasn’t worth the faff
After dropping my RN 5 for about the 10th time, the left side of my LCD display broke. It’s obviously 100% my fault, but I still didn’t expect that. I even had the transparent silicon case on. Now I’m still unsure what next phone I’m gonna buy. The upcoming Redmi Note X, Mi Max 4 or maybe the Mi Max 3?
Yeah, thankfully gorilla glass got us covered from keys, although that makes screens more fragile hahaa
I keyed a HTC 7 years ago in my pocket on the third day- so i was careful for awhile. self defense 101: pocket sand 😉
😂
It is with any phone I think. I was once lying on my back and my HTC m7 slipped about 3 inches from my pocket to the floor and the screen smashed. The replacement was thrown down the stairs once and was fine, dropped multiple times on concrete etc.
So much of it is random luck.
My phone fell from pocket height on concrete tile, and included case did basically nothing to save my screen from cracking. There is clear scuff mark on the case and huge crack beneath it. Buy something harder if you can.
Keys aren’t usually the culprits if pocket scratches, it’s mostly little grains of salt to small to even notice
I’m sitting here with a cracked camera, scuffed sides, and a chipped piece of plastic after two drops. Rip
mine is a tank… yeah i got a good case. I use it for 7 months and had a few drops and keys in the pocket – no scratches, still.
Glass has wireless charging and cool looks tho
when you drop your phone with your screen faced down, it’s literally gambling.
Yep. Unless you buy a phone specifically made to survive drops (CAT, Kyocera et al.) it’s just chance if the screen shatters or not when you drop it. I dropped my A1 once, it shattered the screen spectacularly (fortunately, easy to replace), my mom has dropped her caseless Huawei more times than I can imagine, screen is perfectly fine. The frame around it is all dinged up with deep grooves and scratches on the back, but screen is fine.
It’s a complete lottery.
I spilled a glass of water with ice into a food tray right where my Mi A2 Lite was. It got soaked for a couple of seconds, works like nothing happened lol
Really wish they’d use stainless steel like the mi 6, it’s an actual brick!
don’t jinx it my friend
And then everyone clapped.
Depends I guess. My husband had a Redmi 6 and he’s very rough with his phones. Clumsy, and has an outdoors job.. glass screen protector broke about a year into using it. Which saved his screen lol… but he never bothered to replace the screen protector. Then 3 months later, phone screen broke lol He went to repair shops who didn’t want to fix the Chinese phone or something… Anyway it is cheap for him to just buy another. He spent 150 ish on a brand new Redmi. I take care of my phones well so things like that don’t happen to me 😂 I was sold on Xiaomi phones after seeing his ones over the past 2 years. They do everything I needed my phone to do. I ended up switching from Samsung to Xiaomi recently and don’t regret it.
Try a pocophone by Xaiomi and see for yourself
I fucked up by putting it in the pocket with coins, just a little scratch appeared, I also dropped it on concrete, nothing, not a mark.
iPhones can really be hit or miss when it comes to dropping them. I once dropped my 6 from pocket height onto a smooth marble floor and the screen shattered so much you’d think I ran a tractor over it. Another time my 7 Plus flew off my bike and fell onto asphalt while I was going ~50km/h and it was completely fine. The 6 was even under more protection than the 7 Plus
Again, that’s what’s called an opinion.
Probably typo. Pretty sure he meant Redmi Note 4.
Redmi Note 7 has MTK variant???
All my redmis eventually developed some hardware problems. Early ones as well, from 2015
Redmi note 3 pro screen broke after 2 years then Mi 8 had corrosion damage (never was in water) after only 4 month. So my experience is not that good. My Samsung S5 is still in a perfect condition.
I dropped my A1 onto bathroom tiles twice from around a 1 meter height and there is no damage. I’m kinda impressed, I expected the thing to be like glass for the price..
Why you downvote me dude?
Not odd at all. I switched to Xiaomi only for 5000mah battery phone (that actually delivers 5000mah worth of use time unlike some other brands like Leagoo which had problems).
