 Hey, I'm Dan with The Verge and today we're checking out the new Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, which is the update to last year's Mi Mix full screen smartphone from Xiaomi. Now, the Mi Mix 2 is actually a successor to the original Mi Mix that was launched last year, which was Xiaomi's first full screen smartphone. Now, Mi Mix 2 has a couple of notable improvements over the Mi Mix last year. First of all, it comes in both a standard and a special edition, and I'll get to the differences in a second. The biggest difference that you're going to notice between last year's phone and this year's phone though is that it is smaller. This is now a 5.99 inch screen, which is still huge, but because the screen is pushed all the way to the edge, it makes the phone feel smaller than it did before with a 6.5 inch screen. Of course, the screen is the star of the show here. It is an edge to edge panel. It goes all the way to the top edge of the phone and the sides. There's just a little bit of bezel here and below it. It's an LCD screen with a wide color gamut and it's got 1080 pixels of resolution, so it's not quite as high res as a Samsung screen or something from LG. It does look really nice outdoors and it's really vibrant and colorful. The other things that are really notable here is Mi Mix's ceramic back. This is a ceramic back on the standard model and it kind of melds into a metal frame here on the side. Now, if you opt for the special edition, it's an actual full ceramic unibody, which Xiaomi says is the first phone on the market to have this kind of feature. The back just kind of morphs into the frame of the phone. It feels really great and premium. It's really, really nice. It's also really, really slippery and super fingerprinty as well. It does come with a case in the box, but then you cover up how pretty it is. That's the difference between the special edition and the standard model. One thing about ceramic, while this happened, is it's more resistant to scratching than glass. That's one of the positives of using it over Gorilla Glass. However, it is more brittle, which means that it shatters easier, which means that if you drop it on a corner, it's probably going to break. Like I just did, it fell about, I don't know, two feet to the ground and I heard it break. I don't know if you heard it break, but there you go. That's the problem with ceramic phones. Now, inside the phone's got a Snapdragon 835 processor, which you can get with 64, 128, or 256 gigabytes of storage. It comes with six gigabytes of RAM in the standard model. If you opt for the special edition, you bump that up to eight gigabytes of RAM. That's a lot of power and a lot of performance. Pretty much just like any other Snapdragon 835 phone I've used this year, it's really fast. It's got a 3,400 milliamp hour battery that's going to be pretty long lasting for anybody, even if you're a power user. For me, it's easily lasted all day and multiple days that I've been using it. One thing it doesn't have is wireless charging, even though it has a ceramic back, there's no wireless charging, so that's a little bit of a bummer. Other interesting things, it's got dual SIM card support, so you can actually run two SIM cards at the same time. It supports over 43 different network bands, which means it actually works here in the US. I've been using it on T-Mobile, and I pretty much had signal everywhere I expected to wherever I've gone, which is kind of unique for Xiaomi phones if you're familiar with them at all. It's got all these specs, it's loaded with premium design. Obviously, the big screen is the big star of the show here. What's missing? Well, it only has a single camera. It's a 12 megapixel camera with optical stabilization, F2.0 lens, it's got large pixels. It takes decent photos. There's really nothing to complain about with the camera. It's not going to give a Galaxy S8 or a Google Pixel any competition, but it's a fine camera. The other thing that it's missing, there's no water resistance here, so if you get it wet, you're kind of screwed. And there's no headphone jack. It's just a USB-C port on the bottom. It does come with an adapter in the box that will let you put standard headphones on it, but you can't just plug headphones directly into it, and it doesn't come with a set of headphones either. Those are kind of the things that you are missing out here. For software, this is running MIUI 9, which is based on Android 7.1.1. This is Xiaomi's custom version of Android. It really looks quite different than the Android you might get from Google on a Pixel or on other phones. It mostly looks like iOS, which, you know, personal preference, take it or leave it, but it is very customizable. You can theme it and make it look different ways pretty easily as well. Now, the Mi Mix 2 is going to be out real soon in China. It's going to start around $500, goes up to over $700 if you go for the full special edition. Then it's going to come to Xiaomi's other markets across the world, but sadly, it's not coming to the US, which is kind of the story with every Xiaomi phone, no matter how cool they are. So, you can't buy that here, but if you are able to buy it and import it into the US, the cool thing is it will work here, which is kind of neat. So there you go. That's a real quick look at the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2. For more on this stuff, be sure to check out theverge.com. Be sure to subscribe to youtube.com theverge. One thing that it doesn't have is... Oh. No. It broke. Wow. So there you go. dynamic phones.