至少，如果您居住在美国或欧洲，就需要一种奇怪的智能手机爱好者来寻找小米Mi 5的评论。
Xiaomi has announced no plans to release the Mi 5 in either market, as the phone maker continues to focus on core developing markets such as its home turf of China–where it was2015’s best-selling smartphone brand- 和印度。然而，该公司一直将其旗舰手机发送给像我这样的审稿人，促使有关MI 5的故事a great phone you can’t buy。
True, the Xiaomi Mi 5 is a very nice phone that doesn’t cost very much–the 64 GB model I tried sells for around $350 in the countries where it’s available–but the price-to-performance ratio isn’t exactly what makes the Mi 5 noteworthy. There are plenty of quality budget phones already, including ones you can actually buy in the United States. What sets the Mi 5 apart is how it aspires to be part of something bigger.
不是您的平均预算电话
First, let’s talk about the phone itself. The Mi 5 is a conversation-starter, at least in my experience. People see the aluminum trim and curved white glass back and want to know what they’re looking at–a rare quality for a sub-$400 phone.
Mi 5不仅仅是外观。由于顶级的高通Snapdragon 820处理器和3 GB的RAM，它也很快开放，关闭和浏览应用程序。小米没有在显示屏上跳过，它在最大的亮度和观看角度方面很容易与我的iPhone 6 Plus相匹配，并为我的眼睛提供了更多原始的白色和鲜艳的色彩。
这Mi 5 also has a few other noteworthy embellishments, such as the reversible USB-C charging port, and a fingerprint sensor built into the home button. (The sensor unlocks the phone in a snap, but requires a bit more finger repositioning than iPhone and Nexus phone fingerprint readers.) Despite the Mi 5’s slim build and impressive performance, Xiaomi managed to squeeze in a 3,000 mAh battery, which never failed to get me through the day.
如果硬件方面有一个明显的缺点，那就是相机，它在运动镜头上挣扎。（许多尝试拍摄我的孩子的尝试都会因模糊而失去。）即使如此，MI 5的作用也比您的平均中档手机更好。16MP射手在阳光下拍摄了华丽的静止镜头，并在不使用闪光的情况下提供了相当明亮的室内镜头。相机使用相位检测自动对焦来快速锁定面部。
一点点miui
On the software side, the Mi 5 ships with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. But Xiaomi, like most other phone makers, has decided to bulk it up with a custom interface, in this case called MIUI.
这extra layer isn’t necessarily a bad thing. While the home screen is more akin to iOS than Android, with no app drawer for stowing away less frequently used apps, it still supports widgets, and offers a clever way to bulk-move apps across screens or into folders.
您看的越多，在整个MIUI中，您都会发现类似的周到的触感。像大多数Android手机一样，从屏幕顶部滑动会引起通知，但是如果您没有任何通知，则可以直接转到可自定义的设置列表。设置一个经常出现的警报，您将可以选择跳过一天。您还可以激活锁定某些应用程序和功能的儿童模式，以及在严酷的蓝光上缩小的读取模式。主题商店可让您更改手机的外观，而严肃的Android Geeks可以从MIUI的设置菜单中切换手机的导航和音量按钮。
以这种方式与Android混在一起确实会邀请怪癖。最初，我的MI 5评论单元遇到了一个奇怪的问题，即我的锁定屏幕被空白的白页替换，而我在不进行工厂排列手机的情况下无法修复它。几个应用程序也未能看到位置数据而没有被卸载和重新安装，而且我仍然无法让我的Pebble SmartWatch用作可信赖的蓝牙设备，用于绕过锁定屏幕。该显示器的超薄挡板也缺乏足够的棕榈拒绝，导致单手使用期间出现了相当多的意外压力。
最终，如果三星的Galaxy手机便宜300美元，那么功能强大的硬件和定制的Android软件的组合使我想起了三星。即便如此，将MI 5归类为廉价的Android手机的版本并不能完全公正地与小米试图做的事情相称。
Mi, Mi, Mi
Over two weeks with the Mi 5, I couldn’t help but notice that I was missing out on a chunk of the Xiaomi experience.
小米不仅仅是电话制造商。该公司生产各种其他小工具，包括耳机，健身追踪器，电源带，智能灯泡，平板电脑和成熟电视机。而且，如果您花了足够的时间在MIUI周围戳戳，您会注意到这些设备可以适合的钩子。一些示例：
- 如果您穿着MI带健身追踪器入睡，则MI 5可以自动输入，请勿打扰模式。
- MI耳机可以在MI 5的音频设置菜单中利用优化的均衡器预设。
- 这Mi Remote app lets you control a Mi TV or Mi Box media streamer over Wi-Fi.
- 附近的MI设备可以与“ Mi Drop”共享文件，这基本上就像Apple的Airdrop一样。
- 借助MI帐户，您的所有消息，笔记，照片和录音都将同步到其他小米设备，并与mi.com同步。
Xiaomi often gets pegged as the “Apple of China,” largely because it produces attractive products–some of which lookan awful lot like Apple’s–and sells them directly through its own e-commerce channel, all while inspiringrabid fandom in its home country。But what tends to get overlooked is the hardware and service integration that Xiaomi is slowly building. This, too, is Apple-like, but with one major difference: Xiaomi sells a much wider range of hardware and services than Apple does, and sees those accessories, rather than the phone itself, as利润的主要驱动力。
这可能解释了为什么小米不断将其智能手机发送给美国评论者。该公司可能试图在准备进入美国市场的同时，在这里培养其品牌的热情，最近它告诉CNET它计划在2017年底之前做。
But in the meantime, the “quality phone for cheap” angle is losing its edge. Phone makers are now routinely cracking the $400 barrier with solid handsets like the OnePlus 2 and theNexus 5X。Even Apple now offers a$400 iPhonewith nearly top-of-the-line tech specs.
That means it’s all the more urgent for Xiaomi to offer something bigger: a suite of products that play nicely together without the usual price premium. I haven’t experienced that with the Mi 5, but I can start to see how it might all come together.