Xiaomi Mi 6

The short version: the Mi 6 is a good phone… with a few compromises. The biggest one, and also one that we haven’t discussed so far, is the fact that for most of you out there, there’s no easy way of buying it. That is, the Xiaomi Mi 6 is sold only in a handful of countries, so your best bet for getting one would be to order it from a Chinese retailer and hoping for the best. And even then you should make sure it can actually connect to your network, as it only supports a narrow subset of LTE bands.But if you’re willing to take the risk, the phone will, in theory, available in 64 GB model and in the 128 GB, which puts it in a price range once comfortably occupied by OnePlus, but n desperately seeking new occupants. And what you’ll get for that money is a top-of-the-line performer with a reasonably good camera and a number of extra features, which should be enough to satisfy many people out there.

That’s the good news, though; the bad news is that the chances of you actually getting such a low price is fairly small, as importers often considerably mark up the price, putting the Mi 6 at about the same price as a number of other devices, the most notable of which is probably its most direct competitor, the OnePlus 5.

So even though we’d comfortably call it a pretty good device, its drawbacks are still something well worth considering: the lack of a headphone jack, the heavily customized MIUI, and the subpar screen are all potential dealbreakers that shouldn’t be dismissed easily.