Xiaomi 18 Pro Max Unboxing: The REAL Pro Max?

Do it very gentle. Rapido, ultrasonic Rapido. All right, it is Pro Max time. The other Pro Max, and I think you're gonna be interested in it. This is the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max, coinciding or very close to the launch of obviously the iPhone 18 Pro Max. And they think that their Pro Max is the champion. Of course, you are gonna have a chance to decide, but it definitely has some things in it that are quite a bit different than what Apple is doing. Packaging here, fairly elegant and tall because i think to start with we're gonna get more in the package i presume this is their big boy right here this is their challenger this is 16 gigs of ram 10 24 gigabytes of storage it also has a monster battery we're gonna get into that in a moment and some other monster features well done a good amount of friction before i even get to the main compartment this is different See, we are not getting this from manufacturers anymore, but Xiaomi's doing it for you. And they're doing it in a way that I can appreciate. 100 watts in the box to get you going with your fast charging. And yes, this thing will do 100 watt and it will also do 50 watt wireless. So still a little bit ahead of the curve on that when you're going Pro Max versus Pro Max. More extras. There's the device. But here it looks like we're going to get a case. We are going to get a SIM tool. a case with a matte finish on it and it is a relatively hard shell but then actually the edges are a little more flexible so you've got something to get you going out of the package protect from scratches and so forth this one is in like a sparkly blue look at that that is different and you're looking at this right now and you're thinking to yourself okay yeah yeah it looked like a typical kind of camera section over there no it's not typical at all this whole thing over here is going to light up it's going to have functionality as well because you're going to be able to monitor what these rear cameras see on this display so you're using your better cameras with the ability to monitor now this color is something new for sure i can't say i've seen that before it kind of looks like the night sky with all of these sparkly specks representing the stars so it's got this polished frame sim tray type c connection power volume rocker dedicated button on the opposite side designated by this red indicator and because of the way they've integrated the display and the cameras you are in a no wobble zone on the desktop and maybe i'm weird the fact that i even bother to check things like this but it does every so often happen that i'm typing on top of a surface and from a design perspective it's satisfying to not have it off kilter okay call me crazy front facing camera symmetrical in the center no fancy under display stuff going on just straight forward. The way they've integrated this frame is polished in the same manner as the mainframe. The mainframe, I'm going to hack the mainframe. So what does it mean to have the world's first five gigahertz mobile CPU? It means that you're gonna have an incredible gaming machine. You want the latest and greatest. You want us to play some games. You want to play Genshin Impact. We might be able to hook that up. Oh, look at those. Okay, I just died. And the other reason this phone is gonna be the one to do it is because it has a gigantic battery in it. 8,500 milliamp hour battery in there. How did they get it in there? Well, I'll tell you how they got it in there. Silicon carbon, baby. Let me just pick up the new iPhone. Like, I don't even know which one's heavier. Probably the iPhone. This is all for show. We bring out the most overkill museum piece for the simplest, it's for show. Okay, here we go. 18 Pro Max and Xiaomi 18 Pro. I was right. My intuition was correct. Now Mo can go ahead and insert the actual measurements in grams here, but this phone has an 8,500 milliamp hour battery and it has an extra display on it, but it weighs less. I'm also noticing how slim the bezel is on this thing. Very strong screen to body ratio. Anyway, how significant is it? I mean, it's not like that big of a deal, but it's just interesting. So let's talk cameras. They've got this collaboration going on with Leica. It continues. The main camera, 200 megapixels, F 1.67, optical image stabilization. It's a big sensor as well, equivalent to the sensor size that Apple is using. But the difference here is that on their zoom lens, they also included a massive sensor, not quite as big as the sensor on the main camera, but quite a bit bigger than the competitors have for their telephoto. And they're very proud of it. And it's also a 200 megapixel sensor. Well, let's hit it with a 0.7 first. 0.7, two, 3.2, onto the bill now. And then let's see what we are dealing with. We've got plenty of paper, plenty of pulp. That's on the reach, that's on the zoom. That's kind of crazy for a zoom. Seeing the pulp, look at that like red strand in here. And the other thing I should mention, the telephoto supports macro photography, 12 centimeters away. Whoa, whoa. Look at how small it is what you're looking at. That's that there. And look at the amount of detail that we have here. It's this dot right there. The display is 6.9 inches and it features privacy display. They're using some new Hyper RGB 2.0. So I go right around here. You can still see the screen off access. It's just a little more dim. Then I hit the privacy button and it's gone completely. You cannot read what's on there. It's a cool feature. You show your friends, you're like, you can't see what I'm looking at. Maybe you're a serious business guy. I don't know what you're reviewing on here. Let me see if I'm looking dead on. Okay, it does get a little bit dimmer with full screen privacy on. I'll just show you what I mean, okay? Overhead camera on, off, on, off. So it gets a little bit dimmer. I mean, first of all, you don't have to use the feature if you don't need that level of privacy, but all of a sudden you're on the airplane and God knows what you're looking at. You can have