Xiaomi mi 8

[SafeStrafe]

Hi im thinking about buying this phone for sale on gearbest for black friday, anyone know anything about it? Is it good? Ill probably use this phone for the next 2 years if i get it.

 

[dizmo]

It's not bad. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better phone for the price.

[SafeStrafe]

2 minutes ago, dizmo said:

It's not bad. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better phone for the price.

yeah gearbest are saying that its going to be 200$ on black friday
 

[dizmo]

4 minutes ago, SafeStrafe said:

yeah gearbest are saying that its going to be 200$ on black friday
 

Damn! You'd better be sitting there with payment method ready, I bet it'll sell out within minutes.

[SafeStrafe]

which is better mi 8 or poco f1?

[Darkseth]

Mi 8 by a long shot.

[SafeStrafe]

Just now, Darkseth said:

Mi 8 by a long shot.

ok

[Darkseth]

to be precise, Mi 8 is a full fletched flaggship pretty much.

 

Pocophone F1 is basicly... a decent Midrange Smartphone with a high end CPU.

It lacks an OIS for the Camera, 

only Plastic Case (Plastic is NOT a bad material, it simply feels less premium),

no NFC, 

only an average looking LCD Screen, 

no HD Streaming for netflix (will probably be patched), 

etc.

 

However, over the Mi 8 it has a huge 4000 mAh Battery and a Headphone Jack.

[SafeStrafe]

18 minutes ago, Darkseth said:

to be precise, Mi 8 is a full fletched flaggship pretty much.

 

Pocophone F1 is basicly... a decent Midrange Smartphone with a high end CPU.

It lacks an OIS for the Camera, 

only Plastic Case (Plastic is NOT a bad material, it simply feels less premium),

no NFC, 

only an average looking LCD Screen, 

no HD Streaming for netflix (will probably be patched), 

etc.

 

However, over the Mi 8 it has a huge 4000 mAh Battery and a Headphone Jack.

yeah i think the mi 8 battery is still ok though, i plan on having this phone for around 2 years it should do me fine

[Darkseth]

tbh, any modern Flaggship is fast enough to be used even 3-4 years easy.

Only 2 things, that might make it more difficult:

 

- Battery gets weaker over time

- Updates are provided usually for 2-3 years~. But if you don't have a problem using a 1 year old Software, no problem there.

 

But yea, if you find a mi8 for a good price, that will be an almost unbeatable value^^

[SafeStrafe]

Is the honor 10 better than the mi8?

[Darkseth]

No, Honor 10 is more like a Midrange phone, Mi 8 is flaggship. Better Camera (ois, better sensor, etc. DXO Mark at least rated it quite high, almost at P20 Pro level), 

Display is better (Oled), 

Snapdragon 845 also beats Kirin 970.

 

It's a valid choice tho, if it's a regular Honor 10 vs. a Mi 8 import (chinese/english Rom maybe, maybe a missing band or something).

Pure spec wise (aka overall package, Performance level, etc), Mi 8 is at a similar Level as the P20 Pro, Galaxy S9+, LG G7 ThinQ or any other Flaggship.

[Rupe]

20 hours ago, SafeStrafe said:

yeah gearbest are saying that its going to be 200$ on black friday

Make sure to read the small text. Sometimes they do this but restrict it to 10 units or something silly just to get people onto their site. $200 just sounds too cheap for that phone, even for a site like gearbest

[SafeStrafe]

27 minutes ago, Rupe said:

Make sure to read the small text. Sometimes they do this but restrict it to 10 units or something silly just to get people onto their site. $200 just sounds too cheap for that phone, even for a site like gearbest

Yeah ik it's first 10 units should I still try?

[Rupe]

6 hours ago, SafeStrafe said:

Yeah ik it's first 10 units should I still try?

Go for it, as long as you know it's more like a giveaway