If Huawei has a 5000mah or more battery phone, I would switch. And I am not the only one. Mi Max series has been successful enough that version 3 was launched last year so the demand is there.
My Mi2S, my first ever foray into Xiaomi and Chinese phones, imported when my Galaxy S3 suffered the ‘sudden death’ but replacing the screen myself after a drop had voided my warranty, is still basically fine, some 5 years on. I’ve lent it out in an emergency to friends who need a phone and they’ve dropped it just as I did more than a few times whilst it was my daily driver. It’s got scuffs here and there but the damn thing never really broke, nothing split or shattered.
I always say this. In the beginning Chinese phone were really of poor quality, some were even dangerous. After some time their quality started to rise till today we’re they are on par or even better than others. The more money you put on a project the better the quality will be for Chinese phones.
Good to know, I’ve had my mix 3 for about 2 months now and has a few stumbles but nothing that should’ve really damaged it. However, it is a fairly heavy phone and I’ve worried what will happen if I drop it on hard a floor as I myself am fairly clumsy.
It depends. Take for istance the Xiaomi Mi series which has the back made of glass: some users found it broke after the first fall. Really depends on the model you are talking about. I also think that newer models are less resistant.
Which Huawei phone has a 5000mah and above battery?
Sent from my Mi Max (the original one).
Well, you would find it hard to match another brand with the price/quality of most Xiaomi phones. Huawei comes close though.
I use to rock a redmi note 4 MTK and my golly that thing is THICC and I mean Thicc metal thick.
Interesting story: So I was walking around the neighborhood going to my friend’s house when suddenly, this kid threw sh*t (yes, real sh*t) at me. I managed to run after him and smacked his head with my redmi note 4 and it fell to the ground. That kid cried himself home.
Well it is some part of luck. Or bad luck.
Xiaomi mi 5s plus here. I admit i have a beefy case, $7. When my phone is in the case, I’m not even afraid of dropping it in asphalt.
But i eventually switch case because severe thermal throttling under that case. My case now is much thinner but still no damage so far except some mysterious 3 minor scratch (1-2 cm long) near the camera
Wow I thought mix 3 is very fragile with its moving part. I was wrong
And then you have those people who are skeptical of xiaomi saying cHiNeSe pHoNeS aLwAyS bReAk
Tons of people say earth is flat too and it doesn’t make the opinion becoming a fact.
>But what they dont have is a good rom
What is referring to Xiaomi phones. You are saying they **don’t** have a good rom when there are custom ROMs that even *you* like.
I don’t need to learn to read and understand. *You* need to learn to not be an asshole.
I said Xiaomi’s stock rom (miui) is not good
Custom roms r good comparatively and Xiaomi has taken a great decision of allowing bootloader to be unlocked unlike some other companies.
Learn to read and understand properly mate
Nah it had an end and you just did it. You **literally** said Xiaomi phones don’t have a good ROM and yet here you are liking Lineage.
Check
and mate
Yeah, I like Los
And yep, I am pretty fun at parties cause unlike u, I dont keep dragging a conversation which has no end.
You hate MIUI **and** pixel experience? Well then there’s Lineage OS.
Sounds like you’re just never pleased with anything. You must be fun at parties.
I agree miui is better than pixel experience
But its ridden with ads and their ui feels weird to me
>Pixel Experience
>Not a good ROM
Pick one
Tons of people say miui ain’t good and I am one of them
That’s what’s called an opinion.
Actually this is my first experience with miui also with the mi mix 2s and I’m really enjoying the feel. It’s fluid, the battery management it’s good enough to reach out 5 or 6h or more of sot and the build in gestures are great!! But when the device don’t will be officially supported I’ll flash some rom obviously
Also have the 2S and only use the case that came with it. Man have this thing taken a beating and it looks brand new. Amazing build
If u like miui, then it’s great but I personally dont like it
But I still love Xiaomi as they give great products at cheap prices and allow us to unlock bootloader so miui has not been much of an issue for me
And other companies like Asus, realme are doing this
I love MIUI so each to their own
But what they dont have is a good rom