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update: Mi Max still going gr8 a year and a half later, battery has lost 250mah roughly in a year of heavy abuse of the thing,
metal back did bend a lil bit but it's easy to bend it back after you take the back off lmao
comfy dev scene on XDA is going well with stable Oreo roms, but sticking to 7.1.2 lineage OS 14.1 until the main actually good dev releases 15.1 in an actually good, battery efficient form tuned for this device specifically.

Used without a case or protector since I got it, screen is scratched deeply in a few places, but nothing noticeable unless I look for the slightly shimmery deep scratch areas, or I'm outdoors in which obviously the sun reveals scratches more, I've dropped it on tiles and other hard shit plenty of times and no cracks yet.

Will probably upgrade to a Mi Mix 256gb/6gb RAM model, or Mi Max 3 in future, but the Mi Max 1 holds up pretty well, especially since I have the comfy 128gb/4gb ram + SD652 model

i knew they were water resistent I just didn't think they'd survive a whole shower

Whatever the case

Chinese is an interesting language

I've used this fucker in the rain too and it's shrugged shit off

With fun swears

anyway, Mi Max is gr8 if you wanna do autistic shit on ur phone because the typing experience is perfect on this screen size unless you're a fingerlet with comfy two thumb touch typing

the Mi Max 2 had kernel sources released and the dev scene is finally picking up so it's tempting to grab one tbh

the 625 and it's comfy battery life + 5300mah battery and awesome sony camera really makes it tempting

that and vastly better build

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@Deleted User how long were you under there?

@dissociativity how did you bend the back of the phone?

a year of just using the thing and not really taking care of it

it's very long

and aluminium is flexible lol

it bent very slightly

like not iphone tier bad

Anyone got any leads to good mechanical keyboards?

which is impressive given the phone is very, very long

like 6.44 xiaomeme

*6.44in

小米

Xiaomi

just around the button area

that's where aluminium phones usually bend a bit

because there's less structure due to buttons

I honestly wish for more meat on phones, would give them space for a big ass battery, better heat management, better camera and more to stiffen it

but like I said, I abused the thing

battery is 4850mah and heat management is p good

camera is decent if I use google camera

it's 16mp omnivision so great in good lighting, kinda shit in low light but google camera vastly improves that

the mi max 2 basically has all of that

waiting on the max 3 for a better chipset tho

mind you the sd 625 is immune to both meltdown and spectre

Eh, google camera doesnt really solve any inherent problems, just makes it nicer to look at

I mean I get noticeably more detailed images out of it

without horrifying noise

but it's a port made for the redmi note 3 pro