With its near-full screen, the Xiaomi Mi Mix gives an old monumental blow to the iphone 7

Oh, sweet irony. After copying long Apple and Samsung, the Chinese Xiaomi has unveiled a smartphone that buries the competition with a stunning futuristic design.The Mi Mix offers a screen effect almost "edgeless" (without-borders) which occupies over 91% of the front. Of course, Sharp has made the first in 2014 with the Aquos Crystal, but Xiaomi and French designer Philippe Stark outdid themselves. As Mi Pro 5, the Mix offers a ceramic chassis capable of withstanding a hacksaw or a drill without a scratch
.Initially, Xiaomi presented its smartphone as a "concept". But then, the company said it would be sold in China (probably with a fairly limited stock) by the end of the year at a price of around 500 euros. Unfortunately, unlike the Mi Note 2, he embarks not compatible radios 4G LTE French.

At this rate, the Mix has nothing to send to Google Pixel, with the same Snapdragon 821 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of memory and a 16-megapixel camera.Especially, by removing the edges on the sides and above, it almost has the same measurements as the iPhone 7 Plus but with a 6.4 inch screen to 5.5 against Apple.Xiaomi is proud of its smartphone offers a screen frame ratio of 91.3%, against 67.7% for the iPhone 7 Plus.

Disappearance speaker and proximity sensor

Remove the edges poses two major problems: where to put the speaker in the ear and the proximity sensor. The Xiaomi's response? Just delete them. Mix uses a piezoelectric system: the sound vibrations travel to the ceramic frame and just stick the ear anywhere on the screen to hear.

Poached Google, Hugo Barra, vice president in charge of international promises that sound is of excellent quality and a neighbor can not hear your conversation. Xiaomi has finally replaced the infrared proximity sensor with a solution using ultrasound. In short, this mix is ​​not an aesthetic blow: it also loads of technological advances we undoubtedly find in many smartphones in 2017. Your turn, Apple.