it turn on based on the scenario. You can select specific apps, my contacts and dialer, gallery, my password manager. I mean, that made me, password manager. Although are you dying? Don't be managing your passwords out in public with the guy next to you on the airplane. Like save that for later if you can. Even if you forget to add some apps, privacy display will be turned on automatically when you open sensitive pages, such as password entry, payments, transfers, and messaging. So you can have it kind of guess what's gonna be sensitive and then pop on. So the cool thing about this privacy mode, you can go full screen with it or you can just have it on certain sections. Like in this case here, where it's on this one window. So you see how this square right here is blacked out off axis. When you look at it straight on, perfectly fine. So this is just the gallery app, but this could be any app that you wanted to keep private, no matter when it was open during multitasking. Satisfactory. So let me boost up the brightness and head over to settings. Ooh, very vibrant. Sunlight mode, watch it blast. I mean, this isn't sunlight, but like we have very bright lights. I'm just gonna leave it on. Adaptive refresh rate pro. Get more refresh rate options, which is dimming from DC to PWM. Wow, even more functionality in here. Vision care. Let me get crazy. I'm gonna just lock it at 120. Yeah, every app, all the time, 120 all day, every day. And Will's gonna appreciate it when he films his gaming segment. I need a gun. What's going on here? By the way, rapido, oh, rapido, ultrasonic rapido. Wow. Jeez Louise. Okay, how subtle to touch. I can basically just bang. I don't even need to be on there. Just a tap. That's it. Ultrasonic is the way to go with those as far as those are, because you have face unlock here, but it's optical, so it's just going to be camera-based. This is going to be better than that. Barely touched it, man. I didn't even compress my thumb on that. I need Compress, I'm telling you, there was no compression. You know what, I'm gonna mix it up and play with the speakers first. He said it has a three speaker array, triple speaker setup. One, one, two, where's three? Oh, here, up top, definitely. Loud in every direction. Where's the beat drop? Coming, coming, here we go. I guess when you hold it, yeah, it's gonna fire into, you know, like that and maybe like bounce off your hand little bit pretty good now you're getting a sense for this back display that's the fun part double tap to wake and learn about rear display let's go swipe right to open the camera different styles we can choose from this is the default clock that's there however i can switch it well how about a cool koala for you we're gonna double tap he gets a little brighter look at him then we swipe up we can see oh let's maybe we just want to see our battery back there look at that okay 57 nine hours 41 minutes from me we got a big battery we swipe up from down there upcoming events desk calendar down from the top notifications and messages you can pin look at that like flights timers we swipe oh look at that we can actually just change the guy's mood you can use the camera on your rear display now yeah let's do it rear display camera and then check it out show your palm to take a photo so gesture based that's cool press the volume button to take a photo we know about that and then we also have just like an overlay for zoom we can use our big telephoto lens with the massive sensor and 200 megapixels but like while we're looking at it we actually have all of our camera settings right here flash fill light, HDR, aspect ratio, the selfies using the rear camera it's a different ball game at that point once the selfie's using the different camera look at the eyeball who's kidding who who's kidding who you know the only other way really to do this in an elegant fashion is with the folding devices but those get a lot bigger and bulkier from a portability standpoint to have this rear monitor here is a whole different thing like you can imagine vlogging or whatever like let me just switch it to a video yeah so i'm just talking i'm just walking and talking using my good camera everything is solid and it feels normal like it doesn't feel weird i can see what's in frame with the ability to monitor that frame instead i'm getting there's some isolation going on on the audio as well the best lens on the phone but mainly like you think about where the front facing cameras really struggle in like low light situations you're not gonna have to worry about that you've got your most sensitive sensor this is a video this is a frame for this is video frame you've seen the beard hair on it it's a video frame dude i'm just realizing though that like was the video that i shot 4k i don't think so no it was 1080 30 for sure let me try it again i'm gonna go 4k now i want to see what 4k 60 looks like my hand focus okay so this lens can focus super close so when they were talking about 12 centimeters i can see your fingerprints what i want to do is actually switch to the telephoto here so stay where you are and then back to the 1x and then back to the telephoto that's a lot of reach wow do i have to have it plugged in wow i don't even know how to play this game dude oh do you have to stand here just hovering over what do you want so i haven't played this game it's called Blood Strike Lou wants me to play it so here we go as you can see here the refresh rate and the frame rate is 120. everything is ultra we had to download an ultra graphics pack it's kind of like Fortnite kind of like call of duty oh reload okay i just died i thought you said it was gonna be easy i need a gun what's going on here yeah i have a gun yeah i mean not bad for my first time i got the w i got three kills cool so there you have it it is the Xiaomi 14 Pro Max now you tell me which is the real max what does max even mean in 2024 is it about an external display maybe it's about the maximum battery capacity or maximum screen or screen to body ratio i don't know but the fact is you have a pro max to choose from that isn't made by apple