Yesterday we found out what it is rather have a screen in hand than a smartphone with the Xiaomi Mi Mix. Possibly we are facing the next evolution of smartphones, just as has happened with that "edge" trend drawn by Samsung and which is now being copied by both Xiaomi, with its Mi Note 2, and Huawei, with your Mate 9. We are in an important moment of change, when we have spent a few years in which the low-medium range were the protagonists of the market, even what are various devices that are going to force many to move from that range to the highest.
The Xiaomi Mi Mix is ​​a concept smartphone, but you can buy it if you want and you will have before you a device that causes other spectacular sensations. It is the video published by Marques Brownlee, a famous youtuber, shows the enjoyment of performing all those daily actions from a smartphone that is simply a screen. Just like he says, Mi Mix immerses you in another experience of a user who seems to have been taken from those science fiction movies in which the devices are merely screens and the bezels seem like a thing of the past; yes, of those Galaxy S7 edge, that Pixel or those iPhone. Because when you first have a Mi Mix in your hand, and return to those terminals mentioned, you will go from the modern to the old in a simple instant.
A big step in design
In the last two years it has been possible to glimpse that something was changing in the design of the terminals. The first was Samsung with its Galaxy S6 edge, which came as a variant for those more tired users of the more standard format of smartphones. The Korean company verified for itself that it sold more than the most typical variant, and it was in the Galaxy S7 edge where it demonstrated the real differences in sales. The Galaxy Note 7 was the culmination of the transition from standard to edge, although spoiled by the problems that we all know.
But it is a fact that the edge is now in vogue And it is Xiaomi's Mi Note 2 and Huawei's Mate 9 that confirm the change we are heading towards. The next step has already been taken, and yesterday was the time to find another type of experience and another type of design. I suppose that Apple will have to learn something from those edge smartphones and the Mi Mix, since it is their fans who have been demanding changes in the design, so for the next iPhone, the one that presumably has to bring a new visual language They should already know where the shots are going to go. Do not get close to such screens, it could be deadly of necessity.
A smartphone that marks an era
It is still early, to be able to remark that surely the Mi Mix mark a before and after For the way we understand smartphones, since by dispensing with bezels on the top and sides, we will have to wait for the feedback shared by users who buy it in the coming weeks and months. Xiaomi has made it clear that it is a concept for what could happen, since before this phone we have the headset and the ambient light sensor integrated in the same screen.
But if we replay the Brownlee video, as that camera interface looks better than on another current phone, the feeling it gives when playing content or how to perform any action, the simplest and easiest, becomes something totally new and that leaves the other current phones as if they were from the Pliocene era.
If we We almost drool when we see that Mi Mix Managed by the famous youtuber, the biggest manufacturers are at a crossroads. Whoever remains anchored in the current format may be left behind in the technology race that no one expects, and whoever launches into new advances, will be able to take greater advantage if they are able to offer a Mi Mix smartphone that forces millions of people to buy them almost without thinking.